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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 310 308
Rank change year-on-year -14 -2 +22
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 126 58 82
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.62% 0.44% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.52% 1.01% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 41 65
10th Percentile £402 £415 £413
25th Percentile £468 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £595 £638
Median % change year-on-year +5.04% -6.67% -13.85%
75th Percentile £710 £700 £810
90th Percentile £823 £950 £825
England median daily rate £537 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +4.27% -6.36% -18.06%

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 8,314 5,766 6,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.22% 43.32% 41.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,691 3,935 4,673
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 94 51
10th Percentile £19.13 £23.00 £20.00
25th Percentile £23.14 £25.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £34.62 £31.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +3.33% -36.84%
75th Percentile £55.63 £47.50 £44.56
90th Percentile £78.65 £78.75 £66.00
England median hourly rate £34.13 £26.38 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.38% -12.08% -9.09%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -12 17 £625 +19.05% 4
South London - 5 £800 - 4
East London 0 1 £432 - 1
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 15 (11.90%) Confluence
2 7 (5.56%) Camunda
3 4 (3.17%) Apache
3 4 (3.17%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.79%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 50 (39.68%) AWS
2 36 (28.57%) Azure
3 24 (19.05%) GCP
4 16 (12.70%) GitHub
5 11 (8.73%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (3.17%) IaaS
7 4 (3.17%) PaaS
8 2 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.59%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.59%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.59%) Serverless
9 1 (0.79%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (0.79%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.79%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.94%) DNS
2 7 (5.56%) Firewall
3 5 (3.97%) DHCP
3 5 (3.97%) VPN
4 3 (2.38%) SMTP
5 2 (1.59%) BGP
5 2 (1.59%) Multicast
5 2 (1.59%) OSPF
5 2 (1.59%) VLAN
5 2 (1.59%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.79%) 5G
6 1 (0.79%) DAB
6 1 (0.79%) Network Security
6 1 (0.79%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.79%) SSL
6 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.14%) Oracle Database
2 7 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.76%) Big Data
3 6 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.97%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.59%) Power BI
8 1 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.79%) Flink
8 1 (0.79%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.79%) Metadata
8 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 42 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 22 (17.46%) GitLab
3 17 (13.49%) JIRA
4 14 (11.11%) Git
5 13 (10.32%) Gradle
6 8 (6.35%) REST Assured
7 6 (4.76%) Bitbucket
7 6 (4.76%) JUnit
7 6 (4.76%) Mockito
7 6 (4.76%) SonarQube
7 6 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (3.97%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (3.97%) Maven
8 5 (3.97%) Selenium
9 3 (2.38%) HP UFT
10 2 (1.59%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.59%) Robot Framework
10 2 (1.59%) TestRail
11 1 (0.79%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.79%) SpecFlow
General
1 50 (39.68%) Finance
2 28 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 23 (18.25%) Banking
4 13 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.97%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.17%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.59%) Military
8 1 (0.79%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.79%) Back Office
8 1 (0.79%) Front Office
8 1 (0.79%) Games
8 1 (0.79%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (26.19%) Senior
2 26 (20.63%) Developer
3 20 (15.87%) Java Developer
4 19 (15.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (15.08%) Lead
5 10 (7.94%) Architect
6 9 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
6 9 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 8 (6.35%) Senior Developer
8 7 (5.56%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 7 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
8 7 (5.56%) Splunk Engineer
9 6 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (4.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 5 (3.97%) Data Engineer
10 5 (3.97%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 5 (3.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.97%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 5 (3.97%) Software Engineer
10 5 (3.97%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (30.95%) Terraform
2 28 (22.22%) Kafka
3 22 (17.46%) Spring
4 20 (15.87%) Spring Boot
5 17 (13.49%) React
6 14 (11.11%) Hibernate
6 14 (11.11%) Redux
7 13 (10.32%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (7.94%) REST
9 6 (4.76%) Jakarta EE
9 6 (4.76%) JMS
9 6 (4.76%) JPA
10 5 (3.97%) CSS
10 5 (3.97%) HTML
10 5 (3.97%) JDBC
11 4 (3.17%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (3.17%) PySpark
11 4 (3.17%) YAML
12 3 (2.38%) Playwright
12 3 (2.38%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.49%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.94%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.97%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.97%) PKI
5 5 (3.97%) Spread Betting
6 4 (3.17%) AI Agents
6 4 (3.17%) Clustering
6 4 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.17%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.38%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.59%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.59%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.79%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 34 (26.98%) Linux
2 12 (9.52%) Windows
3 10 (7.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (4.76%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.97%) Unix
6 1 (0.79%) AIX
6 1 (0.79%) Android
6 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (47.62%) CI/CD
2 56 (44.44%) DevOps
3 48 (38.10%) Agile
4 37 (29.37%) Containerisation
5 35 (27.78%) Observability
6 34 (26.98%) Infrastructure as Code
7 26 (20.63%) Mentoring
7 26 (20.63%) Microservices
8 20 (15.87%) Roadmaps
9 19 (15.08%) AI
10 18 (14.29%) Incident Management
10 18 (14.29%) Migration
10 18 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
11 17 (13.49%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (11.90%) Configuration Management
12 15 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (11.11%) Computer Science
14 13 (10.32%) Infrastructure Automation
14 13 (10.32%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (29.37%) Java
2 28 (22.22%) SQL
3 26 (20.63%) Python
4 17 (13.49%) PL/SQL
5 9 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 7 (5.56%) Bash
7 6 (4.76%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.17%) Scala
8 4 (3.17%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.38%) C#
9 3 (2.38%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.59%) Go
10 2 (1.59%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.79%) COBOL
11 1 (0.79%) Korn
11 1 (0.79%) PromQL
11 1 (0.79%) Ruby
11 1 (0.79%) Rust
11 1 (0.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 42 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 38 (30.16%) SC Cleared
3 17 (13.49%) Degree
4 14 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.97%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.17%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (2.38%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.59%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.59%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.59%) ISEB
8 2 (1.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.79%) CCIE
9 1 (0.79%) CCNP
9 1 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.79%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.97%) QA
2 3 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.38%) NIST
3 2 (1.59%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.79%) GRC
4 1 (0.79%) ISO 15022
4 1 (0.79%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 31 (24.60%) Docker
2 8 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.38%) BitLocker
3 3 (2.38%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.38%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (2.38%) Terminal Services
3 3 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.59%) vSphere
5 1 (0.79%) etcd
5 1 (0.79%) oVirt
5 1 (0.79%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 81 (64.29%) Kubernetes
2 38 (30.16%) Ansible
3 20 (15.87%) Grafana
4 19 (15.08%) Prometheus
5 14 (11.11%) Control-M
6 5 (3.97%) Argo
7 4 (3.17%) Data Guard
7 4 (3.17%) Nagios
7 4 (3.17%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (3.17%) Puppet
8 3 (2.38%) vCenter Server
8 3 (2.38%) vMotion
9 2 (1.59%) Fluentd
9 2 (1.59%) Kibana
9 2 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.79%) Istio
10 1 (0.79%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.79%) SCCM
10 1 (0.79%) SCOM
Vendors
1 30 (23.81%) Splunk
2 23 (18.25%) Oracle
3 18 (14.29%) Red Hat
4 16 (12.70%) Microsoft
5 10 (7.94%) VMware
6 8 (6.35%) Google
7 7 (5.56%) IBM
7 7 (5.56%) xMatters
8 5 (3.97%) Veracode
9 4 (3.17%) Dynatrace
10 3 (2.38%) Arista
10 3 (2.38%) Cisco
10 3 (2.38%) Citrix
10 3 (2.38%) HP
10 3 (2.38%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.38%) Symantec
11 2 (1.59%) F5
11 2 (1.59%) Fortinet
11 2 (1.59%) Palo Alto
12 1 (0.79%) Solace