OpenShift Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Red Hat OpenShift
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring OpenShift skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 12 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.77% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £484 - -
25th Percentile £574 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £614 - -
75th Percentile £662 - -
90th Percentile £700 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £614 - -

All Cloud Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 240 112 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 35.40% 30.52% 30.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 72 84
10th Percentile £305 £401 £361
25th Percentile £384 £454 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -7.57% -1.22%
75th Percentile £538 £592 £610
90th Percentile £649 £650 £685
South Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £525 £561
% change year-on-year -6.29% -6.42% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £18.65
25th Percentile - £20.50 £18.88
Median hourly rate - £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £21.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

OpenShift job vacancy trend in Sheffield

OpenShift
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in Sheffield over the 6 months to 26 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in Sheffield

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) DNS
2 2 (16.67%) BIG-IP
2 2 (16.67%) VSAN
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (8.33%) DHCP
3 1 (8.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (8.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (8.33%) Firewall
3 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Platform Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Virtualisation Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Integration Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Storage Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior VMware Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (8.33%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) VMS
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 8 (66.67%) Migration
3 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (16.67%) GitOps
6 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 2 (16.67%) Network Architecture
6 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
6 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
7 1 (8.33%) Architectural Design
7 1 (8.33%) Business Strategy
7 1 (8.33%) Network Virtualisation
7 1 (8.33%) Risk Register
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 3 (25.00%) Bash
2 3 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) OCP
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
2 1 (8.33%) PMP
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (25.00%) Docker
2 3 (25.00%) VMware NSX
2 3 (25.00%) vSphere
3 2 (16.67%) KVM
4 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Ansible
1 7 (58.33%) Terraform
2 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (25.00%) Argo
3 3 (25.00%) Grafana
4 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
4 2 (16.67%) vCenter Server
5 1 (8.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Red Hat
1 5 (41.67%) VMware
2 4 (33.33%) Pure Storage
3 3 (25.00%) Dell
3 3 (25.00%) F5
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco
4 2 (16.67%) Infoblox
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (16.67%) NetScout
4 2 (16.67%) SevOne
5 1 (8.33%) NetApp
5 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto
5 1 (8.33%) Splunk