OpenShift Contracts in London

Red Hat OpenShift
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring OpenShift skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenShift over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 247 336 297
Rank change year-on-year +89 -39 -5
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 106 55 205
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.84% 0.31% 0.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.99% 0.82% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 47 157
10th Percentile £514 £398 £500
25th Percentile £606 £419 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £575 £725
Median % change year-on-year +26.09% -20.69% +16.94%
75th Percentile £838 £706 £800
90th Percentile - £775 £850
England median daily rate £638 £525 £650
% change year-on-year +21.43% -19.23% +8.33%

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 5,314 6,744 10,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.35% 37.82% 39.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,693 4,977 7,700
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £440 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £775 £782
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 71 90
10th Percentile £22.40 £17.78 £20.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £24.63
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%
75th Percentile £53.75 £38.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £58.75 £88.30
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing OpenShift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in London

OpenShift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenShift in London.

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in London

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in London over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 +17 14 £631 +9.78% 17
South London - 2 £725 -
East London - 1 £575 - 3
OpenShift
England

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 32 (30.19%) Apache Spark
2 30 (28.30%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (27.36%) Apache
4 7 (6.60%) OpenStack
5 4 (3.77%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (1.89%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.94%) JBoss
7 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.94%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (2.83%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 63 (59.43%) AWS
2 40 (37.74%) Serverless
3 36 (33.96%) AWS Lambda
4 34 (32.08%) Amazon ECS
5 28 (26.42%) dbt
6 21 (19.81%) Azure
7 18 (16.98%) GCP
8 14 (13.21%) Amazon S3
9 9 (8.49%) GitHub
10 8 (7.55%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (7.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (4.72%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (4.72%) IaaS
12 4 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (3.77%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (2.83%) Amazon EMR
13 3 (2.83%) Amazon Kinesis
13 3 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (2.83%) Kong
14 2 (1.89%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.83%) BGP
1 3 (2.83%) Ethernet VPN
1 3 (2.83%) Firewall
1 3 (2.83%) Multicast
1 3 (2.83%) OSPF
1 3 (2.83%) TCP/IP
1 3 (2.83%) VSAN
1 3 (2.83%) VXLAN
2 2 (1.89%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (1.89%) NX-OS
3 1 (0.94%) DHCP
3 1 (0.94%) DNS
3 1 (0.94%) Network Security
3 1 (0.94%) SMTP
3 1 (0.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (26.42%) Amazon Athena
1 28 (26.42%) Apache Arrow
1 28 (26.42%) Apache Iceberg
1 28 (26.42%) Apache Ignite
1 28 (26.42%) Dremio
2 9 (8.49%) NoSQL
3 8 (7.55%) SQL Server
4 7 (6.60%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (4.72%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (4.72%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.83%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.83%) Couchbase
7 3 (2.83%) Hazelcast
7 3 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.83%) Redis
7 3 (2.83%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.89%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.89%) Tableau
9 1 (0.94%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 41 (38.68%) Artifactory
2 34 (32.08%) Jenkins
3 17 (16.04%) Git
4 7 (6.60%) SonarQube
5 6 (5.66%) GitLab
6 5 (4.72%) JIRA
7 4 (3.77%) Bitbucket
7 4 (3.77%) Cucumber
7 4 (3.77%) Maven
8 3 (2.83%) git-flow
8 3 (2.83%) Gradle
8 3 (2.83%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (2.83%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.94%) Ant
9 1 (0.94%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.94%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.94%) LoadRunner
General
1 64 (60.38%) Finance
2 34 (32.08%) Front Office
3 22 (20.75%) Social Skills
4 15 (14.15%) Banking
5 8 (7.55%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.66%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.83%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.89%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.94%) Law
Job Titles
1 49 (46.23%) DevOps Engineer
2 36 (33.96%) AWS Engineer
3 35 (33.02%) AWS DevOps
3 35 (33.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 30 (28.30%) Data Engineer
4 30 (28.30%) Python Engineer
5 21 (19.81%) Senior
6 20 (18.87%) Developer
7 12 (11.32%) Lead
8 9 (8.49%) Senior Developer
9 7 (6.60%) Java Developer
9 7 (6.60%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 6 (5.66%) Consultant
10 6 (5.66%) Technical Leader
11 5 (4.72%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (4.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.72%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 4 (3.77%) Java Engineer
12 4 (3.77%) React Developer
13 3 (2.83%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (36.79%) Kafka
2 36 (33.96%) J2EE
3 28 (26.42%) PySpark
4 17 (16.04%) Spring
5 9 (8.49%) React
5 9 (8.49%) Spring Boot
6 7 (6.60%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (3.77%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.77%) Node.js
8 3 (2.83%) .NET
8 3 (2.83%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (2.83%) Material-UI
8 3 (2.83%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (2.83%) Web Services
9 2 (1.89%) Hibernate
9 2 (1.89%) JSON
9 2 (1.89%) REST
9 2 (1.89%) RESTful
9 2 (1.89%) ZK
10 1 (0.94%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.38%) Public Cloud
2 9 (8.49%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.72%) Tandem
4 4 (3.77%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.77%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.83%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.94%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.94%) Clustering
6 1 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.94%) Derivative
6 1 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.94%) Equities
6 1 (0.94%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (0.94%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.94%) PKI
6 1 (0.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (12.26%) Linux
2 5 (4.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.83%) VMS
4 1 (0.94%) Windows
4 1 (0.94%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (69.81%) DevOps
2 62 (58.49%) CI/CD
3 51 (48.11%) Software Engineering
4 45 (42.45%) Agile
5 42 (39.62%) Open Source
6 35 (33.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 33 (31.13%) Asset Management
8 32 (30.19%) Data Engineering
9 27 (25.47%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (17.92%) Containerisation
10 19 (17.92%) Microservices
11 16 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (13.21%) Configuration Management
13 13 (12.26%) Deployment Automation
14 11 (10.38%) Continuous Integration
14 11 (10.38%) Technical Leadership
15 10 (9.43%) Test Automation
16 9 (8.49%) Migration
16 9 (8.49%) TDD
17 8 (7.55%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 75 (70.75%) Python
2 61 (57.55%) Java
3 44 (41.51%) Go
4 10 (9.43%) Bash
4 10 (9.43%) SQL
5 9 (8.49%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.66%) C#
7 4 (3.77%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.77%) Scala
7 4 (3.77%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.83%) Perl
9 2 (1.89%) Groovy
10 1 (0.94%) Bicep
10 1 (0.94%) C
10 1 (0.94%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (16.98%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.43%) Degree
3 9 (8.49%) DV Cleared
4 7 (6.60%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.77%) RHCSA
6 3 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.89%) CCIE
7 2 (1.89%) CCIE Data Center
7 2 (1.89%) CCNP
7 2 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.89%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.94%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.94%) OCP
8 1 (0.94%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.94%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.77%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.89%) GDPR
3 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.94%) SEPA
3 1 (0.94%) SOC 2
System Software
1 66 (62.26%) Docker
2 11 (10.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (5.66%) vSphere
4 4 (3.77%) Lustre
5 3 (2.83%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.94%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.94%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.94%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.94%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.94%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.94%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 90 (84.91%) Kubernetes
2 59 (55.66%) Terraform
3 35 (33.02%) Ansible
4 7 (6.60%) Grafana
5 6 (5.66%) Progress Chef
6 5 (4.72%) Podman
6 5 (4.72%) Puppet
7 4 (3.77%) Istio
7 4 (3.77%) Karpenter
7 4 (3.77%) Prometheus
8 3 (2.83%) Control-M
8 3 (2.83%) Kibana
8 3 (2.83%) logstash
8 3 (2.83%) Rundeck
9 2 (1.89%) Argo
9 2 (1.89%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (1.89%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.94%) Nagios
10 1 (0.94%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.94%) vMotion
Vendors
1 26 (24.53%) Red Hat
2 13 (12.26%) VMware
3 10 (9.43%) Oracle
4 8 (7.55%) Splunk
5 6 (5.66%) Google
6 4 (3.77%) AppDynamics
6 4 (3.77%) Microsoft
7 3 (2.83%) OpenLink
8 2 (1.89%) Cisco
8 2 (1.89%) IBM
9 1 (0.94%) Arista
9 1 (0.94%) Citrix
9 1 (0.94%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.94%) Ericsson
9 1 (0.94%) HP
9 1 (0.94%) Nokia
9 1 (0.94%) Symantec
9 1 (0.94%) Wind River