The first table below looks at the demand for OpenStack skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OpenStack over the 3 months to 20 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.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
OpenStack
Rank 784 897 856
Rank change year-on-year
+113 -41
Permanent jobs citing OpenStack 75 15 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.070% 0.012% 0.007%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.326% 0.060% 0.034%
Number of salaries quoted 62 7 8
Average salary £55,500 £35,000 £70,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+58.57% -50.00%
UK excluding London average salary £57,500 £35,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year
+64.28% -50.00%
All Application Platforms
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
23017 24810 23270
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 21.44% 20.49% 19.12%
Number of salaries quoted 19551 21581 20036
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -

OpenStack
Jobs Demand Trend

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

OpenStack Jobs Demand Trend

OpenStack
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing OpenStack within the UK.

OpenStack Salary Trend

OpenStack
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing OpenStack over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 within the UK.

OpenStack Salary Histogram

OpenStack
Top 20 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 UK over the 3 months to 20 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
England +82 71 £57,500 +64.28%
London +85 46 £55,250 -
South East - 19 £60,000 -
Staines - 9 £57,500 -
Surrey - 9 £57,500 -
City of London - 8 £57,500 -
Berkshire - 7 £95,000 -
Scotland - 4 £50,000 -
Glasgow - 4 £50,000 -
Reading - 4 £95,000 -
Middlesex - 3 - -
Northamptonshire - 2 £42,500 -
East Midlands - 2 £42,500 -
Northampton - 2 £42,500 -
East of England +12 1 £53,500 +7.00%
Cambridgeshire +11 1 £53,500 +7.00%
Cambridge +5 1 £53,500 +7.00%
South West - 1 - -
Hounslow - 1 - -
Bristol - 1 - -

OpenStack
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 63 (64.29%) MySQL
2 62 (63.27%) Linux
3 51 (52.04%) Java
4 31 (31.63%) Scrum
5 30 (30.61%) Jenkins
6 29 (29.59%) Maven
7 24 (24.49%) Agile Software Development
8 23 (23.47%) Puppet
8 23 (23.47%) Ruby
9 22 (22.45%) PHP
9 22 (22.45%) UNIX
9 22 (22.45%) Windows
10 21 (21.43%) Spring
11 20 (20.41%) Release Management
12 19 (19.39%) NoSQL
13 18 (18.37%) SQL
14 16 (16.33%) GitHub
14 16 (16.33%) Degree
14 16 (16.33%) Apache
14 16 (16.33%) Python
14 16 (16.33%) VMware
14 16 (16.33%) Hibernate
15 14 (14.29%) Subversion
15 14 (14.29%) Internet
15 14 (14.29%) J2EE
15 14 (14.29%) CloudStack
15 14 (14.29%) Open Source
16 13 (13.27%) Cisco
17 12 (12.24%) DNS
18 11 (11.22%) HTML

OpenStack
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 21 (21.43%) Spring
2 16 (16.33%) Hibernate
3 14 (14.29%) J2EE
4 11 (11.22%) HTML
5 8 (8.163%) Java EE
6 7 (7.143%) JSON
6 7 (7.143%) CSS
6 7 (7.143%) MapReduce
7 6 (6.122%) JPA
8 5 (5.102%) Struts
8 5 (5.102%) XML
8 5 (5.102%) XSLT
8 5 (5.102%) AppFuse
8 5 (5.102%) GWT
8 5 (5.102%) jQuery
9 4 (4.082%) JMX
9 4 (4.082%) Middleware
9 4 (4.082%) Web Services
9 4 (4.082%) YAML
9 4 (4.082%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 16 (16.33%) Apache
2 14 (14.29%) CloudStack
3 11 (11.22%) Windows Azure
4 10 (10.20%) Tomcat
5 9 (9.184%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (7.143%) Kafka
6 7 (7.143%) Apache Pig
7 5 (5.102%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (4.082%) nginx
9 3 (3.061%) IIS
9 3 (3.061%) Rackspace Cloud
10 2 (2.041%) Liferay
11 1 (1.020%) Apache Solr
11 1 (1.020%) SharePoint
11 1 (1.020%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 4 (4.082%) MS Excel
2 2 (2.041%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (2.041%) Google Apps
2 2 (2.041%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.29%) Internet
2 12 (12.24%) DNS
3 10 (10.20%) HTTP
4 7 (7.143%) SSH
5 5 (5.102%) HTTPS
5 5 (5.102%) SAN
5 5 (5.102%) TCP/IP
5 5 (5.102%) FTP
6 4 (4.082%) SNMP
6 4 (4.082%) Network Security
7 3 (3.061%) NAS
7 3 (3.061%) SMTP
8 2 (2.041%) LAN
8 2 (2.041%) WAN
8 2 (2.041%) VLAN
9 1 (1.020%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (1.020%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (64.29%) MySQL
2 19 (19.39%) NoSQL
3 10 (10.20%) MongoDB
3 10 (10.20%) SQL Server
4 8 (8.163%) Big Data
5 7 (7.143%) HBase
5 7 (7.143%) Data Mining
5 7 (7.143%) Hadoop
5 7 (7.143%) Apache Hive
6 3 (3.061%) SQL Server 2005
6 3 (3.061%) SQL Server 2008
6 3 (3.061%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.041%) Redis
7 2 (2.041%) OrientDB
7 2 (2.041%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.020%) DB2
8 1 (1.020%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 30 (30.61%) Jenkins
2 29 (29.59%) Maven
3 16 (16.33%) GitHub
4 14 (14.29%) Subversion
5 10 (10.20%) Git (software)
6 8 (8.163%) FogBugz
7 6 (6.122%) Hudson
8 5 (5.102%) JIRA
8 5 (5.102%) Ant
8 5 (5.102%) Eclipse
8 5 (5.102%) JMeter
9 3 (3.061%) Visual Studio
10 1 (1.020%) Selenium
10 1 (1.020%) Artifactory
General
1 11 (11.22%) Telecoms
1 11 (11.22%) Marketing
2 6 (6.122%) Finance
3 3 (3.061%) Games
Job Titles
1 17 (17.35%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (15.31%) Developer
3 14 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
4 10 (10.20%) Senior Developer
5 8 (8.163%) Administrator
5 8 (8.163%) Systems Administrator
5 8 (8.163%) Team Leader
5 8 (8.163%) Product Manager
5 8 (8.163%) Java Team Leader
6 7 (7.143%) Systems Engineer
7 6 (6.122%) Architect
7 6 (6.122%) Chief Technology Officer
8 5 (5.102%) Technical Leader
8 5 (5.102%) Systems Support
8 5 (5.102%) Support Engineer
8 5 (5.102%) Lead Developer
8 5 (5.102%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 5 (5.102%) Systems Support Engineer
8 5 (5.102%) Linux Administrator
9 3 (3.061%) Senior Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.29%) Open Source
2 10 (10.20%) IaaS
3 9 (9.184%) Management Information System
4 7 (7.143%) Statistics
4 7 (7.143%) PaaS
5 6 (6.122%) Computer Science
6 5 (5.102%) Eucalyptus
6 5 (5.102%) SaaS
7 4 (4.082%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (3.061%) Client/Server
8 3 (3.061%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (2.041%) Spread Betting
9 2 (2.041%) Mathematics
9 2 (2.041%) DataPower
10 1 (1.020%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (1.020%) Social Media
10 1 (1.020%) Online Games
10 1 (1.020%) Firmware
10 1 (1.020%) Biometrics
10 1 (1.020%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 62 (63.27%) Linux
2 22 (22.45%) UNIX
2 22 (22.45%) Windows
3 8 (8.163%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (5.102%) Android
5 3 (3.061%) CentOS
6 2 (2.041%) Mac OS X
7 1 (1.020%) Gentoo
7 1 (1.020%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.020%) Windows Mobile
7 1 (1.020%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (31.63%) Scrum
2 24 (24.49%) Agile Software Development
3 20 (20.41%) Release Management
4 11 (11.22%) Multithreading
4 11 (11.22%) Product Management
5 10 (10.20%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (10.20%) ITIL
6 9 (9.184%) B2B
6 9 (9.184%) Project Management
7 7 (7.143%) E-Commerce
7 7 (7.143%) SOA
7 7 (7.143%) Use Case
7 7 (7.143%) Configuration Management
7 7 (7.143%) Complex Event Processing
8 6 (6.122%) Service Management
8 6 (6.122%) B2C
9 5 (5.102%) RUP
9 5 (5.102%) DSDM
9 5 (5.102%) Test-First Development
9 5 (5.102%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 51 (52.04%) Java
2 23 (23.47%) Ruby
3 22 (22.45%) PHP
4 18 (18.37%) SQL
5 16 (16.33%) Python
6 9 (9.184%) Bash shell
6 9 (9.184%) Perl
6 9 (9.184%) Shell Script
7 8 (8.163%) C#
8 3 (3.061%) C++
9 2 (2.041%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.041%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 16 (16.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.020%) SLA
1 1 (1.020%) QA
System Software
1 11 (11.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.061%) qmail
2 3 (3.061%) Postfix
2 3 (3.061%) XenApp
2 3 (3.061%) Xen
3 2 (2.041%) vCloud
4 1 (1.020%) XenServer
4 1 (1.020%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 23 (23.47%) Puppet
2 7 (7.143%) Nagios
3 3 (3.061%) ZABBIX
3 3 (3.061%) Tivoli
4 1 (1.020%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 16 (16.33%) VMware
2 13 (13.27%) Cisco
3 9 (9.184%) JBoss
4 8 (8.163%) Rackspace
5 7 (7.143%) Microsoft
6 6 (6.122%) Red Hat
7 5 (5.102%) Intel
7 5 (5.102%) Citrix
7 5 (5.102%) Juniper
7 5 (5.102%) IBM
7 5 (5.102%) Oracle
8 4 (4.082%) HP
9 2 (2.041%) EMC
9 2 (2.041%) ATG
9 2 (2.041%) Google
9 2 (2.041%) hybris
10 1 (1.020%) Twitter
10 1 (1.020%) SAP
London
Excellent career progression and opportunity to increase and learn a variety of technologies including Jenkins/Maven/GitHub... DevOps Developer/Developer in Test/Chef/Maven/Jenkins/Java... Provide release...
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Salary: From £55,000 to £60,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
London
Excellent career progression and opportunity to increase and learn a variety of technologies including Jenkins/Maven/GitHub... Provide release Management to Scrum Teams delivering digital projects run both...
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Salary: From £50,000 to £55,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire or London
In depth technical experience with the following technologies: Internet Technologies: HTTP, TCP/IP, DNS, UDP, SPDY, Apache, Github Programming Languages: Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, C++ Operating systems: Linux,...
Verizon
Salary: competitive, plus bonus and full benefits package
Posted: 19 May 2013
London
Senior Systems Support Engineer, Application - eCommerce - Central London - Linux /Apache / MySQL / Jboss. Senior Systems Support Engineer, Application (Application Support, Systems Support, Web Support, Linux Apache, MySQL, Jboss, Perl,...
Mortimer Spinks
Salary: £54000 - £57000 per annum
Posted: 19 May 2013
UK
It utilises the following technologies on a day to day basis: ==> Linux such as RHEL, Windows Server, ==> SQL Server, MySQL, NoSQL, ==> VMware, ==> Openstack, Openshift, ==> Intel ESG, Cisco and...
Atos
Posted: 23 April 2013
Slough, UK
Familiar with RAID levels, ISCSI and SAN technology - Database installation and configuration, preferably Microsoft SQL and Oracle - Operating system installation, configuration and management of Microsoft windows O/S...
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Salary: Competitive
Posted: 19 May 2013