OpenShift Contracts in Scotland

Red Hat OpenShift
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 59 95
Rank change year-on-year -11 +36 -13
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 56 129 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.57% 4.67% 2.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.72% 12.85% 7.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 94 66
10th Percentile £403 £431 £416
25th Percentile £432 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £496 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -4.71% +15.56%
75th Percentile £566 £538 £560
90th Percentile £634 £592 £719
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £41.92
25th Percentile - - £42.18
Median hourly rate - £60.55 £46.32
Median % change year-on-year - +30.72% -
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £60.55 £46.32
% change year-on-year -42.20% +30.72% +15.80%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 725 1,004 1,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.24% 36.31% 31.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 756 782
10th Percentile £230 £250 £300
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% - +7.34%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 20
10th Percentile £15.32 £33.33 £17.50
25th Percentile £16.23 £55.31 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £61.28 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -72.26% +67.88% -36.80%
75th Percentile £18.54 £68.25 £47.43
90th Percentile £31.27 £76.90 £48.83
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +59.09% -2.22%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing OpenShift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in Scotland

OpenShift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenShift in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in Scotland

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in Scotland over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in Scotland

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 8 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
Edinburgh +6 26 £477 -3.73% 5
Glasgow -14 20 £525 -4.55% 2
Renfrewshire - 1 £600 -
South Lanarkshire - 1 £375 -
OpenShift
UK

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (7.14%) SAS
2 1 (1.79%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 38 (67.86%) AWS
2 21 (37.50%) Amazon S3
2 21 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
2 21 (37.50%) Serverless
3 19 (33.93%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (19.64%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (17.86%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (17.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 7 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
7 6 (10.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (10.71%) AWS CodePipeline
7 6 (10.71%) AWS Fargate
8 5 (8.93%) Azure
9 4 (7.14%) Rekognition
9 4 (7.14%) Textract
10 3 (5.36%) AWS CodeBuild
10 3 (5.36%) AWS CodeCommit
11 1 (1.79%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (1.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (19.64%) SAN
2 7 (12.50%) NAS
3 6 (10.71%) Firewall
4 4 (7.14%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (7.14%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (19.64%) Amazon Aurora
2 11 (19.64%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (16.07%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (14.29%) MongoDB
5 6 (10.71%) InfluxDB
5 6 (10.71%) NoSQL
6 4 (7.14%) DB2
6 4 (7.14%) Informix
7 3 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.79%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 30 (53.57%) Jenkins
2 14 (25.00%) Git
3 9 (16.07%) GitLab
4 7 (12.50%) Maven
5 6 (10.71%) Artifactory
5 6 (10.71%) Gradle
6 1 (1.79%) JIRA
General
1 17 (30.36%) Public Sector
2 15 (26.79%) Social Skills
3 10 (17.86%) Banking
4 5 (8.93%) Investment Banking
5 3 (5.36%) Finance
6 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Legal
7 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (25.00%) Developer
2 10 (17.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 7 (12.50%) Python Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Linux Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (8.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Senior
6 5 (8.93%) Site Manager
6 5 (8.93%) Site Reliability Manager
7 4 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Software Developer
7 4 (7.14%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (41.07%) AWS CDK
2 14 (25.00%) REST
3 10 (17.86%) Spring
3 10 (17.86%) Spring Boot
4 7 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (8.93%) Node.js
5 5 (8.93%) OAuth
5 5 (8.93%) OAuth2
5 5 (8.93%) React
5 5 (8.93%) Spring Security
6 4 (7.14%) CSS
6 4 (7.14%) Flash
6 4 (7.14%) HTML
6 4 (7.14%) POSIX
6 4 (7.14%) RESTful
6 4 (7.14%) Spring MVC
6 4 (7.14%) Spring Web Flow
6 4 (7.14%) Thymeleaf
7 3 (5.36%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.93%) Replication
3 4 (7.14%) Client/Server
3 4 (7.14%) NVMe
4 3 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Clustering
5 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 21 (37.50%) Linux
2 18 (32.14%) Unix
3 14 (25.00%) Windows
4 12 (21.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (14.29%) Windows Server
6 6 (10.71%) Ubuntu
7 4 (7.14%) Data ONTAP
7 4 (7.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 29 (51.79%) DevOps
3 22 (39.29%) Agile
4 20 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (30.36%) Kanban
6 15 (26.79%) Scrum
7 13 (23.21%) Observability
8 12 (21.43%) Containerisation
8 12 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 11 (19.64%) Community of Practice
10 10 (17.86%) Code Quality
10 10 (17.86%) Data Protection
11 9 (16.07%) Deployment Automation
11 9 (16.07%) High Availability
12 8 (14.29%) Inclusive Design
12 8 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 8 (14.29%) Mentoring
12 8 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
12 8 (14.29%) Test Automation
12 8 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 34 (60.71%) Python
2 18 (32.14%) Java
2 18 (32.14%) SQL
3 14 (25.00%) Bash
4 12 (21.43%) Groovy
4 12 (21.43%) TypeScript
5 10 (17.86%) JavaScript
6 8 (14.29%) Perl
6 8 (14.29%) Ruby
7 7 (12.50%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.79%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (19.64%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 30 (53.57%) Docker
2 4 (7.14%) GPFS
2 4 (7.14%) NFS
3 1 (1.79%) KVM
3 1 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 28 (50.00%) Grafana
3 25 (44.64%) Ansible
4 18 (32.14%) Terraform
5 9 (16.07%) Kibana
6 5 (8.93%) Prometheus
7 4 (7.14%) NetBackup
7 4 (7.14%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 1 (1.79%) Knative
8 1 (1.79%) Nagios
8 1 (1.79%) Puppet
8 1 (1.79%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.79%) vRealize
Vendors
1 8 (14.29%) Veritas
2 4 (7.14%) Brocade
2 4 (7.14%) EMC
2 4 (7.14%) Google
2 4 (7.14%) IBM
2 4 (7.14%) NetApp
2 4 (7.14%) Oracle
2 4 (7.14%) Red Hat
2 4 (7.14%) Sybase
3 3 (5.36%) Commvault
4 1 (1.79%) VMware