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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 71 63
Rank change year-on-year -24 -8 -7
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 25 51 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.43% 2.50% 4.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.09% 7.11% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 48 74
10th Percentile £350 £407 £433
25th Percentile £408 £434 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £469 £479
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -2.19% -6.49%
75th Percentile £525 £507 £537
90th Percentile £539 £634 £574
UK median daily rate £545 £507 £600
% change year-on-year +7.50% -15.50% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £60.55
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -50.00% +51.12%

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 611 717 999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 34.99% 35.08% 36.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 484 737
10th Percentile £300 £202 £251
25th Percentile £413 £367 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -3.06%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £626 £601
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.29% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 9
10th Percentile £16.21 £14.91 £16.81
25th Percentile £17.90 £16.50 £27.50
Median hourly rate £21.22 £17.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.82% -70.43% +41.98%
75th Percentile £25.06 £20.87 £63.00
90th Percentile £27.05 £27.14 £65.60
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -37.14% +55.56%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 +1 20 £450 +21.95% 7
Edinburgh -23 5 £535 +11.69% 9
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 (4.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) AWS
2 9 (36.00%) Amazon S3
3 8 (32.00%) Azure
4 6 (24.00%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (24.00%) Cohesity
5 4 (16.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (12.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (12.00%) PaaS
6 3 (12.00%) Serverless
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (8.00%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (4.00%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (4.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (4.00%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (4.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 1 (4.00%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (4.00%) GCP
8 1 (4.00%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (28.00%) SAN
2 6 (24.00%) NAS
3 2 (8.00%) Firewall
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (4.00%) DNS
4 1 (4.00%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (4.00%) iSCSI
4 1 (4.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) Redis
2 4 (16.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (12.00%) Big Data
3 3 (12.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (4.00%) DB2
5 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.00%) InfluxDB
5 1 (4.00%) Metadata
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 16 (64.00%) Jenkins
2 13 (52.00%) Git
3 4 (16.00%) Artifactory
3 4 (16.00%) Bitbucket
4 3 (12.00%) Cypress.io
4 3 (12.00%) Maven
5 2 (8.00%) Gradle
5 2 (8.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (4.00%) GitLab
6 1 (4.00%) JIRA
6 1 (4.00%) JUnit
6 1 (4.00%) Mockito
6 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
6 1 (4.00%) webpack
General
1 16 (64.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (8.00%) Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Legal
5 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Applications Support
2 3 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Developer
2 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) NetBackup Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (8.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Backup Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Python Data Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Python Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Lead
4 1 (4.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (36.00%) Loki
2 6 (24.00%) OAuth
2 6 (24.00%) RESTful
3 5 (20.00%) FastAPI
3 5 (20.00%) Flask
3 5 (20.00%) Kafka
3 5 (20.00%) LangChain
3 5 (20.00%) LangGraph
3 5 (20.00%) OAuth2
4 4 (16.00%) PyTorch
4 4 (16.00%) TensorFlow
5 3 (12.00%) AWS CDK
5 3 (12.00%) Hugging Face
5 3 (12.00%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (12.00%) React
6 2 (8.00%) CSS
6 2 (8.00%) HTML
6 2 (8.00%) Middleware
6 2 (8.00%) REST
6 2 (8.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) AI Agents
2 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.00%) Private Cloud
3 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.00%) Client/Server
4 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.00%) NVMe
4 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (44.00%) Unix
2 7 (28.00%) Windows
2 7 (28.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (24.00%) Linux
4 1 (4.00%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (76.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (56.00%) Agile
3 13 (52.00%) DevOps
4 12 (48.00%) Observability
4 12 (48.00%) Task Automation
5 8 (32.00%) Data Protection
6 7 (28.00%) Configuration Management
6 7 (28.00%) Containerisation
6 7 (28.00%) Microservices
6 7 (28.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (24.00%) Data Deduplication
7 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (20.00%) Data Engineering
8 5 (20.00%) Decision-Making
8 5 (20.00%) GitOps
8 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (20.00%) Machine Learning
8 5 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (20.00%) Scrum
8 5 (20.00%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 19 (76.00%) Python
2 6 (24.00%) SQL
3 5 (20.00%) Java
4 4 (16.00%) TypeScript
5 3 (12.00%) Bash
5 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (8.00%) Go
6 2 (8.00%) Shell Script
7 1 (4.00%) Groovy
7 1 (4.00%) Perl
7 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
1 3 (12.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.00%) OCP
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Docker
2 4 (16.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 3 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (4.00%) GPFS
4 1 (4.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 22 (88.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (44.00%) Grafana
3 10 (40.00%) Prometheus
4 7 (28.00%) Ansible
4 7 (28.00%) Terraform
5 6 (24.00%) NetBackup
5 6 (24.00%) Oracle RMAN
6 4 (16.00%) Kustomize
7 1 (4.00%) Kibana
7 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
7 1 (4.00%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 11 (44.00%) Veritas
2 4 (16.00%) Splunk
2 4 (16.00%) VMware
3 2 (8.00%) AppDynamics
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle
4 1 (4.00%) Brocade
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco
4 1 (4.00%) EMC
4 1 (4.00%) Google
4 1 (4.00%) IBM
4 1 (4.00%) NetApp
4 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.00%) Sybase