OpenShift Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Red Hat OpenShift
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring OpenShift skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 65 69
Rank change year-on-year -20 +4 -
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 1 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.076% 0.64% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.27% 2.26% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £373 -
25th Percentile £331 £406 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year -29.47% - -
75th Percentile £340 £494 -
90th Percentile - £498 -
England median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -18.52%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 374 221 206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 28.59% 28.44% 26.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 170 121
10th Percentile £213 £332 £189
25th Percentile £370 £369 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £447 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.47% -0.67% -0.66%
75th Percentile £545 £500 £598
90th Percentile £650 £569 £645
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 7 5
10th Percentile £13.51 £17.64 £14.76
25th Percentile £15.25 £19.38 £16.63
Median hourly rate £17.87 £21.39 £18.32
Median % change year-on-year -16.46% +16.76% +18.19%
75th Percentile £24.28 - £39.68
90th Percentile £25.75 - £48.87
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £31.75
% change year-on-year +29.24% -17.17% -3.79%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

OpenShift job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

OpenShift
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing OpenShift.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 September 2026. 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
Northamptonshire +13 1 £335 -19.76% 1
OpenShift
England

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle