OpenShift Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Red Hat OpenShift
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring OpenShift skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 85 86
Rank change year-on-year +43 +1 +20
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 37 5 10
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 3.65% 0.41% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.37% 2.40% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 4 9
10th Percentile £390 £485 £530
25th Percentile £418 £519 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £613 £575
Median % change year-on-year -26.53% +6.52% +2.22%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £588
90th Percentile £619 - £678
South East median daily rate £493 £482 £575
% change year-on-year +2.18% -16.17% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
South East median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Cloud Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 226 208 320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 22.27% 16.90% 23.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 151 204
10th Percentile £213 £350 £358
25th Percentile £418 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +6.80%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £674 £675 £673
South East median daily rate £485 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -5.37% -2.38% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 20
10th Percentile £16.27 - £15.21
25th Percentile £19.00 - £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 - £21.43
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.23%
75th Percentile £49.38 - £62.81
90th Percentile £72.25 - £70.50
South East median hourly rate £18.16 £47.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -61.77% +75.93% +28.57%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenShift relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

OpenShift job vacancy trend in Hampshire

OpenShift
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing OpenShift.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in Hampshire over the 6 months to 10 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in Hampshire

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
Farnborough +19 15 £595 +3.48%
Portsmouth +6 5 £435 -8.42% 2
Andover - 3 £450 -
Basingstoke - 3 £575 -
Southampton - 1 £450 -
OpenShift
South East

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 16 (43.24%) Azure
2 12 (32.43%) Amazon EKS
2 12 (32.43%) AWS
3 10 (27.03%) GitHub
4 6 (16.22%) GCP
5 4 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (8.11%) Amazon S3
6 3 (8.11%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (8.11%) IaaS
6 3 (8.11%) PaaS
6 3 (8.11%) Snowflake
7 2 (5.41%) Apple Pay
7 2 (5.41%) Google Pay
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (2.70%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) DHCP
1 3 (8.11%) DNS
1 3 (8.11%) Firewall
1 3 (8.11%) SMTP
1 3 (8.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (24.32%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (16.22%) MongoDB
3 5 (13.51%) Redis
4 3 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (8.11%) Big Data
4 3 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (8.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (37.84%) Jenkins
2 6 (16.22%) JIRA
3 4 (10.81%) Cucumber
4 3 (8.11%) GitLab
4 3 (8.11%) Maven
5 1 (2.70%) JMeter
5 1 (2.70%) JUnit
5 1 (2.70%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.51%) Finance
2 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.11%) Aerospace
4 2 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (40.54%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (16.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (16.22%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Developer
3 5 (13.51%) Java Developer
4 4 (10.81%) Migration Manager
5 3 (8.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 3 (8.11%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (8.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Support
5 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Security Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Project Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (29.73%) Middleware
1 11 (29.73%) React
2 9 (24.32%) Kafka
3 8 (21.62%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (16.22%) Spring Boot
5 5 (13.51%) Keycloak
5 5 (13.51%) YAML
6 4 (10.81%) Spring
7 1 (2.70%) Hibernate
7 1 (2.70%) ONNX
7 1 (2.70%) SOAP
7 1 (2.70%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 14 (37.84%) Private Cloud
2 4 (10.81%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.11%) Clustering
3 3 (8.11%) PKI
4 2 (5.41%) Digital Wallet
4 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.03%) Linux
2 3 (8.11%) Windows
2 3 (8.11%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.41%) VMS
4 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (64.86%) CI/CD
2 21 (56.76%) Containerisation
3 20 (54.05%) Platform Engineering
4 19 (51.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (48.65%) Migration
6 14 (37.84%) DevOps
7 11 (29.73%) Configuration Management
8 10 (27.03%) Agile
9 9 (24.32%) High Availability
9 9 (24.32%) Observability
10 7 (18.92%) Deployment Automation
11 6 (16.22%) Cybersecurity
11 6 (16.22%) Machine Learning
11 6 (16.22%) Scrum
12 5 (13.51%) Immutable Infrastructure
12 5 (13.51%) Open Source
12 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (13.51%) Roadmaps
12 5 (13.51%) Software Engineering
13 4 (10.81%) Release Train
Programming Languages
1 18 (48.65%) Java
2 17 (45.95%) PowerShell
3 14 (37.84%) Python
4 12 (32.43%) JavaScript
4 12 (32.43%) SQL
5 11 (29.73%) C#
6 5 (13.51%) Bash
Qualifications
1 21 (56.76%) Security Cleared
2 17 (45.95%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.51%) OCP
3 5 (13.51%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (8.11%) Degree
4 3 (8.11%) DV Cleared
4 3 (8.11%) PgMP
4 3 (8.11%) PMI Certification
4 3 (8.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) Def Stans
2 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (8.11%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.11%) BitLocker
2 3 (8.11%) Docker
2 3 (8.11%) Hyper-V
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (8.11%) Terminal Services
2 3 (8.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 32 (86.49%) Kubernetes
2 27 (72.97%) Ansible
3 10 (27.03%) Grafana
3 10 (27.03%) Prometheus
4 8 (21.62%) Terraform
5 5 (13.51%) Packer
6 3 (8.11%) Cilium
6 3 (8.11%) Nagios
6 3 (8.11%) Puppet
6 3 (8.11%) Rsyslog
6 3 (8.11%) SCOM
6 3 (8.11%) vCenter Server
6 3 (8.11%) vMotion
7 2 (5.41%) Kibana
8 1 (2.70%) Podman
8 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (48.65%) Red Hat
2 8 (21.62%) Microsoft
3 7 (18.92%) VMware
4 6 (16.22%) Google
5 5 (13.51%) Splunk
6 3 (8.11%) Citrix
6 3 (8.11%) HP
6 3 (8.11%) NVIDIA
6 3 (8.11%) Samsung
6 3 (8.11%) Symantec
7 1 (2.70%) Oracle