OpenShift Contracts in the North of England

Red Hat OpenShift
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 180 162
Rank change year-on-year +30 -18 +54
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 17 6 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.51% 0.13% 0.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.54% 0.43% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 37
10th Percentile £358 £375 £440
25th Percentile £365 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £463 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.03% -22.92% -4.00%
75th Percentile £534 £537 £775
90th Percentile £654 £544 £848
England median daily rate £625 £525 £650
% change year-on-year +19.05% -19.23% +8.33%

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 1,102 1,382 2,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.14% 29.77% 36.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 816 981 1,520
10th Percentile £256 £268 £300
25th Percentile £380 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -6.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £596
90th Percentile £638 £645 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 79 38
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.05
25th Percentile £12.82 £15.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -56.94% +81.95%
75th Percentile £73.44 £22.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £97.49 £44.24 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £21.00 £32.40
% change year-on-year +21.43% -35.19% +50.70%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in the North of England

OpenShift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in the North of England

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 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in the North of England

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 17 May 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
North West +24 13 £393 -15.03% 21
Yorkshire - 4 £500 - 4
OpenShift
England

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (35.29%) JBoss
2 1 (5.88%) Camunda
2 1 (5.88%) CICS
2 1 (5.88%) Tomcat
2 1 (5.88%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) NAS
1 4 (23.53%) SAN
1 4 (23.53%) SSL
2 1 (5.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (29.41%) RDBMS
1 5 (29.41%) Relational Database
2 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Apache Accumulo
3 1 (5.88%) Big Data
3 1 (5.88%) DB2
3 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (58.82%) Jenkins
2 7 (41.18%) Git
3 6 (35.29%) JIRA
3 6 (35.29%) Sonatype Nexus
3 6 (35.29%) TeamCity
4 5 (29.41%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (29.41%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (29.41%) SonarQube
5 3 (17.65%) GitLab
6 1 (5.88%) Gradle
6 1 (5.88%) JUnit
6 1 (5.88%) Maven
General
1 4 (23.53%) Banking
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Architect
1 3 (17.65%) AWS DevOps
1 3 (17.65%) Developer
1 3 (17.65%) Senior
2 2 (11.76%) Consultant
2 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Lead
2 2 (11.76%) Senior Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Applications Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Applications Support
3 1 (5.88%) Development Team Leader
3 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Lead Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Python Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Python Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Software Development Team Leader
3 1 (5.88%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) Kafka
2 7 (41.18%) Spring Boot
3 6 (35.29%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (29.41%) Middleware
4 5 (29.41%) REST
5 4 (23.53%) LDAP
6 2 (11.76%) Spring
7 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
7 1 (5.88%) CSS
7 1 (5.88%) CSS3
7 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
7 1 (5.88%) HTML
7 1 (5.88%) HTML5
7 1 (5.88%) jBPM
7 1 (5.88%) Node.js
7 1 (5.88%) React
7 1 (5.88%) SOAP
7 1 (5.88%) Spring Cloud
7 1 (5.88%) Spring MVC
7 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Clustering
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.76%) Private Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Blockchain
4 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Mainframe
4 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Linux
2 6 (35.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (29.41%) Windows
4 4 (23.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
1 8 (47.06%) DevOps
1 8 (47.06%) Microservices
2 7 (41.18%) Code Quality
2 7 (41.18%) Containerisation
2 7 (41.18%) Migration
3 6 (35.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (29.41%) Build Automation
4 5 (29.41%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (29.41%) Deployment Automation
4 5 (29.41%) Observability
5 4 (23.53%) Analytics
5 4 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (23.53%) High Availability
5 4 (23.53%) Key Management
6 3 (17.65%) Change Management
6 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
6 3 (17.65%) Runbook
7 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (11.76%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Java
1 8 (47.06%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) Perl
3 1 (5.88%) COBOL
3 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.88%) JCL
3 1 (5.88%) REXX
3 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Docker
2 5 (29.41%) Active Directory
3 4 (23.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 11 (64.71%) Kubernetes
2 8 (47.06%) Progress Chef
3 5 (29.41%) Grafana
3 5 (29.41%) Kibana
3 5 (29.41%) Prometheus
4 4 (23.53%) Ansible
4 4 (23.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Splunk
2 7 (41.18%) Red Hat
3 5 (29.41%) AppDynamics
3 5 (29.41%) Oracle
4 4 (23.53%) Confluent
5 3 (17.65%) Cloudera
6 1 (5.88%) TIBCO
6 1 (5.88%) VMware