Red Hat OpenShift
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for OpenShift skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited OpenShift over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 601 422 406
Rank change year-on-year -179 -16 +114
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 310 769 1,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.73% 0.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.88% 1.70% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 192 352 380
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,125 £47,375
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,781 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.57% -5.27% +10.34%
75th Percentile £112,500 £106,250 £108,125
90th Percentile £138,750 £144,750 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.92% +13.64% -12.00%

All Cloud Skills
UK

OpenShift is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,310 45,224 74,103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.96% 43.16% 48.08%
Number of salaries quoted 26,760 29,534 41,937
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 2024.

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 2024. 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 -149 289 £80,000 - 39
UK excluding London -110 203 £70,576 +12.92% 31
South West -31 112 £61,750 -5.00% 13
London -81 103 £105,000 +13.92% 12
Work from Home -91 57 £70,576 +4.56% 16
South East +40 43 £87,500 +16.67% 6
North of England -36 29 £70,576 +17.63% 3
North West -28 19 £66,538 +11.78% 2
Scotland -57 15 £70,576 +17.11% 7
Yorkshire +51 10 £70,576 +12.92%
Wales +8 3 £70,576 +17.63%
West Midlands +17 1 £55,000 -11.29% 1
Midlands -7 1 £55,000 -11.29% 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 56 (18.06%) nginx
2 44 (14.19%) Apache
3 43 (13.87%) Apache Spark
4 36 (11.61%) Camunda
5 17 (5.48%) Jupyter
6 5 (1.61%) Confluence
7 3 (0.97%) JBoss
7 3 (0.97%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 209 (67.42%) AWS
2 128 (41.29%) Azure
3 73 (23.55%) Serverless
4 70 (22.58%) AWS Lambda
5 68 (21.94%) Amazon S3
6 65 (20.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 49 (15.81%) GCP
8 45 (14.52%) IBM Cloud
9 42 (13.55%) Amazon EC2
10 40 (12.90%) SaaS
11 37 (11.94%) Amazon ECS
12 36 (11.61%) Amazon SQS
13 35 (11.29%) Amazon EKS
14 17 (5.48%) MinIO
15 15 (4.84%) GitHub
16 11 (3.55%) OCI
17 10 (3.23%) Route 53
18 9 (2.90%) Amazon ECR
19 7 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
20 6 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 37 (11.94%) DNS
1 37 (11.94%) TCP/IP
2 36 (11.61%) DHCP
2 36 (11.61%) HTTP
3 29 (9.35%) AMQP
4 7 (2.26%) WLAN
5 5 (1.61%) Network Security
6 4 (1.29%) SSL
7 2 (0.65%) Firewall
7 2 (0.65%) Internet
8 1 (0.32%) FTP
8 1 (0.32%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.32%) IPv4
8 1 (0.32%) OSPF
8 1 (0.32%) SAN
8 1 (0.32%) VLAN
8 1 (0.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (18.39%) MongoDB
2 52 (16.77%) Big Data
3 51 (16.45%) Amazon RDS
4 43 (13.87%) Hadoop
5 39 (12.58%) Oracle Database
6 38 (12.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 24 (7.74%) Cloudera CDH
8 20 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
9 17 (5.48%) Presto
10 16 (5.16%) SQL Server
11 14 (4.52%) Relational Database
12 9 (2.90%) DB2
12 9 (2.90%) RDBMS
13 8 (2.58%) Apache Cassandra
13 8 (2.58%) MySQL
14 7 (2.26%) NoSQL
14 7 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
15 6 (1.94%) InfluxDB
16 5 (1.61%) Couchbase
17 2 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 105 (33.87%) Jenkins
2 55 (17.74%) Artifactory
3 38 (12.26%) Git
4 19 (6.13%) JIRA
5 18 (5.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 18 (5.81%) IBM UrbanCode
6 15 (4.84%) Selenium
7 11 (3.55%) Cucumber
7 11 (3.55%) Cypress.io
7 11 (3.55%) GitLab
7 11 (3.55%) Snyk
8 9 (2.90%) Bitbucket
8 9 (2.90%) Maven
9 4 (1.29%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.29%) Gradle
10 3 (0.97%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.97%) Subversion
10 3 (0.97%) TestNG
10 3 (0.97%) Travis CI
General
1 93 (30.00%) Finance
2 48 (15.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 48 (15.48%) Public Sector
3 45 (14.52%) Banking
4 36 (11.61%) Front Office
5 35 (11.29%) Aerospace
6 31 (10.00%) Social Skills
7 27 (8.71%) Retail Banking
8 17 (5.48%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.65%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.32%) Advertising
12 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.32%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 102 (32.90%) DevOps Engineer
2 81 (26.13%) Senior
3 44 (14.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 43 (13.87%) AWS Engineer
5 39 (12.58%) Software Engineer
6 38 (12.26%) AWS DevOps
6 38 (12.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 38 (12.26%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 36 (11.61%) Full Stack Engineer
7 36 (11.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 34 (10.97%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 32 (10.32%) Senior DevOps
9 32 (10.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 28 (9.03%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 25 (8.06%) Architect
12 19 (6.13%) Data Engineer
13 17 (5.48%) Big Data Engineer
13 17 (5.48%) Platform Engineer
13 17 (5.48%) Senior Support Engineer
13 17 (5.48%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (21.94%) React
2 61 (19.68%) Node.js
2 61 (19.68%) Swagger
3 49 (15.81%) Spring
4 47 (15.16%) RabbitMQ
5 40 (12.90%) J2EE
6 39 (12.58%) Spring Boot
7 36 (11.61%) KeystoneJS
8 27 (8.71%) REST
9 26 (8.39%) AngularJS
10 24 (7.74%) gRPC
10 24 (7.74%) Material-UI
10 24 (7.74%) OpenAPI
11 23 (7.42%) Elastic Stack
11 23 (7.42%) Kafka
12 21 (6.77%) YAML
13 18 (5.81%) ActiveMQ
14 17 (5.48%) Apache NiFi
15 15 (4.84%) Middleware
16 12 (3.87%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 64 (20.65%) Hybrid Cloud
2 45 (14.52%) Blockchain
2 45 (14.52%) e-Learning
3 36 (11.61%) Tandem
4 29 (9.35%) Public Cloud
5 27 (8.71%) Linux Command Line
6 24 (7.74%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.26%) EMC VNX
8 5 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.97%) Private Cloud
9 3 (0.97%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.65%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.65%) PKI
10 2 (0.65%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.32%) Clustering
11 1 (0.32%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.32%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.32%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 154 (49.68%) Linux
2 88 (28.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 66 (21.29%) Windows
4 46 (14.84%) CentOS
5 25 (8.06%) Ubuntu
6 24 (7.74%) Debian
7 20 (6.45%) CoreOS
8 17 (5.48%) Unix
9 10 (3.23%) Windows Server
10 6 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (1.94%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.65%) Rocky
12 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (56.77%) DevOps
2 137 (44.19%) Agile
3 118 (38.06%) CI/CD
4 80 (25.81%) Software Engineering
5 75 (24.19%) Infrastructure as Code
6 73 (23.55%) Mentoring
7 70 (22.58%) Containerisation
8 64 (20.65%) Actionable Insight
8 64 (20.65%) Open Source
9 61 (19.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 55 (17.74%) Customer Service
11 51 (16.45%) Artificial Intelligence
12 50 (16.13%) Microservices
13 49 (15.81%) Coaching
14 47 (15.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 46 (14.84%) Deployment Automation
16 43 (13.87%) Full Stack Development
17 41 (13.23%) Asset Management
17 41 (13.23%) Configuration Management
18 38 (12.26%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 192 (61.94%) Java
2 182 (58.71%) Python
3 91 (29.35%) Bash
4 85 (27.42%) JavaScript
5 44 (14.19%) SQL
6 43 (13.87%) PowerShell
7 42 (13.55%) Go
8 36 (11.61%) Lua
9 29 (9.35%) Shell Script
10 20 (6.45%) Groovy
11 13 (4.19%) C++
12 8 (2.58%) C#
13 4 (1.29%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.97%) Scala
14 3 (0.97%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.65%) F#
15 2 (0.65%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.32%) Perl
16 1 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 113 (36.45%) Security Cleared
2 93 (30.00%) DV Cleared
3 66 (21.29%) SC Cleared
4 3 (0.97%) Degree
5 2 (0.65%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.32%) OCP
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.65%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 206 (66.45%) Docker
2 48 (15.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (14.19%) Hyper-V
4 9 (2.90%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (2.58%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.97%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.32%) KVM
7 1 (0.32%) Lustre
7 1 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 231 (74.52%) Kubernetes
2 149 (48.06%) Ansible
3 142 (45.81%) Terraform
4 94 (30.32%) Puppet
5 31 (10.00%) Progress Chef
5 31 (10.00%) Prometheus
6 29 (9.35%) Grafana
7 17 (5.48%) HAProxy
8 14 (4.52%) Nagios
9 12 (3.87%) Istio
10 8 (2.58%) Kibana
10 8 (2.58%) SCCM
10 8 (2.58%) vCenter Server
11 7 (2.26%) Docker Swarm
11 7 (2.26%) EMC NetWorker
12 4 (1.29%) logstash
13 3 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.97%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.65%) Rancher
Vendors
1 154 (49.68%) Red Hat
2 63 (20.32%) IBM
3 60 (19.35%) Oracle
4 56 (18.06%) VMware
5 50 (16.13%) Google
6 24 (7.74%) SaltStack
7 11 (3.55%) Microsoft
8 10 (3.23%) Dynatrace
9 9 (2.90%) Sybase
10 8 (2.58%) Splunk
11 7 (2.26%) Aruba
11 7 (2.26%) EMC
11 7 (2.26%) Meraki
11 7 (2.26%) SolarWinds
11 7 (2.26%) Veeam
12 6 (1.94%) New Relic
13 5 (1.61%) Atlassian
14 2 (0.65%) MuleSoft
15 1 (0.32%) Adobe
15 1 (0.32%) NVIDIA