OpenStack Contracts in England

OpenStack
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for OpenStack skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OpenStack over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 464 621 634
Rank change year-on-year +157 +13 -105
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 71 42 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.083% 0.20%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.07% 0.77% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 26 103
10th Percentile £262 £456 £449
25th Percentile £300 £496 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £620 £600
Median % change year-on-year -23.39% +3.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £526 £763 £675
90th Percentile £588 £875 £723
UK median daily rate £493 £530 £600
% change year-on-year -7.08% -11.67% +9.09%

All Application Platform Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,433 5,476 8,907
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.29% 10.83% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,453 3,934 6,115
10th Percentile £250 £261 £263
25th Percentile £358 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £755 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £520
% change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 131 189
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.10 £13.97
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +54.76% -1.89%
75th Percentile £45.59 £66.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.25 £65.90
UK median hourly rate £27.52 £42.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -35.26% +93.18% -2.22%

OpenStack
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenStack in England

OpenStack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenStack in England.

Daily rate trend for OpenStack in England

OpenStack
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenStack in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OpenStack in England

OpenStack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OpenStack in England.

Hourly rate trend for OpenStack in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenStack within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +126 61 £478 -26.82% 4
South East +30 9 £372 - 3
North of England +36 4 - - 1
North East - 4 - -
East of England - 2 £275 - 3
South West - 1 - - 1
OpenStack
UK

OpenStack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (7.04%) Apache
1 5 (7.04%) nginx
2 1 (1.41%) JBoss
2 1 (1.41%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 22 (30.99%) AWS
2 17 (23.94%) Slack
3 9 (12.68%) Amazon EKS
3 9 (12.68%) PaaS
4 7 (9.86%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (9.86%) OpenShift
4 7 (9.86%) Serverless
5 4 (5.63%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.63%) Azure
5 4 (5.63%) SaaS
6 3 (4.23%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.82%) CloudFront
8 1 (1.41%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.41%) GCP
8 1 (1.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.86%) 5G
2 5 (7.04%) Diameter Protocol
2 5 (7.04%) DNS
2 5 (7.04%) Firewall
3 4 (5.63%) DHCP
3 4 (5.63%) LTE
3 4 (5.63%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (4.23%) 4G
5 2 (2.82%) 3G
6 1 (1.41%) BGP
6 1 (1.41%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.41%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (1.41%) GPRS
6 1 (1.41%) MPLS
6 1 (1.41%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.41%) VoLTE
6 1 (1.41%) VoWiFi
6 1 (1.41%) VSAN
6 1 (1.41%) WAN
6 1 (1.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (35.21%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (18.31%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (14.08%) NoSQL
4 8 (11.27%) Relational Database
5 5 (7.04%) Couchbase
5 5 (7.04%) MySQL
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.41%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.41%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (40.85%) Jenkins
2 12 (16.90%) Git
3 4 (5.63%) JUnit
4 2 (2.82%) JIRA
5 1 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.41%) Vagrant
General
1 14 (19.72%) Telecoms
2 9 (12.68%) Social Skills
3 7 (9.86%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.82%) Electronics
4 2 (2.82%) Finance
4 2 (2.82%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.82%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (19.72%) Architect
2 10 (14.08%) Solutions Architect
3 9 (12.68%) Lead
4 8 (11.27%) Technical Leader
4 8 (11.27%) VMware Architect
5 7 (9.86%) Developer
5 7 (9.86%) Java Developer
6 5 (7.04%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Full Stack Developer
7 4 (5.63%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 4 (5.63%) Server Specialist
7 4 (5.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) DevOps Architect
8 3 (4.23%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Server Engineer
9 2 (2.82%) Consultant
9 2 (2.82%) Implementation Engineer
9 2 (2.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (2.82%) Infrastructure Manager
9 2 (2.82%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (52.11%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (15.49%) Node.js
3 8 (11.27%) REST
4 7 (9.86%) Spring
4 7 (9.86%) Spring Boot
4 7 (9.86%) Web Services
5 6 (8.45%) LDAP
6 5 (7.04%) AngularJS
6 5 (7.04%) JSON
6 5 (7.04%) LAPP Stack
7 4 (5.63%) RESTful
7 4 (5.63%) SOAP
8 3 (4.23%) J2EE
9 2 (2.82%) Apache Camel
9 2 (2.82%) Kafka
9 2 (2.82%) Mustache
9 2 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (2.82%) React
10 1 (1.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (22.54%) Onboarding
2 7 (9.86%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (8.45%) Data Centre
4 5 (7.04%) Public Cloud
5 4 (5.63%) Algorithms
5 4 (5.63%) Client/Server
5 4 (5.63%) Data Structures
6 3 (4.23%) Clustering
7 2 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.41%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 55 (77.46%) Linux
2 28 (39.44%) CentOS
3 22 (30.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (7.04%) Ubuntu
4 5 (7.04%) VMS
5 4 (5.63%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (2.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (46.48%) CI/CD
2 27 (38.03%) Infrastructure as Code
3 26 (36.62%) Agile
4 21 (29.58%) Observability
5 20 (28.17%) DevOps
6 12 (16.90%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (16.90%) Microservices
7 9 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (12.68%) Scrum
7 9 (12.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 8 (11.27%) Containerisation
9 7 (9.86%) High Availability
9 7 (9.86%) Kanban
9 7 (9.86%) Open Source
9 7 (9.86%) TDD
10 6 (8.45%) Server Management
11 5 (7.04%) BDD
11 5 (7.04%) Configuration Management
11 5 (7.04%) Performance Tuning
12 4 (5.63%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 39 (54.93%) Python
2 26 (36.62%) Shell Script
3 11 (15.49%) SQL
4 9 (12.68%) Go
5 7 (9.86%) Java
5 7 (9.86%) JavaScript
6 6 (8.45%) Bash
7 4 (5.63%) C
8 1 (1.41%) Groovy
8 1 (1.41%) Korn
8 1 (1.41%) Perl
8 1 (1.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (14.08%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.68%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.82%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.41%) CCNP
4 1 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.41%) Degree
4 1 (1.41%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.82%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (38.03%) Virtual Machines
2 24 (33.80%) Docker
3 12 (16.90%) Firmware
4 6 (8.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (2.82%) Active Directory
5 2 (2.82%) GPFS
5 2 (2.82%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (2.82%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.82%) vSphere
6 1 (1.41%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.41%) KVM
Systems Management
1 42 (59.15%) Ansible
2 30 (42.25%) Grafana
2 30 (42.25%) Kubernetes
2 30 (42.25%) Prometheus
3 21 (29.58%) Kibana
3 21 (29.58%) logstash
4 16 (22.54%) Terraform
5 6 (8.45%) Progress Chef
5 6 (8.45%) Puppet
6 5 (7.04%) Dell DRAC
6 5 (7.04%) ZABBIX
7 4 (5.63%) yum
8 2 (2.82%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.41%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (1.41%) Packer
Vendors
1 19 (26.76%) Dell
2 17 (23.94%) Red Hat
3 16 (22.54%) Amdocs
4 15 (21.13%) VMware
5 5 (7.04%) Oracle
6 2 (2.82%) Cisco
6 2 (2.82%) Juniper
6 2 (2.82%) SAP
7 1 (1.41%) Nokia
7 1 (1.41%) Sybase
7 1 (1.41%) WSO2