OpenShift Contracts in the South East

Red Hat OpenShift
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 169 178
Rank change year-on-year +36 +9 +15
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 26 36 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.86% 0.65% 0.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.85% 2.62% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 19 36
10th Percentile £500 £338 £425
25th Percentile £538 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £491 £600
Median % change year-on-year +17.19% -18.22% +9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £505 £738
90th Percentile £675 £639 £771
England median daily rate £638 £525 £650
% change year-on-year +21.43% -19.23% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate - £35.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - -39.13% -

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 911 1,373 1,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.27% 24.70% 29.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 924 1,252
10th Percentile £280 £250 £252
25th Percentile £403 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £635
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 52 52
10th Percentile £16.78 £16.25 £17.72
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%
75th Percentile £47.58 £52.38 £67.81
90th Percentile £75.05 £61.59 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing OpenShift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenShift in the South East.

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OpenShift in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for OpenShift in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Hampshire +39 19 £575 -15.75% 3
Thames Valley +23 7 £500 +1.66% 1
Berkshire +11 7 £500 +1.66% 1
OpenShift
England

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (30.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.69%) JBoss
2 2 (7.69%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 11 (42.31%) AWS
2 8 (30.77%) GCP
2 8 (30.77%) IaaS
2 8 (30.77%) PaaS
3 7 (26.92%) Azure
3 7 (26.92%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (26.92%) SaaS
4 3 (11.54%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (38.46%) DNS
2 8 (30.77%) DHCP
2 8 (30.77%) Firewall
2 8 (30.77%) SMTP
2 8 (30.77%) VPN
3 4 (15.38%) 3G
3 4 (15.38%) 3GPP
3 4 (15.38%) 4G
3 4 (15.38%) LTE
4 2 (7.69%) BGP
4 2 (7.69%) Diameter Protocol
4 2 (7.69%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (7.69%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (7.69%) HTTP
4 2 (7.69%) IPv6
4 2 (7.69%) MVNO
4 2 (7.69%) OSPF
4 2 (7.69%) SAN
4 2 (7.69%) Spanning Tree
4 2 (7.69%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (38.46%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (34.62%) Big Data
3 8 (30.77%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (7.69%) RDBMS
4 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.85%) GIS
5 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Git
2 2 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (7.69%) CA Release Automation
2 2 (7.69%) GitLab
2 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) JIRA
2 2 (7.69%) SonarQube
2 2 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (7.69%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (23.08%) Public Sector
1 6 (23.08%) Telecoms
2 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (53.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (30.77%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 8 (30.77%) 3rd Line Support
2 8 (30.77%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 8 (30.77%) Support Engineer
3 7 (26.92%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (26.92%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure Support
3 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 7 (26.92%) Senior
3 7 (26.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Technical Design Authority
5 3 (11.54%) Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Technical Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Technical Design Architect
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Ruby Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) YAML
2 3 (11.54%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (7.69%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.85%) Kafka
4 1 (3.85%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Clustering
1 8 (30.77%) Data Centre
1 8 (30.77%) PKI
2 7 (26.92%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (26.92%) Public Cloud
3 6 (23.08%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.85%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.85%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 19 (73.08%) Linux
2 17 (65.38%) Windows
3 15 (57.69%) Windows Server
4 7 (26.92%) CentOS
4 7 (26.92%) Ubuntu
4 7 (26.92%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (11.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (50.00%) DevOps
3 8 (30.77%) Agile
3 8 (30.77%) Artificial Intelligence
3 8 (30.77%) Machine Learning
3 8 (30.77%) Software Deployment
4 7 (26.92%) Application Packaging
4 7 (26.92%) Change Control
4 7 (26.92%) DevSecOps
5 6 (23.08%) CI/CD
6 4 (15.38%) Project Management
7 2 (7.69%) Build Automation
7 2 (7.69%) Conflict Resolution
7 2 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Management
7 2 (7.69%) Microservices
7 2 (7.69%) Migration
7 2 (7.69%) Network Architecture
7 2 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (57.69%) PowerShell
2 3 (11.54%) Python
3 2 (7.69%) Bash
3 2 (7.69%) Perl
4 1 (3.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 12 (46.15%) DV Cleared
3 8 (30.77%) Degree
4 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (57.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 10 (38.46%) Docker
3 8 (30.77%) BitLocker
3 8 (30.77%) Hyper-V
3 8 (30.77%) Microsoft App-V
3 8 (30.77%) Terminal Services
3 8 (30.77%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (30.77%) vSphere
4 2 (7.69%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 23 (88.46%) Kubernetes
2 17 (65.38%) Ansible
3 15 (57.69%) vCenter Server
4 8 (30.77%) Nagios
4 8 (30.77%) Puppet
4 8 (30.77%) Terraform
4 8 (30.77%) vMotion
5 7 (26.92%) Nessus
6 2 (7.69%) Argo
6 2 (7.69%) Kibana
6 2 (7.69%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.85%) Grafana
7 1 (3.85%) Packer
7 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (73.08%) VMware
2 15 (57.69%) Microsoft
3 13 (50.00%) Red Hat
4 8 (30.77%) Citrix
4 8 (30.77%) Google
4 8 (30.77%) HP
4 8 (30.77%) Symantec
5 3 (11.54%) Splunk
6 2 (7.69%) AppDynamics
6 2 (7.69%) Cisco
6 2 (7.69%) Dell