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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 396 329 345
Rank change year-on-year -67 +16 -34
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 141 356 542
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.74% 0.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.21% 2.03% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 267 356
10th Percentile £359 £481 £463
25th Percentile £425 £531 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.62% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £630 £800 £700
90th Percentile £725 £849 £756
UK median daily rate £506 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -15.67% +4.35% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £65.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -46.36% - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £60.55 £46.32
% change year-on-year -42.20% +30.72% +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 11,686 17,558 26,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.06% 36.49% 38.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,434 12,866 19,938
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £418 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 292 334
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.44 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £34.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.24% +58.14% +1.53%
75th Percentile £35.00 £67.81 £50.75
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
% change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -47 61 £575 -20.69% 18
South East +14 42 £492 -21.31% 15
South West -14 26 £550 -8.33% 13
Midlands +35 7 £356 -
North West -3 6 £463 -7.48% 1
North of England -17 6 £463 -22.92% 1
East Midlands - 6 £356 -
West Midlands +24 1 £450 -
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 9 (6.38%) Apache
2 7 (4.96%) OpenStack
3 6 (4.26%) Confluence
3 6 (4.26%) JBoss
4 5 (3.55%) Anypoint
4 5 (3.55%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.71%) nginx
6 1 (0.71%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 68 (48.23%) AWS
2 50 (35.46%) Azure
3 21 (14.89%) GCP
4 18 (12.77%) AWS Lambda
4 18 (12.77%) Serverless
5 11 (7.80%) GitHub
6 8 (5.67%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (4.96%) Amazon Cognito
7 7 (4.96%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (4.96%) Amazon S3
7 7 (4.96%) PaaS
8 5 (3.55%) Apigee
8 5 (3.55%) SaaS
9 4 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.13%) WhatsApp
11 2 (1.42%) Slack
12 1 (0.71%) Amazon Macie
12 1 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.71%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.96%) AMQP
1 7 (4.96%) HTTP
2 6 (4.26%) Network Security
3 5 (3.55%) Firewall
3 5 (3.55%) SAN
3 5 (3.55%) VPN
4 2 (1.42%) VSAN
5 1 (0.71%) 4G
5 1 (0.71%) 5G
5 1 (0.71%) IPv4
5 1 (0.71%) NAS
5 1 (0.71%) OSPF
5 1 (0.71%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (15.60%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (8.51%) NoSQL
3 11 (7.80%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (7.09%) Relational Database
5 8 (5.67%) MongoDB
6 7 (4.96%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (4.96%) InfluxDB
6 7 (4.96%) Triplestore
7 5 (3.55%) RDBMS
8 4 (2.84%) Oracle Database
9 3 (2.13%) Big Data
9 3 (2.13%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.13%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.42%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.42%) DataStax
10 2 (1.42%) MySQL
11 1 (0.71%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.71%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 47 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 25 (17.73%) Git
3 17 (12.06%) GitLab
4 13 (9.22%) JIRA
4 13 (9.22%) TeamCity
5 11 (7.80%) Bitbucket
6 8 (5.67%) Artifactory
7 7 (4.96%) Maven
8 6 (4.26%) SonarQube
8 6 (4.26%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (3.55%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (3.55%) CA Release Automation
10 4 (2.84%) Cucumber
10 4 (2.84%) Gradle
11 3 (2.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (2.13%) Cypress.io
12 2 (1.42%) Jaeger
12 2 (1.42%) webpack
13 1 (0.71%) Ant
13 1 (0.71%) Selenium
General
1 24 (17.02%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.22%) Finance
3 12 (8.51%) Public Sector
4 11 (7.80%) Banking
5 9 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.55%) Front Office
7 4 (2.84%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.13%) Aviation
9 1 (0.71%) Advertising
9 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (26.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (16.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 22 (15.60%) Developer
4 18 (12.77%) Site Engineer
5 15 (10.64%) Senior
6 10 (7.09%) Java Developer
7 9 (6.38%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (5.67%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (4.96%) Lead
10 6 (4.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (4.26%) Linux Engineer
10 6 (4.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 6 (4.26%) Software Engineer
11 5 (3.55%) AWS DevOps
11 5 (3.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.55%) MuleSoft Developer
11 5 (3.55%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.55%) Support Engineer
12 4 (2.84%) Lead DevOps
12 4 (2.84%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (20.57%) Kafka
2 24 (17.02%) REST
3 15 (10.64%) Elastic Stack
3 15 (10.64%) Node.js
4 13 (9.22%) RabbitMQ
4 13 (9.22%) Spring
5 12 (8.51%) Spring Boot
6 10 (7.09%) .NET
6 10 (7.09%) CSS
6 10 (7.09%) HTML
6 10 (7.09%) Swagger
7 9 (6.38%) React
8 8 (5.67%) GraphQL
9 7 (4.96%) Apache Jena
9 7 (4.96%) Apache NiFi
9 7 (4.96%) PostGIS
9 7 (4.96%) YAML
10 6 (4.26%) RAML
10 6 (4.26%) SOAP
11 5 (3.55%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.15%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.22%) Public Cloud
3 8 (5.67%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (2.84%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.13%) PKI
6 2 (1.42%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.42%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.42%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.71%) Derivative
7 1 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.71%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.71%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.71%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 53 (37.59%) Linux
2 16 (11.35%) Windows
3 11 (7.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.55%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.13%) Unix
6 2 (1.42%) Solaris
6 2 (1.42%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (58.16%) DevOps
2 70 (49.65%) CI/CD
3 59 (41.84%) Containerisation
4 48 (34.04%) Agile
4 48 (34.04%) Microservices
5 37 (26.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 26 (18.44%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (17.02%) GitOps
8 23 (16.31%) Software Engineering
9 21 (14.89%) Task Automation
10 20 (14.18%) Continuous Integration
11 16 (11.35%) Collaborative Working
12 15 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (10.64%) ITSM
12 15 (10.64%) Performance Tuning
13 14 (9.93%) Configuration Management
14 13 (9.22%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (9.22%) Test Automation
15 12 (8.51%) Migration
16 11 (7.80%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 50 (35.46%) Python
2 33 (23.40%) Java
3 24 (17.02%) SQL
4 20 (14.18%) JavaScript
5 16 (11.35%) Bash
6 13 (9.22%) Perl
7 10 (7.09%) Go
7 10 (7.09%) Groovy
7 10 (7.09%) Shell Script
8 8 (5.67%) PowerShell
9 7 (4.96%) SPARQL
10 6 (4.26%) C#
11 5 (3.55%) TypeScript
12 4 (2.84%) C
13 3 (2.13%) C++
14 1 (0.71%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (49.65%) Security Cleared
2 51 (36.17%) SC Cleared
3 17 (12.06%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.67%) Degree
5 4 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.13%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.13%) OCP
6 3 (2.13%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.71%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.71%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 81 (57.45%) Docker
2 11 (7.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (7.09%) VMware NSX
4 9 (6.38%) Active Directory
5 5 (3.55%) Firmware
6 4 (2.84%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.42%) vCloud
7 2 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.71%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 115 (81.56%) Kubernetes
2 49 (34.75%) Terraform
3 42 (29.79%) Ansible
4 34 (24.11%) Grafana
5 28 (19.86%) Prometheus
6 23 (16.31%) Istio
7 21 (14.89%) Progress Chef
8 17 (12.06%) Kibana
9 15 (10.64%) Argo
10 11 (7.80%) Puppet
11 9 (6.38%) Docker Swarm
11 9 (6.38%) Rancher
12 6 (4.26%) Podman
13 5 (3.55%) Dell DRAC
14 4 (2.84%) OPNET
15 2 (1.42%) Kustomize
15 2 (1.42%) PowerCLI
15 2 (1.42%) Red Hat Satellite
15 2 (1.42%) vCenter Server
16 1 (0.71%) linkerd
Vendors
1 22 (15.60%) Red Hat
2 21 (14.89%) VMware
3 20 (14.18%) Google
3 20 (14.18%) Microsoft
4 14 (9.93%) Splunk
5 12 (8.51%) Oracle
6 7 (4.96%) AppDynamics
7 6 (4.26%) CyberArk
7 6 (4.26%) Dell
8 5 (3.55%) MuleSoft
8 5 (3.55%) Salesforce
8 5 (3.55%) SAP
8 5 (3.55%) WSO2
9 4 (2.84%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.42%) Checkmarx
10 2 (1.42%) Cisco
10 2 (1.42%) Confluent
10 2 (1.42%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.71%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.71%) Veracode