OpenShift Contracts in the Thames Valley

Red Hat OpenShift
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 121 132
Rank change year-on-year +11 +11 -43
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 27 23 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.01% 0.80% 0.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.65% 2.72% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 24
10th Percentile £338 £455 £508
25th Percentile £411 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £725 £550
Median % change year-on-year -32.16% +31.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £500 £769 £588
90th Percentile £589 £823 £638
South East median daily rate £491 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -18.22% +9.09% +15.79%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 739 846 1,093
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.61% 29.24% 31.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 616 847
10th Percentile £272 £316 £185
25th Percentile £413 £425 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 19 18
10th Percentile £15.99 £19.70 £12.57
25th Percentile £19.37 £21.83 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £32.30 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% +53.63% -0.12%
75th Percentile £59.95 £61.00 £25.81
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £71.37
South East median hourly rate £23.22 £24.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year -3.27% +14.01% -4.32%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing OpenShift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in the Thames Valley

OpenShift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenShift in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in the Thames Valley

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in the Thames Valley

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 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
Berkshire +10 27 £492 -10.58% 3
OpenShift
South East

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (3.70%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 12 (44.44%) Azure
2 7 (25.93%) AWS
2 7 (25.93%) GCP
3 1 (3.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.70%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Bitbucket
2 4 (14.81%) Artifactory
3 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.70%) JIRA
3 1 (3.70%) Maven
3 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.70%) Advertising
2 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Site Engineer
1 11 (40.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (7.41%) Developer
2 2 (7.41%) Full Stack Developer
2 2 (7.41%) Junior
3 1 (3.70%) Lead
3 1 (3.70%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (3.70%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) Kafka
2 4 (14.81%) YAML
3 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.70%) CSS
3 1 (3.70%) HTML
3 1 (3.70%) jQuery
3 1 (3.70%) Node.js
3 1 (3.70%) React
3 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (62.96%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.70%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (74.07%) DevOps
2 19 (70.37%) Containerisation
3 15 (55.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 14 (51.85%) GitOps
5 13 (48.15%) Collaborative Working
6 11 (40.74%) Agile
6 11 (40.74%) ITSM
7 10 (37.04%) Microservices
8 9 (33.33%) Software Engineering
8 9 (33.33%) Task Automation
9 8 (29.63%) CI/CD
9 8 (29.63%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (25.93%) Performance Optimisation
10 7 (25.93%) Time Management
10 7 (25.93%) Translating Business Requirements
11 6 (22.22%) Change Management
11 6 (22.22%) Incident Response
11 6 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
12 2 (7.41%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.11%) Python
2 2 (7.41%) Java
3 1 (3.70%) C#
3 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 15 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (7.41%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) QA
System Software
1 8 (29.63%) Docker
2 2 (7.41%) vCloud
2 2 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (74.07%) Kubernetes
2 17 (62.96%) Istio
3 10 (37.04%) Grafana
4 9 (33.33%) Rancher
5 7 (25.93%) Terraform
6 6 (22.22%) Argo
6 6 (22.22%) Kibana
6 6 (22.22%) Prometheus
7 2 (7.41%) vCenter Server
8 1 (3.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Google
1 7 (25.93%) Red Hat
2 6 (22.22%) VMware
3 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.70%) Checkmarx