OpenShift Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Red Hat OpenShift
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring OpenShift skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 55 74
Rank change year-on-year -9 +19 +10
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 6 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 1.00% 0.21% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.50% 0.97% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £579 - -
25th Percentile £584 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £634 £538 -
90th Percentile £636 - -
South West median daily rate £550 £613 £671
% change year-on-year -10.20% -8.75% +11.88%

All Cloud Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 109 103 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 18.23% 21.68% 27.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 70 168
10th Percentile £400 £306 £250
25th Percentile £450 £475 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £563 £544
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +3.54% -3.76%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £626
90th Percentile £725 £689 £688
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £16.47 - £14.28
25th Percentile £19.54 - £14.33
Median hourly rate £22.50 - £14.36
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.21%
75th Percentile £23.75 - £14.46
90th Percentile - - £14.63
South West median hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% +46.34% -64.50%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

OpenShift job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

OpenShift
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing OpenShift.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Salisbury - 3 - -
Corsham -13 2 £600 +14.29% 4
OpenShift
South West

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (16.67%) Mocha
3 1 (16.67%) Snyk
3 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) Express.js
2 1 (16.67%) Jest
2 1 (16.67%) JWT
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) ModSecurity
2 1 (16.67%) NestJS
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
2 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (16.67%) Data Fabric
2 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 4 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) RBAC
2 3 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (50.00%) SIEM
2 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Secure Coding
4 1 (16.67%) Asynchronous Programming
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) DV Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) Azure Certification
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (50.00%) CISM
3 3 (50.00%) CISSP
3 3 (50.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (50.00%) NIST
1 3 (50.00%) NIST 800
2 1 (16.67%) JSP 440
2 1 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (83.33%) Terraform
3 2 (33.33%) Ansible
4 1 (16.67%) Grafana
4 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) IBM
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) Checkmarx
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Veracode