OpenStack Contract Job Trends in London

OpenStack
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring OpenStack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 327 344
Rank change year-on-year -73 +17 +112
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 11 24 52
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.061% 0.19% 0.30%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.66% 1.70% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 40
10th Percentile £438 £582 £262
25th Percentile £518 £608 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 £650 £483
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% +34.72% -26.34%
75th Percentile £670 £775 £529
90th Percentile - - £588
England median daily rate £550 £650 £478
% change year-on-year -15.38% +36.13% -27.10%

All Application Platform Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,663 1,413 2,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.24% 11.37% 11.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,106 950 1,526
10th Percentile £363 £352 £263
25th Percentile £425 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £825 £834
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 9 27
10th Percentile £15.35 £25.56 £15.50
25th Percentile £19.03 £26.04 £22.88
Median hourly rate £24.16 £27.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -10.54% -10.48% -13.83%
75th Percentile £28.78 £50.00 £36.88
90th Percentile £66.53 £53.75 £60.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £52.50 £27.52
% change year-on-year -46.67% +90.81% -21.39%

OpenStack
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenStack relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

OpenStack job vacancy trend in London

OpenStack
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing OpenStack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing OpenStack

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenStack in London over the 6 months to 19 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OpenStack in London

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing OpenStack.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing OpenStack

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) OpenShift
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) 3GPP
1 5 (45.45%) 5G
1 5 (45.45%) LTE
2 4 (36.36%) HTTP
2 4 (36.36%) VSAN
3 3 (27.27%) Diameter Protocol
4 2 (18.18%) 4G
4 2 (18.18%) Calico
4 2 (18.18%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
5 1 (9.09%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) GitLab
General
1 7 (63.64%) Telecoms
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Electronics
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Designer
2 3 (27.27%) Mobile Designer
3 2 (18.18%) Principal Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior VMware Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) VMware Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) VMware Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Cloud Native
2 3 (27.27%) Private Cloud
3 2 (18.18%) Industry 4.0
3 2 (18.18%) IoT
3 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
3 2 (18.18%) Smart City
4 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) AIX
2 1 (9.09%) VMS
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) Migration
3 4 (36.36%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (36.36%) High Availability
3 4 (36.36%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Network Design
4 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (18.18%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (18.18%) Microservices
5 2 (18.18%) Network Architecture
5 2 (18.18%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
5 2 (18.18%) Thought Leadership
5 2 (18.18%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Bash
1 1 (9.09%) Go
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (36.36%) VMware NSX
2 4 (36.36%) vSphere
3 3 (27.27%) Docker
4 2 (18.18%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
5 1 (9.09%) Ceph
5 1 (9.09%) KVM
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) Istio
2 2 (18.18%) vCenter Server
2 2 (18.18%) vRealize
3 1 (9.09%) Nagios
3 1 (9.09%) SCCM
3 1 (9.09%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Cisco
1 5 (45.45%) Ericsson
1 5 (45.45%) Huawei
1 5 (45.45%) Nokia
1 5 (45.45%) VMware
2 4 (36.36%) Red Hat
3 2 (18.18%) Arista
3 2 (18.18%) Samsung
3 2 (18.18%) Wind River
4 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds