OpenStack Job Trends in England

OpenStack
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring OpenStack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 658 609 752
Rank change year-on-year -49 +143 +78
Permanent jobs citing OpenStack 24 24 84
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.030% 0.061% 0.100%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.73% 0.64% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 11 13 62
10th Percentile £61,250 £61,100 £37,500
25th Percentile £65,625 £62,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -7.14%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,000 £77,500
90th Percentile - - £83,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -3.70%

All Application Platform Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,288 3,752 8,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.09% 9.60% 10.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,426 2,646 6,560
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,942 £112,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

OpenStack
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

OpenStack job vacancy trend in England

OpenStack
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing OpenStack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing OpenStack

OpenStack
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenStack in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for OpenStack in England

OpenStack
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenStack within the England region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
South East -5 15 £68,750 +3.38% 1
North of England -30 9 £70,000 -12.50%
Yorkshire -48 7 £70,000 +14.29%
London -17 3 £85,000 +1.49% 3
South West -48 3 - - 3
North West -6 2 - -
OpenStack
UK

OpenStack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.17%) JBoss
1 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 12 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 12 (50.00%) AWS
1 12 (50.00%) Serverless
2 7 (29.17%) Amazon S3
2 7 (29.17%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 2 (8.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) LAN
1 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (54.17%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (41.67%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.17%) InfluxDB
4 1 (4.17%) MariaDB
4 1 (4.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (50.00%) Git
1 12 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (16.67%) GitLab
3 2 (8.33%) JIRA
3 2 (8.33%) JUnit
General
1 2 (8.33%) Aerospace
1 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Finance
2 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Developer
2 11 (45.83%) Java Developer
3 8 (33.33%) Senior
4 7 (29.17%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (25.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 6 (25.00%) Lead
5 6 (25.00%) Team Leader
6 5 (20.83%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (16.67%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 3 (12.50%) Project Engineer
8 3 (12.50%) Project Leader
8 3 (12.50%) Senior Project Leader
9 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
9 2 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
10 1 (4.17%) Backend Developer
10 1 (4.17%) Java Engineer
10 1 (4.17%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
10 1 (4.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 1 (4.17%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 12 (50.00%) Node.js
1 12 (50.00%) REST
1 12 (50.00%) Spring
1 12 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 11 (45.83%) Web Services
3 10 (41.67%) Mustache
4 9 (37.50%) React
5 8 (33.33%) Kafka
6 3 (12.50%) AngularJS
6 3 (12.50%) Apache Camel
7 2 (8.33%) JSON
7 2 (8.33%) XML
8 1 (4.17%) J2EE
8 1 (4.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (33.33%) Data Centre
3 4 (16.67%) Clustering
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (41.67%) Linux
2 5 (20.83%) CentOS
3 4 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (12.50%) Debian
4 3 (12.50%) VMS
5 1 (4.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 16 (66.67%) Agile
3 13 (54.17%) DevOps
3 13 (54.17%) Microservices
4 12 (50.00%) Scrum
4 12 (50.00%) TDD
5 9 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (29.17%) SDLC
7 6 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 6 (25.00%) ITIL
8 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (20.83%) Kanban
8 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (16.67%) BDD
9 4 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
10 3 (12.50%) Coaching
10 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
10 3 (12.50%) ITSM
11 2 (8.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) Java
2 11 (45.83%) JavaScript
3 7 (29.17%) Bash
3 7 (29.17%) Python
4 3 (12.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) LPIC
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Linux+ Certification
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.17%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 20 (83.33%) Docker
2 4 (16.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (4.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 16 (66.67%) Ansible
3 9 (37.50%) Terraform
4 7 (29.17%) Puppet
5 3 (12.50%) Grafana
5 3 (12.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Pega
1 2 (8.33%) Red Hat
1 2 (8.33%) WSO2
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco
2 1 (4.17%) Fortinet
2 1 (4.17%) Juniper
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle
2 1 (4.17%) VMware