OpenShift Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Red Hat OpenShift
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring OpenShift skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 26 36
Rank change year-on-year +5 +10 +13
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 6 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 3.23% 0.75% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.69% 2.86% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £416 - -
25th Percentile £417 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% - -
75th Percentile £453 £488 -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £435 £613 £575
% change year-on-year -28.98% +6.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
Hampshire median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Cloud Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 29 35 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 15.59% 26.12% 24.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 28 35
10th Percentile £190 £288 £444
25th Percentile £213 £360 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £548 £509 £602
90th Percentile - £620 £667
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £536 £545
% change year-on-year -6.76% -1.61% +2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £19.55
25th Percentile £46.25 - £19.87
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £21.35
Median % change year-on-year - - +98.33%
75th Percentile £48.75 - £58.13
90th Percentile - - £65.50
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.00 £19.97 £21.43
% change year-on-year +0.15% -6.79% +15.81%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

OpenShift job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

OpenShift
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 6 (100.00%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Kafka
1 6 (100.00%) Keycloak
2 4 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (66.67%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) Observability
1 6 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Immutable Infrastructure
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (66.67%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 2 (33.33%) GitOps
3 2 (33.33%) SBOM
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
1 6 (100.00%) Grafana
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (66.67%) Packer
3 2 (33.33%) Argo
3 2 (33.33%) Istio
3 2 (33.33%) linkerd
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 6 (100.00%) Splunk
2 2 (33.33%) VMware