OpenShift Job Trends in the West Midlands

Red Hat OpenShift
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring OpenShift skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 196 175
Rank change year-on-year +20 -21 +101
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 2 3 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.038% 0.072% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.098% 0.22% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £42,973 - £43,750
25th Percentile £44,544 £47,500 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,975 £50,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -20.00% +0.81%
75th Percentile £54,394 £52,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £56,558 - -
England median annual salary £75,000 £95,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -21.05% +5.56% +12.50%

All Cloud Computing Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,044 1,395 1,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 38.67% 33.68% 36.32%
Number of salaries quoted 879 789 1,223
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,502 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OpenShift relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

OpenShift job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

OpenShift
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing OpenShift.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for OpenShift in the West Midlands

OpenShift
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Coventry - 2 £48,975 -
OpenShift
England

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Django
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (100.00%) Flask
1 2 (100.00%) pytest
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) SEO
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Delphi
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle