OpenShift Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Red Hat OpenShift
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring OpenShift skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - 53
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 13 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 2.69% - 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.34% - 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £465
25th Percentile £506 - £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £509
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.91%
75th Percentile £519 - £537
90th Percentile - - £552
South East median daily rate £500 £575 £493
% change year-on-year -13.04% +16.63% -17.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £59.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £65.00 - £35.00

All Cloud Computing Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 177 88 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 36.57% 28.85% 26.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 57 126
10th Percentile £204 £210 £256
25th Percentile £400 £359 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £455
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -1.10% -11.65%
75th Percentile £564 £525 £550
90th Percentile £678 £566 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 8
10th Percentile £59.50 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - £17.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £28.00 £23.90
Median % change year-on-year +132.14% +17.15% +23.35%
75th Percentile £69.38 - £32.50
90th Percentile £77.75 - £37.75
South East median hourly rate £43.75 £27.76 £23.22
% change year-on-year +57.60% +19.58% +0.93%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

OpenShift job vacancy trend in Surrey

OpenShift
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing OpenShift.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing OpenShift.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Hourly Rate Histogram in Surrey

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OpenShift in Surrey over the 6 months to 13 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for OpenShift in Surrey

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 13 April 2026. 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
Guildford - 12 £513 - 6
OpenShift
South East

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) GCP
1 1 (7.69%) Serverless
1 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Big Data
1 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
1 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (92.31%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (7.69%) Advertising
1 1 (7.69%) Finance
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Developer
1 8 (61.54%) Java Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Software Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Java Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (92.31%) AngularJS
1 12 (92.31%) Quarkus
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) React
2 1 (7.69%) Spring
2 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
2 1 (7.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Agile
2 12 (92.31%) DevSecOps
2 12 (92.31%) Unit Testing
3 11 (84.62%) Front End Development
3 11 (84.62%) Scrum
3 11 (84.62%) SDLC
3 11 (84.62%) Software Engineering
3 11 (84.62%) Test Automation
4 10 (76.92%) Sprint Planning
4 10 (76.92%) Sprint Review
5 1 (7.69%) API Testing
5 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.69%) Clean Code
5 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
5 1 (7.69%) Design Patterns
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) ETL
5 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) SC Cleared
1 10 (76.92%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (69.23%) QA
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (92.31%) Argo
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.69%) Ab Initio
2 1 (7.69%) Teradata