OpenShift Job Trends in Wales

Red Hat OpenShift
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring OpenShift skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 - 103
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 1 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.091% - 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.36% - 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,400 - £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 - £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.58%
75th Percentile £58,000 - £72,433
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £68,750 £110,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -37.50% +33.33% +3.13%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 279 243 485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 25.29% 32.31% 35.90%
Number of salaries quoted 135 148 431
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,290
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +9.47% +5.56%
75th Percentile £61,248 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £79,516 £78,750 £72,433
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

OpenShift job vacancy trend in Wales

OpenShift
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing OpenShift.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the Wales region over the 6 months to 18 February 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
West Wales - 1 £55,200 -
OpenShift
UK

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Software Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Delphi
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle