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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 272 313
Rank change year-on-year -43 +41 +29
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 67 109 113
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.47% 0.69% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.07% 1.69% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 91 100
10th Percentile £363 £500 £419
25th Percentile £418 £572 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £740 £675
Median % change year-on-year -22.64% +9.63% -3.57%
75th Percentile £638 £825 £810
90th Percentile £950 £838 £825
England median daily rate £492 £638 £594
% change year-on-year -22.82% +7.37% -6.86%

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 6,280 6,438 7,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.71% 40.96% 38.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,283 4,388 5,498
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £423 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 38 64
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.81 £18.28
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.98 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -7.28% +21.77%
75th Percentile £46.56 £58.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.30 £74.63
England median hourly rate £25.47 £31.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -19.14% +26.00% +11.11%

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 6 December 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 6 December 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 -9 5 £625 +1.01% 6
East London +6 3 - -
West London -14 2 £415 -5.14%
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 2 (2.99%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.99%) Confluence
2 1 (1.49%) Apache
2 1 (1.49%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Endur
2 2 (2.99%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 25 (37.31%) AWS
2 22 (32.84%) Azure
3 21 (31.34%) GitHub
4 20 (29.85%) GCP
5 9 (13.43%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (7.46%) IaaS
7 4 (5.97%) PaaS
7 4 (5.97%) SaaS
8 3 (4.48%) Azure Pipelines
8 3 (4.48%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.99%) Amazon ECR
10 1 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.49%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.48%) DNS
2 2 (2.99%) Firewall
3 1 (1.49%) 3GPP
3 1 (1.49%) Anycast
3 1 (1.49%) BGP
3 1 (1.49%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (1.49%) Network Security
3 1 (1.49%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (1.49%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.49%) VPN
3 1 (1.49%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.90%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.46%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.48%) Oracle Database
3 3 (4.48%) Redis
4 2 (2.99%) Big Data
4 2 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.99%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.99%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.49%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.49%) Hazelcast
5 1 (1.49%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (17.91%) Jenkins
2 10 (14.93%) Git
3 5 (7.46%) GitLab
4 4 (5.97%) Cucumber
4 4 (5.97%) JMeter
4 4 (5.97%) JUnit
4 4 (5.97%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (4.48%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.99%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.99%) JIRA
7 1 (1.49%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.49%) git-flow
7 1 (1.49%) Gradle
7 1 (1.49%) Maven
General
1 25 (37.31%) Social Skills
2 16 (23.88%) Finance
3 9 (13.43%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.96%) Banking
5 4 (5.97%) Back Office
5 4 (5.97%) Financial Institution
5 4 (5.97%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.48%) Automotive
7 2 (2.99%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.49%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (25.37%) Developer
2 14 (20.90%) Architect
3 9 (13.43%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (11.94%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Senior
6 4 (5.97%) Endur Architect
6 4 (5.97%) Lead
6 4 (5.97%) OpenLink Architect
6 4 (5.97%) Senior Architect
6 4 (5.97%) Technical Architect
7 3 (4.48%) Consultant
7 3 (4.48%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (4.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (4.48%) Java Developer
7 3 (4.48%) Monitoring Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Senior Enterprise Architect
7 3 (4.48%) Software Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (22.39%) React
2 14 (20.90%) Spring
3 11 (16.42%) Kafka
4 9 (13.43%) Node.js
5 7 (10.45%) AngularJS
5 7 (10.45%) CSS
5 7 (10.45%) HTML
6 6 (8.96%) Loki
6 6 (8.96%) Vue
7 5 (7.46%) Spring Boot
8 4 (5.97%) Hibernate
8 4 (5.97%) JSON
8 4 (5.97%) Keycloak
8 4 (5.97%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (5.97%) Ruby on Rails
8 4 (5.97%) Swagger
9 3 (4.48%) YAML
10 2 (2.99%) .NET Core
10 2 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (2.99%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (26.87%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.96%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (7.46%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.97%) Grid Computing
5 3 (4.48%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (4.48%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (4.48%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.48%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.99%) Biopharmaceutical
6 2 (2.99%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.49%) Derivative
7 1 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.49%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (31.34%) Linux
2 7 (10.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.99%) Unix
4 1 (1.49%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (55.22%) CI/CD
2 31 (46.27%) Containerisation
3 30 (44.78%) DevOps
4 22 (32.84%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (29.85%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (25.37%) Agile
6 17 (25.37%) Full-Stack Development
6 17 (25.37%) Microservices
7 12 (17.91%) Observability
8 10 (14.93%) Migration
8 10 (14.93%) Software Engineering
9 8 (11.94%) Infrastructure Automation
9 8 (11.94%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (8.96%) Computer Science
11 5 (7.46%) Data Migration
11 5 (7.46%) Identity Access Management
11 5 (7.46%) Requirements Gathering
11 5 (7.46%) Risk Management
11 5 (7.46%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (7.46%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (41.79%) Java
2 23 (34.33%) Python
3 13 (19.40%) JavaScript
4 12 (17.91%) Bash
5 11 (16.42%) TypeScript
6 7 (10.45%) C#
6 7 (10.45%) Ruby
7 6 (8.96%) Go
8 4 (5.97%) C++
8 4 (5.97%) SQL
9 3 (4.48%) Bicep
9 3 (4.48%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.99%) Perl
11 1 (1.49%) C
Qualifications
1 22 (32.84%) Security Cleared
2 17 (25.37%) SC Cleared
3 9 (13.43%) Degree
4 6 (8.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.97%) DV Cleared
6 3 (4.48%) PMI Certification
6 3 (4.48%) PMP
7 2 (2.99%) CISSP
7 2 (2.99%) OCA
7 2 (2.99%) OCP
7 2 (2.99%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.49%) CCIE
8 1 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.49%) CISM
8 1 (1.49%) JNCIE
8 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.49%) MBA
8 1 (1.49%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.48%) GDPR
2 3 (4.48%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.99%) QA
4 1 (1.49%) NIST
4 1 (1.49%) PMO
System Software
1 24 (35.82%) Docker
2 3 (4.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.99%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.99%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (74.63%) Kubernetes
2 25 (37.31%) Ansible
3 22 (32.84%) Terraform
4 16 (23.88%) Argo
5 10 (14.93%) Grafana
6 9 (13.43%) Prometheus
7 4 (5.97%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.99%) Kustomize
8 2 (2.99%) Podman
8 2 (2.99%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.49%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 18 (26.87%) Red Hat
2 11 (16.42%) Splunk
3 8 (11.94%) Google
4 7 (10.45%) VMware
5 5 (7.46%) Oracle
6 3 (4.48%) Hitachi
7 2 (2.99%) IBM
7 2 (2.99%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.99%) Ping Identity
7 2 (2.99%) Pure Storage
8 1 (1.49%) Arista
8 1 (1.49%) Avaloq
8 1 (1.49%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.49%) Cisco
8 1 (1.49%) Cribl.io
8 1 (1.49%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.49%) Okta
8 1 (1.49%) Qualys
8 1 (1.49%) Solace
8 1 (1.49%) Wind River