OpenShift Contracts in Northern Ireland

Red Hat OpenShift
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 23 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 9 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 5.66% - 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 23.68% - 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £225 - -
25th Percentile £250 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.78%
75th Percentile £434 - £538
90th Percentile £470 - -
UK median daily rate £613 £506 £600
% change year-on-year +21.05% -15.67% +2.56%

All Cloud Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 38 38 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 23.90% 25.50% 31.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 25 25
10th Percentile £189 £470 £182
25th Percentile £292 £525 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £563 £450
Median % change year-on-year -16.44% +25.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £510 £645 £588
90th Percentile £548 £673 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - £13.33
25th Percentile £22.50 - £13.46
Median hourly rate £24.18 - £13.84
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.04%
75th Percentile - - £14.15
90th Percentile - - £14.22
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing OpenShift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in Northern Ireland

OpenShift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenShift in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in Northern Ireland

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in Northern Ireland

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim - 9 £325 - 6
OpenShift
UK

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 2 (22.22%) GemFire
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) NoSQL
2 3 (33.33%) Flink
3 2 (22.22%) Apache Ignite
3 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Git
General
1 9 (100.00%) Finance
2 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
3 4 (44.44%) Front Office
4 3 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (33.33%) Law
5 2 (22.22%) Banking
5 2 (22.22%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
1 7 (77.78%) Java Developer
2 6 (66.67%) Java Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Java Software Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Software Engineer
3 4 (44.44%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 4 (44.44%) Java Software Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Junior
4 2 (22.22%) Junior Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Junior Java Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Junior Java Software Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Junior Java Software Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Junior Software Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Junior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 5 (55.56%) Kafka
3 4 (44.44%) AngularJS
3 4 (44.44%) Apache Avro
3 4 (44.44%) JSON
3 4 (44.44%) React
3 4 (44.44%) RESTful
3 4 (44.44%) Web Services
3 4 (44.44%) XML
4 2 (22.22%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Equities
2 4 (44.44%) Derivative
2 4 (44.44%) Equity Derivative
2 4 (44.44%) Product Ownership
3 3 (33.33%) Credit Risk
3 3 (33.33%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
1 7 (77.78%) Clean Code
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 5 (55.56%) Microservices
4 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 4 (44.44%) Code Quality
4 4 (44.44%) Continuous Delivery
4 4 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (44.44%) User Experience
5 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 3 (33.33%) Data Management
5 3 (33.33%) High Availability
5 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
6 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (77.78%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle