OpenShift Contracts

Red Hat OpenShift
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 393 295 319
Rank change year-on-year -98 +24 -29
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 211 535 764
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.89% 0.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.51% 2.43% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 400 497
10th Percentile £390 £450 £450
25th Percentile £436 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £600 £583
Median % change year-on-year -15.17% +3.00% +14.22%
75th Percentile £623 £755 £688
90th Percentile £722 £820 £751
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +18.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - - £41.92
25th Percentile - £53.75 £42.18
Median hourly rate £35.00 £59.03 £46.32
Median % change year-on-year -40.70% +27.43% +15.80%
75th Percentile - £71.94 £48.75
90th Percentile - £76.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £59.03 £46.32
% change year-on-year -40.70% +27.43% +15.80%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,989 22,053 34,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.87% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,925 15,944 24,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 355 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.39
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OpenShift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in the UK

OpenShift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenShift.

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in the UK

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in the UK

OpenShift
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OpenShift.

Hourly rate trend for OpenShift in the UK

OpenShift
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
UK excluding London -40 132 £500 -4.76% 31
England -70 124 £525 -19.23% 39
Work from Home -3 74 £480 -15.79% 14
Scotland -11 63 £480 +0.10% 6
London -45 53 £600 -17.24% 12
South East +18 36 £491 -18.22% 6
South West -6 18 £550 -8.33% 13
North of England -9 8 £525 -12.50% 3
Midlands +28 7 £356 - 2
North West -2 7 £525 +8.30% 2
East Midlands - 6 £356 - 1
West Midlands +29 1 £450 - 1
Yorkshire +19 1 £525 -

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (4.74%) OpenStack
2 6 (2.84%) Anypoint
3 5 (2.37%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.37%) JBoss
4 4 (1.90%) Confluence
4 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.90%) SAS
5 1 (0.47%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 118 (55.92%) AWS
2 58 (27.49%) Azure
3 48 (22.75%) Serverless
4 45 (21.33%) AWS Lambda
5 37 (17.54%) Amazon S3
6 32 (15.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 28 (13.27%) GCP
8 26 (12.32%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (9.48%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (7.58%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (4.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 8 (3.79%) Apigee
13 7 (3.32%) Amazon SageMaker
14 6 (2.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (2.84%) AWS CodePipeline
14 6 (2.84%) AWS Fargate
14 6 (2.84%) GitHub
14 6 (2.84%) IaaS
14 6 (2.84%) SaaS
15 5 (2.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.58%) SAN
2 11 (5.21%) Firewall
3 8 (3.79%) NAS
4 7 (3.32%) AMQP
5 6 (2.84%) Network Security
6 4 (1.90%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (1.90%) iSCSI
6 4 (1.90%) VPN
7 3 (1.42%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.95%) VSAN
9 1 (0.47%) 4G
9 1 (0.47%) 5G
9 1 (0.47%) IPv4
9 1 (0.47%) OSPF
9 1 (0.47%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (16.11%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (15.64%) Elasticsearch
3 18 (8.53%) NoSQL
4 17 (8.06%) Amazon Aurora
4 17 (8.06%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (7.58%) MongoDB
6 13 (6.16%) InfluxDB
7 10 (4.74%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.37%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.90%) Big Data
9 4 (1.90%) DB2
9 4 (1.90%) Informix
10 3 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.42%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.42%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.42%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.95%) MySQL
12 1 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.47%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 84 (39.81%) Jenkins
2 42 (19.91%) Git
3 24 (11.37%) GitLab
4 17 (8.06%) Artifactory
5 14 (6.64%) TeamCity
6 13 (6.16%) Maven
7 12 (5.69%) Bitbucket
8 10 (4.74%) Cypress.io
8 10 (4.74%) Gradle
8 10 (4.74%) JIRA
9 9 (4.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 8 (3.79%) SonarQube
11 7 (3.32%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (2.37%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (2.37%) CA Release Automation
13 4 (1.90%) Cucumber
14 2 (0.95%) Jaeger
15 1 (0.47%) Hudson
15 1 (0.47%) Selenium
15 1 (0.47%) Vagrant
General
1 44 (20.85%) Social Skills
2 30 (14.22%) Public Sector
3 23 (10.90%) Banking
4 16 (7.58%) Finance
5 10 (4.74%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.27%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.90%) Front Office
8 3 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.95%) Aviation
10 1 (0.47%) Advertising
10 1 (0.47%) Legal
10 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (25.12%) DevOps Engineer
2 41 (19.43%) Developer
3 26 (12.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 23 (10.90%) Senior
5 17 (8.06%) AWS Engineer
6 16 (7.58%) Java Developer
6 16 (7.58%) Site Engineer
7 15 (7.11%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (5.69%) AWS DevOps
8 12 (5.69%) Linux Engineer
8 12 (5.69%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (5.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 10 (4.74%) Data Engineer
10 10 (4.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (4.27%) Python Engineer
12 8 (3.79%) Full Stack Developer
13 7 (3.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 7 (3.32%) Senior DevOps
13 7 (3.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 7 (3.32%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (16.59%) REST
2 34 (16.11%) AWS CDK
3 29 (13.74%) Spring
4 27 (12.80%) Spring Boot
5 22 (10.43%) Kafka
6 21 (9.95%) RabbitMQ
7 19 (9.00%) Node.js
8 18 (8.53%) React
9 16 (7.58%) Elastic Stack
10 12 (5.69%) CSS
10 12 (5.69%) HTML
11 9 (4.27%) Spring Security
11 9 (4.27%) Swagger
12 8 (3.79%) .NET
12 8 (3.79%) OAuth
12 8 (3.79%) OAuth2
12 8 (3.79%) Spring MVC
12 8 (3.79%) Spring Web Flow
13 7 (3.32%) SOAP
13 7 (3.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.17%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.64%) Public Cloud
3 8 (3.79%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.37%) Replication
6 4 (1.90%) Client/Server
6 4 (1.90%) NVMe
6 4 (1.90%) PKI
6 4 (1.90%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.42%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.42%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.42%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.95%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.47%) Clustering
9 1 (0.47%) Derivative
9 1 (0.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.47%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.47%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 68 (32.23%) Linux
2 31 (14.69%) Windows
3 22 (10.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (9.48%) Unix
5 13 (6.16%) Windows Server
6 8 (3.79%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.90%) Data ONTAP
7 4 (1.90%) VMS
8 2 (0.95%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (56.40%) DevOps
2 104 (49.29%) CI/CD
3 82 (38.86%) Agile
4 63 (29.86%) Containerisation
5 58 (27.49%) Microservices
6 55 (26.07%) Infrastructure as Code
7 46 (21.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 32 (15.17%) Continuous Integration
9 28 (13.27%) Test Automation
10 25 (11.85%) Kanban
10 25 (11.85%) Scrum
11 24 (11.37%) Software Engineering
12 22 (10.43%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (9.95%) GitOps
13 21 (9.95%) Observability
13 21 (9.95%) Task Automation
14 20 (9.48%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (9.00%) Code Quality
16 18 (8.53%) Migration
16 18 (8.53%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 95 (45.02%) Python
2 56 (26.54%) Java
3 42 (19.91%) SQL
4 34 (16.11%) Bash
5 30 (14.22%) Perl
6 29 (13.74%) JavaScript
7 24 (11.37%) TypeScript
8 20 (9.48%) Groovy
9 16 (7.58%) Go
9 16 (7.58%) Shell Script
10 9 (4.27%) Ruby
11 8 (3.79%) C#
12 5 (2.37%) C
12 5 (2.37%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.42%) C++
Qualifications
1 58 (27.49%) Security Cleared
2 41 (19.43%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.11%) DV Cleared
4 11 (5.21%) Degree
5 8 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.42%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.42%) RHCA
7 2 (0.95%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.95%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.47%) OCP
8 1 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.53%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.37%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (2.37%) QA
System Software
1 112 (53.08%) Docker
2 11 (5.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.27%) Active Directory
3 9 (4.27%) VMware NSX
4 5 (2.37%) Firmware
4 5 (2.37%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.90%) GPFS
5 4 (1.90%) NFS
6 3 (1.42%) Ceph
7 2 (0.95%) vCloud
7 2 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.47%) KVM
Systems Management
1 152 (72.04%) Kubernetes
2 76 (36.02%) Terraform
3 70 (33.18%) Ansible
4 61 (28.91%) Grafana
5 27 (12.80%) Prometheus
6 23 (10.90%) Progress Chef
7 22 (10.43%) Kibana
8 19 (9.00%) Istio
9 11 (5.21%) Puppet
10 10 (4.74%) Docker Swarm
11 9 (4.27%) Argo
11 9 (4.27%) Rancher
12 5 (2.37%) Dell DRAC
12 5 (2.37%) NetBackup
13 4 (1.90%) Veritas Storage Foundation
14 3 (1.42%) OPNET
14 3 (1.42%) Podman
14 3 (1.42%) vCenter Server
15 2 (0.95%) Red Hat Satellite
16 1 (0.47%) Nagios
Vendors
1 33 (15.64%) Red Hat
2 26 (12.32%) Google
3 23 (10.90%) VMware
4 18 (8.53%) Oracle
5 17 (8.06%) Microsoft
6 12 (5.69%) Splunk
7 9 (4.27%) Veritas
8 7 (3.32%) AppDynamics
8 7 (3.32%) SAP
9 6 (2.84%) CyberArk
9 6 (2.84%) Dell
9 6 (2.84%) MuleSoft
9 6 (2.84%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.84%) WSO2
10 4 (1.90%) Brocade
10 4 (1.90%) EMC
10 4 (1.90%) IBM
10 4 (1.90%) NetApp
10 4 (1.90%) Sybase
11 3 (1.42%) Atlassian