OpenShift Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Red Hat OpenShift
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring OpenShift skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 61 77
Rank change year-on-year -3 +16 +24
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 8 8 1
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.97% 1.13% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.94% 4.57% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £400 £515 -
25th Percentile £463 £519 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £675
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -18.52% +8.00%
75th Percentile £649 £588 £688
90th Percentile £650 £595 -
South West median daily rate £550 £613 £671
% change year-on-year -10.20% -8.75% +11.88%

All Cloud Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 203 175 264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 24.58% 24.65% 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 116 216
10th Percentile £331 £213 £294
25th Percentile £400 £384 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £645
90th Percentile £650 £775 £705
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 10
10th Percentile - - £20.03
25th Percentile - £25.26 -
Median hourly rate £18.87 £47.31 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.12% +43.37% -49.23%
75th Percentile £31.24 £69.69 -
90th Percentile £93.75 £81.25 £52.88
South West median hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% +46.34% -64.50%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

OpenShift job vacancy trend in Bristol

OpenShift
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in Bristol over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in Bristol

OpenShift
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing OpenShift.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
2 3 (37.50%) GitHub
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (37.50%) Git
3 2 (25.00%) GitLab
3 2 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Site Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) System Design Authority
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
1 3 (37.50%) CSS
1 3 (37.50%) HTML
1 3 (37.50%) Node.js
1 3 (37.50%) React
1 3 (37.50%) Ruby on Rails
1 3 (37.50%) Spring
1 3 (37.50%) Vue
2 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (50.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) Code Quality
4 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
4 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (37.50%) Microservices
4 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) Web Development
5 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Software Delivery
5 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
5 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
1 3 (37.50%) Python
1 3 (37.50%) Ruby
1 3 (37.50%) TypeScript
2 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (37.50%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (50.00%) Grafana
2 4 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (37.50%) Argo
4 2 (25.00%) Ansible
4 2 (25.00%) Progress Chef
4 2 (25.00%) Terraform
5 1 (12.50%) Cilium
5 1 (12.50%) Podman
5 1 (12.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (37.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) NVIDIA
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