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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 257 207
Rank change year-on-year +27 -50 +62
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 109 139 265
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.84% 0.69% 1.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.65% 2.64% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 113 193
10th Percentile £358 £366 £431
25th Percentile £420 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £609 £575 £638
90th Percentile £656 £633 £760
UK median daily rate £585 £506 £600
% change year-on-year +15.61% -15.67% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.75
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year - -42.20% +30.72%
75th Percentile - - £76.75
90th Percentile - - £82.80
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £60.55
% change year-on-year - -42.20% +30.72%

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 4,110 5,257 7,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.81% 25.94% 33.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,877 3,728 5,665
10th Percentile £235 £213 £250
25th Percentile £380 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 261 219
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.00 £16.38
Median hourly rate £20.37 £17.72 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.95% -29.12% +29.89%
75th Percentile £34.23 £27.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +28.69% -38.94% +59.09%

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 21 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 21 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 -22 33 £472 -2.38% 6
South West +38 26 £615 +11.82% 32
South East +21 22 £575 +17.19% 36
North of England +31 16 £393 -15.03% 39
North West +15 12 £392 -15.24% 34
Northern Ireland - 6 £325 - 5
Yorkshire - 4 £500 - 5
Midlands +12 3 £475 +33.43% 14
East Midlands +8 3 £475 +33.43% 4
Wales +4 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 13 (11.93%) JBoss
2 8 (7.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (6.42%) Apache
4 5 (4.59%) nginx
5 4 (3.67%) WebSphere
6 3 (2.75%) WebLogic
6 3 (2.75%) WebLogic Portal
7 2 (1.83%) Apache Spark
7 2 (1.83%) GemFire
7 2 (1.83%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.92%) Camunda
8 1 (0.92%) CICS
8 1 (0.92%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.92%) SAS
8 1 (0.92%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 66 (60.55%) AWS
2 32 (29.36%) Azure
3 23 (21.10%) Amazon S3
4 15 (13.76%) AWS CloudFormation
4 15 (13.76%) PaaS
5 13 (11.93%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (11.93%) Serverless
6 11 (10.09%) AWS CodePipeline
7 9 (8.26%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (8.26%) GCP
8 8 (7.34%) IaaS
9 7 (6.42%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (6.42%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 7 (6.42%) SaaS
10 6 (5.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 6 (5.50%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 6 (5.50%) AWS Fargate
10 6 (5.50%) Cohesity
10 6 (5.50%) GitHub
10 6 (5.50%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 26 (23.85%) DNS
2 23 (21.10%) DHCP
3 16 (14.68%) HTTP
3 16 (14.68%) SAN
4 15 (13.76%) Firewall
4 15 (13.76%) TCP/IP
5 13 (11.93%) NAS
6 8 (7.34%) SMTP
6 8 (7.34%) VPN
7 5 (4.59%) SSL
8 3 (2.75%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (1.83%) 3G
9 2 (1.83%) 4G
9 2 (1.83%) BGP
9 2 (1.83%) Ethernet VPN
9 2 (1.83%) IPv6
9 2 (1.83%) LTE
9 2 (1.83%) OSPF
9 2 (1.83%) Spanning Tree
9 2 (1.83%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (21.10%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (12.84%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (12.84%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (12.84%) Relational Database
3 12 (11.01%) Big Data
4 9 (8.26%) RDBMS
5 6 (5.50%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (4.59%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.75%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.83%) Apache Ignite
8 2 (1.83%) DB2
8 2 (1.83%) GIS
8 2 (1.83%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.83%) MySQL
8 2 (1.83%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.92%) Aerospike
9 1 (0.92%) Metadata
9 1 (0.92%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 38 (34.86%) Jenkins
2 37 (33.94%) Git
3 13 (11.93%) GitLab
4 12 (11.01%) JIRA
5 11 (10.09%) Sonatype Nexus
6 10 (9.17%) SonarQube
6 10 (9.17%) TeamCity
7 9 (8.26%) Bitbucket Server
7 9 (8.26%) CA Release Automation
8 8 (7.34%) Bitbucket
9 5 (4.59%) Maven
10 3 (2.75%) Artifactory
10 3 (2.75%) Cypress.io
10 3 (2.75%) Gradle
11 2 (1.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (1.83%) JUnit
12 1 (0.92%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.92%) Mockito
12 1 (0.92%) Selenium
12 1 (0.92%) Snyk
General
1 23 (21.10%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.68%) Finance
3 14 (12.84%) Public Sector
4 11 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.34%) Banking
6 4 (3.67%) Front Office
6 4 (3.67%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.67%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.75%) Legal
8 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (16.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (15.60%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (13.76%) Developer
4 9 (8.26%) Infrastructure Support
4 9 (8.26%) Software Engineer
4 9 (8.26%) Support Engineer
5 8 (7.34%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 8 (7.34%) 3rd Line Support
5 8 (7.34%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 8 (7.34%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (7.34%) Java Engineer
5 8 (7.34%) Java Software Engineer
6 7 (6.42%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (6.42%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 7 (6.42%) Automation Engineer
6 7 (6.42%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (6.42%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 7 (6.42%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (5.50%) Data Engineer
7 6 (5.50%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (19.27%) Spring Boot
2 13 (11.93%) AWS CDK
2 13 (11.93%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (11.01%) Kafka
3 12 (11.01%) React
4 11 (10.09%) Middleware
4 11 (10.09%) REST
5 8 (7.34%) Spring
6 6 (5.50%) Loki
6 6 (5.50%) YAML
7 5 (4.59%) AngularJS
7 5 (4.59%) JSON
7 5 (4.59%) RESTful
7 5 (4.59%) Web Services
8 4 (3.67%) Apache Avro
8 4 (3.67%) LDAP
8 4 (3.67%) XML
9 3 (2.75%) PostGIS
9 3 (2.75%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.83%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.01%) Clustering
2 8 (7.34%) Data Centre
2 8 (7.34%) PKI
3 5 (4.59%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.59%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.59%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.67%) Derivative
4 4 (3.67%) Equities
4 4 (3.67%) Equity Derivative
4 4 (3.67%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.67%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.75%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.83%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.92%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.92%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.92%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.92%) SCADA
7 1 (0.92%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 58 (53.21%) Linux
2 43 (39.45%) Windows
3 35 (32.11%) Windows Server
4 31 (28.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (17.43%) Unix
6 4 (3.67%) Ubuntu
7 3 (2.75%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (1.83%) CentOS
8 2 (1.83%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.92%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (54.13%) CI/CD
2 55 (50.46%) DevOps
3 38 (34.86%) Containerisation
4 28 (25.69%) Agile
5 21 (19.27%) Observability
6 20 (18.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 19 (17.43%) Microservices
7 19 (17.43%) Migration
8 17 (15.60%) Code Quality
9 16 (14.68%) Continuous Integration
9 16 (14.68%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (11.01%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (11.01%) Service Management
10 12 (11.01%) Software Engineering
10 12 (11.01%) Test Automation
11 11 (10.09%) Artificial Intelligence
11 11 (10.09%) Decision-Making
11 11 (10.09%) Task Automation
12 10 (9.17%) Data Protection
12 10 (9.17%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 59 (54.13%) Python
2 41 (37.61%) Java
3 28 (25.69%) PowerShell
4 27 (24.77%) Bash
5 15 (13.76%) SQL
6 10 (9.17%) Perl
7 7 (6.42%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.59%) Groovy
8 5 (4.59%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.83%) C#
9 2 (1.83%) Go
9 2 (1.83%) PHP
9 2 (1.83%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.92%) COBOL
10 1 (0.92%) JCL
10 1 (0.92%) REXX
10 1 (0.92%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (33.03%) Security Cleared
2 27 (24.77%) DV Cleared
3 9 (8.26%) SC Cleared
4 8 (7.34%) Degree
5 1 (0.92%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.92%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.92%) OCP
5 1 (0.92%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.67%) Disclosure Scotland
1 4 (3.67%) QA
2 3 (2.75%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.92%) SLA
3 1 (0.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 55 (50.46%) Docker
2 27 (24.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (21.10%) Hyper-V
4 17 (15.60%) Active Directory
5 8 (7.34%) BitLocker
5 8 (7.34%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (7.34%) Terminal Services
5 8 (7.34%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (5.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 5 (4.59%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 3 (2.75%) LXC
8 3 (2.75%) vSphere
9 2 (1.83%) Ceph
10 1 (0.92%) GPFS
10 1 (0.92%) NFS
Systems Management
1 91 (83.49%) Kubernetes
2 54 (49.54%) Ansible
3 35 (32.11%) Terraform
4 23 (21.10%) Puppet
5 22 (20.18%) Grafana
6 17 (15.60%) Prometheus
7 13 (11.93%) Progress Chef
8 12 (11.01%) Kibana
9 10 (9.17%) vCenter Server
10 9 (8.26%) NetBackup
10 9 (8.26%) Oracle RMAN
11 8 (7.34%) Nagios
11 8 (7.34%) vMotion
12 2 (1.83%) Argo
12 2 (1.83%) HAProxy
12 2 (1.83%) Nessus
13 1 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.92%) Oracle Identity Management
13 1 (0.92%) Packer
13 1 (0.92%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 40 (36.70%) Red Hat
2 33 (30.28%) VMware
3 19 (17.43%) Splunk
4 15 (13.76%) Veritas
5 14 (12.84%) Oracle
6 11 (10.09%) AppDynamics
6 11 (10.09%) Microsoft
7 9 (8.26%) Google
8 8 (7.34%) Citrix
8 8 (7.34%) HP
8 8 (7.34%) Symantec
9 4 (3.67%) Confluent
10 3 (2.75%) Cloudera
11 2 (1.83%) Cisco
11 2 (1.83%) Dell
11 2 (1.83%) IBM
11 2 (1.83%) Imperva
12 1 (0.92%) EMC
12 1 (0.92%) NetApp
12 1 (0.92%) Sybase