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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 609 445 447
Rank change year-on-year -164 +2 +92
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 317 658 1,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.68% 0.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.88% 1.56% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 176 331 357
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,180 £55,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -3.75% +8.84%
75th Percentile £96,806 £105,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £69,447 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.62% +20.78% -8.00%

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 35,821 42,083 81,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.91% 43.23% 48.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,874 27,585 41,557
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,723 £34,000
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% +7.76%
75th Percentile £76,250 £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 28 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 28 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 -138 293 £80,000 - 45
UK excluding London -78 220 £70,576 +1.62% 35
South West -20 125 £65,000 -6.40% 9
London -69 93 £105,000 +16.67% 12
Work from Home -89 67 £70,576 +1.62% 17
South East +25 44 £60,000 -20.00% 15
North of England -12 28 £70,576 +12.92% 2
North West -19 17 £70,576 +15.70% 1
Scotland -60 16 £70,576 +1.62% 6
Yorkshire +45 11 £70,576 +12.92% 1
Wales +6 4 £70,576 -2.65%
Midlands -13 2 £55,000 -1.79%
Northern Ireland +20 1 - -
West Midlands +5 1 £55,000 -11.29%
East Midlands -18 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 (18.61%) nginx
2 51 (16.09%) Apache
3 47 (14.83%) Apache Spark
4 36 (11.36%) Camunda
5 17 (5.36%) Jupyter
6 6 (1.89%) JBoss
7 3 (0.95%) Confluence
7 3 (0.95%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.32%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 205 (64.67%) AWS
2 146 (46.06%) Azure
3 65 (20.50%) Serverless
4 64 (20.19%) AWS Lambda
5 61 (19.24%) Amazon S3
5 61 (19.24%) AWS CloudFormation
6 52 (16.40%) GCP
7 48 (15.14%) IBM Cloud
8 42 (13.25%) Amazon EKS
9 40 (12.62%) SaaS
10 32 (10.09%) Amazon EC2
11 27 (8.52%) Amazon ECS
12 26 (8.20%) Amazon SQS
13 17 (5.36%) MinIO
14 13 (4.10%) GitHub
14 13 (4.10%) Route 53
15 12 (3.79%) Amazon ECR
15 12 (3.79%) OCI
16 8 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
17 6 (1.89%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 40 (12.62%) DNS
1 40 (12.62%) TCP/IP
2 39 (12.30%) DHCP
2 39 (12.30%) HTTP
3 33 (10.41%) AMQP
4 8 (2.52%) WLAN
5 7 (2.21%) SSL
6 5 (1.58%) Network Security
7 2 (0.63%) Firewall
7 2 (0.63%) Internet
8 1 (0.32%) FTP
8 1 (0.32%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.32%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (17.98%) MongoDB
2 53 (16.72%) Big Data
3 47 (14.83%) Hadoop
4 44 (13.88%) Amazon RDS
5 39 (12.30%) Oracle Database
6 28 (8.83%) Cloudera CDH
7 27 (8.52%) Amazon Redshift
8 20 (6.31%) SQL Server
9 17 (5.36%) Presto
9 17 (5.36%) Relational Database
10 12 (3.79%) DB2
10 12 (3.79%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (3.79%) RDBMS
11 11 (3.47%) MySQL
12 10 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (2.21%) NoSQL
14 6 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (1.89%) InfluxDB
15 5 (1.58%) Couchbase
16 2 (0.63%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 94 (29.65%) Jenkins
2 45 (14.20%) Artifactory
3 39 (12.30%) Git
4 18 (5.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 18 (5.68%) IBM UrbanCode
5 17 (5.36%) JIRA
6 14 (4.42%) Bitbucket
7 11 (3.47%) GitLab
7 11 (3.47%) Snyk
8 9 (2.84%) Maven
8 9 (2.84%) Selenium
9 5 (1.58%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.58%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.58%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.58%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.26%) CircleCI
10 4 (1.26%) Gradle
10 4 (1.26%) Robot Framework
11 3 (0.95%) Subversion
11 3 (0.95%) TestNG
General
1 83 (26.18%) Finance
2 51 (16.09%) Public Sector
3 50 (15.77%) Aerospace
4 49 (15.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 45 (14.20%) Banking
6 33 (10.41%) Social Skills
7 27 (8.52%) Retail Banking
8 26 (8.20%) Front Office
9 17 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (3.15%) Analytical Skills
11 7 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.58%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.32%) Advertising
13 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.32%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 95 (29.97%) DevOps Engineer
2 80 (25.24%) Senior
3 47 (14.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 41 (12.93%) Software Engineer
5 39 (12.30%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 36 (11.36%) Full Stack Engineer
7 35 (11.04%) AWS Engineer
8 32 (10.09%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 30 (9.46%) Developer
9 30 (9.46%) Senior DevOps
9 30 (9.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 28 (8.83%) AWS DevOps
10 28 (8.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 27 (8.52%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 26 (8.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 24 (7.57%) Architect
14 19 (5.99%) Data Engineer
15 17 (5.36%) Big Data Engineer
15 17 (5.36%) Java Developer
15 17 (5.36%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (24.29%) React
1 77 (24.29%) Swagger
2 68 (21.45%) Node.js
3 59 (18.61%) Spring
4 51 (16.09%) RabbitMQ
5 46 (14.51%) Spring Boot
6 36 (11.36%) KeystoneJS
7 31 (9.78%) REST
8 30 (9.46%) J2EE
9 29 (9.15%) AngularJS
10 28 (8.83%) gRPC
10 28 (8.83%) Material-UI
10 28 (8.83%) OpenAPI
11 24 (7.57%) Elastic Stack
12 23 (7.26%) Kafka
13 21 (6.62%) ActiveMQ
13 21 (6.62%) YAML
14 17 (5.36%) Apache NiFi
15 15 (4.73%) .NET
15 15 (4.73%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 65 (20.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 48 (15.14%) Blockchain
2 48 (15.14%) e-Learning
3 29 (9.15%) Public Cloud
4 28 (8.83%) Cloud Native
5 26 (8.20%) Linux Command Line
5 26 (8.20%) Tandem
6 8 (2.52%) EMC VNX
7 5 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.95%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.95%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.63%) PKI
9 2 (0.63%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.63%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.32%) Clustering
10 1 (0.32%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.32%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.32%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.32%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.32%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 164 (51.74%) Linux
2 97 (30.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 72 (22.71%) Windows
4 50 (15.77%) CentOS
5 29 (9.15%) Ubuntu
6 28 (8.83%) Debian
7 19 (5.99%) CoreOS
8 16 (5.05%) Unix
9 12 (3.79%) Windows Server
10 6 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.95%) Rocky
12 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (55.52%) DevOps
2 155 (48.90%) Agile
3 112 (35.33%) CI/CD
4 81 (25.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 78 (24.61%) Containerisation
6 76 (23.97%) Mentoring
7 72 (22.71%) Software Engineering
8 70 (22.08%) Open Source
9 67 (21.14%) Artificial Intelligence
10 57 (17.98%) Actionable Insight
11 56 (17.67%) Customer Service
12 54 (17.03%) Microservices
13 53 (16.72%) Collaborative Working
14 52 (16.40%) Coaching
15 50 (15.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 50 (15.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 46 (14.51%) Technical Leadership
17 45 (14.20%) Configuration Management
18 43 (13.56%) Full Stack Development
19 41 (12.93%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 196 (61.83%) Java
2 167 (52.68%) Python
3 93 (29.34%) Bash
4 85 (26.81%) JavaScript
5 45 (14.20%) PowerShell
6 36 (11.36%) Lua
6 36 (11.36%) SQL
7 32 (10.09%) Go
8 30 (9.46%) Shell Script
9 20 (6.31%) Groovy
10 7 (2.21%) C++
11 6 (1.89%) C#
12 4 (1.26%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.26%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.63%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.63%) Scala
14 1 (0.32%) F#
14 1 (0.32%) Perl
14 1 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 124 (39.12%) Security Cleared
2 99 (31.23%) DV Cleared
3 78 (24.61%) SC Cleared
4 3 (0.95%) Degree
5 2 (0.63%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.32%) OCP
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.63%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 195 (61.51%) Docker
2 51 (16.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 47 (14.83%) Hyper-V
4 10 (3.15%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (2.84%) Active Directory
6 6 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.95%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.32%) HDFS
8 1 (0.32%) KVM
8 1 (0.32%) Lustre
8 1 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 242 (76.34%) Kubernetes
2 168 (53.00%) Ansible
3 153 (48.26%) Terraform
4 102 (32.18%) Puppet
5 34 (10.73%) Progress Chef
5 34 (10.73%) Prometheus
6 30 (9.46%) Grafana
7 18 (5.68%) Nagios
8 17 (5.36%) HAProxy
9 12 (3.79%) Istio
10 9 (2.84%) SCCM
10 9 (2.84%) vCenter Server
11 8 (2.52%) Docker Swarm
11 8 (2.52%) EMC NetWorker
12 7 (2.21%) Kibana
13 6 (1.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (1.26%) logstash
15 3 (0.95%) ZABBIX
16 2 (0.63%) Salt
Vendors
1 166 (52.37%) Red Hat
2 66 (20.82%) IBM
2 66 (20.82%) Oracle
3 58 (18.30%) VMware
4 55 (17.35%) Google
5 28 (8.83%) SaltStack
6 15 (4.73%) Microsoft
7 13 (4.10%) Dynatrace
7 13 (4.10%) Splunk
8 12 (3.79%) Sybase
9 10 (3.15%) Atlassian
10 9 (2.84%) New Relic
11 8 (2.52%) Aruba
11 8 (2.52%) EMC
11 8 (2.52%) Meraki
11 8 (2.52%) SolarWinds
11 8 (2.52%) Veeam
12 1 (0.32%) Ab Initio
12 1 (0.32%) Adobe
12 1 (0.32%) Informatica