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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 464 498
Rank change year-on-year -95 +34 +79
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 39 33 58
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.090% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.01% 1.15% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 41
10th Percentile £411 £430 £262
25th Percentile £442 £447 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £613 £501
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +22.38% -23.00%
75th Percentile £550 £669 £538
90th Percentile £643 £675 £588
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +19.94% -15.21%

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 3,847 2,864 3,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 8.90% 11.50% 10.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,603 1,908 2,703
10th Percentile £313 £288 £263
25th Percentile £406 £400 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 63 146
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.33 £13.38
25th Percentile £19.25 £29.25 £15.74
Median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +74.07% -37.17%
75th Percentile £60.17 £72.50 £49.69
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £52.50 £31.71
% change year-on-year -33.33% +65.56% -39.60%

OpenStack
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

OpenStack job vacancy trend 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 20 June 2026.

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 20 June 2026. 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 -53 14 - - 2
London -77 10 £593 -8.85% 1
Midlands -53 6 £550 -
West Midlands -54 6 £550 -
North of England -74 6 £431 -2.54%
North West -43 5 £431 -2.54%
East of England -37 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -
OpenStack
UK

OpenStack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 13 (33.33%) AWS
2 12 (30.77%) Azure
3 3 (7.69%) OpenShift
4 2 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (5.13%) Amazon S3
4 2 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (5.13%) Serverless
5 1 (2.56%) GCP
5 1 (2.56%) GitHub
5 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (28.21%) 5G
1 11 (28.21%) LTE
2 9 (23.08%) BGP
2 9 (23.08%) Diameter Protocol
2 9 (23.08%) WAN
3 8 (20.51%) Radio Access Network
3 8 (20.51%) Wireshark
4 7 (17.95%) LAN
4 7 (17.95%) MPLS
5 6 (15.38%) VoLTE
5 6 (15.38%) VoWiFi
6 5 (12.82%) 3GPP
7 4 (10.26%) HTTP
7 4 (10.26%) VSAN
8 3 (7.69%) TCP/IP
9 2 (5.13%) 4G
9 2 (5.13%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (5.13%) SD-WAN
9 2 (5.13%) VLAN
9 2 (5.13%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) GitLab
2 3 (7.69%) Git
2 3 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.69%) JIRA
2 3 (7.69%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.51%) Telecoms
3 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.13%) Electronics
3 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) Architect
2 6 (15.38%) IP Architect
2 6 (15.38%) Network Architect
3 4 (10.26%) Security Specialist
4 3 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 3 (7.69%) Designer
4 3 (7.69%) Developer
4 3 (7.69%) Mobile Designer
4 3 (7.69%) Senior
4 3 (7.69%) Senior VMware Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Senior Support Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) SIEM Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Support Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) VMware Support Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.56%) Network Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.21%) REST
2 7 (17.95%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (17.95%) NETCONF
2 7 (17.95%) YANG
3 5 (12.82%) RESTful
4 4 (10.26%) YAML
5 2 (5.13%) Kafka
5 2 (5.13%) Mustache
5 2 (5.13%) Node.js
5 2 (5.13%) OpenAPI
5 2 (5.13%) React
5 2 (5.13%) React Native
5 2 (5.13%) Spring
5 2 (5.13%) Spring Boot
5 2 (5.13%) Swagger
5 2 (5.13%) Web Services
6 1 (2.56%) Hibernate
6 1 (2.56%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 14 (35.90%) Cloud Native
2 8 (20.51%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (12.82%) Private Cloud
4 4 (10.26%) Data Centre
5 2 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (5.13%) Industry 4.0
5 2 (5.13%) IoT
5 2 (5.13%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (5.13%) Public Cloud
5 2 (5.13%) Smart City
6 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.56%) Grid Computing
6 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.56%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.51%) Linux
2 6 (15.38%) Unix
3 1 (2.56%) AIX
3 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.56%) VMS
3 1 (2.56%) Windows
3 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (41.03%) DevOps
2 14 (35.90%) CI/CD
3 11 (28.21%) Microservices
4 10 (25.64%) High Availability
4 10 (25.64%) Network Design
5 9 (23.08%) Network Architecture
5 9 (23.08%) Network Segmentation
5 9 (23.08%) Network Virtualisation
5 9 (23.08%) Roadmaps
6 8 (20.51%) Enterprise Architecture
6 8 (20.51%) Strategic Thinking
6 8 (20.51%) TOGAF
7 6 (15.38%) Incident Response
7 6 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (15.38%) Service Delivery
7 6 (15.38%) TDD
8 5 (12.82%) Agile
8 5 (12.82%) Containerisation
8 5 (12.82%) Security Operations
8 5 (12.82%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 17 (43.59%) Python
2 7 (17.95%) Java
3 4 (10.26%) Bash
4 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.56%) C++
5 1 (2.56%) Perl
5 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.56%) Ruby
5 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (17.95%) CCIE
2 7 (17.95%) JNCIE
3 4 (10.26%) Degree
4 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.13%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.13%) CCNA
4 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.95%) SLA
2 2 (5.13%) NIST
2 2 (5.13%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 7 (17.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (15.38%) Docker
3 4 (10.26%) VMware NSX
3 4 (10.26%) vSphere
4 3 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (5.13%) Hyper-V
5 2 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.56%) GPFS
6 1 (2.56%) Lustre
6 1 (2.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 27 (69.23%) Kubernetes
2 15 (38.46%) Ansible
3 7 (17.95%) Terraform
4 4 (10.26%) Kibana
4 4 (10.26%) logstash
5 3 (7.69%) vCenter Server
5 3 (7.69%) vRealize
6 1 (2.56%) Consul
6 1 (2.56%) Istio
6 1 (2.56%) Nagios
6 1 (2.56%) Puppet
6 1 (2.56%) Salt
6 1 (2.56%) SCCM
6 1 (2.56%) SCOM
Vendors
1 11 (28.21%) Ericsson
1 11 (28.21%) Huawei
1 11 (28.21%) Nokia
2 7 (17.95%) VMware
3 6 (15.38%) BT
3 6 (15.38%) Cisco
4 3 (7.69%) Salesforce
4 3 (7.69%) Veracode
5 2 (5.13%) Red Hat
5 2 (5.13%) Samsung
6 1 (2.56%) Arista
6 1 (2.56%) Google
6 1 (2.56%) SAP
6 1 (2.56%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.56%) Wind River