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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 630 612
Rank change year-on-year +52 -18 +224
Permanent jobs citing OpenStack 22 46 54
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.042% 0.093% 0.12%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.73% 1.00% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 9 22 27
10th Percentile £56,300 - £40,323
25th Percentile £62,500 - £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -20.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £89,000 £73,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £78,250 -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -20.00% +7.14%

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 3,023 4,606 5,119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.81% 9.29% 11.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,196 2,773 3,989
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,725
25th Percentile £33,500 £40,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%

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 1 January 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 1 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
North of England +32 14 £74,500 -6.88% 3
Yorkshire - 9 £67,500 - 2
South East +11 7 £60,000 -9.77% 3
North West +24 5 £82,500 +3.13% 1
London +11 5 £97,500 +62.50% 6
East of England +20 1 - -
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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (72.73%) AWS
2 14 (63.64%) Amazon EKS
2 14 (63.64%) Serverless
3 13 (59.09%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (31.82%) Amazon S3
4 7 (31.82%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (27.27%) Azure
6 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (4.55%) GCP
7 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
7 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) DHCP
1 2 (9.09%) DNS
1 2 (9.09%) HTTP
1 2 (9.09%) SSL
2 1 (4.55%) Firewall
2 1 (4.55%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (59.09%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (59.09%) Git
1 13 (59.09%) Jenkins
2 4 (18.18%) GitLab
3 1 (4.55%) JIRA
3 1 (4.55%) JUnit
3 1 (4.55%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (22.73%) Public Sector
2 3 (13.64%) Banking
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) Developer
1 13 (59.09%) Java Developer
2 8 (36.36%) Full-Stack Developer
2 8 (36.36%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (4.55%) Administrator
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Backend Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.55%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (59.09%) Elastic Stack
1 13 (59.09%) Node.js
1 13 (59.09%) REST
1 13 (59.09%) Spring
1 13 (59.09%) Spring Boot
2 12 (54.55%) Web Services
3 9 (40.91%) Mustache
3 9 (40.91%) React
4 8 (36.36%) Kafka
5 4 (18.18%) AngularJS
5 4 (18.18%) Apache Camel
6 3 (13.64%) DPDK
6 3 (13.64%) eBPF
7 2 (9.09%) JSON
7 2 (9.09%) XML
8 1 (4.55%) AWS CDK
8 1 (4.55%) NETCONF
8 1 (4.55%) RESTCONF
8 1 (4.55%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 15 (68.18%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.64%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (13.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (4.55%) NVMe
4 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 14 (63.64%) Agile
3 13 (59.09%) Microservices
3 13 (59.09%) Scrum
3 13 (59.09%) TDD
4 11 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 10 (45.45%) DevOps
6 6 (27.27%) BDD
6 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (27.27%) Kanban
6 6 (27.27%) SDLC
7 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (18.18%) Process Management
7 4 (18.18%) Workflow
8 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (13.64%) Open Source
8 3 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (13.64%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) Java
1 13 (59.09%) JavaScript
2 7 (31.82%) Python
3 2 (9.09%) Bash
3 2 (9.09%) Go
4 1 (4.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
1 1 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (4.55%) LPIC
System Software
1 15 (68.18%) Docker
2 3 (13.64%) KVM
2 3 (13.64%) QEMU
3 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (9.09%) vSphere
4 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.55%) vCloud
4 1 (4.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (81.82%) Kubernetes
2 13 (59.09%) Ansible
2 13 (59.09%) Terraform
3 2 (9.09%) Grafana
3 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
3 2 (9.09%) Puppet
4 1 (4.55%) Salt
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Pega
1 4 (18.18%) WSO2
2 3 (13.64%) SaltStack
2 3 (13.64%) VMware
3 1 (4.55%) F5
3 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow