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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 304 304
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 +15
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 137 60 81
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.68% 0.45% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.66% 1.03% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 43 63
10th Percentile £415 £402 £413
25th Percentile £500 £488 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £644
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -14.60% -11.17%
75th Percentile £750 £706 £810
90th Percentile £833 £950 £825
England median daily rate £556 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +5.86% -4.55% -18.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £10.00 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 - £85.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.97%

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 8,236 5,809 6,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.89% 43.46% 41.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,660 3,958 4,674
10th Percentile £360 £344 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% -3.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £530
% change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 92 45
10th Percentile £17.60 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.12 £24.15
Median hourly rate £29.28 £30.25 £30.59
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% -1.11% -23.53%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £65.10
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +30.73% -21.21% -

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 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 21 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 -6 19 £625 +21.95% 12
South London - 5 £800 - 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 14 (10.22%) Confluence
2 7 (5.11%) Camunda
3 4 (2.92%) Apache
3 4 (2.92%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.73%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.73%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.73%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (2.19%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 52 (37.96%) AWS
2 42 (30.66%) Azure
3 27 (19.71%) GCP
4 14 (10.22%) GitHub
5 10 (7.30%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (5.11%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (3.65%) PaaS
8 4 (2.92%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.92%) IaaS
9 3 (2.19%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.46%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.73%) Apigee
11 1 (0.73%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.73%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.73%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.73%) Boomi
11 1 (0.73%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (0.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (0.73%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.30%) DNS
2 7 (5.11%) Firewall
3 5 (3.65%) DHCP
3 5 (3.65%) VPN
4 3 (2.19%) SMTP
5 2 (1.46%) BGP
5 2 (1.46%) Multicast
5 2 (1.46%) OSPF
5 2 (1.46%) VLAN
5 2 (1.46%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.73%) 5G
6 1 (0.73%) DAB
6 1 (0.73%) Internet
6 1 (0.73%) Network Security
6 1 (0.73%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.73%) SSL
6 1 (0.73%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.57%) Oracle Database
2 7 (5.11%) Big Data
2 7 (5.11%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.65%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.46%) Power BI
7 2 (1.46%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.73%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.73%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.73%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.73%) Flink
8 1 (0.73%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.73%) Metadata
8 1 (0.73%) NonStop SQL
8 1 (0.73%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.73%) Parquet
8 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 44 (32.12%) Jenkins
2 22 (16.06%) GitLab
3 16 (11.68%) JIRA
4 13 (9.49%) Git
4 13 (9.49%) Gradle
5 9 (6.57%) Selenium
6 8 (5.84%) REST Assured
7 7 (5.11%) HP UFT
8 6 (4.38%) Bitbucket
8 6 (4.38%) JUnit
8 6 (4.38%) Mockito
8 6 (4.38%) SonarQube
9 5 (3.65%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (3.65%) Cucumber
9 5 (3.65%) Maven
9 5 (3.65%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.46%) Robot Framework
10 2 (1.46%) TestRail
11 1 (0.73%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.73%) SpecFlow
General
1 58 (42.34%) Finance
2 29 (21.17%) Social Skills
3 26 (18.98%) Banking
4 13 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.65%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.92%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.19%) Military
8 1 (0.73%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.73%) Back Office
8 1 (0.73%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.73%) Front Office
8 1 (0.73%) Games
8 1 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.73%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.73%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (27.01%) Senior
2 27 (19.71%) Developer
3 22 (16.06%) Lead
4 20 (14.60%) Java Developer
5 19 (13.87%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (10.22%) Architect
7 9 (6.57%) Senior DevOps
7 9 (6.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 8 (5.84%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 8 (5.84%) Senior Developer
8 8 (5.84%) Test Engineer
9 7 (5.11%) Senior Java Developer
9 7 (5.11%) Splunk Engineer
10 6 (4.38%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (4.38%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 5 (3.65%) Data Engineer
11 5 (3.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (3.65%) Linux Engineer
11 5 (3.65%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 5 (3.65%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (30.66%) Terraform
2 34 (24.82%) Kafka
3 23 (16.79%) Spring
4 21 (15.33%) Spring Boot
5 18 (13.14%) React
6 14 (10.22%) Hibernate
6 14 (10.22%) Redux
7 11 (8.03%) Elastic Stack
7 11 (8.03%) REST
8 6 (4.38%) Jakarta EE
8 6 (4.38%) JMS
8 6 (4.38%) JPA
9 5 (3.65%) CSS
9 5 (3.65%) HTML
9 5 (3.65%) JDBC
10 4 (2.92%) PySpark
10 4 (2.92%) YAML
11 3 (2.19%) AngularJS
11 3 (2.19%) Keycloak
11 3 (2.19%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.06%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.30%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (7.30%) Onboarding
2 10 (7.30%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (5.11%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.11%) Public Cloud
4 6 (4.38%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.65%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.65%) PKI
5 5 (3.65%) Spread Betting
6 4 (2.92%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.92%) Clustering
6 4 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.92%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (2.19%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (2.19%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (2.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (27.01%) Linux
2 10 (7.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (7.30%) Windows
3 7 (5.11%) Unix
4 6 (4.38%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.73%) AIX
5 1 (0.73%) Android
5 1 (0.73%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.73%) VMS
5 1 (0.73%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (48.18%) CI/CD
2 61 (44.53%) DevOps
3 51 (37.23%) Agile
4 41 (29.93%) Containerisation
5 36 (26.28%) Infrastructure as Code
6 34 (24.82%) Observability
7 32 (23.36%) Microservices
8 26 (18.98%) Mentoring
9 24 (17.52%) Roadmaps
10 22 (16.06%) Migration
11 21 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (14.60%) AI
12 20 (14.60%) Stakeholder Management
12 20 (14.60%) Technical Leadership
13 17 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (12.41%) Incident Management
13 17 (12.41%) Platform Engineering
14 16 (11.68%) Test Automation
15 15 (10.95%) Configuration Management
15 15 (10.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 43 (31.39%) Java
2 32 (23.36%) SQL
3 25 (18.25%) Python
4 17 (12.41%) PL/SQL
5 7 (5.11%) PowerShell
6 6 (4.38%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.38%) Shell Script
7 5 (3.65%) C#
8 4 (2.92%) Bash
8 4 (2.92%) Scala
8 4 (2.92%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.46%) Go
9 2 (1.46%) Korn
10 1 (0.73%) COBOL
10 1 (0.73%) PromQL
10 1 (0.73%) Rust
10 1 (0.73%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.73%) VBA
Qualifications
1 43 (31.39%) Security Cleared
2 39 (28.47%) SC Cleared
3 17 (12.41%) Degree
4 14 (10.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.38%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.38%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.65%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (2.92%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.19%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.46%) ISEB
9 2 (1.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.73%) CCIE
10 1 (0.73%) CCNP
10 1 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.73%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.73%) OCP
10 1 (0.73%) RHCE
10 1 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.65%) QA
2 4 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.19%) NIST
4 1 (0.73%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.73%) GRC
4 1 (0.73%) ISO 15022
4 1 (0.73%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.73%) PSD2
4 1 (0.73%) SEPA
System Software
1 34 (24.82%) Docker
2 10 (7.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.38%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.92%) vSphere
5 3 (2.19%) BitLocker
5 3 (2.19%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.19%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (2.19%) Terminal Services
5 3 (2.19%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.73%) etcd
7 1 (0.73%) oVirt
7 1 (0.73%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 87 (63.50%) Kubernetes
2 42 (30.66%) Ansible
3 20 (14.60%) Grafana
4 17 (12.41%) Prometheus
5 14 (10.22%) Control-M
6 5 (3.65%) Argo
7 4 (2.92%) Data Guard
7 4 (2.92%) Nagios
7 4 (2.92%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (2.19%) Puppet
8 3 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (2.19%) vCenter Server
8 3 (2.19%) vMotion
9 2 (1.46%) Kibana
10 1 (0.73%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.73%) Istio
10 1 (0.73%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.73%) SCCM
10 1 (0.73%) systemd
Vendors
1 32 (23.36%) Splunk
2 23 (16.79%) Oracle
3 21 (15.33%) Red Hat
4 16 (11.68%) Microsoft
5 12 (8.76%) Google
5 12 (8.76%) VMware
6 7 (5.11%) HP
6 7 (5.11%) IBM
6 7 (5.11%) xMatters
7 5 (3.65%) Veracode
8 3 (2.19%) Arista
8 3 (2.19%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (2.19%) Cisco
8 3 (2.19%) Citrix
8 3 (2.19%) CyberArk
8 3 (2.19%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.19%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.19%) Symantec
9 2 (1.46%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.46%) Temenos