OpenShift Contracts with Work from Home Options

Red Hat OpenShift
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring OpenShift skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenShift over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 263 264 300
Rank change year-on-year +1 +36 -27
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 78 199 377
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.53% 0.83% 0.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.44% 2.11% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 149 277
10th Percentile £382 £460 £450
25th Percentile £431 £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.67% +4.35% +8.49%
75th Percentile £550 £713 £688
90th Percentile £629 £825 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £573
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.80% +12.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 £46.32
% change year-on-year -50.00% +51.12% +17.27%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

OpenShift falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,402 9,416 18,029
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.61% 39.44% 41.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,898 7,013 13,524
10th Percentile £350 £363 £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 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 131 149
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.03
25th Percentile £16.90 £21.28 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% +25.00% +41.02%
75th Percentile £50.19 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.19 £75.00 £75.17
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

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 12 June 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 4 (5.13%) Confluence
1 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.85%) Apache
2 3 (3.85%) JBoss
2 3 (3.85%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.28%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.28%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 47 (60.26%) AWS
2 20 (25.64%) AWS CloudFormation
2 20 (25.64%) Serverless
3 19 (24.36%) Amazon S3
3 19 (24.36%) AWS Lambda
3 19 (24.36%) Azure
4 13 (16.67%) GCP
5 12 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (14.10%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (14.10%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (12.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 6 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (7.69%) GitHub
8 6 (7.69%) IaaS
9 4 (5.13%) Apigee
9 4 (5.13%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (5.13%) Textract
10 3 (3.85%) Amazon Cognito
10 3 (3.85%) AWS CodePipeline
10 3 (3.85%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.41%) SAN
2 4 (5.13%) Firewall
3 3 (3.85%) HTTP
3 3 (3.85%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.28%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.28%) NAS
4 1 (1.28%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (29.49%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (25.64%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (11.54%) MongoDB
5 6 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (7.69%) InfluxDB
5 6 (7.69%) NoSQL
6 5 (6.41%) Informix
7 3 (3.85%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (3.85%) DataStax
7 3 (3.85%) Oracle Database
7 3 (3.85%) RDBMS
7 3 (3.85%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.85%) Triplestore
8 1 (1.28%) Couchbase
8 1 (1.28%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 37 (47.44%) Jenkins
2 19 (24.36%) Git
2 19 (24.36%) GitLab
3 12 (15.38%) Artifactory
4 8 (10.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 7 (8.97%) Bitbucket
5 7 (8.97%) JIRA
6 6 (7.69%) SonarQube
6 6 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (5.13%) TeamCity
8 3 (3.85%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (3.85%) CA Release Automation
8 3 (3.85%) Gradle
8 3 (3.85%) Maven
9 2 (2.56%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.56%) webpack
10 1 (1.28%) Hudson
10 1 (1.28%) Vagrant
General
1 26 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 19 (24.36%) Public Sector
3 10 (12.82%) Finance
4 8 (10.26%) Banking
5 3 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (32.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (21.79%) Developer
3 10 (12.82%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (11.54%) Senior
5 7 (8.97%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (7.69%) Java Developer
7 5 (6.41%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (6.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) Lead
7 5 (6.41%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) Site Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Full Stack Developer
8 4 (5.13%) Software Developer
9 3 (3.85%) Consultant
9 3 (3.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (26.92%) AWS CDK
2 18 (23.08%) REST
3 15 (19.23%) Spring Boot
4 14 (17.95%) Spring
5 11 (14.10%) CSS
5 11 (14.10%) HTML
5 11 (14.10%) Kafka
6 9 (11.54%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (11.54%) Node.js
6 9 (11.54%) React
7 8 (10.26%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (6.41%) Spring MVC
8 5 (6.41%) Spring Web Flow
8 5 (6.41%) Thymeleaf
9 4 (5.13%) Apache NiFi
9 4 (5.13%) OAuth
9 4 (5.13%) OAuth2
9 4 (5.13%) Spring Security
10 3 (3.85%) GraphQL
10 3 (3.85%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.26%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.69%) Replication
3 3 (3.85%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.85%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.56%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 33 (42.31%) Linux
2 13 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 13 (16.67%) Windows
3 7 (8.97%) Ubuntu
4 5 (6.41%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.85%) Unix
6 2 (2.56%) Solaris
6 2 (2.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (73.08%) DevOps
2 46 (58.97%) CI/CD
3 41 (52.56%) Agile
4 29 (37.18%) Containerisation
4 29 (37.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (25.64%) Microservices
6 18 (23.08%) Scrum
7 17 (21.79%) Kanban
8 14 (17.95%) Code Quality
8 14 (17.95%) Continuous Integration
8 14 (17.95%) Test Automation
9 13 (16.67%) Community of Practice
10 12 (15.38%) Roadmaps
11 11 (14.10%) Task Automation
12 9 (11.54%) Analytics
12 9 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (11.54%) GitOps
12 9 (11.54%) High Availability
12 9 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 9 (11.54%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 33 (42.31%) Python
2 22 (28.21%) Bash
3 21 (26.92%) Java
4 16 (20.51%) TypeScript
5 14 (17.95%) JavaScript
5 14 (17.95%) Perl
6 13 (16.67%) SQL
7 10 (12.82%) Go
8 7 (8.97%) Groovy
9 3 (3.85%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.85%) SPARQL
10 2 (2.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.10%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (6.41%) Degree
4 3 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.56%) OCP
5 2 (2.56%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.38%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 39 (50.00%) Docker
2 7 (8.97%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.13%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.13%) VMware NSX
4 3 (3.85%) Firmware
5 1 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (65.38%) Kubernetes
2 34 (43.59%) Ansible
3 28 (35.90%) Grafana
4 18 (23.08%) Terraform
5 14 (17.95%) Kibana
6 8 (10.26%) Progress Chef
7 7 (8.97%) Prometheus
7 7 (8.97%) Puppet
8 6 (7.69%) Argo
9 4 (5.13%) Istio
10 3 (3.85%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (2.56%) Kustomize
11 2 (2.56%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (1.28%) Consul
12 1 (1.28%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (1.28%) NetBackup
12 1 (1.28%) Packer
12 1 (1.28%) Rundeck
12 1 (1.28%) Salt
Vendors
1 13 (16.67%) Oracle
2 11 (14.10%) Red Hat
3 6 (7.69%) VMware
4 5 (6.41%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.13%) CyberArk
5 4 (5.13%) Google
6 3 (3.85%) AppDynamics
6 3 (3.85%) Commvault
6 3 (3.85%) Confluent
6 3 (3.85%) Dell
6 3 (3.85%) Splunk
7 2 (2.56%) Mercator
7 2 (2.56%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.28%) Cisco
8 1 (1.28%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.28%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.28%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.28%) SAP
8 1 (1.28%) Veritas
8 1 (1.28%) WSO2