OpenShift Contracts in Edinburgh

Red Hat OpenShift
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 8 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 41 53
Rank change year-on-year -16 +12 -6
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 7 32 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.11% 3.66% 4.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.69% 10.36% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 32 44
10th Percentile £475 £413 £434
25th Percentile £513 £437 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £477 £484
Median % change year-on-year +10.06% -1.34% -5.66%
75th Percentile £553 £507 £536
90th Percentile £557 £634 £552
Scotland median daily rate £472 £475 £484
% change year-on-year -0.58% -1.76% -7.02%

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 260 309 475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 41.07% 35.35% 40.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 198 366
10th Percentile £308 £213 £213
25th Percentile £425 £410 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £458 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% -3.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £525
90th Percentile £598 £663 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - £15.80 -
25th Percentile £26.32 £16.50 -
Median hourly rate £27.35 £17.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +60.88% -4.06% -22.96%
75th Percentile £28.38 £17.50 -
90th Percentile - £20.84 -
Scotland median hourly rate £21.22 £17.00 £60.55
% change year-on-year +24.82% -71.92% +82.11%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in Edinburgh

OpenShift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in Edinburgh

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Amazon S3
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
1 6 (85.71%) AWS Lambda
1 6 (85.71%) Serverless
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 5 (71.43%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (71.43%) AWS CodePipeline
3 4 (57.14%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (57.14%) AWS CodeBuild
3 4 (57.14%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 4 (57.14%) AWS Fargate
3 4 (57.14%) Route 53
4 3 (42.86%) PaaS
4 3 (42.86%) SaaS
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (14.29%) Azure
5 1 (14.29%) CloudFront
5 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (28.57%) InfluxDB
2 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
3 1 (14.29%) Metadata
3 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 3 (42.86%) Artifactory
3 2 (28.57%) Cypress.io
4 1 (14.29%) GitLab
4 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
4 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (14.29%) webpack
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Developer
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Developer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) AWS CDK
2 3 (42.86%) React
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
3 1 (14.29%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) Jest
3 1 (14.29%) Loki
3 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
3 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 1 (14.29%) TypeORM
3 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
3 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
3 4 (57.14%) Kanban
3 4 (57.14%) Scrum
3 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (28.57%) Human-Centred Design
5 2 (28.57%) Inclusive Design
5 2 (28.57%) Software Delivery
6 1 (14.29%) Coaching
6 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 1 (14.29%) Observability
6 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (14.29%) Release Automation
6 1 (14.29%) SDLC
6 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) Bash
3 4 (57.14%) Groovy
4 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
4 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
5 2 (28.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) OCP
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 4 (57.14%) Ansible
3 3 (42.86%) Grafana
3 3 (42.86%) Kibana
4 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco
1 1 (14.29%) Imperva
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce