OpenShift Contracts in Scotland

Red Hat OpenShift
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 83 68 57
Rank change year-on-year -15 -11 +50
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 33 63 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.03% 2.84% 4.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.12% 8.54% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 61 92
10th Percentile £403 £410 £426
25th Percentile £420 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £480 £484
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% -0.72% -4.73%
75th Percentile £538 £540 £538
90th Percentile £550 £634 £597
UK median daily rate £613 £506 £600
% change year-on-year +21.05% -15.67% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £60.55
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £59.03
% change year-on-year - -40.70% +27.43%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 645 738 1,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.69% 33.29% 36.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 504 774
10th Percentile £305 £258 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% - -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £659 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 11
10th Percentile £21.84 £15.39 £18.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.69 £45.00
Median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%
75th Percentile £27.91 £17.67 £66.50
90th Percentile £28.38 £24.85 £76.00
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in Scotland

OpenShift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in Scotland

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in Scotland

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the Scotland 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
Glasgow +2 20 £472 -10.05% 6
Edinburgh -14 11 £475 -0.89% 1
Lanarkshire - 1 £525 -
OpenShift
UK

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (3.03%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 23 (69.70%) Amazon S3
2 21 (63.64%) AWS
3 12 (36.36%) AWS CloudFormation
3 12 (36.36%) AWS Lambda
3 12 (36.36%) Azure
3 12 (36.36%) Serverless
4 11 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
4 11 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (21.21%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 6 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (18.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 6 (18.18%) AWS CodeBuild
6 6 (18.18%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 6 (18.18%) Cohesity
6 6 (18.18%) PaaS
6 6 (18.18%) Route 53
7 5 (15.15%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (15.15%) AWS Fargate
7 5 (15.15%) SaaS
8 4 (12.12%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (36.36%) SAN
2 11 (33.33%) NAS
3 5 (15.15%) Firewall
4 1 (3.03%) DNS
4 1 (3.03%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (3.03%) iSCSI
4 1 (3.03%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (24.24%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (15.15%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (15.15%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (12.12%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (9.09%) Relational Database
5 2 (6.06%) InfluxDB
5 2 (6.06%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.03%) DB2
6 1 (3.03%) DynamoDB
6 1 (3.03%) GIS
6 1 (3.03%) Metadata
6 1 (3.03%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 21 (63.64%) Git
2 17 (51.52%) Jenkins
3 7 (21.21%) GitLab
4 5 (15.15%) Bitbucket
5 3 (9.09%) Artifactory
6 1 (3.03%) Cypress.io
6 1 (3.03%) Gradle
6 1 (3.03%) JIRA
6 1 (3.03%) Maven
General
1 16 (48.48%) Social Skills
2 10 (30.30%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (21.21%) Public Sector
4 5 (15.15%) Finance
5 2 (6.06%) Banking
5 2 (6.06%) Investment Banking
5 2 (6.06%) Legal
6 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (18.18%) Data Engineer
1 6 (18.18%) Developer
2 5 (15.15%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Applications Support
3 4 (12.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) NetBackup Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Python Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Software Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Applications Specialist
5 2 (6.06%) Applications Support Specialist
5 2 (6.06%) AWS Developer
5 2 (6.06%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (6.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Backup Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Support
5 2 (6.06%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (39.39%) AWS CDK
2 6 (18.18%) Loki
3 4 (12.12%) React
3 4 (12.12%) REST
4 3 (9.09%) Middleware
4 3 (9.09%) PostGIS
5 2 (6.06%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (3.03%) Flash
6 1 (3.03%) POSIX
6 1 (3.03%) Spring
6 1 (3.03%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.03%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 17 (51.52%) Unix
2 12 (36.36%) Windows
2 12 (36.36%) Windows Server
3 9 (27.27%) Linux
4 3 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (6.06%) Ubuntu
6 1 (3.03%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (3.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (84.85%) CI/CD
2 16 (48.48%) Agile
3 15 (45.45%) Observability
4 12 (36.36%) Data Protection
4 12 (36.36%) DevOps
5 11 (33.33%) Data Deduplication
5 11 (33.33%) Decision-Making
6 9 (27.27%) Kanban
6 9 (27.27%) Scrum
6 9 (27.27%) Task Automation
7 8 (24.24%) Test Automation
8 7 (21.21%) Containerisation
8 7 (21.21%) Penetration Testing
8 7 (21.21%) Security Hardening
9 6 (18.18%) Human-Centred Design
9 6 (18.18%) Inclusive Design
9 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (18.18%) Migration
9 6 (18.18%) TDD
10 5 (15.15%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 30 (90.91%) Python
2 9 (27.27%) Bash
3 6 (18.18%) SQL
4 4 (12.12%) Groovy
4 4 (12.12%) JavaScript
5 3 (9.09%) Shell Script
6 2 (6.06%) Java
6 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.03%) Go
7 1 (3.03%) Perl
7 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (3.03%) OCP
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (6.06%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (33.33%) Docker
2 5 (15.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 3 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (6.06%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (3.03%) GPFS
5 1 (3.03%) NFS
Systems Management
1 27 (81.82%) Kubernetes
2 11 (33.33%) Ansible
2 11 (33.33%) Grafana
2 11 (33.33%) NetBackup
2 11 (33.33%) Oracle RMAN
3 7 (21.21%) Terraform
4 6 (18.18%) Prometheus
5 3 (9.09%) Kibana
6 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.03%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 17 (51.52%) Veritas
2 5 (15.15%) Splunk
2 5 (15.15%) VMware
3 2 (6.06%) Imperva
4 1 (3.03%) AppDynamics
4 1 (3.03%) Brocade
4 1 (3.03%) EMC
4 1 (3.03%) Google
4 1 (3.03%) IBM
4 1 (3.03%) NetApp
4 1 (3.03%) Oracle
4 1 (3.03%) Sybase