The first table below looks at the demand for OpenStack skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OpenStack over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category for the Cambridgeshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
OpenStack
Rank 142 149 141
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -8
Permanent jobs citing OpenStack 1 3 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 0.038% 0.103% 0.203%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.185% 0.621% 1.288%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 6
Average salary £53,500 £50,000 £70,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.00% -28.57%
UK excluding London average salary £57,500 £35,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year
+64.28% -50.00%
All Application Platforms
Cambridgeshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
540 483 466
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 20.72% 16.56% 15.79%
Number of salaries quoted 491 440 376
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
OpenStack
East of England

OpenStack
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing OpenStack across the Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Cambridgeshire OpenStack Jobs Demand Trend

OpenStack
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing OpenStack across the Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire OpenStack Salary Trend

OpenStack
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenStack within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridge +6 1 £53,500 +7.00%
OpenStack
East of England

OpenStack
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing OpenStack also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited OpenStack.

1 2 (100.00%) Xen
2 1 (50.00%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (50.00%) XenServer
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) CFEngine
2 1 (50.00%) vCloud
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) DB2
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Replication
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering

OpenStack
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing OpenStack also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited OpenStack. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) OpenLDAP
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) DB2
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Graduate
1 1 (50.00%) Junior
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Xen
2 1 (50.00%) XenServer
2 1 (50.00%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) CFEngine