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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 549 461
Rank change year-on-year +16 -88 -45
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 43 215 316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.30% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.47% 0.91% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 21 103 125
10th Percentile - £45,000 £43,697
25th Percentile £56,250 £48,750 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,870 £70,576 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.08% +12.92% +13.64%
75th Percentile £76,840 £87,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £78,750 £89,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £110,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +37.50% +6.67% -6.25%

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 9,063 23,529 23,039
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.14% 33.14% 38.30%
Number of salaries quoted 6,197 17,440 13,815
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £86,100 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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
South East +75 18 £57,500 -22.03% 71
Scotland +122 15 £74,870 +6.08% 11
North of England +23 5 £60,996 -13.57% 71
North West -5 4 £50,000 -24.85% 47
Midlands +71 2 £63,750 +15.91% 43
West Midlands +49 2 £63,750 +15.91% 23
East of England - 2 £77,500 - 27
Yorkshire +62 1 £71,991 +2.01% 20
South West +7 1 £90,000 +41.18% 42
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 7 (16.28%) Apache
1 7 (16.28%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (16.28%) Apache Spark
2 6 (13.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.33%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 22 (51.16%) GCP
2 16 (37.21%) AWS
3 13 (30.23%) Azure
4 6 (13.95%) SaaS
5 2 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.65%) IaaS
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
6 1 (2.33%) npm
6 1 (2.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.28%) DNS
1 7 (16.28%) Network Security
2 6 (13.95%) DHCP
2 6 (13.95%) Firewall
2 6 (13.95%) Remote Desktop
2 6 (13.95%) SMTP
3 1 (2.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.60%) NoSQL
2 7 (16.28%) Apache Hudi
2 7 (16.28%) Apache Iceberg
2 7 (16.28%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (16.28%) Delta Lake
2 7 (16.28%) Hadoop
3 6 (13.95%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.65%) Big Data
5 1 (2.33%) DB2
5 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (16.28%) Bitbucket
2 5 (11.63%) Jenkins
3 4 (9.30%) GitLab
4 3 (6.98%) MSTest
4 3 (6.98%) NUnit
4 3 (6.98%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (6.98%) SpecFlow
4 3 (6.98%) TeamCity
5 2 (4.65%) Artifactory
5 2 (4.65%) Git
6 1 (2.33%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.33%) Gatling
6 1 (2.33%) JUnit
6 1 (2.33%) Mockito
6 1 (2.33%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.33%) webpack
General
1 18 (41.86%) Finance
2 15 (34.88%) Banking
3 13 (30.23%) Law
4 6 (13.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (9.30%) Social Skills
6 3 (6.98%) Front Office
7 2 (4.65%) Marketing
8 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (27.91%) Architect
2 11 (25.58%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (16.28%) Data Engineer
4 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Support
4 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 6 (13.95%) Support Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Python Data Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Python Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Senior
6 4 (9.30%) Lead
6 4 (9.30%) Lead Data Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 3 (6.98%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Technical Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Java Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.23%) Kafka
2 7 (16.28%) PyArrow
2 7 (16.28%) PySpark
3 6 (13.95%) REST
4 5 (11.63%) JSON
5 4 (9.30%) CSS
5 4 (9.30%) HTML
6 3 (6.98%) .NET
6 3 (6.98%) AngularJS
6 3 (6.98%) CSS3
6 3 (6.98%) Electron
6 3 (6.98%) Highcharts JS
6 3 (6.98%) HTML5
6 3 (6.98%) LESS
6 3 (6.98%) NgRx
6 3 (6.98%) Reactive Extensions
6 3 (6.98%) RxJS
6 3 (6.98%) Spring
6 3 (6.98%) WPF
7 2 (4.65%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.58%) Private Cloud
2 8 (18.60%) Cloud Native
3 6 (13.95%) Clustering
3 6 (13.95%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (13.95%) PKI
4 5 (11.63%) Virtual Team
5 4 (9.30%) Derivative
5 4 (9.30%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (9.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (6.98%) Credit Derivative
6 3 (6.98%) Equities
6 3 (6.98%) Fixed Income
7 2 (4.65%) Public Cloud
8 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (2.33%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.26%) Linux
2 7 (16.28%) Unix
3 6 (13.95%) Windows
3 6 (13.95%) Windows Server
4 4 (9.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.33%) Solaris
5 1 (2.33%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.88%) Data Architecture
2 14 (32.56%) Agile
2 14 (32.56%) Software Engineering
3 13 (30.23%) Roadmaps
4 11 (25.58%) Microservices
4 11 (25.58%) Technical Leadership
4 11 (25.58%) Test Automation
5 10 (23.26%) Architectural Patterns
5 10 (23.26%) Customer Experience
5 10 (23.26%) DevOps
5 10 (23.26%) RBAC
6 9 (20.93%) Zero Trust
7 8 (18.60%) API Design
7 8 (18.60%) Containerisation
7 8 (18.60%) High Availability
7 8 (18.60%) Translating Business Requirements
8 7 (16.28%) Collaborative Working
8 7 (16.28%) Data Engineering
8 7 (16.28%) Data Governance
8 7 (16.28%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 16 (37.21%) Python
2 11 (25.58%) Java
3 10 (23.26%) SQL
4 7 (16.28%) PowerShell
5 6 (13.95%) JavaScript
6 4 (9.30%) Bash
6 4 (9.30%) C#
6 4 (9.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (23.26%) Security Cleared
2 7 (16.28%) DV Cleared
3 6 (13.95%) Degree
4 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.65%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.33%) CCNA
5 1 (2.33%) CCNP
5 1 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (30.23%) Accessibility
2 7 (16.28%) 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 19 (44.19%) Docker
2 7 (16.28%) HDFS
3 6 (13.95%) Active Directory
3 6 (13.95%) BitLocker
3 6 (13.95%) Hyper-V
3 6 (13.95%) Microsoft App-V
3 6 (13.95%) Terminal Services
3 6 (13.95%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (13.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (13.95%) vSphere
4 1 (2.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 36 (83.72%) Kubernetes
2 12 (27.91%) Ansible
3 6 (13.95%) Nagios
3 6 (13.95%) Puppet
3 6 (13.95%) vCenter Server
3 6 (13.95%) vMotion
4 2 (4.65%) Rancher
4 2 (4.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (32.56%) 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 3 (6.98%) IBM
6 2 (4.65%) Confluent
6 2 (4.65%) Databricks
6 2 (4.65%) Ping Identity
7 1 (2.33%) F5
7 1 (2.33%) Oracle
7 1 (2.33%) Veritas