OpenShift Contracts in the North East

Red Hat OpenShift
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 9 0 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 3.16% - 4.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.63% - 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile £455 - £508
25th Percentile £481 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £775
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.90%
75th Percentile £584 - £813
90th Percentile £590 - £850
England median daily rate £537 £550 £663
% change year-on-year -2.36% -16.98% +6.00%

All Cloud Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 118 67 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 41.40% 27.80% 37.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 31 63
10th Percentile £390 £190 £330
25th Percentile £419 £310 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.11% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £581
90th Percentile £644 £650 £675
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 5
10th Percentile - £11.44 £22.25
25th Percentile £12.50 £20.13 £31.25
Median hourly rate £13.00 £46.18 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.85% +42.09% +62.50%
75th Percentile £13.50 - £46.18
90th Percentile £27.00 - -
England median hourly rate £26.00 £24.15 £32.30
% change year-on-year +7.66% -25.23% +50.23%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing OpenShift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in the North East

OpenShift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenShift in the North East.

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in the North East

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the North East region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
Tyne and Wear - 5 £550 - 2
OpenShift
England

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (44.44%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Subject Matter Expert
2 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) Keycloak
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 9 (100.00%) Migration
2 8 (88.89%) GitOps
2 8 (88.89%) Validation
3 6 (66.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 4 (44.44%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (33.33%) Microservices
5 3 (33.33%) Secrets Management
6 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
6 1 (11.11%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Bash
1 8 (88.89%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Istio
1 9 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (88.89%) Ansible
2 8 (88.89%) Argo
2 8 (88.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Red Hat