OpenShift Contracts in Scotland

Red Hat OpenShift
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for OpenShift skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OpenShift over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 59 102
Rank change year-on-year -13 +43 -23
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 63 126 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.83% 4.43% 1.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.48% 12.33% 6.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 91 47
10th Percentile £410 £425 £413
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £480 £508
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -5.52% +12.78%
75th Percentile £540 £538 £570
90th Percentile £634 £574 £775
UK median daily rate £510 £600 £581
% change year-on-year -15.00% +3.23% +13.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £41.92
25th Percentile - - £42.18
Median hourly rate - £60.55 £46.32
Median % change year-on-year - +30.72% -
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £59.03 £46.32
% change year-on-year -40.70% +27.43% +15.80%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

OpenShift is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 743 1,022 1,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.39% 35.91% 30.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 768 781
10th Percentile £261 £258 £281
25th Percentile £400 £413 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £540 £550 £573
90th Percentile £654 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 20
10th Percentile £15.39 £18.25 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.69 £45.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +65.89% -36.80%
75th Percentile £17.67 £66.50 £47.43
90th Percentile £24.85 £76.00 £48.83
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £33.75 £21.50
% change year-on-year -37.78% +56.98% -4.44%

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 23 April 2024.

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 23 April 2024. 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
Edinburgh +3 30 £480 -0.83% 5
Glasgow -11 21 £525 -2.33% 2
Renfrewshire - 1 £600 -
South Lanarkshire - 1 £375 -
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 4 (6.35%) SAS
2 1 (1.59%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 45 (71.43%) AWS
2 28 (44.44%) Amazon S3
2 28 (44.44%) Serverless
3 27 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 25 (39.68%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (17.46%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (15.87%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (15.87%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 7 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
8 6 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (9.52%) AWS CodePipeline
8 6 (9.52%) AWS Fargate
9 5 (7.94%) Azure
10 4 (6.35%) Rekognition
10 4 (6.35%) Textract
11 3 (4.76%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (4.76%) AWS CodeCommit
12 1 (1.59%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 1 (1.59%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (17.46%) SAN
2 7 (11.11%) NAS
3 6 (9.52%) Firewall
4 4 (6.35%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (6.35%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.59%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (26.98%) Amazon Aurora
3 11 (17.46%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (12.70%) MongoDB
6 6 (9.52%) InfluxDB
6 6 (9.52%) NoSQL
7 4 (6.35%) DB2
7 4 (6.35%) Informix
8 3 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.59%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 34 (53.97%) Jenkins
2 14 (22.22%) Git
3 9 (14.29%) GitLab
4 7 (11.11%) Cypress.io
4 7 (11.11%) Maven
5 6 (9.52%) Artifactory
5 6 (9.52%) Gradle
6 1 (1.59%) JIRA
General
1 22 (34.92%) Public Sector
2 15 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.87%) Banking
4 5 (7.94%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.76%) Finance
5 3 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Legal
7 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (28.57%) Developer
2 10 (15.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (12.70%) Data Engineer
4 7 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 7 (11.11%) Python Engineer
5 6 (9.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 6 (9.52%) Full Stack Developer
5 6 (9.52%) Linux Engineer
5 6 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (7.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Senior
6 5 (7.94%) Site Manager
6 5 (7.94%) Site Reliability Manager
7 4 (6.35%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (47.62%) AWS CDK
2 18 (28.57%) REST
3 14 (22.22%) Spring
3 14 (22.22%) Spring Boot
4 12 (19.05%) React
5 11 (17.46%) CSS
5 11 (17.46%) HTML
6 9 (14.29%) Spring Security
7 8 (12.70%) OAuth
7 8 (12.70%) OAuth2
7 8 (12.70%) Spring MVC
7 8 (12.70%) Spring Web Flow
8 7 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (11.11%) Thymeleaf
9 5 (7.94%) Node.js
10 4 (6.35%) Flash
10 4 (6.35%) POSIX
10 4 (6.35%) RESTful
11 3 (4.76%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.70%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.94%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (7.94%) Replication
3 4 (6.35%) Client/Server
3 4 (6.35%) NVMe
4 1 (1.59%) Clustering
4 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 21 (33.33%) Linux
2 18 (28.57%) Unix
3 14 (22.22%) Windows
4 12 (19.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (12.70%) Windows Server
6 6 (9.52%) Ubuntu
7 4 (6.35%) Data ONTAP
7 4 (6.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 33 (52.38%) DevOps
3 29 (46.03%) Agile
4 25 (39.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (30.16%) Kanban
6 15 (23.81%) Scrum
7 14 (22.22%) Inclusive Design
7 14 (22.22%) Test Automation
8 13 (20.63%) Community of Practice
8 13 (20.63%) Human-Centred Design
8 13 (20.63%) Microservices
8 13 (20.63%) Observability
9 12 (19.05%) Code Quality
9 12 (19.05%) Containerisation
9 12 (19.05%) Roadmaps
9 12 (19.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 12 (19.05%) User Experience
10 11 (17.46%) Data Protection
10 11 (17.46%) Mentoring
11 10 (15.87%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 38 (60.32%) Python
2 22 (34.92%) Java
3 21 (33.33%) SQL
4 19 (30.16%) TypeScript
5 16 (25.40%) JavaScript
6 14 (22.22%) Bash
7 12 (19.05%) Groovy
8 8 (12.70%) Perl
8 8 (12.70%) Ruby
9 7 (11.11%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.59%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (1.59%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.59%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (28.57%) Accessibility
2 5 (7.94%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 33 (52.38%) Docker
2 4 (6.35%) GPFS
2 4 (6.35%) NFS
3 1 (1.59%) KVM
3 1 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (52.38%) Grafana
2 32 (50.79%) Kubernetes
3 25 (39.68%) Ansible
4 18 (28.57%) Terraform
5 9 (14.29%) Kibana
6 5 (7.94%) Prometheus
7 4 (6.35%) NetBackup
7 4 (6.35%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 1 (1.59%) Knative
8 1 (1.59%) Nagios
8 1 (1.59%) Puppet
8 1 (1.59%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.59%) vRealize
Vendors
1 8 (12.70%) Veritas
2 4 (6.35%) Brocade
2 4 (6.35%) EMC
2 4 (6.35%) Google
2 4 (6.35%) IBM
2 4 (6.35%) NetApp
2 4 (6.35%) Oracle
2 4 (6.35%) Red Hat
2 4 (6.35%) Sybase
3 3 (4.76%) Commvault
4 1 (1.59%) VMware