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

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 524 591 433
Rank change year-on-year +67 -158 -26
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 160 313 750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.32% 0.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.06% 0.89% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 123 194 354
10th Percentile £64,500 £46,250 £50,375
25th Percentile £74,575 £60,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £80,000 £75,781
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% +5.57% -5.27%
75th Percentile £138,750 £112,500 £106,250
90th Percentile - £138,750 £144,250
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 15,077 35,358 44,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.91% 35.95% 43.04%
Number of salaries quoted 11,032 26,774 29,301
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,125 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,725 £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 30 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 30 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 +52 145 £110,000 +37.50% 111
Work from Home +232 111 £110,000 +55.86% 101
London +102 103 £110,000 +4.76% 48
UK excluding London +57 52 £74,870 +6.08% 67
South East +92 22 £57,500 -34.29% 6
Scotland +126 13 £74,870 +6.08% 6
North of England +65 10 £60,996 -13.57% 29
North West +23 9 £50,000 -24.85% 25
South West +10 3 £79,500 +24.71% 19
Midlands +62 2 £63,750 +15.91% 6
West Midlands +52 2 £63,750 +15.91% 6
East of England - 2 £77,500 -
Yorkshire +61 1 £71,991 +2.01% 4

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 83 (51.88%) Apache Spark
2 81 (50.63%) Apache
3 80 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (6.25%) nginx
5 8 (5.00%) Camunda
6 5 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.88%) IIS
7 3 (1.88%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.63%) Confluence
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 118 (73.75%) AWS
2 83 (51.88%) AWS Lambda
2 83 (51.88%) Serverless
3 81 (50.63%) Amazon ECS
4 71 (44.38%) dbt
5 28 (17.50%) GCP
6 25 (15.63%) 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 8 (5.00%) DHCP
2 8 (5.00%) DNS
3 5 (3.13%) Network Security
3 5 (3.13%) Remote Desktop
3 5 (3.13%) SMTP
4 3 (1.88%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (1.88%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.25%) NAS
5 2 (1.25%) SAN
6 1 (0.63%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.63%) 4G
6 1 (0.63%) 5G
6 1 (0.63%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.63%) HTTP
6 1 (0.63%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (50.00%) 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 15 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (8.13%) NoSQL
5 12 (7.50%) Hadoop
6 10 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (6.25%) MongoDB
7 9 (5.63%) Apache Hudi
7 9 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (5.63%) Delta Lake
8 8 (5.00%) Oracle Database
9 5 (3.13%) SQL Server
10 4 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.88%) HBase
12 2 (1.25%) Big Data
13 1 (0.63%) DB2
13 1 (0.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 84 (52.50%) Artifactory
2 20 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 10 (6.25%) Bitbucket
4 6 (3.75%) Git
5 5 (3.13%) GitLab
6 4 (2.50%) Gatling
6 4 (2.50%) JUnit
6 4 (2.50%) Mockito
6 4 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.88%) MSTest
7 3 (1.88%) NUnit
7 3 (1.88%) SpecFlow
7 3 (1.88%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.25%) JIRA
9 1 (0.63%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.63%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.63%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.63%) webpack
General
1 113 (70.63%) Finance
2 84 (52.50%) Front Office
3 26 (16.25%) Banking
4 15 (9.38%) Law
5 13 (8.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (7.50%) Public Sector
7 9 (5.63%) Social Skills
8 3 (1.88%) Back Office
8 3 (1.88%) Marketing
9 2 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
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 80 (50.00%) Data Engineer
5 78 (48.75%) Python Engineer
6 17 (10.63%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 16 (10.00%) Senior
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%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support
11 8 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 8 (5.00%) Support Engineer
12 7 (4.38%) Python Data Engineer
13 6 (3.75%) Lead
14 5 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (63.13%) Kafka
2 81 (50.63%) J2EE
3 80 (50.00%) PySpark
4 10 (6.25%) Swagger
5 9 (5.63%) PyArrow
5 9 (5.63%) React
6 8 (5.00%) KeystoneJS
6 8 (5.00%) Node.js
6 8 (5.00%) REST
7 6 (3.75%) JSON
7 6 (3.75%) RESTful
8 5 (3.13%) AngularJS
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%) CSS3
10 3 (1.88%) Reactive Extensions
10 3 (1.88%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.88%) Cloud Native
1 11 (6.88%) Hybrid Cloud
1 11 (6.88%) Tandem
2 10 (6.25%) Private Cloud
3 9 (5.63%) Public Cloud
4 8 (5.00%) Blockchain
4 8 (5.00%) e-Learning
5 6 (3.75%) Clustering
5 6 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.13%) PKI
6 5 (3.13%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.50%) Derivative
7 4 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.88%) Credit Derivative
8 3 (1.88%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.88%) Equities
8 3 (1.88%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 20 (12.50%) Linux
2 9 (5.63%) Unix
3 8 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (5.00%) Windows
3 8 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.88%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.63%) Debian
5 1 (0.63%) Solaris
5 1 (0.63%) SUSE
5 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (65.00%) Agile
1 104 (65.00%) DevOps
2 94 (58.75%) Software Engineering
3 93 (58.13%) CI/CD
4 91 (56.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 88 (55.00%) Open Source
6 82 (51.25%) Asset Management
7 80 (50.00%) Data Engineering
8 23 (14.38%) Containerisation
9 18 (11.25%) Microservices
10 17 (10.63%) Data Architecture
11 13 (8.13%) Deployment Automation
11 13 (8.13%) Platform Engineering
12 12 (7.50%) Data Science
12 12 (7.50%) SDLC
12 12 (7.50%) Test Automation
13 11 (6.88%) Customer Experience
13 11 (6.88%) Decision-Making
13 11 (6.88%) Full-Stack Development
13 11 (6.88%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 108 (67.50%) Python
2 104 (65.00%) Java
3 90 (56.25%) Go
4 19 (11.88%) SQL
5 13 (8.13%) JavaScript
6 10 (6.25%) PowerShell
7 8 (5.00%) Lua
8 7 (4.38%) Bash
9 5 (3.13%) C#
9 5 (3.13%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.63%) C++
10 1 (0.63%) COBOL
10 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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.38%) Accessibility
2 9 (5.63%) 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
1 120 (75.00%) Docker
2 9 (5.63%) HDFS
3 8 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.00%) Hyper-V
3 8 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.00%) vSphere
4 6 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (3.13%) BitLocker
5 5 (3.13%) Microsoft App-V
5 5 (3.13%) Terminal Services
5 5 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.63%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 146 (91.25%) Kubernetes
2 95 (59.38%) Terraform
3 20 (12.50%) Ansible
4 6 (3.75%) Istio
4 6 (3.75%) Puppet
5 5 (3.13%) Nagios
5 5 (3.13%) vCenter Server
5 5 (3.13%) vMotion
6 3 (1.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.88%) Rancher
6 3 (1.88%) SCCM
7 1 (0.63%) Consul
7 1 (0.63%) Grafana
7 1 (0.63%) Packer
7 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.63%) Salt
Vendors
1 29 (18.13%) Red Hat
2 14 (8.75%) Google
3 12 (7.50%) Oracle
4 10 (6.25%) IBM
4 10 (6.25%) VMware
5 9 (5.63%) Microsoft
6 8 (5.00%) Confluent
7 6 (3.75%) Cisco
7 6 (3.75%) HP
8 5 (3.13%) Citrix
8 5 (3.13%) Symantec
9 3 (1.88%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.88%) Cloudera
9 3 (1.88%) Dell
9 3 (1.88%) Ping Identity
9 3 (1.88%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.25%) Databricks
10 2 (1.25%) SAP
11 1 (0.63%) McAfee
11 1 (0.63%) Sophos