OpenShift Contracts in the UK excluding London

Red Hat OpenShift
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 219 268 222
Rank change year-on-year +49 -46 +78
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 117 132 270
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.92% 0.64% 1.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.86% 2.43% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 108 198
10th Percentile £362 £373 £438
25th Percentile £454 £448 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.40% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £575 £625
90th Percentile £673 £631 £755
UK median daily rate £613 £506 £600
% change year-on-year +21.05% -15.67% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.75
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - -40.70% +27.43%
75th Percentile - - £71.94
90th Percentile - - £76.75
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £59.03
% change year-on-year - -40.70% +27.43%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,086 5,443 8,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.01% 26.20% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,896 3,840 5,946
10th Percentile £236 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £375 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 259 231
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.69
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.52 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OpenShift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in the UK excluding London

OpenShift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenShift in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in the UK excluding London

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in the UK excluding London

OpenShift
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OpenShift in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for OpenShift in the UK excluding London

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Scotland -15 33 £476 -0.83% 8
South West +54 26 £615 +11.82% 23
South East +36 26 £575 +17.19% 29
North of England +28 17 £393 -25.14% 37
North West +23 13 £393 -25.14% 32
Northern Ireland - 9 £325 - 2
Yorkshire +11 4 £500 -4.76% 5
Midlands +18 3 £475 +33.43% 8
East Midlands +7 3 £475 +33.43% 1
Wales - 3 - -
OpenShift
UK

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (10.26%) JBoss
2 8 (6.84%) Apache
2 8 (6.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (5.13%) nginx
4 4 (3.42%) WebSphere
5 3 (2.56%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.56%) WebLogic
5 3 (2.56%) WebLogic Portal
6 2 (1.71%) GemFire
6 2 (1.71%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.85%) Camunda
7 1 (0.85%) CICS
7 1 (0.85%) SAS
7 1 (0.85%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.85%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 62 (52.99%) AWS
2 35 (29.91%) Azure
3 25 (21.37%) Amazon S3
4 14 (11.97%) PaaS
5 13 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (11.11%) Serverless
6 12 (10.26%) SaaS
7 11 (9.40%) AWS CodePipeline
7 11 (9.40%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (6.84%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (6.84%) GCP
8 8 (6.84%) IaaS
9 7 (5.98%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (5.98%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 7 (5.98%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (5.13%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 6 (5.13%) Cohesity
10 6 (5.13%) GitHub
10 6 (5.13%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 26 (22.22%) DNS
2 23 (19.66%) DHCP
3 18 (15.38%) SAN
4 17 (14.53%) HTTP
5 15 (12.82%) NAS
5 15 (12.82%) TCP/IP
6 14 (11.97%) Firewall
7 8 (6.84%) SMTP
7 8 (6.84%) VPN
8 5 (4.27%) SSL
9 4 (3.42%) 3G
9 4 (3.42%) 3GPP
9 4 (3.42%) 4G
9 4 (3.42%) LTE
10 3 (2.56%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (1.71%) BGP
11 2 (1.71%) IPv6
11 2 (1.71%) MVNO
11 2 (1.71%) OSPF
11 2 (1.71%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (19.66%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (11.97%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (11.97%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (11.97%) Relational Database
3 13 (11.11%) Big Data
4 9 (7.69%) RDBMS
5 6 (5.13%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.42%) Hadoop
7 4 (3.42%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.56%) Flink
9 2 (1.71%) Apache Ignite
9 2 (1.71%) DB2
9 2 (1.71%) GIS
9 2 (1.71%) InfluxDB
9 2 (1.71%) MySQL
9 2 (1.71%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.85%) Aerospike
10 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 38 (32.48%) Jenkins
2 37 (31.62%) Git
3 14 (11.97%) GitLab
4 11 (9.40%) JIRA
5 10 (8.55%) TeamCity
6 9 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
6 9 (7.69%) CA Release Automation
6 9 (7.69%) SonarQube
6 9 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (6.84%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.56%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (1.71%) Maven
10 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.85%) Gradle
10 1 (0.85%) IntelliJ
General
1 26 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.09%) Finance
3 14 (11.97%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.84%) Banking
6 6 (5.13%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.42%) Front Office
7 4 (3.42%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.56%) Law
8 3 (2.56%) Legal
9 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (21.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (12.82%) Developer
4 12 (10.26%) Senior
5 9 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
5 9 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support
5 9 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (7.69%) Software Engineer
5 9 (7.69%) Support Engineer
6 8 (6.84%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 8 (6.84%) 3rd Line Support
6 8 (6.84%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 8 (6.84%) Java Engineer
6 8 (6.84%) Java Software Engineer
7 7 (5.98%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.98%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 7 (5.98%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (5.98%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 7 (5.98%) Java Developer
7 7 (5.98%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.38%) Spring Boot
2 17 (14.53%) Kafka
3 14 (11.97%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (11.11%) AWS CDK
5 9 (7.69%) Middleware
5 9 (7.69%) React
5 9 (7.69%) REST
6 7 (5.98%) YAML
7 6 (5.13%) Loki
7 6 (5.13%) Spring
8 5 (4.27%) AngularJS
8 5 (4.27%) JSON
8 5 (4.27%) Web Services
9 4 (3.42%) Apache Avro
9 4 (3.42%) LDAP
9 4 (3.42%) RESTful
9 4 (3.42%) XML
10 3 (2.56%) PostGIS
10 3 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (1.71%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.26%) Clustering
2 8 (6.84%) Data Centre
2 8 (6.84%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (6.84%) PKI
2 8 (6.84%) Public Cloud
3 7 (5.98%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.98%) Equities
4 6 (5.13%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.27%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.27%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.42%) Derivative
6 4 (3.42%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (2.56%) Credit Risk
7 3 (2.56%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.71%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.71%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.85%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.85%) NVMe
9 1 (0.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 62 (52.99%) Linux
2 50 (42.74%) Windows
3 42 (35.90%) Windows Server
4 31 (26.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (17.09%) Unix
6 9 (7.69%) Ubuntu
7 7 (5.98%) CentOS
7 7 (5.98%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (2.56%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.85%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (51.28%) CI/CD
2 54 (46.15%) DevOps
3 37 (31.62%) Containerisation
4 32 (27.35%) Agile
5 27 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 25 (21.37%) Observability
7 22 (18.80%) Microservices
8 17 (14.53%) Code Quality
8 17 (14.53%) Migration
9 15 (12.82%) Continuous Integration
10 14 (11.97%) Decision-Making
10 14 (11.97%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (11.97%) Software Engineering
11 12 (10.26%) Data Protection
11 12 (10.26%) Service Management
12 11 (9.40%) Artificial Intelligence
12 11 (9.40%) Data Deduplication
12 11 (9.40%) High Availability
12 11 (9.40%) Task Automation
13 10 (8.55%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 62 (52.99%) Python
2 38 (32.48%) Java
3 31 (26.50%) PowerShell
4 26 (22.22%) Bash
5 16 (13.68%) SQL
6 10 (8.55%) Perl
7 5 (4.27%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.42%) Groovy
8 4 (3.42%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.71%) PHP
9 2 (1.71%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.85%) COBOL
10 1 (0.85%) Go
10 1 (0.85%) JCL
10 1 (0.85%) REXX
10 1 (0.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 40 (34.19%) Security Cleared
2 30 (25.64%) DV Cleared
3 11 (9.40%) Degree
4 10 (8.55%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.85%) OCP
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.42%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (2.56%) QA
3 2 (1.71%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.85%) SLA
System Software
1 58 (49.57%) Docker
2 32 (27.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (19.66%) Hyper-V
4 17 (14.53%) Active Directory
5 8 (6.84%) BitLocker
5 8 (6.84%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (6.84%) Terminal Services
5 8 (6.84%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (6.84%) vSphere
6 6 (5.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 5 (4.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 3 (2.56%) LXC
9 2 (1.71%) Ceph
10 1 (0.85%) GPFS
10 1 (0.85%) NFS
Systems Management
1 99 (84.62%) Kubernetes
2 60 (51.28%) Ansible
3 41 (35.04%) Terraform
4 23 (19.66%) Puppet
5 22 (18.80%) Grafana
6 17 (14.53%) Prometheus
7 15 (12.82%) Progress Chef
7 15 (12.82%) vCenter Server
8 12 (10.26%) Kibana
9 11 (9.40%) NetBackup
9 11 (9.40%) Oracle RMAN
10 8 (6.84%) Nagios
10 8 (6.84%) vMotion
11 7 (5.98%) Nessus
12 3 (2.56%) HAProxy
13 2 (1.71%) Argo
14 1 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
14 1 (0.85%) Oracle Identity Management
14 1 (0.85%) Packer
14 1 (0.85%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 43 (36.75%) Red Hat
2 40 (34.19%) VMware
3 19 (16.24%) Splunk
4 17 (14.53%) Veritas
5 15 (12.82%) Microsoft
6 12 (10.26%) Oracle
7 10 (8.55%) AppDynamics
8 9 (7.69%) Google
9 8 (6.84%) Citrix
9 8 (6.84%) HP
9 8 (6.84%) Symantec
10 4 (3.42%) Confluent
11 3 (2.56%) Cloudera
12 2 (1.71%) Cisco
12 2 (1.71%) Dell
12 2 (1.71%) IBM
12 2 (1.71%) Imperva
13 1 (0.85%) EMC
13 1 (0.85%) NetApp
13 1 (0.85%) Sybase