OpenShift Job Trends in Cheltenham

Red Hat OpenShift
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring OpenShift skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 34 45
Rank change year-on-year +9 +11 +7
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 6 5 23
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 3.28% 3.47% 5.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.82% 5.68% 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 10
10th Percentile £47,250 £50,375 £46,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £67,813 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £86,250 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +54.02% -8.20%
75th Percentile £71,250 £91,563 £74,900
90th Percentile £93,000 £92,125 £90,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £67,500 £69,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.17% +31.43% -13.93%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 68 88 184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 37.16% 61.11% 47.06%
Number of salaries quoted 53 38 100
10th Percentile £32,000 £34,325 £34,663
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £71,563
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £88,750
Gloucestershire median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

OpenShift job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

OpenShift
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing OpenShift.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Salary Histogram in Cheltenham

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for OpenShift in Cheltenham

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 1 (16.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) VSAN
2 2 (33.33%) DHCP
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) LAN
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) VLAN
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 2 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Unix Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) CentOS
2 4 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (50.00%) Windows
3 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (33.33%) CoreOS
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
5 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Time Management
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) RBAC
4 1 (16.67%) Service Management
4 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Bash
3 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (33.33%) Java
5 1 (16.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) VMware NSX
3 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) McAfee ePO
2 2 (33.33%) SCVMM
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (16.67%) Puppet
3 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (33.33%) McAfee
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
3 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (16.67%) VMware