OpenShift Jobs in the South West

Red Hat OpenShift
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring OpenShift skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited OpenShift over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 165 140
Rank change year-on-year -18 -25 +105
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 4 97 121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.098% 1.16% 1.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.41% 4.51% 5.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3 50 51
10th Percentile £85,500 £52,000 £51,000
25th Percentile £86,250 £71,250 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £77,500 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.58% +7.64% +20.00%
75th Percentile £102,500 £87,500 £84,960
90th Percentile - - £100,000
England median annual salary £95,000 £80,000 £77,750
% change year-on-year +18.75% +2.89% +0.32%

All Cloud 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 986 2,152 2,362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 24.11% 25.63% 38.87%
Number of salaries quoted 752 1,545 1,659
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,507 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.81% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,525 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £86,125 £82,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing OpenShift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in the South West

OpenShift
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OpenShift in the South West.

Salary trend 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 4 August 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
Bristol +14 2 £95,000 +18.75% 3
Gloucestershire -10 2 £90,000 +50.00% 11
OpenShift
England

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (50.00%) InfluxDB
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) CentOS
2 1 (25.00%) CoreOS
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Go
2 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (50.00%) Grafana
2 2 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat