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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 456 472 612
Rank change year-on-year +16 +140 +26
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 29 70 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.19% 0.081%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.03% 2.02% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 48 26
10th Percentile £541 £262 £456
25th Percentile £608 £300 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £475 £620
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -23.39% +3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £529 £763
90th Percentile £775 £588 £875
UK median daily rate £650 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +30.00% -5.66% -11.67%

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 2,817 3,461 5,453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.57% 9.31% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,884 2,471 3,915
10th Percentile £283 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £754
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 139 128
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.00 £15.38
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.00 £18.13
Median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%
75th Percentile £64.50 £45.59 £66.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £65.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +3 25 £650 +35.42% 21
South East +39 2 - - 11
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (13.79%) Apache
1 4 (13.79%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) OpenShift
2 5 (17.24%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (13.79%) AWS
4 1 (3.45%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) HTTP
2 3 (10.34%) 3G
2 3 (10.34%) 4G
2 3 (10.34%) 5G
2 3 (10.34%) BGP
2 3 (10.34%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (10.34%) LTE
2 3 (10.34%) Multicast
2 3 (10.34%) OSPF
2 3 (10.34%) TCP/IP
2 3 (10.34%) VXLAN
3 2 (6.90%) 3GPP
3 2 (6.90%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (6.90%) NX-OS
4 1 (3.45%) BIG-IP
4 1 (3.45%) InfiniBand
4 1 (3.45%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Couchbase
1 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.90%) Git
2 2 (6.90%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (34.48%) Telecoms
2 6 (20.69%) Finance
3 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Architect
2 6 (20.69%) Lead
3 5 (17.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Unix Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Consultant
4 4 (13.79%) Domain Architect
4 4 (13.79%) Site Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Telecoms Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Network Consultant
5 3 (10.34%) Senior
6 2 (6.90%) Cisco Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) Cisco Network Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) Lead Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Technical Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Technical Design Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Technical Design Authority
7 1 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 9 (31.03%) Private Cloud
2 5 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 5 (17.24%) Data Centre
3 4 (13.79%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (10.34%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
6 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
6 1 (3.45%) NVMe
6 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (65.52%) Linux
2 5 (17.24%) Unix
3 1 (3.45%) Debian
3 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (27.59%) DevOps
1 8 (27.59%) High Availability
1 8 (27.59%) Open Source
2 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
2 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (20.69%) Capacity Planning
3 6 (20.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Automation
4 5 (17.24%) Roadmaps
5 4 (13.79%) Agile
5 4 (13.79%) Architectural Design
5 4 (13.79%) Canary Deployment
5 4 (13.79%) Containerisation
5 4 (13.79%) Edge Computing
5 4 (13.79%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (13.79%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 4 (13.79%) SDLC
6 3 (10.34%) Migration
6 3 (10.34%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 10 (34.48%) Python
2 4 (13.79%) Groovy
2 4 (13.79%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.45%) Bash
3 1 (3.45%) Go
3 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) RHCSA
2 2 (6.90%) CCIE
2 2 (6.90%) CCIE Data Center
2 2 (6.90%) CCNP
2 2 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.45%) ISEB
3 1 (3.45%) ISTQB
System Software
1 8 (27.59%) Docker
2 7 (24.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (13.79%) vSphere
4 2 (6.90%) Ceph
5 1 (3.45%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (48.28%) Kubernetes
2 13 (44.83%) Ansible
3 10 (34.48%) Terraform
4 3 (10.34%) Progress Chef
5 2 (6.90%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.90%) ZABBIX
6 1 (3.45%) Cobbler
6 1 (3.45%) Grafana
6 1 (3.45%) Istio
6 1 (3.45%) Nagios
Vendors
1 10 (34.48%) Red Hat
1 10 (34.48%) VMware
2 5 (17.24%) Splunk
3 4 (13.79%) AppDynamics
3 4 (13.79%) Dynatrace
4 3 (10.34%) Cisco
5 2 (6.90%) Arista
6 1 (3.45%) Dell
6 1 (3.45%) Ericsson
6 1 (3.45%) F5
6 1 (3.45%) Juniper
6 1 (3.45%) Mavenir
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.45%) Nokia
6 1 (3.45%) Wind River