OpenShift Contracts in England

Red Hat OpenShift
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for OpenShift skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OpenShift over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 418 330 349
Rank change year-on-year -88 +19 -42
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 125 364 560
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.72% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.05% 1.97% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 272 372
10th Percentile £358 £485 £463
25th Percentile £431 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £641 £788 £700
90th Percentile £725 £846 £756
UK median daily rate £508 £600 £585
% change year-on-year -15.33% +2.56% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.13% - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £59.03 £46.32
% change year-on-year -40.70% +27.43% +15.80%

All Cloud Skills
England

OpenShift is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,863 18,484 27,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.87% 36.63% 38.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,546 13,521 20,067
10th Percentile £290 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 311 349
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.87 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -2.33%
75th Percentile £32.50 £65.75 £42.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -5.54%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in England

OpenShift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in England

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in England

OpenShift
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OpenShift in England.

Hourly rate trend for OpenShift in England

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
London -36 54 £588 -18.97% 13
South East +10 36 £491 -18.22% 6
South West -16 18 £550 -8.33% 13
North of England -13 8 £525 -12.50% 3
Midlands +33 7 £356 - 1
North West +6 7 £525 +8.30% 2
East Midlands - 6 £356 -
West Midlands +27 1 £450 - 1
Yorkshire +22 1 £525 -
OpenShift
UK

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (5.60%) OpenStack
2 5 (4.00%) Anypoint
2 5 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.00%) JBoss
3 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.40%) Confluence
5 1 (0.80%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 59 (47.20%) AWS
2 39 (31.20%) Azure
3 19 (15.20%) AWS Lambda
3 19 (15.20%) GCP
3 19 (15.20%) Serverless
4 9 (7.20%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (7.20%) Amazon S3
5 7 (5.60%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (4.00%) Apigee
6 5 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (4.00%) SaaS
7 4 (3.20%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (3.20%) GitHub
7 4 (3.20%) PaaS
8 3 (2.40%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.80%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.80%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.80%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.60%) AMQP
2 5 (4.00%) Firewall
2 5 (4.00%) Network Security
2 5 (4.00%) SAN
3 4 (3.20%) VPN
4 2 (1.60%) VSAN
5 1 (0.80%) 4G
5 1 (0.80%) 5G
5 1 (0.80%) IPv4
5 1 (0.80%) NAS
5 1 (0.80%) OSPF
5 1 (0.80%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.60%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (8.80%) NoSQL
3 10 (8.00%) Relational Database
4 8 (6.40%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (6.40%) MongoDB
5 7 (5.60%) InfluxDB
5 7 (5.60%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (4.00%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.40%) Big Data
7 3 (2.40%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.40%) Oracle Database
7 3 (2.40%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.60%) MySQL
9 1 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.80%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.80%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.80%) DataStax
9 1 (0.80%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 40 (32.00%) Jenkins
2 20 (16.00%) Git
3 13 (10.40%) TeamCity
4 9 (7.20%) Bitbucket
4 9 (7.20%) GitLab
4 9 (7.20%) JIRA
5 8 (6.40%) Artifactory
6 6 (4.80%) SonarQube
7 5 (4.00%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (4.00%) CA Release Automation
7 5 (4.00%) Maven
7 5 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (3.20%) Cucumber
8 4 (3.20%) Gradle
9 3 (2.40%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (1.60%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.80%) JUnit
11 1 (0.80%) Selenium
General
1 17 (13.60%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.40%) Finance
3 8 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.40%) Banking
3 8 (6.40%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.00%) Front Office
5 4 (3.20%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.40%) Aviation
7 1 (0.80%) Advertising
7 1 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (24.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (16.80%) Developer
3 20 (16.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 14 (11.20%) Site Engineer
5 13 (10.40%) Senior
6 11 (8.80%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (6.40%) Java Developer
9 6 (4.80%) AWS DevOps
9 6 (4.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) Software Engineer
10 5 (4.00%) MuleSoft Developer
10 5 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 5 (4.00%) Support Engineer
11 4 (3.20%) Linux DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.20%) Operations Engineer
11 4 (3.20%) Testing Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.60%) Kafka
2 16 (12.80%) REST
3 13 (10.40%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (10.40%) Node.js
3 13 (10.40%) RabbitMQ
3 13 (10.40%) Spring
4 12 (9.60%) Spring Boot
5 9 (7.20%) Swagger
6 8 (6.40%) .NET
7 7 (5.60%) YAML
8 6 (4.80%) RAML
8 6 (4.80%) React
8 6 (4.80%) SOAP
9 5 (4.00%) .NET Core
9 5 (4.00%) ActiveMQ
9 5 (4.00%) Apache Camel
9 5 (4.00%) OpenAPI
10 4 (3.20%) AWS CDK
10 4 (3.20%) Gherkin
10 4 (3.20%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 24 (19.20%) Cloud Native
2 13 (10.40%) Public Cloud
3 8 (6.40%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (3.20%) PKI
5 3 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.40%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (2.40%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.60%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.80%) Derivative
7 1 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.80%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.80%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.80%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 44 (35.20%) Linux
2 14 (11.20%) Windows
3 10 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (4.00%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.60%) Solaris
5 2 (1.60%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (54.40%) DevOps
2 58 (46.40%) CI/CD
3 47 (37.60%) Containerisation
4 45 (36.00%) Agile
5 44 (35.20%) Microservices
6 34 (27.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 26 (20.80%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (16.80%) Software Engineering
9 19 (15.20%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (14.40%) GitOps
11 15 (12.00%) Task Automation
12 13 (10.40%) Collaborative Working
12 13 (10.40%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (9.60%) Performance Tuning
13 12 (9.60%) Test Automation
14 11 (8.80%) Configuration Management
14 11 (8.80%) ITSM
14 11 (8.80%) Migration
15 10 (8.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 50 (40.00%) Python
2 33 (26.40%) Java
3 21 (16.80%) SQL
4 13 (10.40%) JavaScript
4 13 (10.40%) Perl
5 11 (8.80%) Bash
6 10 (8.00%) Go
7 9 (7.20%) Shell Script
8 8 (6.40%) C#
8 8 (6.40%) Groovy
9 5 (4.00%) PowerShell
9 5 (4.00%) TypeScript
10 4 (3.20%) C
11 3 (2.40%) C++
12 1 (0.80%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 56 (44.80%) Security Cleared
2 39 (31.20%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.00%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.80%) Degree
5 3 (2.40%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.60%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.60%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.80%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.80%) OCP
7 1 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.40%) QA
System Software
1 69 (55.20%) Docker
2 10 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (7.20%) Active Directory
3 9 (7.20%) VMware NSX
4 5 (4.00%) Firmware
5 4 (3.20%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.60%) vCloud
6 2 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 103 (82.40%) Kubernetes
2 50 (40.00%) Terraform
3 38 (30.40%) Ansible
4 28 (22.40%) Grafana
5 22 (17.60%) Progress Chef
5 22 (17.60%) Prometheus
6 19 (15.20%) Istio
7 13 (10.40%) Kibana
8 9 (7.20%) Argo
8 9 (7.20%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (7.20%) Puppet
8 9 (7.20%) Rancher
9 5 (4.00%) Dell DRAC
10 4 (3.20%) Podman
11 3 (2.40%) OPNET
12 2 (1.60%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (1.60%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.80%) linkerd
13 1 (0.80%) SELinux
13 1 (0.80%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 22 (17.60%) Red Hat
1 22 (17.60%) VMware
2 19 (15.20%) Google
3 16 (12.80%) Microsoft
4 13 (10.40%) Splunk
5 11 (8.80%) Oracle
6 7 (5.60%) AppDynamics
7 6 (4.80%) CyberArk
7 6 (4.80%) Dell
8 5 (4.00%) MuleSoft
8 5 (4.00%) Salesforce
8 5 (4.00%) SAP
8 5 (4.00%) WSO2
9 3 (2.40%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.60%) Checkmarx
10 2 (1.60%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.80%) Confluent
11 1 (0.80%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.80%) Trend Micro
11 1 (0.80%) Veracode