OpenShift Contracts in the South East

Red Hat OpenShift
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for OpenShift skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OpenShift over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 163 180 198
Rank change year-on-year +17 +18 -50
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 36 44 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.65% 0.75% 0.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.58% 2.58% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 36 56
10th Percentile £338 £425 £419
25th Percentile £459 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.22% +9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £505 £738 £638
90th Percentile £639 £771 £688
England median daily rate £525 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -19.23% +8.33% +17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 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 is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,395 1,706 2,443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 25.14% 29.24% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 932 1,252 1,796
10th Percentile £243 £252 £200
25th Percentile £406 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £631 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 54 65
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.10 £12.52
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.22 £23.23 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -0.04% +10.33% -4.32%
75th Percentile £58.06 £63.06 £35.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £20.77 £30.38 £21.00
% change year-on-year -31.62% +44.64% -2.33%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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
Thames Valley +17 27 £492 -32.16%
Berkshire +5 27 £492 -10.58%
Hampshire 0 6 £683 +30.00% 3
West Sussex +4 2 £475 -34.71%
Surrey 0 1 £460 -23.97% 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 1 (2.78%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 15 (41.67%) Azure
2 8 (22.22%) AWS
2 8 (22.22%) GCP
3 1 (2.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) Elasticsearch
1 7 (19.44%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.78%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Bitbucket
2 4 (11.11%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.78%) Git
3 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.78%) JIRA
3 1 (2.78%) Maven
3 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.78%) Advertising
3 1 (2.78%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Site Engineer
1 12 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Developer
3 3 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Full Stack Developer
4 2 (5.56%) Junior
4 2 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Java Developer
5 1 (2.78%) Lead
5 1 (2.78%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) Kafka
2 4 (11.11%) YAML
3 2 (5.56%) Node.js
4 1 (2.78%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.78%) CSS
4 1 (2.78%) HTML
4 1 (2.78%) jQuery
4 1 (2.78%) React
4 1 (2.78%) Spring
4 1 (2.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (47.22%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.78%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Linux
2 3 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.56%) Solaris
3 2 (5.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (58.33%) DevOps
2 20 (55.56%) Containerisation
3 16 (44.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 15 (41.67%) GitOps
5 13 (36.11%) Collaborative Working
6 11 (30.56%) Agile
6 11 (30.56%) ITSM
6 11 (30.56%) Microservices
7 10 (27.78%) Task Automation
7 10 (27.78%) Technical Leadership
8 9 (25.00%) Software Engineering
9 8 (22.22%) CI/CD
9 8 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (19.44%) Performance Optimisation
10 7 (19.44%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (19.44%) Time Management
10 7 (19.44%) Translating Business Requirements
11 6 (16.67%) Change Management
11 6 (16.67%) Incident Response
11 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.89%) Python
2 3 (8.33%) Java
3 2 (5.56%) Bash
3 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.78%) C#
4 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (58.33%) SC Cleared
1 21 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 9 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (5.56%) vCloud
2 2 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 18 (50.00%) Istio
3 12 (33.33%) Terraform
4 11 (30.56%) Grafana
5 9 (25.00%) Rancher
6 7 (19.44%) Argo
6 7 (19.44%) Kibana
6 7 (19.44%) Prometheus
7 3 (8.33%) Ansible
8 2 (5.56%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (5.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (38.89%) Red Hat
2 8 (22.22%) VMware
3 7 (19.44%) Google
4 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.56%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.78%) Checkmarx