OpenShift Contracts in the Thames Valley

Red Hat OpenShift
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 97 125
Rank change year-on-year -12 +28 +35
DemandTrendContract jobs citing OpenShift 9 24 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.54% 1.07% 0.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.50% 3.74% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 17 15
10th Percentile £481 £450 £425
25th Percentile - £455 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £482 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.73% -3.60% -17.01%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £769
90th Percentile £573 £570 £823
South East median daily rate £561 £482 £575
% change year-on-year +16.44% -16.17% -4.37%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 599 642 805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.22% 28.51% 28.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 444 574
10th Percentile £251 £363 £263
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +6.28%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £650
90th Percentile £663 £662 £718
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 20
10th Percentile - £18.50 £17.21
25th Percentile £14.75 £20.39 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £35.50 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -46.85% +9.91% +57.56%
75th Percentile £36.70 £60.11 £40.38
90th Percentile £46.30 £61.33 £65.25
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £26.75 £27.83
% change year-on-year -29.64% -3.88% +39.15%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing OpenShift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in the Thames Valley

OpenShift
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing OpenShift.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing OpenShift.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing OpenShift

OpenShift
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +7 9 £500 +3.73% 4
OpenShift
South East

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (44.44%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) BGP
1 6 (66.67%) OSPF
1 6 (66.67%) TACACS
2 4 (44.44%) LAN
2 4 (44.44%) MPLS
2 4 (44.44%) SNMP
2 4 (44.44%) WAN
2 4 (44.44%) Wireless
3 2 (22.22%) DNS
3 2 (22.22%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (22.22%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (22.22%) IPv6
3 2 (22.22%) SAN
3 2 (22.22%) Spanning Tree
3 2 (22.22%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Big Data
1 1 (11.11%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Designer
1 4 (44.44%) IP Designer
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) React Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) YAML
2 1 (11.11%) Apollo GraphQL
2 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
2 1 (11.11%) Playwright
2 1 (11.11%) React
2 1 (11.11%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) Spring
2 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Data Centre
1 4 (44.44%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
3 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
3 1 (11.11%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps
1 4 (44.44%) Incident Response
1 4 (44.44%) Network Virtualisation
1 4 (44.44%) Validation
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Runbook
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Big Data Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (11.11%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Front End Development
3 1 (11.11%) Microservices
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (11.11%) Responsive Web Design
3 1 (11.11%) User Experience
3 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) AWS Certification
1 4 (44.44%) CCIE
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (44.44%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (44.44%) VMware NSX
2 2 (22.22%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Terraform
2 4 (44.44%) Ansible
3 2 (22.22%) Argo
4 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Cisco
2 4 (44.44%) F5
2 4 (44.44%) Fortinet
2 4 (44.44%) Juniper
2 4 (44.44%) VMware
3 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
4 2 (22.22%) Dell