OpenShift Job Trends in the East Midlands

Red Hat OpenShift
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring OpenShift skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 128 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 4 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.16% 0.087% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.50% 0.29% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £52,810 - -
25th Percentile £53,425 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,600 - -
75th Percentile £59,125 - -
90th Percentile £59,350 - -
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% -5.56% +12.50%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 801 678 650
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 31.77% 29.48% 40.05%
Number of salaries quoted 503 394 585
10th Percentile £25,875 £29,000 £31,875
25th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

OpenShift job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

OpenShift
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing OpenShift.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. 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
Northamptonshire +8 3 £58,000 - 1
Leicestershire - 1 £55,200 - 1
OpenShift
England

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (25.00%) JBoss
1 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (50.00%) PaaS
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (75.00%) GitLab
3 2 (50.00%) Git
3 2 (50.00%) JUnit
3 2 (50.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (25.00%) Gradle
4 1 (25.00%) JIRA
4 1 (25.00%) Maven
4 1 (25.00%) Selenium
4 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) Django
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) Flask
2 1 (25.00%) pytest
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) TDD
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) API Development
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) API Integration
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) MVC
3 1 (25.00%) OOP
3 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (25.00%) SEO
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Go
3 1 (25.00%) Delphi
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) AppDynamics
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle