OpenShift Job Trends in the North West

Red Hat OpenShift
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring OpenShift skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 195 169
Rank change year-on-year +27 -26 +108
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 11 10 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.18% 0.19% 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.40% 0.61% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 15
10th Percentile £38,625 - £43,000
25th Percentile £42,188 £47,500 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £50,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -20.00% -15.82%
75th Percentile £54,688 £52,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £57,875 - £84,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% -5.56% +12.50%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North West

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 North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,737 1,634 1,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 44.41% 31.42% 38.91%
Number of salaries quoted 993 923 1,292
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,375 £40,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

OpenShift job vacancy trend in the North West

OpenShift
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing OpenShift.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in the North West over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for OpenShift in the North West

OpenShift
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Manchester +19 6 - - 2
Cheshire -10 5 £48,750 - 1
OpenShift
England

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (36.36%) Apache
2 3 (27.27%) Apache Spark
3 1 (9.09%) JBoss
3 1 (9.09%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 8 (72.73%) Azure
3 7 (63.64%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (63.64%) GCP
4 5 (45.45%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (27.27%) PaaS
5 3 (27.27%) Serverless
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (18.18%) Azure AKS
6 2 (18.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (9.09%) IaaS
7 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) AMQP
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Big Data
1 3 (27.27%) Cloudera CDH
1 3 (27.27%) Hadoop
2 2 (18.18%) DynamoDB
2 2 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
2 2 (18.18%) MySQL
2 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
2 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) GitLab
2 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
3 4 (36.36%) Git
4 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
4 2 (18.18%) SonarQube
4 2 (18.18%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (9.09%) Ant
5 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
5 1 (9.09%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (9.09%) JIRA
5 1 (9.09%) Maven
5 1 (9.09%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (27.27%) Aerospace
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Scripter
4 1 (9.09%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Monitoring Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Windows DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) AngularJS
1 4 (36.36%) Node.js
2 3 (27.27%) gRPC
2 3 (27.27%) Material-UI
2 3 (27.27%) OpenAPI
2 3 (27.27%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (27.27%) React
2 3 (27.27%) REST
2 3 (27.27%) Spring
2 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
2 3 (27.27%) Swagger
3 2 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (18.18%) RESTful
4 1 (9.09%) .NET
4 1 (9.09%) Kafka
4 1 (9.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Public Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Linux
2 4 (36.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (27.27%) CentOS
3 3 (27.27%) Debian
3 3 (27.27%) Ubuntu
3 3 (27.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
1 8 (72.73%) Containerisation
1 8 (72.73%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (63.64%) Agile
2 7 (63.64%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) Microservices
4 4 (36.36%) Configuration Management
4 4 (36.36%) Observability
4 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
5 3 (27.27%) API Development
5 3 (27.27%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (27.27%) Kanban
5 3 (27.27%) Open Source
5 3 (27.27%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (27.27%) Scrum
5 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (18.18%) SDLC
6 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Java
2 8 (72.73%) Python
3 5 (45.45%) Go
4 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 3 (27.27%) SQL
5 2 (18.18%) Bash
6 1 (9.09%) C#
6 1 (9.09%) Groovy
6 1 (9.09%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) CISM
2 1 (9.09%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (63.64%) Terraform
3 6 (54.55%) Ansible
4 4 (36.36%) Puppet
5 2 (18.18%) Grafana
5 2 (18.18%) Rancher
6 1 (9.09%) Fluentd
6 1 (9.09%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Google
2 3 (27.27%) AppDynamics
2 3 (27.27%) Red Hat
2 3 (27.27%) SaltStack
3 1 (9.09%) Cribl.io
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) Splunk