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 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 376 332
Rank change year-on-year +67 -44 +9
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 175 176 323
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.69% 0.47% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.84% 1.46% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 130 250
10th Percentile £367 £399 £500
25th Percentile £463 £451 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £654
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -19.69% +8.51%
75th Percentile £738 £642 £797
90th Percentile £838 £725 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 11
10th Percentile - - £53.75
25th Percentile - - £54.38
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -50.00% -
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - £90.00
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -50.00% +51.12%

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 9,534 12,074 17,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.72% 32.38% 36.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,451 8,618 12,547
10th Percentile £313 £305 £325
25th Percentile £413 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £504 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 331 286
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.24 £16.06 £19.94
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +14.32% -31.89% +53.81%
75th Percentile £39.06 £43.75 £69.88
90th Percentile £67.88 £70.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -37.14% +59.09%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 +68 91 £681 +18.48% 80
North of England +27 28 £367 -25.56% 51
South East +18 25 £544 +12.41% 39
North West +29 23 £363 -26.47% 33
South West +22 20 £615 +5.13% 34
Midlands +8 6 £488 +36.94% 25
East Midlands 0 5 £475 +33.43% 10
Yorkshire - 5 £500 - 14
West Midlands +12 1 £550 +22.22% 14
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 24 (13.71%) Apache
2 23 (13.14%) JBoss
3 22 (12.57%) Apache Spark
4 18 (10.29%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (5.14%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (4.57%) Tomcat
7 6 (3.43%) WebSphere
8 3 (1.71%) Confluence
8 3 (1.71%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (1.14%) Jupyter
9 2 (1.14%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.57%) Camunda
10 1 (0.57%) CICS
10 1 (0.57%) nginx
10 1 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (2.86%) Endur
2 1 (0.57%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 99 (56.57%) AWS
2 43 (24.57%) Azure
3 31 (17.71%) GCP
4 27 (15.43%) Serverless
5 23 (13.14%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (11.43%) GitHub
6 20 (11.43%) IaaS
7 17 (9.71%) Amazon ECS
8 16 (9.14%) dbt
8 16 (9.14%) PaaS
9 12 (6.86%) Amazon S3
10 10 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (5.14%) SaaS
12 6 (3.43%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (2.29%) Amazon EMR
14 4 (2.29%) Amazon Kinesis
15 3 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
15 3 (1.71%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (11.43%) DNS
2 17 (9.71%) DHCP
3 14 (8.00%) Firewall
4 9 (5.14%) SMTP
4 9 (5.14%) VPN
5 8 (4.57%) HTTP
5 8 (4.57%) TCP/IP
6 7 (4.00%) SAN
6 7 (4.00%) SSL
7 6 (3.43%) VSAN
8 4 (2.29%) NAS
9 2 (1.14%) BGP
9 2 (1.14%) Ethernet VPN
9 2 (1.14%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (1.14%) IPv6
9 2 (1.14%) Kerberos
9 2 (1.14%) OSPF
9 2 (1.14%) Spanning Tree
9 2 (1.14%) TACACS
10 1 (0.57%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (15.43%) Elasticsearch
2 21 (12.00%) Relational Database
3 16 (9.14%) Amazon Athena
3 16 (9.14%) Apache Arrow
3 16 (9.14%) Apache Iceberg
3 16 (9.14%) Apache Ignite
3 16 (9.14%) Dremio
4 15 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (7.43%) Big Data
6 12 (6.86%) RDBMS
7 11 (6.29%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (5.14%) NoSQL
9 8 (4.57%) MongoDB
9 8 (4.57%) Redis
9 8 (4.57%) SQL Server
10 4 (2.29%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.71%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.71%) Couchbase
11 3 (1.71%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.71%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 63 (36.00%) Jenkins
2 44 (25.14%) Git
3 28 (16.00%) JIRA
4 25 (14.29%) Artifactory
5 23 (13.14%) Sonatype Nexus
6 20 (11.43%) SonarQube
7 17 (9.71%) Maven
8 15 (8.57%) TeamCity
9 12 (6.86%) Gradle
10 11 (6.29%) Bitbucket Server
10 11 (6.29%) CA Release Automation
11 8 (4.57%) Bitbucket
11 8 (4.57%) GitLab
11 8 (4.57%) JUnit
12 7 (4.00%) Cucumber
13 4 (2.29%) Cypress.io
13 4 (2.29%) git-flow
14 3 (1.71%) IntelliJ
14 3 (1.71%) Log4j
15 2 (1.14%) Eclipse
General
1 57 (32.57%) Finance
2 39 (22.29%) Social Skills
3 25 (14.29%) Banking
4 18 (10.29%) Front Office
5 17 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (6.86%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.57%) Telecoms
8 7 (4.00%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.71%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.14%) Automotive
10 2 (1.14%) Back Office
11 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.57%) Legal
11 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (26.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 32 (18.29%) Developer
3 24 (13.71%) AWS DevOps
4 22 (12.57%) AWS Engineer
5 20 (11.43%) Senior
6 19 (10.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 18 (10.29%) Python Engineer
8 17 (9.71%) Architect
8 17 (9.71%) Lead
9 16 (9.14%) Data Engineer
10 14 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (7.43%) Java Developer
12 9 (5.14%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (5.14%) Senior Developer
12 9 (5.14%) Support Engineer
13 8 (4.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 8 (4.57%) 3rd Line Support
13 8 (4.57%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
14 7 (4.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
14 7 (4.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (25.14%) Kafka
2 31 (17.71%) Spring Boot
3 29 (16.57%) Spring
4 28 (16.00%) Elastic Stack
5 20 (11.43%) J2EE
6 19 (10.86%) React
7 17 (9.71%) REST
8 16 (9.14%) PySpark
9 13 (7.43%) Middleware
10 11 (6.29%) YAML
11 10 (5.71%) AngularJS
11 10 (5.71%) Node.js
12 9 (5.14%) SOAP
13 7 (4.00%) LDAP
13 7 (4.00%) RESTful
13 7 (4.00%) Spring Cloud
13 7 (4.00%) Web Services
14 5 (2.86%) Keycloak
14 5 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
15 3 (1.71%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.00%) Public Cloud
2 13 (7.43%) Clustering
3 12 (6.86%) Data Centre
4 10 (5.71%) Cloud Native
5 9 (5.14%) PKI
5 9 (5.14%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.71%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.71%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.14%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.14%) Grid Computing
8 2 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.14%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.57%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.57%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.57%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 78 (44.57%) Linux
2 34 (19.43%) Windows
3 32 (18.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (10.29%) Windows Server
5 13 (7.43%) Unix
6 4 (2.29%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (1.71%) VMS
8 1 (0.57%) CentOS
8 1 (0.57%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (54.86%) DevOps
2 83 (47.43%) CI/CD
3 55 (31.43%) Containerisation
4 47 (26.86%) Agile
5 45 (25.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 41 (23.43%) Microservices
7 38 (21.71%) Software Engineering
8 36 (20.57%) Migration
9 32 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (15.43%) Open Source
11 23 (13.14%) Observability
12 21 (12.00%) Configuration Management
12 21 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
12 21 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 19 (10.86%) Deployment Automation
14 18 (10.29%) Data Engineering
15 17 (9.71%) Platform Engineering
16 16 (9.14%) Asset Management
16 16 (9.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 15 (8.57%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 88 (50.29%) Python
2 82 (46.86%) Java
3 29 (16.57%) Go
4 28 (16.00%) Bash
5 27 (15.43%) PowerShell
6 17 (9.71%) JavaScript
6 17 (9.71%) SQL
7 14 (8.00%) C#
7 14 (8.00%) Perl
8 10 (5.71%) Shell Script
9 8 (4.57%) PHP
10 6 (3.43%) TypeScript
11 4 (2.29%) Groovy
12 3 (1.71%) C++
12 3 (1.71%) COBOL
13 2 (1.14%) Bicep
13 2 (1.14%) C
14 1 (0.57%) CodeQL
14 1 (0.57%) JCL
14 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (30.29%) Security Cleared
2 33 (18.86%) DV Cleared
3 18 (10.29%) SC Cleared
4 17 (9.71%) Degree
5 3 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.71%) OCP
5 3 (1.71%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.14%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.14%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.14%) IBM Certification
6 2 (1.14%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.14%) OCA
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.57%) ISEB
7 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.86%) PCI DSS
2 4 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.71%) GDPR
3 3 (1.71%) QA
4 2 (1.14%) ISO 15022
4 2 (1.14%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.14%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.57%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.57%) SEPA
5 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 89 (50.86%) Docker
2 23 (13.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (11.43%) Active Directory
4 17 (9.71%) Hyper-V
5 10 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (5.14%) BitLocker
6 9 (5.14%) Microsoft App-V
6 9 (5.14%) Terminal Services
7 5 (2.86%) vSphere
8 4 (2.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 3 (1.71%) Lustre
9 3 (1.71%) VMware NSX
10 2 (1.14%) Ceph
10 2 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.57%) KVM
11 1 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.57%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 138 (78.86%) Kubernetes
2 70 (40.00%) Ansible
3 60 (34.29%) Terraform
4 29 (16.57%) Grafana
5 24 (13.71%) Prometheus
6 22 (12.57%) Puppet
7 15 (8.57%) Progress Chef
8 14 (8.00%) Kibana
9 10 (5.71%) vCenter Server
10 9 (5.14%) Nagios
10 9 (5.14%) vMotion
11 6 (3.43%) Podman
12 5 (2.86%) Packer
13 4 (2.29%) Argo
13 4 (2.29%) Istio
13 4 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (1.71%) Control-M
14 3 (1.71%) Karpenter
14 3 (1.71%) logstash
14 3 (1.71%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 60 (34.29%) Red Hat
2 35 (20.00%) Oracle
3 33 (18.86%) Splunk
4 28 (16.00%) VMware
5 20 (11.43%) Microsoft
6 19 (10.86%) AppDynamics
7 16 (9.14%) Google
8 10 (5.71%) HP
9 9 (5.14%) Citrix
9 9 (5.14%) Symantec
10 5 (2.86%) Cloudera
10 5 (2.86%) IBM
11 4 (2.29%) Cisco
11 4 (2.29%) Confluent
12 3 (1.71%) Dell
12 3 (1.71%) Dynatrace
12 3 (1.71%) OpenLink
12 3 (1.71%) TIBCO
13 2 (1.14%) Ericsson
13 2 (1.14%) Hitachi