OpenStack Contracts in Cheshire

OpenStack
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring OpenStack skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenStack over the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.16% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.88% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £447 - -

All Application Platform Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 113 55 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 18.46% 11.32% 8.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 46 23
10th Percentile £268 £311 £217
25th Percentile £323 £353 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £489 £475
Median % change year-on-year -23.31% +2.95% +16.71%
75th Percentile £438 £551 £638
90th Percentile £527 £577 £648
North West median daily rate £410 £463 £490
% change year-on-year -11.35% -5.61% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £22.16
25th Percentile - - £22.40
Median hourly rate - - £22.53
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.54%
75th Percentile - - £26.90
90th Percentile - - £34.76
North West median hourly rate £45.11 £40.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year +12.76% +95.12% -67.96%

OpenStack
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing OpenStack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for OpenStack in Cheshire

OpenStack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for OpenStack in Cheshire

OpenStack
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenStack within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
Chester - 1 £675 - 1
OpenStack
North West

OpenStack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk