OpenShift Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Red Hat OpenShift
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring OpenShift skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 18 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 3.96% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.04% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 14 0 0
10th Percentile £461 - -
25th Percentile £473 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 - -
75th Percentile £492 - -
90th Percentile £494 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £492 - £398

All Cloud Computing Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 138 42 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 30.40% 32.81% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 30 3
10th Percentile £380 £291 £340
25th Percentile £413 £418 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +9.22% -16.67%
75th Percentile £500 £530 £492
90th Percentile £558 £567 £517
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £461
% change year-on-year - +8.40% -7.75%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

OpenShift job vacancy trend in Shropshire

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 17 February 2026. 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
Telford - 18 £486 - 2
OpenShift
West Midlands

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 18 (100.00%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 6 (33.33%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 2 (11.11%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 18 (100.00%) Git
1 18 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 17 (94.44%) GitLab
3 16 (88.89%) JUnit
3 16 (88.89%) Selenium
General
1 13 (72.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (100.00%) Test Specialist
2 9 (50.00%) Test Automation Specialist
3 5 (27.78%) Network Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Data Analytics Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (88.89%) pytest
1 16 (88.89%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Agile
1 18 (100.00%) Analytics
1 18 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 18 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 17 (94.44%) Containerisation
2 17 (94.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (83.33%) Data Management
3 15 (83.33%) Data Pipeline
3 15 (83.33%) DevOps
3 15 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (77.78%) Integration Testing
4 14 (77.78%) Sprint Planning
4 14 (77.78%) Sprint Retrospective
4 14 (77.78%) Test Strategy
4 14 (77.78%) Visual Analytics
5 13 (72.22%) Regression Testing
5 13 (72.22%) Test Scripting
6 12 (66.67%) Data Strategy
6 12 (66.67%) Defect Management
7 9 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (94.44%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 15 (83.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 16 (88.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle