OpenShift Jobs

Red Hat OpenShift
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 583 409
Rank change year-on-year +76 -174 -29
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 163 277 858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.30% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.07% 0.81% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 126 182 378
10th Percentile £68,750 £47,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £76,369 £68,718 £58,802
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% - -3.03%
75th Percentile £138,750 £112,500 £112,500
90th Percentile - £138,750 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,870 £70,576 £62,500
% change year-on-year +6.08% +12.92% +8.70%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,187 34,285 47,367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.05% 37.00% 42.82%
Number of salaries quoted 11,020 26,368 31,059
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 2 April 2025.

Salary histogram for OpenShift in the UK

OpenShift
Top 13 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 2 April 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
England +59 151 £110,000 +31.34% 168
Work from Home +200 115 £110,000 +55.86% 105
London +89 112 £110,000 +4.76% 106
UK excluding London +64 50 £74,870 +6.08% 73
South East +112 21 - - 20
Scotland +118 11 £74,870 +6.08% 10
North of England +73 10 £60,996 -13.57% 10
North West +31 9 £50,000 -24.85% 7
South West -2 5 £69,000 +20.00% 23
East of England - 2 £77,500 - 2
Midlands +62 1 £50,000 -20.00% 8
Yorkshire +62 1 £71,991 +2.01%
West Midlands +30 1 £50,000 -20.00% 6

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 87 (53.37%) Apache
1 87 (53.37%) Apache Spark
2 84 (51.53%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (7.36%) nginx
4 8 (4.91%) Camunda
5 3 (1.84%) Confluence
5 3 (1.84%) IIS
5 3 (1.84%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 110 (67.48%) AWS
2 87 (53.37%) Amazon ECS
2 87 (53.37%) AWS Lambda
2 87 (53.37%) Serverless
3 71 (43.56%) dbt
4 17 (10.43%) GCP
5 16 (9.82%) Amazon EC2
5 16 (9.82%) Amazon S3
5 16 (9.82%) Amazon SQS
5 16 (9.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (6.75%) Azure
7 8 (4.91%) IBM Cloud
8 6 (3.68%) SaaS
9 4 (2.45%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (2.45%) Amazon MSK
10 3 (1.84%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.23%) Snowflake
12 1 (0.61%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.61%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.68%) Firewall
2 3 (1.84%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (1.84%) DHCP
2 3 (1.84%) DNS
2 3 (1.84%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.61%) IPv4
3 1 (0.61%) OSPF
3 1 (0.61%) VLAN
3 1 (0.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (51.53%) Apache Iceberg
2 71 (43.56%) Amazon Athena
2 71 (43.56%) Apache Arrow
2 71 (43.56%) Apache Ignite
2 71 (43.56%) Dremio
3 17 (10.43%) NoSQL
4 16 (9.82%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (9.82%) Amazon Redshift
4 16 (9.82%) Hadoop
5 13 (7.98%) Apache Hudi
5 13 (7.98%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (7.98%) Delta Lake
6 9 (5.52%) MongoDB
7 8 (4.91%) Oracle Database
8 4 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.84%) HBase
9 3 (1.84%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.23%) Big Data
11 1 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 90 (55.21%) Artifactory
2 23 (14.11%) Jenkins
3 16 (9.82%) Bitbucket
4 8 (4.91%) Git
5 4 (2.45%) Gatling
5 4 (2.45%) JUnit
5 4 (2.45%) Mockito
5 4 (2.45%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.84%) GitLab
6 3 (1.84%) JIRA
6 3 (1.84%) MSTest
6 3 (1.84%) NUnit
6 3 (1.84%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.84%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.61%) webpack
General
1 121 (74.23%) Finance
2 90 (55.21%) Front Office
3 21 (12.88%) Banking
4 19 (11.66%) Law
5 11 (6.75%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.29%) Social Skills
8 3 (1.84%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.84%) Back Office
8 3 (1.84%) Marketing
9 2 (1.23%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.61%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 99 (60.74%) AWS Engineer
2 95 (58.28%) DevOps Engineer
3 91 (55.83%) AWS DevOps
3 91 (55.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 84 (51.53%) Data Engineer
5 82 (50.31%) Python Engineer
6 25 (15.34%) Senior
7 20 (12.27%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 16 (9.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 11 (6.75%) Python Data Engineer
10 10 (6.13%) Architect
10 10 (6.13%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (6.13%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (5.52%) Lead
12 8 (4.91%) Cisco Engineer
12 8 (4.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 8 (4.91%) Senior Cisco Engineer
12 8 (4.91%) Virtualisation Engineer
13 7 (4.29%) Senior Data Engineer
14 4 (2.45%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (61.96%) Kafka
2 87 (53.37%) J2EE
3 84 (51.53%) PySpark
4 13 (7.98%) PyArrow
5 9 (5.52%) React
5 9 (5.52%) Swagger
6 8 (4.91%) KeystoneJS
6 8 (4.91%) Node.js
7 6 (3.68%) REST
8 5 (3.07%) JSON
8 5 (3.07%) RESTful
9 4 (2.45%) AngularJS
9 4 (2.45%) CSS
9 4 (2.45%) HTML
9 4 (2.45%) Java SE
9 4 (2.45%) Spring
10 3 (1.84%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (1.84%) Electron
10 3 (1.84%) NgRx
10 3 (1.84%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.82%) Tandem
2 10 (6.13%) Private Cloud
3 9 (5.52%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.91%) Blockchain
4 8 (4.91%) e-Learning
4 8 (4.91%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.07%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.07%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.07%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.45%) Derivative
6 4 (2.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.84%) Credit Derivative
7 3 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.84%) Equities
7 3 (1.84%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.61%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.59%) Linux
2 13 (7.98%) Unix
3 7 (4.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.45%) Windows
5 3 (1.84%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.61%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (65.03%) Agile
2 104 (63.80%) DevOps
3 99 (60.74%) CI/CD
4 96 (58.90%) Software Engineering
5 91 (55.83%) Open Source
5 91 (55.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 87 (53.37%) Asset Management
7 84 (51.53%) Data Engineering
8 25 (15.34%) Containerisation
9 21 (12.88%) Data Architecture
10 19 (11.66%) Decision-Making
10 19 (11.66%) Deployment Automation
11 16 (9.82%) Data Science
11 16 (9.82%) Financial Modelling
11 16 (9.82%) Microservices
12 13 (7.98%) Collaborative Working
12 13 (7.98%) Data Governance
12 13 (7.98%) Data Modelling
12 13 (7.98%) ETL
12 13 (7.98%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 117 (71.78%) Python
2 104 (63.80%) Java
3 92 (56.44%) Go
4 20 (12.27%) SQL
5 13 (7.98%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.91%) Bash
6 8 (4.91%) Lua
6 8 (4.91%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.45%) C#
7 4 (2.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (11.04%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.52%) Degree
3 6 (3.68%) DV Cleared
3 6 (3.68%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.45%) CCIE
4 4 (2.45%) CCIE Data Center
4 4 (2.45%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (2.45%) RHCA
4 4 (2.45%) VCDX
5 3 (1.84%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.66%) Accessibility
2 13 (7.98%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.23%) GDPR
3 2 (1.23%) QA
System Software
1 114 (69.94%) Docker
2 13 (7.98%) HDFS
3 10 (6.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (6.13%) vSphere
4 4 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.84%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.84%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.61%) Lustre
6 1 (0.61%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 150 (92.02%) Kubernetes
2 105 (64.42%) Terraform
3 22 (13.50%) Ansible
4 4 (2.45%) Istio
5 3 (1.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.84%) Rancher
5 3 (1.84%) SCCM
6 1 (0.61%) Grafana
6 1 (0.61%) Karpenter
6 1 (0.61%) Podman
6 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (23.93%) Red Hat
2 13 (7.98%) Cisco
3 11 (6.75%) VMware
4 9 (5.52%) Google
5 8 (4.91%) IBM
5 8 (4.91%) Oracle
6 6 (3.68%) Confluent
7 3 (1.84%) CheckPoint
7 3 (1.84%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.84%) Dell
7 3 (1.84%) McAfee
7 3 (1.84%) Microsoft
7 3 (1.84%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.84%) Sophos
8 2 (1.23%) Databricks
9 1 (0.61%) Intel
9 1 (0.61%) Veritas