OpenShift Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Red Hat OpenShift
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring OpenShift skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.22% - 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.76% - 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £493
North West median daily rate £520 £368 £522
% change year-on-year +41.50% -29.53% -6.04%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 131 49 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 28.23% 30.06% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 35 30
10th Percentile £185 £385 £359
25th Percentile £413 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -6.98% -13.48%
75th Percentile £653 £578 £622
90th Percentile £680 £640 £633
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -2.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 2
10th Percentile £26.88 £23.91 -
25th Percentile £37.25 £38.03 -
Median hourly rate £43.15 £47.12 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% +2.04% -
75th Percentile £46.80 - -
90th Percentile £59.73 £61.72 -
North West median hourly rate £60.00 £18.87 £36.00
% change year-on-year +217.97% -47.58% +9.09%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

OpenShift job vacancy trend in Lancashire

OpenShift
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Data Acquisition
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes