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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 230 270
Rank change year-on-year -33 +40 -45
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 13 5 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.083% 0.089% 0.042%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.41% 0.30% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 11 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £56,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £58,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.69% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £69,125 -
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,900 -
England median annual salary £85,000 £76,250 £76,500
% change year-on-year +11.48% -0.33% -7.27%

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 3,151 1,648 2,537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 20.17% 29.20% 26.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,214 1,300 1,485
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,750 £31,675
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,148 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,870 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.78% -7.69% +4.00%

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
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 8 October 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
West Midlands -30 11 £70,000 -9.68% 1
East Midlands -33 2 - - 5
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Snowflake
3 5 (38.46%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Db2
General
1 2 (15.38%) Aerospace
2 1 (7.69%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Consultant
2 6 (46.15%) Support Consultant
3 3 (23.08%) Cloud Consultant
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Maximo Specialist
5 1 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (15.38%) Migration
1 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
2 1 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (7.69%) DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (7.69%) Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes
2 5 (38.46%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Red Hat
2 8 (61.54%) Oracle
3 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
4 6 (46.15%) OutSystems