OpenShift Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Red Hat OpenShift
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring OpenShift skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.28% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.86% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £501 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +40.54%

All Cloud Skills
Birmingham

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 233 268 268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 32.82% 36.31% 35.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 202 201
10th Percentile £300 £191 £275
25th Percentile £413 £357 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £651 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £520 £500 £463
% change year-on-year +4.00% +8.11% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £23.40 - £22.83
25th Percentile £28.13 - £28.19
Median hourly rate £36.00 £60.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +61.07% -17.22%
75th Percentile £56.63 - £46.19
90th Percentile £69.00 - £51.48
West Midlands median hourly rate £31.94 £31.69 £18.50
% change year-on-year +0.80% +71.28% +8.12%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenShift relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

OpenShift job vacancy trend in Birmingham

OpenShift
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing OpenShift.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) pytest
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes