OpenShift Contracts in the South West

Red Hat OpenShift
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 116 156
Rank change year-on-year -2 +40 -55
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 33 45 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.01% 1.32% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.11% 4.02% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 29 12
10th Percentile £518 £463 £451
25th Percentile £525 £550 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £506
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +18.52% +1.25%
75th Percentile £625 £725 £631
90th Percentile £675 £763 £673
England median daily rate £533 £654 £600
% change year-on-year -18.47% +8.96% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 0
Median hourly rate - £75.50 -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £75.50 -
% change year-on-year -53.64% - -

All Cloud Skills
South West

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 advertised in the South West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 803 1,119 1,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 24.68% 32.89% 30.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 899 870
10th Percentile £213 £288 £250
25th Percentile £388 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £654 £612
90th Percentile £675 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 60 21
10th Percentile £12.70 £16.51 £11.17
25th Percentile £14.25 £28.88 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +155.81% -55.87%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.50 £42.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £54.25
England median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.94% +62.79% +2.14%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in the South West over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for OpenShift in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Gloucestershire +4 19 £600 -5.88% 7
Wiltshire -4 6 £675 +3.85%
Bristol +4 4 £533 -11.17%
Devon -2 4 £550 +83.33%
OpenShift
England

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 6 (18.18%) Confluence
2 5 (15.15%) Apache
3 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (6.06%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 24 (72.73%) AWS
2 14 (42.42%) Azure
3 8 (24.24%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (24.24%) Amazon S3
3 8 (24.24%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (24.24%) Serverless
4 7 (21.21%) GitHub
5 6 (18.18%) GCP
5 6 (18.18%) PaaS
6 5 (15.15%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (6.06%) Slack
8 1 (3.03%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (24.24%) AMQP
2 7 (21.21%) VPN
3 6 (18.18%) Network Security
4 5 (15.15%) HTTP
5 4 (12.12%) Firewall
5 4 (12.12%) SAN
6 1 (3.03%) IPv4
6 1 (3.03%) OSPF
6 1 (3.03%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (24.24%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (24.24%) InfluxDB
2 6 (18.18%) Relational Database
3 5 (15.15%) Triplestore
4 4 (12.12%) Big Data
4 4 (12.12%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (6.06%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 12 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 8 (24.24%) Bitbucket
3 6 (18.18%) JIRA
4 5 (15.15%) GitLab
5 4 (12.12%) Git
6 2 (6.06%) Cypress.io
6 2 (6.06%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (42.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (21.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Architect
4 4 (12.12%) Automation Architect
5 3 (9.09%) Office Automation Architect
5 3 (9.09%) Senior
5 3 (9.09%) Site Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Data Analytics Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (6.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
7 1 (3.03%) Big Data Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Lead
7 1 (3.03%) Software Architect
7 1 (3.03%) Software Design Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (27.27%) REST
2 8 (24.24%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (21.21%) Kafka
4 6 (18.18%) .NET
4 6 (18.18%) ModSecurity
5 5 (15.15%) Apache Jena
5 5 (15.15%) Apache NiFi
5 5 (15.15%) CSS
5 5 (15.15%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (15.15%) GraphQL
5 5 (15.15%) HTML
5 5 (15.15%) PostGIS
6 4 (12.12%) .NET Framework
7 3 (9.09%) React
8 2 (6.06%) .NET Core
8 2 (6.06%) Fluent Bit
8 2 (6.06%) Loki
8 2 (6.06%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Linux Command Line
1 6 (18.18%) Public Cloud
1 6 (18.18%) Security Posture
2 4 (12.12%) PKI
2 4 (12.12%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.03%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 27 (81.82%) Linux
2 8 (24.24%) Windows
3 4 (12.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 21 (63.64%) DevOps
3 17 (51.52%) Containerisation
4 11 (33.33%) Agile
4 11 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 9 (27.27%) Configuration Management
6 7 (21.21%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
7 6 (18.18%) Business Strategy
7 6 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (18.18%) Event-Driven
7 6 (18.18%) GitOps
7 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
7 6 (18.18%) IT Strategy
7 6 (18.18%) NsoIT
7 6 (18.18%) Observability
7 6 (18.18%) Service Management
7 6 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (18.18%) Technology Strategy
7 6 (18.18%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 19 (57.58%) Python
2 9 (27.27%) JavaScript
2 9 (27.27%) PowerShell
3 8 (24.24%) Java
3 8 (24.24%) SQL
4 7 (21.21%) Bash
5 6 (18.18%) Go
5 6 (18.18%) Shell Script
6 5 (15.15%) SPARQL
7 4 (12.12%) C
8 2 (6.06%) C#
8 2 (6.06%) Perl
8 2 (6.06%) Ruby
8 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (78.79%) Security Cleared
2 15 (45.45%) DV Cleared
3 11 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 4 (12.12%) Degree
4 4 (12.12%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 29 (87.88%) Docker
2 10 (30.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (30.30%) VMware NSX
3 4 (12.12%) Active Directory
3 4 (12.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 33 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 21 (63.64%) Ansible
3 14 (42.42%) Terraform
4 13 (39.39%) Grafana
4 13 (39.39%) Prometheus
5 10 (30.30%) Docker Swarm
6 8 (24.24%) Progress Chef
7 6 (18.18%) OPNET
8 4 (12.12%) PowerCLI
9 2 (6.06%) Argo
9 2 (6.06%) Kibana
9 2 (6.06%) Kustomize
9 2 (6.06%) logstash
9 2 (6.06%) Rancher
10 1 (3.03%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) VMware
2 8 (24.24%) Atlassian
2 8 (24.24%) Microsoft
3 6 (18.18%) Google
4 4 (12.12%) Cisco
4 4 (12.12%) CyberArk