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 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 192 237
Rank change year-on-year +14 +45 +21
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 12 9 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.16% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.41% 0.61% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £50,800
25th Percentile - £47,500 £55,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -29.15% +17.63%
75th Percentile - £52,500 £72,433
90th Percentile - - £77,060
England median annual salary £72,500 £110,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -34.09% +25.71% +6.06%

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 2,938 1,469 2,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 40.13% 31.67% 35.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,138 854 2,087
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £38,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,750 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,250 £84,937
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 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
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 15 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
Manchester +15 8 - - 1
Cheshire -22 4 £60,000 -
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 5 (41.67%) Apache
2 4 (33.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (8.33%) JBoss
3 1 (8.33%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (83.33%) Azure
3 9 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 9 (75.00%) GCP
4 7 (58.33%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (33.33%) Serverless
6 3 (25.00%) Azure AKS
6 3 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (25.00%) PaaS
7 2 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (8.33%) IaaS
8 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) AMQP
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Big Data
1 4 (33.33%) Cloudera CDH
1 4 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 3 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 3 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (25.00%) MySQL
2 3 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) GitLab
2 4 (33.33%) Git
2 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (25.00%) Bitbucket
4 2 (16.67%) SonarQube
5 1 (8.33%) Ant
5 1 (8.33%) Artifactory
5 1 (8.33%) JIRA
5 1 (8.33%) Maven
5 1 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Linux Scripter
5 1 (8.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Monitoring Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Windows DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) AngularJS
1 5 (41.67%) Node.js
2 4 (33.33%) gRPC
2 4 (33.33%) Material-UI
2 4 (33.33%) OpenAPI
2 4 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (33.33%) React
2 4 (33.33%) REST
2 4 (33.33%) Spring
2 4 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 4 (33.33%) Swagger
3 3 (25.00%) RESTful
4 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (8.33%) Kafka
4 1 (8.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (25.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Linux
2 5 (41.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (33.33%) CentOS
3 4 (33.33%) Debian
3 4 (33.33%) Ubuntu
4 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (75.00%) Agile
2 9 (75.00%) Containerisation
3 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 7 (58.33%) DevOps
4 7 (58.33%) Microservices
5 5 (41.67%) Configuration Management
5 5 (41.67%) Test Automation
6 4 (33.33%) API Development
6 4 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (33.33%) Kanban
6 4 (33.33%) Open Source
6 4 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 4 (33.33%) Scrum
6 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
7 3 (25.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
7 3 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (25.00%) Observability
7 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Java
2 9 (75.00%) Python
3 5 (41.67%) Go
4 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 3 (25.00%) SQL
6 1 (8.33%) Bash
6 1 (8.33%) Groovy
6 1 (8.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) CISM
2 1 (8.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (75.00%) Terraform
3 8 (66.67%) Ansible
4 5 (41.67%) Puppet
5 3 (25.00%) Rancher
6 1 (8.33%) Fluentd
6 1 (8.33%) Grafana
6 1 (8.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Google
2 4 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 4 (33.33%) SaltStack
3 3 (25.00%) AppDynamics
4 1 (8.33%) Cribl.io
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) Splunk