OpenStack Jobs

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for OpenStack skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited OpenStack over the 3 months to 28 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

OpenStack UK
Location	3 months to 28 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	488	578	626
Rank change year-on-year	+90	+48
Permanent jobs citing OpenStack	446	383	357
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.50%	0.39%	0.33%
As % of the Application Platforms category	2.78%	2.08%	1.66%
Number of salaries quoted	374	349	284
Median salary	£60,000	£57,500	£55,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	+4.34%	+4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than	£45,000	£40,000	£42,500
10% offered a salary of more than	£80,000	£80,000	£75,000
UK excluding London median salary	£57,500	£52,000	£50,000
% change year-on-year	+10.57%	+4.00%

OpenStack is in the application platform skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Application Platform Skills UK
Permanent job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills	16045	18426	21550
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	18.04%	18.73%	19.68%
Number of salaries quoted	13033	15672	17882
Median salary	£47,500	£45,000	£45,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	+5.55%	-
90% offered a salary of more than	£30,000	£28,500	£27,500
10% offered a salary of more than	£75,000	£70,000	£70,000
UK excluding London median salary	£42,500	£40,000	£40,000
% change year-on-year	+6.25%	-

OpenStack
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing OpenStack as a proportion of all permanent or contract IT jobs with a match in the Application Platforms category.

Job vacancy trend for OpenStack in the UK

OpenStack
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing OpenStack.

OpenStack
Salary Histogram

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing OpenStack over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Salary histogram for OpenStack in the UK

OpenStack
Top 30 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 3 months to 28 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+88	435	£60,000	+4.34%	62
London	+84	218	£70,000	+12.00%	23
South East	+25	53	£55,000	+15.78%	12
South West	0	38	£50,000	-23.07%	8
Manchester	-20	37	£60,000	+41.17%	7
North West	-25	37	£60,000	+41.17%	7
Yorkshire	+21	35	£57,500	+35.29%	7
East of England	+6	32	£65,000	+8.33%	3
West Yorkshire	+24	27	£58,750	+38.23%	7
Leeds	+19	27	£58,750	+38.23%	7
Hertfordshire	+12	25	£67,500	+12.50%	3
East Midlands	+32	20	£50,000	-
Bristol	-31	16	£60,000	-7.69%	4
Gloucestershire	+13	15	£47,500	-	1
City of London	+4	15	£65,000	+4.00%	6
Berkshire	+6	13	£66,250	+22.68%	2
East Sussex	-	13	£45,000	-	1
Brighton	-	13	£45,000	-	1
Hampshire	+11	12	£60,000	+60.00%	7
Farnborough	+16	11	£60,000	+106.89%	4
Nottingham	+10	10	£52,500	-41.66%
Nottinghamshire	+10	10	£52,500	-41.66%
Derbyshire	+22	9	£35,000	-9.09%
Derby	-	9	£35,000	-
Sheffield	+5	8	£57,500	-4.16%
South Yorkshire	+2	8	£57,500	-4.16%
Cheltenham	+16	7	£37,500	-
Reading	+3	7	£63,750	+16.97%	1
Surbiton	-	7	-	-
Heathrow	-	7	£57,500	-

OpenStack
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 28 June 2017, IT jobs citing OpenStack also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads with a requirement for OpenStack.

1	563 (66.94%)	Linux
2	521 (61.95%)	Amazon AWS
3	520 (61.83%)	Puppet
4	491 (58.38%)	DevOps
5	459 (54.58%)	Python
6	414 (49.23%)	Opscode Chef
7	385 (45.78%)	Agile Software Development
8	377 (44.83%)	Ansible
9	314 (37.34%)	Ruby
10	306 (36.39%)	Continuous Integration
11	297 (35.32%)	Microsoft Azure
12	274 (32.58%)	Jenkins
13	259 (30.80%)	Bash Shell
14	254 (30.20%)	Oracle
15	238 (28.30%)	Java

16	232 (27.59%)	MySQL
17	223 (26.52%)	Scrum
18	222 (26.40%)	Unix
19	216 (25.68%)	Docker
20	215 (25.56%)	VMware
21	209 (24.85%)	Configuration Management
22	183 (21.76%)	SQL
23	164 (19.50%)	Git (software)
23	164 (19.50%)	MongoDB
24	162 (19.26%)	Xen
24	162 (19.26%)	DSDM
25	161 (19.14%)	Perl
26	159 (18.91%)	TDD
27	155 (18.43%)	Degree
28	146 (17.36%)	RUP

OpenStack
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	134 (15.93%)	CloudStack
2	124 (14.74%)	WebSphere
3	120 (14.27%)	Apache
4	115 (13.67%)	Tomcat
5	113 (13.44%)	WebLogic
6	99 (11.77%)	JBoss
7	90 (10.70%)	Elasticsearch
8	76 (9.04%)	Apache Spark
9	71 (8.44%)	nginx
10	65 (7.73%)	Jetty
11	60 (7.13%)	Apache Solr
12	55 (6.54%)	IIS
13	43 (5.11%)	Cloud Foundry
14	28 (3.33%)	Confluence
14	28 (3.33%)	WebSphere Application Server
15	12 (1.43%)	ColdFusion
16	9 (1.07%)	MS Exchange
16	9 (1.07%)	SharePoint
17	8 (0.95%)	Anypoint
18	5 (0.59%)	CMS

Applications
1	2 (0.24%)	Microsoft Excel
1	2 (0.24%)	Microsoft Office
2	1 (0.12%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
2	1 (0.12%)	MS Visio

Business Applications
1	13 (1.55%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	5 (0.59%)	SAP Business One

Cloud Services
1	521 (61.95%)	Amazon AWS
2	297 (35.32%)	Microsoft Azure
3	97 (11.53%)	IaaS
4	57 (6.78%)	Google Cloud Platform
4	57 (6.78%)	PaaS
5	40 (4.76%)	Amazon EC2
6	37 (4.40%)	OpenShift
7	33 (3.92%)	GitHub
8	26 (3.09%)	Cloud Computing
9	23 (2.73%)	AWS CloudFormation
10	21 (2.50%)	Amazon S3
10	21 (2.50%)	SaaS
11	14 (1.66%)	IBM Cloud
12	13 (1.55%)	Sumo Logic
13	11 (1.31%)	AWS Lambda
14	10 (1.19%)	Amazon ELB
14	10 (1.19%)	Virtual Private Cloud
15	9 (1.07%)	Google Compute Engine
16	8 (0.95%)	Office 365
17	7 (0.83%)	Heroku

Communications & Networking
1	75 (8.92%)	Firewall
2	63 (7.49%)	TCP/IP
3	47 (5.59%)	Internet
4	44 (5.23%)	DNS
5	31 (3.69%)	HTTP
6	26 (3.09%)	VPN
7	22 (2.62%)	SAN
7	22 (2.62%)	SSL
8	21 (2.50%)	Network Security
9	18 (2.14%)	MPLS
10	16 (1.90%)	VLAN
11	15 (1.78%)	Software-Defined Networking
12	13 (1.55%)	VoIP
13	12 (1.43%)	WAN
14	11 (1.31%)	IPsec
14	11 (1.31%)	Multicast
14	11 (1.31%)	NetScaler
14	11 (1.31%)	SSH
15	10 (1.19%)	Ethernet
16	9 (1.07%)	SMTP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	232 (27.59%)	MySQL
2	164 (19.50%)	MongoDB
3	141 (16.77%)	NoSQL
4	135 (16.05%)	PostgreSQL
5	106 (12.60%)	Hadoop
6	92 (10.94%)	Big Data
7	90 (10.70%)	Redis
7	90 (10.70%)	SQL Server
8	89 (10.58%)	Apache Cassandra
9	69 (8.20%)	Couchbase
10	67 (7.97%)	Riak
11	48 (5.71%)	MariaDB
12	38 (4.52%)	Relational Database
13	22 (2.62%)	Amazon RDS
14	17 (2.02%)	RDBMS
15	16 (1.90%)	CouchDB
16	15 (1.78%)	Oracle Database
17	13 (1.55%)	SQL Server 2012
17	13 (1.55%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
18	11 (1.31%)	Data Warehouse

Development Applications
1	274 (32.58%)	Jenkins
2	164 (19.50%)	Git (software)
3	80 (9.51%)	TeamCity
4	51 (6.06%)	Vagrant
5	50 (5.95%)	JIRA
6	44 (5.23%)	Bitbucket
7	43 (5.11%)	Subversion
8	30 (3.57%)	Ant
9	29 (3.45%)	Maven
10	21 (2.50%)	Atlassian Bamboo
11	18 (2.14%)	Artifactory
11	18 (2.14%)	NUnit
11	18 (2.14%)	Sonatype Nexus
12	16 (1.90%)	MSTest
13	15 (1.78%)	Mercurial
14	14 (1.66%)	JUnit
15	13 (1.55%)	Cucumber
15	13 (1.55%)	Gerrit
15	13 (1.55%)	Gradle
16	12 (1.43%)	JMeter

General
1	93 (11.06%)	Finance
2	73 (8.68%)	Telecoms
3	61 (7.25%)	Retail
4	47 (5.59%)	Banking
5	31 (3.69%)	Marketing
6	21 (2.50%)	Games
7	16 (1.90%)	Manufacturing
8	14 (1.66%)	Electronics
9	5 (0.59%)	Legal
10	4 (0.48%)	Advertising
10	4 (0.48%)	Billing
11	2 (0.24%)	Front Office
12	1 (0.12%)	Back Office
12	1 (0.12%)	Financial Institution
12	1 (0.12%)	French Language
12	1 (0.12%)	Online Betting

Job Titles
1	266 (31.63%)	DevOps Engineer
2	167 (19.86%)	Developer
3	96 (11.41%)	Linux Engineer
4	86 (10.23%)	Platform Engineer
5	84 (9.99%)	Architect
6	82 (9.75%)	Linux/Unix DevOps
7	73 (8.68%)	Cloud Engineer
8	72 (8.56%)	Java Developer
9	70 (8.32%)	Infrastructure Engineer
10	67 (7.97%)	Senior Developer
11	55 (6.54%)	Administrator
11	55 (6.54%)	Consultant
12	52 (6.18%)	Systems Administrator
13	48 (5.71%)	Linux DevOps Engineer
14	45 (5.35%)	AWS Engineer
15	43 (5.11%)	DevOps Administrator
16	41 (4.88%)	Linux Administrator
17	40 (4.76%)	Linux Systems Administrator
18	37 (4.40%)	Cloud Architect
19	36 (4.28%)	AWS DevOps

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	91 (10.82%)	.NET
2	89 (10.58%)	AngularJS
3	87 (10.34%)	LAMP
4	72 (8.56%)	Web Services
5	58 (6.90%)	Elastic Stack
5	58 (6.90%)	HTML
5	58 (6.90%)	Lucene
5	58 (6.90%)	React
6	44 (5.23%)	CSS
7	43 (5.11%)	LEMP Stack
8	39 (4.64%)	Node.js
9	38 (4.52%)	HTML5
10	30 (3.57%)	LAPP Stack
11	24 (2.85%)	ActiveMQ
11	24 (2.85%)	Sensu
12	23 (2.73%)	jQuery
13	19 (2.26%)	Apache Flex
13	19 (2.26%)	CSS3
14	18 (2.14%)	OpenDaylight
15	16 (1.90%)	REST

Miscellaneous
1	105 (12.49%)	Computer Science
2	85 (10.11%)	Data Centre
2	85 (10.11%)	Private Cloud
3	47 (5.59%)	User Experience
4	40 (4.76%)	Greenfield Project
5	39 (4.64%)	Hybrid Cloud
6	33 (3.92%)	Public Cloud
7	32 (3.80%)	Enterprise Software
8	21 (2.50%)	Replication
9	20 (2.38%)	Linux Command Line
10	19 (2.26%)	Analytical Skills
10	19 (2.26%)	Clustering
11	17 (2.02%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
12	16 (1.90%)	Management Information System
13	15 (1.78%)	Blog
14	14 (1.66%)	Virtual Team
15	12 (1.43%)	Fintech
16	9 (1.07%)	Cloud Native
17	8 (0.95%)	Life Science
18	6 (0.71%)	CMDB

Operating Systems
1	563 (66.94%)	Linux
2	222 (26.40%)	Unix
3	142 (16.88%)	Windows
4	107 (12.72%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	72 (8.56%)	Ubuntu
6	64 (7.61%)	CentOS
7	42 (4.99%)	Android
8	41 (4.88%)	Apple iOS
9	39 (4.64%)	Windows Server
10	24 (2.85%)	Windows Server 2012
11	18 (2.14%)	Debian
12	13 (1.55%)	Windows Server 2003
13	11 (1.31%)	CoreOS
14	10 (1.19%)	Mac OS
15	6 (0.71%)	Solaris
15	6 (0.71%)	Windows Server 2008
16	3 (0.36%)	AIX
16	3 (0.36%)	OpenBSD
16	3 (0.36%)	SUSE
17	2 (0.24%)	Fedora

Processes & Methodologies
1	491 (58.38%)	DevOps
2	385 (45.78%)	Agile Software Development
3	306 (36.39%)	Continuous Integration
4	223 (26.52%)	Scrum
5	209 (24.85%)	Configuration Management
6	162 (19.26%)	DSDM
7	159 (18.91%)	TDD
8	146 (17.36%)	RUP
9	108 (12.84%)	Open Source
10	94 (11.18%)	Mentoring
11	91 (10.82%)	OO
12	89 (10.58%)	Web Development
13	76 (9.04%)	Software Engineering
14	72 (8.56%)	Kanban
15	66 (7.85%)	Coaching
16	58 (6.90%)	Multithreading
17	57 (6.78%)	ITIL
18	54 (6.42%)	E-Commerce
19	50 (5.95%)	Disaster Recovery
19	50 (5.95%)	UML

Programming Languages
1	459 (54.58%)	Python
2	314 (37.34%)	Ruby
3	259 (30.80%)	Bash Shell
4	238 (28.30%)	Java
5	183 (21.76%)	SQL
6	161 (19.14%)	Perl
7	146 (17.36%)	Shell Script
8	99 (11.77%)	PHP
9	94 (11.18%)	JavaScript
10	85 (10.11%)	Go
11	60 (7.13%)	C#
12	46 (5.47%)	PowerShell
13	33 (3.92%)	C++
14	31 (3.69%)	Scala
15	23 (2.73%)	C
16	11 (1.31%)	Objective-C
17	8 (0.95%)	Lisp
18	4 (0.48%)	AWK
18	4 (0.48%)	PL/SQL
18	4 (0.48%)	T-SQL

Qualifications
1	155 (18.43%)	Degree
2	62 (7.37%)	Computer Science Degree
3	27 (3.21%)	AWS Certification
4	23 (2.73%)	Security Cleared
5	17 (2.02%)	Microsoft Certification
5	17 (2.02%)	RHCE
6	16 (1.90%)	Master's Degree
7	11 (1.31%)	MCSE
8	9 (1.07%)	DV Cleared
9	8 (0.95%)	SC Cleared
10	7 (0.83%)	RHCA
10	7 (0.83%)	RHCSA
10	7 (0.83%)	VCDX
11	5 (0.59%)	MCSD
12	4 (0.48%)	CISSP
12	4 (0.48%)	MCTS
12	4 (0.48%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13	3 (0.36%)	CCIE
13	3 (0.36%)	Cisco Certification
13	3 (0.36%)	MCITP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	27 (3.21%)	QA
2	8 (0.95%)	GCP
3	7 (0.83%)	PCI DSS
4	6 (0.71%)	ISO/IEC 27001
5	3 (0.36%)	DICOM
5	3 (0.36%)	HL7
5	3 (0.36%)	SLA
6	2 (0.24%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
7	1 (0.12%)	COBIT
7	1 (0.12%)	Cyber Essentials
7	1 (0.12%)	ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7	1 (0.12%)	SSAE 16

System Software
1	216 (25.68%)	Docker
2	162 (19.26%)	Xen
3	139 (16.53%)	vSphere
4	137 (16.29%)	VMware Infrastructure
5	116 (13.79%)	XenServer
6	46 (5.47%)	KVM
7	44 (5.23%)	Hyper-V
8	34 (4.04%)	vCloud
9	31 (3.69%)	Active Directory
10	28 (3.33%)	Virtual Machines
11	20 (2.38%)	Varnish
12	15 (1.78%)	VMware ESXi
13	14 (1.66%)	XenApp
14	11 (1.31%)	PowerHA
15	10 (1.19%)	LXC
15	10 (1.19%)	XenDesktop
16	8 (0.95%)	Apache ZooKeeper
16	8 (0.95%)	Slurm Workload Manager
17	7 (0.83%)	Microsoft App-V
17	7 (0.83%)	VirtualBox

Systems Management
1	520 (61.83%)	Puppet
2	414 (49.23%)	Opscode Chef
3	377 (44.83%)	Ansible
4	108 (12.84%)	Kubernetes
5	97 (11.53%)	Cobbler
5	97 (11.53%)	Tivoli
6	71 (8.44%)	Terraform
7	70 (8.32%)	Salt
8	64 (7.61%)	logstash
9	53 (6.30%)	Kibana
10	46 (5.47%)	Nagios
11	29 (3.45%)	Packer
12	22 (2.62%)	Graphite
13	21 (2.50%)	HAProxy
14	20 (2.38%)	ZABBIX
15	16 (1.90%)	Mesos
16	14 (1.66%)	CFEngine
16	14 (1.66%)	vCenter Server
17	11 (1.31%)	vRealize
18	10 (1.19%)	Grafana

Vendors
1	254 (30.20%)	Oracle
2	215 (25.56%)	VMware
3	126 (14.98%)	Red Hat
4	113 (13.44%)	Microsoft
5	110 (13.08%)	EnterpriseDB
6	59 (7.02%)	Google
7	44 (5.23%)	Cisco
8	39 (4.64%)	SaltStack
9	37 (4.40%)	HP
10	32 (3.80%)	IBM
11	28 (3.33%)	Rackspace
12	21 (2.50%)	Citrix
13	20 (2.38%)	AppDynamics
13	20 (2.38%)	SAP
13	20 (2.38%)	Splunk
14	18 (2.14%)	New Relic
15	17 (2.02%)	EMC
16	15 (1.78%)	NetApp
17	12 (1.43%)	Juniper
17	12 (1.43%)	Veritas

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