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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 479 489 500
Rank change year-on-year +10 +11 +193
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 52 28 79
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.090% 0.20%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.59% 0.82% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 24 53
10th Percentile £411 £400 £262
25th Percentile £439 £413 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +23.53% -25.27%
75th Percentile £609 £578 £605
90th Percentile £685 £632 £708
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +9.52% +10.53% -13.64%

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 3,269 3,411 4,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.22% 10.93% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,225 2,170 2,769
10th Percentile £282 £265 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £713 £825 £725
UK median daily rate £492 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 73 140
10th Percentile £15.77 £19.98 £15.44
25th Percentile £22.38 £30.00 £18.45
Median hourly rate £39.25 £42.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.65% +57.41% +35.00%
75th Percentile £68.90 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.43 £74.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £41.91 £28.75
% change year-on-year -16.49% +45.77% +43.75%

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 31 October 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 31 October 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 +11 17 - -
North of England - 10 £536 - 3
London +17 9 £524 +4.70%
North West - 9 £536 - 3
East of England -7 8 £413 -21.43% 1
West Midlands -17 6 £575 +35.29%
Midlands -19 6 £575 +35.29%
Yorkshire - 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 1 (1.92%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 50 (96.15%) AWS
2 19 (36.54%) Azure
3 12 (23.08%) GCP
3 12 (23.08%) OpenShift
4 8 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (9.62%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (9.62%) GitHub
6 5 (9.62%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (7.69%) Azure AKS
7 4 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (7.69%) Datadog
7 4 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (7.69%) npm
7 4 (7.69%) Pulumi
8 2 (3.85%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.92%) PaaS
9 1 (1.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (40.38%) BGP
2 20 (38.46%) MPLS
3 14 (26.92%) DNS
3 14 (26.92%) Firewall
3 14 (26.92%) OSPF
4 12 (23.08%) LAN
4 12 (23.08%) WAN
5 9 (17.31%) 3GPP
5 9 (17.31%) Radio Access Network
5 9 (17.31%) VLAN
6 8 (15.38%) 4G
6 8 (15.38%) 5G
6 8 (15.38%) DHCP
6 8 (15.38%) IPsec
6 8 (15.38%) Wireshark
7 6 (11.54%) SNMP
7 6 (11.54%) TACACS
7 6 (11.54%) Wireless
8 4 (7.69%) SAN
8 4 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.92%) Redis
1 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (19.23%) GitLab
2 7 (13.46%) Jenkins
3 6 (11.54%) Git
4 5 (9.62%) JIRA
4 5 (9.62%) TeamCity
5 4 (7.69%) Artifactory
5 4 (7.69%) Bitbucket
5 4 (7.69%) CircleCI
5 4 (7.69%) Cypress.io
5 4 (7.69%) Gradle
5 4 (7.69%) JUnit
5 4 (7.69%) Maven
5 4 (7.69%) Postman
5 4 (7.69%) Selenium
5 4 (7.69%) Snyk
5 4 (7.69%) SonarQube
5 4 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (7.69%) webpack
6 1 (1.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 23 (44.23%) Social Skills
2 12 (23.08%) Telecoms
3 9 (17.31%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.92%) Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (30.77%) Architect
2 11 (21.15%) Designer
3 6 (11.54%) Domain Architect
3 6 (11.54%) IP Architect
3 6 (11.54%) IP Designer
3 6 (11.54%) IP Specialist
3 6 (11.54%) Senior
3 6 (11.54%) Senior Architect
4 5 (9.62%) Administrator
4 5 (9.62%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Network Designer
4 5 (9.62%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Support Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Linux Administrator
5 4 (7.69%) Telecoms Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Consultant
6 3 (5.77%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (5.77%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (21.15%) REST
2 6 (11.54%) NETCONF
2 6 (11.54%) YANG
3 5 (9.62%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (7.69%) JSON
4 4 (7.69%) YAML
5 2 (3.85%) Node.js
6 1 (1.92%) eBPF
6 1 (1.92%) Kafka
6 1 (1.92%) Mustache
6 1 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.92%) React
6 1 (1.92%) RESTful
6 1 (1.92%) Spring
6 1 (1.92%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (21.15%) Data Centre
3 8 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 8 (15.38%) Operational Technology
3 8 (15.38%) Private Cloud
4 4 (7.69%) Enterprise Storage
4 4 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (7.69%) Public Cloud
5 3 (5.77%) Grid Computing
6 2 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 29 (55.77%) Linux
2 5 (9.62%) CentOS
2 5 (9.62%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.92%) Unix
3 1 (1.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (46.15%) DevOps
2 18 (34.62%) CI/CD
3 14 (26.92%) Containerisation
4 13 (25.00%) Microservices
4 13 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 12 (23.08%) Agile
5 12 (23.08%) Enterprise Architecture
5 12 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (21.15%) Incident Response
7 7 (13.46%) Infrastructure Automation
7 7 (13.46%) Network Design
7 7 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (13.46%) SDLC
7 7 (13.46%) Strategic Thinking
8 6 (11.54%) Computer Science
8 6 (11.54%) Configuration Management
8 6 (11.54%) Network Architecture
8 6 (11.54%) Open Source
8 6 (11.54%) TOGAF
8 6 (11.54%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 34 (65.38%) Python
2 16 (30.77%) Bash
3 5 (9.62%) Shell Script
4 2 (3.85%) Java
4 2 (3.85%) SQL
5 1 (1.92%) C
5 1 (1.92%) C++
5 1 (1.92%) Go
5 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.92%) Perl
5 1 (1.92%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.92%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (25.00%) CCIE
1 13 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 13 (25.00%) JNCIE
2 8 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 7 (13.46%) Degree
4 6 (11.54%) AWS Certification
5 5 (9.62%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.92%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.62%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (42.31%) Docker
2 10 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (17.31%) vSphere
4 6 (11.54%) VMware NSX
5 5 (9.62%) Active Directory
5 5 (9.62%) Hyper-V
6 3 (5.77%) GPFS
6 3 (5.77%) Lustre
6 3 (5.77%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (1.92%) Ceph
7 1 (1.92%) KVM
7 1 (1.92%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 30 (57.69%) Ansible
2 26 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 19 (36.54%) Terraform
4 6 (11.54%) Puppet
5 5 (9.62%) Grafana
5 5 (9.62%) Progress Chef
5 5 (9.62%) Prometheus
6 4 (7.69%) Podman
7 2 (3.85%) Salt
8 1 (1.92%) Consul
Vendors
1 16 (30.77%) VMware
2 10 (19.23%) F5
3 8 (15.38%) Dell
4 7 (13.46%) Cisco
5 6 (11.54%) Fortinet
5 6 (11.54%) Juniper
5 6 (11.54%) Splunk
6 5 (9.62%) Microsoft
6 5 (9.62%) ServiceNow
7 4 (7.69%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.92%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.92%) Arista
8 1 (1.92%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.92%) Oracle
8 1 (1.92%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.92%) Wind River