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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 601 429 426
Rank change year-on-year -172 -3 +107
Permanent jobs citing OpenShift 313 729 1,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.72% 0.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.88% 1.68% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 190 352 365
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,125 £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% +8.84%
75th Percentile £112,500 £105,313 £110,000
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 35,381 43,379 75,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.70% 42.80% 48.33%
Number of salaries quoted 26,736 28,530 41,309
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,784 £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 £96,250 £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 9 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 9 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 -144 292 £80,000 +3.90% 37
UK excluding London -101 208 £70,576 +12.92% 24
South West -19 117 £63,750 -1.92% 13
London -103 101 £105,000 +13.92% 12
Work from Home -94 57 £70,576 +1.62% 29
South East +18 42 £87,500 -6.67% 7
North of England -28 30 £70,576 +14.29% 1
North West -21 20 £66,538 +10.90% 1
Scotland -68 15 £70,576 +8.58% 1
Yorkshire +45 10 £70,576 +12.92%
Wales +4 3 £70,576 +17.63%
West Midlands +2 1 £55,000 -11.29%
Midlands -23 1 £55,000 -11.29%

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 57 (18.21%) nginx
2 47 (15.02%) Apache
3 45 (14.38%) Apache Spark
4 36 (11.50%) Camunda
5 17 (5.43%) Jupyter
6 4 (1.28%) Confluence
6 4 (1.28%) JBoss
7 3 (0.96%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 211 (67.41%) AWS
2 131 (41.85%) Azure
3 70 (22.36%) Serverless
4 68 (21.73%) AWS Lambda
5 67 (21.41%) Amazon S3
6 64 (20.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 50 (15.97%) GCP
8 48 (15.34%) IBM Cloud
9 40 (12.78%) Amazon EKS
10 38 (12.14%) Amazon EC2
11 37 (11.82%) SaaS
12 33 (10.54%) Amazon ECS
13 32 (10.22%) Amazon SQS
14 17 (5.43%) MinIO
15 14 (4.47%) GitHub
16 13 (4.15%) OCI
16 13 (4.15%) Route 53
17 12 (3.83%) Amazon ECR
18 7 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
19 5 (1.60%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 36 (11.50%) DNS
1 36 (11.50%) TCP/IP
2 35 (11.18%) DHCP
2 35 (11.18%) HTTP
3 31 (9.90%) AMQP
4 7 (2.24%) WLAN
5 5 (1.60%) Network Security
5 5 (1.60%) SSL
6 2 (0.64%) Firewall
6 2 (0.64%) Internet
7 1 (0.32%) FTP
7 1 (0.32%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.32%) IPv4
7 1 (0.32%) OSPF
7 1 (0.32%) SAN
7 1 (0.32%) VLAN
7 1 (0.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (19.49%) MongoDB
2 52 (16.61%) Big Data
3 50 (15.97%) Amazon RDS
4 45 (14.38%) Hadoop
5 39 (12.46%) Oracle Database
6 34 (10.86%) Amazon Redshift
7 26 (8.31%) Cloudera CDH
8 20 (6.39%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (6.07%) SQL Server
10 17 (5.43%) Presto
10 17 (5.43%) Relational Database
11 12 (3.83%) DB2
11 12 (3.83%) RDBMS
12 9 (2.88%) MySQL
12 9 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (2.24%) NoSQL
14 6 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (1.92%) InfluxDB
15 5 (1.60%) Couchbase
16 2 (0.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 106 (33.87%) Jenkins
2 51 (16.29%) Artifactory
3 39 (12.46%) 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%) Bitbucket
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%) Maven
8 4 (1.28%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.28%) Gradle
8 4 (1.28%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.96%) GoCD
9 3 (0.96%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.96%) Travis CI
General
1 89 (28.43%) Finance
2 52 (16.61%) Public Sector
3 51 (16.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 45 (14.38%) Banking
5 40 (12.78%) Aerospace
6 32 (10.22%) Front Office
6 32 (10.22%) Social Skills
7 27 (8.63%) Retail Banking
8 17 (5.43%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.28%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.32%) Advertising
12 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.32%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 101 (32.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 79 (25.24%) Senior
3 44 (14.06%) Software Engineer
4 43 (13.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 41 (13.10%) AWS Engineer
6 36 (11.50%) Full Stack Engineer
7 34 (10.86%) AWS DevOps
7 34 (10.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 34 (10.86%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 34 (10.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 32 (10.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 31 (9.90%) Senior DevOps
9 31 (9.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 30 (9.58%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 24 (7.67%) Architect
12 20 (6.39%) Data Engineer
13 18 (5.75%) Developer
14 17 (5.43%) Platform Engineer
14 17 (5.43%) Senior Support Engineer
14 17 (5.43%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (23.32%) React
2 65 (20.77%) Node.js
3 64 (20.45%) Swagger
4 56 (17.89%) Spring
5 49 (15.65%) RabbitMQ
6 43 (13.74%) Spring Boot
7 36 (11.50%) J2EE
7 36 (11.50%) KeystoneJS
8 29 (9.27%) REST
9 28 (8.95%) AngularJS
10 26 (8.31%) gRPC
10 26 (8.31%) Material-UI
10 26 (8.31%) OpenAPI
11 24 (7.67%) Elastic Stack
12 23 (7.35%) Kafka
13 21 (6.71%) YAML
14 20 (6.39%) ActiveMQ
15 17 (5.43%) Apache NiFi
16 15 (4.79%) .NET
16 15 (4.79%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 66 (21.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 48 (15.34%) Blockchain
2 48 (15.34%) e-Learning
3 32 (10.22%) Tandem
4 29 (9.27%) Public Cloud
5 27 (8.63%) Linux Command Line
6 26 (8.31%) 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
1 157 (50.16%) Linux
2 90 (28.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 67 (21.41%) Windows
4 48 (15.34%) CentOS
5 27 (8.63%) Ubuntu
6 26 (8.31%) Debian
7 20 (6.39%) CoreOS
8 17 (5.43%) Unix
9 11 (3.51%) 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
1 175 (55.91%) DevOps
2 145 (46.33%) Agile
3 118 (37.70%) CI/CD
4 81 (25.88%) Software Engineering
5 78 (24.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 76 (24.28%) Mentoring
7 75 (23.96%) Containerisation
8 63 (20.13%) Open Source
9 61 (19.49%) Actionable Insight
10 57 (18.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 56 (17.89%) Customer Service
12 55 (17.57%) Artificial Intelligence
13 52 (16.61%) Coaching
13 52 (16.61%) Microservices
14 46 (14.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 43 (13.74%) Collaborative Working
15 43 (13.74%) Configuration Management
15 43 (13.74%) Full Stack Development
16 42 (13.42%) Deployment Automation
17 41 (13.10%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 193 (61.66%) Java
2 178 (56.87%) Python
3 90 (28.75%) Bash
4 89 (28.43%) JavaScript
5 44 (14.06%) SQL
6 42 (13.42%) PowerShell
7 38 (12.14%) Go
8 36 (11.50%) Lua
9 30 (9.58%) 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
1 117 (37.38%) Security Cleared
2 95 (30.35%) DV Cleared
3 70 (22.36%) 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
1 204 (65.18%) Docker
2 47 (15.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (13.74%) Hyper-V
4 9 (2.88%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (2.56%) Active Directory
6 4 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.96%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.32%) KVM
8 1 (0.32%) Lustre
8 1 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 235 (75.08%) Kubernetes
2 151 (48.24%) Ansible
3 145 (46.33%) Terraform
4 96 (30.67%) Puppet
5 34 (10.86%) Prometheus
6 32 (10.22%) Progress Chef
7 30 (9.58%) Grafana
8 17 (5.43%) HAProxy
9 15 (4.79%) 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%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (1.28%) logstash
13 4 (1.28%) 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 64 (20.45%) Oracle
4 54 (17.25%) VMware
5 52 (16.61%) Google
6 26 (8.31%) SaltStack
7 13 (4.15%) Dynatrace
8 12 (3.83%) Microsoft
8 12 (3.83%) Sybase
9 10 (3.19%) Splunk
10 7 (2.24%) Aruba
10 7 (2.24%) Atlassian
10 7 (2.24%) EMC
10 7 (2.24%) Meraki
10 7 (2.24%) New Relic
10 7 (2.24%) SolarWinds
10 7 (2.24%) Veeam
11 1 (0.32%) Adobe
11 1 (0.32%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.32%) NVIDIA