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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 293 303
Rank change year-on-year -78 +10 +9
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 233 505 793
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.91% 0.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.66% 2.49% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 371 538
10th Percentile £396 £456 £455
25th Percentile £438 £501 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £605 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% +5.22% +12.75%
75th Percentile £625 £763 £688
90th Percentile £725 £836 £752
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £545 £528
% change year-on-year -9.36% +3.17% +13.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 4
10th Percentile - £53.75 £41.92
25th Percentile - £54.69 £42.18
Median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 £46.32
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +51.12% +17.27%
75th Percentile - £78.00 £48.75
90th Percentile - £88.80 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 £46.32
% change year-on-year -50.00% +51.12% +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 14,031 20,309 33,859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.41% 36.46% 38.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,917 14,688 24,753
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 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 350 329 386
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.34
Median hourly rate £21.50 £39.55 £22.20
Median % change year-on-year -45.64% +78.15% +1.56%
75th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £68.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -31.73% +44.59% -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 8 June 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 14 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 8 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
England -57 156 £529 -19.54% 48
UK excluding London -40 147 £494 -9.36% 40
Work from Home -11 75 £494 -17.67% 23
London -46 63 £600 -17.24% 12
Scotland -10 55 £475 -2.56% 6
South East +3 44 £485 -21.77% 19
South West +4 34 £550 -8.33% 13
Midlands +23 7 £356 -42.58%
North West +9 6 £463 -24.86% 1
North of England -6 6 £463 -26.00% 1
East Midlands - 6 £356 -
East of England +6 2 £600 - 1
West Midlands +8 1 £450 -27.42%
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 15 (6.44%) Confluence
2 10 (4.29%) Apache
3 8 (3.43%) Apache Spark
4 7 (3.00%) Anypoint
5 6 (2.58%) JBoss
5 6 (2.58%) OpenStack
6 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.43%) nginx
7 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.43%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 127 (54.51%) AWS
2 70 (30.04%) Azure
3 48 (20.60%) Serverless
4 46 (19.74%) AWS Lambda
5 39 (16.74%) Amazon S3
6 33 (14.16%) AWS CloudFormation
7 32 (13.73%) GCP
8 26 (11.16%) Amazon EKS
9 25 (10.73%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (6.44%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (5.58%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 13 (5.58%) GitHub
12 11 (4.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (4.29%) PaaS
14 9 (3.86%) Apigee
15 8 (3.43%) AWS CodePipeline
15 8 (3.43%) IaaS
15 8 (3.43%) SaaS
16 7 (3.00%) Amazon Cognito
17 6 (2.58%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.29%) Firewall
2 9 (3.86%) SAN
3 8 (3.43%) AMQP
3 8 (3.43%) Network Security
4 7 (3.00%) HTTP
4 7 (3.00%) VPN
5 5 (2.15%) NAS
6 3 (1.29%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.86%) VSAN
8 1 (0.43%) IPv4
8 1 (0.43%) OSPF
8 1 (0.43%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (21.46%) Elasticsearch
2 43 (18.45%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (9.87%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (9.01%) MongoDB
5 20 (8.58%) NoSQL
6 17 (7.30%) Amazon Aurora
7 16 (6.87%) InfluxDB
8 11 (4.72%) Relational Database
9 10 (4.29%) Big Data
10 7 (3.00%) Informix
10 7 (3.00%) Triplestore
11 6 (2.58%) Hadoop
12 5 (2.15%) RDBMS
13 4 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.72%) DataStax
13 4 (1.72%) Oracle Database
14 3 (1.29%) MySQL
14 3 (1.29%) SQL Server
15 2 (0.86%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 92 (39.48%) Jenkins
2 54 (23.18%) Git
3 33 (14.16%) GitLab
4 23 (9.87%) JIRA
5 21 (9.01%) Bitbucket
6 18 (7.73%) Artifactory
7 17 (7.30%) Maven
8 16 (6.87%) TeamCity
9 10 (4.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 10 (4.29%) Gradle
10 8 (3.43%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (3.00%) SonarQube
12 5 (2.15%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (2.15%) CA Release Automation
12 5 (2.15%) Cypress.io
13 4 (1.72%) Cucumber
13 4 (1.72%) Visual Studio Code
14 2 (0.86%) Jaeger
14 2 (0.86%) webpack
15 1 (0.43%) Vagrant
General
1 49 (21.03%) Social Skills
2 36 (15.45%) Public Sector
3 25 (10.73%) Banking
4 18 (7.73%) Finance
5 11 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.58%) Front Office
7 5 (2.15%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.29%) Aviation
9 2 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.86%) Retail
10 1 (0.43%) Advertising
10 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Legal
Job Titles
1 64 (27.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 43 (18.45%) Developer
3 28 (12.02%) Senior
3 28 (12.02%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 21 (9.01%) Site Engineer
5 19 (8.15%) Java Developer
6 15 (6.44%) AWS Engineer
7 14 (6.01%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (5.58%) Cloud Engineer
8 13 (5.58%) Data Engineer
9 11 (4.72%) Senior DevOps
9 11 (4.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 10 (4.29%) AWS DevOps
10 10 (4.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.86%) Software Engineer
12 8 (3.43%) Architect
12 8 (3.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (3.43%) Lead
13 7 (3.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 7 (3.00%) MuleSoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (18.03%) Kafka
2 41 (17.60%) REST
3 36 (15.45%) AWS CDK
4 28 (12.02%) Spring
5 26 (11.16%) Node.js
6 24 (10.30%) Elastic Stack
6 24 (10.30%) RabbitMQ
7 23 (9.87%) Spring Boot
8 20 (8.58%) React
9 16 (6.87%) CSS
9 16 (6.87%) HTML
10 12 (5.15%) .NET
10 12 (5.15%) Swagger
11 10 (4.29%) PostGIS
12 8 (3.43%) Apache NiFi
12 8 (3.43%) GraphQL
12 8 (3.43%) RAML
12 8 (3.43%) SOAP
13 7 (3.00%) ActiveMQ
13 7 (3.00%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 38 (16.31%) Cloud Native
2 19 (8.15%) Public Cloud
3 9 (3.86%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (3.00%) Replication
6 6 (2.58%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.15%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.72%) PKI
8 4 (1.72%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.29%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.29%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.43%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.43%) Clustering
11 1 (0.43%) Derivative
11 1 (0.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.43%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.43%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 82 (35.19%) Linux
2 26 (11.16%) Windows
3 22 (9.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (7.30%) Unix
5 8 (3.43%) Ubuntu
6 7 (3.00%) Windows Server
7 6 (2.58%) VMS
8 2 (0.86%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (59.66%) DevOps
2 118 (50.64%) CI/CD
3 92 (39.48%) Agile
4 75 (32.19%) Containerisation
5 62 (26.61%) Microservices
6 58 (24.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 50 (21.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 33 (14.16%) Continuous Integration
9 31 (13.30%) Software Engineering
10 30 (12.88%) GitOps
11 28 (12.02%) Task Automation
11 28 (12.02%) Test Automation
12 26 (11.16%) Scrum
13 25 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (10.73%) Kanban
14 24 (10.30%) Migration
15 20 (8.58%) Code Quality
15 20 (8.58%) Configuration Management
16 18 (7.73%) Collaborative Working
16 18 (7.73%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 96 (41.20%) Python
2 55 (23.61%) Java
3 51 (21.89%) SQL
4 46 (19.74%) Bash
5 35 (15.02%) JavaScript
6 31 (13.30%) TypeScript
7 25 (10.73%) Groovy
8 23 (9.87%) Perl
9 20 (8.58%) Go
10 18 (7.73%) Shell Script
11 12 (5.15%) Ruby
12 11 (4.72%) PowerShell
13 7 (3.00%) SPARQL
14 6 (2.58%) C#
15 5 (2.15%) C
16 3 (1.29%) C++
16 3 (1.29%) Scala
17 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (34.33%) Security Cleared
2 55 (23.61%) SC Cleared
3 23 (9.87%) DV Cleared
4 14 (6.01%) Degree
5 8 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.15%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.86%) OCP
7 2 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.01%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.58%) QA
3 4 (1.72%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
System Software
1 134 (57.51%) Docker
2 14 (6.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (5.15%) VMware NSX
4 9 (3.86%) Active Directory
5 5 (2.15%) Firmware
5 5 (2.15%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.86%) vCloud
7 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.43%) KVM
7 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 174 (74.68%) Kubernetes
2 81 (34.76%) Ansible
3 74 (31.76%) Terraform
4 71 (30.47%) Grafana
5 33 (14.16%) Prometheus
6 31 (13.30%) Kibana
7 24 (10.30%) Istio
8 23 (9.87%) Progress Chef
9 16 (6.87%) Argo
10 14 (6.01%) Puppet
11 13 (5.58%) Rancher
12 11 (4.72%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (2.58%) OPNET
13 6 (2.58%) Podman
14 5 (2.15%) Dell DRAC
15 4 (1.72%) logstash
15 4 (1.72%) PowerCLI
16 3 (1.29%) NetBackup
16 3 (1.29%) vCenter Server
17 2 (0.86%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 31 (13.30%) Red Hat
2 26 (11.16%) Google
3 24 (10.30%) Microsoft
3 24 (10.30%) Oracle
4 23 (9.87%) VMware
5 14 (6.01%) Splunk
6 10 (4.29%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.00%) AppDynamics
7 7 (3.00%) MuleSoft
7 7 (3.00%) Salesforce
7 7 (3.00%) SAP
7 7 (3.00%) WSO2
8 6 (2.58%) CyberArk
8 6 (2.58%) Dell
9 5 (2.15%) Commvault
10 4 (1.72%) Cisco
10 4 (1.72%) Confluent
11 3 (1.29%) Veritas
12 2 (0.86%) Mercator
12 2 (0.86%) SolarWinds