OpenStack Job Trends in Berkshire

OpenStack
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring OpenStack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 111 104
Rank change year-on-year -14 -7 +76
Permanent jobs citing OpenStack 7 17 34
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.35% 0.99% 1.74%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.64% 12.78% 12.98%
Number of salaries quoted 0 7 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £60,000 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £72,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -14.71% +6.25%
75th Percentile - £73,750 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £60,000 £66,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -9.77% -19.39% +11.86%

All Application Platform Skills
Berkshire

OpenStack falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring application platform skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 81 133 262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 4.05% 7.72% 13.44%
Number of salaries quoted 60 64 140
10th Percentile £32,050 £36,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,500 £37,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.09% +0.95% -1.87%
75th Percentile £59,063 £74,688 £60,025
90th Percentile £61,675 £82,500 £83,750
South East median annual salary £45,000 £52,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -13.46% +15.56% -10.00%

OpenStack
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OpenStack relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

OpenStack job vacancy trend in Berkshire

OpenStack
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing OpenStack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing OpenStack

OpenStack
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenStack within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 January 2026. 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
Reading +20 7 - -
OpenStack
South East

OpenStack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Git
1 7 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 7 (100.00%) Kafka
1 7 (100.00%) Mustache
1 7 (100.00%) Node.js
1 7 (100.00%) React
1 7 (100.00%) REST
1 7 (100.00%) Spring
1 7 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 6 (85.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Microservices
1 7 (100.00%) Scrum
1 7 (100.00%) TDD
2 6 (85.71%) SDLC
3 4 (57.14%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (14.29%) Biometrics
4 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Sprint Retrospective
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes