OpenShift Contract Job Trends

Red Hat OpenShift
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring OpenShift skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 317 354
Rank change year-on-year +34 +37 -62
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 429 221 235
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.86% 0.75% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.42% 1.97% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 170 190
10th Percentile £400 £358 £399
25th Percentile £421 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £625
90th Percentile £663 £838 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £494
% change year-on-year - +1.21% -9.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 0 1
10th Percentile £60.50 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £77.60 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -50.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 17,749 11,214 14,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.43% 37.91% 32.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,870 7,579 9,983
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.59% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £634
90th Percentile £712 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 582 272 359
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.16 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.92 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £28.25 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +30.97% +30.55% -38.17%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.27 £19.95
% change year-on-year +94.60% -3.41% -25.42%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenShift relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

OpenShift job vacancy trend in the UK

OpenShift
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in the UK

OpenShift
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OpenShift over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for OpenShift in the UK

OpenShift
Top 16 Contract Job 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 14 June 2026. 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
England +40 384 £500 -16.67% 40
UK excluding London +24 282 £500 - 30
North of England +48 165 £477 +31.45% 10
Yorkshire +47 123 £468 -6.40% 1
London -59 112 £575 -17.12% 9
Work from Home -10 107 £500 -20.00% 15
South East -25 61 £500 -11.11% 12
West Midlands -24 30 £514 -6.55%
Midlands -32 30 £514 +5.44%
South West -24 26 £525 -14.63% 8
North East - 24 £511 - 6
Scotland -23 19 £425 -5.56%
North West -43 18 £538 +50.14% 3
East Midlands -26 2 £391 -17.79%
Northern Ireland -1 1 - -
East of England - 1 £725 -

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (3.73%) Apache Spark
2 14 (3.26%) Confluence
3 8 (1.86%) Camunda
4 6 (1.40%) Apache
5 5 (1.17%) JBoss
5 5 (1.17%) SAS
6 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.93%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.70%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.70%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.47%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.23%) nginx
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (0.93%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.17%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 111 (25.87%) AWS
2 85 (19.81%) Azure
3 54 (12.59%) GitHub
4 41 (9.56%) GCP
5 30 (6.99%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (3.73%) Amazon S3
6 16 (3.73%) Serverless
7 15 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (2.33%) Azure AKS
10 9 (2.10%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (1.86%) Snowflake
12 7 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (1.63%) Datadog
13 5 (1.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 5 (1.17%) Azure Sentinel
13 5 (1.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 43 (10.02%) SAN
2 31 (7.23%) NAS
3 25 (5.83%) DNS
4 11 (2.56%) Network Security
5 8 (1.86%) Fibre Channel
5 8 (1.86%) Firewall
5 8 (1.86%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.86%) VPN
6 7 (1.63%) Kerberos
7 6 (1.40%) VSAN
8 4 (0.93%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.70%) AMQP
9 3 (0.70%) DHCP
9 3 (0.70%) FCoE
9 3 (0.70%) HTTP
10 2 (0.47%) Calico
10 2 (0.47%) SMTP
10 2 (0.47%) SSL
11 1 (0.23%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.23%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.29%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (3.26%) Relational Database
3 13 (3.03%) Big Data
4 12 (2.80%) NoSQL
5 8 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (1.86%) Redis
6 7 (1.63%) DynamoDB
6 7 (1.63%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.63%) Oracle Database
7 6 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (1.40%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (0.93%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.93%) InfluxDB
10 3 (0.70%) Hazelcast
11 2 (0.47%) Metadata
11 2 (0.47%) MySQL
11 2 (0.47%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.47%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 111 (25.87%) Jenkins
2 53 (12.35%) GitLab
3 41 (9.56%) SonarQube
4 31 (7.23%) Git
5 21 (4.90%) JIRA
6 13 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
7 12 (2.80%) JUnit
8 10 (2.33%) Selenium
9 6 (1.40%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.40%) Gradle
9 6 (1.40%) Maven
10 4 (0.93%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.93%) Mockito
11 3 (0.70%) Ant
11 3 (0.70%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.70%) Postman
12 2 (0.47%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.47%) Gatling
12 2 (0.47%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.47%) Robot Framework
General
1 99 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 91 (21.21%) Finance
3 41 (9.56%) Banking
4 38 (8.86%) Public Sector
5 25 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (4.66%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (2.10%) Legal
9 3 (0.70%) Advertising
9 3 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.47%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.47%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.47%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.47%) Military
10 2 (0.47%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.23%) Back Office
11 1 (0.23%) Front Office
11 1 (0.23%) Games
11 1 (0.23%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 66 (15.38%) Architect
2 61 (14.22%) Developer
3 40 (9.32%) DevOps Engineer
4 38 (8.86%) Senior
5 34 (7.93%) Java Developer
6 31 (7.23%) Lead
7 27 (6.29%) Software Engineer
8 24 (5.59%) Data Engineer
9 20 (4.66%) Java Engineer
9 20 (4.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 18 (4.20%) Linux Engineer
10 18 (4.20%) Site Engineer
11 16 (3.73%) Platform Engineer
12 15 (3.50%) Project Manager
13 13 (3.03%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 12 (2.80%) CyberArk Architect
15 11 (2.56%) Security Engineer
16 10 (2.33%) Automation Engineer
16 10 (2.33%) Kubernetes Engineer
16 10 (2.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (16.08%) Kafka
2 44 (10.26%) AngularJS
3 37 (8.62%) Quarkus
3 37 (8.62%) Spring Boot
4 36 (8.39%) OpenTelemetry
5 34 (7.93%) Spring
6 29 (6.76%) REST
7 21 (4.90%) Elastic Stack
8 20 (4.66%) React
9 19 (4.43%) Node.js
10 18 (4.20%) LDAP
10 18 (4.20%) OpenID
11 17 (3.96%) SAML
12 12 (2.80%) RabbitMQ
13 11 (2.56%) Apache Avro
13 11 (2.56%) Loki
13 11 (2.56%) YAML
14 10 (2.33%) OAuth
15 9 (2.10%) JSON
16 8 (1.86%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 72 (16.78%) Cloud Native
2 42 (9.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 32 (7.46%) Onboarding
4 18 (4.20%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (4.20%) Replication
5 14 (3.26%) Data Centre
5 14 (3.26%) Enterprise Storage
6 13 (3.03%) Private Cloud
7 10 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (2.10%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (1.86%) CMDB
9 8 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.86%) Security Posture
10 7 (1.63%) Mainframe
10 7 (1.63%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.63%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.40%) EMC VMAX
11 6 (1.40%) FlexPod
11 6 (1.40%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 105 (24.48%) Linux
2 42 (9.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 39 (9.09%) Windows
4 20 (4.66%) Unix
5 13 (3.03%) Windows Server
6 11 (2.56%) VMS
7 9 (2.10%) Data ONTAP
8 8 (1.86%) CoreOS
9 4 (0.93%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.70%) CentOS
11 2 (0.47%) Rocky
12 1 (0.23%) AIX
12 1 (0.23%) Android
12 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.23%) SUSE
12 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (44.76%) CI/CD
2 156 (36.36%) DevOps
3 146 (34.03%) Containerisation
4 98 (22.84%) Agile
5 94 (21.91%) Migration
6 88 (20.51%) Observability
7 79 (18.41%) Infrastructure as Code
8 62 (14.45%) Problem-Solving
8 62 (14.45%) Test Automation
9 57 (13.29%) Software Engineering
10 53 (12.35%) DevSecOps
10 53 (12.35%) RBAC
11 49 (11.42%) Scrum
11 49 (11.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 48 (11.19%) High Availability
12 48 (11.19%) Platform Engineering
13 46 (10.72%) Performance Tuning
14 45 (10.49%) Disaster Recovery
15 44 (10.26%) Runbook
16 43 (10.02%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 158 (36.83%) Python
2 90 (20.98%) Java
3 65 (15.15%) Bash
4 41 (9.56%) SQL
5 39 (9.09%) PowerShell
6 21 (4.90%) Shell Script
7 15 (3.50%) Go
8 13 (3.03%) Perl
9 9 (2.10%) JavaScript
9 9 (2.10%) PL/SQL
10 7 (1.63%) Bicep
10 7 (1.63%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.40%) Search Processing Language
12 4 (0.93%) Scala
13 3 (0.70%) R
13 3 (0.70%) Ruby
14 2 (0.47%) Groovy
15 1 (0.23%) C#
15 1 (0.23%) Korn
15 1 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 137 (31.93%) Security Cleared
2 110 (25.64%) SC Cleared
3 26 (6.06%) DV Cleared
4 23 (5.36%) Oracle Certification
5 19 (4.43%) OCP
6 18 (4.20%) Degree
7 11 (2.56%) RHCE
8 10 (2.33%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.33%) CISSP
9 7 (1.63%) CISM
9 7 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.63%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.63%) PMP
10 5 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 5 (1.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.70%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.70%) NCDA
11 3 (0.70%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (10.02%) QA
2 23 (5.36%) NCSC
2 23 (5.36%) NIST
3 22 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.80%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.86%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.63%) HIPAA
7 6 (1.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (1.40%) GDPR
8 5 (1.17%) NIST 800
8 5 (1.17%) PMO
9 2 (0.47%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.47%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.47%) PSD2
9 2 (0.47%) SEPA
10 1 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.23%) SLA
10 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 77 (17.95%) Docker
2 46 (10.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (8.62%) vSphere
4 36 (8.39%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (4.43%) VMware NSX
6 16 (3.73%) NFS
7 12 (2.80%) KVM
8 11 (2.56%) Hyper-V
9 9 (2.10%) Active Directory
9 9 (2.10%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (1.86%) Ceph
11 6 (1.40%) etcd
11 6 (1.40%) SRDF
12 3 (0.70%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.47%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.47%) GPFS
13 2 (0.47%) Lustre
13 2 (0.47%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.47%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 294 (68.53%) Kubernetes
2 137 (31.93%) Ansible
3 104 (24.24%) Terraform
4 84 (19.58%) Argo
5 81 (18.88%) Grafana
6 74 (17.25%) Prometheus
7 28 (6.53%) vCenter Server
8 17 (3.96%) NetBackup
8 17 (3.96%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (2.33%) Progress Chef
10 9 (2.10%) Istio
10 9 (2.10%) Puppet
10 9 (2.10%) SnapMirror
11 8 (1.86%) Fluentd
12 5 (1.17%) Control-M
12 5 (1.17%) linkerd
12 5 (1.17%) PowerCLI
13 4 (0.93%) Data Guard
13 4 (0.93%) Nagios
13 4 (0.93%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 147 (34.27%) Red Hat
2 63 (14.69%) Splunk
3 61 (14.22%) VMware
4 33 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 33 (7.69%) Pure Storage
5 24 (5.59%) Oracle
6 18 (4.20%) IBM
7 15 (3.50%) Cisco
7 15 (3.50%) CyberArk
8 13 (3.03%) NetApp
8 13 (3.03%) Veritas
9 12 (2.80%) Dell
10 11 (2.56%) Google
11 10 (2.33%) Brocade
12 7 (1.63%) Commvault
12 7 (1.63%) EMC
13 6 (1.40%) Dynatrace
13 6 (1.40%) Varonis
14 5 (1.17%) Ab Initio
14 5 (1.17%) ServiceNow