OpenStack Job Trends in the Thames Valley

OpenStack
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring OpenStack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 187 211
Rank change year-on-year +11 +24 +3
Permanent jobs citing OpenStack 2 7 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.033% 0.19% 0.32%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.07% 2.47% 3.70%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 15
10th Percentile - £47,875 -
25th Percentile - £50,313 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £56,250 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - +40.63% -48.39%
75th Percentile - £62,813 £48,159
90th Percentile - £65,625 £53,818
South East median annual salary £70,000 £56,250 £64,500
% change year-on-year +24.44% -12.79% +29.00%

All Application Platform Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 187 283 567
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.04% 7.83% 8.62%
Number of salaries quoted 123 176 415
10th Percentile £27,900 £28,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,166 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% +11.76% -15.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £65,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -13.27%

OpenStack
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

OpenStack job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

OpenStack
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing OpenStack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing OpenStack

OpenStack
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenStack within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 July 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
Berkshire +15 2 - -
OpenStack
South East

OpenStack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) JBoss
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (100.00%) Mustache
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Camel
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible