OpenStack Contract Job Trends in England

OpenStack
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring OpenStack skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 482 540
Rank change year-on-year +21 +58 +122
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 51 46 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.14% 0.12%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.66% 1.30% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 32 35
10th Percentile £423 £262 £308
25th Percentile £447 £397 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £619 £538 £651
90th Percentile £675 £586 £713
UK median daily rate £575 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +15.00% - -16.67%

All Application Platform Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,080 3,545 4,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.08% 10.76% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,046 2,384 2,944
10th Percentile £275 £275 £256
25th Percentile £388 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.24% - -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £850 £743
UK median daily rate £483 £525 £501
% change year-on-year -8.10% +4.90% -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 79 144
10th Percentile £16.60 £17.08 £16.17
25th Percentile £25.75 £23.80 £20.38
Median hourly rate £41.45 £47.50 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.74% +4.40% +116.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.55 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £38.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -3.95% -27.62% +138.64%

OpenStack
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenStack in England

OpenStack
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing OpenStack

OpenStack
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenStack in England over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenStack in England

OpenStack
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing OpenStack.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing OpenStack

OpenStack
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
South East +27 17 - - 3
London +13 17 £625 +44.93% 4
East of England +8 5 - -
West Midlands -8 5 £575 +35.29% 2
North of England -13 5 £447 - 5
Midlands -14 5 £575 +35.29% 10
North West - 5 £447 - 4
OpenStack
UK

OpenStack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (1.96%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 45 (88.24%) AWS
2 12 (23.53%) OpenShift
3 10 (19.61%) Azure
4 5 (9.80%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (9.80%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (7.84%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (7.84%) GitHub
5 4 (7.84%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (5.88%) Azure AKS
6 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.88%) Datadog
6 3 (5.88%) GCP
6 3 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (5.88%) npm
6 3 (5.88%) Pulumi
7 2 (3.92%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.92%) IaaS
8 1 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.96%) PaaS
8 1 (1.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (41.18%) BGP
2 20 (39.22%) MPLS
3 14 (27.45%) DNS
3 14 (27.45%) OSPF
4 12 (23.53%) LAN
4 12 (23.53%) WAN
5 10 (19.61%) Firewall
6 9 (17.65%) 3GPP
6 9 (17.65%) Radio Access Network
7 8 (15.69%) 4G
7 8 (15.69%) 5G
7 8 (15.69%) DHCP
7 8 (15.69%) IPsec
7 8 (15.69%) VLAN
7 8 (15.69%) Wireshark
8 6 (11.76%) SNMP
8 6 (11.76%) TACACS
8 6 (11.76%) Wireless
9 4 (7.84%) iSCSI
9 4 (7.84%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.96%) Redis
1 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (17.65%) GitLab
2 6 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 5 (9.80%) Git
3 5 (9.80%) JIRA
3 5 (9.80%) TeamCity
4 3 (5.88%) Artifactory
4 3 (5.88%) Bitbucket
4 3 (5.88%) CircleCI
4 3 (5.88%) Cypress.io
4 3 (5.88%) Gradle
4 3 (5.88%) JUnit
4 3 (5.88%) Maven
4 3 (5.88%) Postman
4 3 (5.88%) Selenium
4 3 (5.88%) Snyk
4 3 (5.88%) SonarQube
4 3 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (5.88%) webpack
5 1 (1.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 25 (49.02%) Social Skills
2 16 (31.37%) Telecoms
3 9 (17.65%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Finance
6 1 (1.96%) Banking
6 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.96%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (43.14%) Architect
2 11 (21.57%) Designer
3 10 (19.61%) Domain Architect
4 8 (15.69%) Senior
4 8 (15.69%) Senior Architect
4 8 (15.69%) Telecoms Architect
5 6 (11.76%) IP Architect
5 6 (11.76%) IP Designer
5 6 (11.76%) IP Specialist
6 5 (9.80%) Administrator
6 5 (9.80%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Network Designer
6 5 (9.80%) Support Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Linux Administrator
8 3 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Lead
8 3 (5.88%) Lead Architect
8 3 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.88%) Systems Administrator
9 2 (3.92%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.61%) REST
2 6 (11.76%) NETCONF
2 6 (11.76%) YANG
3 4 (7.84%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (5.88%) JSON
4 3 (5.88%) YAML
5 2 (3.92%) Node.js
6 1 (1.96%) eBPF
6 1 (1.96%) Kafka
6 1 (1.96%) Mustache
6 1 (1.96%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.96%) React
6 1 (1.96%) RESTful
6 1 (1.96%) Spring
6 1 (1.96%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.53%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (21.57%) Data Centre
3 9 (17.65%) Cloud Native
4 8 (15.69%) Operational Technology
5 5 (9.80%) Private Cloud
6 4 (7.84%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (7.84%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 27 (52.94%) Linux
2 4 (7.84%) CentOS
2 4 (7.84%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (31.37%) Enterprise Architecture
2 15 (29.41%) DevOps
2 15 (29.41%) Microservices
3 13 (25.49%) Agile
3 13 (25.49%) CI/CD
3 13 (25.49%) Network Virtualisation
4 11 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (19.61%) Edge Computing
5 10 (19.61%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 9 (17.65%) Containerisation
7 8 (15.69%) Open Source
8 7 (13.73%) API Design
8 7 (13.73%) Architectural Design
8 7 (13.73%) Event-Driven
8 7 (13.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 7 (13.73%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (13.73%) Network Design
8 7 (13.73%) Strategic Thinking
9 6 (11.76%) Network Segmentation
9 6 (11.76%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 27 (52.94%) Python
2 8 (15.69%) Bash
3 5 (9.80%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.96%) C
4 1 (1.96%) Go
4 1 (1.96%) Java
4 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.96%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.96%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (25.49%) CCIE
1 13 (25.49%) Cisco Certification
1 13 (25.49%) JNCIE
2 6 (11.76%) AWS Certification
2 6 (11.76%) Degree
2 6 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.84%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.92%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.96%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.80%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (25.49%) Docker
2 7 (13.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (13.73%) VMware NSX
3 6 (11.76%) vSphere
4 5 (9.80%) Active Directory
4 5 (9.80%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.96%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 28 (54.90%) Ansible
2 20 (39.22%) Kubernetes
3 13 (25.49%) Terraform
4 4 (7.84%) Grafana
4 4 (7.84%) Progress Chef
4 4 (7.84%) Prometheus
4 4 (7.84%) Puppet
5 3 (5.88%) Podman
6 1 (1.96%) Istio
6 1 (1.96%) Salt
Vendors
1 13 (25.49%) VMware
2 8 (15.69%) Dell
3 7 (13.73%) Cisco
4 6 (11.76%) F5
4 6 (11.76%) Fortinet
4 6 (11.76%) Juniper
5 5 (9.80%) Microsoft
5 5 (9.80%) ServiceNow
5 5 (9.80%) Splunk
6 2 (3.92%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.92%) Wind River
7 1 (1.96%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.96%) Arista
7 1 (1.96%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.96%) Oracle