OpenShift Contracts in the UK excluding London

Red Hat OpenShift
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 260 207 284
Rank change year-on-year -53 +77 -78
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 130 263 243
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.63% 1.13% 0.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.46% 3.39% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 194 186
10th Percentile £361 £438 £431
25th Percentile £439 £467 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +19.96%
75th Percentile £575 £626 £625
90th Percentile £634 £762 £738
UK median daily rate £507 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -15.50% +4.35% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 4
10th Percentile - - £41.92
25th Percentile - £53.75 £42.18
Median hourly rate £35.00 £60.55 £46.32
Median % change year-on-year -42.20% +30.72% +16.53%
75th Percentile - £76.75 £48.75
90th Percentile - £82.80 -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £60.55 £46.32
% change year-on-year -42.20% +30.72% +15.80%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,290 7,758 9,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.83% 33.20% 32.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,756 5,727 7,230
10th Percentile £213 £250 £208
25th Percentile £370 £406 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 232 292
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.44 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.71 £25.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.18% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £26.50 £64.63 £31.69
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

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 11 May 2024.

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 11 May 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
Scotland -9 55 £480 +0.10% 1
South East +13 38 £488 -19.03% 9
South West -10 23 £550 -8.33% 12
Midlands +34 7 £356 -
North West -2 6 £463 -4.59% 1
North of England -10 6 £463 -22.92% 1
East Midlands - 6 £356 -
West Midlands +15 1 £450 -
Wales - 1 £1,000 -
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 5 (3.85%) Apache
1 5 (3.85%) JBoss
2 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.08%) SAS
3 3 (2.31%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 72 (55.38%) AWS
2 32 (24.62%) Azure
3 28 (21.54%) Amazon S3
3 28 (21.54%) Serverless
4 26 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
5 23 (17.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 18 (13.85%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
7 13 (10.00%) GCP
8 10 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 7 (5.38%) Amazon SageMaker
10 6 (4.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (4.62%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (4.62%) AWS CodePipeline
10 6 (4.62%) AWS Fargate
10 6 (4.62%) GitHub
11 4 (3.08%) Amazon Cognito
11 4 (3.08%) PaaS
11 4 (3.08%) Rekognition
11 4 (3.08%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 15 (11.54%) SAN
2 10 (7.69%) Firewall
3 7 (5.38%) AMQP
3 7 (5.38%) NAS
4 6 (4.62%) Network Security
5 5 (3.85%) VPN
6 4 (3.08%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (3.08%) HTTP
6 4 (3.08%) iSCSI
7 2 (1.54%) VSAN
8 1 (0.77%) IPv4
8 1 (0.77%) OSPF
8 1 (0.77%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
3 16 (12.31%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (10.00%) InfluxDB
5 11 (8.46%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (7.69%) Relational Database
7 9 (6.92%) MongoDB
8 8 (6.15%) NoSQL
9 5 (3.85%) RDBMS
10 4 (3.08%) DB2
10 4 (3.08%) Informix
10 4 (3.08%) Triplestore
11 3 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.54%) MySQL
13 1 (0.77%) Big Data
13 1 (0.77%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 45 (34.62%) Jenkins
2 21 (16.15%) Git
3 14 (10.77%) GitLab
4 10 (7.69%) Artifactory
5 9 (6.92%) Bitbucket
5 9 (6.92%) JIRA
6 8 (6.15%) Maven
7 7 (5.38%) Gradle
8 6 (4.62%) SonarQube
8 6 (4.62%) TeamCity
9 5 (3.85%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (3.85%) CA Release Automation
9 5 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.77%) JUnit
General
1 27 (20.77%) Social Skills
2 22 (16.92%) Public Sector
3 12 (9.23%) Banking
4 5 (3.85%) Investment Banking
5 4 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.08%) Finance
6 1 (0.77%) Advertising
6 1 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.77%) Legal
6 1 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 24 (18.46%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (13.85%) Site Engineer
4 17 (13.08%) Developer
5 13 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (7.69%) Data Engineer
6 10 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (7.69%) Senior
7 9 (6.92%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (6.15%) Linux Engineer
8 8 (6.15%) Python Engineer
9 7 (5.38%) Java Developer
10 6 (4.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.85%) AWS DevOps
11 5 (3.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.85%) Site Manager
11 5 (3.85%) Site Reliability Manager
11 5 (3.85%) Support Engineer
12 4 (3.08%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (17.69%) AWS CDK
1 23 (17.69%) REST
2 16 (12.31%) Kafka
3 15 (11.54%) RabbitMQ
3 15 (11.54%) Spring Boot
4 11 (8.46%) Spring
5 9 (6.92%) CSS
5 9 (6.92%) HTML
6 7 (5.38%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (5.38%) Node.js
6 7 (5.38%) PostGIS
7 6 (4.62%) React
7 6 (4.62%) RESTful
8 5 (3.85%) GraphQL
8 5 (3.85%) OAuth
8 5 (3.85%) OAuth2
8 5 (3.85%) Spring Security
9 4 (3.08%) Flash
9 4 (3.08%) Spring Web Flow
9 4 (3.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (21.54%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (3.85%) Public Cloud
2 5 (3.85%) Replication
3 4 (3.08%) Client/Server
3 4 (3.08%) NVMe
3 4 (3.08%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.31%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.54%) PKI
6 1 (0.77%) Clustering
6 1 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.77%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.77%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 48 (36.92%) Linux
2 26 (20.00%) Windows
3 20 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (15.38%) Unix
4 12 (9.23%) Windows Server
5 8 (6.15%) Ubuntu
6 5 (3.85%) VMS
7 4 (3.08%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (1.54%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (60.00%) DevOps
2 67 (51.54%) CI/CD
3 49 (37.69%) Containerisation
4 41 (31.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 40 (30.77%) Agile
6 32 (24.62%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (21.54%) Microservices
8 20 (15.38%) Observability
9 19 (14.62%) GitOps
10 18 (13.85%) Kanban
11 16 (12.31%) Code Quality
11 16 (12.31%) Collaborative Working
12 15 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 15 (11.54%) Scrum
12 15 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
13 14 (10.77%) Deployment Automation
13 14 (10.77%) Migration
14 13 (10.00%) ITSM
14 13 (10.00%) Software Engineering
14 13 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 57 (43.85%) Python
2 26 (20.00%) Java
2 26 (20.00%) SQL
3 18 (13.85%) Bash
4 15 (11.54%) JavaScript
5 13 (10.00%) Perl
5 13 (10.00%) Shell Script
6 12 (9.23%) Groovy
6 12 (9.23%) TypeScript
7 8 (6.15%) Ruby
8 6 (4.62%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.85%) C
9 5 (3.85%) Go
10 4 (3.08%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.77%) C#
Qualifications
1 42 (32.31%) Security Cleared
2 32 (24.62%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.92%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.08%) Degree
5 3 (2.31%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.46%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.08%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 67 (51.54%) Docker
2 11 (8.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (7.69%) VMware NSX
4 9 (6.92%) Active Directory
5 5 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (3.08%) GPFS
6 4 (3.08%) NFS
7 2 (1.54%) vCloud
8 1 (0.77%) KVM
Systems Management
1 92 (70.77%) Kubernetes
2 51 (39.23%) Grafana
3 46 (35.38%) Ansible
4 44 (33.85%) Terraform
5 24 (18.46%) Prometheus
6 23 (17.69%) Kibana
7 21 (16.15%) Istio
8 15 (11.54%) Progress Chef
9 10 (7.69%) Argo
10 9 (6.92%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (6.92%) Rancher
11 4 (3.08%) NetBackup
11 4 (3.08%) OPNET
11 4 (3.08%) Veritas Storage Foundation
12 3 (2.31%) vCenter Server
13 2 (1.54%) PowerCLI
13 2 (1.54%) Puppet
13 2 (1.54%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.77%) SELinux
14 1 (0.77%) vRealize
Vendors
1 24 (18.46%) Red Hat
2 19 (14.62%) VMware
3 15 (11.54%) Google
4 10 (7.69%) Microsoft
5 8 (6.15%) Veritas
6 5 (3.85%) AppDynamics
6 5 (3.85%) Oracle
6 5 (3.85%) Splunk
7 4 (3.08%) Atlassian
7 4 (3.08%) Brocade
7 4 (3.08%) CyberArk
7 4 (3.08%) EMC
7 4 (3.08%) IBM
7 4 (3.08%) NetApp
7 4 (3.08%) Sybase
8 3 (2.31%) Commvault
9 2 (1.54%) Cisco
9 2 (1.54%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.77%) Checkmarx