OpenShift Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Red Hat OpenShift
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 271 269
Rank change year-on-year +36 -2 +41
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 69 74 218
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.70% 0.48% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.75% 1.33% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 61 161
10th Percentile £425 £388 £450
25th Percentile £514 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £480 £570
Median % change year-on-year +61.46% -15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £838 £550 £638
90th Percentile - £600 £775
UK median daily rate £613 £506 £600
% change year-on-year +21.05% -15.67% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.75
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - -39.13% -
75th Percentile - - £61.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £59.03
% change year-on-year - -40.70% +27.43%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

OpenShift falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

OpenShift
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing OpenShift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OpenShift trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

OpenShift
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing OpenShift.

OpenShift daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing OpenShift over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

OpenShift daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

OpenShift
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing OpenShift.

OpenShift hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 29 (42.03%) Apache
2 28 (40.58%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (40.58%) Apache Spark
3 5 (7.25%) OpenStack
4 3 (4.35%) JBoss
5 1 (1.45%) CICS
5 1 (1.45%) Confluence
5 1 (1.45%) IIS
5 1 (1.45%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Endur
2 1 (1.45%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 46 (66.67%) AWS
2 38 (55.07%) Serverless
3 36 (52.17%) AWS Lambda
4 32 (46.38%) Amazon ECS
5 28 (40.58%) dbt
6 10 (14.49%) Azure
7 7 (10.14%) Amazon S3
7 7 (10.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (8.70%) AWS CodePipeline
8 6 (8.70%) GitHub
9 4 (5.80%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (5.80%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 4 (5.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 4 (5.80%) AWS CodeBuild
9 4 (5.80%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 4 (5.80%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (5.80%) Route 53
10 3 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (4.35%) GCP
10 3 (4.35%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.25%) Firewall
2 2 (2.90%) BGP
2 2 (2.90%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (2.90%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (2.90%) Multicast
2 2 (2.90%) NX-OS
2 2 (2.90%) OSPF
2 2 (2.90%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.90%) VXLAN
3 1 (1.45%) DNS
3 1 (1.45%) HTTP
3 1 (1.45%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.45%) NAS
3 1 (1.45%) Network Security
3 1 (1.45%) SAN
3 1 (1.45%) SMTP
3 1 (1.45%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (40.58%) Amazon Athena
1 28 (40.58%) Apache Arrow
1 28 (40.58%) Apache Iceberg
1 28 (40.58%) Apache Ignite
1 28 (40.58%) Dremio
2 10 (14.49%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (13.04%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (7.25%) Redis
5 4 (5.80%) Relational Database
6 3 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (4.35%) Hazelcast
6 3 (4.35%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.90%) InfluxDB
7 2 (2.90%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.90%) MySQL
7 2 (2.90%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (44.93%) Artifactory
2 17 (24.64%) Jenkins
3 15 (21.74%) Git
4 5 (7.25%) GitLab
4 5 (7.25%) JIRA
4 5 (7.25%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (5.80%) SonarQube
6 3 (4.35%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (4.35%) CA Release Automation
6 3 (4.35%) Maven
6 3 (4.35%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.90%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.45%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.45%) git-flow
8 1 (1.45%) Postman
8 1 (1.45%) Subversion
General
1 41 (59.42%) Finance
2 28 (40.58%) Front Office
3 7 (10.14%) Banking
4 6 (8.70%) Social Skills
5 5 (7.25%) Investment Banking
5 5 (7.25%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.35%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.90%) Legal
Job Titles
1 38 (55.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (49.28%) AWS Engineer
3 31 (44.93%) Python Engineer
4 30 (43.48%) Data Engineer
5 28 (40.58%) AWS DevOps
5 28 (40.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Developer
6 4 (5.80%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) DevOps Specialist
7 3 (4.35%) Lead
7 3 (4.35%) Senior
8 2 (2.90%) Consultant
8 2 (2.90%) Endur Developer
8 2 (2.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) Network Consultant
8 2 (2.90%) OpenLink Developer
8 2 (2.90%) Ruby Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (47.83%) Kafka
2 31 (44.93%) J2EE
3 28 (40.58%) PySpark
4 7 (10.14%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (8.70%) AWS CDK
6 4 (5.80%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (5.80%) Spring
7 3 (4.35%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (4.35%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.35%) REST
7 3 (4.35%) Spring Boot
8 2 (2.90%) .NET
8 2 (2.90%) PostGIS
8 2 (2.90%) React
9 1 (1.45%) LAMP
9 1 (1.45%) Middleware
9 1 (1.45%) Node.js
9 1 (1.45%) Web Services
9 1 (1.45%) WF
9 1 (1.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.80%) Private Cloud
2 2 (2.90%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.45%) Blockchain
3 1 (1.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.45%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.45%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 17 (24.64%) Linux
2 9 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (7.25%) Windows
4 3 (4.35%) Ubuntu
4 3 (4.35%) Unix
4 3 (4.35%) VMS
5 2 (2.90%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.45%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (79.71%) DevOps
2 54 (78.26%) CI/CD
3 37 (53.62%) Agile
4 30 (43.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 29 (42.03%) Data Engineering
5 29 (42.03%) Software Engineering
6 28 (40.58%) Asset Management
6 28 (40.58%) Open Source
7 16 (23.19%) Containerisation
8 14 (20.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (17.39%) Migration
10 10 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (13.04%) Microservices
12 8 (11.59%) Deployment Automation
13 7 (10.14%) Scrum
14 6 (8.70%) Code Quality
14 6 (8.70%) High Availability
14 6 (8.70%) Kanban
14 6 (8.70%) Platform Engineering
14 6 (8.70%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 56 (81.16%) Python
2 33 (47.83%) Java
3 29 (42.03%) Go
4 17 (24.64%) Bash
5 7 (10.14%) Perl
6 6 (8.70%) PowerShell
7 5 (7.25%) SQL
8 4 (5.80%) Groovy
9 3 (4.35%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.90%) C#
10 2 (2.90%) Ruby
11 1 (1.45%) COBOL
11 1 (1.45%) JCL
11 1 (1.45%) PHP
11 1 (1.45%) REXX
11 1 (1.45%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.45%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (10.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.35%) Degree
3 3 (4.35%) RHCSA
4 2 (2.90%) CCIE
4 2 (2.90%) CCIE Data Center
4 2 (2.90%) CCNP
4 2 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.90%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.45%) OCP
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.45%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.45%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 50 (72.46%) Docker
2 7 (10.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.35%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.90%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (2.90%) vSphere
5 1 (1.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 56 (81.16%) Kubernetes
2 43 (62.32%) Terraform
3 22 (31.88%) Ansible
4 12 (17.39%) Grafana
5 9 (13.04%) Progress Chef
6 7 (10.14%) Kibana
6 7 (10.14%) Prometheus
7 4 (5.80%) Istio
8 3 (4.35%) Control-M
8 3 (4.35%) Puppet
8 3 (4.35%) Rundeck
9 2 (2.90%) Argo
9 2 (2.90%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (1.45%) Consul
10 1 (1.45%) linkerd
10 1 (1.45%) logstash
10 1 (1.45%) NetBackup
10 1 (1.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (1.45%) Packer
Vendors
1 16 (23.19%) Red Hat
2 9 (13.04%) Splunk
2 9 (13.04%) VMware
3 5 (7.25%) AppDynamics
4 3 (4.35%) Cisco
4 3 (4.35%) Imperva
4 3 (4.35%) Veritas
5 2 (2.90%) OpenLink
5 2 (2.90%) Oracle
6 1 (1.45%) Google
6 1 (1.45%) New Relic