OpenShift Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Red Hat OpenShift
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring OpenShift skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 51 68
Rank change year-on-year -23 +17 +27
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.40% 0.42% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.91% 0.88% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £363
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.95%
75th Percentile £525 - £369
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 - £363
% change year-on-year - - -30.95%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 328 227 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 43.33% 47.39% 34.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 151 232
10th Percentile £313 £270 £283
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £574 £600
90th Percentile £612 £713 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 1
10th Percentile - £28.86 -
25th Percentile - £33.73 -
Median hourly rate £14.25 £65.71 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.31% +5.98% +14.81%
75th Percentile £74.00 £100.66 -
90th Percentile £75.20 £102.00 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.88 £32.81 £15.00
% change year-on-year -36.38% +118.73% -70.00%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

OpenShift job vacancy trend in Leeds

OpenShift
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) NAS
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
1 2 (66.67%) GitOps
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Observability
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Product Management
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (66.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle