OpenShift Contracts in England

Red Hat OpenShift
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 391 333 363
Rank change year-on-year -58 +30 -28
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 160 336 522
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.43% 0.71% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.33% 1.97% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 255 337
10th Percentile £388 £500 £475
25th Percentile £450 £563 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.19% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £640 £800 £713
90th Percentile £723 £849 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £573
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.80% +12.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 £46.32
% change year-on-year -50.00% +51.12% +17.27%

All Cloud Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 12,003 17,073 26,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.00% 36.30% 38.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,593 12,521 19,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £415 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £748 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 282 314
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.69% +62.79% +2.14%
75th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £44.70
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.19 £75.00
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in England

OpenShift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in England

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in England

OpenShift
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OpenShift in England.

Hourly rate trend for OpenShift in England

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
London -36 63 £600 -15.79% 10
South East +16 47 £488 -21.95% 16
South West -10 34 £550 -8.33% 14
Midlands +22 7 £356 -42.58%
North West +8 7 £493 -19.90% 1
North of England -13 7 £493 -21.12% 1
East Midlands - 6 £356 -
East of England +5 2 £600 - 1
West Midlands +17 1 £450 -27.42%
OpenShift
UK

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (8.75%) Confluence
2 10 (6.25%) Apache
3 8 (5.00%) Apache Spark
4 6 (3.75%) Anypoint
4 6 (3.75%) JBoss
5 5 (3.13%) OpenStack
6 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.63%) nginx
7 1 (0.63%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.63%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 76 (47.50%) AWS
2 52 (32.50%) Azure
3 24 (15.00%) GCP
4 21 (13.13%) AWS Lambda
4 21 (13.13%) Serverless
5 12 (7.50%) GitHub
6 10 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (6.25%) Amazon S3
7 9 (5.63%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (5.63%) PaaS
8 7 (4.38%) Amazon Cognito
8 7 (4.38%) Apigee
8 7 (4.38%) SaaS
9 4 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.88%) IaaS
10 3 (1.88%) WhatsApp
11 2 (1.25%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.25%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.00%) AMQP
2 7 (4.38%) HTTP
2 7 (4.38%) Network Security
2 7 (4.38%) VPN
3 5 (3.13%) SAN
4 4 (2.50%) Firewall
5 2 (1.25%) VSAN
6 1 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.63%) IPv4
6 1 (0.63%) NAS
6 1 (0.63%) OSPF
6 1 (0.63%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (8.13%) NoSQL
4 11 (6.88%) Relational Database
5 10 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (5.63%) Big Data
6 9 (5.63%) InfluxDB
6 9 (5.63%) MongoDB
7 7 (4.38%) Triplestore
8 6 (3.75%) Hadoop
9 5 (3.13%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (2.50%) DataStax
10 4 (2.50%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.88%) MySQL
11 3 (1.88%) SQL Server
12 2 (1.25%) Apache Hive
12 2 (1.25%) Impala
13 1 (0.63%) Couchbase
13 1 (0.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 54 (33.75%) Jenkins
2 34 (21.25%) Git
3 22 (13.75%) JIRA
4 19 (11.88%) Bitbucket
5 18 (11.25%) GitLab
6 15 (9.38%) TeamCity
7 10 (6.25%) Artifactory
8 9 (5.63%) Maven
9 7 (4.38%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (3.75%) SonarQube
11 5 (3.13%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (3.13%) CA Release Automation
12 4 (2.50%) Cucumber
12 4 (2.50%) Cypress.io
12 4 (2.50%) Gradle
12 4 (2.50%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (1.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 2 (1.25%) Jaeger
14 2 (1.25%) webpack
15 1 (0.63%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 26 (16.25%) Social Skills
2 18 (11.25%) Finance
3 15 (9.38%) Banking
4 13 (8.13%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.75%) Front Office
7 4 (2.50%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.88%) Aviation
9 2 (1.25%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.25%) Retail
10 1 (0.63%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 41 (25.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (18.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 24 (15.00%) Developer
3 24 (15.00%) Site Engineer
4 16 (10.00%) Senior
5 12 (7.50%) Java Developer
6 11 (6.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (5.63%) Software Engineer
8 8 (5.00%) Lead
9 7 (4.38%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (4.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (3.75%) Architect
10 6 (3.75%) Linux Engineer
10 6 (3.75%) MuleSoft Developer
10 6 (3.75%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (3.75%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 5 (3.13%) Data Engineer
11 5 (3.13%) Lead DevOps
11 5 (3.13%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (23.13%) Kafka
2 25 (15.63%) REST
3 21 (13.13%) Elastic Stack
4 20 (12.50%) Node.js
5 16 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
5 16 (10.00%) Spring
6 14 (8.75%) React
7 12 (7.50%) .NET
7 12 (7.50%) Spring Boot
8 11 (6.88%) Swagger
9 10 (6.25%) CSS
9 10 (6.25%) HTML
10 8 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
10 8 (5.00%) GraphQL
11 7 (4.38%) Apache Jena
11 7 (4.38%) PostGIS
11 7 (4.38%) RAML
11 7 (4.38%) SOAP
11 7 (4.38%) YAML
12 6 (3.75%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 33 (20.63%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.63%) Public Cloud
3 9 (5.63%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (3.75%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.50%) PKI
5 4 (2.50%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.88%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.88%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.63%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.63%) Derivative
8 1 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.63%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.63%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 61 (38.13%) Linux
2 15 (9.38%) Windows
3 13 (8.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.13%) Unix
4 5 (3.13%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.25%) Solaris
5 2 (1.25%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (60.63%) DevOps
2 76 (47.50%) CI/CD
3 62 (38.75%) Containerisation
4 60 (37.50%) Agile
5 56 (35.00%) Microservices
6 45 (28.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 30 (18.75%) Software Engineering
8 29 (18.13%) GitOps
9 28 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 25 (15.63%) Task Automation
11 21 (13.13%) Continuous Integration
12 20 (12.50%) ITSM
13 19 (11.88%) Collaborative Working
14 18 (11.25%) Performance Tuning
15 17 (10.63%) Configuration Management
15 17 (10.63%) Continuous Improvement
15 17 (10.63%) Test Automation
16 13 (8.13%) Change Management
16 13 (8.13%) Incident Response
16 13 (8.13%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 59 (36.88%) Python
2 40 (25.00%) Java
3 31 (19.38%) SQL
4 24 (15.00%) JavaScript
5 23 (14.38%) Bash
6 14 (8.75%) Go
7 13 (8.13%) Groovy
8 12 (7.50%) Perl
9 11 (6.88%) PowerShell
9 11 (6.88%) Shell Script
9 11 (6.88%) TypeScript
10 7 (4.38%) SPARQL
11 6 (3.75%) C#
12 4 (2.50%) C
12 4 (2.50%) Ruby
13 3 (1.88%) C++
13 3 (1.88%) Scala
14 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 82 (51.25%) Security Cleared
2 57 (35.63%) SC Cleared
3 23 (14.38%) DV Cleared
4 9 (5.63%) Degree
5 5 (3.13%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.25%) OCP
7 2 (1.25%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.50%) QA
2 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
System Software
1 92 (57.50%) Docker
2 13 (8.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (7.50%) VMware NSX
4 9 (5.63%) Active Directory
5 4 (2.50%) Firmware
5 4 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.25%) vCloud
7 1 (0.63%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 132 (82.50%) Kubernetes
2 53 (33.13%) Terraform
3 47 (29.38%) Ansible
4 39 (24.38%) Grafana
5 32 (20.00%) Prometheus
6 26 (16.25%) Istio
7 24 (15.00%) Kibana
8 21 (13.13%) Progress Chef
9 18 (11.25%) Argo
10 13 (8.13%) Rancher
11 11 (6.88%) Puppet
12 10 (6.25%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (3.75%) OPNET
13 6 (3.75%) Podman
14 4 (2.50%) Dell DRAC
14 4 (2.50%) logstash
14 4 (2.50%) PowerCLI
15 2 (1.25%) Kustomize
15 2 (1.25%) Red Hat Satellite
15 2 (1.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (14.38%) Google
1 23 (14.38%) Microsoft
2 22 (13.75%) Red Hat
2 22 (13.75%) VMware
3 16 (10.00%) Oracle
4 14 (8.75%) Splunk
5 10 (6.25%) Atlassian
6 7 (4.38%) AppDynamics
7 6 (3.75%) CyberArk
7 6 (3.75%) MuleSoft
7 6 (3.75%) Salesforce
7 6 (3.75%) SAP
7 6 (3.75%) WSO2
8 5 (3.13%) Cisco
8 5 (3.13%) Dell
9 4 (2.50%) Confluent
10 2 (1.25%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.63%) BT
11 1 (0.63%) Commvault
11 1 (0.63%) Fortinet