OpenStack Jobs

OpenStack
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for OpenStack skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited OpenStack over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 810 856 913
Rank change year-on-year +46 +57 -171
Permanent jobs citing OpenStack 95 90 361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.090% 0.095% 0.21%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.89% 0.85% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 65 64 103
10th Percentile £34,200 £45,000 £49,562
25th Percentile £37,500 £50,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -13.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £105,250 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,000 £58,750 £58,750
% change year-on-year +8.94% - -7.84%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

OpenStack is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 10,683 10,621 23,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.15% 11.20% 14.06%
Number of salaries quoted 7,101 7,402 11,552
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £34,500 £40,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £48,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.46% +6.67% -

OpenStack
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OpenStack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OpenStack in the UK

OpenStack
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OpenStack.

Salary trend for OpenStack in the UK

OpenStack
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenStack over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for OpenStack in the UK

OpenStack
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenStack within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 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
UK excluding London +7 82 £64,000 +8.94% 8
England +67 77 £65,000 -7.14% 8
South East +23 57 £65,000 +13.04% 3
Work from Home +63 56 £65,000 -14.75% 3
London +91 25 £75,000 -3.23% 2
East of England -2 9 £52,500 -35.38% 1
Wales - 7 £34,000 -
Scotland -64 4 - - 2
North of England +29 3 £56,509 -27.09% 1
North West -15 2 £56,509 -27.09% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
Yorkshire +60 1 - -

OpenStack
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 9 (9.47%) JBoss
1 9 (9.47%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Abaqus
Cloud Services
1 64 (67.37%) AWS
2 51 (53.68%) Azure
3 44 (46.32%) Amazon EKS
4 36 (37.89%) Amazon ECS
4 36 (37.89%) Serverless
5 13 (13.68%) GCP
6 8 (8.42%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (8.42%) Amazon S3
6 8 (8.42%) CloudFront
7 7 (7.37%) Entra ID
7 7 (7.37%) Nutanix
8 6 (6.32%) GitHub
8 6 (6.32%) IaaS
9 5 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.05%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.05%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.42%) Software-Defined Networking
1 8 (8.42%) VLAN
2 7 (7.37%) DHCP
2 7 (7.37%) DNS
2 7 (7.37%) VPN
3 5 (5.26%) LAN
3 5 (5.26%) WAN
4 4 (4.21%) OpenFlow
5 3 (3.16%) InfiniBand
6 2 (2.11%) Ethernet
7 1 (1.05%) Multicast
7 1 (1.05%) Network Security
7 1 (1.05%) SAN
7 1 (1.05%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.05%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (25.26%) NoSQL
2 24 (25.26%) Relational Database
3 8 (8.42%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (8.42%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (6.32%) Big Data
5 5 (5.26%) InfluxDB
5 5 (5.26%) MariaDB
5 5 (5.26%) MySQL
6 2 (2.11%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 42 (44.21%) Jenkins
2 41 (43.16%) Git
3 9 (9.47%) JUnit
General
1 23 (24.21%) Social Skills
2 21 (22.11%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.42%) Finance
4 5 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (4.21%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 36 (37.89%) Developer
1 36 (37.89%) Java Developer
2 17 (17.89%) Senior
3 16 (16.84%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 13 (13.68%) Full Stack Developer
4 13 (13.68%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 13 (13.68%) Systems Engineer
5 10 (10.53%) Lead
5 10 (10.53%) Team Leader
6 8 (8.42%) Network Engineer
6 8 (8.42%) Senior Developer
6 8 (8.42%) Senior Java Developer
7 7 (7.37%) Architect
7 7 (7.37%) IT Support
7 7 (7.37%) IT Support Specialist
7 7 (7.37%) Linux Engineer
7 7 (7.37%) Network Systems Engineer
7 7 (7.37%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 7 (7.37%) Senior IT Support
7 7 (7.37%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
2 36 (37.89%) AngularJS
2 36 (37.89%) Apache Camel
2 36 (37.89%) Node.js
2 36 (37.89%) REST
2 36 (37.89%) Spring
2 36 (37.89%) Spring Boot
3 33 (34.74%) Web Services
4 24 (25.26%) JSON
4 24 (25.26%) XML
5 8 (8.42%) LDAP
5 8 (8.42%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (6.32%) J2EE
6 6 (6.32%) RESTful
6 6 (6.32%) SOAP
7 4 (4.21%) OpenDaylight
8 2 (2.11%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (34.74%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (27.37%) Data Centre
3 8 (8.42%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (6.32%) Cloud Native
4 6 (6.32%) Life Science
4 6 (6.32%) Public Cloud
5 5 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 5 (5.26%) PKI
6 4 (4.21%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.11%) Beowulf
8 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 55 (57.89%) Linux
2 36 (37.89%) Windows
3 8 (8.42%) Ubuntu
4 7 (7.37%) CentOS
4 7 (7.37%) Debian
4 7 (7.37%) Windows Server
5 6 (6.32%) Mesosphere
5 6 (6.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (5.26%) Windows 10
6 5 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (2.11%) SUSE
7 2 (2.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (2.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (56.84%) Agile
2 53 (55.79%) DevOps
3 37 (38.95%) CI/CD
4 36 (37.89%) BDD
4 36 (37.89%) Kanban
4 36 (37.89%) Microservices
4 36 (37.89%) Scrum
4 36 (37.89%) TDD
5 33 (34.74%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (28.42%) BPEL
7 21 (22.11%) Full Stack Development
7 21 (22.11%) Workflow
8 18 (18.95%) ITIL
8 18 (18.95%) Project Management
9 17 (17.89%) Agile Project Management
9 17 (17.89%) Hardware Maintenance
9 17 (17.89%) Mentoring
10 16 (16.84%) Computer Science
11 15 (15.79%) Process Management
12 13 (13.68%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (40.00%) Python
2 36 (37.89%) Java
2 36 (37.89%) JavaScript
3 20 (21.05%) Shell Script
4 13 (13.68%) Bash
5 12 (12.63%) SQL
6 7 (7.37%) Perl
7 6 (6.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (37.89%) Security Cleared
2 34 (35.79%) SC Cleared
3 18 (18.95%) Degree
4 16 (16.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (15.79%) AWS Certification
6 10 (10.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 9 (9.47%) Azure Certification
8 6 (6.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.11%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.05%) CCNA
10 1 (1.05%) CCNP
10 1 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (1.05%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.32%) QA
2 1 (1.05%) SLA
System Software
1 61 (64.21%) Docker
2 35 (36.84%) Hyper-V
3 27 (28.42%) Active Directory
4 13 (13.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (5.26%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 3 (3.16%) Lustre
6 3 (3.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (1.05%) KVM
7 1 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 70 (73.68%) Kubernetes
2 66 (69.47%) Ansible
3 32 (33.68%) Terraform
4 22 (23.16%) Puppet
5 17 (17.89%) ZABBIX
6 7 (7.37%) Progress Chef
6 7 (7.37%) SCCM
7 6 (6.32%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (5.26%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 1 (1.05%) Grafana
9 1 (1.05%) Icinga
9 1 (1.05%) Kibana
9 1 (1.05%) logstash
9 1 (1.05%) Oracle ZFS
9 1 (1.05%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.05%) Proxmox
9 1 (1.05%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 36 (37.89%) WSO2
2 21 (22.11%) Microsoft
3 19 (20.00%) VMware
4 11 (11.58%) Red Hat
5 5 (5.26%) Cisco
5 5 (5.26%) Fortinet
5 5 (5.26%) Juniper
6 3 (3.16%) IBM
7 2 (2.11%) EMC
7 2 (2.11%) Intel
7 2 (2.11%) Mellanox
7 2 (2.11%) NetApp
8 1 (1.05%) Amdocs
8 1 (1.05%) Dell
8 1 (1.05%) HP
8 1 (1.05%) NVIDIA
8 1 (1.05%) Supermicro