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

 6 months to
29 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 463 481
Rank change year-on-year -113 +18 +79
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 46 45 49
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.10% 0.16% 0.15%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.13% 1.45% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 35
10th Percentile £325 £433 £262
25th Percentile £381 £447 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £581 £510
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% +13.97% +2.00%
75th Percentile £597 £647 £538
90th Percentile £625 £675 £588
UK median daily rate £450 £588 £510
% change year-on-year -23.40% +15.20% +2.00%

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 4,071 3,113 3,518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 8.87% 11.22% 10.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,659 2,069 2,449
10th Percentile £287 £275 £290
25th Percentile £405 £390 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £663
90th Percentile £688 £725 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 82 84
10th Percentile £16.15 £17.33 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £26.00 £23.73
Median hourly rate £32.50 £42.27 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.11% +11.24% -20.00%
75th Percentile £60.33 £68.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £74.31
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £41.45 £33.07
% change year-on-year -21.59% +25.34% -38.76%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -66 15 £325 - 11
London -77 14 £575 -9.80% 31
East of England -19 9 £450 - 11
North of England -69 4 - - 1
West Midlands -39 3 £575 - 1
Midlands -48 3 £575 - 1
North West -60 3 - - 1
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 (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 17 (36.96%) AWS
2 14 (30.43%) Azure
3 6 (13.04%) OpenShift
4 5 (10.87%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (10.87%) GCP
5 4 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (8.70%) Amazon S3
5 4 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (8.70%) Serverless
6 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.17%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.17%) Datadog
6 1 (2.17%) GitHub
6 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (2.17%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 15 (32.61%) 5G
2 12 (26.09%) BGP
3 11 (23.91%) LTE
3 11 (23.91%) TCP/IP
3 11 (23.91%) WAN
4 10 (21.74%) MPLS
5 9 (19.57%) Diameter Protocol
5 9 (19.57%) LAN
6 8 (17.39%) HTTP
6 8 (17.39%) Radio Access Network
6 8 (17.39%) Wireshark
7 6 (13.04%) 4G
7 6 (13.04%) VoLTE
7 6 (13.04%) VoWiFi
8 5 (10.87%) 3GPP
8 5 (10.87%) SSH
9 4 (8.70%) DNS
9 4 (8.70%) SNMP
9 4 (8.70%) TACACS
9 4 (8.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (8.70%) MongoDB
2 4 (8.70%) MySQL
2 4 (8.70%) NoSQL
2 4 (8.70%) Redis
2 4 (8.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (28.26%) Git
2 9 (19.57%) Jenkins
3 5 (10.87%) Selenium
4 4 (8.70%) GitLab
5 2 (4.35%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.17%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.17%) CircleCI
6 1 (2.17%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.17%) Gradle
6 1 (2.17%) JUnit
6 1 (2.17%) Maven
6 1 (2.17%) Postman
6 1 (2.17%) Snyk
6 1 (2.17%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.17%) webpack
General
1 18 (39.13%) Social Skills
1 18 (39.13%) Telecoms
2 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.35%) Electronics
4 1 (2.17%) Banking
4 1 (2.17%) Finance
4 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (32.61%) Architect
2 9 (19.57%) Network Architect
3 8 (17.39%) Developer
4 5 (10.87%) IP Architect
5 4 (8.70%) Java Developer
5 4 (8.70%) Python Developer
5 4 (8.70%) Senior
5 4 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
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%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Senior VMware Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Storage Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) VMware Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Lead
7 2 (4.35%) VMware Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (41.30%) REST
2 10 (21.74%) NETCONF
2 10 (21.74%) YANG
3 9 (19.57%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (17.39%) Kafka
4 8 (17.39%) Terraform
5 5 (10.87%) OpenConfig
6 4 (8.70%) FastAPI
6 4 (8.70%) Flask
6 4 (8.70%) Jinja
6 4 (8.70%) Mustache
6 4 (8.70%) Node.js
6 4 (8.70%) Pandas
6 4 (8.70%) Playwright
6 4 (8.70%) pytest
6 4 (8.70%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (8.70%) React
6 4 (8.70%) RESTCONF
6 4 (8.70%) RESTful
6 4 (8.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (23.91%) Cloud Native
3 10 (21.74%) Private Cloud
4 7 (15.22%) Data Centre
5 5 (10.87%) Public Cloud
6 4 (8.70%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (4.35%) Industry 4.0
7 2 (4.35%) IoT
7 2 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (4.35%) Smart City
8 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (2.17%) Grid Computing
8 1 (2.17%) TM Forum
8 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (47.83%) Linux
2 7 (15.22%) Unix
3 3 (6.52%) Windows
4 2 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.17%) AIX
5 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (47.83%) CI/CD
2 15 (32.61%) High Availability
2 15 (32.61%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (28.26%) DevOps
4 12 (26.09%) Network Design
5 11 (23.91%) Microservices
6 10 (21.74%) Roadmaps
7 9 (19.57%) Agile
8 8 (17.39%) Network Architecture
9 7 (15.22%) Network Segmentation
9 7 (15.22%) Network Virtualisation
9 7 (15.22%) Scrum
9 7 (15.22%) Strategic Thinking
9 7 (15.22%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (13.04%) Service Delivery
10 6 (13.04%) TOGAF
11 5 (10.87%) Enterprise Architecture
11 5 (10.87%) Migration
11 5 (10.87%) Service Management
11 5 (10.87%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 28 (60.87%) Python
2 7 (15.22%) Bash
3 6 (13.04%) SQL
4 5 (10.87%) Java
5 4 (8.70%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.52%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.17%) C++
7 1 (2.17%) Perl
7 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (26.09%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (21.74%) CCIE
2 10 (21.74%) JNCIE
3 6 (13.04%) Degree
4 5 (10.87%) Security Cleared
5 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared
6 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.35%) CCNA
6 2 (4.35%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.17%) CCIE Service Provider
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.22%) SLA
2 4 (8.70%) QA
3 2 (4.35%) NIST
3 2 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (28.26%) Docker
2 9 (19.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.70%) Ceph
3 4 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (8.70%) VMware NSX
3 4 (8.70%) vSphere
4 3 (6.52%) KVM
5 2 (4.35%) Hyper-V
6 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
6 1 (2.17%) GPFS
6 1 (2.17%) Lustre
6 1 (2.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (63.04%) Kubernetes
2 20 (43.48%) Ansible
3 5 (10.87%) Grafana
3 5 (10.87%) Prometheus
4 4 (8.70%) vCenter Server
5 3 (6.52%) vRealize
6 2 (4.35%) Puppet
7 1 (2.17%) Consul
7 1 (2.17%) Nagios
7 1 (2.17%) Podman
7 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.17%) Proxmox
7 1 (2.17%) Salt
7 1 (2.17%) SCCM
7 1 (2.17%) SCOM
7 1 (2.17%) WMI
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Ericsson
1 11 (23.91%) Huawei
1 11 (23.91%) Nokia
2 10 (21.74%) Cisco
2 10 (21.74%) VMware
3 6 (13.04%) BT
4 5 (10.87%) F5
4 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
5 4 (8.70%) Fortinet
5 4 (8.70%) Juniper
6 3 (6.52%) NetApp
7 2 (4.35%) Samsung
8 1 (2.17%) BMC
8 1 (2.17%) CyberArk
8 1 (2.17%) Mirantis
8 1 (2.17%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.17%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.17%) Splunk
56 OpenStack jobs in England