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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 13 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.75% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.02% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £484 - -
25th Percentile £574 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £614 - -
75th Percentile £662 - -
90th Percentile £700 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £613 - £525
% change year-on-year - - -25.00%

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 259 119 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 34.95% 29.68% 30.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 77 93
10th Percentile £297 £400 £353
25th Percentile £370 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £525 £561
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% -6.42% +2.00%
75th Percentile £538 £590 £610
90th Percentile £645 £670 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -2.91%
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% -
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £29.68 £27.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.93% +37.50% -11.11%

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
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing OpenShift.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 26 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift 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 26 November 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 - 12 £614 - 9
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 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
1 3 (23.08%) GCP
2 1 (7.69%) GitHub
2 1 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) DNS
2 2 (15.38%) BIG-IP
2 2 (15.38%) VSAN
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (7.69%) DHCP
3 1 (7.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (7.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (7.69%) Firewall
3 1 (7.69%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Platform Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Administrator
3 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Virtualisation Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Integration Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Storage Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior VMware Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (7.69%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
1 3 (23.08%) VMS
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Containerisation
2 9 (69.23%) Migration
3 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 5 (38.46%) DevOps
3 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (30.77%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (23.08%) Network Architecture
5 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (15.38%) GitOps
6 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
6 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
6 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (15.38%) Thought Leadership
7 1 (7.69%) Business Strategy
7 1 (7.69%) Network Virtualisation
7 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (7.69%) Risk Register
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Shell Script
2 3 (23.08%) Bash
2 3 (23.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) OCP
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
2 1 (7.69%) PMP
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (23.08%) Docker
3 3 (23.08%) VMware NSX
3 3 (23.08%) vSphere
4 2 (15.38%) KVM
5 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Ansible
1 8 (61.54%) Terraform
2 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
3 3 (23.08%) Argo
3 3 (23.08%) Grafana
4 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
4 2 (15.38%) vCenter Server
5 1 (7.69%) Podman
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Pure Storage
1 5 (38.46%) Red Hat
1 5 (38.46%) VMware
2 4 (30.77%) Dell
3 3 (23.08%) F5
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco
4 2 (15.38%) Infoblox
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 2 (15.38%) NetScout
4 2 (15.38%) SevOne
5 1 (7.69%) NetApp
5 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
5 1 (7.69%) Splunk