Hybrid/Remote OpenShift Job Trends

Red Hat OpenShift
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring OpenShift skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 341 542
Rank change year-on-year -33 +201 -132
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 43 80 41
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.22% 0.52% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.57% 1.36% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 33 65 35
10th Percentile £46,778 £80,500 £42,700
25th Percentile £58,750 £105,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £110,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +55.86% +1.62%
75th Percentile £95,000 £138,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £125,000 - £97,584
UK median annual salary £75,000 £110,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -31.82% +37.50% +2.56%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Work from Home

OpenShift falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 7,499 5,867 14,604
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.76% 38.32% 42.31%
Number of salaries quoted 5,237 4,261 12,141
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% +1.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OpenShift and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

OpenShift job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

OpenShift
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OpenShift.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OpenShift over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

OpenShift salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.33%) Apache
1 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 19 (44.19%) AWS
2 16 (37.21%) Azure
3 10 (23.26%) GCP
4 9 (20.93%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (18.60%) Amazon MSK
6 6 (13.95%) Apigee
6 6 (13.95%) Kong
7 2 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.65%) Serverless
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.33%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (2.33%) dbt
8 1 (2.33%) Nutanix
8 1 (2.33%) PaaS
8 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (37.21%) Firewall
2 6 (13.95%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (13.95%) TCP/IP
3 5 (11.63%) BGP
3 5 (11.63%) DNS
3 5 (11.63%) Network Security
3 5 (11.63%) OSPF
3 5 (11.63%) VLAN
3 5 (11.63%) VPN
3 5 (11.63%) VXLAN
4 1 (2.33%) AMQP
4 1 (2.33%) LAN
4 1 (2.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.98%) MySQL
3 2 (4.65%) InfluxDB
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.33%) Big Data
4 1 (2.33%) Cloudera CDH
4 1 (2.33%) Data Vault
4 1 (2.33%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.33%) MariaDB
4 1 (2.33%) Metadata
4 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.33%) Power BI
4 1 (2.33%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (2.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (25.58%) GitLab
2 5 (11.63%) Git
3 4 (9.30%) Bitbucket
4 3 (6.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
5 2 (4.65%) Robot Framework
6 1 (2.33%) Eclipse
6 1 (2.33%) JMeter
6 1 (2.33%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.33%) TestRail
General
1 12 (27.91%) Finance
1 12 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 11 (25.58%) Telecoms
3 8 (18.60%) Banking
4 6 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (11.63%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (27.91%) Network Specialist
2 11 (25.58%) Automation Engineer
2 11 (25.58%) Network Engineer
2 11 (25.58%) Telecoms Engineer
3 10 (23.26%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (23.26%) Senior
4 9 (20.93%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (18.60%) AWS DevOps
5 8 (18.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 8 (18.60%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 7 (16.28%) Automation Specialist
6 7 (16.28%) Telecoms Specialist
7 6 (13.95%) Site Engineer
7 6 (13.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (11.63%) Network Security Specialist
8 5 (11.63%) Principal Engineer
8 5 (11.63%) Security Specialist
8 5 (11.63%) Senior Network Security Specialist
8 5 (11.63%) Senior Network Specialist
8 5 (11.63%) Senior Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (25.58%) Jinja
1 11 (25.58%) JSON
1 11 (25.58%) YAML
2 10 (23.26%) Kafka
3 7 (16.28%) REST
4 6 (13.95%) Loki
4 6 (13.95%) XML
4 6 (13.95%) YANG
5 3 (6.98%) .NET
6 2 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (4.65%) Spring
6 2 (4.65%) Spring Boot
7 1 (2.33%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.33%) gRPC
7 1 (2.33%) Material-UI
7 1 (2.33%) OpenAPI
7 1 (2.33%) PySpark
7 1 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.33%) React
7 1 (2.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.60%) Cloud Native
1 8 (18.60%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (6.98%) Hackathon
3 1 (2.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.33%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (25.58%) Linux
2 6 (13.95%) Unix
3 3 (6.98%) CentOS
4 2 (4.65%) Windows
5 1 (2.33%) Debian
5 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (69.77%) Containerisation
2 25 (58.14%) CI/CD
3 24 (55.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (46.51%) DevOps
5 18 (41.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 12 (27.91%) Task Automation
7 11 (25.58%) API Management
7 11 (25.58%) Microservices
8 10 (23.26%) Agile
8 10 (23.26%) Open Source
8 10 (23.26%) Platform Engineering
9 9 (20.93%) Observability
10 8 (18.60%) Mentoring
11 7 (16.28%) GitOps
11 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (13.95%) Analytics
12 6 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (13.95%) Information Security
12 6 (13.95%) Secrets Management
12 6 (13.95%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 31 (72.09%) Python
2 11 (25.58%) Bash
3 8 (18.60%) Go
4 7 (16.28%) JavaScript
5 6 (13.95%) Java
5 6 (13.95%) PowerShell
6 4 (9.30%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (23.26%) Security Cleared
2 8 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.65%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (2.33%) RHCE
5 1 (2.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 12 (27.91%) Docker
2 9 (20.93%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.65%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 1 (2.33%) KVM
4 1 (2.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (69.77%) Kubernetes
2 13 (30.23%) Istio
3 12 (27.91%) Terraform
4 11 (25.58%) Prometheus
5 10 (23.26%) Grafana
6 7 (16.28%) Ansible
7 6 (13.95%) Argo
7 6 (13.95%) Kustomize
8 5 (11.63%) FortiGate
9 1 (2.33%) PowerCLI
9 1 (2.33%) Puppet
9 1 (2.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (48.84%) Red Hat
2 12 (27.91%) Cisco
3 11 (25.58%) Palo Alto
4 8 (18.60%) Confluent
5 7 (16.28%) Juniper
6 6 (13.95%) F5
6 6 (13.95%) Fortinet
6 6 (13.95%) Splunk
7 5 (11.63%) Zscaler
8 3 (6.98%) Oracle
8 3 (6.98%) ServiceNow
9 2 (4.65%) VMware
10 1 (2.33%) Atlassian
10 1 (2.33%) Google
10 1 (2.33%) SaltStack