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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 574 467 500
Rank change year-on-year -107 +33 +91
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 46 33 57
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.10% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.14% 1.08% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 11 40
10th Percentile £341 £431 £262
25th Percentile £424 £447 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £510
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +17.65% -17.74%
75th Percentile £550 £663 £538
90th Percentile £631 £675 £589
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £510
% change year-on-year -16.67% +17.65% -13.38%

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 4,041 3,059 3,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 8.98% 11.24% 10.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,685 2,024 2,698
10th Percentile £309 £289 £274
25th Percentile £405 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -0.96%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £738 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +4.49% -4.30% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 78 124
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.33 £13.63
25th Percentile £19.02 £26.14 £19.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £46.65 £33.04
Median % change year-on-year -30.33% +41.21% -31.18%
75th Percentile £61.17 £69.00 £52.68
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.13 £74.31
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £47.12 £32.75
% change year-on-year -25.72% +43.88% -37.62%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -45 16 £325 - 1
London -60 12 £575 -9.80% 5
Midlands -49 6 £538 - 1
West Midlands -54 6 £538 - 1
North of England -78 6 £431 -2.54% 3
East of England -19 5 £475 - 1
North West -51 5 £431 -2.54% 3
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 3 (6.52%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (8.70%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.17%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 18 (39.13%) AWS
2 15 (32.61%) Azure
3 5 (10.87%) OpenShift
4 4 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (8.70%) Amazon S3
4 4 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (8.70%) Serverless
5 3 (6.52%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (28.26%) BGP
1 13 (28.26%) WAN
2 11 (23.91%) 5G
2 11 (23.91%) LAN
2 11 (23.91%) LTE
2 11 (23.91%) MPLS
3 9 (19.57%) Diameter Protocol
4 8 (17.39%) Radio Access Network
4 8 (17.39%) Wireshark
5 7 (15.22%) TCP/IP
6 6 (13.04%) VoLTE
6 6 (13.04%) VoWiFi
7 5 (10.87%) 3GPP
8 4 (8.70%) HTTP
8 4 (8.70%) SNMP
8 4 (8.70%) TACACS
8 4 (8.70%) VSAN
8 4 (8.70%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (4.35%) SD-WAN
9 2 (4.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (8.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Git
2 4 (8.70%) GitLab
2 4 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.52%) JIRA
3 3 (6.52%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (36.96%) Social Skills
2 13 (28.26%) Telecoms
3 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Electronics
4 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (28.26%) Architect
2 9 (19.57%) Network Architect
3 6 (13.04%) IP Architect
4 5 (10.87%) Developer
5 4 (8.70%) Java Developer
5 4 (8.70%) Senior
6 3 (6.52%) Consultant
6 3 (6.52%) Designer
6 3 (6.52%) IP Network Consultant
6 3 (6.52%) Mobile Designer
6 3 (6.52%) Network Consultant
6 3 (6.52%) Security Specialist
6 3 (6.52%) Senior VMware Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) VMware Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Support Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) SIEM Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.35%) Storage Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Support Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) VMware Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (30.43%) REST
2 11 (23.91%) NETCONF
2 11 (23.91%) YANG
3 8 (17.39%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (10.87%) RESTful
5 4 (8.70%) Kafka
5 4 (8.70%) Mustache
5 4 (8.70%) Node.js
5 4 (8.70%) OpenConfig
5 4 (8.70%) React
5 4 (8.70%) RESTCONF
5 4 (8.70%) Spring
5 4 (8.70%) Spring Boot
5 4 (8.70%) Web Services
5 4 (8.70%) YAML
6 2 (4.35%) OpenAPI
6 2 (4.35%) React Native
6 2 (4.35%) Swagger
7 1 (2.17%) Hibernate
7 1 (2.17%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 14 (30.43%) Hybrid Cloud
2 13 (28.26%) Cloud Native
3 7 (15.22%) Data Centre
3 7 (15.22%) Private Cloud
4 6 (13.04%) Public Cloud
5 4 (8.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (4.35%) Industry 4.0
6 2 (4.35%) IoT
6 2 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (4.35%) Smart City
7 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (2.17%) Grid Computing
7 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
7 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (26.09%) Linux
2 6 (13.04%) Unix
3 2 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.35%) Windows
4 1 (2.17%) AIX
4 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.96%) CI/CD
2 14 (30.43%) Network Design
3 13 (28.26%) DevOps
3 13 (28.26%) Microservices
4 12 (26.09%) High Availability
5 9 (19.57%) Network Architecture
5 9 (19.57%) Network Segmentation
5 9 (19.57%) Network Virtualisation
5 9 (19.57%) Roadmaps
6 8 (17.39%) Enterprise Architecture
6 8 (17.39%) Strategic Thinking
6 8 (17.39%) TDD
6 8 (17.39%) TOGAF
7 7 (15.22%) Agile
7 7 (15.22%) Incident Response
8 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (13.04%) Service Delivery
9 5 (10.87%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
10 4 (8.70%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 23 (50.00%) Python
2 9 (19.57%) Java
3 4 (8.70%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.52%) Bash
5 1 (2.17%) C++
5 1 (2.17%) Perl
5 1 (2.17%) Ruby
5 1 (2.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (28.26%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (23.91%) CCIE
2 11 (23.91%) JNCIE
3 5 (10.87%) Security Cleared
4 4 (8.70%) Degree
5 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared
6 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.35%) CCNA
7 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.22%) SLA
2 2 (4.35%) NIST
2 2 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (17.39%) Docker
2 7 (15.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (8.70%) VMware NSX
3 4 (8.70%) vSphere
4 2 (4.35%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.17%) Ceph
5 1 (2.17%) GPFS
5 1 (2.17%) Lustre
5 1 (2.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (60.87%) Kubernetes
2 19 (41.30%) Ansible
3 7 (15.22%) Terraform
4 4 (8.70%) vCenter Server
5 3 (6.52%) Kibana
5 3 (6.52%) logstash
5 3 (6.52%) vRealize
6 1 (2.17%) Consul
6 1 (2.17%) Nagios
6 1 (2.17%) Proxmox
6 1 (2.17%) Puppet
6 1 (2.17%) Salt
6 1 (2.17%) SCCM
6 1 (2.17%) SCOM
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Ericsson
1 11 (23.91%) Huawei
1 11 (23.91%) Nokia
2 9 (19.57%) Cisco
3 8 (17.39%) VMware
4 6 (13.04%) BT
5 5 (10.87%) F5
5 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
6 4 (8.70%) Fortinet
6 4 (8.70%) Juniper
7 3 (6.52%) Salesforce
7 3 (6.52%) Veracode
8 2 (4.35%) NetApp
8 2 (4.35%) Samsung
9 1 (2.17%) Google
9 1 (2.17%) Mirantis
9 1 (2.17%) Red Hat
9 1 (2.17%) SAP
9 1 (2.17%) SolarWinds