OpenShift Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Red Hat OpenShift
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring OpenShift skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
20 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 - 92
Rank change year-on-year - - +21
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 6 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.25% - 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.13% - 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £359 - £498
25th Percentile £409 - £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £600
75th Percentile £672 - £656
90th Percentile £741 - £683
England median daily rate £555 £525 £560
% change year-on-year +5.67% -6.25% -17.04%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 533 353 284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 22.48% 27.11% 18.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 197 165
10th Percentile £190 £220 £213
25th Percentile £339 £413 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £510 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% +20.00% -5.56%
75th Percentile £552 £580 £563
90th Percentile £617 £688 £633
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 30 25
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.99 -
25th Percentile £15.69 £16.30 £14.16
Median hourly rate £17.50 £30.03 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year -41.72% +84.23% -20.49%
75th Percentile £32.38 £60.48 £21.37
90th Percentile £75.10 £67.00 £26.55
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

OpenShift job vacancy trend in the East of England

OpenShift
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in the East of England over the 6 months to 20 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in the East of England

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 20 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
Cambridgeshire - 3 £725 - 1
Essex - 2 £325 -
Hertfordshire - 1 - - 3
OpenShift
England

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (33.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) BGP
1 2 (33.33%) DHCP
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) LAN
1 2 (33.33%) MPLS
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security
1 2 (33.33%) SNMP
1 2 (33.33%) TACACS
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (33.33%) WAN
1 2 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IP Network Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Network Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) NETCONF
1 2 (33.33%) OpenConfig
1 2 (33.33%) RESTCONF
1 2 (33.33%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) Private Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) Change Management
1 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 2 (33.33%) Network Design
1 2 (33.33%) Patch Management
1 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (33.33%) Runbook
1 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
1 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Microservices
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Bash
3 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CCIE
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (33.33%) JNCIE
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) F5
1 2 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 2 (33.33%) Juniper
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
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