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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 365 285 305
Rank change year-on-year -80 +20 -8
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 227 511 778
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.91% 0.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.63% 2.49% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 379 521
10th Percentile £393 £450 £455
25th Percentile £437 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £625 £763 £688
90th Percentile £725 £827 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +18.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 4
10th Percentile - - £41.92
25th Percentile - £53.75 £42.18
Median hourly rate £35.00 £66.78 £46.32
Median % change year-on-year -47.59% +44.16% +17.27%
75th Percentile - £81.00 £48.75
90th Percentile - £90.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £66.78 £46.32
% change year-on-year -47.59% +44.16% +17.27%

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 13,929 20,504 33,931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.52% 36.44% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,911 14,827 24,764
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £635 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £748 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 328 402
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £18.50 £15.37
Median hourly rate £21.37 £36.50 £22.20
Median % change year-on-year -41.45% +64.41% -0.22%
75th Percentile £40.00 £67.81 £53.75
90th Percentile £68.05 £79.19 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £26.48 £19.63
% change year-on-year -33.08% +34.93% -1.88%

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 28 May 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 28 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
England -66 147 £524 -19.42% 40
UK excluding London -47 143 £500 -4.76% 33
Work from Home -26 73 £494 -16.27% 15
London -45 62 £575 -20.69% 10
Scotland -6 58 £479 -1.74% 7
South East +13 43 £488 -21.95% 15
South West -9 30 £550 -8.33% 6
Midlands +27 7 £356 -39.66%
North West +8 6 £463 -4.64% 1
North of England -11 6 £463 -24.61% 2
East Midlands - 6 £356 -
West Midlands +7 1 £450 -23.73%
Wales - 1 £1,000 -

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 (4.41%) Apache
2 9 (3.96%) Confluence
3 8 (3.52%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.64%) Anypoint
4 6 (2.64%) JBoss
4 6 (2.64%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.32%) SAS
7 1 (0.44%) nginx
7 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.44%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 124 (54.63%) AWS
2 70 (30.84%) Azure
3 45 (19.82%) Serverless
4 44 (19.38%) AWS Lambda
5 34 (14.98%) Amazon S3
6 31 (13.66%) GCP
7 29 (12.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (11.45%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (8.81%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (6.61%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (5.73%) GitHub
12 10 (4.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 8 (3.52%) Apigee
13 8 (3.52%) PaaS
14 7 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (3.08%) Amazon Cognito
14 7 (3.08%) IaaS
15 6 (2.64%) AWS CodePipeline
15 6 (2.64%) SaaS
15 6 (2.64%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.61%) SAN
2 10 (4.41%) Firewall
3 8 (3.52%) AMQP
3 8 (3.52%) NAS
3 8 (3.52%) Network Security
4 7 (3.08%) HTTP
5 6 (2.64%) VPN
6 3 (1.32%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (1.32%) iSCSI
6 3 (1.32%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.88%) VSAN
8 1 (0.44%) IPv4
8 1 (0.44%) OSPF
8 1 (0.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (18.94%) Elasticsearch
2 39 (17.18%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (8.37%) NoSQL
4 18 (7.93%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (7.49%) MongoDB
6 15 (6.61%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (6.17%) InfluxDB
8 11 (4.85%) Relational Database
9 7 (3.08%) Triplestore
10 6 (2.64%) Big Data
10 6 (2.64%) Hadoop
11 5 (2.20%) RDBMS
12 4 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.76%) Informix
12 4 (1.76%) Oracle Database
13 3 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (1.32%) DataStax
13 3 (1.32%) DB2
13 3 (1.32%) MySQL
13 3 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 91 (40.09%) Jenkins
2 49 (21.59%) Git
3 33 (14.54%) GitLab
4 17 (7.49%) Artifactory
5 16 (7.05%) JIRA
5 16 (7.05%) Maven
6 15 (6.61%) Bitbucket
6 15 (6.61%) TeamCity
7 10 (4.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 10 (4.41%) Gradle
8 8 (3.52%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (3.08%) SonarQube
10 6 (2.64%) Cypress.io
11 5 (2.20%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (2.20%) CA Release Automation
12 4 (1.76%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.88%) Jaeger
13 2 (0.88%) webpack
14 1 (0.44%) IBM UrbanCode
14 1 (0.44%) Vagrant
General
1 52 (22.91%) Social Skills
2 33 (14.54%) Public Sector
3 27 (11.89%) Banking
4 17 (7.49%) Finance
5 12 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.52%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.20%) Front Office
8 3 (1.32%) Aviation
9 1 (0.44%) Advertising
9 1 (0.44%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.44%) Legal
9 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 62 (27.31%) DevOps Engineer
2 42 (18.50%) Developer
3 31 (13.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 27 (11.89%) Senior
5 22 (9.69%) Site Engineer
6 19 (8.37%) Java Developer
7 14 (6.17%) AWS Engineer
8 13 (5.73%) Data Engineer
8 13 (5.73%) Platform Engineer
9 12 (5.29%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (4.85%) Linux Engineer
10 11 (4.85%) Senior DevOps
10 11 (4.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 10 (4.41%) AWS DevOps
11 10 (4.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (3.96%) Software Engineer
13 8 (3.52%) Python Engineer
14 7 (3.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 7 (3.08%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (18.50%) REST
2 41 (18.06%) Kafka
3 32 (14.10%) AWS CDK
4 26 (11.45%) Spring
5 23 (10.13%) RabbitMQ
5 23 (10.13%) Spring Boot
6 21 (9.25%) Node.js
7 20 (8.81%) Elastic Stack
8 16 (7.05%) CSS
8 16 (7.05%) HTML
8 16 (7.05%) React
9 12 (5.29%) .NET
10 11 (4.85%) Swagger
11 10 (4.41%) PostGIS
12 8 (3.52%) Apache NiFi
12 8 (3.52%) GraphQL
13 7 (3.08%) Apache Jena
13 7 (3.08%) RAML
13 7 (3.08%) RESTful
13 7 (3.08%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 37 (16.30%) Cloud Native
2 16 (7.05%) Public Cloud
3 9 (3.96%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (3.52%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.20%) Replication
5 5 (2.20%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.76%) Private Cloud
6 4 (1.76%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.32%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.32%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.32%) NVMe
7 3 (1.32%) PKI
8 2 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.44%) Clustering
9 1 (0.44%) Derivative
9 1 (0.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.44%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.44%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 78 (34.36%) Linux
2 31 (13.66%) Windows
3 22 (9.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (9.25%) Unix
5 12 (5.29%) Windows Server
6 8 (3.52%) Ubuntu
7 6 (2.64%) VMS
8 3 (1.32%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.88%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (58.59%) DevOps
2 117 (51.54%) CI/CD
3 85 (37.44%) Agile
4 76 (33.48%) Containerisation
5 62 (27.31%) Microservices
6 55 (24.23%) Infrastructure as Code
7 52 (22.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 32 (14.10%) Continuous Integration
9 30 (13.22%) Software Engineering
10 29 (12.78%) GitOps
11 28 (12.33%) Task Automation
12 27 (11.89%) Test Automation
13 24 (10.57%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (10.13%) Scrum
15 22 (9.69%) Kanban
16 21 (9.25%) Migration
17 20 (8.81%) Code Quality
17 20 (8.81%) Observability
18 19 (8.37%) Configuration Management
19 18 (7.93%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 95 (41.85%) Python
2 58 (25.55%) Java
3 47 (20.70%) SQL
4 41 (18.06%) Bash
5 32 (14.10%) JavaScript
6 29 (12.78%) Perl
7 23 (10.13%) Groovy
7 23 (10.13%) TypeScript
8 19 (8.37%) Go
9 18 (7.93%) Shell Script
10 9 (3.96%) PowerShell
11 8 (3.52%) Ruby
12 7 (3.08%) C#
12 7 (3.08%) SPARQL
13 5 (2.20%) C
14 3 (1.32%) C++
15 2 (0.88%) Scala
16 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 77 (33.92%) Security Cleared
2 55 (24.23%) SC Cleared
3 20 (8.81%) DV Cleared
4 13 (5.73%) Degree
5 8 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.76%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.32%) OCP
7 3 (1.32%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.17%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.20%) QA
3 4 (1.76%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
System Software
1 131 (57.71%) Docker
2 13 (5.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (4.85%) VMware NSX
4 9 (3.96%) Active Directory
5 5 (2.20%) Firmware
5 5 (2.20%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.32%) GPFS
6 3 (1.32%) NFS
7 2 (0.88%) vCloud
8 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.44%) KVM
8 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 172 (75.77%) Kubernetes
2 77 (33.92%) Ansible
3 75 (33.04%) Terraform
4 69 (30.40%) Grafana
5 35 (15.42%) Prometheus
6 27 (11.89%) Kibana
7 24 (10.57%) Istio
8 23 (10.13%) Progress Chef
9 16 (7.05%) Argo
10 14 (6.17%) Puppet
11 11 (4.85%) Docker Swarm
12 9 (3.96%) Rancher
13 6 (2.64%) Podman
14 5 (2.20%) Dell DRAC
14 5 (2.20%) NetBackup
14 5 (2.20%) OPNET
15 3 (1.32%) PowerCLI
15 3 (1.32%) vCenter Server
15 3 (1.32%) Veritas Storage Foundation
16 2 (0.88%) Consul
Vendors
1 28 (12.33%) Red Hat
2 27 (11.89%) Google
3 22 (9.69%) Microsoft
3 22 (9.69%) VMware
4 20 (8.81%) Oracle
5 14 (6.17%) Splunk
6 8 (3.52%) Veritas
7 7 (3.08%) AppDynamics
8 6 (2.64%) CyberArk
8 6 (2.64%) Dell
8 6 (2.64%) MuleSoft
8 6 (2.64%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.64%) SAP
8 6 (2.64%) WSO2
9 5 (2.20%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.76%) IBM
11 3 (1.32%) Cisco
11 3 (1.32%) Commvault
11 3 (1.32%) EMC
11 3 (1.32%) NetApp