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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 589 429 434
Rank change year-on-year -160 +5 +94
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 316 738 1,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.73% 0.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.89% 1.70% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 190 356 367
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,625 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +9.59%
75th Percentile £112,500 £105,313 £110,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £142,500 £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 35,426 43,437 76,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.72% 42.77% 48.33%
Number of salaries quoted 26,744 28,539 41,573
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 £96,250 £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 8 May 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 8 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 -162 295 £80,000 +3.90% 45
UK excluding London -104 210 £70,576 +12.92% 38
South West -20 120 £63,750 -1.92% 17
London -91 102 £105,000 +13.92% 11
Work from Home -101 57 £70,576 +1.62% 34
South East +32 42 £87,500 +16.67% 7
North of England -44 29 £70,576 +14.29% 4
North West -31 19 £66,538 +10.90% 3
Scotland -61 15 £70,576 +8.58% 6
Yorkshire +34 10 £70,576 +12.92% 1
Wales +9 3 £70,576 +17.63% 1
West Midlands +2 1 £55,000 -11.29%
Midlands -9 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 57 (18.04%) nginx
2 47 (14.87%) Apache
3 45 (14.24%) Apache Spark
4 36 (11.39%) Camunda
5 17 (5.38%) Jupyter
6 4 (1.27%) Confluence
6 4 (1.27%) JBoss
7 3 (0.95%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 215 (68.04%) AWS
2 133 (42.09%) Azure
3 71 (22.47%) Serverless
4 68 (21.52%) AWS Lambda
5 67 (21.20%) Amazon S3
6 64 (20.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 51 (16.14%) GCP
8 48 (15.19%) IBM Cloud
9 40 (12.66%) Amazon EKS
9 40 (12.66%) SaaS
10 38 (12.03%) Amazon EC2
11 33 (10.44%) Amazon ECS
12 32 (10.13%) Amazon SQS
13 17 (5.38%) MinIO
14 14 (4.43%) GitHub
15 13 (4.11%) OCI
15 13 (4.11%) Route 53
16 12 (3.80%) Amazon ECR
17 7 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
18 5 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 39 (12.34%) DNS
1 39 (12.34%) TCP/IP
2 38 (12.03%) DHCP
2 38 (12.03%) HTTP
3 31 (9.81%) AMQP
4 7 (2.22%) WLAN
5 5 (1.58%) Network Security
5 5 (1.58%) SSL
6 2 (0.63%) Firewall
6 2 (0.63%) Internet
7 1 (0.32%) FTP
7 1 (0.32%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.32%) IPv4
7 1 (0.32%) OSPF
7 1 (0.32%) SAN
7 1 (0.32%) VLAN
7 1 (0.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (19.30%) MongoDB
2 52 (16.46%) Big Data
3 50 (15.82%) Amazon RDS
4 45 (14.24%) Hadoop
5 39 (12.34%) Oracle Database
6 34 (10.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 26 (8.23%) Cloudera CDH
8 20 (6.33%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (6.01%) SQL Server
10 17 (5.38%) Presto
10 17 (5.38%) Relational Database
11 12 (3.80%) DB2
11 12 (3.80%) RDBMS
12 9 (2.85%) MySQL
12 9 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (2.22%) NoSQL
14 6 (1.90%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (1.90%) InfluxDB
15 5 (1.58%) Couchbase
16 2 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 106 (33.54%) Jenkins
2 51 (16.14%) Artifactory
3 39 (12.34%) Git
4 18 (5.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 18 (5.70%) IBM UrbanCode
4 18 (5.70%) JIRA
5 15 (4.75%) Selenium
6 11 (3.48%) Bitbucket
6 11 (3.48%) Cucumber
6 11 (3.48%) Cypress.io
6 11 (3.48%) GitLab
6 11 (3.48%) Snyk
7 9 (2.85%) Maven
8 4 (1.27%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.27%) Gradle
8 4 (1.27%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.95%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.95%) TestNG
9 3 (0.95%) Travis CI
General
1 89 (28.16%) Finance
2 52 (16.46%) Public Sector
3 51 (16.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 45 (14.24%) Banking
5 40 (12.66%) Aerospace
6 32 (10.13%) Front Office
6 32 (10.13%) Social Skills
7 27 (8.54%) Retail Banking
8 17 (5.38%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.27%) 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
1 101 (31.96%) DevOps Engineer
2 81 (25.63%) Senior
3 46 (14.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 44 (13.92%) Software Engineer
5 41 (12.97%) AWS Engineer
6 36 (11.39%) Full Stack Engineer
6 36 (11.39%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 34 (10.76%) AWS DevOps
7 34 (10.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 34 (10.76%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 32 (10.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 31 (9.81%) Senior DevOps
9 31 (9.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 30 (9.49%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 25 (7.91%) Architect
12 20 (6.33%) Data Engineer
13 17 (5.38%) Big Data Engineer
13 17 (5.38%) Developer
13 17 (5.38%) Platform Engineer
13 17 (5.38%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (23.10%) React
2 65 (20.57%) Node.js
3 63 (19.94%) Swagger
4 56 (17.72%) Spring
5 49 (15.51%) RabbitMQ
6 43 (13.61%) Spring Boot
7 36 (11.39%) J2EE
7 36 (11.39%) KeystoneJS
8 29 (9.18%) REST
9 28 (8.86%) AngularJS
10 26 (8.23%) gRPC
10 26 (8.23%) Material-UI
10 26 (8.23%) OpenAPI
11 24 (7.59%) Elastic Stack
12 23 (7.28%) Kafka
13 21 (6.65%) YAML
14 20 (6.33%) ActiveMQ
15 17 (5.38%) Apache NiFi
16 15 (4.75%) .NET
16 15 (4.75%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 67 (21.20%) Hybrid Cloud
2 48 (15.19%) Blockchain
2 48 (15.19%) e-Learning
3 32 (10.13%) Tandem
4 29 (9.18%) Public Cloud
5 27 (8.54%) Linux Command Line
6 26 (8.23%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.22%) EMC VNX
8 5 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.95%) Private Cloud
9 3 (0.95%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.63%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.63%) PKI
10 2 (0.63%) 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
1 161 (50.95%) Linux
2 93 (29.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 70 (22.15%) Windows
4 48 (15.19%) CentOS
5 27 (8.54%) Ubuntu
6 26 (8.23%) Debian
7 20 (6.33%) CoreOS
8 17 (5.38%) Unix
9 11 (3.48%) Windows Server
10 6 (1.90%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.63%) Rocky
12 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (56.01%) DevOps
2 144 (45.57%) Agile
3 119 (37.66%) CI/CD
4 81 (25.63%) Software Engineering
5 78 (24.68%) Infrastructure as Code
6 76 (24.05%) Containerisation
6 76 (24.05%) Mentoring
7 65 (20.57%) Actionable Insight
8 62 (19.62%) Open Source
9 57 (18.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 56 (17.72%) Customer Service
11 54 (17.09%) Artificial Intelligence
12 53 (16.77%) Microservices
13 52 (16.46%) Coaching
14 49 (15.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 44 (13.92%) Configuration Management
16 43 (13.61%) Collaborative Working
16 43 (13.61%) Full Stack Development
17 42 (13.29%) Deployment Automation
18 41 (12.97%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 196 (62.03%) Java
2 182 (57.59%) Python
3 93 (29.43%) Bash
4 89 (28.16%) JavaScript
5 45 (14.24%) PowerShell
6 44 (13.92%) SQL
7 38 (12.03%) Go
8 36 (11.39%) Lua
9 30 (9.49%) Shell Script
10 20 (6.33%) Groovy
11 13 (4.11%) C++
12 8 (2.53%) C#
13 4 (1.27%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.27%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.95%) Scala
15 2 (0.63%) F#
15 2 (0.63%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.32%) Perl
16 1 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 120 (37.97%) Security Cleared
2 98 (31.01%) DV Cleared
3 71 (22.47%) 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
1 208 (65.82%) Docker
2 50 (15.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (14.56%) Hyper-V
4 9 (2.85%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (2.53%) Active Directory
6 4 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.95%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.32%) KVM
8 1 (0.32%) Lustre
8 1 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 237 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 153 (48.42%) Ansible
3 144 (45.57%) Terraform
4 99 (31.33%) Puppet
5 34 (10.76%) Prometheus
6 32 (10.13%) Progress Chef
7 30 (9.49%) Grafana
8 17 (5.38%) HAProxy
9 15 (4.75%) Nagios
10 12 (3.80%) Istio
11 8 (2.53%) Docker Swarm
11 8 (2.53%) Kibana
11 8 (2.53%) SCCM
11 8 (2.53%) vCenter Server
12 7 (2.22%) EMC NetWorker
13 4 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (1.27%) logstash
13 4 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.95%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.63%) Salt
Vendors
1 162 (51.27%) Red Hat
2 66 (20.89%) IBM
3 64 (20.25%) Oracle
4 57 (18.04%) VMware
5 52 (16.46%) Google
6 26 (8.23%) SaltStack
7 13 (4.11%) Dynatrace
8 12 (3.80%) Microsoft
8 12 (3.80%) Sybase
9 10 (3.16%) Splunk
10 7 (2.22%) Aruba
10 7 (2.22%) Atlassian
10 7 (2.22%) EMC
10 7 (2.22%) Meraki
10 7 (2.22%) New Relic
10 7 (2.22%) SolarWinds
10 7 (2.22%) Veeam
11 1 (0.32%) Adobe
11 1 (0.32%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.32%) NVIDIA