OpenStack Job Trends in the South East

OpenStack
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring OpenStack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 246 319
Rank change year-on-year -20 +73 +74
Permanent jobs citing OpenStack 12 20 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.097% 0.28% 0.30%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.46% 3.75% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6 11 24
10th Percentile £59,375 - £37,500
25th Percentile £62,188 - £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £60,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -27.27% +24.53%
75th Percentile £71,563 £69,875 £83,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £68,750 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% -20.00% +7.14%

All Application Platform Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 487 533 1,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.95% 7.48% 9.29%
Number of salaries quoted 383 297 1,012
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £32,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -14.14%
75th Percentile £59,625 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

OpenStack
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

OpenStack job vacancy trend in the South East

OpenStack
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing OpenStack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing OpenStack

OpenStack
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenStack within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 March 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
West Sussex -13 6 £66,250 +10.42% 2
Berkshire -14 6 - - 1
Thames Valley -21 6 - - 1
OpenStack
England

OpenStack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 6 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 6 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 6 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
1 6 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Git
1 6 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (33.33%) GitLab
3 2 (16.67%) JIRA
4 1 (8.33%) JUnit
General
1 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Senior
2 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 6 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 4 (33.33%) Lead
3 4 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Team Leader
4 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 3 (25.00%) Project Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Project Leader
4 3 (25.00%) Senior Project Leader
5 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 2 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (50.00%) Kafka
1 6 (50.00%) Mustache
1 6 (50.00%) Node.js
1 6 (50.00%) React
1 6 (50.00%) REST
1 6 (50.00%) Spring
1 6 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (41.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (41.67%) Data Centre
3 4 (33.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) CentOS
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Debian
3 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu
3 1 (8.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) CI/CD
2 7 (58.33%) Agile
3 6 (50.00%) Microservices
3 6 (50.00%) Scrum
3 6 (50.00%) SDLC
3 6 (50.00%) TDD
4 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 4 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (33.33%) ITIL
5 3 (25.00%) DevOps
5 3 (25.00%) ITSM
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
6 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (8.33%) Coaching
7 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (8.33%) Sprint Planning
7 1 (8.33%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Java
1 6 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (41.67%) Bash
2 5 (41.67%) Python
3 3 (25.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) LPIC
2 2 (16.67%) Linux+ Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 12 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (50.00%) Ansible
3 5 (41.67%) Puppet
3 5 (41.67%) Terraform
4 1 (8.33%) Grafana
4 1 (8.33%) ZABBIX