OpenWrt Job Trends in the South West

OpenWrt
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring OpenWrt skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing OpenWrt 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.025% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.17% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £85,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 - -
75th Percentile £95,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £90,000 £55,000 -
% change year-on-year +63.64% - -

All Operating Systems
South West

OpenWrt falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 572 1,028 946
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.55% 16.86% 21.10%
Number of salaries quoted 337 648 760
10th Percentile £27,000 £10,258 £28,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £30,000 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £42,750 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.45% -12.76% +3.16%
75th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £42,000 £50,000 £50,521
% change year-on-year -16.00% -1.03% -3.77%

OpenWrt
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

OpenWrt job vacancy trend in the South West

OpenWrt
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenWrt within the South West region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
Somerset - 1 £90,000 - 4
OpenWrt
England

OpenWrt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) AutoCAD
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Modbus
1 1 (100.00%) RS-485
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Head of Technology
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CCTV
1 1 (100.00%) Derivative
1 1 (100.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Debian
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Acquisition
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) QMS
1 1 (100.00%) Quality Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) iptables
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) MikroTik