OpenShift Contracts with Work from Home Options

Red Hat OpenShift
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 268 265 311
Rank change year-on-year -3 +46 -36
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 75 207 364
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.51% 0.84% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 2.13% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 153 257
10th Percentile £366 £445 £450
25th Percentile £423 £500 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.09% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £563 £650 £700
90th Percentile £625 £808 £750
UK median daily rate £506 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -15.67% +4.35% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.13% - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £60.55 £46.32
% change year-on-year -42.20% +30.72% +15.80%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,395 9,717 18,221
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.48% 39.48% 41.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,889 7,207 13,616
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 125 169
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +35.00% +1.27%
75th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.06 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
% change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%

OpenShift
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing OpenShift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OpenShift trend for jobs with a WFH option

OpenShift
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing OpenShift.

OpenShift daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing OpenShift over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

OpenShift daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

OpenShift
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing OpenShift.

OpenShift hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (5.33%) OpenStack
2 3 (4.00%) Apache
2 3 (4.00%) JBoss
3 2 (2.67%) Confluence
4 1 (1.33%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 48 (64.00%) AWS
2 20 (26.67%) Azure
3 19 (25.33%) Serverless
4 18 (24.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (22.67%) Amazon S3
5 17 (22.67%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (17.33%) Amazon ECS
6 13 (17.33%) Amazon EKS
6 13 (17.33%) GCP
7 9 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (10.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 6 (8.00%) Textract
10 5 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
10 5 (6.67%) GitHub
10 5 (6.67%) IaaS
11 4 (5.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (5.33%) Amazon SageMaker
11 4 (5.33%) Rekognition
12 3 (4.00%) Amazon Cognito
12 3 (4.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.67%) SAN
2 4 (5.33%) Firewall
3 3 (4.00%) HTTP
3 3 (4.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.33%) 4G
4 1 (1.33%) 5G
4 1 (1.33%) NAS
4 1 (1.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (25.33%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (16.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (9.33%) MongoDB
5 6 (8.00%) NoSQL
6 5 (6.67%) InfluxDB
7 4 (5.33%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (4.00%) Informix
8 3 (4.00%) Oracle Database
8 3 (4.00%) RDBMS
8 3 (4.00%) Relational Database
8 3 (4.00%) Triplestore
9 1 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.33%) Big Data
9 1 (1.33%) Couchbase
9 1 (1.33%) DataStax
9 1 (1.33%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 34 (45.33%) Jenkins
2 18 (24.00%) Git
2 18 (24.00%) GitLab
3 11 (14.67%) Artifactory
4 8 (10.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (6.67%) JIRA
5 5 (6.67%) SonarQube
5 5 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (5.33%) Bitbucket
6 4 (5.33%) TeamCity
7 3 (4.00%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (4.00%) CA Release Automation
7 3 (4.00%) Gradle
8 2 (2.67%) Maven
8 2 (2.67%) webpack
9 1 (1.33%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.33%) Hudson
9 1 (1.33%) Vagrant
General
1 25 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 18 (24.00%) Public Sector
3 8 (10.67%) Finance
4 6 (8.00%) Banking
5 3 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (24.00%) Developer
3 10 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (12.00%) Senior
5 7 (9.33%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (8.00%) Java Developer
6 6 (8.00%) Software Developer
7 5 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Automation Developer
8 3 (4.00%) Consultant
8 3 (4.00%) Kubernetes Consultant
8 3 (4.00%) Lead
8 3 (4.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
8 3 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (25.33%) AWS CDK
2 16 (21.33%) REST
3 14 (18.67%) Spring Boot
4 13 (17.33%) Spring
5 9 (12.00%) CSS
5 9 (12.00%) HTML
5 9 (12.00%) Node.js
6 8 (10.67%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (10.67%) Kafka
7 7 (9.33%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (8.00%) React
9 4 (5.33%) Spring MVC
9 4 (5.33%) Spring Web Flow
9 4 (5.33%) Thymeleaf
10 3 (4.00%) GraphQL
10 3 (4.00%) OAuth
10 3 (4.00%) OAuth2
10 3 (4.00%) PostGIS
10 3 (4.00%) Spring Security
10 3 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.33%) Replication
3 3 (4.00%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.67%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.67%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 34 (45.33%) Linux
2 13 (17.33%) Windows
3 12 (16.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (9.33%) Ubuntu
5 5 (6.67%) Windows Server
6 3 (4.00%) Unix
7 2 (2.67%) Solaris
7 2 (2.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (68.00%) DevOps
2 43 (57.33%) CI/CD
3 35 (46.67%) Agile
4 28 (37.33%) Containerisation
5 27 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (22.67%) Kanban
6 17 (22.67%) Scrum
7 16 (21.33%) Microservices
8 14 (18.67%) Code Quality
9 13 (17.33%) Continuous Integration
10 12 (16.00%) Community of Practice
11 10 (13.33%) Test Automation
12 9 (12.00%) Code Coverage
12 9 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (12.00%) High Availability
12 9 (12.00%) Requirements Analysis
12 9 (12.00%) Roadmaps
12 9 (12.00%) Task Automation
12 9 (12.00%) User Experience
13 8 (10.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 35 (46.67%) Python
2 21 (28.00%) Bash
3 19 (25.33%) Java
4 16 (21.33%) Perl
5 13 (17.33%) JavaScript
5 13 (17.33%) TypeScript
6 10 (13.33%) SQL
7 8 (10.67%) Go
8 6 (8.00%) Groovy
9 3 (4.00%) Shell Script
9 3 (4.00%) SPARQL
10 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (14.67%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (6.67%) Degree
4 3 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.67%) OCP
5 2 (2.67%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.67%) QA
System Software
1 38 (50.67%) Docker
2 7 (9.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.33%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.33%) VMware NSX
4 3 (4.00%) Firmware
5 1 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (70.67%) Kubernetes
2 29 (38.67%) Ansible
3 24 (32.00%) Grafana
4 20 (26.67%) Terraform
5 12 (16.00%) Kibana
6 8 (10.67%) Progress Chef
7 5 (6.67%) Prometheus
7 5 (6.67%) Puppet
8 4 (5.33%) Argo
9 3 (4.00%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (2.67%) Istio
10 2 (2.67%) Kustomize
10 2 (2.67%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (1.33%) Consul
11 1 (1.33%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (1.33%) Knative
11 1 (1.33%) NetBackup
11 1 (1.33%) Packer
11 1 (1.33%) Rundeck
11 1 (1.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 11 (14.67%) Red Hat
2 10 (13.33%) Oracle
3 7 (9.33%) VMware
4 5 (6.67%) Google
4 5 (6.67%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.33%) CyberArk
6 3 (4.00%) AppDynamics
6 3 (4.00%) Dell
6 3 (4.00%) Splunk
7 2 (2.67%) Commvault
7 2 (2.67%) Mercator
7 2 (2.67%) SAP
7 2 (2.67%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.33%) Ariba
8 1 (1.33%) ICL
8 1 (1.33%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.33%) Nokia
8 1 (1.33%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.33%) Veritas
8 1 (1.33%) WSO2