OpenShift Job Trends in England

Red Hat OpenShift
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring OpenShift skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 488 503
Rank change year-on-year -35 +15 -98
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 101 178 245
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.17% 0.40% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.51% 1.06% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 52 130 177
10th Percentile £51,275 £68,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,188 £75,750 £65,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £110,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.09% +25.71% +6.06%
75th Percentile £86,000 £138,750 £116,250
90th Percentile £110,875 - £138,750
UK median annual salary £68,750 £110,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -37.50% +33.33% +3.13%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 19,967 16,751 25,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.96% 37.34% 38.46%
Number of salaries quoted 11,077 10,114 21,522
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

OpenShift job vacancy trend in England

OpenShift
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing OpenShift.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in England over the 6 months to 13 February 2026.

Salary histogram for OpenShift in England

OpenShift
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the England region over the 6 months to 13 February 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
London -35 48 £75,000 -31.82% 14
South West -11 16 £60,000 -18.09% 5
North of England +5 14 £57,600 -5.57% 30
South East +17 12 £56,250 -23.73% 14
North West +13 12 £60,000 +20.00% 2
Midlands +11 5 £55,200 +10.40% 1
East Midlands -11 3 £55,200 -
West Midlands +16 2 £48,975 -2.05% 1
East of England - 2 - - 1
Yorkshire -30 1 - - 25
North East - 1 £55,200 - 3
OpenShift
UK

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 11 (10.89%) Apache Spark
2 8 (7.92%) Apache
3 6 (5.94%) IIS
4 5 (4.95%) Tomcat
5 4 (3.96%) Confluence
6 3 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (1.98%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.99%) Camunda
8 1 (0.99%) JBoss
8 1 (0.99%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 64 (63.37%) AWS
2 49 (48.51%) Azure
3 24 (23.76%) GCP
4 23 (22.77%) AWS CloudFormation
5 16 (15.84%) Amazon EKS
5 16 (15.84%) GitHub
6 9 (8.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (8.91%) H2O.ai
7 8 (7.92%) Azure AKS
8 7 (6.93%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (6.93%) Entra ID
8 7 (6.93%) Serverless
9 6 (5.94%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (3.96%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.97%) dbt
12 3 (2.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (2.97%) Google Workspace
12 3 (2.97%) PaaS
13 2 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.90%) DNS
1 10 (9.90%) Firewall
2 5 (4.95%) AMQP
2 5 (4.95%) LAN
2 5 (4.95%) VSAN
2 5 (4.95%) WAN
3 4 (3.96%) Kerberos
3 4 (3.96%) VPN
4 3 (2.97%) DHCP
4 3 (2.97%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.98%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (1.98%) Multicast
5 2 (1.98%) VoIP
6 1 (0.99%) Internet
6 1 (0.99%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.84%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (14.85%) Relational Database
3 13 (12.87%) SQL Server
4 11 (10.89%) Data Lake
5 10 (9.90%) Big Data
5 10 (9.90%) Hadoop
6 9 (8.91%) Metadata
6 9 (8.91%) RDBMS
7 7 (6.93%) MySQL
8 6 (5.94%) MongoDB
9 5 (4.95%) Apache Hive
9 5 (4.95%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (3.96%) InfluxDB
11 3 (2.97%) DynamoDB
11 3 (2.97%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (2.97%) NoSQL
12 2 (1.98%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (1.98%) Power BI
13 1 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.99%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 36 (35.64%) Jenkins
2 32 (31.68%) GitLab
3 24 (23.76%) Git
4 12 (11.88%) Bitbucket
5 10 (9.90%) Cucumber
5 10 (9.90%) JUnit
6 8 (7.92%) Selenium
7 6 (5.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (5.94%) JIRA
7 6 (5.94%) Robot Framework
8 5 (4.95%) JMeter
8 5 (4.95%) SonarQube
9 3 (2.97%) Eclipse
9 3 (2.97%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (2.97%) TestRail
10 2 (1.98%) Ant
10 2 (1.98%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.98%) Maven
10 2 (1.98%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.99%) Mockito
General
1 27 (26.73%) Social Skills
2 25 (24.75%) Finance
3 14 (13.86%) Telecoms
4 10 (9.90%) Aerospace
4 10 (9.90%) Manufacturing
5 8 (7.92%) Billing
6 7 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.95%) Games
8 3 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.98%) Banking
9 2 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.98%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.99%) Electronics
10 1 (0.99%) Marketing
10 1 (0.99%) Military
10 1 (0.99%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 22 (21.78%) Senior
2 16 (15.84%) Developer
3 14 (13.86%) Senior Developer
4 13 (12.87%) Cloud Engineer
5 12 (11.88%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (10.89%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (8.91%) Java Developer
7 9 (8.91%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (7.92%) Software Engineer
9 6 (5.94%) Architect
9 6 (5.94%) Data Engineer
10 5 (4.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (4.95%) Senior Software Developer
10 5 (4.95%) Software Developer
11 4 (3.96%) AWS DevOps
11 4 (3.96%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 4 (3.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 3 (2.97%) Automation Engineer
12 3 (2.97%) Azure Engineer
12 3 (2.97%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (25.74%) Spring
2 22 (21.78%) Spring Boot
3 19 (18.81%) AngularJS
4 16 (15.84%) REST
5 14 (13.86%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (9.90%) Kafka
6 10 (9.90%) Node.js
6 10 (9.90%) React
7 9 (8.91%) Bootstrap
7 9 (8.91%) Keras
7 9 (8.91%) PyTorch
7 9 (8.91%) TensorFlow
8 8 (7.92%) pytest
9 7 (6.93%) Django
9 7 (6.93%) Flask
9 7 (6.93%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (5.94%) OAuth
11 5 (4.95%) HTML
11 5 (4.95%) LDAP
11 5 (4.95%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.87%) Cloud Native
1 13 (12.87%) Management Information System
2 10 (9.90%) Data Centre
2 10 (9.90%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.93%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (5.94%) Public Cloud
4 6 (5.94%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (4.95%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (4.95%) PKI
6 3 (2.97%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.98%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.98%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.98%) Equities
7 2 (1.98%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.98%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.99%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.99%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 54 (53.47%) Linux
2 25 (24.75%) Windows
3 15 (14.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (11.88%) CentOS
5 11 (10.89%) Windows Server
6 9 (8.91%) Unix
6 9 (8.91%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (7.92%) Ubuntu
7 8 (7.92%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (6.93%) Debian
9 5 (4.95%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.99%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.99%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (52.48%) Containerisation
2 50 (49.50%) CI/CD
3 49 (48.51%) Agile
4 47 (46.53%) DevOps
5 38 (37.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 32 (31.68%) Microservices
7 26 (25.74%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (18.81%) Mentoring
9 18 (17.82%) Computer Science
9 18 (17.82%) Observability
10 17 (16.83%) Data Pipeline
11 16 (15.84%) AI
11 16 (15.84%) Analytics
11 16 (15.84%) Test Automation
12 15 (14.85%) Infrastructure Automation
12 15 (14.85%) Machine Learning
12 15 (14.85%) Scrum
13 14 (13.86%) Collaborative Working
13 14 (13.86%) Data Engineering
13 14 (13.86%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 55 (54.46%) Python
2 45 (44.55%) Java
3 27 (26.73%) Bash
4 26 (25.74%) PowerShell
5 23 (22.77%) JavaScript
6 11 (10.89%) Go
7 7 (6.93%) Delphi
8 6 (5.94%) SQL
9 5 (4.95%) C++
10 4 (3.96%) Ruby
11 3 (2.97%) C#
11 3 (2.97%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.98%) Google Apps Script
12 2 (1.98%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.99%) Groovy
13 1 (0.99%) Perl
13 1 (0.99%) PHP
Qualifications
1 34 (33.66%) Security Cleared
2 23 (22.77%) DV Cleared
3 15 (14.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (14.85%) Degree
4 14 (13.86%) SC Cleared
5 9 (8.91%) Master's Degree
6 4 (3.96%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.96%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.98%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.98%) CISSP
8 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.99%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.90%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.98%) NCSC
2 2 (1.98%) NIST
2 2 (1.98%) QA
3 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (36.63%) Docker
2 18 (17.82%) Active Directory
3 15 (14.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.96%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.96%) vSphere
5 3 (2.97%) KVM
5 3 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.97%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.97%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.98%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.98%) XenApp
6 2 (1.98%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.99%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 75 (74.26%) Kubernetes
2 39 (38.61%) Ansible
3 36 (35.64%) Terraform
4 16 (15.84%) Grafana
5 11 (10.89%) Puppet
6 7 (6.93%) Progress Chef
6 7 (6.93%) Rancher
7 6 (5.94%) Argo
8 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (3.96%) vCenter Server
10 3 (2.97%) McAfee ePO
10 3 (2.97%) SCVMM
10 3 (2.97%) vRealize
11 2 (1.98%) Prometheus
11 2 (1.98%) SCCM
11 2 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.99%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.99%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.99%) Podman
12 1 (0.99%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 31 (30.69%) Red Hat
2 18 (17.82%) VMware
3 17 (16.83%) Oracle
4 14 (13.86%) Dell
5 11 (10.89%) Databricks
5 11 (10.89%) Google
6 9 (8.91%) NVIDIA
6 9 (8.91%) Splunk
7 8 (7.92%) Atlassian
8 6 (5.94%) Microsoft
9 5 (4.95%) SaltStack
10 4 (3.96%) Cisco
11 3 (2.97%) AppDynamics
11 3 (2.97%) McAfee
11 3 (2.97%) Palo Alto
12 2 (1.98%) Citrix
12 2 (1.98%) F5
12 2 (1.98%) Juniper
13 1 (0.99%) Fortinet
13 1 (0.99%) SolarWinds