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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 461 473
Rank change year-on-year -41 +12 +178
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 56 28 83
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.11% 0.22%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.64% 0.93% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 22 57
10th Percentile £406 £466 £262
25th Percentile £439 £531 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £615 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +53.75% -20.00%
75th Percentile £591 £675 £488
90th Percentile £678 £775 £579
UK median daily rate £550 £615 £425
% change year-on-year -10.57% +44.71% -15.00%

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 3,410 3,007 3,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.32% 11.32% 9.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,392 1,859 2,483
10th Percentile £300 £250 £225
25th Percentile £402 £390 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £600
90th Percentile £712 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 59 150
10th Percentile £14.92 £17.00 £13.99
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.21 £42.50 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.98% +65.05% +32.05%
75th Percentile £69.42 £64.50 £50.89
90th Percentile £84.00 £66.00 £68.77
UK median hourly rate £25.28 £41.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -38.34% +49.09% +41.03%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 -14 14 - - 5
West Midlands -24 14 £550 +205.56% 1
Midlands -38 14 £550 +205.56% 1
North of England - 11 £625 - 3
North West - 10 £625 - 2
London -37 8 £554 -14.85% 4
East of England - 5 £413 -
Yorkshire - 1 - - 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 (5.36%) Confluence
2 1 (1.79%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (10.71%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 37 (66.07%) AWS
2 26 (46.43%) Azure
3 18 (32.14%) OpenShift
4 15 (26.79%) GCP
5 12 (21.43%) GitHub
5 12 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (8.93%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (8.93%) Azure AKS
7 5 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (8.93%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (8.93%) Datadog
7 5 (8.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 5 (8.93%) npm
7 5 (8.93%) Pulumi
8 1 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.79%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 17 (30.36%) BGP
1 17 (30.36%) MPLS
2 14 (25.00%) LAN
2 14 (25.00%) WAN
3 9 (16.07%) OSPF
4 8 (14.29%) Firewall
4 8 (14.29%) TCP/IP
5 6 (10.71%) SNMP
5 6 (10.71%) TACACS
5 6 (10.71%) Wireless
6 5 (8.93%) VLAN
7 3 (5.36%) 3GPP
7 3 (5.36%) 4G
7 3 (5.36%) 5G
7 3 (5.36%) DHCP
7 3 (5.36%) DNS
7 3 (5.36%) IPsec
7 3 (5.36%) Radio Access Network
7 3 (5.36%) Wireshark
8 2 (3.57%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.93%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.79%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (32.14%) GitLab
2 13 (23.21%) Jenkins
3 9 (16.07%) Git
4 8 (14.29%) SonarQube
5 7 (12.50%) CircleCI
6 6 (10.71%) JIRA
7 5 (8.93%) Artifactory
7 5 (8.93%) Bitbucket
7 5 (8.93%) Cypress.io
7 5 (8.93%) Gradle
7 5 (8.93%) JUnit
7 5 (8.93%) Maven
7 5 (8.93%) Postman
7 5 (8.93%) Selenium
7 5 (8.93%) Snyk
7 5 (8.93%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (8.93%) webpack
8 1 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 20 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.07%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.93%) Telecoms
4 3 (5.36%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.79%) Banking
5 1 (1.79%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (32.14%) Architect
2 7 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (12.50%) IP Architect
2 7 (12.50%) IP Specialist
3 6 (10.71%) Designer
3 6 (10.71%) IP Designer
4 5 (8.93%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Security Specialist
5 4 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.36%) Automation Architect
6 3 (5.36%) Consultant
6 3 (5.36%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 3 (5.36%) Senior
6 3 (5.36%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Domain Architect
7 2 (3.57%) Engineering Specialist
7 2 (3.57%) Principal Architect
7 2 (3.57%) Senior Architect
7 2 (3.57%) SIEM Engineer
8 1 (1.79%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (23.21%) Elastic Stack
1 13 (23.21%) REST
2 9 (16.07%) YAML
3 8 (14.29%) NETCONF
3 8 (14.29%) YANG
4 5 (8.93%) JSON
4 5 (8.93%) RESTful
5 4 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (5.36%) Kafka
7 2 (3.57%) OpenAPI
7 2 (3.57%) React Native
7 2 (3.57%) Swagger
8 1 (1.79%) Hibernate
8 1 (1.79%) JPA
8 1 (1.79%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (32.14%) Private Cloud
2 15 (26.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (19.64%) Cloud Native
4 10 (17.86%) Data Centre
5 7 (12.50%) Public Cloud
6 6 (10.71%) Grid Computing
7 3 (5.36%) Onboarding
7 3 (5.36%) Operational Technology
7 3 (5.36%) Product Ownership
8 2 (3.57%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 22 (39.29%) Linux
2 4 (7.14%) VMS
2 4 (7.14%) Windows
3 2 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.79%) CentOS
4 1 (1.79%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (67.86%) DevOps
2 24 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 17 (30.36%) Containerisation
4 16 (28.57%) Incident Response
5 15 (26.79%) Agile
5 15 (26.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
7 13 (23.21%) Microservices
8 12 (21.43%) Configuration Management
9 11 (19.64%) Enterprise Architecture
10 10 (17.86%) Infrastructure Automation
10 10 (17.86%) Software Delivery
11 9 (16.07%) Roadmaps
11 9 (16.07%) SDLC
11 9 (16.07%) TOGAF
12 8 (14.29%) Network Architecture
12 8 (14.29%) Network Design
12 8 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
12 8 (14.29%) SIEM
12 8 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 35 (62.50%) Python
2 18 (32.14%) Bash
3 5 (8.93%) Go
3 5 (8.93%) Java
4 4 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.36%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.57%) SQL
7 1 (1.79%) C++
7 1 (1.79%) Perl
7 1 (1.79%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.79%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (25.00%) CCIE
1 14 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 14 (25.00%) JNCIE
2 10 (17.86%) Security Cleared
3 6 (10.71%) AWS Certification
3 6 (10.71%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.36%) Degree
5 1 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) QA
System Software
1 22 (39.29%) Docker
2 12 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (14.29%) VMware NSX
4 6 (10.71%) GPFS
4 6 (10.71%) Lustre
4 6 (10.71%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 6 (10.71%) vSphere
5 4 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (3.57%) Ceph
6 2 (3.57%) KVM
7 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
7 1 (1.79%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 35 (62.50%) Ansible
2 32 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 30 (53.57%) Terraform
4 9 (16.07%) Grafana
5 7 (12.50%) Puppet
6 6 (10.71%) Prometheus
7 5 (8.93%) Podman
7 5 (8.93%) Progress Chef
8 4 (7.14%) Kibana
8 4 (7.14%) logstash
9 3 (5.36%) Argo
10 2 (3.57%) Istio
10 2 (3.57%) Salt
11 1 (1.79%) Consul
Vendors
1 13 (23.21%) VMware
2 10 (17.86%) F5
3 8 (14.29%) Cisco
4 7 (12.50%) Splunk
5 6 (10.71%) Fortinet
5 6 (10.71%) Juniper
6 4 (7.14%) Palo Alto
7 3 (5.36%) Dell
7 3 (5.36%) Red Hat
7 3 (5.36%) Salesforce
7 3 (5.36%) Veracode
8 2 (3.57%) Arista
8 2 (3.57%) Wind River
9 1 (1.79%) AppDynamics
9 1 (1.79%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.79%) Google
9 1 (1.79%) Oracle
9 1 (1.79%) SAP