OpenStack Job Trends in the UK excluding London

OpenStack
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OpenStack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 491 625
Rank change year-on-year -23 +134 +91
Permanent jobs citing OpenStack 21 31 65
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.040% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.95% 1.27% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 8 17 38
10th Percentile £60,125 £54,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £62,188 £60,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £76,550 £79,650 £84,125
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £70,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -14.89% +0.71%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 2,216 2,433 6,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.18% 8.69% 10.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,578 1,516 4,472
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% +5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,886 £74,900
UK 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 UK excluding London

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

OpenStack job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

OpenStack
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OpenStack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OpenStack

OpenStack
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenStack in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for OpenStack in the UK excluding London

OpenStack
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenStack within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
North of England -36 14 £70,000 -9.68%
South East -17 11 £65,000 +8.33% 4
Yorkshire -32 10 £67,500 +10.20%
North West -9 4 £79,000 -1.25%
South West -36 1 - - 1
OpenStack
UK

OpenStack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 14 (66.67%) AWS
2 13 (61.90%) Amazon ECS
2 13 (61.90%) Amazon EKS
2 13 (61.90%) Serverless
3 7 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 7 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
4 6 (28.57%) Azure
5 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.76%) GCP
5 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (61.90%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (57.14%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (61.90%) Git
1 13 (61.90%) Jenkins
2 4 (19.05%) GitLab
3 2 (9.52%) JIRA
4 1 (4.76%) JUnit
General
1 5 (23.81%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Developer
1 13 (61.90%) Java Developer
2 8 (38.10%) Full-Stack Developer
2 8 (38.10%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 7 (33.33%) Senior
4 4 (19.05%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Lead
5 3 (14.29%) Project Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Project Leader
5 3 (14.29%) Senior Project Leader
5 3 (14.29%) Team Leader
6 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Backend Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (61.90%) Elastic Stack
1 13 (61.90%) Node.js
1 13 (61.90%) REST
1 13 (61.90%) Spring
1 13 (61.90%) Spring Boot
2 12 (57.14%) Web Services
3 8 (38.10%) Kafka
3 8 (38.10%) Mustache
3 8 (38.10%) React
4 5 (23.81%) AngularJS
4 5 (23.81%) Apache Camel
5 1 (4.76%) DPDK
5 1 (4.76%) eBPF
5 1 (4.76%) JSON
5 1 (4.76%) NETCONF
5 1 (4.76%) RESTCONF
5 1 (4.76%) XML
5 1 (4.76%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 13 (61.90%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (19.05%) Clustering
2 4 (19.05%) Data Centre
3 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.76%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) CentOS
2 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) CI/CD
2 15 (71.43%) Agile
3 13 (61.90%) Microservices
3 13 (61.90%) Scrum
3 13 (61.90%) TDD
4 11 (52.38%) DevOps
4 11 (52.38%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (33.33%) SDLC
6 6 (28.57%) BDD
6 6 (28.57%) Containerisation
6 6 (28.57%) Kanban
7 5 (23.81%) Process Management
7 5 (23.81%) Workflow
8 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (14.29%) ITIL
8 3 (14.29%) ITSM
8 3 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
9 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) Java
1 13 (61.90%) JavaScript
2 8 (38.10%) Python
3 7 (33.33%) Bash
4 3 (14.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) LPIC
2 2 (9.52%) Linux+ Certification
3 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 19 (90.48%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) KVM
2 1 (4.76%) QEMU
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (61.90%) Ansible
3 12 (57.14%) Terraform
4 4 (19.05%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Pega
1 5 (23.81%) WSO2
2 1 (4.76%) F5
2 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
2 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.76%) SaltStack
2 1 (4.76%) VMware