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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 246 334
Rank change year-on-year -74 +88 -30
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 99 106 54
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.56% 0.84% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.30% 1.97% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 93 45
10th Percentile £400 £514 £395
25th Percentile £453 £606 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £725 £600
Median % change year-on-year -22.41% +20.83% -17.24%
75th Percentile £670 £838 £725
90th Percentile £900 - £775
England median daily rate £500 £638 £525
% change year-on-year -21.57% +21.43% -19.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £76.67 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -39.13%

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 7,587 5,375 6,719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.13% 42.41% 37.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,227 3,734 4,957
10th Percentile £350 £356 £339
25th Percentile £425 £440 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 54 72
10th Percentile £20.19 £22.27 £17.78
25th Percentile £25.36 £24.66 £21.06
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +16.28% -35.48%
75th Percentile £52.96 £53.75 £38.28
90th Percentile £72.50 £71.88 £62.13
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.77
% change year-on-year +70.13% +27.35% -31.62%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -17 14 £525 -16.83% 4
East London -4 1 £432 -24.87% 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 6 (6.06%) Camunda
2 3 (3.03%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.02%) Apache
3 2 (2.02%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.02%) Confluence
3 2 (2.02%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (2.02%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 38 (38.38%) AWS
2 20 (20.20%) Azure
3 14 (14.14%) GCP
4 11 (11.11%) GitHub
5 6 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (4.04%) Serverless
7 3 (3.03%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.02%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (2.02%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.02%) Datadog
8 2 (2.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (1.01%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (1.01%) dbt
9 1 (1.01%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.01%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.05%) DNS
2 2 (2.02%) Calico
2 2 (2.02%) Firewall
2 2 (2.02%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.02%) VSAN
3 1 (1.01%) HTTP
3 1 (1.01%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.01%) Network Security
3 1 (1.01%) VLAN
3 1 (1.01%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.07%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.04%) MongoDB
2 4 (4.04%) Oracle Database
3 3 (3.03%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.03%) Redis
4 2 (2.02%) Big Data
4 2 (2.02%) Hazelcast
4 2 (2.02%) MySQL
4 2 (2.02%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.01%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.01%) Flink
5 1 (1.01%) Metadata
5 1 (1.01%) Power BI
5 1 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.01%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 18 (18.18%) GitLab
3 8 (8.08%) Git
4 5 (5.05%) Cucumber
5 3 (3.03%) JUnit
5 3 (3.03%) Mockito
6 2 (2.02%) Ant
6 2 (2.02%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.02%) Gatling
6 2 (2.02%) Gradle
6 2 (2.02%) JIRA
6 2 (2.02%) Maven
7 1 (1.01%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.01%) JMeter
7 1 (1.01%) Postman
7 1 (1.01%) Selenium
7 1 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.01%) webpack
General
1 37 (37.37%) Finance
2 28 (28.28%) Social Skills
3 15 (15.15%) Public Sector
4 14 (14.14%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (13.13%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (7.07%) Banking
7 2 (2.02%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.01%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.01%) Games
Job Titles
1 29 (29.29%) Architect
2 17 (17.17%) Developer
3 13 (13.13%) CyberArk Architect
4 11 (11.11%) Senior
5 9 (9.09%) Software Engineer
6 7 (7.07%) Java Developer
7 4 (4.04%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.04%) Database Engineer
7 4 (4.04%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.04%) Lead
7 4 (4.04%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (4.04%) Oracle Database Engineer
7 4 (4.04%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) Infrastructure Manager
8 3 (3.03%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) Technical Architect
9 2 (2.02%) Analyst
9 2 (2.02%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.16%) SAML
2 15 (15.15%) OpenID
3 14 (14.14%) Spring
4 13 (13.13%) Kafka
4 13 (13.13%) LDAP
4 13 (13.13%) Spring Boot
5 11 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
6 8 (8.08%) REST
7 5 (5.05%) AngularJS
7 5 (5.05%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (5.05%) OAuth
7 5 (5.05%) React
8 4 (4.04%) Apache Avro
8 4 (4.04%) RESTful
8 4 (4.04%) YAML
9 3 (3.03%) .NET
9 3 (3.03%) CSS
9 3 (3.03%) JSON
9 3 (3.03%) Node.js
9 3 (3.03%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 28 (28.28%) Cloud Native
2 25 (25.25%) Onboarding
3 11 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.04%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.02%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.01%) CMDB
7 1 (1.01%) Derivative
7 1 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.01%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.15%) Linux
2 6 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (6.06%) Windows
3 1 (1.01%) Unix
3 1 (1.01%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (56.57%) CI/CD
2 46 (46.46%) DevOps
3 41 (41.41%) Containerisation
4 34 (34.34%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (21.21%) ITSM
5 21 (21.21%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (19.19%) Agile
6 19 (19.19%) Migration
6 19 (19.19%) Observability
7 17 (17.17%) Architectural Patterns
7 17 (17.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (16.16%) Secrets Management
9 15 (15.15%) Architectural Design
9 15 (15.15%) Design Patterns
9 15 (15.15%) Microservices
9 15 (15.15%) Regulatory Compliance
10 14 (14.14%) Threat Modelling
11 13 (13.13%) Cybersecurity
11 13 (13.13%) SIEM
11 13 (13.13%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (27.27%) Python
2 18 (18.18%) Java
3 11 (11.11%) SQL
4 10 (10.10%) Bash
5 5 (5.05%) Go
6 4 (4.04%) PL/SQL
6 4 (4.04%) Shell Script
6 4 (4.04%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.03%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.03%) R
8 2 (2.02%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.02%) Scala
8 2 (2.02%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (1.01%) Bicep
9 1 (1.01%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (32.32%) Security Cleared
2 26 (26.26%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.05%) Oracle Certification
4 4 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.04%) Degree
5 3 (3.03%) PMI Certification
5 3 (3.03%) PMP
6 2 (2.02%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.01%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.01%) CISM
7 1 (1.01%) CISSP
7 1 (1.01%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.16%) NCSC
2 14 (14.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (14.14%) NIST
3 7 (7.07%) QA
4 5 (5.05%) SLA
5 3 (3.03%) Data Quality
6 2 (2.02%) ISO 20022
6 2 (2.02%) ISO 8583
6 2 (2.02%) PMO
6 2 (2.02%) PSD2
6 2 (2.02%) SEPA
System Software
1 20 (20.20%) Docker
2 6 (6.06%) VMware NSX
2 6 (6.06%) vSphere
3 4 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.01%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.01%) Ceph
5 1 (1.01%) etcd
5 1 (1.01%) KVM
Systems Management
1 63 (63.64%) Kubernetes
2 28 (28.28%) Ansible
3 27 (27.27%) Terraform
4 12 (12.12%) Grafana
4 12 (12.12%) Prometheus
5 9 (9.09%) Argo
6 4 (4.04%) Data Guard
6 4 (4.04%) Oracle RMAN
6 4 (4.04%) vCenter Server
7 3 (3.03%) Fluentd
7 3 (3.03%) Istio
8 2 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.01%) linkerd
9 1 (1.01%) Podman
9 1 (1.01%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.01%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (28.28%) Splunk
2 22 (22.22%) Red Hat
3 13 (13.13%) CyberArk
4 7 (7.07%) Oracle
4 7 (7.07%) ServiceNow
5 6 (6.06%) Microsoft
5 6 (6.06%) VMware
6 4 (4.04%) Pure Storage
7 2 (2.02%) Arista
7 2 (2.02%) Cisco
7 2 (2.02%) Confluent
7 2 (2.02%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.02%) IBM
7 2 (2.02%) PagerDuty
7 2 (2.02%) Planview
7 2 (2.02%) Wind River
8 1 (1.01%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.01%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.01%) SaltStack
8 1 (1.01%) Solace