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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 597 423 409
Rank change year-on-year -174 -14 +117
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 311 765 1,381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.73% 0.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.88% 1.70% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 192 352 376
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,125 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,781 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.57% -5.27% +10.34%
75th Percentile £112,500 £106,250 £108,125
90th Percentile £138,750 £144,750 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.92% +13.64% -12.00%

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 35,208 45,118 74,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.91% 43.11% 48.06%
Number of salaries quoted 26,662 29,500 41,930
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
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 £95,000 £102,500 £100,000
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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for OpenShift in the UK

OpenShift
Top 13 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 27 April 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 -159 290 £80,000 - 39
UK excluding London -93 203 £70,576 +12.92% 30
South West -8 112 £61,750 -5.00% 13
London -97 104 £105,000 +13.92% 13
Work from Home -81 57 £70,576 +4.56% 15
South East +42 43 £87,500 +16.67% 6
North of England -30 29 £70,576 +17.63% 3
North West -23 19 £66,538 +11.78% 2
Scotland -60 15 £70,576 +17.11% 6
Yorkshire +49 10 £70,576 +12.92%
Wales +13 3 £70,576 +17.63%
West Midlands +16 1 £55,000 -11.29% 1
Midlands -6 1 £55,000 -11.29% 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 56 (18.01%) nginx
2 44 (14.15%) Apache
3 43 (13.83%) Apache Spark
4 36 (11.58%) Camunda
5 17 (5.47%) Jupyter
6 5 (1.61%) Confluence
7 3 (0.96%) JBoss
7 3 (0.96%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 210 (67.52%) AWS
2 128 (41.16%) Azure
3 73 (23.47%) Serverless
4 70 (22.51%) AWS Lambda
5 69 (22.19%) Amazon S3
6 65 (20.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 49 (15.76%) GCP
8 46 (14.79%) IBM Cloud
9 42 (13.50%) Amazon EC2
10 40 (12.86%) SaaS
11 37 (11.90%) Amazon ECS
12 36 (11.58%) Amazon EKS
12 36 (11.58%) Amazon SQS
13 17 (5.47%) MinIO
14 15 (4.82%) GitHub
15 12 (3.86%) OCI
16 11 (3.54%) Route 53
17 10 (3.22%) Amazon ECR
18 7 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
19 6 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 37 (11.90%) DNS
1 37 (11.90%) TCP/IP
2 36 (11.58%) DHCP
2 36 (11.58%) HTTP
3 29 (9.32%) AMQP
4 7 (2.25%) WLAN
5 5 (1.61%) Network Security
6 4 (1.29%) SSL
7 2 (0.64%) Firewall
7 2 (0.64%) Internet
8 1 (0.32%) FTP
8 1 (0.32%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.32%) IPv4
8 1 (0.32%) OSPF
8 1 (0.32%) SAN
8 1 (0.32%) VLAN
8 1 (0.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (18.65%) MongoDB
2 52 (16.72%) Amazon RDS
2 52 (16.72%) Big Data
3 43 (13.83%) Hadoop
4 39 (12.54%) Oracle Database
5 38 (12.22%) Amazon Redshift
6 24 (7.72%) Cloudera CDH
7 20 (6.43%) Elasticsearch
8 17 (5.47%) Presto
8 17 (5.47%) SQL Server
9 15 (4.82%) Relational Database
10 10 (3.22%) DB2
10 10 (3.22%) RDBMS
11 8 (2.57%) Apache Cassandra
11 8 (2.57%) MySQL
12 7 (2.25%) NoSQL
12 7 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (1.93%) InfluxDB
14 5 (1.61%) Couchbase
15 2 (0.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 106 (34.08%) Jenkins
2 55 (17.68%) Artifactory
3 38 (12.22%) Git
4 19 (6.11%) JIRA
5 18 (5.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 18 (5.79%) IBM UrbanCode
6 15 (4.82%) Selenium
7 11 (3.54%) Cucumber
7 11 (3.54%) Cypress.io
7 11 (3.54%) GitLab
7 11 (3.54%) Snyk
8 9 (2.89%) Bitbucket
8 9 (2.89%) Maven
9 4 (1.29%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.29%) Gradle
10 3 (0.96%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.96%) Subversion
10 3 (0.96%) TestNG
10 3 (0.96%) Travis CI
General
1 93 (29.90%) Finance
2 49 (15.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 49 (15.76%) Public Sector
3 45 (14.47%) Banking
4 36 (11.58%) Front Office
5 35 (11.25%) Aerospace
6 31 (9.97%) Social Skills
7 27 (8.68%) Retail Banking
8 17 (5.47%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (3.22%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.64%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.32%) Advertising
12 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.32%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 103 (33.12%) DevOps Engineer
2 81 (26.05%) Senior
3 44 (14.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 43 (13.83%) AWS Engineer
5 39 (12.54%) Software Engineer
6 38 (12.22%) AWS DevOps
6 38 (12.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 38 (12.22%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 36 (11.58%) Full Stack Engineer
7 36 (11.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 34 (10.93%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 32 (10.29%) Senior DevOps
9 32 (10.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 28 (9.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 25 (8.04%) Architect
12 19 (6.11%) Data Engineer
13 17 (5.47%) Big Data Engineer
13 17 (5.47%) Platform Engineer
13 17 (5.47%) Senior Support Engineer
13 17 (5.47%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (21.86%) React
2 61 (19.61%) Node.js
2 61 (19.61%) Swagger
3 50 (16.08%) Spring
4 47 (15.11%) RabbitMQ
5 40 (12.86%) J2EE
6 39 (12.54%) Spring Boot
7 36 (11.58%) KeystoneJS
8 27 (8.68%) REST
9 26 (8.36%) AngularJS
10 24 (7.72%) gRPC
10 24 (7.72%) Material-UI
10 24 (7.72%) OpenAPI
11 23 (7.40%) Elastic Stack
11 23 (7.40%) Kafka
12 21 (6.75%) YAML
13 18 (5.79%) ActiveMQ
14 17 (5.47%) Apache NiFi
15 15 (4.82%) Middleware
16 13 (4.18%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 65 (20.90%) Hybrid Cloud
2 46 (14.79%) Blockchain
2 46 (14.79%) e-Learning
3 36 (11.58%) Tandem
4 29 (9.32%) Public Cloud
5 27 (8.68%) Linux Command Line
6 24 (7.72%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.25%) EMC VNX
8 5 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.96%) Private Cloud
9 3 (0.96%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.64%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.64%) PKI
10 2 (0.64%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.32%) Clustering
11 1 (0.32%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.32%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.32%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 154 (49.52%) Linux
2 88 (28.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 66 (21.22%) Windows
4 46 (14.79%) CentOS
5 25 (8.04%) Ubuntu
6 24 (7.72%) Debian
7 20 (6.43%) CoreOS
8 17 (5.47%) Unix
9 10 (3.22%) Windows Server
10 6 (1.93%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (1.93%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.64%) Rocky
12 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (56.91%) DevOps
2 138 (44.37%) Agile
3 119 (38.26%) CI/CD
4 80 (25.72%) Software Engineering
5 75 (24.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 74 (23.79%) Mentoring
7 71 (22.83%) Containerisation
8 64 (20.58%) Actionable Insight
8 64 (20.58%) Open Source
9 61 (19.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 55 (17.68%) Customer Service
11 52 (16.72%) Artificial Intelligence
12 50 (16.08%) Coaching
12 50 (16.08%) Microservices
13 47 (15.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 46 (14.79%) Deployment Automation
15 43 (13.83%) Full Stack Development
16 41 (13.18%) Asset Management
16 41 (13.18%) Configuration Management
17 39 (12.54%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 193 (62.06%) Java
2 182 (58.52%) Python
3 91 (29.26%) Bash
4 85 (27.33%) JavaScript
5 44 (14.15%) SQL
6 43 (13.83%) PowerShell
7 42 (13.50%) Go
8 36 (11.58%) Lua
9 29 (9.32%) Shell Script
10 20 (6.43%) Groovy
11 13 (4.18%) C++
12 8 (2.57%) C#
13 4 (1.29%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.96%) Scala
14 3 (0.96%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.64%) F#
15 2 (0.64%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.32%) Perl
16 1 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 113 (36.33%) Security Cleared
2 93 (29.90%) DV Cleared
3 66 (21.22%) SC Cleared
4 3 (0.96%) Degree
5 2 (0.64%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.32%) OCP
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.64%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 207 (66.56%) Docker
2 48 (15.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (14.15%) Hyper-V
4 9 (2.89%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (2.57%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.96%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.32%) KVM
7 1 (0.32%) Lustre
7 1 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 232 (74.60%) Kubernetes
2 149 (47.91%) Ansible
3 143 (45.98%) Terraform
4 94 (30.23%) Puppet
5 32 (10.29%) Prometheus
6 31 (9.97%) Progress Chef
7 29 (9.32%) Grafana
8 17 (5.47%) HAProxy
9 14 (4.50%) Nagios
10 12 (3.86%) Istio
11 8 (2.57%) Kibana
11 8 (2.57%) SCCM
11 8 (2.57%) vCenter Server
12 7 (2.25%) Docker Swarm
12 7 (2.25%) EMC NetWorker
13 4 (1.29%) logstash
14 3 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.96%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.64%) Rancher
Vendors
1 155 (49.84%) Red Hat
2 64 (20.58%) IBM
3 61 (19.61%) Oracle
4 56 (18.01%) VMware
5 50 (16.08%) Google
6 24 (7.72%) SaltStack
7 11 (3.54%) Dynatrace
7 11 (3.54%) Microsoft
8 10 (3.22%) Sybase
9 8 (2.57%) Splunk
10 7 (2.25%) Aruba
10 7 (2.25%) EMC
10 7 (2.25%) Meraki
10 7 (2.25%) SolarWinds
10 7 (2.25%) Veeam
11 6 (1.93%) New Relic
12 5 (1.61%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.64%) MuleSoft
14 1 (0.32%) Adobe
14 1 (0.32%) NVIDIA