Red Hat OpenShift
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for OpenShift skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited OpenShift over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 587 441 446
Rank change year-on-year -146 +5 +95
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 322 686 1,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.70% 0.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.91% 1.62% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 184 347 354
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £48,225
25th Percentile £60,000 £59,901 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £96,806 £105,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £65,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year +8.58% +15.56% -10.00%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,563 42,373 79,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.24% 43.02% 48.52%
Number of salaries quoted 26,731 27,774 41,270
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,750 £33,980
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OpenShift.

Salary trend for OpenShift in the UK

OpenShift
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenShift over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for OpenShift in the UK

OpenShift
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -126 298 £80,000 - 45
UK excluding London -64 224 £70,576 +8.58% 30
South West -14 127 £63,750 -6.90% 8
London -91 94 £105,000 +16.67% 14
Work from Home -101 67 £70,576 +1.62% 17
South East +31 42 £73,750 -1.67% 15
North of England -27 32 £70,576 +12.92% 2
North West -26 21 £66,538 +9.08% 1
Scotland -61 16 £70,576 +4.99% 3
Yorkshire +42 11 £70,576 +12.92% 1
Wales +12 4 £70,576 -2.65%
Midlands -16 2 £55,000 -11.29%
Northern Ireland +27 1 - -
West Midlands +3 1 £55,000 -11.29%
East Midlands -8 1 - -

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 59 (18.32%) nginx
2 51 (15.84%) Apache
3 46 (14.29%) Apache Spark
4 36 (11.18%) Camunda
5 17 (5.28%) Jupyter
6 6 (1.86%) JBoss
7 3 (0.93%) Confluence
7 3 (0.93%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 211 (65.53%) AWS
2 149 (46.27%) Azure
3 67 (20.81%) Serverless
4 66 (20.50%) AWS Lambda
5 63 (19.57%) Amazon S3
5 63 (19.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 51 (15.84%) GCP
7 48 (14.91%) IBM Cloud
8 41 (12.73%) Amazon EKS
9 39 (12.11%) SaaS
10 34 (10.56%) Amazon EC2
11 29 (9.01%) Amazon ECS
12 28 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
13 17 (5.28%) MinIO
14 13 (4.04%) GitHub
14 13 (4.04%) Route 53
15 12 (3.73%) Amazon ECR
15 12 (3.73%) OCI
16 7 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
17 6 (1.86%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 39 (12.11%) DNS
1 39 (12.11%) TCP/IP
2 38 (11.80%) DHCP
2 38 (11.80%) HTTP
3 33 (10.25%) AMQP
4 7 (2.17%) SSL
4 7 (2.17%) WLAN
5 5 (1.55%) Network Security
6 2 (0.62%) Firewall
6 2 (0.62%) Internet
7 1 (0.31%) FTP
7 1 (0.31%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.31%) IPv4
7 1 (0.31%) OSPF
7 1 (0.31%) SAN
7 1 (0.31%) VLAN
7 1 (0.31%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (19.25%) MongoDB
2 52 (16.15%) Big Data
3 46 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 46 (14.29%) Hadoop
4 39 (12.11%) Oracle Database
5 29 (9.01%) Amazon Redshift
6 28 (8.70%) Cloudera CDH
7 19 (5.90%) Elasticsearch
7 19 (5.90%) SQL Server
8 17 (5.28%) Presto
8 17 (5.28%) Relational Database
9 12 (3.73%) DB2
9 12 (3.73%) RDBMS
10 10 (3.11%) MySQL
10 10 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (1.86%) InfluxDB
11 6 (1.86%) NoSQL
12 5 (1.55%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (1.55%) Couchbase
13 1 (0.31%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 103 (31.99%) Jenkins
2 47 (14.60%) Artifactory
3 39 (12.11%) Git
4 18 (5.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 18 (5.59%) IBM UrbanCode
5 17 (5.28%) JIRA
6 15 (4.66%) Selenium
7 14 (4.35%) Bitbucket
8 11 (3.42%) Cucumber
8 11 (3.42%) Cypress.io
8 11 (3.42%) GitLab
8 11 (3.42%) Snyk
9 9 (2.80%) Maven
10 5 (1.55%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.55%) TeamCity
11 4 (1.24%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.24%) Gradle
11 4 (1.24%) Robot Framework
12 3 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.93%) TestNG
General
1 84 (26.09%) Finance
2 51 (15.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 51 (15.84%) Public Sector
3 49 (15.22%) Aerospace
4 45 (13.98%) Banking
5 33 (10.25%) Social Skills
6 28 (8.70%) Front Office
7 27 (8.39%) Retail Banking
8 17 (5.28%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (3.11%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.55%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.31%) Advertising
12 1 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.31%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 97 (30.12%) DevOps Engineer
2 81 (25.16%) Senior
3 47 (14.60%) Software Engineer
4 46 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 38 (11.80%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 37 (11.49%) AWS Engineer
7 36 (11.18%) Full Stack Engineer
8 32 (9.94%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 30 (9.32%) AWS DevOps
9 30 (9.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 30 (9.32%) Developer
9 30 (9.32%) Senior DevOps
9 30 (9.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 29 (9.01%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 28 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 23 (7.14%) Architect
13 19 (5.90%) Data Engineer
14 17 (5.28%) Big Data Engineer
14 17 (5.28%) Java Developer
14 17 (5.28%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (23.91%) React
1 77 (23.91%) Swagger
2 68 (21.12%) Node.js
3 59 (18.32%) Spring
4 51 (15.84%) RabbitMQ
5 46 (14.29%) Spring Boot
6 36 (11.18%) KeystoneJS
7 32 (9.94%) J2EE
8 31 (9.63%) REST
9 29 (9.01%) AngularJS
10 28 (8.70%) gRPC
10 28 (8.70%) Material-UI
10 28 (8.70%) OpenAPI
11 25 (7.76%) Elastic Stack
12 22 (6.83%) Kafka
13 21 (6.52%) ActiveMQ
13 21 (6.52%) YAML
14 17 (5.28%) Apache NiFi
15 15 (4.66%) .NET
15 15 (4.66%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 65 (20.19%) Hybrid Cloud
2 48 (14.91%) Blockchain
2 48 (14.91%) e-Learning
3 29 (9.01%) Public Cloud
4 28 (8.70%) Cloud Native
4 28 (8.70%) Tandem
5 26 (8.07%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.17%) EMC VNX
7 5 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.93%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.62%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.62%) PKI
9 2 (0.62%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.62%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.31%) Clustering
10 1 (0.31%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.31%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.31%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.31%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 163 (50.62%) Linux
2 96 (29.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 71 (22.05%) Windows
4 49 (15.22%) CentOS
5 29 (9.01%) Ubuntu
6 28 (8.70%) Debian
7 19 (5.90%) CoreOS
8 16 (4.97%) Unix
9 11 (3.42%) Windows Server
10 6 (1.86%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (1.86%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.62%) Rocky
12 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (57.14%) DevOps
2 162 (50.31%) Agile
3 115 (35.71%) CI/CD
4 81 (25.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 80 (24.84%) Software Engineering
6 78 (24.22%) Containerisation
7 75 (23.29%) Mentoring
8 72 (22.36%) Open Source
9 66 (20.50%) Artificial Intelligence
10 57 (17.70%) Actionable Insight
11 56 (17.39%) Customer Service
12 53 (16.46%) Microservices
13 52 (16.15%) Collaborative Working
13 52 (16.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 51 (15.84%) Coaching
15 49 (15.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 46 (14.29%) Configuration Management
16 46 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
17 43 (13.35%) Full Stack Development
18 41 (12.73%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 203 (63.04%) Java
2 175 (54.35%) Python
3 93 (28.88%) Bash
4 91 (28.26%) JavaScript
5 45 (13.98%) PowerShell
6 42 (13.04%) SQL
7 36 (11.18%) Lua
8 34 (10.56%) Go
9 30 (9.32%) Shell Script
10 20 (6.21%) Groovy
11 13 (4.04%) C++
12 7 (2.17%) C#
13 4 (1.24%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.24%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.62%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.62%) Scala
15 1 (0.31%) F#
15 1 (0.31%) Perl
15 1 (0.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 123 (38.20%) Security Cleared
2 99 (30.75%) DV Cleared
3 76 (23.60%) SC Cleared
4 3 (0.93%) Degree
5 2 (0.62%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.31%) OCP
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
1 1 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 201 (62.42%) Docker
2 50 (15.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (14.29%) Hyper-V
4 9 (2.80%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (2.48%) Active Directory
6 6 (1.86%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.93%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.31%) KVM
8 1 (0.31%) Lustre
8 1 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 247 (76.71%) Kubernetes
2 168 (52.17%) Ansible
3 155 (48.14%) Terraform
4 102 (31.68%) Puppet
5 34 (10.56%) Progress Chef
5 34 (10.56%) Prometheus
6 30 (9.32%) Grafana
7 17 (5.28%) HAProxy
7 17 (5.28%) Nagios
8 12 (3.73%) Istio
9 8 (2.48%) Docker Swarm
9 8 (2.48%) Kibana
9 8 (2.48%) SCCM
9 8 (2.48%) vCenter Server
10 7 (2.17%) EMC NetWorker
11 6 (1.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.24%) logstash
13 3 (0.93%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.62%) Salt
Vendors
1 165 (51.24%) Red Hat
2 66 (20.50%) IBM
3 65 (20.19%) Oracle
4 56 (17.39%) VMware
5 54 (16.77%) Google
6 28 (8.70%) SaltStack
7 13 (4.04%) Dynatrace
7 13 (4.04%) Microsoft
7 13 (4.04%) Splunk
8 12 (3.73%) Sybase
9 10 (3.11%) Atlassian
10 9 (2.80%) New Relic
11 7 (2.17%) Aruba
11 7 (2.17%) EMC
11 7 (2.17%) Meraki
11 7 (2.17%) SolarWinds
11 7 (2.17%) Veeam
12 1 (0.31%) Adobe
12 1 (0.31%) NVIDIA