OpenShift Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Red Hat OpenShift
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring OpenShift skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.43% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.47% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £645 - -
25th Percentile £675 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
75th Percentile £825 - -
90th Percentile £855 - -
South East median daily rate £540 £561 £482
% change year-on-year -3.79% +16.44% -16.17%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 136 58 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 29.31% 40.56% 28.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 40 31
10th Percentile £203 £222 £325
25th Percentile £363 £250 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -16.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £638 £556 £553
90th Percentile £796 £600 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £488 £513
% change year-on-year +2.56% -4.88% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 2
10th Percentile £12.78 - £16.65
25th Percentile £29.07 - £17.63
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £20.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -36.55%
75th Percentile £73.13 - £24.63
90th Percentile £77.50 - £26.35
South East median hourly rate £63.48 £18.82 £40.50
% change year-on-year +237.30% -53.53% +48.62%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

OpenShift job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

OpenShift
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing OpenShift.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 18 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in Oxfordshire

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 2026. 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
Oxford - 1 £650 - 1
OpenShift
South East

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) A2A Protocol
1 2 (100.00%) LangChain
1 2 (100.00%) LangGraph
1 2 (100.00%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) MLOps
1 2 (100.00%) Multi-Agent System
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Biotechnology
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes