OpenStack Job Trends in Reading

OpenStack
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring OpenStack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 55 70
Rank change year-on-year +12 +15 +44
Permanent jobs citing OpenStack 6 18 36
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 1.01% 2.48% 3.37%
As % of the Application Platforms category 14.63% 20.69% 20.11%
Number of salaries quoted 0 7 15
10th Percentile - - £76,000
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 - - -
Berkshire median annual salary - £72,500 £83,750
% change year-on-year - -13.43% +4.69%

All Application Platform Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 41 87 179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 6.91% 12.00% 16.76%
Number of salaries quoted 23 35 114
10th Percentile £30,400 £36,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,050
Median % change year-on-year - -9.17% -11.92%
75th Percentile £60,625 £60,000 £60,025
90th Percentile £65,500 £78,250 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £45,000 £53,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.89% +1.90% -4.55%

OpenStack
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

OpenStack job vacancy trend in Reading

OpenStack
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing OpenStack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing OpenStack

OpenStack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 6 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Git
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) JUnit
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (100.00%) Kafka
1 6 (100.00%) Mustache
1 6 (100.00%) Node.js
1 6 (100.00%) React
1 6 (100.00%) REST
1 6 (100.00%) Spring
1 6 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (83.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
1 6 (100.00%) Scrum
1 6 (100.00%) SDLC
1 6 (100.00%) TDD
2 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (16.67%) Biometrics
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes