OpenShift Contracts in the UK excluding London

Red Hat OpenShift
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 260 211 279
Rank change year-on-year -49 +68 -78
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 126 274 244
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.61% 1.17% 0.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.39% 3.50% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 202 188
10th Percentile £360 £438 £434
25th Percentile £435 £474 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +18.60%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £634 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 4
10th Percentile - - £41.92
25th Percentile - £53.75 £42.18
Median hourly rate £35.00 £60.55 £46.32
Median % change year-on-year -42.20% +30.72% +16.53%
75th Percentile - £76.75 £48.75
90th Percentile - £82.80 -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £60.55 £46.32
% change year-on-year -42.20% +30.72% +15.80%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,280 7,819 9,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.73% 33.27% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,735 5,787 7,266
10th Percentile £213 £250 £207
25th Percentile £368 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 227 282
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.69 £25.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.24% +31.58% -3.80%
75th Percentile £26.50 £65.00 £25.19
90th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £55.00
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OpenShift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in the UK excluding London

OpenShift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenShift in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in the UK excluding London

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in the UK excluding London

OpenShift
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OpenShift in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for OpenShift in the UK excluding London

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
Scotland -11 56 £480 -3.23% 4
South East +1 37 £488 -19.03% 7
South West -7 19 £550 -8.33% 17
Midlands +36 7 £356 - 1
North West +5 6 £463 -4.59% 3
North of England -15 6 £463 -22.92% 4
East Midlands - 6 £356 - 1
West Midlands +25 1 £450 -
Wales - 1 £1,000 - 1
OpenShift
UK

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 5 (3.97%) JBoss
2 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.17%) SAS
3 3 (2.38%) Confluence
4 1 (0.79%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 69 (54.76%) AWS
2 28 (22.22%) Amazon S3
2 28 (22.22%) Azure
2 28 (22.22%) Serverless
3 26 (20.63%) AWS Lambda
4 23 (18.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 18 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (10.32%) Amazon EKS
6 13 (10.32%) GCP
7 10 (7.94%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 7 (5.56%) Amazon SageMaker
9 6 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (4.76%) AWS CodePipeline
9 6 (4.76%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (3.17%) PaaS
10 4 (3.17%) Rekognition
10 4 (3.17%) Textract
11 3 (2.38%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (2.38%) AWS CodeCommit
Communications & Networking
1 15 (11.90%) SAN
2 10 (7.94%) Firewall
3 7 (5.56%) AMQP
3 7 (5.56%) NAS
4 6 (4.76%) Network Security
5 5 (3.97%) VPN
6 4 (3.17%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (3.17%) iSCSI
7 2 (1.59%) VSAN
8 1 (0.79%) IPv4
8 1 (0.79%) OSPF
8 1 (0.79%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (23.02%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (19.84%) Elasticsearch
3 16 (12.70%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (10.32%) InfluxDB
5 11 (8.73%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (7.94%) Relational Database
7 9 (7.14%) MongoDB
8 8 (6.35%) NoSQL
9 5 (3.97%) RDBMS
10 4 (3.17%) DB2
10 4 (3.17%) Informix
11 3 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.59%) MySQL
13 1 (0.79%) Big Data
13 1 (0.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 46 (36.51%) Jenkins
2 21 (16.67%) Git
3 10 (7.94%) Artifactory
3 10 (7.94%) GitLab
4 9 (7.14%) Bitbucket
4 9 (7.14%) JIRA
5 8 (6.35%) Maven
6 7 (5.56%) Gradle
7 6 (4.76%) SonarQube
7 6 (4.76%) TeamCity
8 5 (3.97%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (3.97%) CA Release Automation
8 5 (3.97%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.79%) JUnit
General
1 24 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.87%) Public Sector
3 12 (9.52%) Banking
4 5 (3.97%) Investment Banking
5 4 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.17%) Finance
6 1 (0.79%) Advertising
6 1 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.79%) Legal
6 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (19.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 20 (15.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (14.29%) Developer
4 17 (13.49%) Site Engineer
5 13 (10.32%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (7.94%) Data Engineer
6 10 (7.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (7.94%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (7.94%) Senior
7 9 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (6.35%) Java Developer
8 8 (6.35%) Linux Engineer
8 8 (6.35%) Python Engineer
9 6 (4.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 5 (3.97%) AWS DevOps
10 5 (3.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.97%) Site Manager
10 5 (3.97%) Site Reliability Manager
10 5 (3.97%) Support Engineer
11 4 (3.17%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (18.25%) AWS CDK
2 19 (15.08%) REST
3 16 (12.70%) Spring Boot
4 15 (11.90%) RabbitMQ
5 12 (9.52%) Spring
6 11 (8.73%) Kafka
7 7 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (5.56%) Node.js
8 6 (4.76%) React
8 6 (4.76%) RESTful
9 5 (3.97%) CSS
9 5 (3.97%) HTML
9 5 (3.97%) OAuth
9 5 (3.97%) OAuth2
9 5 (3.97%) Spring Security
10 4 (3.17%) Flash
10 4 (3.17%) ModSecurity
10 4 (3.17%) POSIX
10 4 (3.17%) Spring Web Flow
10 4 (3.17%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 27 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.97%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (3.97%) Public Cloud
2 5 (3.97%) Replication
3 4 (3.17%) Client/Server
3 4 (3.17%) NVMe
3 4 (3.17%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.38%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.59%) PKI
6 1 (0.79%) Clustering
6 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.79%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 44 (34.92%) Linux
2 26 (20.63%) Windows
3 20 (15.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (15.87%) Unix
4 12 (9.52%) Windows Server
5 8 (6.35%) Ubuntu
6 5 (3.97%) VMS
7 4 (3.17%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (1.59%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (58.73%) DevOps
2 64 (50.79%) CI/CD
3 44 (34.92%) Containerisation
4 40 (31.75%) Agile
4 40 (31.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 32 (25.40%) Infrastructure as Code
6 27 (21.43%) Microservices
7 20 (15.87%) Observability
8 18 (14.29%) GitOps
8 18 (14.29%) Kanban
9 16 (12.70%) Code Quality
9 16 (12.70%) Scrum
10 15 (11.90%) Collaborative Working
10 15 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 15 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
11 14 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
11 14 (11.11%) Migration
12 13 (10.32%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (9.52%) ITSM
13 12 (9.52%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 57 (45.24%) Python
2 27 (21.43%) Java
3 26 (20.63%) SQL
4 18 (14.29%) Bash
5 13 (10.32%) Perl
5 13 (10.32%) Shell Script
6 12 (9.52%) Groovy
6 12 (9.52%) JavaScript
6 12 (9.52%) TypeScript
7 8 (6.35%) Ruby
8 6 (4.76%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.97%) C
9 5 (3.97%) Go
10 1 (0.79%) C#
Qualifications
1 37 (29.37%) Security Cleared
2 27 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.17%) Degree
5 3 (2.38%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.73%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.17%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.59%) QA
System Software
1 64 (50.79%) Docker
2 11 (8.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (7.94%) VMware NSX
4 9 (7.14%) Active Directory
5 5 (3.97%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (3.17%) GPFS
6 4 (3.17%) NFS
7 2 (1.59%) vCloud
8 1 (0.79%) KVM
Systems Management
1 87 (69.05%) Kubernetes
2 50 (39.68%) Grafana
3 46 (36.51%) Ansible
4 44 (34.92%) Terraform
5 23 (18.25%) Prometheus
6 22 (17.46%) Kibana
7 20 (15.87%) Istio
8 15 (11.90%) Progress Chef
9 9 (7.14%) Argo
9 9 (7.14%) Docker Swarm
9 9 (7.14%) Rancher
10 4 (3.17%) NetBackup
10 4 (3.17%) OPNET
10 4 (3.17%) Veritas Storage Foundation
11 3 (2.38%) vCenter Server
12 2 (1.59%) PowerCLI
12 2 (1.59%) Puppet
12 2 (1.59%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.79%) SELinux
13 1 (0.79%) vRealize
Vendors
1 24 (19.05%) Red Hat
2 19 (15.08%) VMware
3 15 (11.90%) Google
4 10 (7.94%) Microsoft
5 8 (6.35%) Veritas
6 5 (3.97%) AppDynamics
6 5 (3.97%) Oracle
6 5 (3.97%) Splunk
7 4 (3.17%) Atlassian
7 4 (3.17%) Brocade
7 4 (3.17%) CyberArk
7 4 (3.17%) EMC
7 4 (3.17%) IBM
7 4 (3.17%) NetApp
7 4 (3.17%) Sybase
8 3 (2.38%) Commvault
9 2 (1.59%) Cisco
9 2 (1.59%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.79%) Checkmarx