OpenStack Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

OpenStack
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring OpenStack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 95 106
Rank change year-on-year -14 +11 0
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 14 5 8
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.72% 0.41% 0.45%
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.20% 3.85% 7.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £453
25th Percentile - - £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £498
Median % change year-on-year - - +57.94%
75th Percentile - - £544
90th Percentile - - £556
South East median daily rate £325 - £498
% change year-on-year - - +57.94%

All Application Platform Skills
Berkshire

OpenStack falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 125 130 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 6.39% 10.77% 6.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 63 57
10th Percentile £358 £350 £389
25th Percentile £411 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.15% -5.81% +15.92%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £608
90th Percentile £680 £649 £624
South East median daily rate £500 £512 £450
% change year-on-year -2.30% +13.72% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 3
10th Percentile £21.25 - £20.08
25th Percentile £25.00 £32.05 £23.96
Median hourly rate £32.50 £62.50 £30.83
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% +102.76% -47.75%
75th Percentile £33.75 £71.50 £54.37
90th Percentile £35.22 £76.60 £68.25
South East median hourly rate £37.50 £42.64 £70.00
% change year-on-year -12.04% -39.09% +21.74%

OpenStack
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenStack relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

OpenStack job vacancy trend in Berkshire

OpenStack
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing OpenStack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing OpenStack

OpenStack
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenStack within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 31 July 2026. 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
Reading -14 14 £325 -
OpenStack
South East

OpenStack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) BGP
1 7 (50.00%) LAN
1 7 (50.00%) MPLS
1 7 (50.00%) WAN
2 6 (42.86%) 5G
2 6 (42.86%) Diameter Protocol
2 6 (42.86%) LTE
2 6 (42.86%) Radio Access Network
2 6 (42.86%) VoLTE
2 6 (42.86%) VoWiFi
2 6 (42.86%) Wireshark
3 2 (14.29%) SNMP
3 2 (14.29%) TACACS
3 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 2 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Architect
1 7 (50.00%) Network Architect
2 5 (35.71%) IP Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) IP Network Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Network Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) NETCONF
1 7 (50.00%) YANG
2 6 (42.86%) REST
3 2 (14.29%) OpenConfig
3 2 (14.29%) RESTCONF
4 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (7.14%) Kafka
4 1 (7.14%) Mustache
4 1 (7.14%) Node.js
4 1 (7.14%) React
4 1 (7.14%) Spring
4 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
4 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (35.71%) Cloud Native
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 2 (14.29%) Private Cloud
3 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Linux
1 6 (42.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Network Design
2 6 (42.86%) High Availability
2 6 (42.86%) Microservices
2 6 (42.86%) Service Delivery
3 5 (35.71%) DevOps
3 5 (35.71%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (35.71%) Network Architecture
3 5 (35.71%) Network Segmentation
3 5 (35.71%) Network Virtualisation
3 5 (35.71%) Roadmaps
3 5 (35.71%) Strategic Thinking
3 5 (35.71%) TOGAF
4 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 1 (7.14%) Agile
5 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.14%) Scrum
5 1 (7.14%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) CCIE
1 7 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 7 (50.00%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Ansible
1 7 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) BT
1 6 (42.86%) Ericsson
1 6 (42.86%) Huawei
1 6 (42.86%) Nokia
2 2 (14.29%) Cisco
2 2 (14.29%) F5
2 2 (14.29%) Fortinet
2 2 (14.29%) Juniper
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft