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 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 238 256 284
Rank change year-on-year +18 +28 -19
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 78 85 146
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.77% 0.64% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.86% 1.71% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 64 112
10th Percentile £412 £368 £451
25th Percentile £420 £435 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £494 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.81% -14.09% +0.88%
75th Percentile £638 £556 £756
90th Percentile £838 £709 £844
UK median daily rate £546 £508 £575
% change year-on-year +7.38% -11.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -50.00% -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £71.50
% change year-on-year - -51.05% +54.36%

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 4,185 4,981 8,822
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 41.30% 37.73% 39.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,934 3,528 6,533
10th Percentile £340 £345 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £754 £775 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 53 134
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.70 £16.33
25th Percentile £28.75 £18.50 £21.48
Median hourly rate £41.25 £36.00 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -10.56% +13.38%
75th Percentile £68.06 £62.00 £68.06
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.38 £23.80 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.02% -32.00% +59.09%

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 4 August 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 7 (8.97%) JBoss
2 6 (7.69%) Apache
3 5 (6.41%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (6.41%) Apache Spark
4 3 (3.85%) OpenStack
5 2 (2.56%) Confluence
5 2 (2.56%) Tomcat
5 2 (2.56%) WebSphere
6 1 (1.28%) CICS
6 1 (1.28%) IIS
6 1 (1.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (1.28%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (1.28%) WebLogic
6 1 (1.28%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 3 (3.85%) Maximo
2 1 (1.28%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (1.28%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 25 (32.05%) AWS
2 20 (25.64%) Azure
3 16 (20.51%) GitHub
4 10 (12.82%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (10.26%) Serverless
6 7 (8.97%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (8.97%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (6.41%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (6.41%) Azure AKS
8 5 (6.41%) dbt
8 5 (6.41%) GCP
9 4 (5.13%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (5.13%) Azure Machine Learning
9 4 (5.13%) Vertex AI
10 3 (3.85%) IaaS
10 3 (3.85%) Kong
11 2 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.85%) BGP
1 3 (3.85%) DNS
1 3 (3.85%) Firewall
2 2 (2.56%) 3GPP
2 2 (2.56%) Anycast
2 2 (2.56%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (2.56%) Kerberos
2 2 (2.56%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (2.56%) SNMP
2 2 (2.56%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (2.56%) VXLAN
3 1 (1.28%) HTTP
3 1 (1.28%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.28%) LAN
3 1 (1.28%) NAS
3 1 (1.28%) Network Security
3 1 (1.28%) SAN
3 1 (1.28%) SMTP
3 1 (1.28%) SSL
3 1 (1.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.10%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (12.82%) MongoDB
2 10 (12.82%) Redis
3 7 (8.97%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (7.69%) NoSQL
5 5 (6.41%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (6.41%) Apache Arrow
5 5 (6.41%) Apache Iceberg
5 5 (6.41%) Apache Ignite
5 5 (6.41%) Dremio
6 4 (5.13%) DynamoDB
6 4 (5.13%) RDBMS
6 4 (5.13%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.85%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (3.85%) Hazelcast
8 2 (2.56%) MySQL
8 2 (2.56%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.28%) DB2
9 1 (1.28%) NonStop SQL
9 1 (1.28%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 33 (42.31%) Jenkins
2 22 (28.21%) Git
3 13 (16.67%) JIRA
4 11 (14.10%) SonarQube
5 8 (10.26%) GitLab
6 7 (8.97%) JUnit
6 7 (8.97%) Maven
7 6 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (6.41%) Artifactory
8 5 (6.41%) Snyk
9 4 (5.13%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (5.13%) CA Release Automation
9 4 (5.13%) Gatling
9 4 (5.13%) JMeter
9 4 (5.13%) Mockito
9 4 (5.13%) TeamCity
10 3 (3.85%) Cucumber
10 3 (3.85%) Cypress.io
11 2 (2.56%) Eclipse
11 2 (2.56%) Gradle
General
1 20 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 19 (24.36%) Finance
3 9 (11.54%) Banking
4 7 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.97%) Front Office
5 4 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.13%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.56%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.28%) Legal
8 1 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (29.49%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (15.38%) Developer
3 10 (12.82%) Architect
4 8 (10.26%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (10.26%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (10.26%) Python Engineer
5 6 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 6 (7.69%) Senior
5 6 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (6.41%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (6.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.41%) Data Engineer
6 5 (6.41%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 3 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (3.85%) DevOps Specialist
7 3 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.85%) Maximo Architect
8 2 (2.56%) Cloud Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.56%) Network Design Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (26.92%) Kafka
2 13 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (16.67%) Spring
2 13 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 11 (14.10%) Keycloak
4 8 (10.26%) J2EE
4 8 (10.26%) RESTful
5 7 (8.97%) React
5 7 (8.97%) REST
5 7 (8.97%) YAML
6 6 (7.69%) Spring Cloud
7 5 (6.41%) JSON
7 5 (6.41%) Middleware
7 5 (6.41%) PySpark
8 4 (5.13%) AngularJS
8 4 (5.13%) PyTorch
8 4 (5.13%) scikit-learn
8 4 (5.13%) TensorFlow
9 3 (3.85%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (3.85%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.26%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.97%) Private Cloud
3 3 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.56%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.28%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.28%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.28%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.28%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.28%) Tandem
5 1 (1.28%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 26 (33.33%) Linux
2 9 (11.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (7.69%) Unix
3 6 (7.69%) Windows
4 5 (6.41%) VMS
5 2 (2.56%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.28%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.28%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (61.54%) CI/CD
2 44 (56.41%) DevOps
3 35 (44.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (35.90%) Containerisation
5 23 (29.49%) Migration
6 21 (26.92%) Agile
7 17 (21.79%) Microservices
8 16 (20.51%) Platform Engineering
8 16 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (12.82%) Configuration Management
9 10 (12.82%) Deployment Automation
9 10 (12.82%) Observability
10 9 (11.54%) Software Engineering
11 8 (10.26%) Artificial Intelligence
11 8 (10.26%) DevSecOps
11 8 (10.26%) Machine Learning
12 7 (8.97%) Scrum
12 7 (8.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 7 (8.97%) Task Automation
13 6 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 47 (60.26%) Python
2 25 (32.05%) Bash
2 25 (32.05%) Java
3 12 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 9 (11.54%) Perl
4 9 (11.54%) SQL
5 7 (8.97%) Go
6 6 (7.69%) C#
6 6 (7.69%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.56%) C
7 2 (2.56%) COBOL
7 2 (2.56%) Ruby
7 2 (2.56%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.56%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.28%) C++
8 1 (1.28%) Groovy
8 1 (1.28%) JCL
8 1 (1.28%) PHP
8 1 (1.28%) REXX
8 1 (1.28%) VB
Qualifications
1 28 (35.90%) Security Cleared
2 26 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.13%) Degree
4 3 (3.85%) CCIE
4 3 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.85%) JNCIE
4 3 (3.85%) OCP
4 3 (3.85%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (2.56%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.56%) CISSP
6 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.28%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.28%) OCA
6 1 (1.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.56%) QA
2 1 (1.28%) ISO 15022
2 1 (1.28%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 31 (39.74%) Docker
2 4 (5.13%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.28%) KVM
4 1 (1.28%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.28%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 60 (76.92%) Kubernetes
2 40 (51.28%) Ansible
3 36 (46.15%) Terraform
4 16 (20.51%) Prometheus
5 15 (19.23%) Grafana
6 9 (11.54%) Istio
7 8 (10.26%) Progress Chef
8 7 (8.97%) Argo
9 6 (7.69%) Kibana
9 6 (7.69%) Packer
10 3 (3.85%) Cilium
10 3 (3.85%) Control-M
10 3 (3.85%) Puppet
10 3 (3.85%) Rsyslog
10 3 (3.85%) Rundeck
10 3 (3.85%) SCOM
11 2 (2.56%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (1.28%) Nagios
12 1 (1.28%) NetBackup
12 1 (1.28%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 35 (44.87%) Red Hat
2 13 (16.67%) Splunk
3 7 (8.97%) Oracle
4 5 (6.41%) AppDynamics
4 5 (6.41%) IBM
5 4 (5.13%) Cisco
5 4 (5.13%) VMware
6 3 (3.85%) NVIDIA
7 2 (2.56%) Arista
7 2 (2.56%) Google
7 2 (2.56%) Veritas
7 2 (2.56%) Wind River
8 1 (1.28%) F5
8 1 (1.28%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.28%) HP
8 1 (1.28%) Juniper
8 1 (1.28%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.28%) New Relic
8 1 (1.28%) OpenLink
8 1 (1.28%) Qualys