OpenShift Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Red Hat OpenShift
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring OpenShift skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 144 169
Rank change year-on-year +43 +25 -5
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 108 20 17
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.31% 0.56% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.07% 1.66% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 11 10
10th Percentile £337 £356 £497
25th Percentile £414 £556 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% +4.55% -14.23%
75th Percentile £581 £638 £568
90th Percentile £636 £656 £583
England median daily rate £500 £638 £585
% change year-on-year -21.57% +8.97% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £46.53 - -
25th Percentile £49.56 £82.50 -
Median hourly rate £53.75 £85.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.76% - -
75th Percentile £55.00 £87.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £85.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -35.29% +8.97% -

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,780 1,203 1,623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 38.07% 33.72% 34.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,296 789 1,202
10th Percentile £217 £275 £258
25th Percentile £363 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £656 £650
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 25 58
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.66 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £17.72
Median hourly rate £41.87 £36.00 £23.06
Median % change year-on-year +16.31% +56.15% -0.67%
75th Percentile £60.25 £58.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.02 £92.99 £55.00
England median hourly rate £26.50 £30.94 £23.24
% change year-on-year -14.34% +33.12% +3.29%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

OpenShift job vacancy trend in the North of England

OpenShift
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing OpenShift.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in the North of England

OpenShift
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing OpenShift.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Yorkshire - 56 £479 - 24
North West -14 36 £462 -19.65% 6
North East +5 16 £563 - 1
OpenShift
England

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 13 (12.04%) JBoss
2 9 (8.33%) Apache
2 9 (8.33%) IIS
2 9 (8.33%) WebSphere
3 8 (7.41%) iPlanet
3 8 (7.41%) WebSphere Application Server
4 6 (5.56%) Confluence
5 2 (1.85%) Mule
5 2 (1.85%) Mule ESB
5 2 (1.85%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.93%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.93%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.93%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 38 (35.19%) AWS
2 27 (25.00%) Azure
3 19 (17.59%) GCP
4 11 (10.19%) GitHub
5 6 (5.56%) IaaS
5 6 (5.56%) PaaS
5 6 (5.56%) SaaS
6 3 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.93%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (0.93%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.41%) Firewall
1 8 (7.41%) Kerberos
2 6 (5.56%) Fibre Channel
2 6 (5.56%) iSCSI
2 6 (5.56%) NAS
2 6 (5.56%) SAN
3 4 (3.70%) VPN
4 3 (2.78%) DNS
4 3 (2.78%) SSL
5 2 (1.85%) BIG-IP
5 2 (1.85%) VSAN
6 1 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.93%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.93%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.93%) DHCP
6 1 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.93%) Network Security
6 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 8 (7.41%) Oracle Database
3 3 (2.78%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 36 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 16 (14.81%) GitLab
3 13 (12.04%) Git
4 12 (11.11%) SonarQube
4 12 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
5 11 (10.19%) Bitbucket Server
5 11 (10.19%) CA Release Automation
6 8 (7.41%) JIRA
7 6 (5.56%) Bitbucket
8 5 (4.63%) Snyk
9 3 (2.78%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.93%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.93%) JUnit
General
1 31 (28.70%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.81%) Finance
3 7 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.63%) Banking
6 4 (3.70%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.93%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (12.04%) Architect
2 11 (10.19%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (9.26%) Security Engineer
3 10 (9.26%) Senior
4 7 (6.48%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 7 (6.48%) Project Manager
5 6 (5.56%) Administrator
5 6 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
6 5 (4.63%) Developer
6 5 (4.63%) Lead
6 5 (4.63%) Platform Architect
6 5 (4.63%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (4.63%) Software Engineer
7 4 (3.70%) Product Owner
8 3 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (2.78%) Integration Manager
8 3 (2.78%) Integration Project Manager
8 3 (2.78%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (2.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.78%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (9.26%) AngularJS
3 9 (8.33%) Keycloak
3 9 (8.33%) OAuth
3 9 (8.33%) OpenID
3 9 (8.33%) SAML
4 8 (7.41%) LDAP
4 8 (7.41%) Node.js
5 5 (4.63%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.70%) Middleware
6 4 (3.70%) Quarkus
7 3 (2.78%) Spring
8 2 (1.85%) J2EE
8 2 (1.85%) JSON
8 2 (1.85%) Web Services
8 2 (1.85%) XML
9 1 (0.93%) Kafka
9 1 (0.93%) Next.js
9 1 (0.93%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.93%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.96%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 8 (7.41%) Enterprise Storage
4 7 (6.48%) Cloud Native
5 6 (5.56%) PKI
5 6 (5.56%) Replication
6 2 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.93%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.93%) RSA SecurID
7 1 (0.93%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (33.33%) Linux
2 18 (16.67%) Windows
3 9 (8.33%) Unix
4 7 (6.48%) VMS
4 7 (6.48%) Windows Server
5 5 (4.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 52 (48.15%) DevOps
3 48 (44.44%) Migration
4 47 (43.52%) Containerisation
5 27 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (14.81%) Agile
7 16 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 16 (14.81%) Observability
8 14 (12.96%) Change Management
8 14 (12.96%) Identity Access Management
8 14 (12.96%) Validation
9 13 (12.04%) DevSecOps
9 13 (12.04%) Microservices
10 12 (11.11%) High Availability
10 12 (11.11%) Roadmaps
10 12 (11.11%) Task Automation
11 11 (10.19%) Cloud Security
12 10 (9.26%) GitOps
12 10 (9.26%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 36 (33.33%) Python
2 27 (25.00%) Bash
3 13 (12.04%) Groovy
3 13 (12.04%) Shell Script
4 9 (8.33%) Java
5 6 (5.56%) PHP
6 3 (2.78%) Perl
6 3 (2.78%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.78%) SQL
7 2 (1.85%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (17.59%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.96%) SC Cleared
3 13 (12.04%) CISSP
4 12 (11.11%) CISM
5 6 (5.56%) Degree
6 4 (3.70%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.70%) OCP
6 4 (3.70%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (3.70%) PMI Certification
6 4 (3.70%) PMP
7 2 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.93%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.63%) NIST
3 4 (3.70%) QA
4 3 (2.78%) GDPR
4 3 (2.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (28.70%) Docker
2 11 (10.19%) Active Directory
3 8 (7.41%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 6 (5.56%) NFS
4 6 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (4.63%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (2.78%) VMware NSX
6 3 (2.78%) vSphere
7 2 (1.85%) KVM
8 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 83 (76.85%) Kubernetes
2 41 (37.96%) Ansible
2 41 (37.96%) Terraform
3 18 (16.67%) Grafana
4 17 (15.74%) Argo
5 14 (12.96%) Progress Chef
6 11 (10.19%) Prometheus
7 10 (9.26%) Istio
8 9 (8.33%) CA Single Sign-On
9 8 (7.41%) CA Wily
9 8 (7.41%) Tivoli
10 5 (4.63%) Fluentd
10 5 (4.63%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (2.78%) Kibana
11 3 (2.78%) Podman
12 2 (1.85%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.93%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (21.30%) Microsoft
1 23 (21.30%) Red Hat
1 23 (21.30%) Splunk
2 20 (18.52%) AppDynamics
3 17 (15.74%) Oracle
4 13 (12.04%) IBM
5 9 (8.33%) Broadcom
6 8 (7.41%) VMware
7 7 (6.48%) Cribl.io
8 6 (5.56%) NetApp
8 6 (5.56%) Pure Storage
9 5 (4.63%) Checkmarx
9 5 (4.63%) EMC
9 5 (4.63%) Veracode
10 4 (3.70%) Dell
11 3 (2.78%) Cloudera
11 3 (2.78%) Dynatrace
11 3 (2.78%) F5
12 2 (1.85%) Infoblox
12 2 (1.85%) SevOne