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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 253 339 292
Rank change year-on-year +86 -47 +5
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 97 58 199
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.78% 0.33% 0.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.85% 0.86% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 47 150
10th Percentile £513 £398 £500
25th Percentile £607 £419 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £550 £725
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% -24.14% +16.89%
75th Percentile £838 £706 £800
90th Percentile - £775 £850
England median daily rate £625 £523 £650
% change year-on-year +19.62% -19.62% +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 5,251 6,733 10,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.36% 38.47% 38.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,629 4,954 7,474
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £694
90th Percentile £788 £775 £788
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 68 82
10th Percentile £22.57 £17.32 £20.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £26.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -48.00% +24.22%
75th Percentile £48.75 £38.28 £75.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £59.88 £88.30
England median hourly rate £25.50 £21.00 £32.40
% change year-on-year +21.43% -35.19% +50.70%

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 15 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 15 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 +13 11 £625 - 24
South London - 2 £725 -
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 31 (31.96%) Apache Spark
2 28 (28.87%) Apache
2 28 (28.87%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (6.19%) OpenStack
4 2 (2.06%) JBoss
4 2 (2.06%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.03%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 61 (62.89%) AWS
2 36 (37.11%) Serverless
3 32 (32.99%) AWS Lambda
4 29 (29.90%) Amazon ECS
5 26 (26.80%) dbt
6 21 (21.65%) Azure
7 18 (18.56%) GCP
8 12 (12.37%) Amazon S3
9 10 (10.31%) GitHub
10 7 (7.22%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (6.19%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (5.15%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (5.15%) IaaS
13 4 (4.12%) Amazon EMR
13 4 (4.12%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (4.12%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (3.09%) Kong
15 2 (2.06%) AWS KMS
15 2 (2.06%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.09%) BGP
1 3 (3.09%) Ethernet VPN
1 3 (3.09%) Firewall
1 3 (3.09%) Multicast
1 3 (3.09%) OSPF
1 3 (3.09%) TCP/IP
1 3 (3.09%) VSAN
1 3 (3.09%) VXLAN
2 2 (2.06%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (2.06%) NX-OS
3 1 (1.03%) DHCP
3 1 (1.03%) DNS
3 1 (1.03%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.03%) Network Security
3 1 (1.03%) SMTP
3 1 (1.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (26.80%) Amazon Athena
1 26 (26.80%) Apache Arrow
1 26 (26.80%) Apache Iceberg
1 26 (26.80%) Apache Ignite
1 26 (26.80%) Dremio
2 10 (10.31%) NoSQL
3 8 (8.25%) SQL Server
4 7 (7.22%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (5.15%) MongoDB
6 4 (4.12%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.09%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (3.09%) Couchbase
7 3 (3.09%) Hazelcast
7 3 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (3.09%) Redis
8 2 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.06%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.06%) Tableau
9 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 37 (38.14%) Artifactory
2 34 (35.05%) Jenkins
3 19 (19.59%) Git
4 7 (7.22%) SonarQube
5 6 (6.19%) Cucumber
5 6 (6.19%) JIRA
6 5 (5.15%) GitLab
6 5 (5.15%) Maven
7 4 (4.12%) Bitbucket
7 4 (4.12%) git-flow
7 4 (4.12%) Gradle
7 4 (4.12%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (3.09%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.03%) Ant
9 1 (1.03%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.03%) Eclipse
9 1 (1.03%) IntelliJ
9 1 (1.03%) Jaeger
9 1 (1.03%) LoadRunner
General
1 56 (57.73%) Finance
2 30 (30.93%) Front Office
3 24 (24.74%) Social Skills
4 12 (12.37%) Banking
5 7 (7.22%) Investment Banking
6 5 (5.15%) Telecoms
7 4 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.09%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.06%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.03%) Law
Job Titles
1 43 (44.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 31 (31.96%) AWS DevOps
2 31 (31.96%) AWS Engineer
3 30 (30.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 26 (26.80%) Data Engineer
4 26 (26.80%) Python Engineer
5 21 (21.65%) Developer
6 16 (16.49%) Senior
7 11 (11.34%) Lead
8 9 (9.28%) Senior Developer
9 7 (7.22%) Java Developer
10 6 (6.19%) Technical Leader
11 5 (5.15%) Consultant
12 4 (4.12%) Architect
12 4 (4.12%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 4 (4.12%) React Developer
12 4 (4.12%) Senior DevOps
12 4 (4.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 3 (3.09%) Endur Developer
13 3 (3.09%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (36.08%) Kafka
2 31 (31.96%) J2EE
3 26 (26.80%) PySpark
4 15 (15.46%) Spring
5 9 (9.28%) React
6 8 (8.25%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (7.22%) Spring Boot
8 4 (4.12%) AngularJS
8 4 (4.12%) Node.js
8 4 (4.12%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (4.12%) Web Services
9 3 (3.09%) .NET
9 3 (3.09%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (3.09%) Material-UI
9 3 (3.09%) RESTful
10 2 (2.06%) Hibernate
10 2 (2.06%) Middleware
10 2 (2.06%) REST
10 2 (2.06%) ZK
11 1 (1.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.34%) Public Cloud
2 6 (6.19%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.12%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.09%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.09%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.06%) Tandem
6 1 (1.03%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.03%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.03%) Clustering
6 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.03%) Derivative
6 1 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.03%) Equities
6 1 (1.03%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (1.03%) PKI
6 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.46%) Linux
2 6 (6.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.09%) VMS
4 1 (1.03%) Windows
4 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (71.13%) DevOps
2 53 (54.64%) CI/CD
3 45 (46.39%) Software Engineering
4 38 (39.18%) Agile
5 37 (38.14%) Open Source
6 30 (30.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 28 (28.87%) Asset Management
8 27 (27.84%) Infrastructure as Code
9 26 (26.80%) Data Engineering
10 17 (17.53%) Containerisation
11 16 (16.49%) Microservices
12 15 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (14.43%) Configuration Management
14 11 (11.34%) Continuous Integration
15 10 (10.31%) Deployment Automation
15 10 (10.31%) TDD
15 10 (10.31%) Technical Leadership
15 10 (10.31%) Test Automation
16 8 (8.25%) High Availability
16 8 (8.25%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 66 (68.04%) Python
2 54 (55.67%) Java
3 38 (39.18%) Go
4 10 (10.31%) SQL
5 9 (9.28%) Bash
5 9 (9.28%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.19%) C#
7 4 (4.12%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.12%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.09%) Groovy
8 3 (3.09%) Perl
9 1 (1.03%) Bicep
9 1 (1.03%) C
9 1 (1.03%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (19.59%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.34%) Degree
3 9 (9.28%) DV Cleared
4 8 (8.25%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.09%) RHCSA
6 2 (2.06%) CCIE
6 2 (2.06%) CCIE Data Center
6 2 (2.06%) CCNP
6 2 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.06%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.03%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.03%) OCP
7 1 (1.03%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.03%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.15%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.06%) GDPR
3 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.03%) SEPA
3 1 (1.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 58 (59.79%) Docker
2 10 (10.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.19%) vSphere
4 4 (4.12%) Lustre
5 3 (3.09%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.03%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.03%) BitLocker
6 1 (1.03%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.03%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (1.03%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (1.03%) Terminal Services
6 1 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 83 (85.57%) Kubernetes
2 53 (54.64%) Terraform
3 35 (36.08%) Ansible
4 7 (7.22%) Grafana
5 6 (6.19%) Podman
5 6 (6.19%) Progress Chef
6 5 (5.15%) Puppet
7 4 (4.12%) Istio
7 4 (4.12%) Karpenter
7 4 (4.12%) Prometheus
8 3 (3.09%) Control-M
8 3 (3.09%) Kibana
8 3 (3.09%) logstash
8 3 (3.09%) Rundeck
9 2 (2.06%) Argo
9 2 (2.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (2.06%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (1.03%) Nagios
10 1 (1.03%) vCenter Server
10 1 (1.03%) vMotion
Vendors
1 20 (20.62%) Red Hat
2 12 (12.37%) VMware
3 10 (10.31%) Oracle
4 8 (8.25%) Splunk
5 6 (6.19%) Google
6 4 (4.12%) AppDynamics
6 4 (4.12%) Microsoft
7 3 (3.09%) OpenLink
8 2 (2.06%) Cisco
9 1 (1.03%) Arista
9 1 (1.03%) Citrix
9 1 (1.03%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.03%) Ericsson
9 1 (1.03%) HP
9 1 (1.03%) IBM
9 1 (1.03%) Nokia
9 1 (1.03%) Symantec
9 1 (1.03%) Wind River