Red Hat OpenShift
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring OpenShift skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 577 618
Rank change year-on-year -15 +41 -213
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 205 96 181
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.19% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.75% 0.61% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 115 54 91
10th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £70,625 £60,938 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £78,750 £76,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.94% +2.94% -1.92%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £118,000 £127,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £58,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +37.93% -25.16% +11.60%

All Cloud Computing 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 27,496 15,721 24,718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.22% 31.70% 31.58%
Number of salaries quoted 18,563 10,634 16,033
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,250 £45,215
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend

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

OpenShift job vacancy trend in the UK

OpenShift
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OpenShift.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenShift over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

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 13 September 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
England +14 200 £85,000 +6.25% 181
UK excluding London -13 133 £80,000 +37.93% 89
London -31 65 £91,000 -22.55% 109
South West -23 56 £85,000 +21.43% 22
Work from Home -11 47 £85,000 -26.09% 340
South East -10 37 £100,000 +73.91% 30
North of England -33 28 £62,500 +66.67% 19
North West +4 24 £68,750 +83.33% 10
West Midlands -29 11 £70,000 -9.68% 4
Midlands -50 11 £70,000 +20.69% 7
North East - 3 £50,000 - 5
Yorkshire - 1 £70,000 - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 5

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 13 (6.34%) OpenStack
2 9 (4.39%) Apache
3 7 (3.41%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.46%) JBoss
5 1 (0.49%) CICS
5 1 (0.49%) Confluence
5 1 (0.49%) IIS
5 1 (0.49%) nginx
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle 10gAS
5 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 90 (43.90%) AWS
2 71 (34.63%) Azure
3 43 (20.98%) GCP
4 30 (14.63%) AWS CloudFormation
5 19 (9.27%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (6.83%) PaaS
7 13 (6.34%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (5.85%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (4.88%) Serverless
10 8 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (3.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (3.41%) Amazon ECR
11 7 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.93%) Amazon MSK
12 6 (2.93%) GitHub
12 6 (2.93%) SaaS
12 6 (2.93%) Snowflake
13 5 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (2.44%) Google Workspace
13 5 (2.44%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.27%) BGP
1 19 (9.27%) DNS
1 19 (9.27%) Network Security
1 19 (9.27%) OSPF
2 18 (8.78%) VXLAN
2 18 (8.78%) WAN
3 15 (7.32%) VPN
4 14 (6.83%) VLAN
5 13 (6.34%) Firewall
5 13 (6.34%) TCP/IP
6 10 (4.88%) LAN
7 6 (2.93%) AMQP
8 5 (2.44%) DHCP
8 5 (2.44%) VSAN
9 4 (1.95%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (1.46%) Software-Defined Networking
11 1 (0.49%) Ethernet VPN
11 1 (0.49%) MPLS
11 1 (0.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.34%) Elasticsearch
1 13 (6.34%) MySQL
1 13 (6.34%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (4.39%) InfluxDB
3 7 (3.41%) Hadoop
3 7 (3.41%) MongoDB
4 6 (2.93%) Big Data
4 6 (2.93%) Cloudera CDH
5 5 (2.44%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.95%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.46%) Pinecone
7 3 (1.46%) ZAP BI
8 2 (0.98%) Couchbase
8 2 (0.98%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.98%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.49%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.49%) Redis
9 1 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 43 (20.98%) Git
2 34 (16.59%) GitLab
3 28 (13.66%) Jenkins
4 11 (5.37%) Cypress.io
5 10 (4.88%) Selenium
6 9 (4.39%) Robot Framework
7 8 (3.90%) TestRail
8 7 (3.41%) Bitbucket
9 6 (2.93%) SonarQube
10 5 (2.44%) TeamCity
11 4 (1.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.95%) Maven
12 3 (1.46%) JUnit
12 3 (1.46%) NUnit
12 3 (1.46%) Postman
12 3 (1.46%) Snyk
12 3 (1.46%) Subversion
13 2 (0.98%) Mocha
14 1 (0.49%) Eclipse
14 1 (0.49%) ER Studio
General
1 45 (21.95%) Finance
2 40 (19.51%) Social Skills
3 16 (7.80%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.83%) Banking
5 12 (5.85%) Aerospace
6 5 (2.44%) Military
7 3 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.98%) Law
9 1 (0.49%) Advertising
9 1 (0.49%) Billing
9 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.49%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (16.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (13.17%) Senior
3 25 (12.20%) Administrator
3 25 (12.20%) Systems Administrator
4 24 (11.71%) Cloud Engineer
5 18 (8.78%) Architect
5 18 (8.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 18 (8.78%) Network Security Specialist
5 18 (8.78%) Network Specialist
5 18 (8.78%) Security Specialist
6 16 (7.80%) Software Engineer
7 15 (7.32%) Consultant
7 15 (7.32%) Developer
8 14 (6.83%) Platform Architect
9 13 (6.34%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 13 (6.34%) Senior Network Security Specialist
9 13 (6.34%) Senior Network Specialist
9 13 (6.34%) Senior Security Specialist
10 12 (5.85%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.88%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (42.44%) Terraform
2 26 (12.68%) Node.js
3 18 (8.78%) RESTful
4 17 (8.29%) Elastic Stack
5 14 (6.83%) Kafka
5 14 (6.83%) React
6 13 (6.34%) RabbitMQ
7 11 (5.37%) AngularJS
7 11 (5.37%) REST
8 10 (4.88%) Loki
8 10 (4.88%) pytest
8 10 (4.88%) Spring
8 10 (4.88%) Spring Boot
9 8 (3.90%) .NET
9 8 (3.90%) OpenAPI
9 8 (3.90%) Swagger
10 7 (3.41%) AWS CDK
11 6 (2.93%) gRPC
11 6 (2.93%) Material-UI
11 6 (2.93%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 53 (25.85%) Cloud Native
2 16 (7.80%) Data Centre
3 15 (7.32%) Social Media
4 10 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.88%) PKI
5 8 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.90%) Public Cloud
6 7 (3.41%) Private Cloud
6 7 (3.41%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.46%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (1.46%) Hackathon
10 1 (0.49%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.49%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.49%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.49%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 74 (36.10%) Linux
2 34 (16.59%) CentOS
3 29 (14.15%) Windows
4 14 (6.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (5.85%) Ubuntu
6 11 (5.37%) Windows Server
6 11 (5.37%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (2.93%) Debian
8 5 (2.44%) CoreOS
8 5 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (49.76%) Containerisation
2 99 (48.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 96 (46.83%) CI/CD
4 73 (35.61%) DevOps
5 71 (34.63%) Agile
6 37 (18.05%) Software Engineering
7 35 (17.07%) Microservices
8 34 (16.59%) Platform Engineering
9 30 (14.63%) Test Automation
10 29 (14.15%) Collaborative Culture
11 26 (12.68%) AI
11 26 (12.68%) Observability
12 24 (11.71%) Configuration Management
12 24 (11.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 24 (11.71%) ITIL
12 24 (11.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 23 (11.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (10.73%) Mentoring
14 22 (10.73%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 88 (42.93%) Python
2 54 (26.34%) Bash
3 40 (19.51%) Java
4 39 (19.02%) JavaScript
5 33 (16.10%) PowerShell
6 25 (12.20%) Go
7 12 (5.85%) SQL
8 6 (2.93%) C#
8 6 (2.93%) C++
9 5 (2.44%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.44%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.95%) Google Apps Script
11 2 (0.98%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.49%) C
12 1 (0.49%) COBOL
12 1 (0.49%) JCL
12 1 (0.49%) ProC
12 1 (0.49%) PromQL
12 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 88 (42.93%) Security Cleared
2 53 (25.85%) SC Cleared
3 32 (15.61%) DV Cleared
4 14 (6.83%) CISSP
5 13 (6.34%) CCNP
5 13 (6.34%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (4.88%) AWS Certification
7 8 (3.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (2.93%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (2.44%) Degree
9 5 (2.44%) OCP
9 5 (2.44%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (1.95%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.98%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.49%) CISM
12 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.49%) IISP
12 1 (0.49%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.88%) QA
2 5 (2.44%) NIST
3 3 (1.46%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.49%) GDPR
4 1 (0.49%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.49%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.49%) NCSC
System Software
1 70 (34.15%) Docker
2 25 (12.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (7.80%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (3.41%) Ceph
5 6 (2.93%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.93%) vSphere
6 5 (2.44%) Active Directory
7 4 (1.95%) KVM
8 1 (0.49%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 174 (84.88%) Kubernetes
2 81 (39.51%) Ansible
3 38 (18.54%) Grafana
4 27 (13.17%) Prometheus
5 23 (11.22%) Istio
6 18 (8.78%) Argo
6 18 (8.78%) Puppet
7 12 (5.85%) vCenter Server
8 11 (5.37%) FortiGate
8 11 (5.37%) Kibana
8 11 (5.37%) Nagios
9 10 (4.88%) Check_MK
10 9 (4.39%) Kustomize
11 8 (3.90%) Progress Chef
12 7 (3.41%) logstash
12 7 (3.41%) Nessus
12 7 (3.41%) Podman
13 5 (2.44%) McAfee ePO
13 5 (2.44%) SCVMM
13 5 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 78 (38.05%) Red Hat
2 27 (13.17%) VMware
3 21 (10.24%) Splunk
4 19 (9.27%) Fortinet
4 19 (9.27%) Oracle
5 18 (8.78%) Palo Alto
5 18 (8.78%) Zscaler
6 17 (8.29%) Microsoft
7 15 (7.32%) Google
8 8 (3.90%) Atlassian
9 7 (3.41%) Dell
9 7 (3.41%) Rapid7
10 6 (2.93%) Cisco
10 6 (2.93%) Confluent
10 6 (2.93%) OutSystems
10 6 (2.93%) SaltStack
11 5 (2.44%) McAfee
12 4 (1.95%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.98%) Mistral
13 2 (0.98%) OpenAI