OpenStack
UK

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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 761 673 751
Rank change year-on-year -88 +78 -13
Permanent jobs citing OpenStack 28 14 61
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.026% 0.028% 0.074%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.62% 0.32% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 12 7 46
10th Percentile - - £37,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £75,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +17.19% +2.40%
75th Percentile £77,500 £79,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,000 £103,600 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +9.38% +2.40%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,540 4,392 7,599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.24% 8.75% 9.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,203 2,957 5,088
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £53,818
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.45% -4.75%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -5.60%

OpenStack
Job Vacancy Trend

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

OpenStack job vacancy trend in the UK

OpenStack
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OpenStack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OpenStack

OpenStack
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenStack over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for OpenStack in the UK

OpenStack
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenStack within the UK over the 6 months to 17 August 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
England -55 28 £73,750 -1.67% 13
UK excluding London -84 26 £72,500 +3.57% 10
South East -35 11 £75,000 +15.38% 5
South West -68 10 £55,000 -21.43% 3
Work from Home -41 6 £70,000 -6.67% 3
North West -13 5 - - 1
North of England -51 5 - - 1
London -53 3 £86,250 -13.75% 3

OpenStack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (3.57%) JBoss
1 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) OpenShift
2 8 (28.57%) PaaS
3 6 (21.43%) AWS
4 4 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (14.29%) Azure
4 4 (14.29%) Serverless
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.57%) GCP
5 1 (3.57%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) LAN
1 2 (7.14%) WAN
2 1 (3.57%) Firewall
2 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.57%) InfluxDB
3 1 (3.57%) MariaDB
3 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.57%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (39.29%) Git
2 4 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.57%) GitLab
3 1 (3.57%) JUnit
General
1 10 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Administrator
1 8 (28.57%) Systems Administrator
2 7 (25.00%) Lead
2 7 (25.00%) Team Leader
3 6 (21.43%) Senior
4 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Java Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Java Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Presales Solution Architect
8 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Site Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.57%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (14.29%) Node.js
2 4 (14.29%) REST
2 4 (14.29%) Spring
2 4 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 4 (14.29%) Web Services
3 3 (10.71%) AngularJS
3 3 (10.71%) Apache Camel
4 2 (7.14%) Mustache
5 1 (3.57%) Hibernate
5 1 (3.57%) Jakarta EE
5 1 (3.57%) Kafka
5 1 (3.57%) React
5 1 (3.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Social Media
2 5 (17.86%) Data Centre
2 5 (17.86%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
4 2 (7.14%) Clustering
4 2 (7.14%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (71.43%) Linux
2 9 (32.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (25.00%) Debian
4 5 (17.86%) CentOS
5 3 (10.71%) VMS
6 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (82.14%) DevOps
2 22 (78.57%) CI/CD
3 20 (71.43%) Agile
4 16 (57.14%) ITIL
5 9 (32.14%) Infrastructure Automation
5 9 (32.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (28.57%) AI
6 8 (28.57%) Customer Experience
6 8 (28.57%) Microservices
6 8 (28.57%) RBAC
6 8 (28.57%) Time Management
7 7 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (25.00%) High Availability
8 6 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
9 5 (17.86%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (17.86%) Scrum
10 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
10 4 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 6 (21.43%) Python
2 5 (17.86%) Bash
2 5 (17.86%) Java
3 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.57%) Perl
4 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (10.71%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.57%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) GDPR
1 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.57%) NIST
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 21 (75.00%) Docker
2 7 (25.00%) Ceph
3 4 (14.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (92.86%) Kubernetes
2 23 (82.14%) Ansible
3 9 (32.14%) Puppet
4 8 (28.57%) Terraform
5 7 (25.00%) Argo
5 7 (25.00%) Check_MK
5 7 (25.00%) Istio
5 7 (25.00%) Podman
5 7 (25.00%) Prometheus
5 7 (25.00%) ZABBIX
6 3 (10.71%) Grafana
7 1 (3.57%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Red Hat
2 7 (25.00%) Dell
3 2 (7.14%) Pega
3 2 (7.14%) VMware
3 2 (7.14%) WSO2
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco
4 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.57%) Juniper
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle