OpenShift Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for OpenShift skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OpenShift over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 275 267 299
Rank change year-on-year -8 +32 -38
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 73 205 372
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.50% 0.85% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.36% 2.16% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 153 268
10th Percentile £366 £460 £450
25th Percentile £428 £508 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.67% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £713 £699
90th Percentile £640 £834 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.13% - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £73.00 £46.32
% change year-on-year -52.05% +57.60% +17.27%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

OpenShift is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,368 9,475 18,176
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.67% 39.32% 41.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,889 7,071 13,595
10th Percentile £350 £371 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 133 157
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.23 £15.02
25th Percentile £17.43 £21.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £53.35 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.27% +33.38% +4.22%
75th Percentile £53.19 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.34
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
% change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%

OpenShift
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing OpenShift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OpenShift trend for jobs with a WFH option

OpenShift
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing OpenShift over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 4 (5.48%) Confluence
1 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.11%) Apache
2 3 (4.11%) JBoss
2 3 (4.11%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.37%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.37%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 45 (61.64%) AWS
2 19 (26.03%) Azure
3 18 (24.66%) AWS CloudFormation
3 18 (24.66%) Serverless
4 17 (23.29%) Amazon S3
4 17 (23.29%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (17.81%) GCP
6 12 (16.44%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (15.07%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (12.33%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (10.96%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 5 (6.85%) GitHub
10 5 (6.85%) IaaS
11 4 (5.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (5.48%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (5.48%) Textract
12 3 (4.11%) Amazon Cognito
12 3 (4.11%) Apigee
12 3 (4.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (4.11%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.85%) SAN
2 4 (5.48%) Firewall
3 3 (4.11%) HTTP
3 3 (4.11%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.37%) NAS
4 1 (1.37%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (26.03%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (21.92%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (16.44%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (9.59%) MongoDB
5 6 (8.22%) NoSQL
6 5 (6.85%) InfluxDB
7 4 (5.48%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (4.11%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (4.11%) DataStax
8 3 (4.11%) Informix
8 3 (4.11%) Oracle Database
8 3 (4.11%) RDBMS
8 3 (4.11%) Relational Database
8 3 (4.11%) Triplestore
9 1 (1.37%) Couchbase
9 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (49.32%) Jenkins
2 19 (26.03%) GitLab
3 18 (24.66%) Git
4 11 (15.07%) Artifactory
5 8 (10.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 7 (9.59%) JIRA
7 6 (8.22%) Bitbucket
8 5 (6.85%) SonarQube
8 5 (6.85%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (5.48%) TeamCity
10 3 (4.11%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (4.11%) CA Release Automation
10 3 (4.11%) Gradle
11 2 (2.74%) Cypress.io
11 2 (2.74%) Maven
11 2 (2.74%) webpack
12 1 (1.37%) Hudson
12 1 (1.37%) Vagrant
General
1 25 (34.25%) Social Skills
2 18 (24.66%) Public Sector
3 10 (13.70%) Finance
4 8 (10.96%) Banking
5 3 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (32.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (23.29%) Developer
3 10 (13.70%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (10.96%) Senior
5 7 (9.59%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Java Developer
7 5 (6.85%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (6.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Lead
7 5 (6.85%) Linux Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Full Stack Developer
8 4 (5.48%) Software Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Consultant
9 3 (4.11%) Linux DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Linux/Unix DevOps
9 3 (4.11%) Senior Data Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (26.03%) AWS CDK
2 18 (24.66%) REST
3 15 (20.55%) Spring Boot
4 14 (19.18%) Spring
5 11 (15.07%) CSS
5 11 (15.07%) HTML
6 9 (12.33%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (12.33%) Kafka
6 9 (12.33%) Node.js
6 9 (12.33%) React
7 8 (10.96%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (6.85%) Spring MVC
8 5 (6.85%) Spring Web Flow
8 5 (6.85%) Thymeleaf
9 4 (5.48%) Apache NiFi
9 4 (5.48%) OAuth
9 4 (5.48%) OAuth2
9 4 (5.48%) Spring Security
10 3 (4.11%) Apache Jena
10 3 (4.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.48%) Cloud Native
1 4 (5.48%) Replication
2 3 (4.11%) Distributed Applications
2 3 (4.11%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.74%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.74%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 32 (43.84%) Linux
2 13 (17.81%) Windows
3 12 (16.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (9.59%) Ubuntu
5 5 (6.85%) Windows Server
6 3 (4.11%) Unix
7 2 (2.74%) Solaris
7 2 (2.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (72.60%) DevOps
2 46 (63.01%) CI/CD
3 36 (49.32%) Agile
4 27 (36.99%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (35.62%) Containerisation
6 17 (23.29%) Microservices
7 15 (20.55%) Kanban
7 15 (20.55%) Scrum
8 14 (19.18%) Code Quality
9 13 (17.81%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (17.81%) Test Automation
10 11 (15.07%) Community of Practice
11 10 (13.70%) Roadmaps
12 9 (12.33%) Analytics
12 9 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (12.33%) Task Automation
12 9 (12.33%) TDD
12 9 (12.33%) User Experience
13 8 (10.96%) Code Coverage
13 8 (10.96%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 33 (45.21%) Python
2 22 (30.14%) Bash
3 21 (28.77%) Java
4 14 (19.18%) JavaScript
4 14 (19.18%) Perl
4 14 (19.18%) TypeScript
5 11 (15.07%) SQL
6 10 (13.70%) Go
7 7 (9.59%) Groovy
8 3 (4.11%) Shell Script
8 3 (4.11%) SPARQL
9 2 (2.74%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (15.07%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.96%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (6.85%) Degree
4 3 (4.11%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.74%) OCP
5 2 (2.74%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.44%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.11%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.74%) QA
System Software
1 39 (53.42%) Docker
2 7 (9.59%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.48%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (5.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.48%) VMware NSX
4 3 (4.11%) Firmware
5 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (67.12%) Kubernetes
2 31 (42.47%) Ansible
3 24 (32.88%) Grafana
4 17 (23.29%) Terraform
5 12 (16.44%) Kibana
6 8 (10.96%) Progress Chef
7 7 (9.59%) Puppet
8 5 (6.85%) Prometheus
9 4 (5.48%) Argo
10 3 (4.11%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (2.74%) Istio
11 2 (2.74%) Kustomize
11 2 (2.74%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (1.37%) Consul
12 1 (1.37%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (1.37%) NetBackup
12 1 (1.37%) Packer
12 1 (1.37%) Rundeck
12 1 (1.37%) Salt
Vendors
1 11 (15.07%) Red Hat
2 10 (13.70%) Oracle
3 6 (8.22%) VMware
4 5 (6.85%) Google
4 5 (6.85%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.48%) CyberArk
6 3 (4.11%) AppDynamics
6 3 (4.11%) Confluent
6 3 (4.11%) Dell
6 3 (4.11%) Splunk
7 2 (2.74%) Commvault
7 2 (2.74%) Mercator
7 2 (2.74%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.37%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.37%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.37%) SAP
8 1 (1.37%) Veritas
8 1 (1.37%) WSO2