OpenShift Contracts

Red Hat OpenShift
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 370 301
Rank change year-on-year +79 -69 +15
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 237 213 536
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.81% 0.49% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.16% 1.52% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 170 400
10th Percentile £410 £387 £450
25th Percentile £500 £430 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £503 £600
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -16.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £738 £623 £745
90th Percentile £838 £725 £820
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +6.50% -4.76% -4.55%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - £35.00 £60.55
% change year-on-year - -42.20% +30.72%

All Cloud 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 10,994 14,038 21,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.52% 32.35% 36.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,614 9,991 15,708
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.98% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 344 351
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £15.88 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.20 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.69 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.31% -28.15% +29.58%

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 7 May 2025.

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 14 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 7 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
England +116 179 £625 +25.00% 158
UK excluding London +36 116 £533 +6.50% 108
London +99 105 £725 +31.82% 77
Work from Home +36 70 £775 +61.63% 146
Scotland -9 34 £472 -1.67% 9
South West +42 26 £615 +11.82% 22
South East +21 25 £575 +17.87% 26
North of England +28 17 £393 -15.03% 38
North West +23 13 £393 -15.03% 33
Northern Ireland - 8 £325 - 2
Yorkshire - 4 £500 - 5
Midlands +18 3 £475 +33.43% 12
Wales +10 3 - -
East Midlands +8 3 £475 +33.43% 4

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 37 (15.61%) Apache
2 35 (14.77%) Apache Spark
3 30 (12.66%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (5.91%) JBoss
5 12 (5.06%) OpenStack
6 9 (3.80%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (2.11%) nginx
7 5 (2.11%) WebSphere
8 4 (1.69%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (1.27%) WebLogic
9 3 (1.27%) WebLogic Portal
10 2 (0.84%) GemFire
10 2 (0.84%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.42%) Camunda
11 1 (0.42%) CICS
11 1 (0.42%) Confluence
11 1 (0.42%) IIS
11 1 (0.42%) SAS
11 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.42%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Endur
2 1 (0.42%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 133 (56.12%) AWS
2 57 (24.05%) Azure
3 55 (23.21%) Serverless
4 51 (21.52%) AWS Lambda
5 41 (17.30%) Amazon ECS
6 39 (16.46%) Amazon S3
7 28 (11.81%) dbt
7 28 (11.81%) GCP
8 24 (10.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (8.02%) GitHub
10 17 (7.17%) PaaS
11 15 (6.33%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (5.91%) Cloud Computing
12 14 (5.91%) IaaS
13 12 (5.06%) AWS CodePipeline
14 11 (4.64%) SaaS
15 8 (3.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 7 (2.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 7 (2.95%) AWS CodeBuild
16 7 (2.95%) AWS CodeDeploy
Communications & Networking
1 29 (12.24%) DNS
2 24 (10.13%) DHCP
3 21 (8.86%) TCP/IP
4 20 (8.44%) Firewall
5 19 (8.02%) HTTP
6 17 (7.17%) SAN
7 14 (5.91%) NAS
8 10 (4.22%) SMTP
8 10 (4.22%) VPN
9 7 (2.95%) BGP
9 7 (2.95%) Ethernet VPN
9 7 (2.95%) OSPF
10 5 (2.11%) 3G
10 5 (2.11%) 4G
10 5 (2.11%) LTE
10 5 (2.11%) Multicast
10 5 (2.11%) SSL
10 5 (2.11%) VSAN
10 5 (2.11%) VXLAN
11 4 (1.69%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (13.50%) Elasticsearch
2 30 (12.66%) Apache Ignite
3 28 (11.81%) Amazon Athena
3 28 (11.81%) Apache Arrow
3 28 (11.81%) Apache Iceberg
3 28 (11.81%) Dremio
4 19 (8.02%) Amazon RDS
4 19 (8.02%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (8.02%) Relational Database
5 17 (7.17%) NoSQL
6 13 (5.49%) Big Data
7 11 (4.64%) SQL Server
8 10 (4.22%) MongoDB
8 10 (4.22%) RDBMS
9 5 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.11%) Redis
10 4 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.69%) MySQL
11 3 (1.27%) InfluxDB
11 3 (1.27%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 77 (32.49%) Jenkins
2 58 (24.47%) Git
3 45 (18.99%) Artifactory
4 23 (9.70%) GitLab
5 18 (7.59%) JIRA
5 18 (7.59%) SonarQube
6 16 (6.75%) Sonatype Nexus
7 14 (5.91%) TeamCity
8 12 (5.06%) Bitbucket
9 10 (4.22%) Bitbucket Server
9 10 (4.22%) CA Release Automation
10 8 (3.38%) Maven
11 6 (2.53%) Gradle
12 5 (2.11%) Cucumber
12 5 (2.11%) git-flow
13 4 (1.69%) Cypress.io
14 2 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 1 (0.42%) Ant
15 1 (0.42%) IntelliJ
15 1 (0.42%) Subversion
General
1 86 (36.29%) Finance
2 49 (20.68%) Social Skills
3 37 (15.61%) Front Office
4 24 (10.13%) Banking
5 17 (7.17%) Public Sector
6 15 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (5.49%) Investment Banking
7 13 (5.49%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.27%) Law
9 3 (1.27%) Legal
10 2 (0.84%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (29.54%) DevOps Engineer
2 45 (18.99%) AWS Engineer
3 41 (17.30%) AWS DevOps
4 38 (16.03%) Developer
4 38 (16.03%) Python Engineer
5 37 (15.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 36 (15.19%) Data Engineer
7 31 (13.08%) Senior
8 24 (10.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (6.33%) Java Developer
9 15 (6.33%) Lead
10 12 (5.06%) Java Engineer
11 11 (4.64%) Senior Developer
11 11 (4.64%) Software Engineer
12 10 (4.22%) Automation Engineer
12 10 (4.22%) Consultant
13 9 (3.80%) Architect
13 9 (3.80%) Infrastructure Support
13 9 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (3.80%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (23.63%) Kafka
2 35 (14.77%) J2EE
3 31 (13.08%) Spring Boot
4 28 (11.81%) PySpark
5 25 (10.55%) Spring
6 21 (8.86%) Elastic Stack
7 20 (8.44%) React
8 14 (5.91%) AWS CDK
9 13 (5.49%) REST
10 10 (4.22%) Middleware
11 9 (3.80%) AngularJS
11 9 (3.80%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (3.38%) RESTful
12 8 (3.38%) Web Services
13 7 (2.95%) JSON
13 7 (2.95%) YAML
14 6 (2.53%) Loki
14 6 (2.53%) Node.js
15 5 (2.11%) Apache Avro
15 5 (2.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.17%) Cloud Native
1 17 (7.17%) Public Cloud
2 15 (6.33%) Data Centre
3 13 (5.49%) Clustering
4 9 (3.80%) PKI
5 7 (2.95%) Equities
6 6 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.53%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.53%) Private Cloud
6 6 (2.53%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.11%) Derivative
7 5 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.11%) Equity Derivative
7 5 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.69%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.69%) Tandem
9 3 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.84%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.84%) Fixed Income
11 1 (0.42%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 82 (34.60%) Linux
2 51 (21.52%) Windows
3 43 (18.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 41 (17.30%) Windows Server
5 19 (8.02%) Unix
6 8 (3.38%) Ubuntu
7 5 (2.11%) CentOS
7 5 (2.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (1.69%) VMS
8 4 (1.69%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.42%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.42%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.42%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (57.81%) DevOps
2 129 (54.43%) CI/CD
3 79 (33.33%) Agile
4 64 (27.00%) Software Engineering
5 60 (25.32%) Containerisation
6 43 (18.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 42 (17.72%) Microservices
7 42 (17.72%) Open Source
7 42 (17.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 36 (15.19%) Data Engineering
9 32 (13.50%) Asset Management
10 30 (12.66%) Observability
11 28 (11.81%) Continuous Integration
11 28 (11.81%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (11.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 27 (11.39%) Migration
13 24 (10.13%) Deployment Automation
14 22 (9.28%) Test Automation
15 21 (8.86%) High Availability
16 20 (8.44%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 144 (60.76%) Python
2 101 (42.62%) Java
3 46 (19.41%) Go
4 40 (16.88%) Bash
5 35 (14.77%) PowerShell
6 26 (10.97%) SQL
7 16 (6.75%) Perl
8 14 (5.91%) JavaScript
9 8 (3.38%) Groovy
10 7 (2.95%) TypeScript
11 6 (2.53%) C#
12 5 (2.11%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.69%) Scala
14 3 (1.27%) PHP
15 2 (0.84%) Ruby
16 1 (0.42%) C
16 1 (0.42%) COBOL
16 1 (0.42%) JCL
16 1 (0.42%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.42%) VB
Qualifications
1 59 (24.89%) Security Cleared
2 39 (16.46%) DV Cleared
3 21 (8.86%) Degree
4 19 (8.02%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.69%) CCIE
6 4 (1.69%) CCIE Data Center
6 4 (1.69%) CCNP
6 4 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.69%) RHCSA
7 3 (1.27%) OCP
7 3 (1.27%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.84%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.42%) ISEB
9 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.42%) RHCE
9 1 (0.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.11%) PCI DSS
2 4 (1.69%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (1.27%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.27%) QA
4 2 (0.84%) GDPR
4 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.42%) SEPA
5 1 (0.42%) SLA
5 1 (0.42%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 129 (54.43%) Docker
2 45 (18.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (10.13%) Hyper-V
4 19 (8.02%) Active Directory
5 14 (5.91%) vSphere
6 9 (3.80%) BitLocker
6 9 (3.80%) Microsoft App-V
6 9 (3.80%) Terminal Services
6 9 (3.80%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (2.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 6 (2.53%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 4 (1.69%) Lustre
9 3 (1.27%) LXC
9 3 (1.27%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.84%) Ceph
11 1 (0.42%) GPFS
11 1 (0.42%) NFS
11 1 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 195 (82.28%) Kubernetes
2 99 (41.77%) Ansible
3 98 (41.35%) Terraform
4 30 (12.66%) Grafana
5 28 (11.81%) Puppet
6 25 (10.55%) Progress Chef
7 21 (8.86%) Prometheus
8 17 (7.17%) Kibana
9 14 (5.91%) vCenter Server
10 12 (5.06%) Oracle RMAN
11 10 (4.22%) NetBackup
12 9 (3.80%) Nagios
12 9 (3.80%) vMotion
13 6 (2.53%) Argo
14 5 (2.11%) Istio
14 5 (2.11%) Nessus
14 5 (2.11%) Podman
15 4 (1.69%) Karpenter
16 3 (1.27%) Control-M
16 3 (1.27%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 77 (32.49%) Red Hat
2 57 (24.05%) VMware
3 29 (12.24%) Splunk
4 24 (10.13%) Oracle
5 19 (8.02%) Microsoft
6 17 (7.17%) Veritas
7 16 (6.75%) AppDynamics
7 16 (6.75%) Google
8 9 (3.80%) Citrix
8 9 (3.80%) HP
8 9 (3.80%) Symantec
9 8 (3.38%) Cisco
10 4 (1.69%) Confluent
10 4 (1.69%) IBM
11 3 (1.27%) Cloudera
11 3 (1.27%) Dell
11 3 (1.27%) Imperva
11 3 (1.27%) OpenLink
12 2 (0.84%) Ericsson
12 2 (0.84%) Nokia