OpenStack Job Trends in the North of England

OpenStack
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring OpenStack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 251 286 269
Rank change year-on-year +35 -17 +152
Permanent jobs citing OpenStack 11 7 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.11% 0.064% 0.11%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.22% 0.83% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £64,400 - -
25th Percentile £67,250 £79,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,000 -
90th Percentile £88,400 - -
England median annual salary £79,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +31.67% -7.69% -7.14%

All Application Platform Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 496 843 707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.96% 7.75% 9.93%
Number of salaries quoted 360 469 609
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £35,982 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +3.26% -3.16%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £67,070
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,991 £82,598
England median annual salary £52,000 £57,001 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.77% +3.64% -

OpenStack
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

OpenStack job vacancy trend in the North of England

OpenStack
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing OpenStack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing OpenStack

OpenStack
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenStack in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 December 2025.

Salary histogram for OpenStack in the North of England

OpenStack
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenStack within the North of England region over the 6 months to 12 December 2025. 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
Yorkshire - 6 £65,000 - 10
North West +41 5 £82,500 +3.13% 6
OpenStack
England

OpenStack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 7 (63.64%) Amazon ECS
2 7 (63.64%) Amazon EKS
2 7 (63.64%) Serverless
3 5 (45.45%) Azure
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DHCP
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
1 2 (18.18%) HTTP
1 2 (18.18%) SSL
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (63.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Git
1 7 (63.64%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) JUnit
General
1 5 (45.45%) Public Sector
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
1 7 (63.64%) Java Developer
2 6 (54.55%) Full-Stack Developer
2 6 (54.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) Elastic Stack
1 7 (63.64%) Node.js
1 7 (63.64%) REST
1 7 (63.64%) Spring
1 7 (63.64%) Spring Boot
2 6 (54.55%) Web Services
3 4 (36.36%) AngularJS
3 4 (36.36%) Apache Camel
4 3 (27.27%) DPDK
4 3 (27.27%) eBPF
4 3 (27.27%) Kafka
4 3 (27.27%) Mustache
4 3 (27.27%) React
5 1 (9.09%) NETCONF
5 1 (9.09%) RESTCONF
5 1 (9.09%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
3 2 (18.18%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (9.09%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile
1 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 7 (63.64%) DevOps
2 7 (63.64%) Full-Stack Development
2 7 (63.64%) Microservices
2 7 (63.64%) Scrum
2 7 (63.64%) TDD
3 4 (36.36%) BDD
3 4 (36.36%) Kanban
3 4 (36.36%) Process Management
3 4 (36.36%) Workflow
4 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) Open Source
4 3 (27.27%) SDLC
4 3 (27.27%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
5 2 (18.18%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Java
1 7 (63.64%) JavaScript
2 4 (36.36%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Docker
2 3 (27.27%) KVM
2 3 (27.27%) QEMU
3 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (72.73%) Terraform
3 7 (63.64%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Pega
1 4 (36.36%) WSO2
2 3 (27.27%) SaltStack
3 1 (9.09%) F5
3 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
3 1 (9.09%) VMware