OpenStack Contracts

OpenStack
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 516 669 678
Rank change year-on-year +153 +9 -129
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 82 50 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.084% 0.19%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.98% 0.76% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 31 117
10th Percentile £262 £425 £450
25th Percentile £300 £480 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £530 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -11.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £541 £725 £675
90th Percentile £588 £875 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £323 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -28.17% -10.00% -4.76%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,145 6,581 11,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.57% 11.00% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,849 4,620 7,600
10th Percentile £250 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 150 212
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.42 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.52 £42.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.26% +93.18% -2.22%
75th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £79.19 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.75 £26.24 £18.75
% change year-on-year -9.49% +39.95% -6.25%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OpenStack in the UK

OpenStack
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for OpenStack in the UK

OpenStack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for OpenStack in the UK

OpenStack
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 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
England +157 71 £475 -23.39% 11
London +126 61 £478 -26.82% 4
Work from Home +137 34 £388 -22.50% 4
UK excluding London +72 17 £323 -28.17% 7
South East +30 9 £372 - 3
North of England +36 4 - - 1
North East - 4 - -
East of England - 2 £275 - 3
Scotland +32 1 £700 +107.41%
South West - 1 - - 1

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 5 (6.10%) Apache
1 5 (6.10%) nginx
2 3 (3.66%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.22%) JBoss
3 1 (1.22%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 28 (34.15%) AWS
2 17 (20.73%) Slack
3 10 (12.20%) Amazon EKS
3 10 (12.20%) OpenShift
4 9 (10.98%) PaaS
5 8 (9.76%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (9.76%) Serverless
6 7 (8.54%) Azure
7 5 (6.10%) Amazon S3
8 4 (4.88%) GCP
8 4 (4.88%) SaaS
9 3 (3.66%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (3.66%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (3.66%) IaaS
10 2 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.44%) CloudFront
10 2 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (1.22%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.54%) 5G
1 7 (8.54%) Firewall
2 6 (7.32%) DNS
3 5 (6.10%) Diameter Protocol
4 4 (4.88%) DHCP
4 4 (4.88%) LTE
4 4 (4.88%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (3.66%) 4G
6 2 (2.44%) 3G
6 2 (2.44%) BGP
6 2 (2.44%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (2.44%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (2.44%) MPLS
6 2 (2.44%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.44%) VSAN
6 2 (2.44%) WAN
7 1 (1.22%) GPRS
7 1 (1.22%) VLAN
7 1 (1.22%) VoWiFi
7 1 (1.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (30.49%) Elasticsearch
2 17 (20.73%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (12.20%) NoSQL
4 9 (10.98%) Relational Database
5 7 (8.54%) MySQL
6 5 (6.10%) Couchbase
7 3 (3.66%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.44%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.22%) MariaDB
9 1 (1.22%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.22%) Redis
9 1 (1.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 30 (36.59%) Jenkins
2 13 (15.85%) Git
3 4 (4.88%) JUnit
4 3 (3.66%) JIRA
5 2 (2.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.22%) Vagrant
General
1 14 (17.07%) Telecoms
2 13 (15.85%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.54%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.44%) Electronics
4 2 (2.44%) Finance
4 2 (2.44%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (23.17%) Architect
2 10 (12.20%) Developer
2 10 (12.20%) Solutions Architect
3 9 (10.98%) Lead
4 8 (9.76%) Technical Leader
4 8 (9.76%) VMware Architect
5 7 (8.54%) Java Developer
6 5 (6.10%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 4 (4.88%) Cloud Architect
7 4 (4.88%) Full Stack Developer
7 4 (4.88%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 4 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.88%) Server Specialist
7 4 (4.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 3 (3.66%) Cloud Developer
8 3 (3.66%) DevOps Architect
8 3 (3.66%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.66%) Integration Architect
8 3 (3.66%) Server Engineer
9 2 (2.44%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (46.34%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (17.07%) Node.js
3 9 (10.98%) REST
4 8 (9.76%) Spring
4 8 (9.76%) Spring Boot
4 8 (9.76%) Web Services
5 6 (7.32%) LDAP
6 5 (6.10%) AngularJS
6 5 (6.10%) JSON
6 5 (6.10%) LAPP Stack
7 4 (4.88%) Kafka
7 4 (4.88%) RESTful
7 4 (4.88%) SOAP
8 3 (3.66%) J2EE
8 3 (3.66%) Mustache
8 3 (3.66%) React
9 2 (2.44%) Apache Camel
9 2 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (1.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.51%) Onboarding
2 8 (9.76%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (8.54%) Data Centre
3 7 (8.54%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.88%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.88%) Client/Server
4 4 (4.88%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.66%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.66%) Clustering
5 3 (3.66%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.44%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 58 (70.73%) Linux
2 28 (34.15%) CentOS
3 22 (26.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (6.10%) Ubuntu
4 5 (6.10%) VMS
5 4 (4.88%) Oracle Linux
6 3 (3.66%) Unix
6 3 (3.66%) Windows
7 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (41.46%) CI/CD
2 27 (32.93%) Agile
2 27 (32.93%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (25.61%) Observability
4 20 (24.39%) DevOps
5 13 (15.85%) Microservices
5 13 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (14.63%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (10.98%) High Availability
7 9 (10.98%) Scrum
7 9 (10.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 8 (9.76%) Containerisation
9 7 (8.54%) Kanban
9 7 (8.54%) Open Source
9 7 (8.54%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (8.54%) TDD
10 6 (7.32%) Server Management
11 5 (6.10%) BDD
11 5 (6.10%) Configuration Management
12 4 (4.88%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 40 (48.78%) Python
2 26 (31.71%) Shell Script
3 13 (15.85%) SQL
4 11 (13.41%) Go
5 9 (10.98%) Bash
6 8 (9.76%) Java
6 8 (9.76%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.88%) C
8 1 (1.22%) Groovy
8 1 (1.22%) Korn
8 1 (1.22%) Perl
8 1 (1.22%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.22%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.98%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.66%) RHCA
4 2 (2.44%) CCNP
4 2 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.44%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.44%) JNCIP
5 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.66%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (32.93%) Virtual Machines
2 25 (30.49%) Docker
3 12 (14.63%) Firmware
4 7 (8.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (4.88%) VMware NSX
6 3 (3.66%) Active Directory
6 3 (3.66%) Ceph
7 2 (2.44%) GPFS
7 2 (2.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (2.44%) vSphere
8 1 (1.22%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.22%) KVM
8 1 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 44 (53.66%) Ansible
2 34 (41.46%) Kubernetes
3 30 (36.59%) Grafana
3 30 (36.59%) Prometheus
4 21 (25.61%) Kibana
4 21 (25.61%) logstash
4 21 (25.61%) Terraform
5 8 (9.76%) Puppet
6 6 (7.32%) Progress Chef
7 5 (6.10%) Dell DRAC
7 5 (6.10%) ZABBIX
8 4 (4.88%) yum
9 2 (2.44%) vCenter Server
10 1 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (1.22%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (1.22%) Packer
10 1 (1.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 20 (24.39%) Red Hat
2 19 (23.17%) Dell
3 17 (20.73%) VMware
4 16 (19.51%) Amdocs
5 7 (8.54%) Oracle
6 6 (7.32%) Juniper
7 3 (3.66%) Cisco
7 3 (3.66%) SAP
8 1 (1.22%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.22%) Nokia
8 1 (1.22%) Sybase
8 1 (1.22%) WSO2