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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 255 351
Rank change year-on-year +5 +96 +3
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 23 23 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.19% 0.30% 0.059%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.65% 0.91% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 11 2 3
10th Percentile £46,250 £64,125 £60,200
25th Percentile £47,500 £66,563 £77,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £73,750 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.20% -32.95% +46.67%
75th Percentile £63,750 £81,563 £115,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £84,375 -
England median annual salary £72,500 £110,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -34.09% +29.41% +3.03%

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 3,557 2,534 4,419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 29.61% 33.55% 32.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,959 1,532 3,678
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%

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
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in the South East over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Salary histogram for OpenShift in the South East

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 7 March 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
Thames Valley +4 8 £55,000 -33.33% 4
Berkshire +5 7 £55,000 -33.33% 4
Surrey - 5 - - 3
West Sussex - 5 £50,000 - 1
Hampshire -2 4 £101,250 +55.77% 3
Middlesex +3 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 2 (8.70%) Apache
1 2 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (8.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) Azure
2 10 (43.48%) AWS
3 7 (30.43%) GitHub
3 7 (30.43%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (21.74%) Datadog
5 3 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (13.04%) Apigee
5 3 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (13.04%) Azure AKS
5 3 (13.04%) Kong
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.35%) GCP
7 1 (4.35%) H2O.ai
7 1 (4.35%) IaaS
7 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) Firewall
2 3 (13.04%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (4.35%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.70%) Apache Hive
2 2 (8.70%) Impala
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database
2 2 (8.70%) Parquet
2 2 (8.70%) Spark SQL
2 2 (8.70%) Tableau
3 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.35%) Metadata
3 1 (4.35%) MySQL
3 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (60.87%) GitLab
2 11 (47.83%) Git
3 6 (26.09%) Jenkins
4 3 (13.04%) Cucumber
4 3 (13.04%) JUnit
5 2 (8.70%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (8.70%) JMeter
5 2 (8.70%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (4.35%) Ant
6 1 (4.35%) Cypress.io
6 1 (4.35%) Gradle
6 1 (4.35%) Maven
6 1 (4.35%) Mockito
General
1 9 (39.13%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Telecoms
3 5 (21.74%) Finance
4 3 (13.04%) Aerospace
4 3 (13.04%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (8.70%) Banking
5 2 (8.70%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.35%) Legal
6 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Automation Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Network Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Telecoms Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Automation Specialist
3 3 (13.04%) Network Specialist
3 3 (13.04%) Telecoms Specialist
4 2 (8.70%) Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Banking Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Java Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Kafka Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Transformation Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Principal Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Senior
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) Jinja
1 6 (26.09%) JSON
1 6 (26.09%) YAML
2 5 (21.74%) OAuth
2 5 (21.74%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (21.74%) SAML
3 3 (13.04%) REST
3 3 (13.04%) Spring
3 3 (13.04%) XML
3 3 (13.04%) YANG
4 2 (8.70%) Hibernate
4 2 (8.70%) Kafka
4 2 (8.70%) PySpark
5 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.35%) Bootstrap
5 1 (4.35%) CSS
5 1 (4.35%) HTML
5 1 (4.35%) Nightwatchjs
5 1 (4.35%) Pandas
5 1 (4.35%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (13.04%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (43.48%) Linux
2 3 (13.04%) Unix
3 1 (4.35%) CentOS
3 1 (4.35%) Ubuntu
3 1 (4.35%) Windows
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (82.61%) CI/CD
2 14 (60.87%) Containerisation
2 14 (60.87%) DevOps
3 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (34.78%) Agile
4 8 (34.78%) Observability
4 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (30.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (26.09%) API Management
6 6 (26.09%) Task Automation
7 5 (21.74%) Batch Processing
8 3 (13.04%) Analytics
8 3 (13.04%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (13.04%) Data Governance
8 3 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (13.04%) DevSecOps
8 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Management
8 3 (13.04%) Project Delivery
8 3 (13.04%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) Python
2 6 (26.09%) Bash
2 6 (26.09%) PowerShell
3 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
3 3 (13.04%) SQL
4 2 (8.70%) Java
5 1 (4.35%) Go
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.35%) CISSP
3 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.35%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.70%) NCSC
3 1 (4.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (4.35%) GDPR
3 1 (4.35%) HIPAA
3 1 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Docker
2 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
3 1 (4.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (52.17%) Kubernetes
2 10 (43.48%) Terraform
3 7 (30.43%) Ansible
4 5 (21.74%) Grafana
4 5 (21.74%) Prometheus
5 2 (8.70%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.35%) Argo
6 1 (4.35%) Nessus
6 1 (4.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (69.57%) Red Hat
2 6 (26.09%) Cisco
3 5 (21.74%) Dynatrace
4 4 (17.39%) VMware
5 3 (13.04%) F5
5 3 (13.04%) Juniper
5 3 (13.04%) Palo Alto
6 2 (8.70%) Oracle
7 1 (4.35%) Databricks
7 1 (4.35%) Dell
7 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
7 1 (4.35%) NVIDIA
7 1 (4.35%) Pure Storage