OpenShift Contract Job Trends in South London

Red Hat OpenShift
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring OpenShift skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 - 36
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in South London 1.70% - 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.50% - 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £768 - -
25th Percentile £775 - £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - £700
75th Percentile £825 - £725
90th Percentile £833 - -
London median daily rate £619 £613 £625
% change year-on-year +1.02% -2.00% -12.28%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 111 83 81
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 37.76% 46.63% 42.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 51 62
10th Percentile £413 £250 £284
25th Percentile £478 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £491 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.07% +3.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £633 £529
90th Percentile £650 £707 £567
London median daily rate £540 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.70 - -
Median hourly rate £17.85 - -
75th Percentile £19.01 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £28.25
% change year-on-year +22.12% +2.90% -43.50%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenShift relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

OpenShift job vacancy trend in South London

OpenShift
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing OpenShift.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
Bromley - 5 £800 - 2
OpenShift
London

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 5 (100.00%) Git
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) REST Assured
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Senior
1 5 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Jakarta EE
1 5 (100.00%) JDBC
1 5 (100.00%) JMS
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
2 3 (60.00%) J2SE
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 5 (100.00%) Spread Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
1 5 (100.00%) SDLC
2 2 (40.00%) AI
2 2 (40.00%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle