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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 481 492
Rank change year-on-year -3 +11 +180
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 49 37 79
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.12% 0.21%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.46% 1.09% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 31 52
10th Percentile £406 £400 £262
25th Percentile £435 £455 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £438
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% +25.71% -15.66%
75th Percentile £592 £663 £545
90th Percentile £661 £775 £639
UK median daily rate £548 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -0.45% +15.79% -11.63%

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 3,367 3,380 3,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.82% 11.05% 9.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,326 2,124 2,563
10th Percentile £289 £263 £246
25th Percentile £400 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £630
90th Percentile £725 £800 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 77 126
10th Percentile £15.73 £17.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £19.75 £22.00 £17.56
Median hourly rate £35.00 £42.50 £26.39
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +61.05% +37.99%
75th Percentile £69.25 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.35 £73.13
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £38.25 £27.00
% change year-on-year -21.57% +41.67% +38.46%

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 6 December 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 6 December 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 +1 13 - - 21
North of England - 10 £536 - 17
West Midlands -18 9 £575 +90.08% 11
Midlands -28 9 £575 +90.08% 18
North West - 9 £536 - 8
London -17 7 £524 -14.88% 9
East of England - 6 £413 - 12
Yorkshire - 1 - - 8
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 1 (2.04%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (12.24%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 41 (83.67%) AWS
2 22 (44.90%) Azure
3 14 (28.57%) GCP
3 14 (28.57%) OpenShift
4 10 (20.41%) GitHub
4 10 (20.41%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (12.24%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (10.20%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (8.16%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (8.16%) Azure AKS
7 4 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (8.16%) Datadog
7 4 (8.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (8.16%) npm
7 4 (8.16%) Pulumi
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.04%) IaaS
8 1 (2.04%) PaaS
8 1 (2.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (42.86%) BGP
2 20 (40.82%) MPLS
3 14 (28.57%) Firewall
3 14 (28.57%) OSPF
4 12 (24.49%) LAN
4 12 (24.49%) WAN
5 10 (20.41%) DNS
6 9 (18.37%) 3GPP
6 9 (18.37%) Radio Access Network
6 9 (18.37%) VLAN
7 8 (16.33%) 4G
7 8 (16.33%) 5G
7 8 (16.33%) DHCP
7 8 (16.33%) IPsec
7 8 (16.33%) Wireshark
8 7 (14.29%) TCP/IP
9 6 (12.24%) SNMP
9 6 (12.24%) TACACS
9 6 (12.24%) Wireless
10 2 (4.08%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (2.04%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (22.45%) GitLab
1 11 (22.45%) Jenkins
2 7 (14.29%) Git
3 6 (12.24%) CircleCI
4 4 (8.16%) Artifactory
4 4 (8.16%) Bitbucket
4 4 (8.16%) Cypress.io
4 4 (8.16%) Gradle
4 4 (8.16%) JIRA
4 4 (8.16%) JUnit
4 4 (8.16%) Maven
4 4 (8.16%) Postman
4 4 (8.16%) Selenium
4 4 (8.16%) Snyk
4 4 (8.16%) SonarQube
4 4 (8.16%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (8.16%) webpack
5 1 (2.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.04%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (38.78%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.41%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (16.33%) Telecoms
4 5 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.04%) Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (30.61%) Architect
2 11 (22.45%) Designer
3 6 (12.24%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (12.24%) IP Architect
3 6 (12.24%) IP Designer
3 6 (12.24%) IP Specialist
4 5 (10.20%) Network Designer
4 5 (10.20%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) Senior
5 4 (8.16%) Senior Architect
6 3 (6.12%) Consultant
6 3 (6.12%) Domain Architect
6 3 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.12%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Automation Architect
7 2 (4.08%) Engineering Specialist
8 1 (2.04%) Applications Engineer
8 1 (2.04%) Network Design Architect
8 1 (2.04%) Senior DevOps
8 1 (2.04%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.41%) REST
2 8 (16.33%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (12.24%) NETCONF
3 6 (12.24%) YANG
4 4 (8.16%) JSON
4 4 (8.16%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (8.16%) YAML
5 3 (6.12%) Kafka
6 1 (2.04%) eBPF
6 1 (2.04%) Node.js
6 1 (2.04%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (26.53%) Hybrid Cloud
1 13 (26.53%) Private Cloud
2 10 (20.41%) Data Centre
3 8 (16.33%) Cloud Native
3 8 (16.33%) Operational Technology
4 6 (12.24%) Grid Computing
4 6 (12.24%) Public Cloud
5 3 (6.12%) Product Ownership
6 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
6 2 (4.08%) Security Posture
7 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 24 (48.98%) Linux
2 3 (6.12%) Windows
3 2 (4.08%) CentOS
3 2 (4.08%) Ubuntu
3 2 (4.08%) VMS
4 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (59.18%) DevOps
2 17 (34.69%) CI/CD
3 15 (30.61%) Containerisation
4 14 (28.57%) Agile
4 14 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (26.53%) Network Virtualisation
6 12 (24.49%) Incident Response
6 12 (24.49%) Microservices
7 9 (18.37%) Configuration Management
7 9 (18.37%) Enterprise Architecture
7 9 (18.37%) Infrastructure Automation
8 8 (16.33%) Software Delivery
9 7 (14.29%) Network Design
9 7 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
10 6 (12.24%) Network Architecture
10 6 (12.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 6 (12.24%) Software Engineering
10 6 (12.24%) TOGAF
10 6 (12.24%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 34 (69.39%) Python
2 17 (34.69%) Bash
3 4 (8.16%) Go
4 3 (6.12%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.12%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.08%) SQL
6 1 (2.04%) C
6 1 (2.04%) C++
6 1 (2.04%) Java
6 1 (2.04%) Perl
6 1 (2.04%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.04%) Ruby
6 1 (2.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (26.53%) CCIE
1 13 (26.53%) Cisco Certification
1 13 (26.53%) JNCIE
2 8 (16.33%) Security Cleared
3 6 (12.24%) AWS Certification
4 5 (10.20%) DV Cleared
5 4 (8.16%) Degree
6 2 (4.08%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.04%) CISSP
7 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (53.06%) Docker
2 10 (20.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (12.24%) GPFS
3 6 (12.24%) Lustre
3 6 (12.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 6 (12.24%) VMware NSX
4 5 (10.20%) vSphere
5 2 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
6 1 (2.04%) Ceph
6 1 (2.04%) Hyper-V
6 1 (2.04%) KVM
6 1 (2.04%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 29 (59.18%) Ansible
2 27 (55.10%) Kubernetes
3 25 (51.02%) Terraform
4 8 (16.33%) Grafana
5 6 (12.24%) Puppet
6 5 (10.20%) Prometheus
7 4 (8.16%) Podman
7 4 (8.16%) Progress Chef
8 3 (6.12%) Argo
9 2 (4.08%) Salt
10 1 (2.04%) Consul
10 1 (2.04%) Kibana
10 1 (2.04%) logstash
Vendors
1 12 (24.49%) VMware
2 10 (20.41%) F5
3 8 (16.33%) Dell
4 7 (14.29%) Cisco
5 6 (12.24%) Fortinet
5 6 (12.24%) Juniper
5 6 (12.24%) Splunk
6 4 (8.16%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.04%) AppDynamics
7 1 (2.04%) Arista
7 1 (2.04%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.04%) Microsoft
7 1 (2.04%) Oracle
7 1 (2.04%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.04%) Wind River