OpenShift Contracts in England

Red Hat OpenShift
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 417 334
Rank change year-on-year +109 -83 +8
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 181 125 364
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.74% 0.34% 0.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.00% 1.05% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 94 272
10th Percentile £455 £358 £485
25th Percentile £556 £420 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -19.23% +8.33%
75th Percentile £819 £641 £788
90th Percentile £838 £725 £846
UK median daily rate £613 £506 £600
% change year-on-year +21.05% -15.67% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.75
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - -39.13% -
75th Percentile - - £75.50
90th Percentile - - £77.00
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £59.03
% change year-on-year - -40.70% +27.43%

All Cloud Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
London +89 106 £725 +26.09% 76
South West +54 26 £615 +11.82% 23
South East +36 26 £575 +17.19% 29
North of England +28 17 £393 -25.14% 37
North West +23 13 £393 -25.14% 32
Yorkshire +11 4 £500 -4.76% 5
Midlands +18 3 £475 +33.43% 8
East Midlands +7 3 £475 +33.43% 1
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 35 (19.34%) Apache
1 35 (19.34%) Apache Spark
2 30 (16.57%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (5.52%) JBoss
3 10 (5.52%) OpenStack
4 9 (4.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (2.21%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (1.66%) nginx
7 2 (1.10%) Jupyter
7 2 (1.10%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.55%) Camunda
8 1 (0.55%) CICS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.66%) Endur
2 1 (0.55%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 103 (56.91%) AWS
2 43 (23.76%) Azure
3 41 (22.65%) Serverless
4 37 (20.44%) AWS Lambda
5 34 (18.78%) Amazon ECS
6 28 (15.47%) dbt
7 26 (14.36%) GCP
8 16 (8.84%) Amazon S3
9 14 (7.73%) IaaS
10 13 (7.18%) GitHub
11 10 (5.52%) PaaS
12 9 (4.97%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (4.97%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (4.42%) SaaS
14 7 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
15 5 (2.76%) Amazon SQS
16 4 (2.21%) Amazon EKS
16 4 (2.21%) Cloud Computing
17 3 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
17 3 (1.66%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 26 (14.36%) DNS
2 24 (13.26%) DHCP
3 18 (9.94%) TCP/IP
4 17 (9.39%) HTTP
5 12 (6.63%) Firewall
6 9 (4.97%) SMTP
6 9 (4.97%) VPN
7 6 (3.31%) SAN
8 5 (2.76%) 3G
8 5 (2.76%) 4G
8 5 (2.76%) BGP
8 5 (2.76%) Ethernet VPN
8 5 (2.76%) LTE
8 5 (2.76%) OSPF
8 5 (2.76%) VSAN
9 4 (2.21%) 3GPP
9 4 (2.21%) NAS
9 4 (2.21%) SSL
10 3 (1.66%) 5G
10 3 (1.66%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (15.47%) Amazon Athena
1 28 (15.47%) Apache Arrow
1 28 (15.47%) Apache Iceberg
1 28 (15.47%) Apache Ignite
1 28 (15.47%) Dremio
2 25 (13.81%) Elasticsearch
3 16 (8.84%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (7.73%) Big Data
5 12 (6.63%) Relational Database
6 11 (6.08%) NoSQL
7 9 (4.97%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (4.97%) RDBMS
8 8 (4.42%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.87%) MongoDB
10 5 (2.76%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (2.21%) Hadoop
11 4 (2.21%) Redis
12 3 (1.66%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (1.66%) Couchbase
12 3 (1.66%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 55 (30.39%) Jenkins
2 41 (22.65%) Artifactory
3 29 (16.02%) Git
4 16 (8.84%) SonarQube
5 14 (7.73%) JIRA
6 13 (7.18%) GitLab
6 13 (7.18%) TeamCity
7 12 (6.63%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (4.97%) Bitbucket Server
8 9 (4.97%) CA Release Automation
9 7 (3.87%) Bitbucket
10 5 (2.76%) Maven
11 4 (2.21%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (1.66%) git-flow
12 3 (1.66%) Gradle
13 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.55%) IntelliJ
13 1 (0.55%) Jaeger
13 1 (0.55%) LoadRunner
General
1 71 (39.23%) Finance
2 34 (18.78%) Front Office
3 27 (14.92%) Social Skills
4 20 (11.05%) Banking
5 13 (7.18%) Telecoms
6 10 (5.52%) Public Sector
7 9 (4.97%) Investment Banking
8 6 (3.31%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.10%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.55%) Law
11 1 (0.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 63 (34.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (21.55%) AWS DevOps
3 38 (20.99%) AWS Engineer
4 35 (19.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 34 (18.78%) Python Engineer
6 32 (17.68%) Senior
7 30 (16.57%) Data Engineer
8 23 (12.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 22 (12.15%) Developer
10 15 (8.29%) Lead
11 11 (6.08%) Senior Developer
12 9 (4.97%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (4.42%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 8 (4.42%) 3rd Line Support
13 8 (4.42%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 8 (4.42%) Architect
13 8 (4.42%) Consultant
13 8 (4.42%) Support Engineer
14 7 (3.87%) Infrastructure Support
14 7 (3.87%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (28.18%) Kafka
2 36 (19.89%) J2EE
3 28 (15.47%) PySpark
4 21 (11.60%) Elastic Stack
4 21 (11.60%) Spring Boot
5 20 (11.05%) Spring
6 10 (5.52%) React
7 7 (3.87%) REST
7 7 (3.87%) YAML
8 6 (3.31%) Middleware
9 5 (2.76%) AngularJS
9 5 (2.76%) Node.js
10 4 (2.21%) LDAP
10 4 (2.21%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (2.21%) Web Services
11 3 (1.66%) .NET
11 3 (1.66%) ActiveMQ
11 3 (1.66%) LAMP
11 3 (1.66%) Material-UI
12 2 (1.10%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.50%) Public Cloud
2 13 (7.18%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.18%) Clustering
2 13 (7.18%) Data Centre
3 9 (4.97%) PKI
4 8 (4.42%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.31%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.31%) Private Cloud
6 5 (2.76%) Tandem
7 3 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.10%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.55%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.55%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.55%) Derivative
9 1 (0.55%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.55%) Equities
9 1 (0.55%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.55%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.55%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 65 (35.91%) Linux
2 39 (21.55%) Windows
3 35 (19.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 31 (17.13%) Windows Server
5 7 (3.87%) CentOS
5 7 (3.87%) Ubuntu
5 7 (3.87%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (2.21%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (1.66%) Unix
7 3 (1.66%) VMS
8 1 (0.55%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (60.77%) DevOps
2 89 (49.17%) CI/CD
3 54 (29.83%) Agile
3 54 (29.83%) Software Engineering
4 46 (25.41%) Containerisation
5 43 (23.76%) Open Source
6 40 (22.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 36 (19.89%) Infrastructure as Code
8 35 (19.34%) Data Engineering
9 33 (18.23%) Asset Management
10 32 (17.68%) Microservices
11 23 (12.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 22 (12.15%) Deployment Automation
13 20 (11.05%) Continuous Integration
13 20 (11.05%) Migration
14 18 (9.94%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (9.94%) Technical Leadership
15 16 (8.84%) Artificial Intelligence
16 15 (8.29%) Configuration Management
17 14 (7.73%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 105 (58.01%) Python
2 85 (46.96%) Java
3 44 (24.31%) Go
4 34 (18.78%) PowerShell
5 28 (15.47%) Bash
6 13 (7.18%) SQL
7 12 (6.63%) Perl
8 10 (5.52%) JavaScript
9 6 (3.31%) C#
10 4 (2.21%) Scala
10 4 (2.21%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.66%) PHP
12 2 (1.10%) Groovy
12 2 (1.10%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.55%) C
13 1 (0.55%) COBOL
13 1 (0.55%) JCL
13 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.55%) REXX
13 1 (0.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 58 (32.04%) Security Cleared
2 39 (21.55%) DV Cleared
3 18 (9.94%) Degree
3 18 (9.94%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.21%) RHCSA
5 3 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.10%) CCIE
6 2 (1.10%) CCIE Data Center
6 2 (1.10%) CCNP
6 2 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.10%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.55%) ISEB
7 1 (0.55%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.55%) OCP
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.55%) RHCE
7 1 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.21%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.10%) GDPR
2 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.55%) SEPA
3 1 (0.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 107 (59.12%) Docker
2 41 (22.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (13.26%) Hyper-V
4 18 (9.94%) Active Directory
5 14 (7.73%) vSphere
6 9 (4.97%) BitLocker
6 9 (4.97%) Microsoft App-V
6 9 (4.97%) Terminal Services
6 9 (4.97%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 4 (2.21%) Lustre
8 3 (1.66%) VMware NSX
9 2 (1.10%) Ceph
10 1 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.55%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 152 (83.98%) Kubernetes
2 93 (51.38%) Terraform
3 82 (45.30%) Ansible
4 28 (15.47%) Puppet
5 20 (11.05%) Progress Chef
6 18 (9.94%) Grafana
7 16 (8.84%) vCenter Server
8 15 (8.29%) Prometheus
9 12 (6.63%) Kibana
10 9 (4.97%) Nagios
10 9 (4.97%) vMotion
11 7 (3.87%) Nessus
12 5 (2.76%) Podman
13 4 (2.21%) Argo
13 4 (2.21%) Istio
13 4 (2.21%) Karpenter
14 3 (1.66%) Control-M
14 3 (1.66%) HAProxy
14 3 (1.66%) logstash
14 3 (1.66%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 68 (37.57%) Red Hat
2 50 (27.62%) VMware
3 22 (12.15%) Splunk
4 20 (11.05%) Microsoft
5 16 (8.84%) Oracle
6 14 (7.73%) Google
7 13 (7.18%) AppDynamics
8 9 (4.97%) Citrix
8 9 (4.97%) HP
8 9 (4.97%) Symantec
9 5 (2.76%) Cisco
10 4 (2.21%) Confluent
11 3 (1.66%) Cloudera
11 3 (1.66%) Dell
11 3 (1.66%) OpenLink
12 2 (1.10%) Arista
12 2 (1.10%) Ericsson
12 2 (1.10%) IBM
12 2 (1.10%) Nokia
13 1 (0.55%) CyberArk