OpenShift Contracts in Cheshire

Red Hat OpenShift
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 54 47
Rank change year-on-year +6 -7 +8
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 10 4 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.23% 0.79% 3.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.20% 2.29% 7.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 14
10th Percentile £358 £400 £424
25th Percentile £367 £401 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £463 £445
Median % change year-on-year -15.03% +3.93% +41.27%
75th Percentile - £535 £596
90th Percentile £638 £536 £662
North West median daily rate £393 £525 £485
% change year-on-year -25.14% +8.30% -15.70%

All Cloud Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 122 175 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 27.17% 34.72% 42.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 118 166
10th Percentile £312 £281 £214
25th Percentile £364 £363 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £537 £530 £575
90th Percentile £638 £588 £638
North West median daily rate £473 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 6
10th Percentile - £16.98 £12.63
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate £12.82 £17.72 £21.21
Median % change year-on-year -27.65% -16.43% -18.44%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £35.60
90th Percentile - - £52.88
North West median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
% change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing OpenShift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in Cheshire

OpenShift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenShift in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in Cheshire

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in Cheshire

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Knutsford +4 10 £393 -2.06% 1
OpenShift
North West

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (50.00%) JBoss
2 1 (10.00%) Camunda
2 1 (10.00%) CICS
2 1 (10.00%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 5 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) DB2
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (60.00%) Git
2 6 (60.00%) TeamCity
3 5 (50.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 5 (50.00%) CA Release Automation
3 5 (50.00%) JIRA
3 5 (50.00%) SonarQube
3 5 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (20.00%) Banking
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Legal
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) AWS DevOps
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Python Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Support
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Architect
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (40.00%) Kafka
3 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (10.00%) CSS
3 1 (10.00%) CSS3
3 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (10.00%) HTML
3 1 (10.00%) HTML5
3 1 (10.00%) jBPM
3 1 (10.00%) Middleware
3 1 (10.00%) Node.js
3 1 (10.00%) React
3 1 (10.00%) Spring
3 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Blockchain
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
1 5 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (80.00%) DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) Microservices
3 6 (60.00%) Code Quality
3 6 (60.00%) Migration
3 6 (60.00%) Observability
4 5 (50.00%) Build Automation
4 5 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
4 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (40.00%) Analytics
6 3 (30.00%) Change Management
6 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (30.00%) Runbook
7 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
7 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) Java
3 5 (50.00%) Perl
4 1 (10.00%) COBOL
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) JCL
4 1 (10.00%) REXX
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
2 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Progress Chef
2 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (50.00%) Kibana
4 3 (30.00%) Ansible
4 3 (30.00%) Terraform
5 1 (10.00%) Grafana
5 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (50.00%) AppDynamics
2 5 (50.00%) Splunk
3 3 (30.00%) Cloudera
4 1 (10.00%) TIBCO
4 1 (10.00%) VMware