OpenShift Contracts

Red Hat OpenShift
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 355 300 295
Rank change year-on-year -55 -5 +20
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 236 495 786
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.89% 0.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.67% 2.44% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 365 536
10th Percentile £400 £456 £455
25th Percentile £438 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £573
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.80% +12.25%
75th Percentile £625 £760 £688
90th Percentile £725 £825 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £545 £528
% change year-on-year -9.36% +3.17% +13.60%
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 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,152 20,251 33,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.40% 36.46% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,986 14,657 24,479
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 £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 327 381
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile £43.75 £69.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.48 £69.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £27.35 £19.09
% change year-on-year -26.87% +43.27% -4.55%

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 12 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 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
England -58 160 £519 -20.19% 44
UK excluding London -50 151 £494 -9.36% 37
Work from Home +1 78 £494 -17.67% 21
London -36 63 £600 -15.79% 10
Scotland -5 55 £475 -1.76% 5
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%
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 (6.36%) Confluence
2 10 (4.24%) Apache
3 8 (3.39%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.97%) Anypoint
5 6 (2.54%) JBoss
6 5 (2.12%) OpenStack
7 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.42%) nginx
8 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.42%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 127 (53.81%) AWS
2 70 (29.66%) Azure
3 48 (20.34%) Serverless
4 46 (19.49%) AWS Lambda
5 39 (16.53%) Amazon S3
6 33 (13.98%) AWS CloudFormation
7 32 (13.56%) GCP
8 26 (11.02%) Amazon EKS
9 25 (10.59%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (6.36%) Amazon ECS
11 14 (5.93%) GitHub
12 13 (5.51%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 11 (4.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (4.24%) Apigee
14 10 (4.24%) PaaS
15 9 (3.81%) IaaS
16 8 (3.39%) AWS CodePipeline
16 8 (3.39%) SaaS
17 7 (2.97%) Amazon Cognito
18 6 (2.54%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.24%) Firewall
2 9 (3.81%) SAN
3 8 (3.39%) AMQP
3 8 (3.39%) Network Security
4 7 (2.97%) HTTP
4 7 (2.97%) VPN
5 5 (2.12%) NAS
6 3 (1.27%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.85%) VSAN
8 1 (0.42%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.42%) IPv4
8 1 (0.42%) OSPF
8 1 (0.42%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (22.03%) Elasticsearch
2 45 (19.07%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (9.75%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (8.90%) MongoDB
5 20 (8.47%) NoSQL
6 17 (7.20%) Amazon Aurora
7 16 (6.78%) InfluxDB
8 11 (4.66%) Relational Database
9 10 (4.24%) Big Data
10 7 (2.97%) Informix
10 7 (2.97%) Triplestore
11 6 (2.54%) Hadoop
12 5 (2.12%) RDBMS
13 4 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.69%) DataStax
13 4 (1.69%) Oracle Database
14 3 (1.27%) MySQL
14 3 (1.27%) SQL Server
15 2 (0.85%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 93 (39.41%) Jenkins
2 55 (23.31%) Git
3 33 (13.98%) GitLab
4 23 (9.75%) JIRA
5 22 (9.32%) Bitbucket
6 19 (8.05%) Artifactory
7 18 (7.63%) Maven
8 16 (6.78%) TeamCity
9 10 (4.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 10 (4.24%) Gradle
10 9 (3.81%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (3.39%) SonarQube
12 5 (2.12%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (2.12%) CA Release Automation
12 5 (2.12%) Cypress.io
13 4 (1.69%) Cucumber
13 4 (1.69%) Visual Studio Code
14 2 (0.85%) Jaeger
14 2 (0.85%) webpack
15 1 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 47 (19.92%) Social Skills
2 36 (15.25%) Public Sector
3 25 (10.59%) Banking
4 18 (7.63%) Finance
5 11 (4.66%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.54%) Front Office
7 5 (2.12%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.27%) Aviation
9 2 (0.85%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.85%) Retail
10 1 (0.42%) Advertising
10 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Legal
Job Titles
1 65 (27.54%) DevOps Engineer
2 43 (18.22%) Developer
3 32 (13.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 29 (12.29%) Senior
5 25 (10.59%) Site Engineer
6 19 (8.05%) Java Developer
7 15 (6.36%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (5.93%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (5.93%) Platform Engineer
9 13 (5.51%) Data Engineer
10 12 (5.08%) Senior DevOps
10 12 (5.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 10 (4.24%) AWS DevOps
11 10 (4.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.81%) Software Engineer
13 8 (3.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.39%) Lead
14 7 (2.97%) Database Engineer
14 7 (2.97%) Linux Engineer
14 7 (2.97%) MuleSoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (18.64%) Kafka
2 41 (17.37%) REST
3 36 (15.25%) AWS CDK
4 28 (11.86%) Spring
5 26 (11.02%) Node.js
6 24 (10.17%) Elastic Stack
6 24 (10.17%) RabbitMQ
7 23 (9.75%) Spring Boot
8 20 (8.47%) React
9 16 (6.78%) CSS
9 16 (6.78%) HTML
10 12 (5.08%) .NET
10 12 (5.08%) Swagger
11 10 (4.24%) PostGIS
12 8 (3.39%) Apache NiFi
12 8 (3.39%) GraphQL
12 8 (3.39%) RAML
12 8 (3.39%) SOAP
13 7 (2.97%) ActiveMQ
13 7 (2.97%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 42 (17.80%) Cloud Native
2 19 (8.05%) Public Cloud
3 9 (3.81%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.97%) Replication
6 6 (2.54%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.12%) Private Cloud
7 5 (2.12%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.69%) PKI
9 3 (1.27%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.27%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.42%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.42%) Clustering
11 1 (0.42%) Derivative
11 1 (0.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.42%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.42%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 81 (34.32%) Linux
2 26 (11.02%) Windows
3 22 (9.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (7.20%) Unix
5 8 (3.39%) Ubuntu
6 7 (2.97%) Windows Server
7 6 (2.54%) VMS
8 2 (0.85%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (61.02%) DevOps
2 118 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 96 (40.68%) Agile
4 78 (33.05%) Containerisation
5 66 (27.97%) Microservices
6 57 (24.15%) Infrastructure as Code
7 54 (22.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 34 (14.41%) Continuous Integration
8 34 (14.41%) Software Engineering
9 32 (13.56%) GitOps
10 31 (13.14%) Task Automation
11 29 (12.29%) Test Automation
12 27 (11.44%) Scrum
13 25 (10.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (10.59%) Kanban
14 23 (9.75%) Migration
15 21 (8.90%) Configuration Management
16 20 (8.47%) Code Quality
16 20 (8.47%) Collaborative Working
16 20 (8.47%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 95 (40.25%) Python
2 55 (23.31%) Java
3 51 (21.61%) SQL
4 46 (19.49%) Bash
5 35 (14.83%) JavaScript
6 31 (13.14%) TypeScript
7 25 (10.59%) Groovy
8 23 (9.75%) Perl
9 20 (8.47%) Go
10 18 (7.63%) Shell Script
11 12 (5.08%) Ruby
12 11 (4.66%) PowerShell
13 7 (2.97%) SPARQL
14 6 (2.54%) C#
15 5 (2.12%) C
16 3 (1.27%) C++
16 3 (1.27%) Scala
17 1 (0.42%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 84 (35.59%) Security Cleared
2 59 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 23 (9.75%) DV Cleared
4 14 (5.93%) Degree
5 8 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.12%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.85%) OCP
7 2 (0.85%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.93%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.97%) QA
3 4 (1.69%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
System Software
1 133 (56.36%) Docker
2 14 (5.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (5.08%) VMware NSX
4 9 (3.81%) Active Directory
5 5 (2.12%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.69%) Firmware
7 2 (0.85%) vCloud
8 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.42%) KVM
8 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 176 (74.58%) Kubernetes
2 81 (34.32%) Ansible
3 74 (31.36%) Terraform
4 73 (30.93%) Grafana
5 35 (14.83%) Prometheus
6 33 (13.98%) Kibana
7 26 (11.02%) Istio
8 22 (9.32%) Progress Chef
9 18 (7.63%) Argo
10 13 (5.51%) Puppet
10 13 (5.51%) Rancher
11 11 (4.66%) Docker Swarm
12 6 (2.54%) OPNET
12 6 (2.54%) Podman
13 4 (1.69%) Dell DRAC
13 4 (1.69%) logstash
13 4 (1.69%) PowerCLI
14 3 (1.27%) NetBackup
14 3 (1.27%) vCenter Server
15 2 (0.85%) Control-M
Vendors
1 30 (12.71%) Red Hat
2 25 (10.59%) Google
2 25 (10.59%) Oracle
3 24 (10.17%) Microsoft
4 23 (9.75%) VMware
5 14 (5.93%) Splunk
6 10 (4.24%) Atlassian
7 7 (2.97%) AppDynamics
7 7 (2.97%) MuleSoft
7 7 (2.97%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.97%) SAP
7 7 (2.97%) WSO2
8 6 (2.54%) CyberArk
9 5 (2.12%) Cisco
9 5 (2.12%) Commvault
9 5 (2.12%) Dell
10 4 (1.69%) Confluent
11 3 (1.27%) Veritas
12 2 (0.85%) Mercator
12 2 (0.85%) SolarWinds