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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 446 461
Rank change year-on-year -94 +15 +163
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 39 29 88
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.10% 0.12% 0.24%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.05% 1.02% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 22 66
10th Percentile £406 £501 £262
25th Percentile £431 £583 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £638 £438
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +45.71% -25.85%
75th Percentile £586 £675 £515
90th Percentile £676 £775 £588
UK median daily rate £538 £620 £450
% change year-on-year -13.31% +37.78% -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 3,719 2,832 3,468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.54% 11.61% 9.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,605 1,904 2,458
10th Percentile £308 £275 £239
25th Percentile £406 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £695 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 64 148
10th Percentile £15.15 £17.00 £13.43
25th Percentile £19.00 £24.52 £15.46
Median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £28.01
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +87.45% +24.48%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.00 £45.30
90th Percentile £81.70 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £44.64 £28.75
% change year-on-year -20.47% +55.25% +21.15%

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 7 April 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 7 April 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
Midlands - 11 £525 -
West Midlands - 11 £525 -
North of England - 11 £563 -
North West - 9 £563 -
London -77 8 £660 +1.54% 1
East of England - 4 £413 -
South East -55 3 - - 4
Yorkshire - 2 - -
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 5 (12.82%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 18 (46.15%) AWS
2 16 (41.03%) Azure
3 10 (25.64%) GCP
4 7 (17.95%) GitHub
4 7 (17.95%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (17.95%) OpenShift
5 4 (10.26%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (5.13%) Amazon S3
7 2 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (5.13%) Serverless
8 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.56%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.56%) Datadog
8 1 (2.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (2.56%) npm
8 1 (2.56%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.38%) TCP/IP
2 4 (10.26%) 3GPP
2 4 (10.26%) 5G
2 4 (10.26%) Firewall
2 4 (10.26%) LTE
3 3 (7.69%) HTTP
4 2 (5.13%) 4G
4 2 (5.13%) BGP
4 2 (5.13%) Calico
4 2 (5.13%) Diameter Protocol
4 2 (5.13%) LAN
4 2 (5.13%) MPLS
4 2 (5.13%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (5.13%) VLAN
4 2 (5.13%) VSAN
4 2 (5.13%) WAN
5 1 (2.56%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (33.33%) GitLab
2 9 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 6 (15.38%) Git
3 6 (15.38%) JIRA
4 4 (10.26%) SonarQube
5 3 (7.69%) CircleCI
6 1 (2.56%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.56%) Gradle
6 1 (2.56%) JUnit
6 1 (2.56%) Maven
6 1 (2.56%) Postman
6 1 (2.56%) Selenium
6 1 (2.56%) Snyk
6 1 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.56%) webpack
General
1 11 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Telecoms
3 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.13%) Electronics
5 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (23.08%) Architect
2 4 (10.26%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (10.26%) Security Specialist
3 3 (7.69%) Automation Architect
3 3 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 3 (7.69%) Developer
3 3 (7.69%) SIEM Engineer
3 3 (7.69%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Designer
4 2 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Elasticsearch Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Engineering Specialist
4 2 (5.13%) Java Developer
4 2 (5.13%) Mobile Designer
4 2 (5.13%) Principal Architect
5 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.77%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (12.82%) Kafka
2 5 (12.82%) REST
2 5 (12.82%) RESTful
2 5 (12.82%) YAML
3 3 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (5.13%) Mustache
4 2 (5.13%) NETCONF
4 2 (5.13%) Node.js
4 2 (5.13%) OpenAPI
4 2 (5.13%) React
4 2 (5.13%) React Native
4 2 (5.13%) Spring
4 2 (5.13%) Spring Boot
4 2 (5.13%) Swagger
4 2 (5.13%) Web Services
4 2 (5.13%) YANG
5 1 (2.56%) Hibernate
5 1 (2.56%) JPA
5 1 (2.56%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 14 (35.90%) Private Cloud
2 8 (20.51%) Cloud Native
3 6 (15.38%) Public Cloud
4 5 (12.82%) Grid Computing
5 4 (10.26%) Data Centre
6 3 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
7 2 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (5.13%) Industry 4.0
7 2 (5.13%) IoT
7 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
7 2 (5.13%) Security Posture
7 2 (5.13%) Smart City
8 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 14 (35.90%) Linux
2 4 (10.26%) VMS
2 4 (10.26%) Windows
3 2 (5.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.56%) CentOS
4 1 (2.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (71.79%) DevOps
2 24 (61.54%) CI/CD
3 13 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 12 (30.77%) Agile
5 10 (25.64%) Incident Response
5 10 (25.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (23.08%) Infrastructure Automation
6 9 (23.08%) SIEM
7 8 (20.51%) Microservices
8 7 (17.95%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (17.95%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (15.38%) Configuration Management
9 6 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (15.38%) Security Operations
9 6 (15.38%) TDD
9 6 (15.38%) Threat Detection
10 5 (12.82%) Mentoring
10 5 (12.82%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 5 (12.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 5 (12.82%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 19 (48.72%) Python
2 14 (35.90%) Bash
3 6 (15.38%) Java
4 5 (12.82%) JavaScript
5 4 (10.26%) Go
6 3 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.26%) Degree
3 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.13%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.13%) CCIE
3 2 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.13%) JNCIE
3 2 (5.13%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (43.59%) Docker
2 6 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (15.38%) vSphere
3 5 (12.82%) GPFS
3 5 (12.82%) Lustre
3 5 (12.82%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 4 (10.26%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (5.13%) Ceph
5 2 (5.13%) KVM
5 2 (5.13%) VMware NSX
6 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
6 1 (2.56%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 30 (76.92%) Kubernetes
2 19 (48.72%) Terraform
3 18 (46.15%) Ansible
4 5 (12.82%) Kibana
4 5 (12.82%) logstash
5 4 (10.26%) Grafana
6 3 (7.69%) Argo
7 2 (5.13%) Istio
7 2 (5.13%) Puppet
8 1 (2.56%) Podman
8 1 (2.56%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
8 1 (2.56%) Salt
Vendors
1 6 (15.38%) VMware
2 4 (10.26%) Cisco
2 4 (10.26%) Ericsson
2 4 (10.26%) F5
2 4 (10.26%) Huawei
2 4 (10.26%) Nokia
2 4 (10.26%) Palo Alto
3 3 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 3 (7.69%) Salesforce
3 3 (7.69%) Veracode
4 2 (5.13%) Arista
4 2 (5.13%) Samsung
4 2 (5.13%) Wind River
5 1 (2.56%) Google
5 1 (2.56%) SAP
5 1 (2.56%) Splunk