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

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 806 885 910
Rank change year-on-year +79 +25 -194
Permanent jobs citing OpenStack 105 114 309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.11% 0.20%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.98% 0.96% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 70 80 98
10th Percentile £35,825 £45,000 £50,875
25th Percentile £37,500 £50,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,125 £96,875
90th Percentile £83,750 £105,250 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,000 £65,000 £59,250
% change year-on-year -1.54% +9.70% -8.85%

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 10,703 11,842 21,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.86% 11.44% 13.87%
Number of salaries quoted 7,073 7,868 11,757
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,255
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.37% +3.34%
75th Percentile £67,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -

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 4 May 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 4 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
UK excluding London +20 87 £64,000 -1.54% 7
England +73 85 £65,000 -7.14% 10
South East +47 64 £65,000 -7.14% 3
Work from Home +88 62 £65,000 -14.75% 3
London +103 30 £75,000 -3.23% 3
East of England +20 8 £52,500 -32.26% 2
Wales - 7 £34,000 -
Scotland -62 4 - -
North of England +26 2 £56,509 -27.09% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
Yorkshire +89 1 - -
North West +3 1 £56,509 -27.09% 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 10 (9.52%) JBoss
1 10 (9.52%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Abaqus
Cloud Services
1 71 (67.62%) AWS
2 56 (53.33%) Azure
3 52 (49.52%) Amazon EKS
4 42 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
4 42 (40.00%) Serverless
5 12 (11.43%) GCP
6 10 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (9.52%) Amazon S3
6 10 (9.52%) CloudFront
7 7 (6.67%) Nutanix
8 6 (5.71%) Entra ID
8 6 (5.71%) GitHub
8 6 (5.71%) IaaS
8 6 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.95%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.95%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.62%) DHCP
1 8 (7.62%) Software-Defined Networking
1 8 (7.62%) VLAN
2 7 (6.67%) DNS
2 7 (6.67%) LAN
2 7 (6.67%) VPN
3 6 (5.71%) OpenFlow
3 6 (5.71%) WAN
4 3 (2.86%) InfiniBand
5 2 (1.90%) BGP
5 2 (1.90%) Ethernet
5 2 (1.90%) OSPF
5 2 (1.90%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.95%) Firewall
6 1 (0.95%) IPsec
6 1 (0.95%) MPLS
6 1 (0.95%) SAN
6 1 (0.95%) VoIP
6 1 (0.95%) VRRP
6 1 (0.95%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (41.90%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (27.62%) Relational Database
3 28 (26.67%) NoSQL
4 10 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (5.71%) Big Data
5 6 (5.71%) InfluxDB
5 6 (5.71%) MariaDB
5 6 (5.71%) MySQL
6 2 (1.90%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 48 (45.71%) Jenkins
2 47 (44.76%) Git
3 10 (9.52%) JUnit
General
1 27 (25.71%) Public Sector
2 24 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.67%) Finance
3 7 (6.67%) Telecoms
4 6 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.95%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 42 (40.00%) Developer
1 42 (40.00%) Java Developer
2 19 (18.10%) Senior
3 17 (16.19%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 14 (13.33%) Full Stack Developer
4 14 (13.33%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 13 (12.38%) Systems Engineer
6 10 (9.52%) Lead
6 10 (9.52%) Senior Developer
6 10 (9.52%) Senior Java Developer
6 10 (9.52%) Team Leader
7 8 (7.62%) Network Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) Architect
8 7 (6.67%) IT Support
8 7 (6.67%) IT Support Specialist
8 7 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) Network Systems Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 7 (6.67%) Senior IT Support
8 7 (6.67%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (41.90%) Elastic Stack
2 42 (40.00%) AngularJS
2 42 (40.00%) Apache Camel
2 42 (40.00%) Node.js
2 42 (40.00%) REST
2 42 (40.00%) Spring
2 42 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 38 (36.19%) Web Services
4 28 (26.67%) JSON
4 28 (26.67%) XML
5 10 (9.52%) LDAP
5 10 (9.52%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (7.62%) J2EE
6 8 (7.62%) RESTful
6 8 (7.62%) SOAP
7 6 (5.71%) OpenDaylight
8 2 (1.90%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 38 (36.19%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (27.62%) Data Centre
3 9 (8.57%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (5.71%) Algorithms
4 6 (5.71%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.71%) Life Science
4 6 (5.71%) PKI
4 6 (5.71%) Public Cloud
5 5 (4.76%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.90%) Beowulf
7 1 (0.95%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 55 (52.38%) Linux
2 39 (37.14%) Windows
3 8 (7.62%) CentOS
4 7 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (6.67%) Ubuntu
4 7 (6.67%) Windows Server
5 6 (5.71%) Debian
5 6 (5.71%) Mesosphere
5 6 (5.71%) Windows 10
5 6 (5.71%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (5.71%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (5.71%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.90%) SUSE
6 2 (1.90%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 2 (1.90%) Unix
7 1 (0.95%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (57.14%) Agile
2 58 (55.24%) DevOps
3 42 (40.00%) BDD
3 42 (40.00%) Kanban
3 42 (40.00%) Microservices
3 42 (40.00%) Scrum
3 42 (40.00%) TDD
4 37 (35.24%) CI/CD
5 32 (30.48%) BPEL
5 32 (30.48%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (23.81%) Workflow
7 22 (20.95%) Full Stack Development
8 19 (18.10%) Process Management
9 18 (17.14%) ITIL
9 18 (17.14%) Project Management
10 17 (16.19%) Agile Project Management
10 17 (16.19%) Hardware Maintenance
10 17 (16.19%) Mentoring
11 15 (14.29%) Computer Science
12 13 (12.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 42 (40.00%) Java
1 42 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 41 (39.05%) Python
3 21 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 15 (14.29%) SQL
5 13 (12.38%) Bash
6 7 (6.67%) Perl
7 6 (5.71%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 40 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 39 (37.14%) SC Cleared
3 17 (16.19%) Degree
4 16 (15.24%) AWS Certification
5 15 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (9.52%) Azure Certification
6 10 (9.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 6 (5.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.90%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.95%) CCNA
9 1 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.95%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.71%) QA
2 1 (0.95%) SLA
System Software
1 67 (63.81%) Docker
2 41 (39.05%) Hyper-V
3 29 (27.62%) Active Directory
4 13 (12.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (5.71%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 3 (2.86%) Lustre
6 3 (2.86%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.95%) Firmware
7 1 (0.95%) KVM
7 1 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 77 (73.33%) Kubernetes
2 72 (68.57%) Ansible
3 38 (36.19%) Terraform
4 22 (20.95%) Puppet
5 16 (15.24%) ZABBIX
6 7 (6.67%) Progress Chef
6 7 (6.67%) SCCM
7 6 (5.71%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (4.76%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 1 (0.95%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.95%) Grafana
9 1 (0.95%) Icinga
9 1 (0.95%) Kibana
9 1 (0.95%) logstash
9 1 (0.95%) Oracle ZFS
9 1 (0.95%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.95%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.95%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 42 (40.00%) WSO2
2 21 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 20 (19.05%) VMware
4 10 (9.52%) Red Hat
5 6 (5.71%) Cisco
5 6 (5.71%) Fortinet
5 6 (5.71%) Juniper
6 3 (2.86%) IBM
7 2 (1.90%) EMC
7 2 (1.90%) Intel
7 2 (1.90%) Mellanox
7 2 (1.90%) NetApp
8 1 (0.95%) Amdocs
8 1 (0.95%) Aruba
8 1 (0.95%) Dell
8 1 (0.95%) HP
8 1 (0.95%) Meraki
8 1 (0.95%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.95%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.95%) Supermicro