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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 227 281 242
Rank change year-on-year +54 -39 +61
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 5 2 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.089% 0.020% 0.071%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.30% 0.074% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,500 - £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 - £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -38.71%
75th Percentile £69,125 - £57,500
90th Percentile £74,900 - £59,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £76,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +4.58% -7.27% +6.45%

All Cloud 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 1,689 2,695 2,093
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.13% 26.70% 37.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,345 1,714 1,781
10th Percentile £27,600 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £39,112
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,250 £68,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.51% -2.31% +4.00%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing OpenShift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 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
East Midlands +31 4 £58,000 - 2
West Midlands +46 1 £77,500 - 3
OpenShift
England

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) JBoss
1 2 (40.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) PaaS
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (20.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (20.00%) IaaS
4 1 (20.00%) SaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DB2
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) GitLab
2 2 (40.00%) Gradle
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) JUnit
2 2 (40.00%) Maven
2 2 (40.00%) SonarQube
2 2 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
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%) Java Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) SOAP
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Cloud
1 2 (40.00%) Spring MVC
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Unix
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) API Development
2 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) MVC
2 2 (40.00%) Observability
2 2 (40.00%) OOP
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Application Security
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) SABSA
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Go
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) AppDynamics
3 1 (20.00%) IBM
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft