OpenShift Contracts in Scotland

Red Hat OpenShift
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 62 57 63
Rank change year-on-year -5 +6 +23
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 55 121 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.57% 4.53% 3.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.65% 12.31% 11.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 80 116
10th Percentile £403 £432 £420
25th Percentile £436 £456 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £484 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -7.02% +14.29%
75th Percentile £517 £538 £550
90th Percentile £623 £600 £581
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £573
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.80% +12.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £41.92
25th Percentile - - £42.18
Median hourly rate - £60.55 £46.32
Median % change year-on-year - +30.72% -
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 £46.32
% change year-on-year -50.00% +51.12% +17.27%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 719 983 1,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.55% 36.79% 33.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 729 843
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £369 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £627 £621 £661
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 17
10th Percentile £16.22 £17.72 £17.74
25th Percentile £16.50 £26.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +49.51% -40.66%
75th Percentile £21.64 £66.50 £47.96
90th Percentile £30.09 £76.00 £49.56
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in Scotland

OpenShift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in Scotland

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in Scotland

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +14 32 £477 -1.34% 3
Glasgow -18 11 £506 -9.03%
South Lanarkshire +6 1 £375 -
Perthshire - 1 - -
Renfrewshire - 1 £600 -
OpenShift
UK

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (1.82%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 39 (70.91%) AWS
2 29 (52.73%) Amazon S3
2 29 (52.73%) AWS CloudFormation
3 26 (47.27%) Serverless
4 24 (43.64%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (21.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 10 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (14.55%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (12.73%) AWS CodePipeline
10 6 (10.91%) Textract
11 5 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (9.09%) Amazon SageMaker
11 5 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (7.27%) AWS CodeBuild
12 4 (7.27%) AWS CodeCommit
13 2 (3.64%) Azure
13 2 (3.64%) Rekognition
14 1 (1.82%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 1 (1.82%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.91%) Firewall
2 4 (7.27%) NAS
2 4 (7.27%) SAN
3 1 (1.82%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (52.73%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (29.09%) Amazon Aurora
3 13 (23.64%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (23.64%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (21.82%) MongoDB
5 7 (12.73%) InfluxDB
6 6 (10.91%) Informix
6 6 (10.91%) NoSQL
7 3 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.82%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 29 (52.73%) Jenkins
2 12 (21.82%) Git
3 9 (16.36%) GitLab
4 7 (12.73%) Maven
5 6 (10.91%) Artifactory
5 6 (10.91%) Gradle
6 1 (1.82%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.82%) JIRA
General
1 23 (41.82%) Public Sector
2 10 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (1.82%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.82%) Legal
Job Titles
1 17 (30.91%) Developer
2 9 (16.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (14.55%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (14.55%) Data Engineer
4 7 (12.73%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (10.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 6 (10.91%) Database Engineer
5 6 (10.91%) Java Developer
5 6 (10.91%) Senior
6 5 (9.09%) Automation Developer
6 5 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Site Manager
6 5 (9.09%) Site Reliability Manager
7 4 (7.27%) Full Stack Developer
7 4 (7.27%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Software Developer
9 2 (3.64%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (56.36%) AWS CDK
2 14 (25.45%) REST
3 10 (18.18%) Spring
3 10 (18.18%) Spring Boot
4 7 (12.73%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (10.91%) CSS
5 6 (10.91%) HTML
5 6 (10.91%) OAuth
5 6 (10.91%) OAuth2
5 6 (10.91%) React
5 6 (10.91%) Spring Security
6 5 (9.09%) Node.js
6 5 (9.09%) Spring MVC
6 5 (9.09%) Spring Web Flow
6 5 (9.09%) Thymeleaf
7 4 (7.27%) PyTorch
7 4 (7.27%) RESTful
7 4 (7.27%) SpaCy
8 3 (5.45%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.36%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.91%) Replication
3 3 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.82%) Clustering
4 1 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (30.91%) Linux
2 12 (21.82%) Unix
3 9 (16.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (14.55%) Windows
5 6 (10.91%) Ubuntu
6 4 (7.27%) VMS
7 2 (3.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (58.18%) CI/CD
2 28 (50.91%) DevOps
3 27 (49.09%) Agile
4 25 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (36.36%) Kanban
6 17 (30.91%) Scrum
7 14 (25.45%) Community of Practice
8 13 (23.64%) Code Quality
9 12 (21.82%) Containerisation
10 11 (20.00%) User Experience
11 10 (18.18%) Code Coverage
11 10 (18.18%) Inclusive Design
11 10 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 10 (18.18%) Migration
11 10 (18.18%) Requirements Analysis
11 10 (18.18%) Test Automation
12 9 (16.36%) Deployment Automation
12 9 (16.36%) Human-Centred Design
12 9 (16.36%) Roadmaps
12 9 (16.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (52.73%) Python
2 20 (36.36%) TypeScript
3 19 (34.55%) SQL
4 14 (25.45%) Bash
5 13 (23.64%) Java
6 12 (21.82%) Groovy
7 11 (20.00%) JavaScript
8 8 (14.55%) Ruby
9 7 (12.73%) Shell Script
10 2 (3.64%) Perl
11 1 (1.82%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (1.82%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (25.45%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.27%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 29 (52.73%) Docker
2 1 (1.82%) KVM
2 1 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (61.82%) Grafana
2 27 (49.09%) Ansible
3 26 (47.27%) Kubernetes
4 14 (25.45%) Terraform
5 9 (16.36%) Kibana
6 3 (5.45%) Prometheus
7 2 (3.64%) NetBackup
8 1 (1.82%) Nagios
8 1 (1.82%) Puppet
8 1 (1.82%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.82%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (10.91%) Oracle
2 5 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 4 (7.27%) Commvault
4 2 (3.64%) Veritas
5 1 (1.82%) VMware