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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 277 319
Rank change year-on-year -30 +42 +16
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 121 88 75
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.61% 0.65% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.48% 1.51% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 66 59
10th Percentile £410 £506 £413
25th Percentile £500 £530 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £700 £797 £750
90th Percentile £875 £838 £825
England median daily rate £514 £556 £533
% change year-on-year -7.55% +4.36% -21.04%

All Cloud Computing 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 8,198 5,812 6,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.44% 42.87% 40.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,588 3,964 5,014
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £446 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.34% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 82 60
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.55 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.83 £22.24
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.99
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.73% -49.80%
75th Percentile £54.88 £46.56 £40.75
90th Percentile £74.88 £67.31 £66.10
England median hourly rate £39.27 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +56.14% +14.32% -36.96%

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 21 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in London

OpenShift
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing OpenShift

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 21 July 2026. 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 -9 18 £625 -3.85% 6
South London -12 2 £825 - 2
East London -1 1 £432 - 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 9 (7.44%) Confluence
2 6 (4.96%) Camunda
3 4 (3.31%) Apache
3 4 (3.31%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.83%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 44 (36.36%) AWS
2 23 (19.01%) Azure
3 18 (14.88%) GCP
4 14 (11.57%) GitHub
5 9 (7.44%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (4.13%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.31%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (3.31%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.31%) IaaS
7 4 (3.31%) PaaS
7 4 (3.31%) Serverless
8 3 (2.48%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (2.48%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.65%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (1.65%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.65%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.44%) DNS
2 5 (4.13%) DHCP
2 5 (4.13%) VPN
3 4 (3.31%) Firewall
4 3 (2.48%) SMTP
5 2 (1.65%) BGP
5 2 (1.65%) Multicast
5 2 (1.65%) OSPF
5 2 (1.65%) VLAN
5 2 (1.65%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.83%) 5G
6 1 (0.83%) DAB
6 1 (0.83%) Network Security
6 1 (0.83%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.96%) Big Data
1 6 (4.96%) Oracle Database
2 5 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.31%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.48%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.48%) Power BI
4 3 (2.48%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.65%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (1.65%) Metadata
6 1 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.83%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.83%) Flink
6 1 (0.83%) Hazelcast
6 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.83%) Redis
6 1 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (28.10%) Jenkins
2 17 (14.05%) GitLab
3 10 (8.26%) JIRA
4 9 (7.44%) Git
5 8 (6.61%) Gradle
6 4 (3.31%) REST Assured
7 3 (2.48%) JUnit
7 3 (2.48%) Mockito
7 3 (2.48%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.48%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.65%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.65%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.65%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (1.65%) Maven
8 2 (1.65%) Selenium
9 1 (0.83%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.83%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.83%) Postman
9 1 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.83%) webpack
General
1 46 (38.02%) Finance
2 32 (26.45%) Social Skills
3 17 (14.05%) Banking
4 15 (12.40%) Public Sector
5 12 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (9.92%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (5.79%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.31%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.65%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.83%) Back Office
10 1 (0.83%) Front Office
10 1 (0.83%) Games
10 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (21.49%) Senior
2 24 (19.83%) Architect
3 20 (16.53%) Developer
4 14 (11.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (11.57%) Java Developer
4 14 (11.57%) Lead
5 8 (6.61%) Senior DevOps
5 8 (6.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 7 (5.79%) CyberArk Architect
7 6 (4.96%) Data Engineer
7 6 (4.96%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 6 (4.96%) Software Engineer
7 6 (4.96%) Splunk Engineer
7 6 (4.96%) Technical Architect
8 5 (4.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 4 (3.31%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) Python Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (16.53%) Kafka
2 18 (14.88%) Spring
3 17 (14.05%) Spring Boot
4 12 (9.92%) React
5 11 (9.09%) REST
6 9 (7.44%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (7.44%) Hibernate
6 9 (7.44%) OpenID
6 9 (7.44%) Redux
7 7 (5.79%) LDAP
7 7 (5.79%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (5.79%) SAML
8 5 (4.13%) PySpark
9 4 (3.31%) YAML
10 3 (2.48%) .NET
10 3 (2.48%) Jakarta EE
10 3 (2.48%) JMS
10 3 (2.48%) JPA
10 3 (2.48%) Node.js
10 3 (2.48%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 28 (23.14%) Cloud Native
2 16 (13.22%) Onboarding
3 8 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (4.13%) PKI
5 5 (4.13%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.31%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.48%) Clustering
7 3 (2.48%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.48%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.65%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.65%) Spread Betting
9 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (19.01%) Linux
2 8 (6.61%) Windows
3 7 (5.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.31%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.48%) Unix
6 1 (0.83%) AIX
6 1 (0.83%) Android
6 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (47.11%) CI/CD
1 57 (47.11%) DevOps
2 41 (33.88%) Containerisation
3 35 (28.93%) Agile
4 31 (25.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (25.62%) Observability
5 22 (18.18%) Microservices
5 22 (18.18%) Migration
6 20 (16.53%) Mentoring
7 18 (14.88%) Stakeholder Management
8 17 (14.05%) Incident Management
8 17 (14.05%) ITSM
9 16 (13.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (13.22%) Roadmaps
10 15 (12.40%) Architectural Patterns
10 15 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (11.57%) AI
11 14 (11.57%) Configuration Management
12 13 (10.74%) Technical Leadership
13 11 (9.09%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 30 (24.79%) Java
2 29 (23.97%) Python
3 19 (15.70%) SQL
4 12 (9.92%) PL/SQL
5 6 (4.96%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.31%) Bash
6 4 (3.31%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.31%) Scala
6 4 (3.31%) Shell Script
6 4 (3.31%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.48%) Go
8 2 (1.65%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.83%) Bicep
9 1 (0.83%) C#
9 1 (0.83%) COBOL
9 1 (0.83%) Korn
9 1 (0.83%) R
9 1 (0.83%) Ruby
9 1 (0.83%) Rust
9 1 (0.83%) VBA
Qualifications
1 44 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 35 (28.93%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.09%) Degree
4 8 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.13%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.13%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.65%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.83%) CCIE
7 1 (0.83%) CCNP
7 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.83%) OCP
7 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.83%) PMP
7 1 (0.83%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (6.61%) NIST
2 7 (5.79%) NCSC
3 2 (1.65%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.65%) QA
4 1 (0.83%) GRC
System Software
1 28 (23.14%) Docker
2 7 (5.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.48%) BitLocker
3 3 (2.48%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.48%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (2.48%) Terminal Services
3 3 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.48%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (2.48%) vSphere
4 2 (1.65%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.83%) etcd
Systems Management
1 78 (64.46%) Kubernetes
2 30 (24.79%) Terraform
3 28 (23.14%) Ansible
4 16 (13.22%) Prometheus
5 15 (12.40%) Grafana
6 12 (9.92%) Control-M
7 5 (4.13%) vCenter Server
8 4 (3.31%) Argo
8 4 (3.31%) Data Guard
8 4 (3.31%) Nagios
8 4 (3.31%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (3.31%) Puppet
9 3 (2.48%) vMotion
10 2 (1.65%) Fluentd
10 2 (1.65%) Kibana
10 2 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.83%) Istio
11 1 (0.83%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.83%) linkerd
11 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 32 (26.45%) Splunk
2 16 (13.22%) Oracle
3 15 (12.40%) Red Hat
4 12 (9.92%) Microsoft
5 8 (6.61%) VMware
6 7 (5.79%) CyberArk
7 6 (4.96%) xMatters
8 4 (3.31%) Google
9 3 (2.48%) Arista
9 3 (2.48%) Cisco
9 3 (2.48%) Citrix
9 3 (2.48%) Dynatrace
9 3 (2.48%) HP
9 3 (2.48%) IBM
9 3 (2.48%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.48%) Symantec
10 2 (1.65%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.65%) PagerDuty
10 2 (1.65%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.65%) Veracode