OpenShift Contracts in Gloucestershire

Red Hat OpenShift
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 21 47 41
Rank change year-on-year +26 -6 +7
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 20 11 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 7.30% 2.56% 4.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.35% 6.88% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 9 14
10th Percentile £592 £475 -
25th Percentile £606 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% -6.38% +12.98%
75th Percentile £719 £575 £681
90th Percentile £775 £600 £763
South West median daily rate £615 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +11.82% -8.33% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £71.25
25th Percentile - - £72.38
Median hourly rate - - £75.50
75th Percentile - - £77.38
90th Percentile - - £77.75
South West median hourly rate - - £57.50

All Cloud Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 109 160 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 39.78% 37.30% 39.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 115 148
10th Percentile £230 £300 £400
25th Percentile £409 £463 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.32%
75th Percentile £636 £675 £650
90th Percentile £775 £706 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 15
10th Percentile - £17.42 -
25th Percentile £31.50 £19.72 £35.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £21.00 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% -71.23% +398.63%
75th Percentile £68.75 £33.25 £78.00
90th Percentile - £55.30 -
South West median hourly rate £18.51 £14.50 £53.35
% change year-on-year +27.66% -72.82% +113.40%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in Gloucestershire

OpenShift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in Gloucestershire

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in Gloucestershire

OpenShift
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for OpenShift in Gloucestershire

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Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the Gloucestershire 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
Cheltenham +8 8 £615 +11.82% 5
Gloucester - 2 £615 - 9
OpenShift
South West

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 3 (15.00%) Apache
1 3 (15.00%) Apache Spark
1 3 (15.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 16 (80.00%) AWS
2 15 (75.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (75.00%) DHCP
1 15 (75.00%) DNS
1 15 (75.00%) HTTP
1 15 (75.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Big Data
1 3 (15.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Java Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (15.00%) YAML
2 1 (5.00%) JPA
2 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) Spring
2 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 20 (100.00%) Linux
2 15 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 15 (75.00%) Windows
2 15 (75.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) Containerisation
2 12 (60.00%) Service Management
3 9 (45.00%) DevOps
4 6 (30.00%) Incident Management
4 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (15.00%) Data Engineering
6 3 (15.00%) ETL
6 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (15.00%) Observability
6 3 (15.00%) Requirements Engineering
6 3 (15.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (15.00%) Thought Leadership
7 1 (5.00%) Microservices
7 1 (5.00%) Release Management
7 1 (5.00%) Software Engineering
7 1 (5.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (80.00%) Java
2 15 (75.00%) Bash
2 15 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 15 (75.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (80.00%) DV Cleared
1 16 (80.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 20 (100.00%) Docker
2 15 (75.00%) Hyper-V
3 14 (70.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (100.00%) Ansible
1 20 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 19 (95.00%) Terraform
3 15 (75.00%) Puppet
4 3 (15.00%) Grafana
4 3 (15.00%) HAProxy
4 3 (15.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.00%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 15 (75.00%) Red Hat
1 15 (75.00%) VMware
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle