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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 588 437 447
Rank change year-on-year -151 +10 +82
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 321 704 1,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.71% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.91% 1.65% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 185 348 354
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £47,650
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,000 £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 £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.58% +18.18% -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 35,421 42,712 77,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 43.07% 48.42%
Number of salaries quoted 26,675 28,032 41,298
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
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 £96,000 £102,500 £98,750
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 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for OpenShift in the UK

OpenShift
Top 15 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 18 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 -148 295 £80,000 +0.46% 51
UK excluding London -106 220 £70,576 +8.58% 31
South West -24 122 £65,000 -2.62% 12
London -99 96 £105,000 +16.67% 20
Work from Home -90 67 £70,576 +1.62% 19
South East +21 42 £73,750 -1.67% 15
North of England -17 32 £70,576 +12.92% 1
North West -21 21 £66,538 +9.08% 1
Scotland -64 17 £70,576 +8.58% 2
Yorkshire +40 11 £70,576 +12.92%
Wales +10 4 £70,576 -2.65%
Midlands -17 2 £55,000 -11.29%
Northern Ireland +21 1 - -
West Midlands +6 1 £55,000 -11.29%
East Midlands -10 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 58 (18.07%) nginx
2 49 (15.26%) Apache
3 45 (14.02%) Apache Spark
4 36 (11.21%) Camunda
5 17 (5.30%) Jupyter
6 5 (1.56%) JBoss
7 3 (0.93%) Confluence
7 3 (0.93%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 210 (65.42%) AWS
2 145 (45.17%) Azure
3 68 (21.18%) Serverless
4 67 (20.87%) AWS Lambda
5 65 (20.25%) Amazon S3
6 64 (19.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 50 (15.58%) GCP
8 48 (14.95%) IBM Cloud
9 41 (12.77%) Amazon EKS
10 37 (11.53%) SaaS
11 36 (11.21%) Amazon EC2
12 31 (9.66%) Amazon ECS
13 30 (9.35%) Amazon SQS
14 17 (5.30%) MinIO
15 13 (4.05%) GitHub
15 13 (4.05%) Route 53
16 12 (3.74%) Amazon ECR
16 12 (3.74%) OCI
17 7 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
18 5 (1.56%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 37 (11.53%) DNS
1 37 (11.53%) TCP/IP
2 36 (11.21%) DHCP
2 36 (11.21%) HTTP
3 32 (9.97%) AMQP
4 7 (2.18%) WLAN
5 6 (1.87%) SSL
6 5 (1.56%) Network Security
7 2 (0.62%) Firewall
7 2 (0.62%) Internet
8 1 (0.31%) FTP
8 1 (0.31%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.31%) IPv4
8 1 (0.31%) OSPF
8 1 (0.31%) SAN
8 1 (0.31%) VLAN
8 1 (0.31%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (19.31%) MongoDB
2 51 (15.89%) Big Data
3 48 (14.95%) Amazon RDS
4 45 (14.02%) Hadoop
5 39 (12.15%) Oracle Database
6 31 (9.66%) Amazon Redshift
7 27 (8.41%) Cloudera CDH
8 19 (5.92%) Elasticsearch
8 19 (5.92%) SQL Server
9 17 (5.30%) Presto
9 17 (5.30%) Relational Database
10 12 (3.74%) DB2
10 12 (3.74%) RDBMS
11 10 (3.12%) MySQL
11 10 (3.12%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (1.87%) InfluxDB
12 6 (1.87%) NoSQL
13 5 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (1.56%) Couchbase
14 1 (0.31%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 105 (32.71%) Jenkins
2 49 (15.26%) Artifactory
3 38 (11.84%) Git
4 18 (5.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 18 (5.61%) IBM UrbanCode
5 17 (5.30%) JIRA
6 15 (4.67%) Selenium
7 13 (4.05%) Bitbucket
8 11 (3.43%) Cucumber
8 11 (3.43%) Cypress.io
8 11 (3.43%) GitLab
8 11 (3.43%) Snyk
9 9 (2.80%) Maven
10 5 (1.56%) SonarQube
11 4 (1.25%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.25%) Gradle
11 4 (1.25%) Robot Framework
11 4 (1.25%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.93%) TestNG
General
1 86 (26.79%) Finance
2 52 (16.20%) Public Sector
3 51 (15.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 45 (14.02%) Aerospace
4 45 (14.02%) Banking
5 33 (10.28%) Social Skills
6 30 (9.35%) Front Office
7 27 (8.41%) Retail Banking
8 17 (5.30%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (3.12%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.56%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.31%) Advertising
12 1 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.31%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 99 (30.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 79 (24.61%) Senior
3 46 (14.33%) Software Engineer
4 44 (13.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 40 (12.46%) AWS Engineer
6 36 (11.21%) Full Stack Engineer
6 36 (11.21%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 32 (9.97%) AWS DevOps
7 32 (9.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 31 (9.66%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 31 (9.66%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 30 (9.35%) Developer
9 30 (9.35%) Senior DevOps
9 30 (9.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 30 (9.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 23 (7.17%) Architect
11 19 (5.92%) Data Engineer
12 17 (5.30%) Big Data Engineer
12 17 (5.30%) Platform Engineer
12 17 (5.30%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (23.68%) Swagger
2 75 (23.36%) React
3 67 (20.87%) Node.js
4 58 (18.07%) Spring
5 50 (15.58%) RabbitMQ
6 45 (14.02%) Spring Boot
7 36 (11.21%) KeystoneJS
8 34 (10.59%) J2EE
9 30 (9.35%) REST
10 28 (8.72%) AngularJS
11 27 (8.41%) gRPC
11 27 (8.41%) Material-UI
11 27 (8.41%) OpenAPI
12 25 (7.79%) Elastic Stack
13 22 (6.85%) Kafka
14 21 (6.54%) ActiveMQ
14 21 (6.54%) YAML
15 17 (5.30%) Apache NiFi
16 15 (4.67%) .NET
16 15 (4.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 65 (20.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 48 (14.95%) Blockchain
2 48 (14.95%) e-Learning
3 30 (9.35%) Tandem
4 29 (9.03%) Public Cloud
5 27 (8.41%) Cloud Native
6 26 (8.10%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (2.18%) EMC VNX
8 5 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.93%) Private Cloud
9 3 (0.93%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.62%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.62%) PKI
10 2 (0.62%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.31%) Clustering
11 1 (0.31%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.31%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.31%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.31%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 159 (49.53%) Linux
2 92 (28.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 69 (21.50%) Windows
4 48 (14.95%) CentOS
5 28 (8.72%) Ubuntu
6 27 (8.41%) Debian
7 19 (5.92%) CoreOS
8 16 (4.98%) Unix
9 11 (3.43%) Windows Server
10 6 (1.87%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (1.87%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.62%) Rocky
12 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (57.32%) DevOps
2 160 (49.84%) Agile
3 116 (36.14%) CI/CD
4 81 (25.23%) Software Engineering
5 80 (24.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 76 (23.68%) Containerisation
6 76 (23.68%) Mentoring
7 73 (22.74%) Open Source
8 66 (20.56%) Artificial Intelligence
9 58 (18.07%) Actionable Insight
10 56 (17.45%) Customer Service
11 54 (16.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 52 (16.20%) Coaching
12 52 (16.20%) Microservices
13 48 (14.95%) Collaborative Working
14 47 (14.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 47 (14.64%) Technical Leadership
15 44 (13.71%) Configuration Management
16 43 (13.40%) Full Stack Development
17 41 (12.77%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 202 (62.93%) Java
2 173 (53.89%) Python
3 90 (28.04%) Bash
4 89 (27.73%) JavaScript
5 43 (13.40%) PowerShell
6 42 (13.08%) SQL
7 36 (11.21%) Go
7 36 (11.21%) Lua
8 30 (9.35%) Shell Script
9 20 (6.23%) Groovy
10 13 (4.05%) C++
11 7 (2.18%) C#
12 4 (1.25%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.25%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.62%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.62%) Scala
14 1 (0.31%) F#
14 1 (0.31%) Perl
14 1 (0.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 120 (37.38%) Security Cleared
2 96 (29.91%) DV Cleared
3 73 (22.74%) SC Cleared
4 3 (0.93%) Degree
5 2 (0.62%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.31%) OCP
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
1 1 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 200 (62.31%) Docker
2 48 (14.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (13.71%) Hyper-V
4 9 (2.80%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (2.49%) Active Directory
6 5 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.93%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.31%) KVM
8 1 (0.31%) Lustre
8 1 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 245 (76.32%) Kubernetes
2 164 (51.09%) Ansible
3 156 (48.60%) Terraform
4 98 (30.53%) Puppet
5 34 (10.59%) Prometheus
6 33 (10.28%) Progress Chef
7 30 (9.35%) Grafana
8 17 (5.30%) HAProxy
9 16 (4.98%) Nagios
10 12 (3.74%) Istio
11 8 (2.49%) Docker Swarm
11 8 (2.49%) Kibana
11 8 (2.49%) SCCM
11 8 (2.49%) vCenter Server
12 7 (2.18%) EMC NetWorker
13 5 (1.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (1.25%) logstash
15 3 (0.93%) ZABBIX
16 2 (0.62%) Salt
Vendors
1 161 (50.16%) Red Hat
2 66 (20.56%) IBM
3 65 (20.25%) Oracle
4 54 (16.82%) VMware
5 53 (16.51%) Google
6 27 (8.41%) SaltStack
7 13 (4.05%) Dynatrace
7 13 (4.05%) Microsoft
8 12 (3.74%) Splunk
8 12 (3.74%) Sybase
9 9 (2.80%) Atlassian
10 8 (2.49%) New Relic
11 7 (2.18%) Aruba
11 7 (2.18%) EMC
11 7 (2.18%) Meraki
11 7 (2.18%) SolarWinds
11 7 (2.18%) Veeam
12 1 (0.31%) Adobe
12 1 (0.31%) NVIDIA