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 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 356 280 307
Rank change year-on-year -76 +27 -11
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 233 511 781
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.91% 0.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.67% 2.49% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 378 527
10th Percentile £396 £456 £461
25th Percentile £438 £502 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +12.75%
75th Percentile £628 £763 £688
90th Percentile £725 £836 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £545 £536
% change year-on-year -8.26% +1.68% +15.58%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £73.00 £46.32
% change year-on-year -52.05% +57.60% +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 13,976 20,555 33,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.43% 36.46% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,930 14,875 24,662
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 £748 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 330 390
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.40
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.75 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.15% +71.59% +0.32%
75th Percentile £42.50 £69.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.12 £69.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.50 £19.17
% change year-on-year -35.27% +43.47% -4.16%

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 2 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 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
England -60 154 £533 -18.47% 49
UK excluding London -31 147 £500 -8.26% 32
Work from Home -12 73 £494 -17.67% 22
London -28 64 £600 -17.24% 20
Scotland -9 57 £475 -2.56% 7
South East +6 43 £488 -21.32% 15
South West -2 33 £550 -8.33% 8
Midlands +29 7 £356 -39.66%
North West +8 6 £463 -24.86% 1
North of England -2 6 £463 -26.00% 1
East Midlands - 6 £356 -
East of England - 2 £600 - 1
West Midlands +13 1 £450 -23.73%
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 14 (6.01%) Confluence
2 10 (4.29%) Apache
3 8 (3.43%) Apache Spark
4 7 (3.00%) Anypoint
5 6 (2.58%) JBoss
5 6 (2.58%) OpenStack
6 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.86%) SAS
8 1 (0.43%) nginx
8 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.43%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 125 (53.65%) AWS
2 72 (30.90%) Azure
3 46 (19.74%) Serverless
4 45 (19.31%) AWS Lambda
5 35 (15.02%) Amazon S3
6 32 (13.73%) GCP
7 30 (12.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 25 (10.73%) Amazon EKS
9 21 (9.01%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (6.44%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (5.58%) GitHub
12 10 (4.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 9 (3.86%) Apigee
13 9 (3.86%) PaaS
14 8 (3.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (3.00%) Amazon Cognito
15 7 (3.00%) IaaS
15 7 (3.00%) SaaS
16 6 (2.58%) AWS CodePipeline
16 6 (2.58%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.58%) SAN
2 10 (4.29%) Firewall
3 8 (3.43%) AMQP
3 8 (3.43%) Network Security
4 7 (3.00%) HTTP
4 7 (3.00%) NAS
4 7 (3.00%) VPN
5 3 (1.29%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.86%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.86%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.86%) VSAN
7 1 (0.43%) IPv4
7 1 (0.43%) OSPF
7 1 (0.43%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (20.17%) Elasticsearch
2 40 (17.17%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (8.58%) NoSQL
4 19 (8.15%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (7.73%) MongoDB
6 15 (6.44%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (6.01%) InfluxDB
8 11 (4.72%) Relational Database
9 9 (3.86%) Big Data
10 7 (3.00%) Triplestore
11 6 (2.58%) Hadoop
12 5 (2.15%) RDBMS
13 4 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.72%) DataStax
13 4 (1.72%) Informix
13 4 (1.72%) Oracle Database
14 3 (1.29%) MySQL
14 3 (1.29%) SQL Server
15 2 (0.86%) DB2
Development Applications
1 91 (39.06%) Jenkins
2 52 (22.32%) Git
3 33 (14.16%) GitLab
4 21 (9.01%) JIRA
5 20 (8.58%) Bitbucket
6 17 (7.30%) Artifactory
7 16 (6.87%) Maven
7 16 (6.87%) TeamCity
8 10 (4.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 10 (4.29%) Gradle
9 8 (3.43%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (3.00%) SonarQube
11 6 (2.58%) Cypress.io
12 5 (2.15%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (2.15%) CA Release Automation
13 4 (1.72%) Cucumber
14 3 (1.29%) Visual Studio Code
15 2 (0.86%) Jaeger
15 2 (0.86%) webpack
16 1 (0.43%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 50 (21.46%) Social Skills
2 35 (15.02%) Public Sector
3 27 (11.59%) Banking
4 17 (7.30%) Finance
5 11 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.00%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.15%) Front Office
8 3 (1.29%) Aviation
9 1 (0.43%) Advertising
9 1 (0.43%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.43%) Legal
9 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 63 (27.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 43 (18.45%) Developer
3 30 (12.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 28 (12.02%) Senior
5 21 (9.01%) Site Engineer
6 19 (8.15%) Java Developer
7 14 (6.01%) AWS Engineer
7 14 (6.01%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (5.58%) Data Engineer
9 12 (5.15%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (4.72%) Senior DevOps
10 11 (4.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 10 (4.29%) AWS DevOps
11 10 (4.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 10 (4.29%) Linux Engineer
12 9 (3.86%) Software Engineer
13 8 (3.43%) Architect
13 8 (3.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.43%) Lead
14 7 (3.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (18.03%) Kafka
1 42 (18.03%) REST
2 33 (14.16%) AWS CDK
3 27 (11.59%) Spring
4 25 (10.73%) Node.js
5 24 (10.30%) Elastic Stack
5 24 (10.30%) RabbitMQ
6 23 (9.87%) Spring Boot
7 19 (8.15%) React
8 16 (6.87%) CSS
8 16 (6.87%) HTML
9 13 (5.58%) .NET
10 12 (5.15%) Swagger
11 10 (4.29%) PostGIS
12 8 (3.43%) Apache NiFi
12 8 (3.43%) GraphQL
12 8 (3.43%) RAML
12 8 (3.43%) SOAP
13 7 (3.00%) ActiveMQ
13 7 (3.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 37 (15.88%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.73%) Public Cloud
3 9 (3.86%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (2.58%) Security Posture
6 5 (2.15%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.15%) Replication
7 4 (1.72%) PKI
7 4 (1.72%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.29%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.86%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.86%) NVMe
9 2 (0.86%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.43%) Clustering
10 1 (0.43%) Derivative
10 1 (0.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.43%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 82 (35.19%) Linux
2 29 (12.45%) Windows
3 22 (9.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (8.15%) Unix
5 10 (4.29%) Windows Server
6 8 (3.43%) Ubuntu
7 6 (2.58%) VMS
8 2 (0.86%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (0.86%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (58.80%) DevOps
2 120 (51.50%) CI/CD
3 90 (38.63%) Agile
4 77 (33.05%) Containerisation
5 63 (27.04%) Microservices
6 57 (24.46%) Infrastructure as Code
7 52 (22.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 33 (14.16%) Continuous Integration
9 31 (13.30%) Software Engineering
10 30 (12.88%) GitOps
11 28 (12.02%) Task Automation
11 28 (12.02%) Test Automation
12 25 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (9.87%) Scrum
14 22 (9.44%) Kanban
14 22 (9.44%) Migration
15 20 (8.58%) Code Quality
15 20 (8.58%) Configuration Management
16 18 (7.73%) Collaborative Working
16 18 (7.73%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 98 (42.06%) Python
2 58 (24.89%) Java
3 48 (20.60%) SQL
4 45 (19.31%) Bash
5 35 (15.02%) JavaScript
6 27 (11.59%) Perl
6 27 (11.59%) TypeScript
7 24 (10.30%) Groovy
8 20 (8.58%) Go
9 18 (7.73%) Shell Script
10 11 (4.72%) Ruby
11 10 (4.29%) PowerShell
12 7 (3.00%) C#
12 7 (3.00%) SPARQL
13 5 (2.15%) C
14 3 (1.29%) C++
15 2 (0.86%) Scala
16 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 81 (34.76%) Security Cleared
2 56 (24.03%) SC Cleared
3 23 (9.87%) DV Cleared
4 14 (6.01%) Degree
5 8 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.15%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.29%) OCP
7 3 (1.29%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.01%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.15%) QA
3 4 (1.72%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
System Software
1 136 (58.37%) Docker
2 14 (6.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (5.15%) VMware NSX
4 9 (3.86%) Active Directory
5 5 (2.15%) Firmware
5 5 (2.15%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.86%) GPFS
6 2 (0.86%) NFS
6 2 (0.86%) vCloud
7 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.43%) KVM
7 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 177 (75.97%) Kubernetes
2 80 (34.33%) Ansible
3 75 (32.19%) Terraform
4 69 (29.61%) Grafana
5 34 (14.59%) Prometheus
6 30 (12.88%) Kibana
7 24 (10.30%) Istio
8 23 (9.87%) Progress Chef
9 16 (6.87%) Argo
10 15 (6.44%) Puppet
11 12 (5.15%) Rancher
12 11 (4.72%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (2.58%) OPNET
13 6 (2.58%) Podman
14 5 (2.15%) Dell DRAC
15 4 (1.72%) NetBackup
15 4 (1.72%) PowerCLI
16 3 (1.29%) logstash
16 3 (1.29%) vCenter Server
17 2 (0.86%) Packer
Vendors
1 29 (12.45%) Red Hat
2 28 (12.02%) Google
3 24 (10.30%) Microsoft
4 23 (9.87%) VMware
5 21 (9.01%) Oracle
6 14 (6.01%) Splunk
7 9 (3.86%) Atlassian
8 7 (3.00%) AppDynamics
8 7 (3.00%) MuleSoft
8 7 (3.00%) Salesforce
8 7 (3.00%) SAP
8 7 (3.00%) WSO2
9 6 (2.58%) CyberArk
9 6 (2.58%) Dell
9 6 (2.58%) Veritas
10 4 (1.72%) Cisco
10 4 (1.72%) Confluent
11 3 (1.29%) Commvault
11 3 (1.29%) IBM
12 2 (0.86%) NetApp