OpenStack Contracts in the UK excluding London

OpenStack
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 370 448 465
Rank change year-on-year +78 +17 -126
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 15 8 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.073% 0.034% 0.13%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.86% 0.31% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 20
10th Percentile - £255 £363
25th Percentile £263 £319 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £323 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -28.17% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £454 £480 £588
90th Percentile £602 £483 £626
UK median daily rate £485 £540 £600
% change year-on-year -10.19% -10.00% +10.85%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,747 2,606 3,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.51% 11.09% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,176 1,876 2,658
10th Percentile £208 £203 £185
25th Percentile £320 £350 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £545
90th Percentile £650 £675 £631
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 99 139
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.08 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.25 £17.61 £15.02
Median hourly rate £24.09 £27.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.40% +48.65% -2.63%
75th Percentile £50.47 £65.88 £36.63
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.24 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £27.51 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -38.87% +100.00% +5.14%

OpenStack
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OpenStack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OpenStack in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenStack in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for OpenStack in the UK excluding London

OpenStack
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenStack in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OpenStack in the UK excluding London

OpenStack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OpenStack in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for OpenStack in the UK excluding London

OpenStack
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenStack within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
South East +14 7 £372 - 4
North East - 4 - -
North of England - 4 - - 1
East of England - 2 £275 - 2
Scotland +41 1 £700 +107.41%
South West - 1 - - 1
OpenStack
UK

OpenStack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (6.67%) JBoss
1 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (26.67%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (26.67%) Amazon S3
3 4 (26.67%) Serverless
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (13.33%) CloudFront
5 1 (6.67%) Azure
5 1 (6.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) 5G
2 4 (26.67%) Diameter Protocol
2 4 (26.67%) LTE
3 2 (13.33%) DNS
4 1 (6.67%) 3G
4 1 (6.67%) 4G
4 1 (6.67%) Firewall
4 1 (6.67%) GPRS
4 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.67%) VLAN
4 1 (6.67%) VoLTE
4 1 (6.67%) VoWiFi
4 1 (6.67%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (26.67%) MySQL
1 4 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (26.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git
1 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) JUnit
3 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Developer
1 4 (26.67%) Java Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Consultant
2 2 (13.33%) Full Stack Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Full Stack Java Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Architect
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Mobile Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (26.67%) JSON
2 4 (26.67%) Node.js
2 4 (26.67%) REST
2 4 (26.67%) Spring
2 4 (26.67%) Spring Boot
2 4 (26.67%) Web Services
3 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (13.33%) Kafka
3 2 (13.33%) LDAP
3 2 (13.33%) Mustache
3 2 (13.33%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (13.33%) React
3 2 (13.33%) RESTful
3 2 (13.33%) SOAP
4 1 (6.67%) Apache Camel
4 1 (6.67%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) Oracle Linux
3 3 (20.00%) Windows
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Agile
1 5 (33.33%) Microservices
2 4 (26.67%) Scrum
2 4 (26.67%) TDD
3 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) BDD
4 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (13.33%) Full Stack Development
4 2 (13.33%) Kanban
5 1 (6.67%) Change Control
5 1 (6.67%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (6.67%) Migration
5 1 (6.67%) Open Source
5 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (6.67%) Project Delivery
5 1 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Java
1 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
1 4 (26.67%) Shell Script
2 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Docker
2 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (13.33%) GPFS
3 2 (13.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (40.00%) Ansible
3 4 (26.67%) Grafana
3 4 (26.67%) Prometheus
3 4 (26.67%) Terraform
3 4 (26.67%) yum
4 1 (6.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (6.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Dell
2 2 (13.33%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft