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

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	317	298	295
Rank change year-on-year	-19	-3	+1
Contract jobs citing OpenShift	146	70	94
As % of all contract jobs in London	0.72%	0.52%	0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category	1.75%	1.20%	1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted	93	50	74
10^th Percentile	£426	£396	£433
25^th Percentile	£500	£482	£513
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£625	£598	£740
Median % change year-on-year	+4.60%	-19.26%	+5.71%
75^th Percentile	£763	£688	£810
90^th Percentile	£840	£950	£825
England median daily rate	£600	£525	£605
% change year-on-year	+14.29%	-13.22%	-9.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	0	0
Median hourly rate	£10.00	-	-
England median hourly rate	£70.00	£48.00	£85.00
% change year-on-year	+45.83%	-43.53%	+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.

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills	8,361	5,855	6,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	41.02%	43.78%	41.12%
Number of daily rates quoted	5,785	3,969	4,492
10^th Percentile	£363	£350	£350
25^th Percentile	£450	£425	£450
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£525	£550
Median % change year-on-year	+4.76%	-4.55%	-2.22%
75^th Percentile	£650	£650	£675
90^th Percentile	£750	£775	£800
England median daily rate	£525	£501	£530
% change year-on-year	+4.90%	-5.57%	-1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted	93	102	39
10^th Percentile	£17.60	£21.00	£23.44
25^th Percentile	£21.33	£24.57	£23.80
Median hourly rate	£28.40	£26.30	£32.50
Median % change year-on-year	+7.97%	-19.08%	-19.75%
75^th Percentile	£57.50	£47.31	£51.25
90^th Percentile	£78.75	£79.88	£68.05
England median hourly rate	£32.50	£25.15	£35.00
% change year-on-year	+29.22%	-28.14%	+8.36%

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 Daily Rate Trend in London

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 18 October 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.

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 18 October 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	-12	21	£625	-	13
South London	-	5	£800	-	2
OpenShift England

OpenShift Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 18 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing OpenShift also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region with a requirement for OpenShift.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Kubernetes	64.4%	94
2	CI/CD	51.4%	75
3	DevOps	47.9%	70
4	AWS	36.3%	53
5	Agile	35.6%	52
5	Terraform	35.6%	52
7	Azure	33.6%	49
8	Infrastructure as Code	30.1%	44
8	Security Cleared	30.1%	44
10	Jenkins	29.5%	43
11	Java	28.8%	42
12	Observability	27.4%	40
12	SC Cleared	27.4%	40
14	Ansible	26.7%	39
14	Linux	26.7%	39
16	Containerisation	26.0%	38
17	Microservices	24.7%	36
18	Kafka	24.0%	35
19	Docker	23.3%	34
20	Migration	22.6%	33
21	SQL	21.9%	32
22	Splunk	21.2%	31
23	GCP	19.9%	29
24	Python	19.2%	28
25	Platform Engineering	17.1%	25
25	Red Hat	17.1%	25
25	Roadmaps	17.1%	25
25	Stakeholder Management	17.1%	25
29	Mentoring	16.4%	24
30	AI	15.8%	23

OpenShift Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AWS	36.3%	53
2	Azure	33.6%	49
3	GCP	19.9%	29
4	GitHub	14.4%	21
5	Azure DevOps	6.8%	10
5	GitHub Actions	6.8%	10
7	Amazon EKS	4.8%	7
8	Entra ID	4.1%	6
9	Amazon ECS	3.4%	5
9	IaaS	3.4%	5
9	PaaS	3.4%	5
12	Azure Key Vault	2.1%	3
12	Datadog	2.1%	3
14	Amazon SageMaker	1.4%	2
14	Anthropic Claude	1.4%	2
14	Azure AKS	1.4%	2
14	GitHub Copilot	1.4%	2
14	Power Platform	1.4%	2
19	Apigee	0.7%	1
19	Azure Machine Learning	0.7%	1