OpenShift Contracts in the North West

Red Hat OpenShift
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 130 132
Rank change year-on-year +23 +2 +28
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 13 7 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.66% 0.25% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.03% 0.79% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 17
10th Percentile £358 £401 £431
25th Percentile £379 £456 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £525 £485
Median % change year-on-year -25.14% +8.30% -15.70%
75th Percentile £638 £544 £620
90th Percentile £656 £550 £648
England median daily rate £638 £525 £650
% change year-on-year +21.43% -19.23% +8.33%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 639 884 1,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.47% 32.09% 37.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 640 887
10th Percentile £244 £284 £311
25th Percentile £400 £391 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
75th Percentile £558 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £638 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 65 32
10th Percentile - £13.00 £16.19
25th Percentile £26.88 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%
75th Percentile £50.66 £20.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.88 £43.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in the North West

OpenShift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in the North West

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in the North West

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Cheshire +6 10 £393 -15.03% 1
Manchester +18 3 £638 +15.91% 31
OpenShift
England

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (38.46%) JBoss
2 1 (7.69%) Camunda
2 1 (7.69%) CICS
2 1 (7.69%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (38.46%) RDBMS
1 5 (38.46%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Accumulo
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) DB2
2 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (76.92%) Jenkins
2 6 (46.15%) Git
2 6 (46.15%) TeamCity
3 5 (38.46%) Bitbucket Server
3 5 (38.46%) CA Release Automation
3 5 (38.46%) JIRA
3 5 (38.46%) SonarQube
3 5 (38.46%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (30.77%) GitLab
General
1 2 (15.38%) Banking
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Legal
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Python Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Support
4 1 (7.69%) Development Team Leader
4 1 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Development Team Leader
4 1 (7.69%) Software Team Leader
4 1 (7.69%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (46.15%) Kafka
1 6 (46.15%) Spring Boot
2 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.69%) CSS
2 1 (7.69%) CSS3
2 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
2 1 (7.69%) HTML
2 1 (7.69%) HTML5
2 1 (7.69%) jBPM
2 1 (7.69%) Middleware
2 1 (7.69%) Node.js
2 1 (7.69%) React
2 1 (7.69%) Spring
2 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Private Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Blockchain
3 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Mainframe
3 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Linux
1 6 (46.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (38.46%) Windows
3 3 (23.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 8 (61.54%) DevOps
2 8 (61.54%) Microservices
3 7 (53.85%) Code Quality
3 7 (53.85%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (46.15%) Migration
4 6 (46.15%) Observability
5 5 (38.46%) Build Automation
5 5 (38.46%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (38.46%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (30.77%) Analytics
6 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
7 3 (23.08%) Change Management
7 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
7 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (23.08%) Runbook
8 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven
8 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 7 (53.85%) Java
3 5 (38.46%) Perl
4 1 (7.69%) COBOL
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) JCL
4 1 (7.69%) REXX
4 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Docker
2 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Progress Chef
2 7 (53.85%) Kubernetes
3 5 (38.46%) Ansible
3 5 (38.46%) Kibana
3 5 (38.46%) Terraform
4 1 (7.69%) Grafana
4 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Red Hat
2 5 (38.46%) AppDynamics
2 5 (38.46%) Splunk
3 3 (23.08%) Cloudera
4 1 (7.69%) TIBCO
4 1 (7.69%) VMware