OpenStack Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

OpenStack
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring OpenStack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.30% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 16.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile £539 - -
East of England median daily rate £413 - -

All Application Platform Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 31 34 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 8.05% 10.40% 5.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 17 6
10th Percentile £356 £300 £237
25th Percentile £400 £325 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £363 £375
Median % change year-on-year +13.79% -3.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £513 £438 £581
90th Percentile £610 £555 £694
East of England median daily rate £463 £363 £400
% change year-on-year +27.59% -9.38% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.50 - -
Median hourly rate £16.00 £18.00 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +28.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £16.50 - £14.56
90th Percentile - - £15.28
East of England median hourly rate £16.00 £63.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year -74.60% +350.00% -3.45%

OpenStack
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

OpenStack job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

OpenStack
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing OpenStack

OpenStack
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenStack in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenStack in Cambridgeshire

OpenStack
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenStack within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 22 December 2025. 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
Cambridge - 5 £413 -
OpenStack
East of England

OpenStack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 5 (100.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) InfiniBand
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Grid Computing
1 5 (100.00%) Private Cloud
1 5 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
2 1 (20.00%) Ruby
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
1 5 (100.00%) GPFS
1 5 (100.00%) Lustre
1 5 (100.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Consul
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
2 1 (20.00%) Salt
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform