OpenShift Contracts in the UK excluding London

Red Hat OpenShift
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 253 212 272
Rank change year-on-year -41 +60 -51
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 147 254 263
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.71% 1.11% 0.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.74% 3.40% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 181 202
10th Percentile £376 £438 £450
25th Percentile £450 £475 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £536
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +1.68% +15.89%
75th Percentile £575 £645 £625
90th Percentile £634 £763 £736
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 4
10th Percentile - - £41.92
25th Percentile - £53.75 £42.18
Median hourly rate £35.00 £73.00 £46.32
Median % change year-on-year -52.05% +57.60% +17.27%
75th Percentile - £78.00 £48.75
90th Percentile - £90.00 -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £73.00 £46.32
% change year-on-year -52.05% +57.60% +17.27%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,356 7,464 9,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.78% 32.75% 32.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,788 5,498 7,366
10th Percentile £215 £243 £208
25th Percentile £375 £405 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.89%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £690 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 221 278
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.13 £16.84 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.80 £27.50 £19.63
Median % change year-on-year -35.27% +40.13% -1.88%
75th Percentile £35.00 £65.00 £33.06
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.50 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £38.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -43.53% +69.64% +1.82%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OpenShift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in the UK excluding London

OpenShift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenShift in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in the UK excluding London

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in the UK excluding London

OpenShift
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OpenShift in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for OpenShift in the UK excluding London

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
Scotland -11 57 £475 -2.56% 7
South East +8 43 £488 -21.95% 16
South West -3 33 £550 -8.33% 7
Midlands +26 7 £356 -39.66%
North West +10 6 £463 -24.61% 1
North of England -6 6 £463 -25.55% 2
East Midlands - 6 £356 -
East of England - 2 £600 - 3
West Midlands +14 1 £450 -23.73%
Wales - 1 £1,000 -
OpenShift
UK

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (5.44%) Confluence
2 6 (4.08%) Apache
3 5 (3.40%) JBoss
4 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (2.04%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.36%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 81 (55.10%) AWS
2 35 (23.81%) Amazon S3
2 35 (23.81%) Azure
3 32 (21.77%) Serverless
4 31 (21.09%) AWS Lambda
5 29 (19.73%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (10.20%) GCP
8 11 (7.48%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (6.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 8 (5.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (4.76%) GitHub
11 7 (4.76%) PaaS
12 6 (4.08%) AWS CodePipeline
12 6 (4.08%) Textract
13 5 (3.40%) Amazon Cognito
13 5 (3.40%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (3.40%) Amazon SageMaker
13 5 (3.40%) AWS Fargate
14 3 (2.04%) AWS CodeCommit
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.16%) SAN
2 10 (6.80%) Firewall
3 8 (5.44%) AMQP
4 7 (4.76%) Network Security
4 7 (4.76%) VPN
5 6 (4.08%) NAS
6 5 (3.40%) HTTP
7 2 (1.36%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (1.36%) iSCSI
7 2 (1.36%) VSAN
8 1 (0.68%) IPv4
8 1 (0.68%) OSPF
8 1 (0.68%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (26.53%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (23.13%) Elasticsearch
3 19 (12.93%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (10.20%) Amazon Aurora
5 14 (9.52%) InfluxDB
6 11 (7.48%) MongoDB
6 11 (7.48%) Relational Database
7 8 (5.44%) NoSQL
8 7 (4.76%) Big Data
9 5 (3.40%) RDBMS
9 5 (3.40%) Triplestore
10 4 (2.72%) Informix
11 3 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.04%) Hadoop
12 2 (1.36%) DB2
12 2 (1.36%) MySQL
13 1 (0.68%) Apache Hive
13 1 (0.68%) Impala
13 1 (0.68%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 49 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 26 (17.69%) Git
3 15 (10.20%) GitLab
4 14 (9.52%) JIRA
5 13 (8.84%) Bitbucket
6 10 (6.80%) Artifactory
7 8 (5.44%) Maven
8 7 (4.76%) Gradle
9 6 (4.08%) TeamCity
10 5 (3.40%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (3.40%) CA Release Automation
10 5 (3.40%) SonarQube
10 5 (3.40%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (2.04%) Cypress.io
11 3 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.68%) JUnit
General
1 30 (20.41%) Public Sector
2 27 (18.37%) Social Skills
3 11 (7.48%) Banking
4 3 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.04%) Finance
4 3 (2.04%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.68%) Advertising
5 1 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (0.68%) Legal
5 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (19.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 28 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (14.97%) Developer
4 21 (14.29%) Site Engineer
5 13 (8.84%) Platform Engineer
5 13 (8.84%) Senior
6 12 (8.16%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (8.16%) Data Engineer
7 9 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (5.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (5.44%) Java Developer
9 6 (4.08%) Architect
9 6 (4.08%) Automation Developer
9 6 (4.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.08%) Full Stack Developer
9 6 (4.08%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (4.08%) Python Engineer
10 5 (3.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.40%) Site Manager
10 5 (3.40%) Site Reliability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (19.73%) AWS CDK
2 25 (17.01%) REST
3 23 (15.65%) Kafka
4 16 (10.88%) RabbitMQ
4 16 (10.88%) Spring Boot
5 13 (8.84%) Spring
6 12 (8.16%) CSS
6 12 (8.16%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (8.16%) HTML
7 11 (7.48%) React
8 10 (6.80%) Node.js
9 8 (5.44%) PostGIS
10 7 (4.76%) .NET
11 6 (4.08%) GraphQL
11 6 (4.08%) ModSecurity
11 6 (4.08%) OAuth
11 6 (4.08%) OAuth2
11 6 (4.08%) RESTful
11 6 (4.08%) Spring Security
12 5 (3.40%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 33 (22.45%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.76%) Public Cloud
3 6 (4.08%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (4.08%) Security Posture
4 5 (3.40%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.40%) Replication
5 4 (2.72%) PKI
6 3 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.36%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.36%) NVMe
7 2 (1.36%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.68%) Clustering
8 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.68%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 59 (40.14%) Linux
2 25 (17.01%) Windows
3 19 (12.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (12.24%) Unix
5 9 (6.12%) Windows Server
6 8 (5.44%) Ubuntu
7 5 (3.40%) VMS
8 2 (1.36%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (1.36%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (59.86%) DevOps
2 76 (51.70%) CI/CD
3 57 (38.78%) Containerisation
4 51 (34.69%) Agile
5 44 (29.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 40 (27.21%) Infrastructure as Code
7 36 (24.49%) Microservices
8 26 (17.69%) GitOps
9 19 (12.93%) Code Quality
10 18 (12.24%) Collaborative Working
10 18 (12.24%) Kanban
10 18 (12.24%) Software Engineering
11 17 (11.56%) Observability
11 17 (11.56%) Task Automation
12 16 (10.88%) ITSM
12 16 (10.88%) Migration
12 16 (10.88%) Technical Leadership
13 15 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 15 (10.20%) Scrum
13 15 (10.20%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 65 (44.22%) Python
2 29 (19.73%) SQL
3 28 (19.05%) Java
4 25 (17.01%) Bash
5 23 (15.65%) JavaScript
6 21 (14.29%) TypeScript
7 14 (9.52%) Shell Script
8 12 (8.16%) Groovy
8 12 (8.16%) Perl
9 11 (7.48%) Ruby
10 10 (6.80%) PowerShell
11 6 (4.08%) Go
12 5 (3.40%) C
12 5 (3.40%) SPARQL
13 3 (2.04%) C#
14 1 (0.68%) Scala
Qualifications
1 56 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 38 (25.85%) SC Cleared
3 17 (11.56%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.40%) Degree
4 5 (3.40%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.52%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.72%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.36%) QA
System Software
1 79 (53.74%) Docker
2 13 (8.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (8.16%) VMware NSX
4 9 (6.12%) Active Directory
5 5 (3.40%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.36%) GPFS
6 2 (1.36%) NFS
6 2 (1.36%) vCloud
7 1 (0.68%) KVM
Systems Management
1 105 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 62 (42.18%) Grafana
3 51 (34.69%) Ansible
4 46 (31.29%) Terraform
5 29 (19.73%) Kibana
5 29 (19.73%) Prometheus
6 24 (16.33%) Istio
7 16 (10.88%) Progress Chef
8 15 (10.20%) Argo
9 12 (8.16%) Rancher
10 10 (6.80%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (4.08%) OPNET
12 4 (2.72%) PowerCLI
13 3 (2.04%) logstash
13 3 (2.04%) NetBackup
13 3 (2.04%) vCenter Server
14 2 (1.36%) Kustomize
14 2 (1.36%) Puppet
14 2 (1.36%) Red Hat Satellite
14 2 (1.36%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 24 (16.33%) Red Hat
2 21 (14.29%) VMware
3 15 (10.20%) Google
4 13 (8.84%) Microsoft
5 9 (6.12%) Atlassian
6 5 (3.40%) AppDynamics
6 5 (3.40%) Oracle
6 5 (3.40%) Splunk
6 5 (3.40%) Veritas
7 4 (2.72%) Cisco
7 4 (2.72%) CyberArk
8 3 (2.04%) Commvault
9 2 (1.36%) Brocade
9 2 (1.36%) EMC
9 2 (1.36%) IBM
9 2 (1.36%) NetApp
9 2 (1.36%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.36%) Sybase
10 1 (0.68%) BT