OpenShift Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 281 265 299
Rank change year-on-year -16 +34 -27
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 66 208 377
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.44% 0.83% 0.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.21% 2.10% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 152 263
10th Percentile £357 £446 £450
25th Percentile £405 £498 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £560 £593
Median % change year-on-year -15.18% -5.49% +12.86%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £699
90th Percentile £620 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.13% - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £60.55 £46.32
% change year-on-year -42.20% +30.72% +15.80%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,438 9,928 18,314
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.02% 39.52% 41.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,910 7,301 13,707
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 126 169
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £14.85
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.08 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +66.15% -17.72%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +59.09% -2.22%

OpenShift
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing OpenShift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OpenShift trend for jobs with a WFH option

OpenShift
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing OpenShift.

OpenShift daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing OpenShift over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

OpenShift daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

OpenShift
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing OpenShift.

OpenShift hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (7.58%) OpenStack
2 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (4.55%) JBoss
4 1 (1.52%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.52%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 41 (62.12%) AWS
2 17 (25.76%) Serverless
3 16 (24.24%) AWS CloudFormation
4 15 (22.73%) Amazon S3
4 15 (22.73%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (22.73%) Azure
5 13 (19.70%) Amazon ECS
5 13 (19.70%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (16.67%) GCP
7 9 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (12.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (7.58%) AWS Fargate
9 5 (7.58%) IaaS
10 4 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (6.06%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (6.06%) Rekognition
10 4 (6.06%) Textract
11 3 (4.55%) Apigee
11 3 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (4.55%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.58%) SAN
2 4 (6.06%) Firewall
3 3 (4.55%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.52%) 4G
4 1 (1.52%) 5G
4 1 (1.52%) NAS
4 1 (1.52%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (24.24%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (19.70%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (15.15%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (10.61%) MongoDB
5 6 (9.09%) NoSQL
6 5 (7.58%) InfluxDB
7 4 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (4.55%) Informix
8 3 (4.55%) Oracle Database
8 3 (4.55%) RDBMS
8 3 (4.55%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.52%) Big Data
9 1 (1.52%) Couchbase
9 1 (1.52%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 30 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 16 (24.24%) Git
3 15 (22.73%) GitLab
4 11 (16.67%) Artifactory
5 8 (12.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (7.58%) SonarQube
6 5 (7.58%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (6.06%) JIRA
7 4 (6.06%) TeamCity
8 3 (4.55%) Bitbucket
8 3 (4.55%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (4.55%) CA Release Automation
8 3 (4.55%) Gradle
9 2 (3.03%) Maven
10 1 (1.52%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.52%) Hudson
10 1 (1.52%) Vagrant
General
1 22 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 6 (9.09%) Finance
4 4 (6.06%) Banking
5 3 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (31.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (24.24%) Developer
3 10 (15.15%) Platform Engineer
4 7 (10.61%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (10.61%) Senior
5 6 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 6 (9.09%) Software Developer
6 5 (7.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) Data Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Consultant
7 3 (4.55%) Kubernetes Consultant
7 3 (4.55%) Linux DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 3 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Support Engineer
8 2 (3.03%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (25.76%) AWS CDK
2 14 (21.21%) Spring Boot
3 13 (19.70%) REST
3 13 (19.70%) Spring
4 7 (10.61%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (10.61%) Node.js
4 7 (10.61%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (6.06%) CSS
5 4 (6.06%) HTML
5 4 (6.06%) React
5 4 (6.06%) Spring MVC
5 4 (6.06%) Spring Web Flow
5 4 (6.06%) Thymeleaf
6 3 (4.55%) Kafka
6 3 (4.55%) OAuth
6 3 (4.55%) OAuth2
6 3 (4.55%) Spring Security
6 3 (4.55%) YAML
7 2 (3.03%) RESTful
8 1 (1.52%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.06%) Cloud Native
1 4 (6.06%) Replication
2 3 (4.55%) Distributed Applications
2 3 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.03%) Private Cloud
3 2 (3.03%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 29 (43.94%) Linux
2 12 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (16.67%) Windows
4 7 (10.61%) Ubuntu
5 5 (7.58%) Windows Server
6 3 (4.55%) Unix
7 2 (3.03%) Solaris
7 2 (3.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (65.15%) DevOps
2 37 (56.06%) CI/CD
3 31 (46.97%) Agile
4 23 (34.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 15 (22.73%) Kanban
6 15 (22.73%) Microservices
6 15 (22.73%) Scrum
7 12 (18.18%) Code Quality
8 11 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (15.15%) Community of Practice
10 9 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (13.64%) High Availability
10 9 (13.64%) Roadmaps
10 9 (13.64%) Test Automation
11 8 (12.12%) Migration
12 7 (10.61%) Analytics
12 7 (10.61%) Code Coverage
12 7 (10.61%) Requirements Analysis
12 7 (10.61%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 30 (45.45%) Python
2 18 (27.27%) Bash
2 18 (27.27%) Java
3 16 (24.24%) Perl
4 11 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 10 (15.15%) JavaScript
5 10 (15.15%) SQL
6 7 (10.61%) Go
7 5 (7.58%) Groovy
8 3 (4.55%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.52%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (7.58%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (7.58%) Degree
1 5 (7.58%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.06%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.52%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.52%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.15%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.55%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 30 (45.45%) Docker
2 7 (10.61%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.06%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.06%) VMware NSX
4 3 (4.55%) Firmware
5 1 (1.52%) Ceph
5 1 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (68.18%) Kubernetes
2 26 (39.39%) Ansible
3 19 (28.79%) Grafana
4 18 (27.27%) Terraform
5 11 (16.67%) Kibana
6 8 (12.12%) Progress Chef
7 4 (6.06%) Puppet
8 3 (4.55%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (3.03%) Prometheus
9 2 (3.03%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (1.52%) Argo
10 1 (1.52%) Consul
10 1 (1.52%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (1.52%) Istio
10 1 (1.52%) Knative
10 1 (1.52%) NetBackup
10 1 (1.52%) Packer
10 1 (1.52%) Rundeck
10 1 (1.52%) Salt
Vendors
1 12 (18.18%) Red Hat
2 10 (15.15%) Oracle
3 8 (12.12%) VMware
4 5 (7.58%) Microsoft
5 4 (6.06%) CyberArk
6 3 (4.55%) AppDynamics
6 3 (4.55%) Dell
6 3 (4.55%) Google
6 3 (4.55%) Splunk
7 2 (3.03%) Commvault
7 2 (3.03%) Mercator
7 2 (3.03%) SAP
7 2 (3.03%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.52%) Ariba
8 1 (1.52%) ICL
8 1 (1.52%) Juniper
8 1 (1.52%) Nokia
8 1 (1.52%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.52%) Veritas
8 1 (1.52%) WSO2