OpenShift Job Trends in the South East

Red Hat OpenShift
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East 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 267 286 261
Rank change year-on-year +19 -25 +95
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 8 16 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.077% 0.17% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.25% 0.53% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £64,125 £67,625
25th Percentile £125,000 £66,563 £71,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £73,750 £93,750
Median % change year-on-year +76.27% -21.33% +29.31%
75th Percentile £135,000 £81,563 £115,000
90th Percentile - £84,375 -
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% -5.56% +12.50%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,215 3,028 2,596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 31.03% 32.75% 33.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,725 1,649 2,143
10th Percentile £28,450 £32,750 £29,021
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £39,380
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £86,500 £80,000
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 South East

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

OpenShift job vacancy trend in the South East

OpenShift
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing OpenShift.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the South East 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
Hampshire +34 3 £130,000 +100.00% 2
Thames Valley +10 2 - - 4
Surrey - 2 - -
Berkshire +2 1 - - 4
Middlesex -6 1 - -
Buckinghamshire - 1 - -
OpenShift
England

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (12.50%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) H2O.ai
3 1 (12.50%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (12.50%) Metadata
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
2 3 (37.50%) JUnit
3 2 (25.00%) GitLab
3 2 (25.00%) JMeter
3 2 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (12.50%) Ant
4 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
4 1 (12.50%) Git
4 1 (12.50%) Gradle
4 1 (12.50%) Maven
4 1 (12.50%) Mockito
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Java Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Principal Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Principal Technical Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Spring
2 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (25.00%) Kafka
3 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 1 (12.50%) Bootstrap
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) Keras
3 1 (12.50%) Nightwatchjs
3 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
3 1 (12.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 1 (12.50%) TensorFlow
3 1 (12.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 3 (37.50%) Observability
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (12.50%) Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) Go
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) CISSP
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) NCSC
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) VMware NSX
2 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Ansible
1 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) Terraform
3 2 (25.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (12.50%) Argo
4 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (12.50%) Databricks
3 1 (12.50%) Dell
3 1 (12.50%) NVIDIA
3 1 (12.50%) Pure Storage