OpenShift Contracts in the Thames Valley

Red Hat OpenShift
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 125 142
Rank change year-on-year +29 +17 -43
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 34 20 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.29% 0.70% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.63% 2.36% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 15 17
10th Percentile £338 £455 £470
25th Percentile £458 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £725 £550
Median % change year-on-year -32.32% +31.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £500 £769 £575
90th Percentile £625 £823 £630
South East median daily rate £488 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -21.95% +13.64% +15.79%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 734 849 1,088
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.83% 29.66% 30.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 615 850
10th Percentile £282 £313 £188
25th Percentile £413 £425 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +2.30%
75th Percentile £608 £631 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 20 15
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.15 £14.51
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £58.00 £26.58 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +118.21% +26.57% -0.24%
75th Percentile £60.83 £58.50 £39.50
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £75.24
South East median hourly rate £30.00 £26.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% +25.00% -4.55%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing OpenShift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in the Thames Valley

OpenShift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenShift in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in the Thames Valley

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in the Thames Valley

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 31 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
Berkshire +11 31 £488 -11.30% 6
Buckinghamshire +25 3 £625 -15.25% 1
OpenShift
South East

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (2.94%) Apache
1 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (38.24%) Azure
2 10 (29.41%) AWS
3 7 (20.59%) GCP
4 2 (5.88%) PaaS
4 2 (5.88%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (32.35%) Elasticsearch
1 11 (32.35%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Hive
2 1 (2.94%) Big Data
2 1 (2.94%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.94%) Impala
2 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.94%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Artifactory
1 4 (11.76%) Bitbucket
2 3 (8.82%) Git
2 3 (8.82%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.94%) JIRA
3 1 (2.94%) Maven
General
1 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.94%) Advertising
3 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Banking
3 1 (2.94%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (2.94%) Finance
3 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (47.06%) Site Engineer
1 16 (47.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (8.82%) Developer
2 3 (8.82%) Senior
3 2 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (5.88%) Full Stack Developer
3 2 (5.88%) Junior
3 2 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (35.29%) Kafka
2 4 (11.76%) YAML
3 2 (5.88%) Fluent Bit
3 2 (5.88%) Loki
4 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.94%) CSS
4 1 (2.94%) HTML
4 1 (2.94%) jQuery
4 1 (2.94%) Node.js
4 1 (2.94%) React
4 1 (2.94%) Spring
4 1 (2.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (64.71%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Windows
3 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (79.41%) DevOps
2 26 (76.47%) Containerisation
3 21 (61.76%) GitOps
4 20 (58.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 17 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
6 16 (47.06%) ITSM
6 16 (47.06%) Microservices
7 15 (44.12%) Task Automation
8 12 (35.29%) Agile
8 12 (35.29%) Software Engineering
9 10 (29.41%) Change Management
9 10 (29.41%) Incident Response
9 10 (29.41%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (26.47%) CI/CD
10 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (20.59%) Performance Optimisation
11 7 (20.59%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (20.59%) Time Management
11 7 (20.59%) Translating Business Requirements
12 2 (5.88%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.76%) Python
2 3 (8.82%) Java
3 2 (5.88%) Bash
3 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.94%) C#
4 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.94%) Scala
4 1 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (64.71%) Security Cleared
2 20 (58.82%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.94%) Degree
4 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 9 (26.47%) Docker
2 2 (5.88%) vCloud
2 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (79.41%) Kubernetes
2 22 (64.71%) Istio
3 17 (50.00%) Grafana
4 13 (38.24%) Argo
4 13 (38.24%) Prometheus
5 11 (32.35%) Kibana
6 9 (26.47%) Rancher
6 9 (26.47%) Terraform
7 2 (5.88%) Ansible
7 2 (5.88%) Kustomize
7 2 (5.88%) vCenter Server
8 1 (2.94%) Control-M
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Google
2 6 (17.65%) Red Hat
2 6 (17.65%) VMware
3 5 (14.71%) Microsoft