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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 459 496
Rank change year-on-year -93 +37 +78
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 40 29 59
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.095% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.07% 1.05% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 42
10th Percentile £396 £595 £262
25th Percentile £431 £610 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £456
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +42.47% -30.08%
75th Percentile £580 £675 £515
90th Percentile £670 - £586
UK median daily rate £538 £638 £480
% change year-on-year -15.69% +32.81% -19.33%

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 3,727 2,774 3,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 8.84% 11.47% 9.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,533 1,838 2,624
10th Percentile £313 £287 £262
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £630
90th Percentile £675 £725 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 57 143
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.40 £13.05
25th Percentile £19.03 £26.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +75.00% -36.84%
75th Percentile £63.19 £72.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £30.16
% change year-on-year -38.10% +74.07% -42.55%

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 June 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 6 June 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 -54 12 - - 6
London -77 12 £593 -7.06% 7
Midlands -49 7 £550 -
West Midlands -51 7 £550 -
North of England - 6 £431 - 1
North West - 5 £431 -
East of England -29 1 - - 2
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 (7.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.00%) AWS
2 11 (27.50%) Azure
3 6 (15.00%) OpenShift
4 3 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (5.00%) GCP
5 2 (5.00%) GitHub
5 2 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (5.00%) Serverless
6 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.50%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.50%) Datadog
6 1 (2.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (2.50%) npm
6 1 (2.50%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 11 (27.50%) 5G
1 11 (27.50%) LTE
2 9 (22.50%) Diameter Protocol
3 8 (20.00%) Radio Access Network
3 8 (20.00%) Wireshark
4 7 (17.50%) BGP
4 7 (17.50%) WAN
5 6 (15.00%) VoLTE
5 6 (15.00%) VoWiFi
6 5 (12.50%) 3GPP
6 5 (12.50%) LAN
6 5 (12.50%) MPLS
6 5 (12.50%) VSAN
7 4 (10.00%) HTTP
7 4 (10.00%) TCP/IP
8 3 (7.50%) VLAN
9 2 (5.00%) 4G
9 2 (5.00%) Calico
9 2 (5.00%) SD-WAN
9 2 (5.00%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (20.00%) GitLab
2 4 (10.00%) Git
2 4 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.00%) SonarQube
3 3 (7.50%) JIRA
4 1 (2.50%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.50%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.50%) Gradle
4 1 (2.50%) JUnit
4 1 (2.50%) Maven
4 1 (2.50%) Postman
4 1 (2.50%) Selenium
4 1 (2.50%) Snyk
4 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.50%) webpack
General
1 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Electronics
3 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Architect
2 4 (10.00%) IP Architect
2 4 (10.00%) Network Architect
2 4 (10.00%) Security Specialist
3 3 (7.50%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 3 (7.50%) Designer
3 3 (7.50%) Developer
3 3 (7.50%) Mobile Designer
3 3 (7.50%) Senior
3 3 (7.50%) Senior VMware Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (5.00%) Principal Architect
4 2 (5.00%) Senior Support Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) SIEM Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) VMware Support Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) Automation Architect
5 1 (2.50%) IP Specialist
5 1 (2.50%) Salesforce Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.00%) REST
2 8 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (12.50%) NETCONF
3 5 (12.50%) RESTful
3 5 (12.50%) YAML
3 5 (12.50%) YANG
4 2 (5.00%) Kafka
4 2 (5.00%) Mustache
4 2 (5.00%) Node.js
4 2 (5.00%) OpenAPI
4 2 (5.00%) React
4 2 (5.00%) React Native
4 2 (5.00%) Spring
4 2 (5.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (5.00%) Swagger
4 2 (5.00%) Web Services
5 1 (2.50%) Hibernate
5 1 (2.50%) JPA
5 1 (2.50%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 13 (32.50%) Cloud Native
2 7 (17.50%) Private Cloud
3 6 (15.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (10.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (5.00%) Industry 4.0
5 2 (5.00%) IoT
5 2 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
5 2 (5.00%) Public Cloud
5 2 (5.00%) Smart City
6 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.50%) Grid Computing
6 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.00%) Linux
2 6 (15.00%) Unix
3 2 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.00%) VMS
3 2 (5.00%) Windows
4 1 (2.50%) AIX
4 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 16 (40.00%) DevOps
2 10 (25.00%) High Availability
3 9 (22.50%) Microservices
4 8 (20.00%) Network Design
5 7 (17.50%) Network Architecture
5 7 (17.50%) Network Segmentation
5 7 (17.50%) Network Virtualisation
5 7 (17.50%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (17.50%) Roadmaps
6 6 (15.00%) Containerisation
6 6 (15.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (15.00%) Incident Response
6 6 (15.00%) Service Delivery
6 6 (15.00%) Strategic Thinking
6 6 (15.00%) TDD
6 6 (15.00%) TOGAF
7 5 (12.50%) Agile
7 5 (12.50%) Migration
7 5 (12.50%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 16 (40.00%) Python
2 7 (17.50%) Java
3 5 (12.50%) Bash
4 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.50%) C++
5 1 (2.50%) Go
5 1 (2.50%) Perl
5 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.50%) Ruby
5 1 (2.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (12.50%) CCIE
2 5 (12.50%) JNCIE
3 4 (10.00%) Degree
3 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.00%) CCNA
5 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.50%) SLA
2 2 (5.00%) NIST
2 2 (5.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 8 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (17.50%) Docker
3 5 (12.50%) VMware NSX
3 5 (12.50%) vSphere
4 3 (7.50%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (7.50%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (5.00%) Hyper-V
6 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
6 1 (2.50%) Ceph
6 1 (2.50%) GPFS
6 1 (2.50%) KVM
6 1 (2.50%) Lustre
6 1 (2.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 29 (72.50%) Kubernetes
2 15 (37.50%) Ansible
3 8 (20.00%) Terraform
4 4 (10.00%) Kibana
4 4 (10.00%) logstash
5 3 (7.50%) vCenter Server
5 3 (7.50%) vRealize
6 2 (5.00%) Istio
6 2 (5.00%) Puppet
7 1 (2.50%) Consul
7 1 (2.50%) Grafana
7 1 (2.50%) Nagios
7 1 (2.50%) Podman
7 1 (2.50%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.50%) Salt
7 1 (2.50%) SCCM
7 1 (2.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 11 (27.50%) Ericsson
1 11 (27.50%) Huawei
1 11 (27.50%) Nokia
2 8 (20.00%) VMware
3 7 (17.50%) Cisco
4 6 (15.00%) BT
5 4 (10.00%) Red Hat
6 3 (7.50%) Salesforce
6 3 (7.50%) Veracode
7 2 (5.00%) Arista
7 2 (5.00%) Samsung
7 2 (5.00%) Wind River
8 1 (2.50%) Google
8 1 (2.50%) SAP
8 1 (2.50%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.50%) Splunk