OpenShift Contracts in the North West

Red Hat OpenShift
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for OpenShift skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OpenShift over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 130 165
Rank change year-on-year 0 +35 -49
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 6 25 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.22% 0.79% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.70% 2.14% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 17 12
10th Percentile £375 £431 £441
25th Percentile £400 £440 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £485 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.59% -15.70% +33.41%
75th Percentile £537 £620 £656
90th Percentile £544 £648 £698
England median daily rate £504 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -22.46% +8.33% +14.29%

All Cloud Skills
North West

OpenShift is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 863 1,170 1,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.99% 37.07% 34.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 624 870 1,071
10th Percentile £284 £313 £225
25th Percentile £384 £415 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £570 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £658 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 32 42
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.19 £14.25
25th Percentile - £19.44 £15.50
Median hourly rate £16.06 £37.30 £18.84
Median % change year-on-year -56.94% +97.96% +8.10%
75th Percentile £20.00 £65.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £59.88
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.04
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.52% -4.36%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing OpenShift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in the North West

OpenShift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenShift in the North West.

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in the North West

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in the North West over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in the North West

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the North West region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
Cheshire -9 4 £401 -9.83%
Manchester +17 1 £550 -2.87% 2
OpenShift
England

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Gradle
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JUnit
General
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Data Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Python Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) jOOQ
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (16.67%) VMS
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Observability
3 1 (16.67%) Release Management
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Progress Chef
3 2 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) VMware