OpenShift Job Trends in the Midlands

Red Hat OpenShift
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring OpenShift skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 240 271
Rank change year-on-year +7 +31 +44
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 5 4 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.057% 0.067% 0.036%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.16% 0.20% 0.100%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £44,020 - £56,000
25th Percentile £47,163 £47,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% -28.57% +12.90%
75th Percentile £58,000 £52,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £72,500 £110,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -34.09% +25.71% +6.06%

All Cloud Computing Skills
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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,064 1,975 3,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 34.84% 33.28% 35.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,483 1,167 2,660
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,800 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,813
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

OpenShift job vacancy trend in the Midlands

OpenShift
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing OpenShift.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 February 2026.

Salary histogram for OpenShift in the Midlands

OpenShift
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 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
East Midlands -11 3 £55,200 -
West Midlands +17 2 £48,975 -2.05% 2
OpenShift
England

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (40.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) GitLab
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (60.00%) Git
2 3 (60.00%) JUnit
2 3 (60.00%) Selenium
3 2 (40.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) AWS DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Software Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Software Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Django
1 3 (60.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (60.00%) Flask
1 3 (60.00%) pytest
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (60.00%) SDLC
3 3 (60.00%) Secure Coding
3 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) API Development
4 2 (40.00%) API Integration
4 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (40.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) Observability
4 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) SEO
4 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) Delphi
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) Go
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (60.00%) Grafana
3 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) AppDynamics