OpenShift Contracts in England

Red Hat OpenShift
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 411 327 337
Rank change year-on-year -84 +10 -20
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 135 354 541
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.73% 0.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.16% 2.01% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 264 356
10th Percentile £356 £482 £463
25th Percentile £419 £545 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.77% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £628 £788 £700
90th Percentile £725 £848 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £65.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -46.36% - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £60.55 £46.32
% change year-on-year -42.20% +30.72% +15.80%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,637 17,628 26,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.00% 36.51% 38.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,389 12,914 19,919
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £415 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 293 344
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.37
Median hourly rate £21.00 £32.30 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.98% +50.23% -
75th Percentile £34.38 £67.50 £51.38
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £74.85
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing OpenShift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in England

OpenShift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenShift in England.

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in England

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in England

OpenShift
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OpenShift in England.

Hourly rate trend for OpenShift in England

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the England region over the 6 months to 15 May 2024. 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
London -27 59 £550 -24.14% 13
South East +14 38 £488 -19.37% 9
South West -2 24 £550 -8.33% 15
Midlands +37 7 £356 -
North West -1 6 £463 -7.48% 1
North of England -23 6 £463 -22.92% 1
East Midlands - 6 £356 -
West Midlands +18 1 £450 -
OpenShift
UK

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (6.67%) Apache
2 7 (5.19%) OpenStack
3 6 (4.44%) Confluence
3 6 (4.44%) JBoss
4 5 (3.70%) Anypoint
4 5 (3.70%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.74%) nginx
6 1 (0.74%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 66 (48.89%) AWS
2 48 (35.56%) Azure
3 19 (14.07%) GCP
4 18 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
4 18 (13.33%) Serverless
5 11 (8.15%) GitHub
6 8 (5.93%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (5.19%) Amazon Cognito
7 7 (5.19%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (5.19%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.70%) Apigee
8 5 (3.70%) PaaS
8 5 (3.70%) SaaS
9 4 (2.96%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.22%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.74%) Amazon Macie
11 1 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.74%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.19%) AMQP
1 7 (5.19%) HTTP
2 6 (4.44%) Network Security
3 5 (3.70%) Firewall
3 5 (3.70%) SAN
3 5 (3.70%) VPN
4 2 (1.48%) VSAN
5 1 (0.74%) 4G
5 1 (0.74%) 5G
5 1 (0.74%) IPv4
5 1 (0.74%) NAS
5 1 (0.74%) OSPF
5 1 (0.74%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (14.81%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (8.89%) NoSQL
3 10 (7.41%) Relational Database
4 9 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (5.93%) MongoDB
6 7 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (5.19%) InfluxDB
6 7 (5.19%) Triplestore
7 5 (3.70%) RDBMS
8 4 (2.96%) Oracle Database
9 3 (2.22%) Big Data
9 3 (2.22%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.22%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.48%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.48%) DataStax
10 2 (1.48%) MySQL
11 1 (0.74%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.74%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 43 (31.85%) Jenkins
2 23 (17.04%) Git
3 17 (12.59%) GitLab
4 13 (9.63%) JIRA
4 13 (9.63%) TeamCity
5 11 (8.15%) Bitbucket
6 8 (5.93%) Artifactory
7 7 (5.19%) Maven
8 6 (4.44%) SonarQube
8 6 (4.44%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (3.70%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (3.70%) CA Release Automation
10 4 (2.96%) Cucumber
10 4 (2.96%) Gradle
11 3 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (2.22%) Cypress.io
12 2 (1.48%) Jaeger
13 1 (0.74%) Ant
13 1 (0.74%) JUnit
13 1 (0.74%) Selenium
General
1 24 (17.78%) Social Skills
2 11 (8.15%) Finance
3 10 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.67%) Banking
5 5 (3.70%) Front Office
6 4 (2.96%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.22%) Aviation
8 1 (0.74%) Advertising
8 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (25.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (16.30%) Developer
3 21 (15.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 16 (11.85%) Site Engineer
5 13 (9.63%) Senior
6 10 (7.41%) Java Developer
7 9 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (5.93%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (4.44%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (4.44%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 6 (4.44%) Software Engineer
10 5 (3.70%) AWS DevOps
10 5 (3.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.70%) Lead
10 5 (3.70%) MuleSoft Developer
10 5 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (3.70%) Support Engineer
11 4 (2.96%) Operations Engineer
11 4 (2.96%) Testing Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (20.00%) Kafka
2 24 (17.78%) REST
3 15 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (9.63%) Node.js
4 13 (9.63%) RabbitMQ
4 13 (9.63%) Spring
5 12 (8.89%) Spring Boot
6 10 (7.41%) .NET
6 10 (7.41%) Swagger
7 8 (5.93%) CSS
7 8 (5.93%) GraphQL
7 8 (5.93%) HTML
8 7 (5.19%) Apache Jena
8 7 (5.19%) Apache NiFi
8 7 (5.19%) PostGIS
8 7 (5.19%) React
8 7 (5.19%) YAML
9 6 (4.44%) RAML
9 6 (4.44%) SOAP
10 5 (3.70%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 25 (18.52%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.63%) Public Cloud
3 8 (5.93%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (2.96%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.22%) PKI
6 2 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.48%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.48%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.74%) Derivative
7 1 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.74%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.74%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 51 (37.78%) Linux
2 14 (10.37%) Windows
3 11 (8.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.70%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.22%) Unix
6 2 (1.48%) Solaris
6 2 (1.48%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (56.30%) DevOps
2 68 (50.37%) CI/CD
3 55 (40.74%) Containerisation
4 47 (34.81%) Agile
5 46 (34.07%) Microservices
6 35 (25.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 24 (17.78%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (16.30%) Software Engineering
9 20 (14.81%) GitOps
10 18 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (13.33%) Task Automation
11 15 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
11 15 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (10.37%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (9.63%) ITSM
13 13 (9.63%) Test Automation
14 12 (8.89%) Configuration Management
14 12 (8.89%) Migration
15 11 (8.15%) Problem-Solving
15 11 (8.15%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 48 (35.56%) Python
2 33 (24.44%) Java
3 24 (17.78%) SQL
4 20 (14.81%) JavaScript
5 14 (10.37%) Bash
6 13 (9.63%) Perl
7 10 (7.41%) Go
7 10 (7.41%) Groovy
7 10 (7.41%) Shell Script
8 7 (5.19%) SPARQL
9 6 (4.44%) C#
9 6 (4.44%) PowerShell
10 5 (3.70%) TypeScript
11 4 (2.96%) C
12 3 (2.22%) C++
13 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (48.89%) Security Cleared
2 49 (36.30%) SC Cleared
3 15 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.93%) Degree
5 4 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.22%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.74%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.74%) OCP
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 79 (58.52%) Docker
2 11 (8.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (7.41%) VMware NSX
4 9 (6.67%) Active Directory
5 5 (3.70%) Firmware
6 4 (2.96%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.48%) vCloud
7 2 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.74%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 111 (82.22%) Kubernetes
2 47 (34.81%) Terraform
3 40 (29.63%) Ansible
4 30 (22.22%) Grafana
5 24 (17.78%) Prometheus
6 21 (15.56%) Istio
6 21 (15.56%) Progress Chef
7 15 (11.11%) Kibana
8 11 (8.15%) Argo
8 11 (8.15%) Puppet
9 9 (6.67%) Docker Swarm
9 9 (6.67%) Rancher
10 6 (4.44%) Podman
11 5 (3.70%) Dell DRAC
12 4 (2.96%) OPNET
13 2 (1.48%) PowerCLI
13 2 (1.48%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (1.48%) vCenter Server
14 1 (0.74%) linkerd
14 1 (0.74%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 22 (16.30%) Red Hat
2 21 (15.56%) VMware
3 19 (14.07%) Microsoft
4 18 (13.33%) Google
5 14 (10.37%) Splunk
6 12 (8.89%) Oracle
7 7 (5.19%) AppDynamics
8 6 (4.44%) CyberArk
8 6 (4.44%) Dell
9 5 (3.70%) MuleSoft
9 5 (3.70%) Salesforce
9 5 (3.70%) SAP
9 5 (3.70%) WSO2
10 4 (2.96%) Atlassian
11 2 (1.48%) Checkmarx
11 2 (1.48%) Cisco
11 2 (1.48%) Confluent
11 2 (1.48%) SolarWinds
12 1 (0.74%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.74%) Veracode