OpenStack Job Trends

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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 638 702 687
Rank change year-on-year +64 -15 +253
Permanent jobs citing OpenStack 14 49 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.027% 0.073% 0.085%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.36% 0.89% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 6 25 27
10th Percentile £57,000 £53,818 £40,323
25th Percentile £64,875 - £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £125,375 £67,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £73,750 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £79,000 £60,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +31.67% -27.27% +26.92%

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 3,923 5,485 5,979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.49% 8.14% 11.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,662 3,340 4,754
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £34,500 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £122,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.53% - -

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 12 November 2025.

Salary histogram for OpenStack in the UK

OpenStack
Top 9 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 12 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
England +61 14 £82,500 +37.50% 18
UK excluding London +63 11 £79,000 +31.67% 6
North of England +11 8 £79,000 -
London +34 5 £125,000 +108.33% 14
North West +24 5 £82,500 -
Yorkshire - 3 £65,000 -
South East +13 2 - - 2
Work from Home +40 1 - - 9
East of England +8 1 - - 1

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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 7 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 7 (50.00%) Serverless
3 6 (42.86%) Amazon ECS
3 6 (42.86%) Azure
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
5 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DHCP
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
1 2 (14.29%) HTTP
1 2 (14.29%) SSL
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (42.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Git
1 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 3 (21.43%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) JIRA
3 1 (7.14%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Developer
1 6 (42.86%) Java Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (42.86%) Node.js
1 6 (42.86%) REST
1 6 (42.86%) Spring
1 6 (42.86%) Spring Boot
1 6 (42.86%) Web Services
2 4 (28.57%) AngularJS
2 4 (28.57%) Apache Camel
3 3 (21.43%) DPDK
3 3 (21.43%) eBPF
4 2 (14.29%) Kafka
4 2 (14.29%) Mustache
4 2 (14.29%) React
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CDK
5 1 (7.14%) NETCONF
5 1 (7.14%) RESTCONF
5 1 (7.14%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 3 (21.43%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (21.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (14.29%) Virtual Team
4 1 (7.14%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 7 (50.00%) Agile
3 6 (42.86%) DevOps
3 6 (42.86%) Microservices
3 6 (42.86%) Scrum
3 6 (42.86%) TDD
4 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (28.57%) BDD
5 4 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (28.57%) Kanban
5 4 (28.57%) Process Management
5 4 (28.57%) Workflow
6 3 (21.43%) Data Protection
6 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (21.43%) Open Source
6 3 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (21.43%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 2 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Java
1 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
1 6 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Go
3 1 (7.14%) Bash
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Docker
2 3 (21.43%) KVM
2 3 (21.43%) QEMU
3 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (14.29%) vSphere
4 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
4 1 (7.14%) vCloud
4 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (85.71%) Terraform
2 10 (71.43%) Ansible
2 10 (71.43%) Kubernetes
3 2 (14.29%) Grafana
3 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 1 (7.14%) Puppet
4 1 (7.14%) Salt
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Pega
1 4 (28.57%) WSO2
2 3 (21.43%) SaltStack
2 3 (21.43%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) F5
3 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow