OpenShift Contracts in the South West

Red Hat OpenShift
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 127 122
Rank change year-on-year +45 -5 +25
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 27 23 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.62% 0.73% 1.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.47% 2.91% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 19 31
10th Percentile £527 £515 £525
25th Percentile £584 £525 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% -8.33% +16.22%
75th Percentile £684 £575 £688
90th Percentile £775 £615 £763
England median daily rate £625 £523 £650
% change year-on-year +19.62% -19.62% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.75
Median hourly rate - - £65.25
75th Percentile - - £77.38
90th Percentile - - £84.00
England median hourly rate - £35.00 £65.25
% change year-on-year - -46.36% -

All Cloud Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 494 791 1,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 29.71% 24.94% 33.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 600 969
10th Percentile £235 £208 £300
25th Percentile £389 £369 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £614 £594 £650
90th Percentile £675 £688 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 32 57
10th Percentile £18.13 £12.53 £16.43
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.19 £19.92
Median hourly rate £18.69 £16.95 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.30% -67.72% +100.00%
75th Percentile £34.88 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £46.88 - £78.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £21.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +21.43% -34.98% +50.23%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in the South West

OpenShift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in the South West over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for OpenShift in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 14 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
Gloucestershire +24 20 £615 +11.82% 20
Bristol +20 5 £543 +1.78% 6
Wiltshire +33 2 £600 -11.11% 2
OpenShift
England

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (14.81%) Apache
2 2 (7.41%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.41%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 20 (74.07%) AWS
2 16 (59.26%) Azure
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
3 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (3.70%) GCP
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 15 (55.56%) DHCP
1 15 (55.56%) DNS
1 15 (55.56%) HTTP
1 15 (55.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Big Data
1 2 (7.41%) Hadoop
1 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
1 2 (7.41%) MySQL
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.70%) Git
3 1 (3.70%) GitLab
3 1 (3.70%) Selenium
3 1 (3.70%) Snyk
3 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (7.41%) Finance
2 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Project Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Site Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Backend Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Developer
5 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Java Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) QA Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (7.41%) LAMP
1 2 (7.41%) YAML
2 1 (3.70%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (3.70%) JPA
2 1 (3.70%) Playwright
2 1 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.70%) REST
2 1 (3.70%) Spring
2 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 23 (85.19%) Linux
2 17 (62.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (55.56%) Windows
3 15 (55.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (74.07%) Containerisation
2 12 (44.44%) Service Management
3 11 (40.74%) DevOps
4 8 (29.63%) CI/CD
5 6 (22.22%) Incident Management
5 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (18.52%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (14.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 2 (7.41%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (7.41%) Commercial Awareness
8 2 (7.41%) Data Engineering
8 2 (7.41%) ETL
8 2 (7.41%) Observability
8 2 (7.41%) Project Delivery
8 2 (7.41%) Project Management
8 2 (7.41%) Requirements Engineering
8 2 (7.41%) Task Automation
8 2 (7.41%) Test Automation
8 2 (7.41%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 17 (62.96%) Java
1 17 (62.96%) Python
2 16 (59.26%) Bash
3 15 (55.56%) PowerShell
4 2 (7.41%) PHP
4 2 (7.41%) SQL
5 1 (3.70%) Groovy
5 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (85.19%) Security Cleared
2 17 (62.96%) DV Cleared
3 7 (25.93%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 21 (77.78%) Docker
2 15 (55.56%) Hyper-V
3 14 (51.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (88.89%) Ansible
1 24 (88.89%) Kubernetes
2 21 (77.78%) Terraform
3 15 (55.56%) Puppet
4 5 (18.52%) Grafana
4 5 (18.52%) Prometheus
5 2 (7.41%) HAProxy
6 1 (3.70%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (3.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 15 (55.56%) VMware
3 1 (3.70%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle