OpenShift Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Red Hat OpenShift
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring OpenShift skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 58 81
Rank change year-on-year -23 +23 +25
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.33% 0.35% 0.084%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.81% 0.79% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £363
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.95%
75th Percentile £525 - £369
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £472 - £525

All Cloud Computing Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 371 254 390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 40.86% 45.04% 32.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 166 275
10th Percentile £312 £266 £275
25th Percentile £413 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £543 £567 £600
90th Percentile £626 £713 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.05% -2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 5
10th Percentile - £23.46 -
25th Percentile £14.25 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £20.88 £32.81 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.38% +118.73% -70.00%
75th Percentile £74.00 £96.64 -
90th Percentile £92.00 £102.00 £43.20
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £32.81 £15.00
% change year-on-year +72.20% +118.73% -63.64%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

OpenShift job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

OpenShift
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing OpenShift.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 8 February 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
Leeds -23 3 £500 - 2
OpenShift
Yorkshire

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) NAS
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
1 2 (66.67%) GitOps
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Observability
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Product Management
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (66.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle