OpenStack Jobs

OpenStack
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring OpenStack skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited OpenStack over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 682 811 881
Rank change year-on-year +129 +70 +33
Permanent jobs citing OpenStack 20 96 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.036% 0.093% 0.091%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.44% 0.90% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 9 65 61
10th Percentile £59,250 £34,200 £45,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £37,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.19% -1.54% -11.86%
75th Percentile £81,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £84,050 £83,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £64,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year +9.38% +8.94% +2.17%

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 4,503 10,672 10,881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.06% 10.29% 11.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,848 7,087 7,401
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,628 £42,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year +7.36% -11.46% +6.67%

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 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for OpenStack in the UK

OpenStack
Top 12 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 31 May 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 +113 20 £75,000 +15.38% 15
UK excluding London +116 16 £70,000 +9.38% 4
London +89 10 £83,750 +11.67% 12
South East +28 8 £56,250 -13.46%
South West - 5 £70,000 - 2
Work from Home +69 4 £77,500 +19.23% 19
North of England +39 4 £77,500 +37.15% 1
Yorkshire +57 2 £61,250 - 1
North West +2 2 £80,000 +41.57%
East of England +42 1 £47,500 -9.52%
Midlands - 1 £47,500 -
West Midlands - 1 £47,500 -

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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) AWS
2 6 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
2 6 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (30.00%) Amazon S3
2 6 (30.00%) Amazon SQS
2 6 (30.00%) GCP
2 6 (30.00%) Serverless
3 5 (25.00%) Azure
4 2 (10.00%) Anthos
4 2 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (10.00%) PaaS
5 1 (5.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) Firewall
3 1 (5.00%) DHCP
3 1 (5.00%) iSCSI
3 1 (5.00%) OpenVPN
3 1 (5.00%) SSH
3 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (30.00%) Relational Database
3 5 (25.00%) MongoDB
4 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (10.00%) CouchDB
6 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (5.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (45.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (30.00%) Git
3 2 (10.00%) GitLab
3 2 (10.00%) Gradle
3 2 (10.00%) JUnit
3 2 (10.00%) Maven
4 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Games
4 2 (10.00%) iGaming
4 2 (10.00%) Publishing
4 2 (10.00%) Retail
4 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Developer
1 7 (35.00%) Java Developer
1 7 (35.00%) Senior
2 5 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Software Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Development Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Development Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) Kafka
1 8 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 6 (30.00%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (30.00%) Mustache
2 6 (30.00%) Node.js
2 6 (30.00%) React
2 6 (30.00%) REST
2 6 (30.00%) Spring
2 6 (30.00%) Web Services
3 3 (15.00%) OpenCL
4 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (10.00%) GraphQL
4 2 (10.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (35.00%) Data Centre
3 4 (20.00%) Private Cloud
4 3 (15.00%) CUDA
4 3 (15.00%) Device Driver
4 3 (15.00%) PCIe
5 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (10.00%) Mobile Games
5 2 (10.00%) Online Games
5 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
5 2 (10.00%) Sports Betting
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
6 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
6 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Agile
1 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (45.00%) Microservices
2 9 (45.00%) Scrum
3 8 (40.00%) SDLC
3 8 (40.00%) TDD
4 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (20.00%) ITIL
7 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
7 3 (15.00%) Device Driver Development
7 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
7 3 (15.00%) Performance Analysis
8 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (10.00%) Data Centre Operations
8 2 (10.00%) DevOps
8 2 (10.00%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) Java
2 6 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (25.00%) Python
4 4 (20.00%) SQL
5 3 (15.00%) C
5 3 (15.00%) C++
6 1 (5.00%) Go
6 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (5.00%) VCAP
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 12 (60.00%) Docker
2 3 (15.00%) Firmware
2 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.00%) NFS
3 1 (5.00%) vCloud
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (70.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Grafana
2 2 (10.00%) Podman
2 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) PowerCLI
3 1 (5.00%) Puppet
3 1 (5.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (5.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Graphcore
2 4 (20.00%) VMware
3 3 (15.00%) Google
4 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (5.00%) SaltStack
5 1 (5.00%) SAP