OpenShift Contracts in the South East

Red Hat OpenShift
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 153 169 208
Rank change year-on-year +16 +39 -48
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 47 46 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.82% 0.81% 0.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.51% 2.78% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 40 37
10th Percentile £385 £425 £490
25th Percentile £458 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £625 £588
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% +6.38% +23.68%
75th Percentile £500 £750 £638
90th Percentile £626 £763 £708
England median daily rate £519 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -20.19% +8.33% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -50.00% - -

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,338 1,652 2,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 23.26% 29.17% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 912 1,195 1,805
10th Percentile £268 £250 £213
25th Percentile £408 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +4.44%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £614
90th Percentile £675 £713 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 47 54
10th Percentile £17.69 £15.83 £13.56
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.50 £14.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.30 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +57.56% -2.61%
75th Percentile £59.95 £70.00 £23.56
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.30 £54.43
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 South East

Job postings citing OpenShift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for OpenShift in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the South East 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
Thames Valley +27 38 £491 -28.63% 9
Berkshire +12 34 £491 -6.54% 9
Hampshire -11 6 £683 +21.33% 3
Buckinghamshire +23 4 £550 -25.42%
West Sussex +4 2 £475 -35.37% 3
Surrey +8 1 £460 -24.59%
OpenShift
England

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (4.26%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.13%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 16 (34.04%) Azure
2 12 (25.53%) AWS
3 8 (17.02%) GCP
4 2 (4.26%) PaaS
4 2 (4.26%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.66%) Elasticsearch
1 13 (27.66%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.26%) Apache Hive
2 2 (4.26%) Big Data
2 2 (4.26%) Hadoop
2 2 (4.26%) Impala
3 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Git
2 4 (8.51%) Artifactory
2 4 (8.51%) Bitbucket
2 4 (8.51%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.26%) JIRA
3 2 (4.26%) Maven
General
1 9 (19.15%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.51%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.38%) Finance
4 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Banking
4 2 (4.26%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (4.26%) Retail
5 1 (2.13%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 20 (42.55%) Site Engineer
1 20 (42.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 6 (12.77%) Senior
3 5 (10.64%) Developer
3 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Java Developer
5 2 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (4.26%) Junior
5 2 (4.26%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (4.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) Senior Developer
6 1 (2.13%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (34.04%) Kafka
2 4 (8.51%) YAML
3 3 (6.38%) Spring
4 2 (4.26%) Fluent Bit
4 2 (4.26%) Loki
4 2 (4.26%) Node.js
5 1 (2.13%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.13%) CSS
5 1 (2.13%) HTML
5 1 (2.13%) jQuery
5 1 (2.13%) React
5 1 (2.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (53.19%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.02%) Linux
2 3 (6.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.26%) Solaris
3 2 (4.26%) Ubuntu
3 2 (4.26%) Unix
3 2 (4.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (68.09%) DevOps
2 30 (63.83%) Containerisation
3 24 (51.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 23 (48.94%) GitOps
5 21 (44.68%) Microservices
6 19 (40.43%) ITSM
7 18 (38.30%) Collaborative Working
7 18 (38.30%) Task Automation
8 15 (31.91%) Agile
9 14 (29.79%) Software Engineering
10 13 (27.66%) Performance Tuning
11 12 (25.53%) Change Management
11 12 (25.53%) Incident Response
12 10 (21.28%) Infrastructure as Code
13 9 (19.15%) CI/CD
13 9 (19.15%) Technical Leadership
14 7 (14.89%) Performance Optimisation
14 7 (14.89%) Time Management
14 7 (14.89%) Translating Business Requirements
15 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.77%) Python
2 5 (10.64%) Java
3 4 (8.51%) Bash
4 2 (4.26%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.26%) Scala
4 2 (4.26%) SQL
5 1 (2.13%) C#
5 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (65.96%) Security Cleared
2 29 (61.70%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.26%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.13%) Degree
4 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) QA
System Software
1 10 (21.28%) Docker
2 2 (4.26%) vCloud
2 2 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 35 (74.47%) Kubernetes
2 24 (51.06%) Istio
3 19 (40.43%) Grafana
4 15 (31.91%) Argo
4 15 (31.91%) Prometheus
5 14 (29.79%) Terraform
6 13 (27.66%) Kibana
7 9 (19.15%) Rancher
8 4 (8.51%) Ansible
9 2 (4.26%) Control-M
9 2 (4.26%) Kustomize
9 2 (4.26%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (4.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (27.66%) Red Hat
2 8 (17.02%) VMware
3 7 (14.89%) Google
4 5 (10.64%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.26%) SolarWinds