OpenShift Job Trends in the South West

Red Hat OpenShift
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring OpenShift skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 153 180
Rank change year-on-year -29 +27 -16
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 15 10 91
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.23% 0.35% 1.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.97% 0.96% 3.57%
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 51
10th Percentile £42,613 £46,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £46,538 £59,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £69,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.86% +25.45% -15.38%
75th Percentile £69,063 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £89,375 £88,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £110,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -38.64% +29.41% +3.03%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,550 1,044 2,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 24.14% 36.24% 33.36%
Number of salaries quoted 969 720 2,108
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £38,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,560 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.51% +5.83% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £81,786
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

OpenShift job vacancy trend in the South West

OpenShift
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in the South West over the 6 months to 16 March 2026.

Salary histogram for OpenShift in the South West

OpenShift
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the South West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Gloucestershire +9 11 £86,250 +25.00% 3
Devon - 2 £43,425 -
Wiltshire - 2 £58,750 - 1
OpenShift
England

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 2 (13.33%) Apache
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (13.33%) Azure AKS
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (13.33%) Serverless
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Storage
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) DNS
1 3 (20.00%) Firewall
1 3 (20.00%) VPN
2 2 (13.33%) VSAN
3 1 (6.67%) AMQP
3 1 (6.67%) DHCP
3 1 (6.67%) LAN
3 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.67%) VLAN
3 1 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) InfluxDB
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.67%) Big Data
2 1 (6.67%) Cloudera CDH
2 1 (6.67%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (33.33%) Git
2 5 (33.33%) GitLab
3 4 (26.67%) Robot Framework
3 4 (26.67%) TestRail
4 3 (20.00%) Selenium
5 2 (13.33%) Cypress.io
6 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
6 1 (6.67%) JUnit
General
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
2 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Automation Tester
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Test Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Author
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Author
4 1 (6.67%) Virtualisation Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (20.00%) pytest
3 2 (13.33%) Playwright
3 2 (13.33%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (13.33%) Spring
3 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
4 1 (6.67%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
4 1 (6.67%) Django
4 1 (6.67%) Flask
4 1 (6.67%) gRPC
4 1 (6.67%) Material-UI
4 1 (6.67%) Node.js
4 1 (6.67%) OpenAPI
4 1 (6.67%) React
4 1 (6.67%) REST
4 1 (6.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Linux
2 7 (46.67%) CentOS
2 7 (46.67%) Windows
3 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (13.33%) Ubuntu
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (6.67%) Debian
5 1 (6.67%) VMS
5 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 8 (53.33%) Agile
2 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
3 6 (40.00%) DevOps
3 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
5 4 (26.67%) Software Testing
5 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
5 4 (26.67%) Test Management
6 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (20.00%) ITIL
6 3 (20.00%) RBAC
6 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
7 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (13.33%) Dashboard Development
7 2 (13.33%) Microservices
7 2 (13.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Python
2 9 (60.00%) Bash
3 8 (53.33%) PowerShell
4 5 (33.33%) Java
5 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
6 2 (13.33%) Go
7 1 (6.67%) Delphi
7 1 (6.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 8 (53.33%) DV Cleared
3 4 (26.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (6.67%) Degree
5 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Docker
2 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
4 1 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (46.67%) Terraform
3 6 (40.00%) Ansible
3 6 (40.00%) Grafana
4 3 (20.00%) vCenter Server
5 2 (13.33%) Kibana
5 2 (13.33%) logstash
6 1 (6.67%) Check_MK
6 1 (6.67%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (6.67%) Nagios
6 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
6 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
6 1 (6.67%) Puppet
6 1 (6.67%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Red Hat
2 4 (26.67%) Splunk
2 4 (26.67%) VMware
3 2 (13.33%) Atlassian
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco
4 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
4 1 (6.67%) Google
4 1 (6.67%) McAfee
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle
4 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.67%) SaltStack