OpenShift Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Red Hat OpenShift
South West > Somerset

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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.47% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.01% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South West median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £85.00 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 198 49 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 46.59% 28.99% 16.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 41 28
10th Percentile £319 £188 £205
25th Percentile £406 £325 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £656 £531 £600
90th Percentile £738 £638 £669
South West median daily rate £525 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 1 3
10th Percentile £15.24 - -
25th Percentile £56.25 £57.50 £12.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +400.00% -69.34%
75th Percentile £58.75 £72.50 £13.50
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £18.87 £70.00
% change year-on-year +204.72% -73.04% +33.33%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

OpenShift job vacancy trend in Somerset

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
Yeovil - 2 - -
OpenShift
South West

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) RHCE
2 1 (50.00%) RHCSA
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) FreeIPA
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Podman
2 1 (50.00%) SELinux
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) VMware