OpenShift Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Red Hat OpenShift
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring OpenShift skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.59% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.77% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 - £363
% change year-on-year - - -48.21%

All Cloud Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 226 144 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 33.33% 30.44% 32.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 94 111
10th Percentile £308 £400 £400
25th Percentile £384 £468 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £523 £593
Median % change year-on-year -5.67% -11.89% +7.82%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £625
90th Percentile £644 £650 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% +5.00%
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% +8.82%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £113.75 £21.00 £22.51
% change year-on-year +441.67% -6.71% +0.04%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

OpenShift job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 October 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
Sheffield - 4 - - 6
OpenShift
Yorkshire

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Integration Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Storage Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) GitOps
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
1 2 (50.00%) KVM
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Grafana
3 2 (50.00%) Ansible
3 2 (50.00%) Argo
3 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (50.00%) Terraform
4 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Pure Storage
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk
1 1 (25.00%) VMware