OpenShift Contracts in the West Midlands

Red Hat OpenShift
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 107 120
Rank change year-on-year -1 +13 +52
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 3 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.18% 0.054% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.59% 0.21% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £529 - £581
25th Percentile £534 - £598
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £450 £650
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -30.77% +18.18%
75th Percentile £584 - £731
90th Percentile £586 - £765
England median daily rate £550 £533 £668
% change year-on-year +3.19% -20.15% +6.80%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 512 487 807
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.97% 26.13% 37.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 359 590
10th Percentile £275 £213 £210
25th Percentile £400 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -4.04%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 5
10th Percentile £17.36 £14.19 £16.74
25th Percentile £24.37 £14.69 £17.50
Median hourly rate £33.88 £19.25 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +76.00% -1.28% +11.43%
75th Percentile £46.62 £31.39 £24.00
90th Percentile £59.20 £44.47 £25.13
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £33.90
% change year-on-year +11.78% -33.62% +57.66%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing OpenShift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in the West Midlands

OpenShift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in the West Midlands

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 August 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
Birmingham - 1 £550 - 5
Shropshire - 1 - -
Worcestershire - 1 £575 - 1
OpenShift
England

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (33.33%) JBoss
1 1 (33.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Datadog
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (33.33%) npm
3 1 (33.33%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
1 2 (66.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (33.33%) CA Release Automation
2 1 (33.33%) CircleCI
2 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Gradle
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Snyk
2 1 (33.33%) TeamCity
2 1 (33.33%) webpack
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Build Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) Go
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef
2 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Kibana
3 1 (33.33%) Podman
3 1 (33.33%) Puppet
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) AppDynamics
2 1 (33.33%) Commvault
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) Veeam