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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 172 144
Rank change year-on-year +5 -28 +30
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 17 28 78
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.34% 0.65% 1.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.46% 2.02% 4.29%
Number of salaries quoted 13 22 32
10th Percentile £46,750 £51,850 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £69,188 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £77,500 £68,400
Median % change year-on-year -12.90% +13.30% +5.23%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £89,750 £89,625
England median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +12.50%

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 1,165 1,384 1,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 23.22% 31.94% 41.40%
Number of salaries quoted 774 766 1,475
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £84,056
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 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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 2025. 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 +13 11 £67,500 -2.17% 6
Bristol -2 3 £95,000 +22.58% 3
Wiltshire - 2 £58,750 - 6
Devon - 1 £42,750 - 2
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 1 (5.88%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (88.24%) AWS
2 9 (52.94%) Azure
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon S3
3 4 (23.53%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (23.53%) Serverless
4 2 (11.76%) Azure AKS
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Storage
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) DNS
2 4 (23.53%) Firewall
2 4 (23.53%) VSAN
3 3 (17.65%) AMQP
3 3 (17.65%) DHCP
3 3 (17.65%) LAN
3 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
3 3 (17.65%) VPN
3 3 (17.65%) WAN
4 1 (5.88%) Internet
4 1 (5.88%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) InfluxDB
2 4 (23.53%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (23.53%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.88%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Jenkins
2 5 (29.41%) Git
3 2 (11.76%) GitLab
3 2 (11.76%) Robot Framework
3 2 (11.76%) TestRail
4 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.88%) JUnit
4 1 (5.88%) Selenium
General
1 3 (17.65%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Site Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Automation Tester
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Tester
3 2 (11.76%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Unix Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Unix Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Virtualisation Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (17.65%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.88%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (5.88%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.88%) Django
3 1 (5.88%) Flask
3 1 (5.88%) pytest
3 1 (5.88%) Spring
3 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (76.47%) Linux
2 9 (52.94%) Windows
3 7 (41.18%) CentOS
3 7 (41.18%) Windows Server
4 5 (29.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (11.76%) CoreOS
7 2 (11.76%) Ubuntu
8 1 (5.88%) Debian
8 1 (5.88%) Unix
8 1 (5.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) DevOps
2 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
2 7 (41.18%) Containerisation
2 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (35.29%) ITIL
4 5 (29.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (23.53%) Configuration Management
5 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (23.53%) RBAC
5 4 (23.53%) Time Management
6 3 (17.65%) Agile
6 3 (17.65%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (11.76%) Service Management
7 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
7 2 (11.76%) Software Testing
7 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
7 2 (11.76%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) Python
2 10 (58.82%) Bash
3 9 (52.94%) PowerShell
4 6 (35.29%) Java
5 4 (23.53%) Go
6 3 (17.65%) Shell Script
6 3 (17.65%) SQL
7 1 (5.88%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 13 (76.47%) DV Cleared
1 13 (76.47%) Security Cleared
2 7 (41.18%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 8 (47.06%) Docker
2 6 (35.29%) Active Directory
3 3 (17.65%) Hyper-V
4 2 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (5.88%) VMware NSX
5 1 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (58.82%) Kubernetes
2 8 (47.06%) Ansible
3 7 (41.18%) Grafana
3 7 (41.18%) Terraform
4 4 (23.53%) Progress Chef
4 4 (23.53%) Prometheus
5 3 (17.65%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (17.65%) McAfee ePO
5 3 (17.65%) SCVMM
6 1 (5.88%) Puppet
6 1 (5.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Red Hat
2 3 (17.65%) McAfee
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) Splunk
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco
4 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.88%) VMware