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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 370 290 315
Rank change year-on-year -80 +25 -30
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 221 518 755
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.91% 0.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.60% 2.47% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 384 498
10th Percentile £389 £447 £450
25th Percentile £433 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% +4.35% +12.75%
75th Percentile £625 £755 £688
90th Percentile £725 £825 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +18.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 4
10th Percentile - - £41.92
25th Percentile - £53.75 £42.18
Median hourly rate £35.00 £60.55 £46.32
Median % change year-on-year -42.20% +30.72% +15.80%
75th Percentile - £76.75 £48.75
90th Percentile - £82.80 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £60.55 £46.32
% change year-on-year -42.20% +30.72% +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 13,826 20,933 33,670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.49% 36.75% 38.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,828 15,157 24,567
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 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 336 412
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.44 £15.37
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%
75th Percentile £36.16 £66.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.87 £19.63
% change year-on-year -31.49% +31.80% -1.88%

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 16 May 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 13 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 16 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
England -65 139 £525 -19.23% 48
UK excluding London -44 137 £500 -4.76% 27
Work from Home -6 74 £494 -14.09% 17
London -23 61 £575 -20.69% 17
Scotland -12 59 £480 +0.10%
South East +8 40 £492 -20.03% 11
South West -6 26 £550 -8.33% 14
Midlands +32 7 £356 -
North West -1 6 £463 -7.48% 1
North of England -18 6 £463 -22.92% 1
East Midlands - 6 £356 -
West Midlands +25 1 £450 -
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 9 (4.07%) Apache
2 7 (3.17%) Confluence
2 7 (3.17%) OpenStack
3 6 (2.71%) Anypoint
3 6 (2.71%) JBoss
4 5 (2.26%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.81%) SAS
6 1 (0.45%) nginx
6 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 123 (55.66%) AWS
2 72 (32.58%) Azure
3 44 (19.91%) Serverless
4 42 (19.00%) AWS Lambda
5 32 (14.48%) Amazon S3
6 30 (13.57%) GCP
7 28 (12.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (12.22%) Amazon EKS
9 18 (8.14%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (7.24%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (5.88%) GitHub
12 10 (4.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 8 (3.62%) Apigee
13 8 (3.62%) PaaS
13 8 (3.62%) Textract
14 7 (3.17%) Amazon Cognito
14 7 (3.17%) Amazon SageMaker
15 6 (2.71%) AWS CodePipeline
15 6 (2.71%) AWS Fargate
15 6 (2.71%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.24%) SAN
2 11 (4.98%) Firewall
3 8 (3.62%) NAS
4 7 (3.17%) AMQP
4 7 (3.17%) HTTP
4 7 (3.17%) Network Security
5 5 (2.26%) VPN
6 4 (1.81%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (1.81%) iSCSI
7 3 (1.36%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.90%) VSAN
9 1 (0.45%) 4G
9 1 (0.45%) 5G
9 1 (0.45%) IPv4
9 1 (0.45%) OSPF
9 1 (0.45%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (17.19%) Elasticsearch
2 34 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (8.60%) NoSQL
4 16 (7.24%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (7.24%) MongoDB
5 15 (6.79%) Amazon Aurora
6 13 (5.88%) InfluxDB
7 10 (4.52%) Relational Database
8 7 (3.17%) Triplestore
9 5 (2.26%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.81%) Big Data
10 4 (1.81%) DB2
10 4 (1.81%) Informix
10 4 (1.81%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.36%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.36%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.90%) DataStax
12 2 (0.90%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 87 (39.37%) Jenkins
2 48 (21.72%) Git
3 32 (14.48%) GitLab
4 17 (7.69%) Artifactory
5 16 (7.24%) Maven
6 14 (6.33%) Bitbucket
6 14 (6.33%) JIRA
6 14 (6.33%) TeamCity
7 10 (4.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 10 (4.52%) Gradle
8 8 (3.62%) SonarQube
8 8 (3.62%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (2.26%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (2.26%) CA Release Automation
10 4 (1.81%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.36%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.90%) Jaeger
12 2 (0.90%) webpack
13 1 (0.45%) Ant
13 1 (0.45%) Selenium
General
1 51 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 32 (14.48%) Public Sector
3 26 (11.76%) Banking
4 16 (7.24%) Finance
5 11 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.07%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.26%) Front Office
8 3 (1.36%) Aviation
9 1 (0.45%) Advertising
9 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.45%) Legal
9 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (28.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 41 (18.55%) Developer
3 27 (12.22%) Senior
3 27 (12.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 18 (8.14%) Site Engineer
5 17 (7.69%) Java Developer
6 15 (6.79%) AWS Engineer
7 13 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (5.43%) Linux Engineer
8 12 (5.43%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (4.98%) AWS DevOps
9 11 (4.98%) Senior DevOps
9 11 (4.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 10 (4.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 10 (4.52%) Data Engineer
10 10 (4.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (3.62%) Python Engineer
12 7 (3.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (3.17%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (18.10%) REST
2 34 (15.38%) Kafka
3 31 (14.03%) AWS CDK
4 24 (10.86%) Spring
5 22 (9.95%) Spring Boot
6 21 (9.50%) Node.js
6 21 (9.50%) RabbitMQ
7 18 (8.14%) Elastic Stack
8 14 (6.33%) CSS
8 14 (6.33%) HTML
9 13 (5.88%) React
10 11 (4.98%) Swagger
11 10 (4.52%) .NET
11 10 (4.52%) PostGIS
12 8 (3.62%) GraphQL
13 7 (3.17%) Apache Jena
13 7 (3.17%) Apache NiFi
13 7 (3.17%) RAML
13 7 (3.17%) RESTful
13 7 (3.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (14.93%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.79%) Public Cloud
3 8 (3.62%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.26%) Replication
6 4 (1.81%) Client/Server
6 4 (1.81%) NVMe
6 4 (1.81%) Private Cloud
6 4 (1.81%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.36%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.36%) PKI
7 3 (1.36%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.45%) Derivative
9 1 (0.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.45%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.45%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.45%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 77 (34.84%) Linux
2 33 (14.93%) Windows
3 23 (10.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (9.50%) Unix
5 13 (5.88%) Windows Server
6 8 (3.62%) Ubuntu
7 5 (2.26%) VMS
8 4 (1.81%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.90%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (57.92%) DevOps
2 111 (50.23%) CI/CD
3 81 (36.65%) Agile
4 73 (33.03%) Containerisation
5 54 (24.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 54 (24.43%) Microservices
6 47 (21.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 33 (14.93%) Continuous Integration
8 26 (11.76%) Scrum
8 26 (11.76%) Software Engineering
8 26 (11.76%) Task Automation
9 25 (11.31%) GitOps
9 25 (11.31%) Kanban
10 23 (10.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (10.41%) Test Automation
11 21 (9.50%) Observability
12 20 (9.05%) Code Quality
12 20 (9.05%) Migration
13 19 (8.60%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (8.14%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 95 (42.99%) Python
2 52 (23.53%) Java
3 43 (19.46%) SQL
4 39 (17.65%) Bash
5 30 (13.57%) Perl
6 29 (13.12%) JavaScript
7 23 (10.41%) Groovy
8 21 (9.50%) TypeScript
9 17 (7.69%) Shell Script
10 16 (7.24%) Go
11 8 (3.62%) PowerShell
11 8 (3.62%) Ruby
12 7 (3.17%) SPARQL
13 6 (2.71%) C#
14 5 (2.26%) C
15 3 (1.36%) C++
16 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (31.67%) Security Cleared
2 51 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 13 (5.88%) Degree
5 9 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.36%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.36%) OCP
6 3 (1.36%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.33%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.26%) QA
3 4 (1.81%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 127 (57.47%) Docker
2 12 (5.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.52%) VMware NSX
4 9 (4.07%) Active Directory
5 5 (2.26%) Firmware
5 5 (2.26%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.81%) GPFS
6 4 (1.81%) NFS
7 2 (0.90%) vCloud
7 2 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.45%) KVM
Systems Management
1 168 (76.02%) Kubernetes
2 75 (33.94%) Terraform
3 74 (33.48%) Ansible
4 64 (28.96%) Grafana
5 31 (14.03%) Prometheus
6 24 (10.86%) Kibana
7 22 (9.95%) Progress Chef
8 21 (9.50%) Istio
9 13 (5.88%) Argo
9 13 (5.88%) Puppet
10 10 (4.52%) Docker Swarm
11 9 (4.07%) Rancher
12 6 (2.71%) Podman
13 5 (2.26%) Dell DRAC
13 5 (2.26%) NetBackup
14 4 (1.81%) OPNET
14 4 (1.81%) Veritas Storage Foundation
15 3 (1.36%) vCenter Server
16 2 (0.90%) Consul
16 2 (0.90%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (13.57%) Red Hat
2 27 (12.22%) Google
3 22 (9.95%) VMware
4 20 (9.05%) Microsoft
5 19 (8.60%) Oracle
6 14 (6.33%) Splunk
7 9 (4.07%) Veritas
8 7 (3.17%) AppDynamics
8 7 (3.17%) SAP
9 6 (2.71%) CyberArk
9 6 (2.71%) Dell
9 6 (2.71%) MuleSoft
9 6 (2.71%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.71%) WSO2
10 4 (1.81%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.81%) Brocade
10 4 (1.81%) EMC
10 4 (1.81%) IBM
10 4 (1.81%) NetApp
10 4 (1.81%) Sybase