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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 361 289 314
Rank change year-on-year -72 +25 -18
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 222 519 774
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.91% 0.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.60% 2.47% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 385 512
10th Percentile £389 £445 £451
25th Percentile £435 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% +4.35% +12.75%
75th Percentile £625 £756 £688
90th Percentile £725 £825 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% +17.84%
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% +17.27%

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 13,842 21,041 34,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.54% 36.74% 38.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,846 15,232 24,816
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 £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £748 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 332 411
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £18.50 £15.35
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +59.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £38.13 £66.00 £53.88
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year -29.12% +29.89% -3.76%

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 20 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 20 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
England -61 141 £519 -20.19% 53
UK excluding London -49 139 £500 -4.76% 32
Work from Home -12 73 £494 -14.09% 34
London -29 60 £575 -20.69% 20
Scotland -5 58 £483 +0.84% 3
South East +19 43 £491 -21.49% 16
South West -9 26 £550 -8.33% 11
Midlands +23 7 £356 -
North West -4 6 £463 -7.48% 1
North of England -14 6 £463 -22.92% 1
East Midlands - 6 £356 -
West Midlands +20 1 £450 -
Wales - 1 £1,000 -

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 (4.05%) Apache
2 7 (3.15%) Confluence
3 6 (2.70%) Anypoint
3 6 (2.70%) JBoss
3 6 (2.70%) OpenStack
4 5 (2.25%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.80%) SAS
6 1 (0.45%) nginx
6 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 121 (54.50%) AWS
2 71 (31.98%) Azure
3 43 (19.37%) Serverless
4 41 (18.47%) AWS Lambda
5 31 (13.96%) Amazon S3
6 30 (13.51%) GCP
7 27 (12.16%) Amazon EKS
7 27 (12.16%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (7.21%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (5.86%) GitHub
11 10 (4.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 8 (3.60%) Apigee
12 8 (3.60%) PaaS
13 7 (3.15%) Amazon Cognito
13 7 (3.15%) Textract
14 6 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (2.70%) Amazon SageMaker
14 6 (2.70%) AWS CodePipeline
14 6 (2.70%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.21%) SAN
2 11 (4.95%) Firewall
3 8 (3.60%) NAS
4 7 (3.15%) AMQP
4 7 (3.15%) HTTP
4 7 (3.15%) Network Security
5 5 (2.25%) VPN
6 4 (1.80%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (1.80%) iSCSI
7 3 (1.35%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.90%) VSAN
9 1 (0.45%) IPv4
9 1 (0.45%) OSPF
9 1 (0.45%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (18.47%) Elasticsearch
2 36 (16.22%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (8.56%) NoSQL
4 16 (7.21%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (7.21%) MongoDB
5 14 (6.31%) Amazon Aurora
6 13 (5.86%) InfluxDB
7 10 (4.50%) Relational Database
8 7 (3.15%) Triplestore
9 5 (2.25%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.80%) Big Data
10 4 (1.80%) DB2
10 4 (1.80%) Informix
10 4 (1.80%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.35%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.35%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.90%) DataStax
12 2 (0.90%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 87 (39.19%) Jenkins
2 48 (21.62%) Git
3 32 (14.41%) GitLab
4 17 (7.66%) Artifactory
5 16 (7.21%) Maven
6 14 (6.31%) Bitbucket
6 14 (6.31%) JIRA
6 14 (6.31%) TeamCity
7 10 (4.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 10 (4.50%) Gradle
8 8 (3.60%) SonarQube
8 8 (3.60%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (2.25%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (2.25%) CA Release Automation
10 4 (1.80%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.35%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.90%) Jaeger
12 2 (0.90%) webpack
13 1 (0.45%) Hudson
13 1 (0.45%) Vagrant
General
1 51 (22.97%) Social Skills
2 32 (14.41%) Public Sector
3 26 (11.71%) Banking
4 16 (7.21%) Finance
5 11 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.05%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.25%) Front Office
8 3 (1.35%) Aviation
9 1 (0.45%) Advertising
9 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.45%) Legal
9 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (27.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 40 (18.02%) Developer
3 30 (13.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 27 (12.16%) Senior
5 21 (9.46%) Site Engineer
6 17 (7.66%) Java Developer
7 15 (6.76%) AWS Engineer
8 13 (5.86%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (5.41%) Linux Engineer
9 12 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (4.95%) AWS DevOps
10 11 (4.95%) Senior DevOps
10 11 (4.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 10 (4.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 10 (4.50%) Data Engineer
11 10 (4.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (3.60%) Python Engineer
13 7 (3.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 7 (3.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 7 (3.15%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (18.02%) REST
2 37 (16.67%) Kafka
3 30 (13.51%) AWS CDK
4 24 (10.81%) Spring
5 22 (9.91%) Spring Boot
6 21 (9.46%) Node.js
6 21 (9.46%) RabbitMQ
7 18 (8.11%) Elastic Stack
8 14 (6.31%) CSS
8 14 (6.31%) HTML
9 13 (5.86%) React
10 11 (4.95%) Swagger
11 10 (4.50%) .NET
11 10 (4.50%) PostGIS
12 8 (3.60%) GraphQL
13 7 (3.15%) Apache Jena
13 7 (3.15%) Apache NiFi
13 7 (3.15%) RAML
13 7 (3.15%) RESTful
13 7 (3.15%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (16.22%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.76%) Public Cloud
3 8 (3.60%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.25%) Replication
6 4 (1.80%) Client/Server
6 4 (1.80%) NVMe
6 4 (1.80%) Private Cloud
6 4 (1.80%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.35%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.35%) PKI
7 3 (1.35%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.45%) Clustering
9 1 (0.45%) Derivative
9 1 (0.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.45%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.45%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 76 (34.23%) Linux
2 33 (14.86%) Windows
3 23 (10.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (9.46%) Unix
5 13 (5.86%) Windows Server
6 8 (3.60%) Ubuntu
7 5 (2.25%) VMS
8 4 (1.80%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.90%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (59.01%) DevOps
2 111 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 81 (36.49%) Agile
4 76 (34.23%) Containerisation
5 57 (25.68%) Microservices
6 53 (23.87%) Infrastructure as Code
7 50 (22.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 33 (14.86%) Continuous Integration
9 28 (12.61%) GitOps
9 28 (12.61%) Software Engineering
9 28 (12.61%) Task Automation
10 25 (11.26%) Scrum
11 24 (10.81%) Kanban
12 23 (10.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (10.36%) Test Automation
13 21 (9.46%) Observability
14 20 (9.01%) Migration
15 19 (8.56%) Code Quality
15 19 (8.56%) Problem-Solving
16 18 (8.11%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 93 (41.89%) Python
2 51 (22.97%) Java
3 43 (19.37%) SQL
4 39 (17.57%) Bash
5 29 (13.06%) JavaScript
5 29 (13.06%) Perl
6 23 (10.36%) Groovy
7 20 (9.01%) TypeScript
8 17 (7.66%) Shell Script
9 16 (7.21%) Go
10 8 (3.60%) PowerShell
10 8 (3.60%) Ruby
11 7 (3.15%) SPARQL
12 6 (2.70%) C#
13 5 (2.25%) C
14 3 (1.35%) C++
15 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 73 (32.88%) Security Cleared
2 54 (24.32%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.66%) DV Cleared
4 13 (5.86%) Degree
5 9 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.35%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.35%) OCP
6 3 (1.35%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.86%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.25%) QA
3 4 (1.80%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 126 (56.76%) Docker
2 12 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.50%) VMware NSX
4 9 (4.05%) Active Directory
5 5 (2.25%) Firmware
5 5 (2.25%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.80%) GPFS
6 4 (1.80%) NFS
7 2 (0.90%) vCloud
7 2 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.45%) KVM
Systems Management
1 169 (76.13%) Kubernetes
2 75 (33.78%) Terraform
3 74 (33.33%) Ansible
4 66 (29.73%) Grafana
5 34 (15.32%) Prometheus
6 27 (12.16%) Kibana
7 24 (10.81%) Istio
8 22 (9.91%) Progress Chef
9 16 (7.21%) Argo
10 13 (5.86%) Puppet
11 10 (4.50%) Docker Swarm
12 9 (4.05%) Rancher
13 6 (2.70%) Podman
14 5 (2.25%) Dell DRAC
14 5 (2.25%) NetBackup
15 4 (1.80%) OPNET
15 4 (1.80%) Veritas Storage Foundation
16 3 (1.35%) vCenter Server
17 2 (0.90%) Consul
17 2 (0.90%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 30 (13.51%) Red Hat
2 27 (12.16%) Google
3 22 (9.91%) Microsoft
4 21 (9.46%) VMware
5 19 (8.56%) Oracle
6 14 (6.31%) Splunk
7 9 (4.05%) Veritas
8 7 (3.15%) AppDynamics
8 7 (3.15%) SAP
9 6 (2.70%) CyberArk
9 6 (2.70%) Dell
9 6 (2.70%) MuleSoft
9 6 (2.70%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.70%) WSO2
10 4 (1.80%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.80%) Brocade
10 4 (1.80%) EMC
10 4 (1.80%) IBM
10 4 (1.80%) NetApp
10 4 (1.80%) Sybase