OpenStack
UK

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 6 months to 29 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 680 915 920
Rank change year-on-year +235 +5 -253
Permanent jobs citing OpenStack 53 175 179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.098% 0.14% 0.14%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.01% 1.20% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 30 89 129
10th Percentile £40,000 £50,000 £46,850
25th Percentile £45,313 £62,500 £54,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £90,000
90th Percentile - £95,000 £105,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +23.08% +13.04% +15.00%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 5,257 14,621 16,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.72% 11.62% 12.56%
Number of salaries quoted 4,012 8,668 10,288
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -

OpenStack
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OpenStack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OpenStack in the UK

OpenStack
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OpenStack.

Salary trend for OpenStack in the UK

OpenStack
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenStack over the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

Salary histogram for OpenStack in the UK

OpenStack
Top 13 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 29 November 2023. 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 +195 47 £65,000 -7.14% 42
UK excluding London +182 34 £80,000 +23.08% 16
Work from Home +187 30 £81,250 +12.07% 15
South East +148 27 £82,500 +17.86% 13
London +210 23 £65,000 -10.34% 28
Midlands +128 12 £85,000 +6.25%
North of England +127 8 £85,000 +6.25%
North West +105 8 £85,000 +6.25%
West Midlands +119 7 £85,000 +6.25%
East of England +103 7 £85,000 +19.30% 1
North East +45 7 £85,000 +6.25%
South West +47 5 £42,500 -34.62% 2
East Midlands +47 5 £41,234 -

OpenStack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 9 (16.98%) JBoss
1 9 (16.98%) Red Hat Fuse
2 7 (13.21%) Confluence
3 5 (9.43%) Apache
4 3 (5.66%) IIS
5 1 (1.89%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (49.06%) AWS
2 16 (30.19%) Azure
3 15 (28.30%) Amazon EKS
4 13 (24.53%) Amazon ECS
4 13 (24.53%) Serverless
5 5 (9.43%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (7.55%) GCP
7 3 (5.66%) Amazon S3
7 3 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.66%) SaaS
8 2 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.77%) CloudFront
8 2 (3.77%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.89%) IaaS
9 1 (1.89%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (26.42%) Firewall
2 13 (24.53%) BGP
2 13 (24.53%) OSPF
3 12 (22.64%) TCP/IP
3 12 (22.64%) VXLAN
4 10 (18.87%) MPLS
5 9 (16.98%) Cisco Nexus
5 9 (16.98%) DNS
5 9 (16.98%) WAN
6 8 (15.09%) Ethernet VPN
7 7 (13.21%) FabricPath
8 6 (11.32%) VLAN
9 5 (9.43%) Internet
9 5 (9.43%) LAN
9 5 (9.43%) SD-WAN
9 5 (9.43%) VPN
10 4 (7.55%) 5G
10 4 (7.55%) DHCP
10 4 (7.55%) HTTP
10 4 (7.55%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (45.28%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (22.64%) Relational Database
3 8 (15.09%) MySQL
4 7 (13.21%) NoSQL
5 4 (7.55%) InfluxDB
5 4 (7.55%) MariaDB
6 3 (5.66%) OpenStack Swift
6 3 (5.66%) SQL Server
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.89%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 16 (30.19%) Git
2 14 (26.42%) Jenkins
3 10 (18.87%) JUnit
4 7 (13.21%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.89%) Postman
General
1 12 (22.64%) Public Sector
2 8 (15.09%) Telecoms
3 6 (11.32%) Social Skills
4 5 (9.43%) Finance
5 4 (7.55%) Aerospace
5 4 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.55%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (7.55%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (7.55%) Retail
6 2 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (24.53%) Developer
1 13 (24.53%) Java Developer
2 8 (15.09%) Senior
3 7 (13.21%) Architect
3 7 (13.21%) Cisco Architect
3 7 (13.21%) Cloud Architect
3 7 (13.21%) Systems Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) Linux Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Consultant
5 5 (9.43%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Senior Developer
5 5 (9.43%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (7.55%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Development Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Network Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Software Consultant
6 4 (7.55%) Unix Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Unix Linux Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Unix Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (33.96%) Elastic Stack
1 18 (33.96%) REST
2 17 (32.08%) Web Services
3 15 (28.30%) RESTful
4 13 (24.53%) AngularJS
4 13 (24.53%) Apache Camel
4 13 (24.53%) Node.js
4 13 (24.53%) Spring
4 13 (24.53%) Spring Boot
5 10 (18.87%) SOAP
5 10 (18.87%) XML
6 9 (16.98%) J2EE
7 8 (15.09%) Kafka
8 7 (13.21%) JSON
9 6 (11.32%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (9.43%) LDAP
11 4 (7.55%) LAPP Stack
11 4 (7.55%) OpenDaylight
12 3 (5.66%) FHIR
12 3 (5.66%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 14 (26.42%) Data Centre
2 13 (24.53%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (9.43%) Algorithms
3 5 (9.43%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (7.55%) GNSS
4 4 (7.55%) Tandem
5 3 (5.66%) NHS
5 3 (5.66%) PKI
5 3 (5.66%) Public Cloud
5 3 (5.66%) Replication
6 2 (3.77%) Driving Licence
6 2 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.77%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (3.77%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.89%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.89%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (1.89%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.89%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 22 (41.51%) Linux
2 6 (11.32%) Unix
2 6 (11.32%) Windows
3 5 (9.43%) CentOS
4 4 (7.55%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (5.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (5.66%) Windows 10
5 3 (5.66%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (5.66%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.89%) Debian
6 1 (1.89%) Rocky
6 1 (1.89%) VMS
6 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (35.85%) DevOps
2 16 (30.19%) Agile
3 15 (28.30%) Microservices
4 14 (26.42%) Scrum
5 13 (24.53%) BDD
5 13 (24.53%) Kanban
5 13 (24.53%) TDD
6 11 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (20.75%) Validation
7 10 (18.87%) Network Design
8 8 (15.09%) Open Source
9 7 (13.21%) Requirements Gathering
10 6 (11.32%) Cloud Security
10 6 (11.32%) Containerisation
11 5 (9.43%) Configuration Management
11 5 (9.43%) Network Architecture
12 4 (7.55%) B2B
12 4 (7.55%) Project Management
12 4 (7.55%) SOA
12 4 (7.55%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 16 (30.19%) Java
2 13 (24.53%) JavaScript
2 13 (24.53%) Python
3 9 (16.98%) SQL
4 3 (5.66%) Bash
4 3 (5.66%) Clojure
4 3 (5.66%) Go
4 3 (5.66%) Ruby
5 2 (3.77%) Perl
5 2 (3.77%) PHP
5 2 (3.77%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.89%) C
6 1 (1.89%) C++
6 1 (1.89%) Fortran
6 1 (1.89%) Julia
6 1 (1.89%) R
6 1 (1.89%) Rust
Qualifications
1 12 (22.64%) Security Cleared
2 11 (20.75%) Degree
3 10 (18.87%) SC Cleared
4 8 (15.09%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (11.32%) CCNP
6 4 (7.55%) AWS Certification
6 4 (7.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.66%) CCIE
7 3 (5.66%) DV Cleared
7 3 (5.66%) JNCIA
8 2 (3.77%) CCNA
9 1 (1.89%) CCSP
9 1 (1.89%) DBS Check
9 1 (1.89%) JNCIP
9 1 (1.89%) JNCIS
9 1 (1.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) DICOM
1 3 (5.66%) HL7
2 1 (1.89%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.89%) QA
2 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (37.74%) Docker
2 12 (22.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (16.98%) Hyper-V
4 5 (9.43%) Active Directory
4 5 (9.43%) KVM
5 4 (7.55%) Ceph
5 4 (7.55%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 4 (7.55%) Firmware
6 2 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (3.77%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.89%) GPFS
7 1 (1.89%) Lustre
7 1 (1.89%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 29 (54.72%) Kubernetes
2 22 (41.51%) Ansible
3 13 (24.53%) FortiGate
4 10 (18.87%) Terraform
5 6 (11.32%) Puppet
6 3 (5.66%) Progress Chef
6 3 (5.66%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (3.77%) Grafana
7 2 (3.77%) Nagios
8 1 (1.89%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.89%) HAProxy
8 1 (1.89%) Icinga
8 1 (1.89%) Mesos
8 1 (1.89%) Nessus
8 1 (1.89%) Packer
8 1 (1.89%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 1 (1.89%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.89%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 20 (37.74%) Cisco
2 18 (33.96%) Juniper
3 13 (24.53%) VMware
3 13 (24.53%) WSO2
4 11 (20.75%) Microsoft
5 10 (18.87%) Palo Alto
6 5 (9.43%) Fortinet
6 5 (9.43%) Red Hat
7 4 (7.55%) Rackspace
8 3 (5.66%) Aruba
8 3 (5.66%) Barracuda Networks
8 3 (5.66%) Nimble Storage
8 3 (5.66%) Sophos
8 3 (5.66%) Veeam
9 2 (3.77%) Meraki
10 1 (1.89%) Dell
10 1 (1.89%) Infoblox
10 1 (1.89%) Intel
10 1 (1.89%) Oracle
10 1 (1.89%) Sun