OpenShift Job Trends in Central London

Red Hat OpenShift
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring OpenShift skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 166 164
Rank change year-on-year +30 -2 +68
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 7 13 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.27% 0.41% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.68% 0.82% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 4 9 12
10th Percentile £59,750 £75,000 £60,875
25th Percentile £72,125 £75,750 £71,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,000 £76,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.03% -23.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £97,563 £77,250 £110,000
90th Percentile £105,775 £79,050 -
London median annual salary £75,000 £110,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -31.82% +10.00% +2.56%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Central London

OpenShift falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,031 1,593 1,607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 39.71% 49.87% 51.61%
Number of salaries quoted 807 1,063 1,476
10th Percentile £38,250 £42,100 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OpenShift relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

OpenShift job vacancy trend in Central London

OpenShift
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing OpenShift.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in Central London over the 6 months to 18 January 2026.

Salary histogram for OpenShift in Central London

OpenShift
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the Central London region over the 6 months to 18 January 2026. 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
City of London +20 7 £88,000 +15.03% 3
OpenShift
London

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 1 (14.29%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (14.29%) dbt
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) H2O.ai
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
4 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
1 3 (42.86%) LAN
1 3 (42.86%) VoIP
1 3 (42.86%) WAN
2 1 (14.29%) Kerberos
2 1 (14.29%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Hive
2 1 (14.29%) Big Data
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
2 1 (14.29%) Metadata
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Data Architect
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) JDBC
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) Keras
1 1 (14.29%) LDAP
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
1 1 (14.29%) ODBC
1 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) TensorFlow
1 1 (14.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) PKI
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
1 4 (57.14%) Unix
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevSecOps
1 4 (57.14%) Service Delivery
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Application Packaging
2 3 (42.86%) Data Integration
2 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (42.86%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) Knowledge Transfer
2 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
2 3 (42.86%) Strategic Planning
2 3 (42.86%) Technology Roadmap
2 3 (42.86%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) AI
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
3 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (42.86%) XenApp
2 3 (42.86%) XenDesktop
3 1 (14.29%) Docker
3 1 (14.29%) vCloud
3 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
3 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (42.86%) SCCM
1 3 (42.86%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Argo
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Citrix
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Databricks
2 2 (28.57%) Dell
3 1 (14.29%) NVIDIA
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) VMware