Red Hat OpenShift
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for OpenShift skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited OpenShift over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 327 448 413
Rank change year-on-year +121 -35 +79
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 498 864 1,023
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.94% 0.70% 0.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.20% 1.64% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 239 318 358
10th Percentile £52,250 £52,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £65,950 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £78,750 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +10.14% +1.42%
75th Percentile £112,500 £105,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £143,750 £136,250 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.58% +18.18% +4.76%

All Cloud Skills
UK

OpenShift is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 22,612 52,646 59,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 42.68% 42.86% 46.76%
Number of salaries quoted 17,789 35,410 42,532
10th Percentile £32,750 £34,750 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +5.00%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OpenShift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in the UK

OpenShift
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for OpenShift in the UK

OpenShift
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenShift over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for OpenShift in the UK

OpenShift
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the UK over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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
England +75 408 £90,000 +12.50% 44
UK excluding London +110 281 £70,576 +8.58% 30
Work from Home +128 254 £71,288 -1.67% 53
London +118 182 £100,000 +8.50% 27
South West +77 109 £75,000 +15.38% 8
North of England +126 81 £62,500 -10.71% 3
North West +134 54 £61,000 -23.75% 1
Scotland +66 34 £70,576 +18.56% 8
Yorkshire +71 26 £70,576 +0.82% 2
Northern Ireland +47 16 £70,000 -17.65%
South East +46 16 £77,500 +10.71% 8
Midlands +114 13 £62,500 -10.71% 1
Wales +8 11 £70,576 +41.15%
East Midlands +41 9 - -
West Midlands +121 4 £62,500 - 1
East of England +52 1 - - 2
North East +43 1 £65,000 -

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 27 (5.42%) Confluence
2 18 (3.61%) Apache
3 17 (3.41%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.41%) Jupyter
4 12 (2.41%) nginx
5 3 (0.60%) JBoss
6 2 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.40%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.40%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.40%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 364 (73.09%) AWS
2 203 (40.76%) Azure
3 162 (32.53%) GCP
4 130 (26.10%) Serverless
5 45 (9.04%) GitHub
6 40 (8.03%) AWS CloudFormation
7 38 (7.63%) SaaS
8 34 (6.83%) GitHub Actions
9 31 (6.22%) Azure DevOps
10 27 (5.42%) Amazon S3
11 26 (5.22%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (4.42%) Amazon EKS
13 21 (4.22%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (3.01%) MinIO
15 14 (2.81%) Amazon ECS
16 12 (2.41%) Amazon SQS
17 9 (1.81%) PaaS
18 8 (1.61%) Apigee
19 4 (0.80%) IaaS
19 4 (0.80%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 77 (15.46%) TCP/IP
2 75 (15.06%) DNS
3 74 (14.86%) DHCP
3 74 (14.86%) HTTP
4 14 (2.81%) SSL
5 13 (2.61%) IPv4
6 10 (2.01%) OSPF
6 10 (2.01%) VLAN
6 10 (2.01%) VPN
7 9 (1.81%) Firewall
8 6 (1.20%) AMQP
9 2 (0.40%) Network Security
10 1 (0.20%) BIG-IP
10 1 (0.20%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (0.20%) LAN
10 1 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.20%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.20%) SSH
10 1 (0.20%) WAN
10 1 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (9.84%) Big Data
2 45 (9.04%) Elasticsearch
3 40 (8.03%) MongoDB
4 22 (4.42%) Hadoop
5 15 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (2.61%) Apache Cassandra
7 11 (2.21%) Presto
8 8 (1.61%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.00%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (1.00%) InfluxDB
10 4 (0.80%) ArangoDB
10 4 (0.80%) SQL Server
11 3 (0.60%) MySQL
11 3 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.60%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.40%) Flink
12 2 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.40%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 153 (30.72%) Jenkins
2 60 (12.05%) Artifactory
3 59 (11.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 46 (9.24%) Bitbucket
5 45 (9.04%) Git
6 40 (8.03%) GitLab
6 40 (8.03%) Selenium
7 39 (7.83%) Cypress.io
8 38 (7.63%) Cucumber
9 33 (6.63%) JIRA
10 20 (4.02%) Maven
11 12 (2.41%) Gradle
12 11 (2.21%) IBM UrbanCode
13 10 (2.01%) CircleCI
13 10 (2.01%) Travis CI
14 9 (1.81%) Liquibase
15 5 (1.00%) Robot Framework
16 4 (0.80%) SonarQube
16 4 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
16 4 (0.80%) Subversion
General
1 146 (29.32%) Finance
2 77 (15.46%) Front Office
3 65 (13.05%) Aerospace
4 64 (12.85%) Banking
5 56 (11.24%) Social Skills
6 46 (9.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 41 (8.23%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.41%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.20%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.20%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.80%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.60%) Retail
13 2 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.40%) Electronics
13 2 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.40%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.20%) Legal
Job Titles
1 152 (30.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 149 (29.92%) Senior
3 139 (27.91%) Software Engineer
4 91 (18.27%) Senior Software Engineer
5 74 (14.86%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 68 (13.65%) AWS Engineer
6 68 (13.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 55 (11.04%) AWS DevOps
8 54 (10.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 52 (10.44%) Lead
10 48 (9.64%) Architect
11 37 (7.43%) Developer
11 37 (7.43%) Solutions Architect
12 35 (7.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 30 (6.02%) Java Developer
14 29 (5.82%) Java Engineer
15 26 (5.22%) Senior DevOps
16 25 (5.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 24 (4.82%) Data Engineer
18 21 (4.22%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (15.06%) Kafka
2 41 (8.23%) React
3 23 (4.62%) Elastic Stack
4 21 (4.22%) REST
5 20 (4.02%) Apache NiFi
6 19 (3.82%) Spring
7 18 (3.61%) RabbitMQ
8 15 (3.01%) HTML
9 14 (2.81%) Middleware
9 14 (2.81%) OAuth
10 13 (2.61%) AngularJS
10 13 (2.61%) J2EE
10 13 (2.61%) LDAP
10 13 (2.61%) Spring Boot
10 13 (2.61%) YAML
11 12 (2.41%) RESTful
12 11 (2.21%) ActiveMQ
13 9 (1.81%) .NET
13 9 (1.81%) OAuth2
13 9 (1.81%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 66 (13.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 36 (7.23%) Public Cloud
3 28 (5.62%) Product Ownership
4 26 (5.22%) Derivative
5 20 (4.02%) Cloud Native
6 13 (2.61%) Algorithms
6 13 (2.61%) Cyberattack
7 12 (2.41%) Tandem
8 11 (2.21%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (1.81%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.60%) Clustering
12 3 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.40%) Blog
13 2 (0.40%) Hedge funds
13 2 (0.40%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 301 (60.44%) Linux
2 99 (19.88%) Windows
3 90 (18.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 52 (10.44%) Unix
5 13 (2.61%) CentOS
6 8 (1.61%) Solaris
6 8 (1.61%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.41%) Windows Server
8 6 (1.20%) CoreOS
8 6 (1.20%) Debian
9 4 (0.80%) Android
9 4 (0.80%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (58.63%) DevOps
2 259 (52.01%) CI/CD
3 243 (48.80%) Agile
4 210 (42.17%) Software Engineering
5 183 (36.75%) Microservices
6 157 (31.53%) Configuration Management
7 134 (26.91%) Actionable Insight
8 129 (25.90%) Containerisation
9 105 (21.08%) Collaborative Culture
10 103 (20.68%) Design Patterns
11 102 (20.48%) Loose Coupling
12 87 (17.47%) Infrastructure as Code
13 81 (16.27%) Deployment Automation
14 73 (14.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 58 (11.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 54 (10.84%) Mentoring
16 54 (10.84%) Security Architecture
17 45 (9.04%) Collaborative Working
17 45 (9.04%) Technical Architecture
18 43 (8.63%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 381 (76.51%) Python
2 377 (75.70%) Java
3 150 (30.12%) Bash
4 107 (21.49%) PowerShell
5 66 (13.25%) JavaScript
5 66 (13.25%) SQL
6 62 (12.45%) Go
7 35 (7.03%) C++
8 31 (6.22%) Shell Script
9 26 (5.22%) TypeScript
10 23 (4.62%) Groovy
11 14 (2.81%) C#
12 13 (2.61%) R
13 8 (1.61%) Ruby
14 5 (1.00%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.40%) Clojure
15 2 (0.40%) F#
15 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.40%) Scala
16 1 (0.20%) C
Qualifications
1 186 (37.35%) Security Cleared
2 135 (27.11%) DV Cleared
3 34 (6.83%) SC Cleared
4 22 (4.42%) Degree
5 16 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.01%) RHCE
7 9 (1.81%) GIAC
8 4 (0.80%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.60%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.60%) OCP
9 3 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.41%) QA
2 2 (0.40%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 368 (73.90%) Docker
2 85 (17.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 76 (15.26%) Hyper-V
4 12 (2.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 5 (1.00%) Ceph
6 4 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.60%) KVM
8 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
8 1 (0.20%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.20%) Gluster
8 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.20%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 349 (70.08%) Kubernetes
2 215 (43.17%) Ansible
3 156 (31.33%) Terraform
4 114 (22.89%) Puppet
5 41 (8.23%) Rancher
6 34 (6.83%) Argo
7 31 (6.22%) Grafana
8 23 (4.62%) Prometheus
9 22 (4.42%) Progress Chef
10 12 (2.41%) Kibana
11 11 (2.21%) HAProxy
12 9 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (1.41%) Nagios
14 6 (1.20%) Packer
15 4 (0.80%) Istio
15 4 (0.80%) vCenter Server
16 3 (0.60%) HP Quality Center
16 3 (0.60%) logstash
16 3 (0.60%) vRealize
17 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 118 (23.69%) Red Hat
2 99 (19.88%) VMware
3 29 (5.82%) Google
4 22 (4.42%) Splunk
5 15 (3.01%) Oracle
6 12 (2.41%) Atlassian
6 12 (2.41%) IBM
7 9 (1.81%) CyberArk
8 8 (1.61%) TOWER Software
9 5 (1.00%) Microsoft
9 5 (1.00%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.60%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.40%) Ab Initio
11 2 (0.40%) Cisco
11 2 (0.40%) ESRI
11 2 (0.40%) F5
11 2 (0.40%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.40%) New Relic
11 2 (0.40%) Solace
11 2 (0.40%) TIBCO