OpenShift Contracts in the South East

Red Hat OpenShift
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 153 161 183
Rank change year-on-year +8 +22 -27
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 40 45 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.74% 0.81% 0.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.07% 2.68% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 40 52
10th Percentile £343 £425 £464
25th Percentile £459 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £615 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.03% +11.82% +15.79%
75th Percentile £594 £741 £632
90th Percentile £630 £763 £686
England median daily rate £525 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -19.23% +8.33% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £65.25 -
% change year-on-year -46.36% - -

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,304 1,679 2,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 23.97% 30.05% 31.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 895 1,227 1,777
10th Percentile £250 £252 £205
25th Percentile £406 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £631 £613
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 50 59
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.21 £13.19
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.22 £23.65 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -1.84% +12.35% -2.21%
75th Percentile £54.75 £68.44 £30.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.08 £56.63
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% +0.76%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing OpenShift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenShift in the South East.

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in the South East over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OpenShift in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for OpenShift in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 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
Thames Valley +10 31 £493 -32.00% 4
Berkshire +4 29 £491 -10.79% 4
Hampshire -11 6 £683 +30.00% 4
Buckinghamshire +23 2 £625 -15.25%
West Sussex +6 2 £475 -34.93% 3
Surrey +8 1 £460 -23.97% 1
OpenShift
England

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (2.50%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 17 (42.50%) Azure
2 10 (25.00%) AWS
3 8 (20.00%) GCP
4 3 (7.50%) PaaS
5 2 (5.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (22.50%) Elasticsearch
1 9 (22.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 4 (10.00%) Artifactory
3 3 (7.50%) Git
3 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.50%) JIRA
4 1 (2.50%) Maven
4 1 (2.50%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Advertising
4 1 (2.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (35.00%) Site Engineer
1 14 (35.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (12.50%) Senior
3 3 (7.50%) Developer
4 2 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Full Stack Developer
4 2 (5.00%) Junior
4 2 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) Java Developer
5 1 (2.50%) Lead
5 1 (2.50%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.00%) Kafka
2 4 (10.00%) YAML
3 2 (5.00%) Fluent Bit
3 2 (5.00%) Loki
3 2 (5.00%) Node.js
4 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.50%) CSS
4 1 (2.50%) HTML
4 1 (2.50%) jQuery
4 1 (2.50%) React
4 1 (2.50%) Spring
4 1 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (47.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.50%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.00%) Linux
2 3 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.00%) Solaris
3 2 (5.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (62.50%) DevOps
2 24 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 19 (47.50%) GitOps
4 18 (45.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 15 (37.50%) Collaborative Working
6 14 (35.00%) Task Automation
7 13 (32.50%) ITSM
7 13 (32.50%) Microservices
8 12 (30.00%) Agile
9 11 (27.50%) Software Engineering
10 10 (25.00%) CI/CD
10 10 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
11 9 (22.50%) Performance Tuning
12 8 (20.00%) Change Management
12 8 (20.00%) Incident Response
13 7 (17.50%) Performance Optimisation
13 7 (17.50%) Time Management
13 7 (17.50%) Translating Business Requirements
14 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.50%) Python
2 4 (10.00%) Bash
3 3 (7.50%) Java
4 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.50%) C#
5 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 23 (57.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.00%) Degree
3 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 11 (27.50%) Docker
2 2 (5.00%) vCloud
2 2 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (70.00%) Kubernetes
2 20 (50.00%) Istio
3 15 (37.50%) Grafana
4 14 (35.00%) Terraform
5 11 (27.50%) Argo
5 11 (27.50%) Prometheus
6 9 (22.50%) Kibana
6 9 (22.50%) Rancher
7 5 (12.50%) Ansible
8 2 (5.00%) Kustomize
8 2 (5.00%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (5.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (35.00%) Red Hat
2 8 (20.00%) VMware
3 7 (17.50%) Google
4 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.00%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.50%) Checkmarx