OpenShift Contracts in the UK excluding London

Red Hat OpenShift
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 254 205 287
Rank change year-on-year -49 +82 -81
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 135 263 241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.67% 1.14% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.57% 3.44% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 194 183
10th Percentile £362 £438 £438
25th Percentile £440 £467 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +18.92%
75th Percentile £575 £626 £625
90th Percentile £634 £759 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 4
10th Percentile - - £41.92
25th Percentile - £53.75 £42.18
Median hourly rate £35.00 £60.55 £46.32
Median % change year-on-year -42.20% +30.72% +17.27%
75th Percentile - £76.75 £48.75
90th Percentile - £82.80 -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £60.55 £46.32
% change year-on-year -42.20% +30.72% +15.80%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,251 7,652 9,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.91% 33.18% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,719 5,646 7,234
10th Percentile £213 £248 £208
25th Percentile £371 £406 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 221 289
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.33
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.12% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £26.75 £64.50 £31.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £62.15
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OpenShift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in the UK excluding London

OpenShift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenShift in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in the UK excluding London

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in the UK excluding London

OpenShift
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OpenShift in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for OpenShift in the UK excluding London

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland 0 59 £480 +0.10%
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 -
Wales - 1 £1,000 -
OpenShift
UK

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (4.44%) Apache
2 5 (3.70%) JBoss
3 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.96%) SAS
4 3 (2.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 77 (57.04%) AWS
2 33 (24.44%) Azure
3 32 (23.70%) Amazon S3
3 32 (23.70%) Serverless
4 30 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
5 27 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 18 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (9.63%) Amazon EKS
7 13 (9.63%) GCP
8 10 (7.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 8 (5.93%) Textract
10 7 (5.19%) Amazon SageMaker
10 7 (5.19%) GitHub
11 6 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (4.44%) AWS CodePipeline
11 6 (4.44%) AWS Fargate
12 5 (3.70%) Amazon Cognito
13 4 (2.96%) PaaS
13 4 (2.96%) Rekognition
Communications & Networking
1 15 (11.11%) SAN
2 10 (7.41%) Firewall
3 7 (5.19%) AMQP
3 7 (5.19%) NAS
4 6 (4.44%) Network Security
5 5 (3.70%) HTTP
5 5 (3.70%) VPN
6 4 (2.96%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (2.96%) iSCSI
7 2 (1.48%) VSAN
8 1 (0.74%) IPv4
8 1 (0.74%) OSPF
8 1 (0.74%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (25.19%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (19.26%) Elasticsearch
3 16 (11.85%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (9.63%) InfluxDB
6 10 (7.41%) Relational Database
7 9 (6.67%) MongoDB
8 8 (5.93%) NoSQL
9 5 (3.70%) RDBMS
9 5 (3.70%) Triplestore
10 4 (2.96%) DB2
10 4 (2.96%) Informix
11 3 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.48%) MySQL
13 1 (0.74%) Big Data
13 1 (0.74%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 45 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 21 (15.56%) Git
3 15 (11.11%) GitLab
4 10 (7.41%) Artifactory
5 9 (6.67%) Bitbucket
5 9 (6.67%) JIRA
6 8 (5.93%) Maven
7 7 (5.19%) Gradle
8 6 (4.44%) SonarQube
8 6 (4.44%) TeamCity
9 5 (3.70%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (3.70%) CA Release Automation
9 5 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.74%) JUnit
General
1 28 (20.74%) Social Skills
2 25 (18.52%) Public Sector
3 12 (8.89%) Banking
4 5 (3.70%) Investment Banking
5 4 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.96%) Finance
6 1 (0.74%) Advertising
6 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.74%) Legal
6 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (19.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 25 (18.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (15.56%) Developer
4 18 (13.33%) Site Engineer
5 13 (9.63%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (7.41%) Data Engineer
6 10 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (7.41%) Senior
7 9 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (5.93%) Linux Engineer
8 8 (5.93%) Python Engineer
9 7 (5.19%) Java Developer
10 6 (4.44%) Automation Developer
10 6 (4.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.70%) AWS DevOps
11 5 (3.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.70%) Site Manager
11 5 (3.70%) Site Reliability Manager
11 5 (3.70%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (20.00%) AWS CDK
2 24 (17.78%) REST
3 17 (12.59%) Kafka
4 15 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
4 15 (11.11%) Spring Boot
5 11 (8.15%) Spring
6 10 (7.41%) CSS
6 10 (7.41%) HTML
7 8 (5.93%) PostGIS
8 7 (5.19%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (5.19%) Node.js
9 6 (4.44%) GraphQL
9 6 (4.44%) React
9 6 (4.44%) RESTful
10 5 (3.70%) Apache Jena
10 5 (3.70%) Apache NiFi
10 5 (3.70%) OAuth
10 5 (3.70%) OAuth2
10 5 (3.70%) Spring Security
11 4 (2.96%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 28 (20.74%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (3.70%) Public Cloud
2 5 (3.70%) Replication
3 4 (2.96%) Client/Server
3 4 (2.96%) NVMe
3 4 (2.96%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.22%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.48%) PKI
6 1 (0.74%) Clustering
6 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.74%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.74%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 49 (36.30%) Linux
2 26 (19.26%) Windows
3 20 (14.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (14.81%) Unix
4 12 (8.89%) Windows Server
5 8 (5.93%) Ubuntu
6 5 (3.70%) VMS
7 4 (2.96%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (1.48%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (58.52%) DevOps
2 68 (50.37%) CI/CD
3 50 (37.04%) Containerisation
4 44 (32.59%) Agile
5 41 (30.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 36 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (20.74%) Microservices
8 21 (15.56%) Kanban
9 20 (14.81%) Observability
10 19 (14.07%) Code Quality
10 19 (14.07%) GitOps
11 18 (13.33%) Scrum
12 17 (12.59%) Technical Leadership
13 16 (11.85%) Collaborative Working
14 15 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 15 (11.11%) Software Engineering
15 14 (10.37%) Community of Practice
15 14 (10.37%) Deployment Automation
15 14 (10.37%) Migration
16 13 (9.63%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 61 (45.19%) Python
2 26 (19.26%) Java
2 26 (19.26%) SQL
3 18 (13.33%) Bash
4 16 (11.85%) JavaScript
4 16 (11.85%) TypeScript
5 13 (9.63%) Perl
5 13 (9.63%) Shell Script
6 12 (8.89%) Groovy
7 8 (5.93%) Ruby
8 6 (4.44%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.70%) C
9 5 (3.70%) Go
9 5 (3.70%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.74%) C#
Qualifications
1 43 (31.85%) Security Cleared
2 33 (24.44%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.96%) Degree
5 3 (2.22%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.37%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.96%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.48%) QA
System Software
1 72 (53.33%) Docker
2 11 (8.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (7.41%) VMware NSX
4 9 (6.67%) Active Directory
5 5 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.96%) GPFS
6 4 (2.96%) NFS
7 2 (1.48%) vCloud
8 1 (0.74%) KVM
Systems Management
1 97 (71.85%) Kubernetes
2 55 (40.74%) Grafana
3 46 (34.07%) Ansible
4 44 (32.59%) Terraform
5 24 (17.78%) Prometheus
6 23 (17.04%) Kibana
7 21 (15.56%) Istio
8 15 (11.11%) Progress Chef
9 10 (7.41%) Argo
10 9 (6.67%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (6.67%) Rancher
11 4 (2.96%) NetBackup
11 4 (2.96%) OPNET
11 4 (2.96%) Veritas Storage Foundation
12 3 (2.22%) vCenter Server
13 2 (1.48%) PowerCLI
13 2 (1.48%) Puppet
13 2 (1.48%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.74%) SELinux
14 1 (0.74%) vRealize
Vendors
1 24 (17.78%) Red Hat
2 19 (14.07%) VMware
3 15 (11.11%) Google
4 10 (7.41%) Microsoft
5 8 (5.93%) Veritas
6 5 (3.70%) AppDynamics
6 5 (3.70%) Oracle
6 5 (3.70%) Splunk
7 4 (2.96%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.96%) Brocade
7 4 (2.96%) CyberArk
7 4 (2.96%) EMC
7 4 (2.96%) IBM
7 4 (2.96%) NetApp
7 4 (2.96%) Sybase
8 3 (2.22%) Commvault
9 2 (1.48%) Cisco
9 2 (1.48%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.74%) Checkmarx