OpenShift Contracts in the North of England

Red Hat OpenShift
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring OpenShift skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenShift over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 178 165 215
Rank change year-on-year -13 +50 -50
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 7 37 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.14% 0.68% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.48% 1.89% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 27 24
10th Percentile £380 £513 £449
25th Percentile £401 £569 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £625 £669
Median % change year-on-year -21.12% -6.54% +85.76%
75th Percentile £536 £775 £745
90th Percentile £543 £849 £773
England median daily rate £519 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -20.19% +8.33% +14.29%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

OpenShift falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,445 1,960 2,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.82% 36.02% 35.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,005 1,454 1,935
10th Percentile £263 £286 £185
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.59% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £672
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 42 79
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.02 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £22.53 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.72% +12.65% +5.26%
75th Percentile £22.38 £42.44 £60.88
90th Percentile £45.21 £62.34 £77.50
England median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.69% +62.79% +2.14%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing OpenShift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in the North of England

OpenShift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenShift in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in the North of England

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in the North of England

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the North of England region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
North West +8 7 £493 -19.90% 1
OpenShift
England

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Gradle
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JUnit
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Data Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Site Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (14.29%) jOOQ
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
2 1 (14.29%) VMS
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
1 4 (57.14%) Microservices
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
4 1 (14.29%) GitOps
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Observability
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (14.29%) Release Management
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Progress Chef
3 2 (28.57%) Ansible
4 1 (14.29%) Argo
4 1 (14.29%) Grafana
4 1 (14.29%) Istio
4 1 (14.29%) Kibana
4 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) VMware