OpenStack Contract Job Trends in the East of England

OpenStack
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring OpenStack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 91 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 7 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.50% 0.14% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.43% 1.18% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £426 - -
25th Percentile £456 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -
75th Percentile £569 £538 -
90th Percentile £599 - -
England median daily rate £575 £525 £450
% change year-on-year +9.52% +16.67% -19.10%

All Application Platform Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 129 170 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 9.19% 12.25% 8.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 107 102
10th Percentile £213 £220 £170
25th Percentile £400 £300 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -6.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £570 £544 £631
90th Percentile £624 £575 £704
England median daily rate £500 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 17
10th Percentile £16.42 £20.40 £14.15
25th Percentile £17.33 £24.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £30.36 £30.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% +50.00% +42.05%
75th Percentile £64.74 £40.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £46.00 -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -11.76% +57.41% +35.00%

OpenStack
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

OpenStack job vacancy trend in the East of England

OpenStack
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing OpenStack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing OpenStack

OpenStack
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenStack in the East of England over the 6 months to 24 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenStack in the East of England

OpenStack
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenStack within the East of England region over the 6 months to 24 October 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
Cambridgeshire - 7 £513 - 1
OpenStack
England

OpenStack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (28.57%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) DNS
2 4 (57.14%) iSCSI
2 4 (57.14%) SAN
3 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
4 1 (14.29%) InfiniBand
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) GitLab
1 5 (71.43%) JIRA
1 5 (71.43%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Administrator
2 4 (57.14%) Linux Administrator
3 3 (42.86%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (28.57%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Data Centre
1 4 (57.14%) Enterprise Storage
1 4 (57.14%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (28.57%) Grid Computing
2 2 (28.57%) Private Cloud
2 2 (28.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) CentOS
2 4 (57.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Computer Science
1 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
1 5 (71.43%) ITSM
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Data Science
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
3 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) Shell Script
3 2 (28.57%) Bash
4 1 (14.29%) C++
4 1 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) Perl
4 1 (14.29%) Ruby
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
1 5 (71.43%) Hyper-V
2 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) GPFS
2 2 (28.57%) Lustre
2 2 (28.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Puppet
2 2 (28.57%) Salt
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Consul
3 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
1 5 (71.43%) ServiceNow
1 5 (71.43%) VMware