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 6 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 545 530 423
Rank change year-on-year -15 -107 +3
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 188 329 856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.40% 0.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.09% 1.06% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 140 189 379
10th Percentile £68,725 £47,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £72,899 £68,718 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% +6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £138,750 £112,500 £113,750
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% +4.17%

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 17,254 31,168 48,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.55% 38.10% 43.27%
Number of salaries quoted 10,944 24,484 31,659
10th Percentile £32,750 £30,778 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,213 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.93% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £96,539 £101,668
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 6 March 2025.

Salary histogram for OpenShift in the UK

OpenShift
Top 14 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 6 March 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 -6 175 £110,000 +29.41% 115
Work from Home +140 122 £110,000 +55.86% 131
London +59 122 £110,000 +4.76% 26
UK excluding London -14 65 £74,870 +6.08% 102
South East +66 23 £73,750 -32.95% 22
South West -23 14 £69,000 +31.43% 23
Scotland +61 12 £74,870 +6.08% 5
North of England +19 11 £60,996 -13.57% 21
North West +7 10 £50,000 -24.85% 10
Midlands +18 4 £50,000 -28.57% 15
West Midlands +16 3 £50,000 -28.57% 8
Yorkshire +44 1 £71,991 +2.01% 7
East Midlands +37 1 - - 6
East of England +28 1 £77,500 - 13

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 90 (47.87%) Apache
2 89 (47.34%) Apache Spark
3 84 (44.68%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (7.45%) nginx
5 8 (4.26%) Camunda
6 5 (2.66%) Confluence
7 3 (1.60%) IIS
7 3 (1.60%) SharePoint
8 2 (1.06%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.53%) JBoss
9 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 119 (63.30%) AWS
2 87 (46.28%) Amazon ECS
2 87 (46.28%) AWS Lambda
2 87 (46.28%) Serverless
3 71 (37.77%) dbt
4 20 (10.64%) AWS CloudFormation
4 20 (10.64%) Azure
5 18 (9.57%) Amazon S3
6 16 (8.51%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (8.51%) Amazon SQS
6 16 (8.51%) GCP
7 8 (4.26%) IBM Cloud
7 8 (4.26%) SaaS
8 5 (2.66%) IaaS
9 4 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.13%) PaaS
10 3 (1.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (1.60%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.60%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.19%) Firewall
2 3 (1.60%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (1.60%) DHCP
2 3 (1.60%) DNS
2 3 (1.60%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.53%) IPv4
3 1 (0.53%) OSPF
3 1 (0.53%) VLAN
3 1 (0.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (44.68%) Apache Iceberg
2 71 (37.77%) Amazon Athena
2 71 (37.77%) Apache Arrow
2 71 (37.77%) Apache Ignite
2 71 (37.77%) Dremio
3 22 (11.70%) Hadoop
4 17 (9.04%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (9.04%) NoSQL
5 16 (8.51%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (7.45%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (6.91%) Apache Hudi
7 13 (6.91%) Delta Lake
8 12 (6.38%) MongoDB
9 9 (4.79%) Oracle Database
10 8 (4.26%) Big Data
11 5 (2.66%) SQL Server
12 4 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.60%) HBase
14 2 (1.06%) Presto
14 2 (1.06%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 91 (48.40%) Artifactory
2 30 (15.96%) Jenkins
3 16 (8.51%) Bitbucket
4 9 (4.79%) Git
5 6 (3.19%) JIRA
6 4 (2.13%) Gatling
6 4 (2.13%) GitLab
6 4 (2.13%) JUnit
6 4 (2.13%) Mockito
6 4 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.60%) MSTest
7 3 (1.60%) NUnit
7 3 (1.60%) SpecFlow
7 3 (1.60%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.53%) Ant
9 1 (0.53%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.53%) Maven
9 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.53%) webpack
General
1 127 (67.55%) Finance
2 90 (47.87%) Front Office
3 19 (10.11%) Banking
3 19 (10.11%) Law
4 15 (7.98%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.32%) Social Skills
6 8 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.66%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.60%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.60%) Back Office
8 3 (1.60%) Marketing
9 2 (1.06%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Legal
10 1 (0.53%) Retail
10 1 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 97 (51.60%) DevOps Engineer
2 96 (51.06%) AWS Engineer
3 88 (46.81%) AWS DevOps
3 88 (46.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 86 (45.74%) Data Engineer
5 82 (43.62%) Python Engineer
6 36 (19.15%) Senior
7 16 (8.51%) Cisco Engineer
7 16 (8.51%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 16 (8.51%) Senior Cisco Engineer
7 16 (8.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 16 (8.51%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 11 (5.85%) Architect
8 11 (5.85%) Python Data Engineer
9 10 (5.32%) Lead
9 10 (5.32%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (4.79%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (4.26%) Software Engineer
12 7 (3.72%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (52.13%) Kafka
2 87 (46.28%) J2EE
3 84 (44.68%) PySpark
4 14 (7.45%) React
5 13 (6.91%) PyArrow
6 9 (4.79%) Apache NiFi
6 9 (4.79%) Swagger
7 8 (4.26%) AngularJS
7 8 (4.26%) KeystoneJS
7 8 (4.26%) Node.js
8 7 (3.72%) REST
9 6 (3.19%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (2.66%) JSON
10 5 (2.66%) RESTful
10 5 (2.66%) Spring
11 4 (2.13%) CSS
11 4 (2.13%) HTML
11 4 (2.13%) Java SE
12 3 (1.60%) .NET
12 3 (1.60%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.51%) Tandem
2 11 (5.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (5.32%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.32%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.32%) Private Cloud
4 8 (4.26%) Blockchain
4 8 (4.26%) e-Learning
4 8 (4.26%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.66%) Derivative
5 5 (2.66%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.60%) Credit Derivative
7 3 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.60%) Equities
7 3 (1.60%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.06%) IoT
8 2 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.06%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.70%) Linux
2 14 (7.45%) Unix
3 8 (4.26%) Windows
4 7 (3.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.13%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.53%) CentOS
6 1 (0.53%) Solaris
6 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (60.64%) Agile
2 110 (58.51%) CI/CD
3 109 (57.98%) DevOps
4 103 (54.79%) Software Engineering
5 89 (47.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 88 (46.81%) Open Source
7 87 (46.28%) Asset Management
8 86 (45.74%) Data Engineering
9 34 (18.09%) Containerisation
10 21 (11.17%) Data Architecture
10 21 (11.17%) Mentoring
11 20 (10.64%) Microservices
12 19 (10.11%) Decision-Making
12 19 (10.11%) Deployment Automation
13 17 (9.04%) Data Science
13 17 (9.04%) Technical Leadership
14 16 (8.51%) Financial Modelling
15 15 (7.98%) Problem-Solving
16 13 (6.91%) Collaborative Working
16 13 (6.91%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 125 (66.49%) Python
2 115 (61.17%) Java
3 88 (46.81%) Go
4 23 (12.23%) SQL
5 15 (7.98%) JavaScript
6 14 (7.45%) PowerShell
7 11 (5.85%) Bash
8 9 (4.79%) TypeScript
9 8 (4.26%) Lua
10 4 (2.13%) C#
11 2 (1.06%) Jython
11 2 (1.06%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.53%) Bicep
12 1 (0.53%) Groovy
12 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (16.49%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.98%) DV Cleared
3 12 (6.38%) Degree
4 10 (5.32%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.79%) CCIE
5 9 (4.79%) CCIE Data Center
5 9 (4.79%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (4.79%) RHCA
5 9 (4.79%) VCDX
6 3 (1.60%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.06%) IBM Certification
8 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.11%) Accessibility
2 13 (6.91%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.06%) GDPR
3 2 (1.06%) QA
System Software
1 120 (63.83%) Docker
2 21 (11.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (10.11%) vSphere
4 13 (6.91%) HDFS
5 4 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.60%) Active Directory
6 3 (1.60%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.53%) Lustre
7 1 (0.53%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 170 (90.43%) Kubernetes
2 119 (63.30%) Terraform
3 37 (19.68%) Ansible
4 4 (2.13%) Puppet
5 3 (1.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (1.60%) Grafana
5 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.60%) Packer
5 3 (1.60%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.60%) SCCM
6 2 (1.06%) HAProxy
6 2 (1.06%) Podman
6 2 (1.06%) Rancher
7 1 (0.53%) Karpenter
7 1 (0.53%) Nessus
7 1 (0.53%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 52 (27.66%) Red Hat
2 22 (11.70%) VMware
3 21 (11.17%) Cisco
4 13 (6.91%) Oracle
5 11 (5.85%) Google
6 10 (5.32%) IBM
7 8 (4.26%) Microsoft
8 3 (1.60%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.60%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.60%) Dell
8 3 (1.60%) McAfee
8 3 (1.60%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.60%) Sophos
9 2 (1.06%) Confluent
9 2 (1.06%) Databricks
10 1 (0.53%) Intel
10 1 (0.53%) SAP
10 1 (0.53%) Veritas