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 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 510 524 390
Rank change year-on-year +14 -134 +29
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 102 156 289
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.31% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.55% 0.86% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 56 106 200
10th Percentile £51,375 £68,500 £51,000
25th Percentile £57,250 £71,438 £65,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £100,625 £115,938 £115,313
90th Percentile £117,500 £138,750 £143,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +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 18,588 18,167 18,840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.75% 36.49% 41.70%
Number of salaries quoted 10,318 10,864 15,767
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £47,500 £45,193
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,548
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,450 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year -4.76% +4.57% -7.31%

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 31 December 2025.

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 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
London +21 55 £77,500 -27.91% 29
South West +5 17 £67,500 -12.90% 10
North of England +14 12 £55,200 -9.50% 16
North West +27 11 £48,750 -2.50% 5
South East +23 8 £130,000 +76.27% 5
Midlands +28 6 £55,200 +10.40% 6
East Midlands -5 4 £56,600 -
West Midlands +29 2 £48,975 -2.05% 6
East of England +22 1 - -
North East - 1 £55,200 - 5
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 9 (8.82%) Apache Spark
2 7 (6.86%) Apache
3 6 (5.88%) IIS
3 6 (5.88%) Tomcat
4 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (3.92%) Confluence
6 3 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (2.94%) JBoss
7 2 (1.96%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.98%) Camunda
8 1 (0.98%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 65 (63.73%) AWS
2 48 (47.06%) Azure
3 21 (20.59%) GCP
4 16 (15.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (14.71%) GitHub
6 13 (12.75%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (11.76%) H2O.ai
8 9 (8.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (7.84%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (7.84%) Entra ID
9 8 (7.84%) Serverless
10 7 (6.86%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (5.88%) Azure AKS
12 5 (4.90%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (3.92%) Amazon S3
14 3 (2.94%) dbt
14 3 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (2.94%) PaaS
14 3 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.80%) DNS
1 10 (9.80%) Firewall
2 8 (7.84%) LAN
2 8 (7.84%) WAN
3 6 (5.88%) AMQP
4 5 (4.90%) VoIP
4 5 (4.90%) VSAN
5 4 (3.92%) Kerberos
5 4 (3.92%) VPN
6 3 (2.94%) DHCP
6 3 (2.94%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.96%) Multicast
8 1 (0.98%) Internet
8 1 (0.98%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.71%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (13.73%) Data Lake
2 14 (13.73%) Relational Database
3 13 (12.75%) SQL Server
4 12 (11.76%) Metadata
5 8 (7.84%) Big Data
5 8 (7.84%) Hadoop
6 6 (5.88%) InfluxDB
7 5 (4.90%) Apache Hive
7 5 (4.90%) MySQL
7 5 (4.90%) RDBMS
8 4 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (3.92%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.94%) Cloudera CDH
10 2 (1.96%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.96%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.96%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.96%) Power BI
11 1 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 40 (39.22%) Jenkins
2 28 (27.45%) GitLab
3 25 (24.51%) Git
4 12 (11.76%) JUnit
5 10 (9.80%) Bitbucket
5 10 (9.80%) Cucumber
6 8 (7.84%) JIRA
7 7 (6.86%) Selenium
8 6 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (3.92%) JMeter
9 4 (3.92%) Maven
9 4 (3.92%) Robot Framework
9 4 (3.92%) SonarQube
10 3 (2.94%) Ant
10 3 (2.94%) Gradle
11 2 (1.96%) Artifactory
11 2 (1.96%) CA Release Automation
11 2 (1.96%) Eclipse
11 2 (1.96%) TestRail
General
1 38 (37.25%) Finance
2 24 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 13 (12.75%) Manufacturing
4 7 (6.86%) Telecoms
5 6 (5.88%) Aerospace
5 6 (5.88%) Games
6 5 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.90%) Banking
7 4 (3.92%) Billing
8 3 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.96%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.96%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.98%) Electronics
10 1 (0.98%) Marketing
10 1 (0.98%) Military
10 1 (0.98%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (25.49%) Senior
2 14 (13.73%) Developer
3 13 (12.75%) Platform Engineer
4 11 (10.78%) Senior Developer
5 10 (9.80%) Cloud Engineer
5 10 (9.80%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (6.86%) Java Developer
7 6 (5.88%) Architect
7 6 (5.88%) Data Engineer
7 6 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
7 6 (5.88%) Software Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (4.90%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) Senior Software Developer
8 5 (4.90%) Software Developer
9 4 (3.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 3 (2.94%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (22.55%) Spring
2 18 (17.65%) Spring Boot
3 14 (13.73%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (12.75%) AngularJS
5 12 (11.76%) Keras
5 12 (11.76%) PyTorch
5 12 (11.76%) TensorFlow
6 11 (10.78%) Kafka
7 9 (8.82%) REST
8 8 (7.84%) Node.js
8 8 (7.84%) React
9 7 (6.86%) Django
9 7 (6.86%) Flask
9 7 (6.86%) pytest
9 7 (6.86%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (5.88%) Middleware
11 5 (4.90%) CSS
11 5 (4.90%) HTML
11 5 (4.90%) LDAP
11 5 (4.90%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 18 (17.65%) Management Information System
2 12 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 11 (10.78%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (9.80%) Cloud Native
5 9 (8.82%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (6.86%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (5.88%) PKI
7 6 (5.88%) Public Cloud
8 4 (3.92%) Private Cloud
9 3 (2.94%) Derivative
10 2 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.96%) Equities
10 2 (1.96%) Fixed Income
10 2 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.98%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.98%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 58 (56.86%) Linux
2 27 (26.47%) Windows
3 15 (14.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (11.76%) Unix
4 12 (11.76%) Windows Server
5 10 (9.80%) CentOS
6 9 (8.82%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (7.84%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (5.88%) Ubuntu
9 5 (4.90%) Debian
9 5 (4.90%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (1.96%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.98%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (49.02%) DevOps
2 47 (46.08%) CI/CD
3 44 (43.14%) Containerisation
4 41 (40.20%) Agile
5 35 (34.31%) Infrastructure as Code
6 27 (26.47%) Computer Science
7 26 (25.49%) Microservices
8 21 (20.59%) DevSecOps
8 21 (20.59%) Observability
9 20 (19.61%) Data Pipeline
10 19 (18.63%) AI
10 19 (18.63%) Analytics
10 19 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (17.65%) Machine Learning
12 17 (16.67%) Data Engineering
12 17 (16.67%) Service Delivery
13 16 (15.69%) Data Integration
14 15 (14.71%) Test Automation
15 14 (13.73%) Continuous Integration
15 14 (13.73%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 53 (51.96%) Python
2 43 (42.16%) Java
3 27 (26.47%) Bash
4 26 (25.49%) PowerShell
5 15 (14.71%) Go
6 12 (11.76%) JavaScript
7 9 (8.82%) SQL
8 7 (6.86%) Delphi
9 4 (3.92%) Ruby
9 4 (3.92%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.94%) C++
10 3 (2.94%) F#
10 3 (2.94%) Haskell
10 3 (2.94%) OCaml
10 3 (2.94%) Scala
11 2 (1.96%) C#
11 2 (1.96%) Groovy
11 2 (1.96%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.98%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.98%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 31 (30.39%) Security Cleared
2 23 (22.55%) Degree
2 23 (22.55%) DV Cleared
3 18 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (17.65%) SC Cleared
4 15 (14.71%) Master's Degree
5 5 (4.90%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.92%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.94%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (2.94%) PhD
8 2 (1.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.96%) CISSP
8 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.98%) CISM
9 1 (0.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.75%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.96%) NCSC
2 2 (1.96%) NIST
2 2 (1.96%) QA
3 1 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 36 (35.29%) Docker
2 21 (20.59%) Active Directory
3 12 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (4.90%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (4.90%) XenApp
4 5 (4.90%) XenDesktop
5 3 (2.94%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.94%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.94%) vSphere
6 2 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.98%) KVM
7 1 (0.98%) vCloud
7 1 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 69 (67.65%) Kubernetes
2 38 (37.25%) Ansible
3 31 (30.39%) Terraform
4 18 (17.65%) Grafana
5 11 (10.78%) Puppet
6 10 (9.80%) Progress Chef
7 7 (6.86%) Rancher
8 6 (5.88%) Argo
8 6 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (4.90%) SCCM
9 5 (4.90%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (3.92%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (3.92%) Prometheus
10 4 (3.92%) vRealize
11 3 (2.94%) McAfee ePO
11 3 (2.94%) SCVMM
12 2 (1.96%) Podman
12 2 (1.96%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.98%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 24 (23.53%) Red Hat
2 17 (16.67%) Dell
2 17 (16.67%) Oracle
3 15 (14.71%) VMware
4 14 (13.73%) Databricks
5 12 (11.76%) NVIDIA
6 10 (9.80%) Microsoft
7 7 (6.86%) Google
7 7 (6.86%) Splunk
8 6 (5.88%) Atlassian
9 5 (4.90%) Citrix
10 3 (2.94%) AppDynamics
10 3 (2.94%) McAfee
10 3 (2.94%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.98%) Cisco
11 1 (0.98%) Cribl.io
11 1 (0.98%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.98%) IBM
11 1 (0.98%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.98%) Pure Storage