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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 259 285
Rank change year-on-year -30 +26 +23
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 95 102 105
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.64% 0.73% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.45% 1.77% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 88 92
10th Percentile £350 £541 £413
25th Percentile £443 £611 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £740 £650
Median % change year-on-year -19.26% +13.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £703 £838 £775
90th Percentile £900 - £810
England median daily rate £492 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -24.31% +13.04% -11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £76.67 - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £85.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -32.35% +8.97% +35.65%

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 6,543 5,757 6,786
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.28% 41.42% 37.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,486 3,832 5,028
10th Percentile £344 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 48 74
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £17.85
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.44
Median hourly rate £30.50 £30.97 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.51% -1.69% +8.62%
75th Percentile £54.88 £54.25 £53.44
90th Percentile £76.00 £67.63 £61.75
England median hourly rate £33.09 £27.50 £23.23
% change year-on-year +20.31% +18.39% -3.30%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 -1 15 £525 -14.29% 4
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 4 (4.21%) Camunda
2 3 (3.16%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.11%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.11%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.05%) Apache
4 1 (1.05%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 37 (38.95%) AWS
2 24 (25.26%) Azure
3 22 (23.16%) GitHub
4 21 (22.11%) GCP
5 11 (11.58%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (3.16%) Azure Pipelines
6 3 (3.16%) IaaS
7 2 (2.11%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.11%) PaaS
7 2 (2.11%) SaaS
8 1 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.05%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.11%) Calico
1 2 (2.11%) DNS
1 2 (2.11%) VSAN
2 1 (1.05%) Firewall
2 1 (1.05%) HTTP
2 1 (1.05%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.05%) Network Security
2 1 (1.05%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.05%) VLAN
2 1 (1.05%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.84%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.21%) Redis
2 4 (4.21%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.16%) Hazelcast
3 3 (3.16%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.16%) MySQL
4 2 (2.11%) Big Data
4 2 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.11%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.11%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.05%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 29 (30.53%) Jenkins
2 11 (11.58%) Git
3 9 (9.47%) Cucumber
4 8 (8.42%) GitLab
5 6 (6.32%) JUnit
6 4 (4.21%) Cypress.io
6 4 (4.21%) JMeter
6 4 (4.21%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (3.16%) CircleCI
7 3 (3.16%) Gradle
7 3 (3.16%) Maven
8 2 (2.11%) Ant
8 2 (2.11%) Gatling
8 2 (2.11%) Mockito
9 1 (1.05%) git-flow
9 1 (1.05%) JIRA
General
1 38 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 32 (33.68%) Finance
3 13 (13.68%) Documentation Skills
3 13 (13.68%) Influencing Skills
4 9 (9.47%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.26%) Banking
6 3 (3.16%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.05%) Back Office
8 1 (1.05%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (28.42%) Architect
2 23 (24.21%) Developer
3 13 (13.68%) CyberArk Architect
4 10 (10.53%) Software Engineer
5 9 (9.47%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (6.32%) Senior
7 5 (5.26%) Java Developer
7 5 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Infrastructure Manager
8 4 (4.21%) Lead
9 3 (3.16%) Consultant
9 3 (3.16%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) Senior Software Engineer
10 2 (2.11%) Enterprise Architect
10 2 (2.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (2.11%) Infrastructure Project Manager
10 2 (2.11%) Linux Engineer
10 2 (2.11%) Solutions Architect
10 2 (2.11%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (23.16%) Spring
2 16 (16.84%) OpenID
2 16 (16.84%) SAML
3 14 (14.74%) React
4 13 (13.68%) LDAP
4 13 (13.68%) Spring Boot
5 12 (12.63%) AngularJS
5 12 (12.63%) Kafka
6 9 (9.47%) CSS
6 9 (9.47%) HTML
6 9 (9.47%) Node.js
7 8 (8.42%) Vue
8 6 (6.32%) REST
9 5 (5.26%) Loki
9 5 (5.26%) OAuth
9 5 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (4.21%) Hibernate
10 4 (4.21%) Ruby on Rails
11 3 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (3.16%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 33 (34.74%) Cloud Native
2 22 (23.16%) Onboarding
3 10 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.21%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.11%) Biopharmaceutical
5 2 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.11%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.11%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.11%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.05%) Derivative
6 1 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.05%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.05%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 22 (23.16%) Linux
2 9 (9.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.16%) Windows
4 1 (1.05%) CentOS
4 1 (1.05%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (58.95%) CI/CD
2 41 (43.16%) DevOps
3 35 (36.84%) Containerisation
4 33 (34.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (25.26%) Stakeholder Management
6 22 (23.16%) Full-Stack Development
7 20 (21.05%) Agile
8 19 (20.00%) Microservices
9 18 (18.95%) ITSM
9 18 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (17.89%) Observability
10 17 (17.89%) Software Engineering
11 16 (16.84%) Design Patterns
12 15 (15.79%) Architectural Design
12 15 (15.79%) Architectural Patterns
12 15 (15.79%) Regulatory Compliance
12 15 (15.79%) Secrets Management
12 15 (15.79%) Threat Modelling
13 13 (13.68%) Cybersecurity
13 13 (13.68%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 29 (30.53%) Java
2 23 (24.21%) Python
3 13 (13.68%) Bash
3 13 (13.68%) JavaScript
3 13 (13.68%) TypeScript
4 8 (8.42%) SQL
5 7 (7.37%) Ruby
6 6 (6.32%) Go
7 4 (4.21%) C#
8 3 (3.16%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.11%) Bicep
9 2 (2.11%) Perl
9 2 (2.11%) R
10 1 (1.05%) C++
10 1 (1.05%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 37 (38.95%) Security Cleared
2 31 (32.63%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.42%) Degree
4 6 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (5.26%) DV Cleared
6 4 (4.21%) PMI Certification
6 4 (4.21%) PMP
7 1 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.05%) CISM
7 1 (1.05%) CISSP
7 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.05%) MBA
7 1 (1.05%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 16 (16.84%) NCSC
2 14 (14.74%) NIST
3 6 (6.32%) QA
4 5 (5.26%) SLA
5 3 (3.16%) PMO
6 2 (2.11%) Data Quality
6 2 (2.11%) GDPR
6 2 (2.11%) ISO 20022
6 2 (2.11%) ISO 8583
6 2 (2.11%) PSD2
6 2 (2.11%) SEPA
6 2 (2.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (27.37%) Docker
2 5 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.21%) VMware NSX
3 4 (4.21%) vSphere
4 2 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.05%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.05%) Ceph
5 1 (1.05%) KVM
Systems Management
1 64 (67.37%) Kubernetes
2 25 (26.32%) Ansible
3 21 (22.11%) Terraform
4 19 (20.00%) Argo
5 10 (10.53%) Grafana
6 9 (9.47%) Prometheus
7 4 (4.21%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.11%) Istio
8 2 (2.11%) Kustomize
8 2 (2.11%) Podman
8 2 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (2.11%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.05%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 28 (29.47%) Red Hat
2 22 (23.16%) Splunk
3 13 (13.68%) CyberArk
4 9 (9.47%) VMware
5 7 (7.37%) Google
6 5 (5.26%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.16%) Oracle
8 2 (2.11%) Arista
8 2 (2.11%) Cisco
8 2 (2.11%) Confluent
8 2 (2.11%) IBM
8 2 (2.11%) Ping Identity
8 2 (2.11%) Planview
8 2 (2.11%) Pure Storage
8 2 (2.11%) Wind River
9 1 (1.05%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.05%) Avaloq
9 1 (1.05%) Cribl.io
9 1 (1.05%) ForgeRock
9 1 (1.05%) Qualys