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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 571 611 457
Rank change year-on-year +40 -154 -1
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 131 309 640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.30% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.85% 0.86% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 98 168 325
10th Percentile £63,750 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £76,563 £60,000 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £80,000 £77,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% +3.90% -3.75%
75th Percentile £127,500 £98,855 £105,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £137,500 £142,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,870 £70,576 £69,447
% change year-on-year +6.08% +1.62% +20.78%

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 15,400 35,996 41,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.58% 34.72% 43.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,158 26,922 27,386
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £34,605
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,450 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% -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 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for OpenShift in the UK

OpenShift
Top 12 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 31 May 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 +8 113 £110,000 +37.50% 141
Work from Home +149 90 £110,000 +55.86% 107
London +97 84 £110,000 +4.76% 75
UK excluding London +16 42 £74,870 +6.08% 78
Scotland +124 17 £74,870 +6.08% 3
South East +51 17 £57,500 -4.17% 9
North of England +17 4 - - 22
North West -10 4 - - 20
East of England - 2 £77,500 - 2
Midlands +65 1 £77,500 - 10
South West -5 1 £90,000 +41.18% 22
West Midlands - 1 £77,500 - 5

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 67 (51.15%) Apache Spark
2 66 (50.38%) Apache
3 65 (49.62%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (4.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (3.05%) nginx
6 3 (2.29%) IIS
6 3 (2.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (2.29%) SharePoint
7 2 (1.53%) JBoss
8 1 (0.76%) Confluence
8 1 (0.76%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (3.05%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 98 (74.81%) AWS
2 62 (47.33%) AWS Lambda
2 62 (47.33%) Serverless
3 59 (45.04%) Amazon ECS
3 59 (45.04%) dbt
4 34 (25.95%) GCP
5 31 (23.66%) Azure
6 8 (6.11%) SaaS
7 6 (4.58%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (4.58%) Amazon MSK
8 3 (2.29%) IaaS
8 3 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.29%) PaaS
9 2 (1.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.53%) GitHub
9 2 (1.53%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.76%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.76%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.92%) DNS
2 10 (7.63%) Network Security
3 9 (6.87%) DHCP
3 9 (6.87%) Firewall
4 6 (4.58%) Remote Desktop
4 6 (4.58%) SMTP
5 4 (3.05%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (2.29%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (2.29%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.53%) NAS
7 2 (1.53%) SAN
8 1 (0.76%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.76%) 4G
8 1 (0.76%) 5G
8 1 (0.76%) Diameter Protocol
8 1 (0.76%) HTTP
8 1 (0.76%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (49.62%) Apache Iceberg
2 59 (45.04%) Amazon Athena
2 59 (45.04%) Apache Arrow
2 59 (45.04%) Apache Ignite
2 59 (45.04%) Dremio
3 8 (6.11%) Hadoop
4 7 (5.34%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.34%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (4.58%) Apache Hudi
5 6 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.58%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.53%) Big Data
6 2 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.53%) HBase
6 2 (1.53%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.76%) DB2
7 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.76%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 62 (47.33%) Artifactory
2 11 (8.40%) GitLab
2 11 (8.40%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.58%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.29%) Git
4 3 (2.29%) MSTest
4 3 (2.29%) NUnit
4 3 (2.29%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (2.29%) SpecFlow
4 3 (2.29%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.53%) JIRA
6 1 (0.76%) Ant
6 1 (0.76%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.76%) Gatling
6 1 (0.76%) JUnit
6 1 (0.76%) Maven
6 1 (0.76%) Mockito
6 1 (0.76%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.76%) Vagrant
General
1 89 (67.94%) Finance
2 62 (47.33%) Front Office
3 23 (17.56%) Banking
4 12 (9.16%) Law
5 10 (7.63%) Social Skills
6 6 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.29%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.29%) Back Office
7 3 (2.29%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.53%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.76%) Games
9 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (52.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 66 (50.38%) AWS DevOps
2 66 (50.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 66 (50.38%) AWS Engineer
3 65 (49.62%) Data Engineer
4 63 (48.09%) Python Engineer
5 18 (13.74%) Architect
6 13 (9.92%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (8.40%) Senior
8 9 (6.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (6.87%) Infrastructure Support
8 9 (6.87%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 9 (6.87%) Support Engineer
9 8 (6.11%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Technical Architect
11 5 (3.82%) Lead
11 5 (3.82%) Principal Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) Software Engineer
12 4 (3.05%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (65.65%) Kafka
2 65 (49.62%) PySpark
3 60 (45.80%) J2EE
4 8 (6.11%) REST
5 6 (4.58%) JSON
5 6 (4.58%) PyArrow
5 6 (4.58%) Spring
6 4 (3.05%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.05%) CSS
7 3 (2.29%) .NET
7 3 (2.29%) CSS3
7 3 (2.29%) Highcharts JS
7 3 (2.29%) HTML
7 3 (2.29%) HTML5
7 3 (2.29%) LESS
7 3 (2.29%) NgRx
7 3 (2.29%) Reactive Extensions
7 3 (2.29%) RESTful
7 3 (2.29%) RxJS
7 3 (2.29%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.92%) Private Cloud
1 13 (9.92%) Public Cloud
2 11 (8.40%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.34%) Clustering
3 7 (5.34%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (5.34%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (4.58%) PKI
5 5 (3.82%) Virtual Team
6 4 (3.05%) Derivative
6 4 (3.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.29%) Credit Derivative
7 3 (2.29%) Equities
7 3 (2.29%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.53%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (16.79%) Linux
2 10 (7.63%) Windows
3 9 (6.87%) Windows Server
4 8 (6.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (4.58%) Unix
6 3 (2.29%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.76%) CentOS
7 1 (0.76%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.76%) Debian
7 1 (0.76%) Solaris
7 1 (0.76%) SUSE
7 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (66.41%) DevOps
2 81 (61.83%) Agile
3 75 (57.25%) Software Engineering
4 74 (56.49%) CI/CD
5 69 (52.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 67 (51.15%) Open Source
7 65 (49.62%) Data Engineering
8 60 (45.80%) Asset Management
9 19 (14.50%) Containerisation
10 18 (13.74%) Roadmaps
10 18 (13.74%) Test Automation
11 17 (12.98%) Microservices
12 13 (9.92%) Data Architecture
12 13 (9.92%) Technical Leadership
13 12 (9.16%) High Availability
14 10 (7.63%) Architectural Patterns
15 9 (6.87%) Infrastructure as Code
15 9 (6.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 9 (6.87%) RBAC
16 8 (6.11%) Customer-Centricity
Programming Languages
1 87 (66.41%) Python
2 81 (61.83%) Java
3 69 (52.67%) Go
4 14 (10.69%) SQL
5 8 (6.11%) JavaScript
5 8 (6.11%) PowerShell
6 7 (5.34%) Bash
7 5 (3.82%) C#
8 4 (3.05%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.53%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.76%) C++
10 1 (0.76%) COBOL
10 1 (0.76%) Groovy
10 1 (0.76%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.76%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (8.40%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.87%) Degree
2 9 (6.87%) DV Cleared
3 4 (3.05%) CCNA
3 4 (3.05%) CCNP
3 4 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.29%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.53%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.53%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.16%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.58%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.05%) QA
4 2 (1.53%) GDPR
5 1 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.76%) ISO 15022
5 1 (0.76%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.76%) NCSC
5 1 (0.76%) NIST
System Software
1 92 (70.23%) Docker
2 9 (6.87%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.87%) Hyper-V
3 6 (4.58%) BitLocker
3 6 (4.58%) HDFS
3 6 (4.58%) Microsoft App-V
3 6 (4.58%) Terminal Services
3 6 (4.58%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (4.58%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (4.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.58%) vSphere
4 1 (0.76%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 118 (90.08%) Kubernetes
2 75 (57.25%) Terraform
3 20 (15.27%) Ansible
4 9 (6.87%) Puppet
5 6 (4.58%) Istio
5 6 (4.58%) Nagios
5 6 (4.58%) vCenter Server
5 6 (4.58%) vMotion
6 3 (2.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.29%) SCCM
7 2 (1.53%) Grafana
7 2 (1.53%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.53%) Rancher
8 1 (0.76%) Consul
8 1 (0.76%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.76%) Packer
8 1 (0.76%) Podman
8 1 (0.76%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (11.45%) Red Hat
2 14 (10.69%) Google
3 10 (7.63%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.11%) Confluent
4 8 (6.11%) Oracle
4 8 (6.11%) VMware
5 7 (5.34%) HP
6 6 (4.58%) Citrix
6 6 (4.58%) IBM
6 6 (4.58%) Symantec
7 4 (3.05%) F5
8 3 (2.29%) CheckPoint
8 3 (2.29%) Cisco
8 3 (2.29%) Dell
8 3 (2.29%) Ping Identity
8 3 (2.29%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.53%) Cloudera
9 2 (1.53%) Databricks
9 2 (1.53%) SAP
10 1 (0.76%) Veritas