OpenStack Contracts with Work from Home Options

OpenStack
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 316 440 546
Rank change year-on-year +124 +106 -159
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 31 27 73
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.99% 0.95% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 13 45
10th Percentile £262 £405 £452
25th Percentile £295 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -23.75% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £500 £700 £650
90th Percentile £553 £775 £723
UK median daily rate £485 £540 £600
% change year-on-year -10.19% -10.00% +10.85%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,561 2,849 5,456
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.34% 11.34% 12.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,107 1,999 3,948
10th Percentile £296 £313 £314
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +8.65%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £618
90th Percentile £800 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 71 73
10th Percentile £16.50 £20.00 £14.65
25th Percentile £22.61 £22.16 £19.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.16% +57.14% +32.08%
75th Percentile £50.47 £66.00 £56.25
90th Percentile £72.25 £81.50 £68.20
UK median hourly rate £27.51 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -38.87% +100.00% +5.14%

OpenStack
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing OpenStack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OpenStack trend for jobs with a WFH option

OpenStack
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing OpenStack.

OpenStack daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

OpenStack
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing OpenStack over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

OpenStack daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

OpenStack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (9.68%) Cloud Foundry
2 2 (6.45%) Apache
2 2 (6.45%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 12 (38.71%) AWS
2 5 (16.13%) Azure
2 5 (16.13%) OpenShift
3 4 (12.90%) GCP
4 3 (9.68%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (9.68%) Amazon S3
4 3 (9.68%) IaaS
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (6.45%) CloudFront
5 2 (6.45%) PaaS
5 2 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) 4G
1 2 (6.45%) 5G
1 2 (6.45%) BGP
1 2 (6.45%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (6.45%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (6.45%) Firewall
1 2 (6.45%) MPLS
1 2 (6.45%) WAN
2 1 (3.23%) 3G
2 1 (3.23%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (19.35%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (12.90%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (9.68%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (6.45%) Couchbase
4 2 (6.45%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.45%) MySQL
4 2 (6.45%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.23%) Redis
5 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Jenkins
2 3 (9.68%) Git
3 2 (6.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Telecoms
3 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.45%) Electronics
4 2 (6.45%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (22.58%) Architect
2 4 (12.90%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (9.68%) Cloud Developer
3 3 (9.68%) Developer
3 3 (9.68%) DevOps Architect
3 3 (9.68%) Server Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Server Specialist
4 2 (6.45%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native Developer
4 2 (6.45%) DBA
4 2 (6.45%) Implementation Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (6.45%) Network Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) SQL DBA
5 1 (3.23%) Linux Specialist
5 1 (3.23%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (9.68%) Node.js
3 2 (6.45%) Kafka
3 2 (6.45%) LAPP Stack
3 2 (6.45%) LDAP
3 2 (6.45%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.23%) Mustache
4 1 (3.23%) React
4 1 (3.23%) REST
4 1 (3.23%) Spring
4 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Cloud Native
1 3 (9.68%) Data Centre
1 3 (9.68%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.23%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (74.19%) Linux
2 7 (22.58%) CentOS
3 4 (12.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (9.68%) Unix
5 2 (6.45%) Ubuntu
5 2 (6.45%) VMS
5 2 (6.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.81%) CI/CD
1 8 (25.81%) Disaster Recovery
1 8 (25.81%) High Availability
2 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (19.35%) DevOps
4 5 (16.13%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (12.90%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (12.90%) Containerisation
5 4 (12.90%) Observability
5 4 (12.90%) Open Source
5 4 (12.90%) Server Management
6 3 (9.68%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (6.45%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (6.45%) Configuration Management
7 2 (6.45%) Cost Optimisation
7 2 (6.45%) Digital Marketing
7 2 (6.45%) Migration
7 2 (6.45%) Network Architecture
7 2 (6.45%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (35.48%) Python
2 5 (16.13%) Bash
3 4 (12.90%) Go
3 4 (12.90%) Shell Script
3 4 (12.90%) SQL
4 1 (3.23%) Java
4 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.23%) Perl
4 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (6.45%) CCNP
1 2 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (6.45%) JNCIP
2 1 (3.23%) RHCA
2 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 12 (38.71%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (29.03%) Firmware
3 5 (16.13%) Docker
4 3 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
5 2 (6.45%) VMware NSX
6 1 (3.23%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 12 (38.71%) Kubernetes
2 11 (35.48%) Ansible
3 10 (32.26%) Terraform
4 6 (19.35%) Grafana
4 6 (19.35%) Prometheus
5 5 (16.13%) Puppet
6 4 (12.90%) Kibana
6 4 (12.90%) logstash
7 3 (9.68%) Dell DRAC
7 3 (9.68%) Progress Chef
8 2 (6.45%) ZABBIX
9 1 (3.23%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 11 (35.48%) Dell
2 5 (16.13%) VMware
3 3 (9.68%) Juniper
3 3 (9.68%) SAP
4 2 (6.45%) Cisco
4 2 (6.45%) Oracle
5 1 (3.23%) Nokia
5 1 (3.23%) Red Hat