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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 527 606 429
Rank change year-on-year +79 -177 -38
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 160 307 763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.31% 0.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.06% 0.87% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 124 189 347
10th Percentile £67,800 £47,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £75,037 £62,500 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £80,000 £77,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% +3.90% -3.75%
75th Percentile £138,750 £112,500 £106,250
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% +13.64%

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 15,150 35,329 45,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.36% 35.99% 43.16%
Number of salaries quoted 11,082 26,785 29,604
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,644 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.21% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £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 26 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 26 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 +55 147 £110,000 +37.50% 158
Work from Home +214 111 £110,000 +55.86% 121
London +118 104 £110,000 +4.76% 87
UK excluding London +64 52 £74,870 +6.08% 88
South East +90 22 £57,500 -34.29% 11
Scotland +132 12 £74,870 +6.08% 9
North of England +59 10 £60,996 -13.57% 24
North West +22 9 £50,000 -24.85% 21
South West +12 4 £69,000 +10.40% 29
Midlands +73 2 £63,750 +15.91% 9
West Midlands +69 2 £63,750 +15.91% 9
East of England - 2 £77,500 -
Yorkshire +63 1 £71,991 +2.01% 1

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 84 (52.50%) Apache Spark
2 83 (51.88%) Apache
3 81 (50.63%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (6.88%) nginx
5 8 (5.00%) Camunda
6 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.88%) IIS
7 3 (1.88%) SharePoint
8 2 (1.25%) Confluence
9 1 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 115 (71.88%) AWS
2 83 (51.88%) AWS Lambda
2 83 (51.88%) Serverless
3 81 (50.63%) Amazon ECS
4 71 (44.38%) dbt
5 26 (16.25%) GCP
6 22 (13.75%) Azure
7 12 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (6.88%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (6.88%) Amazon S3
8 11 (6.88%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (5.00%) IBM Cloud
9 8 (5.00%) SaaS
10 6 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (3.75%) Amazon MSK
11 3 (1.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (1.88%) IaaS
11 3 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (1.25%) PaaS
12 2 (1.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.63%) Firewall
2 7 (4.38%) DHCP
2 7 (4.38%) DNS
3 4 (2.50%) Network Security
3 4 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
3 4 (2.50%) SMTP
4 3 (1.88%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (1.88%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.25%) NAS
5 2 (1.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (50.63%) Apache Iceberg
2 71 (44.38%) Amazon Athena
2 71 (44.38%) Apache Arrow
2 71 (44.38%) Apache Ignite
2 71 (44.38%) Dremio
3 14 (8.75%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (8.75%) NoSQL
4 13 (8.13%) Hadoop
5 10 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (6.25%) Apache Hudi
5 10 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (6.25%) Delta Lake
5 10 (6.25%) MongoDB
6 8 (5.00%) Oracle Database
7 5 (3.13%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.88%) HBase
10 2 (1.25%) Big Data
11 1 (0.63%) DB2
11 1 (0.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 84 (52.50%) Artifactory
2 19 (11.88%) Jenkins
3 12 (7.50%) Bitbucket
4 7 (4.38%) Git
5 4 (2.50%) Gatling
5 4 (2.50%) GitLab
5 4 (2.50%) JUnit
5 4 (2.50%) Mockito
5 4 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.88%) JIRA
6 3 (1.88%) MSTest
6 3 (1.88%) NUnit
6 3 (1.88%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.88%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.63%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.63%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.63%) webpack
General
1 113 (70.63%) Finance
2 84 (52.50%) Front Office
3 25 (15.63%) Banking
4 16 (10.00%) Law
5 12 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (7.50%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.63%) Social Skills
7 3 (1.88%) Back Office
7 3 (1.88%) Marketing
8 2 (1.25%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 95 (59.38%) AWS Engineer
2 90 (56.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 87 (54.38%) AWS DevOps
3 87 (54.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 81 (50.63%) Data Engineer
5 79 (49.38%) Python Engineer
6 18 (11.25%) Senior
7 16 (10.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 12 (7.50%) Architect
8 12 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (6.88%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 8 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (5.00%) Python Data Engineer
12 7 (4.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (4.38%) Infrastructure Support
12 7 (4.38%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 7 (4.38%) Lead
12 7 (4.38%) Support Engineer
13 5 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (63.75%) Kafka
2 81 (50.63%) J2EE
2 81 (50.63%) PySpark
3 10 (6.25%) PyArrow
4 9 (5.63%) React
4 9 (5.63%) Swagger
5 8 (5.00%) KeystoneJS
5 8 (5.00%) Node.js
6 7 (4.38%) REST
7 6 (3.75%) JSON
8 5 (3.13%) AngularJS
8 5 (3.13%) RESTful
9 4 (2.50%) CSS
9 4 (2.50%) HTML
9 4 (2.50%) Java SE
9 4 (2.50%) Spring
10 3 (1.88%) .NET
10 3 (1.88%) Highcharts JS
10 3 (1.88%) LESS
10 3 (1.88%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.88%) Hybrid Cloud
1 11 (6.88%) Tandem
2 10 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.25%) Private Cloud
3 8 (5.00%) Blockchain
3 8 (5.00%) e-Learning
3 8 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.13%) Clustering
4 5 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.13%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.50%) Derivative
5 4 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.50%) PKI
6 3 (1.88%) Credit Derivative
6 3 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.88%) Equities
6 3 (1.88%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 19 (11.88%) Linux
2 10 (6.25%) Unix
3 9 (5.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (4.38%) Windows
4 7 (4.38%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.25%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.63%) Solaris
6 1 (0.63%) SUSE
6 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (65.63%) Agile
2 104 (65.00%) DevOps
3 93 (58.13%) CI/CD
3 93 (58.13%) Software Engineering
4 91 (56.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 88 (55.00%) Open Source
6 82 (51.25%) Asset Management
7 81 (50.63%) Data Engineering
8 24 (15.00%) Containerisation
9 18 (11.25%) Data Architecture
10 17 (10.63%) Microservices
11 13 (8.13%) Data Science
11 13 (8.13%) Deployment Automation
11 13 (8.13%) Platform Engineering
12 12 (7.50%) Decision-Making
12 12 (7.50%) Mentoring
12 12 (7.50%) SDLC
13 11 (6.88%) Customer Experience
13 11 (6.88%) Technical Leadership
13 11 (6.88%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 110 (68.75%) Python
2 102 (63.75%) Java
3 89 (55.63%) Go
4 19 (11.88%) SQL
5 13 (8.13%) JavaScript
6 9 (5.63%) PowerShell
7 8 (5.00%) Bash
7 8 (5.00%) Lua
8 5 (3.13%) C#
8 5 (3.13%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.63%) COBOL
9 1 (0.63%) Perl
Qualifications
1 24 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 9 (5.63%) Degree
4 7 (4.38%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.25%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.25%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.63%) CCIE
6 1 (0.63%) CCIE Data Center
6 1 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.63%) RHCA
6 1 (0.63%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 10 (6.25%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.25%) GDPR
3 2 (1.25%) QA
4 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.63%) ISO 15022
4 1 (0.63%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.63%) NCSC
4 1 (0.63%) NIST
System Software
1 118 (73.75%) Docker
2 10 (6.25%) HDFS
3 8 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.00%) vSphere
4 7 (4.38%) Active Directory
4 7 (4.38%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (2.50%) BitLocker
6 4 (2.50%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (2.50%) Terminal Services
6 4 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.63%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 146 (91.25%) Kubernetes
2 96 (60.00%) Terraform
3 21 (13.13%) Ansible
4 6 (3.75%) Istio
5 5 (3.13%) Puppet
6 4 (2.50%) Nagios
6 4 (2.50%) vCenter Server
6 4 (2.50%) vMotion
7 3 (1.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.88%) Rancher
7 3 (1.88%) SCCM
8 1 (0.63%) Consul
8 1 (0.63%) Grafana
8 1 (0.63%) Packer
8 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.63%) Salt
Vendors
1 32 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 13 (8.13%) Google
3 12 (7.50%) Oracle
4 10 (6.25%) IBM
4 10 (6.25%) VMware
5 8 (5.00%) Confluent
5 8 (5.00%) Microsoft
6 7 (4.38%) Cisco
7 5 (3.13%) HP
8 4 (2.50%) Citrix
8 4 (2.50%) Symantec
9 3 (1.88%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.88%) Cloudera
9 3 (1.88%) Dell
9 3 (1.88%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.25%) Databricks
10 2 (1.25%) McAfee
10 2 (1.25%) Ping Identity
10 2 (1.25%) SAP
10 2 (1.25%) Sophos