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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 457 461
Rank change year-on-year -33 +4 +199
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 46 30 81
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.11% 0.23%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.40% 1.01% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 23 56
10th Percentile £406 £400 £262
25th Percentile £463 £506 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £615 £400
Median % change year-on-year -6.71% +53.75% -20.00%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £525
90th Percentile £677 £775 £581
UK median daily rate £571 £613 £438
% change year-on-year -6.73% +40.00% -12.50%

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 3,277 2,977 3,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.44% 10.99% 9.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,294 1,847 2,378
10th Percentile £290 £256 £235
25th Percentile £400 £398 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £613
90th Percentile £704 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 61 121
10th Percentile £15.36 £17.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.21 £41.91 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.08% +74.63% +35.44%
75th Percentile £69.40 £64.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £82.40 £67.02 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +45.83% +35.44%

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 9 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 9 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 -11 12 - - 1
West Midlands -25 10 £575 +219.44% 2
Midlands -30 10 £575 +219.44% 2
London -19 9 £554 -12.49% 1
North of England - 6 £679 - 1
East of England - 5 £413 -
North West - 5 £679 -
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 1 (2.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 35 (76.09%) AWS
2 23 (50.00%) Azure
3 18 (39.13%) OpenShift
4 15 (32.61%) GCP
5 12 (26.09%) GitHub
5 12 (26.09%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (10.87%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (10.87%) Azure AKS
7 5 (10.87%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (10.87%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (10.87%) Datadog
7 5 (10.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 5 (10.87%) npm
7 5 (10.87%) Pulumi
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 15 (32.61%) BGP
1 15 (32.61%) MPLS
2 12 (26.09%) LAN
2 12 (26.09%) WAN
3 9 (19.57%) OSPF
4 8 (17.39%) Firewall
4 8 (17.39%) TCP/IP
5 6 (13.04%) SNMP
5 6 (13.04%) TACACS
5 6 (13.04%) Wireless
6 5 (10.87%) VLAN
7 3 (6.52%) 3GPP
7 3 (6.52%) 4G
7 3 (6.52%) 5G
7 3 (6.52%) DHCP
7 3 (6.52%) DNS
7 3 (6.52%) IPsec
7 3 (6.52%) Radio Access Network
7 3 (6.52%) Wireshark
8 2 (4.35%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (2.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (30.43%) GitLab
2 13 (28.26%) Jenkins
3 9 (19.57%) Git
4 7 (15.22%) CircleCI
5 5 (10.87%) Artifactory
5 5 (10.87%) Bitbucket
5 5 (10.87%) Cypress.io
5 5 (10.87%) Gradle
5 5 (10.87%) JUnit
5 5 (10.87%) Maven
5 5 (10.87%) Postman
5 5 (10.87%) Selenium
5 5 (10.87%) Snyk
5 5 (10.87%) SonarQube
5 5 (10.87%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (10.87%) webpack
6 3 (6.52%) JIRA
7 1 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 18 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.74%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.04%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.17%) Banking
4 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.17%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (36.96%) Architect
2 7 (15.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (13.04%) Designer
3 6 (13.04%) IP Architect
3 6 (13.04%) IP Designer
3 6 (13.04%) IP Specialist
4 5 (10.87%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Senior
6 3 (6.52%) Automation Architect
6 3 (6.52%) Consultant
6 3 (6.52%) Domain Architect
6 3 (6.52%) Senior Architect
6 3 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.52%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Engineering Specialist
7 2 (4.35%) Principal Architect
8 1 (2.17%) Applications Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Infrastructure Consultant
8 1 (2.17%) Solutions Consultant
8 1 (2.17%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.91%) REST
2 9 (19.57%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (13.04%) NETCONF
3 6 (13.04%) YANG
4 5 (10.87%) JSON
4 5 (10.87%) YAML
5 4 (8.70%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (6.52%) Kafka
7 1 (2.17%) Node.js
7 1 (2.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (36.96%) Private Cloud
2 13 (28.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (19.57%) Cloud Native
3 9 (19.57%) Data Centre
4 6 (13.04%) Grid Computing
4 6 (13.04%) Public Cloud
5 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
5 3 (6.52%) Operational Technology
5 3 (6.52%) Product Ownership
6 2 (4.35%) Security Posture
7 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 23 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (8.70%) VMS
2 4 (8.70%) Windows
3 2 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.17%) CentOS
4 1 (2.17%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (69.57%) DevOps
2 20 (43.48%) CI/CD
3 16 (34.78%) Containerisation
4 15 (32.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (30.43%) Agile
6 12 (26.09%) Configuration Management
6 12 (26.09%) Incident Response
6 12 (26.09%) Microservices
6 12 (26.09%) Network Virtualisation
7 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure Automation
8 9 (19.57%) Enterprise Architecture
8 9 (19.57%) Software Delivery
9 7 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (15.22%) SDLC
9 7 (15.22%) Software Engineering
10 6 (13.04%) DevSecOps
10 6 (13.04%) Network Segmentation
10 6 (13.04%) Roadmaps
10 6 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 6 (13.04%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 33 (71.74%) Python
2 18 (39.13%) Bash
3 5 (10.87%) Go
4 4 (8.70%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.52%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.35%) SQL
7 1 (2.17%) C++
7 1 (2.17%) Java
7 1 (2.17%) Perl
7 1 (2.17%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (26.09%) CCIE
1 12 (26.09%) Cisco Certification
1 12 (26.09%) JNCIE
2 8 (17.39%) Security Cleared
3 6 (13.04%) AWS Certification
3 6 (13.04%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.52%) Degree
5 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) QA
System Software
1 22 (47.83%) Docker
2 12 (26.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (17.39%) VMware NSX
4 6 (13.04%) GPFS
4 6 (13.04%) Lustre
4 6 (13.04%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 6 (13.04%) vSphere
5 4 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (4.35%) Ceph
6 2 (4.35%) KVM
7 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
7 1 (2.17%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 29 (63.04%) Ansible
1 29 (63.04%) Kubernetes
2 26 (56.52%) Terraform
3 9 (19.57%) Grafana
4 7 (15.22%) Puppet
5 6 (13.04%) Prometheus
6 5 (10.87%) Podman
6 5 (10.87%) Progress Chef
7 3 (6.52%) Argo
8 2 (4.35%) Istio
8 2 (4.35%) Salt
9 1 (2.17%) Consul
9 1 (2.17%) Kibana
9 1 (2.17%) logstash
Vendors
1 13 (28.26%) VMware
2 10 (21.74%) F5
3 8 (17.39%) Cisco
4 7 (15.22%) Splunk
5 6 (13.04%) Fortinet
5 6 (13.04%) Juniper
6 4 (8.70%) Palo Alto
7 3 (6.52%) Dell
7 3 (6.52%) Red Hat
8 2 (4.35%) Arista
8 2 (4.35%) Wind River
9 1 (2.17%) AppDynamics
9 1 (2.17%) Dynatrace
9 1 (2.17%) Oracle