OpenStack Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

OpenStack
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring OpenStack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.12% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £501 - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £550 - -

All Application Platform Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 80 37 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.96% 5.81% 7.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 25 43
10th Percentile £313 £174 £131
25th Percentile £413 £300 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% +25.00% +3.23%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £638
90th Percentile £600 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £498 £470 £425
% change year-on-year +5.85% +10.59% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.89
Median hourly rate - - £14.59
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.58%
75th Percentile - - £15.30
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.21 £18.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year +51.17% - +20.12%

OpenStack
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

OpenStack job vacancy trend in Birmingham

OpenStack
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing OpenStack

OpenStack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) GitHub
1 3 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) GitLab
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) CircleCI
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 3 (33.33%) Security Specialist
1 3 (33.33%) SIEM Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Applications Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Elasticsearch Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Engineering Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (33.33%) Kafka
2 3 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (22.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
1 9 (100.00%) SIEM
2 6 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 6 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 6 (66.67%) Threat Detection
3 5 (55.56%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 5 (55.56%) Visualisation
4 3 (33.33%) Agile
4 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 3 (33.33%) Offensive Security
4 3 (33.33%) Security Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Software Delivery
4 3 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
5 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
5 2 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
5 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Go
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 3 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Master's Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Ansible
1 9 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 9 (100.00%) Terraform
2 5 (55.56%) Kibana
2 5 (55.56%) logstash
3 3 (33.33%) Argo
3 3 (33.33%) Grafana