OpenShift Jobs in the UK excluding London

Red Hat OpenShift
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 11 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 541 571 467
Rank change year-on-year +30 -104 -56
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 43 206 276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.26% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.49% 0.84% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 18 84 116
10th Percentile - £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,500 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,870 £70,576 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +6.08% +1.62% +15.75%
75th Percentile £78,272 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £83,625 £90,000 £87,419
UK median annual salary £110,000 £80,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +37.50% +0.46% -0.46%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8,690 24,432 21,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 21.90% 30.76% 38.80%
Number of salaries quoted 5,835 17,904 13,300
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £84,056
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £64,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -10.16% +2.40%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OpenShift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in the UK excluding London

OpenShift
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OpenShift in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for OpenShift in the UK excluding London

OpenShift
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 June 2025.

Salary histogram for OpenShift in the UK excluding London

OpenShift
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 June 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
Scotland +112 18 £74,870 -3.75% 5
South East +48 16 £57,500 -4.17% 54
North of England +45 4 - - 54
North West +10 4 - - 47
South West +1 2 £90,000 +41.18% 21
East of England - 2 £77,500 - 3
Midlands +85 1 £77,500 - 13
West Midlands - 1 £77,500 - 7
OpenShift
UK

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (13.95%) Apache
1 6 (13.95%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (13.95%) Apache Spark
1 6 (13.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.98%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 24 (55.81%) GCP
2 22 (51.16%) AWS
3 14 (32.56%) Azure
4 6 (13.95%) SaaS
5 2 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.65%) IaaS
5 2 (4.65%) PaaS
5 2 (4.65%) Serverless
5 2 (4.65%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.33%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 9 (20.93%) DNS
1 9 (20.93%) Network Security
2 6 (13.95%) DHCP
2 6 (13.95%) Firewall
2 6 (13.95%) Remote Desktop
2 6 (13.95%) SMTP
3 3 (6.98%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) NoSQL
2 6 (13.95%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (13.95%) Apache Hudi
2 6 (13.95%) Apache Iceberg
2 6 (13.95%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (13.95%) Delta Lake
2 6 (13.95%) Hadoop
3 2 (4.65%) Big Data
4 1 (2.33%) DB2
4 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (16.28%) GitLab
2 6 (13.95%) Bitbucket
2 6 (13.95%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.98%) MSTest
3 3 (6.98%) NUnit
3 3 (6.98%) SpecFlow
3 3 (6.98%) TeamCity
4 2 (4.65%) Artifactory
4 2 (4.65%) Git
4 2 (4.65%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.33%) Gatling
5 1 (2.33%) JUnit
5 1 (2.33%) Mockito
General
1 15 (34.88%) Finance
2 13 (30.23%) Banking
3 11 (25.58%) Law
4 6 (13.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.98%) Front Office
5 3 (6.98%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (30.23%) Architect
2 10 (23.26%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (13.95%) Data Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Support
3 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) Support Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Principal Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Technical Architect
5 4 (9.30%) Lead
5 4 (9.30%) Lead Data Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Python Data Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Python Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Senior
6 3 (6.98%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 3 (6.98%) Network Security Architect
6 3 (6.98%) Network Technical Architect
6 3 (6.98%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Security Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (27.91%) Kafka
2 6 (13.95%) PyArrow
2 6 (13.95%) PySpark
2 6 (13.95%) REST
3 5 (11.63%) JSON
4 3 (6.98%) .NET
4 3 (6.98%) AngularJS
4 3 (6.98%) CSS
4 3 (6.98%) CSS3
4 3 (6.98%) Electron
4 3 (6.98%) Highcharts JS
4 3 (6.98%) HTML
4 3 (6.98%) HTML5
4 3 (6.98%) LESS
4 3 (6.98%) NgRx
4 3 (6.98%) Reactive Extensions
4 3 (6.98%) RxJS
4 3 (6.98%) Spring
4 3 (6.98%) WPF
5 1 (2.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (27.91%) Private Cloud
2 6 (13.95%) Cloud Native
2 6 (13.95%) Clustering
2 6 (13.95%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (13.95%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (13.95%) PKI
3 5 (11.63%) Virtual Team
4 3 (6.98%) Credit Derivative
4 3 (6.98%) Derivative
4 3 (6.98%) Equities
4 3 (6.98%) Fixed Income
4 3 (6.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (6.98%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.65%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (25.58%) Linux
2 6 (13.95%) Unix
2 6 (13.95%) Windows
2 6 (13.95%) Windows Server
3 5 (11.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.33%) CentOS
4 1 (2.33%) CoreOS
4 1 (2.33%) Solaris
4 1 (2.33%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (39.53%) Roadmaps
2 15 (34.88%) Test Automation
3 14 (32.56%) Agile
3 14 (32.56%) Software Engineering
4 13 (30.23%) Data Architecture
5 12 (27.91%) DevOps
5 12 (27.91%) Technical Leadership
6 10 (23.26%) High Availability
7 9 (20.93%) Architectural Patterns
7 9 (20.93%) Microservices
8 8 (18.60%) RBAC
8 8 (18.60%) Zero Trust
9 7 (16.28%) API Design
9 7 (16.28%) Customer Experience
9 7 (16.28%) Customer-Centricity
9 7 (16.28%) TDD
9 7 (16.28%) Translating Business Requirements
10 6 (13.95%) Data Modelling
10 6 (13.95%) ETL
10 6 (13.95%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (39.53%) Python
2 11 (25.58%) Java
3 9 (20.93%) SQL
4 7 (16.28%) JavaScript
4 7 (16.28%) PowerShell
5 5 (11.63%) Bash
6 3 (6.98%) C#
6 3 (6.98%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (18.60%) Security Cleared
2 7 (16.28%) DV Cleared
3 6 (13.95%) Degree
4 3 (6.98%) CCNA
4 3 (6.98%) CCNP
4 3 (6.98%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.65%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (25.58%) Accessibility
2 6 (13.95%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.65%) GDPR
3 2 (4.65%) QA
4 1 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.33%) NCSC
4 1 (2.33%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (41.86%) Docker
2 6 (13.95%) Active Directory
2 6 (13.95%) BitLocker
2 6 (13.95%) HDFS
2 6 (13.95%) Hyper-V
2 6 (13.95%) Microsoft App-V
2 6 (13.95%) Terminal Services
2 6 (13.95%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (13.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (13.95%) vSphere
3 1 (2.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 34 (79.07%) Kubernetes
2 13 (30.23%) Ansible
3 7 (16.28%) Puppet
4 6 (13.95%) Nagios
4 6 (13.95%) vCenter Server
4 6 (13.95%) vMotion
5 4 (9.30%) Terraform
6 2 (4.65%) Rancher
Vendors
1 13 (30.23%) Google
2 8 (18.60%) Red Hat
3 7 (16.28%) Microsoft
3 7 (16.28%) VMware
4 6 (13.95%) Citrix
4 6 (13.95%) HP
4 6 (13.95%) Symantec
5 5 (11.63%) IBM
6 3 (6.98%) F5
7 2 (4.65%) Confluent
7 2 (4.65%) Databricks
7 2 (4.65%) Ping Identity
8 1 (2.33%) Oracle
8 1 (2.33%) Veritas