OpenStack Contracts in England

OpenStack
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 499 592
Rank change year-on-year +34 +93 +65
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 33 57 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.15% 0.099%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.10% 1.50% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 40 34
10th Percentile £431 £262 £347
25th Percentile £447 £397 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £504 £655
Median % change year-on-year +19.11% -23.09% +5.65%
75th Percentile £663 £538 £725
90th Percentile £675 £588 £845
UK median daily rate £600 £501 £600
% change year-on-year +19.88% -16.58% -1.03%

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 2,999 3,801 4,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.49% 10.17% 10.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,965 2,718 3,485
10th Percentile £289 £263 £263
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -3.38% +0.96%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £825 £775
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -2.35% -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 142 140
10th Percentile £17.33 £13.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £26.45 £16.06 £21.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £31.71 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.68% -33.94% +120.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £51.91 £66.00
90th Percentile £79.75 £70.00 £78.12
UK median hourly rate £51.25 £31.91 £52.50
% change year-on-year +60.60% -39.21% +128.26%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for OpenStack in England

OpenStack
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenStack in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenStack in England

OpenStack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OpenStack in England.

Hourly rate trend for OpenStack in England

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 3 July 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
London +22 15 £638 +25.37% 63
South East +37 5 - - 21
East of England +26 5 - - 13
North of England +7 4 £442 - 18
North West - 4 £442 - 9
Midlands +13 1 - - 15
West Midlands +7 1 - - 10
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:

Cloud Services
1 23 (69.70%) AWS
2 6 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (9.09%) OpenShift
4 2 (6.06%) IaaS
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.03%) PaaS
5 1 (3.03%) SaaS
5 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (33.33%) DNS
2 6 (18.18%) 3GPP
2 6 (18.18%) 4G
2 6 (18.18%) 5G
2 6 (18.18%) BGP
2 6 (18.18%) Firewall
2 6 (18.18%) Radio Access Network
3 5 (15.15%) DHCP
3 5 (15.15%) IPsec
3 5 (15.15%) MPLS
3 5 (15.15%) OSPF
3 5 (15.15%) VLAN
3 5 (15.15%) Wireshark
4 4 (12.12%) iSCSI
4 4 (12.12%) SAN
5 1 (3.03%) 3G
5 1 (3.03%) InfiniBand
5 1 (3.03%) LTE
5 1 (3.03%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (3.03%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) GitLab
1 5 (15.15%) JIRA
1 5 (15.15%) TeamCity
2 2 (6.06%) Git
2 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (42.42%) Telecoms
2 13 (39.39%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Finance
4 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Architect
2 8 (24.24%) Telecoms Architect
3 7 (21.21%) Domain Architect
4 6 (18.18%) Senior
5 5 (15.15%) Administrator
5 5 (15.15%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Designer
5 5 (15.15%) Network Designer
5 5 (15.15%) Senior Architect
5 5 (15.15%) Support Engineer
6 4 (12.12%) Lead
6 4 (12.12%) Linux Administrator
7 3 (9.09%) Lead Architect
7 3 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
8 2 (6.06%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 1 (3.03%) Lead Test Analyst
9 1 (3.03%) Linux Engineer
9 1 (3.03%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 1 (3.03%) Senior Network Architect
9 1 (3.03%) Senior Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) eBPF
1 1 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (3.03%) Kafka
1 1 (3.03%) Mustache
1 1 (3.03%) Node.js
1 1 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (3.03%) React
1 1 (3.03%) REST
1 1 (3.03%) Spring
1 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
1 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Data Centre
2 5 (15.15%) Operational Technology
3 4 (12.12%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (12.12%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (9.09%) Private Cloud
5 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
6 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
6 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (3.03%) NVMe
6 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 24 (72.73%) Linux
2 4 (12.12%) CentOS
2 4 (12.12%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (30.30%) Open Source
2 9 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 8 (24.24%) Agile
4 7 (21.21%) Architectural Design
4 7 (21.21%) Edge Computing
4 7 (21.21%) Enterprise Architecture
4 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (21.21%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 6 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 6 (18.18%) DevOps
6 5 (15.15%) Computer Science
6 5 (15.15%) ITSM
6 5 (15.15%) Microservices
7 4 (12.12%) API Design
7 4 (12.12%) Event-Driven
7 4 (12.12%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 3 (9.09%) Capacity Planning
8 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 13 (39.39%) Python
2 5 (15.15%) Bash
2 5 (15.15%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.03%) C
3 1 (3.03%) Java
3 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) Degree
2 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) CCIE
3 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.03%) CISSP
3 1 (3.03%) ISEB
3 1 (3.03%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.03%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (21.21%) Docker
2 6 (18.18%) vSphere
3 5 (15.15%) Active Directory
3 5 (15.15%) Hyper-V
4 2 (6.06%) Ceph
5 1 (3.03%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (3.03%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (42.42%) Kubernetes
2 13 (39.39%) Ansible
3 4 (12.12%) Terraform
4 1 (3.03%) Cobbler
4 1 (3.03%) Istio
4 1 (3.03%) Nagios
4 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.03%) Puppet
4 1 (3.03%) Salt
4 1 (3.03%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) VMware
2 6 (18.18%) Dell
2 6 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 5 (15.15%) ServiceNow
4 4 (12.12%) Red Hat
5 2 (6.06%) Arista
5 2 (6.06%) Cisco
5 2 (6.06%) Wind River
6 1 (3.03%) Ericsson
6 1 (3.03%) Juniper
6 1 (3.03%) Mavenir
6 1 (3.03%) Nokia