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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 57 56
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 19 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 3.61% 0.72% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.95% 2.12% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 4 4
10th Percentile £325 £365 -
25th Percentile - £388 £607
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £401 £647
Median % change year-on-year -10.78% -37.96% +105.32%
75th Percentile £391 £436 £680
90th Percentile £393 £495 -
North West median daily rate £358 £493 £618
% change year-on-year -27.38% -20.16% +16.24%

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 159 189 191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 30.17% 34.12% 37.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 128 138
10th Percentile £311 £310 £215
25th Percentile £358 £369 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £453 £507
Median % change year-on-year -8.84% -10.75% +19.29%
75th Percentile £492 £550 £575
90th Percentile £579 £638 £621
North West median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 10
10th Percentile - £17.53 £13.73
25th Percentile - - £20.50
Median hourly rate £12.82 £17.72 £22.47
Median % change year-on-year -27.65% -21.14% -13.58%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £35.63
90th Percentile - - £42.58
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £22.41
% change year-on-year +79.02% -28.34% -15.10%

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
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 25 June 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 +6 19 £358 -10.50% 6
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 12 (63.16%) JBoss
2 6 (31.58%) Tomcat
3 1 (5.26%) Camunda
3 1 (5.26%) CICS
3 1 (5.26%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 15 (78.95%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) IaaS
2 4 (21.05%) PaaS
2 4 (21.05%) SaaS
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (52.63%) Relational Database
2 6 (31.58%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (31.58%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.26%) DB2
3 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (68.42%) Git
1 13 (68.42%) Jenkins
2 12 (63.16%) JIRA
2 12 (63.16%) Sonatype Nexus
3 7 (36.84%) TeamCity
4 6 (31.58%) Bitbucket Server
4 6 (31.58%) CA Release Automation
4 6 (31.58%) Gradle
4 6 (31.58%) JUnit
4 6 (31.58%) Maven
4 6 (31.58%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Java Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Lead
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Developer
3 3 (15.79%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Applications Support
5 1 (5.26%) Architect
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Architect
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Solution Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Developer in Test
5 1 (5.26%) DevOps Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (68.42%) Spring Boot
2 7 (36.84%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (36.84%) Spring
3 6 (31.58%) REST
3 6 (31.58%) SOAP
4 5 (26.32%) AngularJS
4 5 (26.32%) Node.js
4 5 (26.32%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (10.53%) Kafka
5 2 (10.53%) Spring MVC
6 1 (5.26%) CSS
6 1 (5.26%) CSS3
6 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
6 1 (5.26%) HTML
6 1 (5.26%) HTML5
6 1 (5.26%) jBPM
6 1 (5.26%) Middleware
6 1 (5.26%) React
6 1 (5.26%) RESTful
6 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Blockchain
2 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Mainframe
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 16 (84.21%) Linux
2 10 (52.63%) Windows
3 9 (47.37%) Unix
4 6 (31.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Microservices
2 10 (52.63%) DevOps
3 9 (47.37%) Observability
4 8 (42.11%) CI/CD
5 7 (36.84%) Code Quality
5 7 (36.84%) Migration
6 6 (31.58%) Build Automation
6 6 (31.58%) Containerisation
6 6 (31.58%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (31.58%) Deployment Automation
6 6 (31.58%) Design Patterns
7 5 (26.32%) Analytics
7 5 (26.32%) Architectural Patterns
7 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (21.05%) Change Management
8 4 (21.05%) ETL
8 4 (21.05%) Runbook
8 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (10.53%) MVC
9 2 (10.53%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) Java
2 10 (52.63%) Python
3 6 (31.58%) Perl
3 6 (31.58%) Shell Script
4 4 (21.05%) PHP
5 1 (5.26%) COBOL
5 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.26%) JCL
5 1 (5.26%) REXX
5 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 11 (57.89%) Docker
2 6 (31.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (57.89%) Kubernetes
2 6 (31.58%) Kibana
2 6 (31.58%) Progress Chef
3 5 (26.32%) Grafana
4 1 (5.26%) Ansible
4 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) AppDynamics
1 10 (52.63%) Oracle
2 7 (36.84%) Red Hat
3 6 (31.58%) Splunk
4 4 (21.05%) Cloudera
5 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
6 1 (5.26%) TIBCO
6 1 (5.26%) VMware