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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 611 434 417
Rank change year-on-year -177 -17 +101
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 313 745 1,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.72% 0.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.89% 1.68% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 190 354 372
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,375 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £112,500 £106,250 £106,563
90th Percentile £138,750 £142,500 £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 44,297 75,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.84% 42.78% 48.22%
Number of salaries quoted 26,696 29,083 41,953
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,750 £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 £95,000 £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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -166 292 £80,000 +0.46% 42
UK excluding London -112 206 £70,576 +12.92% 37
South West -19 116 £62,500 -3.85% 18
London -95 103 £105,000 +13.92% 9
Work from Home -86 56 £70,576 +3.07% 30
South East +30 42 £87,500 +16.67% 6
North of England -45 29 £70,576 +16.65% 4
North West -25 19 £66,538 +11.34% 3
Scotland -66 15 £70,576 +8.58% 5
Yorkshire +46 10 £70,576 +12.92% 1
Wales +13 3 £70,576 +17.63% 1
West Midlands +6 1 £55,000 -11.29%
Midlands +4 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 (17.89%) nginx
2 45 (14.38%) Apache
3 44 (14.06%) Apache Spark
4 36 (11.50%) Camunda
5 17 (5.43%) Jupyter
6 4 (1.28%) Confluence
7 3 (0.96%) JBoss
7 3 (0.96%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 212 (67.73%) AWS
2 129 (41.21%) Azure
3 72 (23.00%) Serverless
4 69 (22.04%) Amazon S3
4 69 (22.04%) AWS Lambda
5 64 (20.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 50 (15.97%) GCP
7 48 (15.34%) IBM Cloud
8 40 (12.78%) Amazon EC2
8 40 (12.78%) SaaS
9 39 (12.46%) Amazon EKS
10 35 (11.18%) Amazon ECS
11 34 (10.86%) Amazon SQS
12 17 (5.43%) MinIO
13 14 (4.47%) GitHub
14 13 (4.15%) OCI
14 13 (4.15%) Route 53
15 12 (3.83%) Amazon ECR
16 7 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
17 5 (1.60%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 38 (12.14%) DNS
1 38 (12.14%) TCP/IP
2 37 (11.82%) DHCP
2 37 (11.82%) HTTP
3 30 (9.58%) AMQP
4 7 (2.24%) WLAN
5 5 (1.60%) Network Security
6 4 (1.28%) SSL
7 2 (0.64%) Firewall
7 2 (0.64%) 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 60 (19.17%) MongoDB
2 52 (16.61%) Amazon RDS
2 52 (16.61%) Big Data
3 44 (14.06%) Hadoop
4 39 (12.46%) Oracle Database
5 36 (11.50%) Amazon Redshift
6 25 (7.99%) Cloudera CDH
7 20 (6.39%) Elasticsearch
8 19 (6.07%) SQL Server
9 17 (5.43%) Presto
9 17 (5.43%) Relational Database
10 12 (3.83%) DB2
10 12 (3.83%) RDBMS
11 8 (2.56%) MySQL
11 8 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (2.24%) Apache Cassandra
12 7 (2.24%) NoSQL
13 6 (1.92%) InfluxDB
14 5 (1.60%) Couchbase
15 2 (0.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 105 (33.55%) Jenkins
2 53 (16.93%) Artifactory
3 37 (11.82%) Git
4 18 (5.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 18 (5.75%) IBM UrbanCode
4 18 (5.75%) JIRA
5 15 (4.79%) Selenium
6 11 (3.51%) Cucumber
6 11 (3.51%) Cypress.io
6 11 (3.51%) GitLab
6 11 (3.51%) Snyk
7 9 (2.88%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.88%) Maven
8 4 (1.28%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.28%) Gradle
9 3 (0.96%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.96%) Subversion
9 3 (0.96%) TestNG
9 3 (0.96%) Travis CI
General
1 91 (29.07%) Finance
2 52 (16.61%) Public Sector
3 51 (16.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 45 (14.38%) Banking
5 37 (11.82%) Aerospace
6 34 (10.86%) Front Office
7 31 (9.90%) Social Skills
8 27 (8.63%) Retail Banking
9 17 (5.43%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.96%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.32%) Advertising
13 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.32%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 102 (32.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 80 (25.56%) Senior
3 45 (14.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 42 (13.42%) AWS Engineer
4 42 (13.42%) Software Engineer
5 36 (11.50%) AWS DevOps
5 36 (11.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 36 (11.50%) Full Stack Engineer
5 36 (11.50%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 35 (11.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 34 (10.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 31 (9.90%) Senior DevOps
8 31 (9.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 29 (9.27%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
10 25 (7.99%) Architect
11 19 (6.07%) Data Engineer
12 17 (5.43%) Big Data Engineer
12 17 (5.43%) Platform Engineer
12 17 (5.43%) Senior Support Engineer
12 17 (5.43%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (22.36%) React
2 63 (20.13%) Node.js
3 62 (19.81%) Swagger
4 54 (17.25%) Spring
5 48 (15.34%) RabbitMQ
6 41 (13.10%) Spring Boot
7 38 (12.14%) J2EE
8 36 (11.50%) KeystoneJS
9 28 (8.95%) REST
10 27 (8.63%) AngularJS
11 25 (7.99%) gRPC
11 25 (7.99%) Material-UI
11 25 (7.99%) OpenAPI
12 23 (7.35%) Elastic Stack
12 23 (7.35%) Kafka
13 21 (6.71%) YAML
14 19 (6.07%) ActiveMQ
15 17 (5.43%) Apache NiFi
16 15 (4.79%) .NET
16 15 (4.79%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 67 (21.41%) Hybrid Cloud
2 48 (15.34%) Blockchain
2 48 (15.34%) e-Learning
3 34 (10.86%) Tandem
4 29 (9.27%) Public Cloud
5 27 (8.63%) Linux Command Line
6 25 (7.99%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.24%) EMC VNX
8 5 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.96%) Private Cloud
9 3 (0.96%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.64%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.64%) PKI
10 2 (0.64%) 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
1 156 (49.84%) Linux
2 90 (28.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 67 (21.41%) Windows
4 47 (15.02%) CentOS
5 26 (8.31%) Ubuntu
6 25 (7.99%) Debian
7 20 (6.39%) CoreOS
8 17 (5.43%) Unix
9 10 (3.19%) Windows Server
10 6 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.64%) Rocky
12 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (56.23%) DevOps
2 140 (44.73%) Agile
3 119 (38.02%) CI/CD
4 81 (25.88%) Software Engineering
5 76 (24.28%) Mentoring
6 75 (23.96%) Infrastructure as Code
7 74 (23.64%) Containerisation
8 65 (20.77%) Actionable Insight
9 63 (20.13%) Open Source
10 59 (18.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 55 (17.57%) Customer Service
12 54 (17.25%) Artificial Intelligence
13 52 (16.61%) Coaching
14 51 (16.29%) Microservices
15 48 (15.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 44 (14.06%) Deployment Automation
17 43 (13.74%) Full Stack Development
18 42 (13.42%) Configuration Management
19 41 (13.10%) Observability
20 40 (12.78%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 195 (62.30%) Java
2 181 (57.83%) Python
3 90 (28.75%) Bash
4 86 (27.48%) JavaScript
5 44 (14.06%) SQL
6 43 (13.74%) PowerShell
7 40 (12.78%) Go
8 36 (11.50%) Lua
9 29 (9.27%) Shell Script
10 20 (6.39%) Groovy
11 13 (4.15%) C++
12 8 (2.56%) C#
13 4 (1.28%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.28%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.96%) Scala
15 2 (0.64%) F#
15 2 (0.64%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.32%) Perl
16 1 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 116 (37.06%) Security Cleared
2 96 (30.67%) DV Cleared
3 68 (21.73%) SC Cleared
4 3 (0.96%) Degree
5 2 (0.64%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.32%) OCP
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.64%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 207 (66.13%) Docker
2 49 (15.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (14.38%) Hyper-V
4 9 (2.88%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (2.56%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.96%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.32%) KVM
7 1 (0.32%) Lustre
7 1 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 234 (74.76%) Kubernetes
2 150 (47.92%) Ansible
3 143 (45.69%) Terraform
4 96 (30.67%) Puppet
5 34 (10.86%) Prometheus
6 31 (9.90%) Progress Chef
7 29 (9.27%) Grafana
8 17 (5.43%) HAProxy
9 14 (4.47%) Nagios
10 12 (3.83%) Istio
11 8 (2.56%) Docker Swarm
11 8 (2.56%) Kibana
11 8 (2.56%) SCCM
11 8 (2.56%) vCenter Server
12 7 (2.24%) EMC NetWorker
13 4 (1.28%) logstash
14 3 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.96%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.64%) Salt
Vendors
1 159 (50.80%) Red Hat
2 66 (21.09%) IBM
3 63 (20.13%) Oracle
4 56 (17.89%) VMware
5 51 (16.29%) Google
6 25 (7.99%) SaltStack
7 13 (4.15%) Dynatrace
8 12 (3.83%) Sybase
9 11 (3.51%) Microsoft
10 8 (2.56%) Splunk
11 7 (2.24%) Aruba
11 7 (2.24%) EMC
11 7 (2.24%) Meraki
11 7 (2.24%) SolarWinds
11 7 (2.24%) Veeam
12 6 (1.92%) New Relic
13 5 (1.60%) Atlassian
14 1 (0.32%) Adobe
14 1 (0.32%) MuleSoft
14 1 (0.32%) NVIDIA