OpenShift Contract Job Trends in London

Red Hat OpenShift
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring OpenShift skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 289 278
Rank change year-on-year -20 -11 +61
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 76 97 142
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.55% 0.62% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.23% 1.51% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 78 128
10th Percentile £374 £473 £419
25th Percentile £463 £563 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £740 £700
Median % change year-on-year -22.64% +5.71% +4.87%
75th Percentile £684 £810 £810
90th Percentile £920 £838 £858
England median daily rate £500 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -20.00% -3.85% +1.96%

All Cloud Skills
London

OpenShift falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,161 6,430 7,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.30% 40.94% 38.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,173 4,362 5,768
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £770 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £535 £528
% change year-on-year -6.45% +1.33% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 36 69
10th Percentile £18.56 £21.50 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.94 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £33.75 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.96% -11.18% +33.92%
75th Percentile £41.25 £56.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £71.13 £85.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenShift relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

OpenShift job vacancy trend in London

OpenShift
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing OpenShift.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in London over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in London

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the London region over the 6 months to 7 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -1 6 £625 -1.57% 28
East London - 3 - - 2
West London -12 2 £415 -5.14% 2
OpenShift
England

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.26%) Apache
1 4 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.95%) Confluence
2 3 (3.95%) JBoss
3 2 (2.63%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.32%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.32%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Endur
2 2 (2.63%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 32 (42.11%) AWS
2 23 (30.26%) Azure
3 22 (28.95%) GitHub
4 21 (27.63%) GCP
5 10 (13.16%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (6.58%) IaaS
6 5 (6.58%) SaaS
7 4 (5.26%) PaaS
8 3 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.95%) Azure Pipelines
8 3 (3.95%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (3.95%) Serverless
9 2 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.32%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 1 (1.32%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.32%) IBM Cloud
10 1 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.63%) DNS
1 2 (2.63%) Firewall
1 2 (2.63%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.32%) 3GPP
2 1 (1.32%) Anycast
2 1 (1.32%) BGP
2 1 (1.32%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (1.32%) Network Security
2 1 (1.32%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.32%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (1.32%) SSL
2 1 (1.32%) VPN
2 1 (1.32%) VSAN
2 1 (1.32%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (7.89%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.95%) Big Data
3 3 (3.95%) Hadoop
3 3 (3.95%) Oracle Database
3 3 (3.95%) Redis
3 3 (3.95%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.63%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.63%) NonStop SQL
4 2 (2.63%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.32%) AlloyDB
5 1 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.32%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.32%) Hazelcast
5 1 (1.32%) MySQL
5 1 (1.32%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 13 (17.11%) Git
3 7 (9.21%) Cucumber
4 6 (7.89%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (5.26%) GitLab
5 4 (5.26%) JIRA
5 4 (5.26%) JMeter
5 4 (5.26%) JUnit
5 4 (5.26%) Maven
6 3 (3.95%) CircleCI
7 2 (2.63%) Artifactory
7 2 (2.63%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.63%) Eclipse
7 2 (2.63%) git-flow
7 2 (2.63%) Gradle
7 2 (2.63%) IntelliJ
8 1 (1.32%) Ant
8 1 (1.32%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.32%) Log4j
General
1 30 (39.47%) Social Skills
2 23 (30.26%) Finance
3 10 (13.16%) Banking
4 9 (11.84%) Public Sector
5 8 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.58%) Financial Institution
7 4 (5.26%) Back Office
7 4 (5.26%) Telecoms
8 3 (3.95%) Automotive
9 2 (2.63%) Front Office
9 2 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.32%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (25.00%) Developer
2 16 (21.05%) Architect
3 9 (11.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (11.84%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (9.21%) Senior
5 5 (6.58%) Java Developer
5 5 (6.58%) Lead
5 5 (6.58%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (6.58%) Senior Architect
5 5 (6.58%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (5.26%) Consultant
6 4 (5.26%) Endur Architect
6 4 (5.26%) Enterprise Architect
6 4 (5.26%) OpenLink Architect
6 4 (5.26%) Software Engineer
6 4 (5.26%) Technical Architect
7 3 (3.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) Monitoring Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) Site Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (25.00%) Kafka
1 19 (25.00%) Spring
2 16 (21.05%) React
3 9 (11.84%) Node.js
4 8 (10.53%) AngularJS
4 8 (10.53%) CSS
4 8 (10.53%) Spring Boot
5 7 (9.21%) HTML
6 6 (7.89%) Loki
6 6 (7.89%) Vue
7 5 (6.58%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (6.58%) JSON
8 4 (5.26%) Hibernate
8 4 (5.26%) Keycloak
8 4 (5.26%) Ruby on Rails
8 4 (5.26%) Swagger
8 4 (5.26%) Web Services
9 3 (3.95%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (3.95%) RESTful
9 3 (3.95%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (26.32%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.58%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (6.58%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (6.58%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.26%) Grid Computing
4 3 (3.95%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.95%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (3.95%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.63%) Biopharmaceutical
5 2 (2.63%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.63%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.32%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.32%) Derivative
6 1 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.32%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.32%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.32%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 25 (32.89%) Linux
2 9 (11.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.63%) Unix
4 1 (1.32%) CentOS
4 1 (1.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (52.63%) CI/CD
2 32 (42.11%) Containerisation
3 31 (40.79%) DevOps
4 26 (34.21%) Agile
5 22 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (27.63%) Microservices
7 19 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (22.37%) Full-Stack Development
9 12 (15.79%) Migration
9 12 (15.79%) Observability
9 12 (15.79%) Software Engineering
10 8 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
10 8 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (9.21%) Computer Science
11 7 (9.21%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
13 5 (6.58%) Cost Optimisation
13 5 (6.58%) Data Modelling
13 5 (6.58%) Risk Management
13 5 (6.58%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 35 (46.05%) Java
2 26 (34.21%) Python
3 14 (18.42%) JavaScript
4 13 (17.11%) Bash
5 12 (15.79%) TypeScript
6 8 (10.53%) C#
7 7 (9.21%) Ruby
8 6 (7.89%) Go
8 6 (7.89%) SQL
9 5 (6.58%) C++
10 3 (3.95%) Bicep
10 3 (3.95%) Shell Script
11 2 (2.63%) COBOL
11 2 (2.63%) Groovy
11 2 (2.63%) Perl
12 1 (1.32%) C
12 1 (1.32%) CodeQL
12 1 (1.32%) PowerShell
12 1 (1.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (30.26%) Security Cleared
2 17 (22.37%) SC Cleared
3 10 (13.16%) Degree
4 6 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (6.58%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.95%) PMI Certification
6 3 (3.95%) PMP
7 2 (2.63%) CISSP
7 2 (2.63%) OCA
7 2 (2.63%) OCP
7 2 (2.63%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.32%) CCIE
8 1 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.32%) CISM
8 1 (1.32%) IBM Certification
8 1 (1.32%) JNCIE
8 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.32%) MBA
8 1 (1.32%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.95%) GDPR
2 3 (3.95%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.63%) ISO 15022
3 2 (2.63%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.63%) QA
4 1 (1.32%) NIST
4 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.32%) PMO
System Software
1 29 (38.16%) Docker
2 3 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.63%) vSphere
4 1 (1.32%) KVM
4 1 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 54 (71.05%) Kubernetes
2 26 (34.21%) Ansible
3 20 (26.32%) Terraform
4 14 (18.42%) Argo
5 11 (14.47%) Prometheus
6 10 (13.16%) Grafana
7 4 (5.26%) Progress Chef
8 3 (3.95%) Podman
9 2 (2.63%) Kustomize
9 2 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (2.63%) vCenter Server
10 1 (1.32%) Fluentd
10 1 (1.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (26.32%) Red Hat
2 12 (15.79%) Splunk
3 10 (13.16%) Google
3 10 (13.16%) Oracle
4 7 (9.21%) VMware
5 5 (6.58%) IBM
6 3 (3.95%) Hitachi
7 2 (2.63%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.63%) Ping Identity
8 1 (1.32%) Arista
8 1 (1.32%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.32%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.32%) Cisco
8 1 (1.32%) Cribl.io
8 1 (1.32%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.32%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.32%) HP
8 1 (1.32%) Okta
8 1 (1.32%) Pure Storage
8 1 (1.32%) Solace