Hybrid/Remote OpenStack Job Trends

OpenStack
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring OpenStack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 436 430 517
Rank change year-on-year -6 +87 +43
Permanent jobs citing OpenStack 7 4 45
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.033% 0.024% 0.14%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.52% 0.21% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 41
10th Percentile £56,000 - £32,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +19.23% -10.34%
75th Percentile £72,500 £84,813 £67,500
90th Percentile - £91,675 £83,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £56,509
% change year-on-year -6.67% +32.72% -9.59%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

OpenStack falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring application platform skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,338 1,865 3,830
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.27% 11.28% 12.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,028 1,223 3,007
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,228 £40,325 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% -1.67% -
75th Percentile £71,059 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £90,300 £115,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

OpenStack
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OpenStack and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

OpenStack job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

OpenStack
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OpenStack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OpenStack

OpenStack
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OpenStack over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

OpenStack salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 (14.29%) JBoss
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (14.29%) InfluxDB
2 1 (14.29%) MariaDB
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) JUnit
General
1 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
1 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Lead
1 4 (57.14%) Team Leader
2 2 (28.57%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Project Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Project Leader
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Project Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Site Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Camel
2 1 (14.29%) J2EE
2 1 (14.29%) Mustache
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) SOAP
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Data Centre
2 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (14.29%) Clustering
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) CentOS
3 3 (42.86%) Debian
3 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (42.86%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) ITIL
3 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) Coaching
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) Microservices
5 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Scrum
6 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Engineering
6 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 1 (14.29%) Observability
6 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
6 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Perl
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Linux+ Certification
2 1 (14.29%) LPIC
2 1 (14.29%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Docker
2 4 (57.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Ansible
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (57.14%) Puppet
3 3 (42.86%) Grafana
3 3 (42.86%) ZABBIX
4 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco
1 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
1 1 (14.29%) Juniper
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
1 1 (14.29%) VMware