OpenShift Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Red Hat OpenShift
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring OpenShift skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 177 216
Rank change year-on-year +14 +39 +11
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 4 1 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.092% 0.031% 0.074%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.32% 0.096% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £47,750 - £73,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £78,750 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £82,500 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -25.00% -40.54%
75th Percentile £60,000 £86,250 £115,000
90th Percentile £62,250 - -
South East median annual salary £56,250 £73,750 £93,750
% change year-on-year -23.73% -21.33% +25.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,254 1,039 1,616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 28.75% 31.94% 29.81%
Number of salaries quoted 699 546 1,334
10th Percentile £31,375 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,813 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £88,000 £78,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £51,472
% change year-on-year -16.67% +16.57% -6.41%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

OpenShift job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

OpenShift
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing OpenShift.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 15 February 2026.

Salary histogram for OpenShift in the Thames Valley

OpenShift
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 15 February 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
Berkshire +1 3 £55,000 -33.33% 4
Buckinghamshire - 1 - -
OpenShift
South East

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (25.00%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Apigee
3 1 (25.00%) IaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Ant
2 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (25.00%) Gradle
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JUnit
2 1 (25.00%) Maven
2 1 (25.00%) Mockito
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Jinja
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) YAML
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) Bootstrap
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) Nightwatchjs
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) Vue
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) API Management
3 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (25.00%) API Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Product Discovery
4 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) RBAC
4 1 (25.00%) Secrets Management
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) User Experience
4 1 (25.00%) User Research
4 1 (25.00%) UX Research
4 1 (25.00%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Argo
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) F5
3 1 (25.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (25.00%) Pure Storage
3 1 (25.00%) VMware