OpenShift Contracts

Red Hat OpenShift
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 299 317
Rank change year-on-year -83 +18 -13
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 213 536 769
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.90% 0.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.52% 2.45% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 400 504
10th Percentile £387 £450 £450
25th Percentile £430 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% +4.35% +12.75%
75th Percentile £623 £755 £688
90th Percentile £725 £821 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +17.65%
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% +15.80%
75th Percentile - £76.75 £48.75
90th Percentile - £82.80 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £60.55 £46.32
% change year-on-year -42.20% +30.72% +16.53%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,016 21,833 34,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.85% 38.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,964 15,782 24,942
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 349 421
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.95 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -6.07%
75th Percentile £34.38 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
% change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in the UK

OpenShift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in the UK

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in the UK

OpenShift
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for OpenShift in the UK

OpenShift
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 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
UK excluding London -52 131 £500 -4.76% 36
England -76 125 £504 -22.46% 42
Work from Home -6 73 £480 -15.88% 33
Scotland -7 63 £480 -0.72% 5
London -41 57 £550 -24.14% 10
South East +7 36 £491 -18.22% 6
South West -9 18 £550 -8.33% 18
Midlands +34 7 £356 - 1
North West -2 6 £463 -4.59% 3
North of England -15 6 £463 -22.92% 4
East Midlands - 6 £356 - 1
West Midlands +24 1 £450 -
Wales - 1 £1,000 - 1

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.23%) OpenStack
2 6 (2.82%) Anypoint
2 6 (2.82%) JBoss
3 5 (2.35%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.35%) Confluence
4 4 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.88%) SAS
5 2 (0.94%) Apache
6 1 (0.47%) nginx
6 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 117 (54.93%) AWS
2 63 (29.58%) Azure
3 47 (22.07%) Serverless
4 44 (20.66%) AWS Lambda
5 36 (16.90%) Amazon S3
6 31 (14.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 28 (13.15%) GCP
8 27 (12.68%) Amazon EKS
9 19 (8.92%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (7.51%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (4.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 8 (3.76%) Apigee
13 7 (3.29%) Amazon SageMaker
14 6 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (2.82%) AWS CodePipeline
14 6 (2.82%) AWS Fargate
14 6 (2.82%) GitHub
14 6 (2.82%) IaaS
14 6 (2.82%) SaaS
15 5 (2.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.51%) SAN
2 11 (5.16%) Firewall
3 8 (3.76%) NAS
4 7 (3.29%) AMQP
4 7 (3.29%) Network Security
5 4 (1.88%) Fibre Channel
5 4 (1.88%) iSCSI
5 4 (1.88%) VPN
6 3 (1.41%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.94%) VSAN
8 1 (0.47%) 4G
8 1 (0.47%) 5G
8 1 (0.47%) IPv4
8 1 (0.47%) OSPF
8 1 (0.47%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (16.43%) Elasticsearch
2 34 (15.96%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (8.92%) NoSQL
4 17 (7.98%) Amazon Aurora
5 16 (7.51%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (7.51%) MongoDB
6 13 (6.10%) InfluxDB
7 10 (4.69%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.35%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.88%) Big Data
9 4 (1.88%) DB2
9 4 (1.88%) Informix
9 4 (1.88%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.41%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.41%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.94%) MySQL
12 1 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.47%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 88 (41.31%) Jenkins
2 46 (21.60%) Git
3 25 (11.74%) GitLab
4 17 (7.98%) Artifactory
5 16 (7.51%) Maven
6 14 (6.57%) TeamCity
7 12 (5.63%) Bitbucket
7 12 (5.63%) JIRA
8 10 (4.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 10 (4.69%) Cypress.io
8 10 (4.69%) Gradle
9 8 (3.76%) SonarQube
9 8 (3.76%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (2.35%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (2.35%) CA Release Automation
11 4 (1.88%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.94%) Jaeger
13 1 (0.47%) Hudson
13 1 (0.47%) Selenium
13 1 (0.47%) Vagrant
General
1 45 (21.13%) Social Skills
2 30 (14.08%) Public Sector
3 24 (11.27%) Banking
4 14 (6.57%) Finance
5 11 (5.16%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.23%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.35%) Front Office
8 3 (1.41%) Aviation
8 3 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.47%) Advertising
9 1 (0.47%) Legal
9 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (25.35%) DevOps Engineer
2 41 (19.25%) Developer
3 25 (11.74%) Senior
3 25 (11.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 17 (7.98%) Java Developer
5 16 (7.51%) AWS Engineer
5 16 (7.51%) Site Engineer
6 14 (6.57%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (5.63%) Linux Engineer
7 12 (5.63%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (5.16%) AWS DevOps
9 10 (4.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 10 (4.69%) Data Engineer
9 10 (4.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (4.23%) Senior DevOps
10 9 (4.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.76%) Full Stack Developer
11 8 (3.76%) Python Engineer
12 7 (3.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.29%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (17.37%) REST
2 34 (15.96%) AWS CDK
3 29 (13.62%) Spring
4 27 (12.68%) Spring Boot
5 24 (11.27%) Kafka
6 21 (9.86%) RabbitMQ
7 19 (8.92%) Node.js
8 18 (8.45%) React
9 17 (7.98%) Elastic Stack
10 12 (5.63%) CSS
10 12 (5.63%) HTML
11 11 (5.16%) Swagger
12 9 (4.23%) .NET
12 9 (4.23%) Spring Security
13 8 (3.76%) OAuth
13 8 (3.76%) OAuth2
13 8 (3.76%) Spring MVC
13 8 (3.76%) Spring Web Flow
14 7 (3.29%) SOAP
14 7 (3.29%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 31 (14.55%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.57%) Public Cloud
3 8 (3.76%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (3.76%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.35%) Replication
5 4 (1.88%) Client/Server
5 4 (1.88%) NVMe
5 4 (1.88%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.41%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.41%) PKI
6 3 (1.41%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.94%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.47%) Clustering
8 1 (0.47%) Derivative
8 1 (0.47%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.47%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.47%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 68 (31.92%) Linux
2 31 (14.55%) Windows
3 23 (10.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (9.86%) Unix
5 13 (6.10%) Windows Server
6 8 (3.76%) Ubuntu
7 5 (2.35%) VMS
8 4 (1.88%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.94%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (56.34%) DevOps
2 105 (49.30%) CI/CD
3 82 (38.50%) Agile
4 63 (29.58%) Containerisation
5 57 (26.76%) Microservices
6 53 (24.88%) Infrastructure as Code
7 44 (20.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 31 (14.55%) Continuous Integration
9 28 (13.15%) Test Automation
10 24 (11.27%) Kanban
10 24 (11.27%) Scrum
11 23 (10.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (10.80%) Software Engineering
12 22 (10.33%) Task Automation
13 21 (9.86%) Observability
14 20 (9.39%) GitOps
14 20 (9.39%) Migration
14 20 (9.39%) Problem-Solving
15 19 (8.92%) Code Quality
16 18 (8.45%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 92 (43.19%) Python
2 56 (26.29%) Java
3 46 (21.60%) SQL
4 36 (16.90%) Bash
5 30 (14.08%) Perl
6 29 (13.62%) JavaScript
7 24 (11.27%) TypeScript
8 22 (10.33%) Groovy
9 17 (7.98%) Shell Script
10 15 (7.04%) Go
11 8 (3.76%) Ruby
12 7 (3.29%) C#
13 5 (2.35%) C
13 5 (2.35%) PowerShell
14 3 (1.41%) C++
15 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (27.23%) Security Cleared
2 41 (19.25%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.04%) DV Cleared
4 12 (5.63%) Degree
5 9 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.94%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.94%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.94%) RHCA
7 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.47%) OCP
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.45%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.35%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (2.35%) QA
System Software
1 116 (54.46%) Docker
2 11 (5.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 9 (4.23%) VMware NSX
4 5 (2.35%) Firmware
4 5 (2.35%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.88%) GPFS
5 4 (1.88%) NFS
6 2 (0.94%) Ceph
6 2 (0.94%) vCloud
6 2 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.47%) KVM
Systems Management
1 152 (71.36%) Kubernetes
2 73 (34.27%) Terraform
3 70 (32.86%) Ansible
4 61 (28.64%) Grafana
5 27 (12.68%) Prometheus
6 22 (10.33%) Kibana
6 22 (10.33%) Progress Chef
7 19 (8.92%) Istio
8 12 (5.63%) Puppet
9 10 (4.69%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (4.23%) Argo
10 9 (4.23%) Rancher
11 6 (2.82%) Podman
12 5 (2.35%) Dell DRAC
12 5 (2.35%) NetBackup
13 4 (1.88%) Veritas Storage Foundation
14 3 (1.41%) OPNET
14 3 (1.41%) vCenter Server
15 2 (0.94%) Consul
15 2 (0.94%) Packer
Vendors
1 32 (15.02%) Red Hat
2 25 (11.74%) Google
3 22 (10.33%) VMware
4 19 (8.92%) Oracle
5 18 (8.45%) Microsoft
6 14 (6.57%) Splunk
7 9 (4.23%) Veritas
8 7 (3.29%) AppDynamics
8 7 (3.29%) SAP
9 6 (2.82%) CyberArk
9 6 (2.82%) Dell
9 6 (2.82%) MuleSoft
9 6 (2.82%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.82%) WSO2
10 4 (1.88%) Brocade
10 4 (1.88%) EMC
10 4 (1.88%) IBM
10 4 (1.88%) NetApp
10 4 (1.88%) Sybase
11 3 (1.41%) Commvault