OpenShift Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Red Hat OpenShift
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring OpenShift skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 31 18
Rank change year-on-year +11 -13 -
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 32 6 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 11.39% 3.49% 3.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 25.00% 7.79% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 4 0
10th Percentile £305 £352 -
25th Percentile £314 £355 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £356 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% - -
75th Percentile £439 £405 -
90th Percentile £506 £492 -
Cheshire median daily rate £359 £356 £560
% change year-on-year +0.84% -36.43% +31.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate - £85.00 -

All Cloud Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 128 77 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 45.55% 44.77% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 65 5
10th Percentile £313 £344 -
25th Percentile £358 £360 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £445 £495
Median % change year-on-year -6.18% -10.10% +16.47%
75th Percentile £480 £538 -
90th Percentile £500 £600 £498
Cheshire median daily rate £425 £455 £450
% change year-on-year -6.59% +1.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £16.00 £85.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -81.18% +150.00% +56.11%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in Knutsford

OpenShift
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in Knutsford over the 6 months to 29 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in Knutsford

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford 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 18 (56.25%) JBoss
2 9 (28.13%) WebSphere
3 8 (25.00%) Apache
3 8 (25.00%) IIS
4 7 (21.88%) iPlanet
4 7 (21.88%) WebSphere Application Server
5 6 (18.75%) Tomcat
6 1 (3.13%) CICS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 23 (71.88%) AWS
2 9 (28.13%) IaaS
2 9 (28.13%) PaaS
2 9 (28.13%) SaaS
3 3 (9.38%) Azure
4 2 (6.25%) GCP
5 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.13%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (3.13%) GitHub
5 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.88%) Kerberos
2 3 (9.38%) Firewall
3 2 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (40.63%) Relational Database
2 8 (25.00%) Oracle Database
3 4 (12.50%) RDBMS
4 3 (9.38%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (3.13%) DB2
Development Applications
1 20 (62.50%) Jenkins
2 18 (56.25%) Git
3 17 (53.13%) Sonatype Nexus
4 11 (34.38%) Bitbucket Server
4 11 (34.38%) CA Release Automation
5 9 (28.13%) JIRA
6 6 (18.75%) Gradle
6 6 (18.75%) JUnit
6 6 (18.75%) Maven
7 5 (15.63%) SonarQube
8 4 (12.50%) TeamCity
9 2 (6.25%) Bitbucket
9 2 (6.25%) GitLab
10 1 (3.13%) Snyk
General
1 8 (25.00%) Finance
1 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Banking
4 1 (3.13%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Developer
2 6 (18.75%) Lead
3 5 (15.63%) Java Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Senior
5 3 (9.38%) AWS Developer
5 3 (9.38%) DevOps Specialist
5 3 (9.38%) Security Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (9.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) AWS Architect
7 1 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (3.13%) Cloud Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.13%) Linux DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (31.25%) Spring Boot
2 9 (28.13%) AngularJS
2 9 (28.13%) Node.js
3 8 (25.00%) OAuth
3 8 (25.00%) OpenID
3 8 (25.00%) SAML
4 7 (21.88%) LDAP
5 6 (18.75%) REST
5 6 (18.75%) SOAP
5 6 (18.75%) Spring
6 5 (15.63%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (15.63%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (6.25%) Spring MVC
8 1 (3.13%) Kafka
8 1 (3.13%) RESTful
8 1 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.13%) Blockchain
1 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (3.13%) Mainframe
1 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
1 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
1 1 (3.13%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 27 (84.38%) Linux
2 21 (65.63%) Windows
3 14 (43.75%) Unix
4 7 (21.88%) Windows Server
5 4 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (53.13%) DevOps
2 15 (46.88%) CI/CD
2 15 (46.88%) Observability
3 13 (40.63%) Containerisation
4 11 (34.38%) Microservices
5 9 (28.13%) ETL
6 8 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
7 7 (21.88%) Deployment Automation
8 6 (18.75%) Design Patterns
9 5 (15.63%) Analytics
9 5 (15.63%) Architectural Patterns
9 5 (15.63%) Code Quality
9 5 (15.63%) Migration
9 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (12.50%) Change Management
10 4 (12.50%) Runbook
10 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (12.50%) Task Automation
11 3 (9.38%) Full-Stack Development
11 3 (9.38%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 13 (40.63%) Python
1 13 (40.63%) Shell Script
2 11 (34.38%) Java
3 9 (28.13%) PHP
4 8 (25.00%) Groovy
5 4 (12.50%) Perl
6 1 (3.13%) COBOL
6 1 (3.13%) JCL
6 1 (3.13%) REXX
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) AWS Certification
2 3 (9.38%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (9.38%) CISSP
2 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) CISM
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.13%) OSCP
4 1 (3.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (71.88%) Docker
2 11 (34.38%) Active Directory
3 7 (21.88%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 17 (53.13%) Kubernetes
2 12 (37.50%) Progress Chef
3 10 (31.25%) Grafana
4 8 (25.00%) CA Single Sign-On
5 7 (21.88%) CA Wily
5 7 (21.88%) Tivoli
6 4 (12.50%) Kibana
6 4 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (6.25%) Fluentd
8 1 (3.13%) Ansible
8 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
8 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (68.75%) Oracle
2 20 (62.50%) AppDynamics
3 13 (40.63%) Splunk
4 12 (37.50%) Microsoft
5 8 (25.00%) Broadcom
6 7 (21.88%) IBM
7 5 (15.63%) Red Hat
8 4 (12.50%) Cloudera
9 2 (6.25%) Cribl.io
10 1 (3.13%) Checkmarx
10 1 (3.13%) Veracode
10 1 (3.13%) VMware