OpenShift Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Red Hat OpenShift
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OpenShift skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 470 528
Rank change year-on-year 0 +58 -55
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 69 63 140
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.21% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.44% 0.63% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 25 24 84
10th Percentile £44,480 £42,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £59,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £74,870 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -26.27% +6.08% +12.92%
75th Percentile £63,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £74,250 £87,125 £90,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £110,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -38.64% +29.41% +6.25%

All Cloud Computing 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 15,773 10,005 18,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.76% 33.88% 35.20%
Number of salaries quoted 7,798 6,093 15,295
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -11.54%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OpenShift relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

OpenShift job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

OpenShift
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OpenShift.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

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 5 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
South East -19 21 £50,000 -32.20% 13
South West -16 16 £58,750 -14.86% 8
North of England -24 14 £57,600 -5.57% 33
North West -9 12 £60,000 +20.00% 7
East of England +16 9 - - 1
Scotland -15 6 £60,000 -19.86%
Midlands 0 5 £55,200 +10.40% 3
East Midlands -22 3 £55,200 -
West Midlands +3 2 £48,975 -2.05% 3
Yorkshire -37 1 - - 24
North East - 1 £55,200 - 2
Wales - 1 £55,200 -
OpenShift
UK

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 16 (23.19%) Apache
2 14 (20.29%) Apache Spark
3 9 (13.04%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.45%) Camunda
4 1 (1.45%) JBoss
4 1 (1.45%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (5.80%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 50 (72.46%) AWS
2 30 (43.48%) Azure
3 13 (18.84%) AWS CloudFormation
3 13 (18.84%) GCP
3 13 (18.84%) GitHub
4 11 (15.94%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (14.49%) Amazon S3
6 8 (11.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (11.59%) Azure AKS
7 7 (10.14%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (8.70%) PaaS
8 6 (8.70%) Serverless
9 5 (7.25%) Datadog
10 3 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (4.35%) H2O.ai
11 2 (2.90%) Apigee
11 2 (2.90%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (2.90%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.59%) Firewall
2 6 (8.70%) DNS
3 5 (7.25%) AMQP
4 4 (5.80%) VPN
4 4 (5.80%) VSAN
5 3 (4.35%) DHCP
5 3 (4.35%) LAN
5 3 (4.35%) TCP/IP
5 3 (4.35%) WAN
6 2 (2.90%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.45%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.29%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (13.04%) Apache Hive
2 9 (13.04%) Impala
2 9 (13.04%) Oracle Database
2 9 (13.04%) Parquet
2 9 (13.04%) Spark SQL
2 9 (13.04%) Tableau
3 6 (8.70%) SQL Server
4 5 (7.25%) Big Data
4 5 (7.25%) Cloudera CDH
4 5 (7.25%) Hadoop
5 4 (5.80%) InfluxDB
5 4 (5.80%) MySQL
5 4 (5.80%) Relational Database
6 3 (4.35%) Data Lake
6 3 (4.35%) DynamoDB
6 3 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (4.35%) Metadata
6 3 (4.35%) MongoDB
6 3 (4.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (46.38%) Git
2 28 (40.58%) GitLab
3 21 (30.43%) Jenkins
4 9 (13.04%) Cucumber
4 9 (13.04%) IBM UrbanCode
4 9 (13.04%) JUnit
5 7 (10.14%) Selenium
6 3 (4.35%) Bitbucket
6 3 (4.35%) Robot Framework
6 3 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (4.35%) TestRail
7 2 (2.90%) Ant
7 2 (2.90%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.90%) JMeter
7 2 (2.90%) Maven
7 2 (2.90%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.45%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.45%) Gradle
8 1 (1.45%) JIRA
8 1 (1.45%) Mockito
General
1 18 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 16 (23.19%) Finance
3 12 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (13.04%) Banking
4 9 (13.04%) Investment Banking
5 8 (11.59%) Aerospace
6 5 (7.25%) Legal
7 4 (5.80%) Telecoms
8 3 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (4.35%) Manufacturing
8 3 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.90%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 15 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (14.49%) Software Engineer
3 9 (13.04%) Analyst
3 9 (13.04%) Banking Analyst
3 9 (13.04%) Cloud Engineer
3 9 (13.04%) Transformation Analyst
4 6 (8.70%) AWS DevOps
4 6 (8.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 6 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) Developer
5 5 (7.25%) Senior
5 5 (7.25%) Technical Analyst
6 4 (5.80%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Business Analyst
6 4 (5.80%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Network Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Senior Developer
6 4 (5.80%) Senior Software Developer
6 4 (5.80%) Software Developer
6 4 (5.80%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.29%) Spring
1 14 (20.29%) Spring Boot
2 11 (15.94%) RabbitMQ
3 10 (14.49%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (13.04%) PySpark
5 8 (11.59%) React
6 7 (10.14%) AngularJS
6 7 (10.14%) pytest
6 7 (10.14%) REST
7 6 (8.70%) Django
7 6 (8.70%) Flask
7 6 (8.70%) Node.js
8 5 (7.25%) gRPC
8 5 (7.25%) Kafka
8 5 (7.25%) Material-UI
8 5 (7.25%) OAuth
8 5 (7.25%) OpenAPI
8 5 (7.25%) SAML
8 5 (7.25%) Swagger
9 4 (5.80%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.59%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (7.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (5.80%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.80%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.35%) Clustering
5 3 (4.35%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.90%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 29 (42.03%) Linux
2 13 (18.84%) CentOS
3 11 (15.94%) Windows
4 10 (14.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (10.14%) Ubuntu
6 6 (8.70%) Windows Server
7 5 (7.25%) Debian
7 5 (7.25%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (2.90%) Unix
10 1 (1.45%) CoreOS
10 1 (1.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (68.12%) CI/CD
2 36 (52.17%) DevOps
3 35 (50.72%) Containerisation
4 34 (49.28%) Agile
5 23 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (24.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (24.64%) Microservices
7 15 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (21.74%) Test Automation
8 14 (20.29%) Observability
8 14 (20.29%) Scrum
8 14 (20.29%) Software Engineering
9 13 (18.84%) Analytics
10 12 (17.39%) AI
10 12 (17.39%) Data Governance
10 12 (17.39%) Data Pipeline
11 11 (15.94%) TDD
12 10 (14.49%) ETL
13 9 (13.04%) Data Transformation
13 9 (13.04%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 40 (57.97%) Python
2 24 (34.78%) Java
3 17 (24.64%) Bash
4 16 (23.19%) PowerShell
5 13 (18.84%) SQL
6 11 (15.94%) JavaScript
7 8 (11.59%) Go
8 6 (8.70%) Delphi
9 2 (2.90%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.45%) Groovy
10 1 (1.45%) PHP
10 1 (1.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 14 (20.29%) DV Cleared
3 9 (13.04%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.80%) Degree
5 3 (4.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.35%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.90%) CISSP
6 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.45%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.39%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 5 (7.25%) GDPR
2 5 (7.25%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.90%) NCSC
3 2 (2.90%) NIST
4 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.45%) QA
System Software
1 23 (33.33%) Docker
2 6 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.80%) Hyper-V
4 3 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (4.35%) vSphere
5 2 (2.90%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.90%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.45%) KVM
Systems Management
1 45 (65.22%) Kubernetes
2 25 (36.23%) Terraform
3 21 (30.43%) Ansible
4 16 (23.19%) Grafana
5 6 (8.70%) Prometheus
5 6 (8.70%) Puppet
6 4 (5.80%) vCenter Server
7 3 (4.35%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (4.35%) Progress Chef
7 3 (4.35%) Rancher
7 3 (4.35%) SCVMM
8 1 (1.45%) Argo
8 1 (1.45%) Check_MK
8 1 (1.45%) Fluentd
8 1 (1.45%) Kibana
8 1 (1.45%) logstash
8 1 (1.45%) Nagios
8 1 (1.45%) Nessus
8 1 (1.45%) Podman
8 1 (1.45%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 34 (49.28%) Red Hat
2 16 (23.19%) Oracle
3 8 (11.59%) VMware
4 6 (8.70%) Google
5 5 (7.25%) Cisco
5 5 (7.25%) Dynatrace
5 5 (7.25%) SaltStack
6 4 (5.80%) Splunk
7 3 (4.35%) AppDynamics
7 3 (4.35%) Databricks
7 3 (4.35%) Dell
7 3 (4.35%) McAfee
7 3 (4.35%) Microsoft
7 3 (4.35%) NVIDIA
7 3 (4.35%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.90%) F5
8 2 (2.90%) Juniper
9 1 (1.45%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.45%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.45%) Pure Storage