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 20 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 20 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	445	348	364
Rank change year-on-year	-97	+16	+18
Contract jobs citing OpenStack	9	13	15
As % of all contract jobs in London	0.044%	0.098%	0.095%
As % of the Application Platforms category	0.44%	0.86%	0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted	2	2	10
10^th Percentile	£523	£462	£379
25^th Percentile	£538	£485	£400
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£575	£524	£450
Median % change year-on-year	+9.84%	+16.33%	-10.00%
75^th Percentile	£613	£562	£584
90^th Percentile	£628	£585	£670
England median daily rate	£500	£575	£525
% change year-on-year	-13.04%	+9.52%	+20.00%

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.

	6 months to 20 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills	2,065	1,519	1,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	10.10%	11.43%	12.54%
Number of daily rates quoted	1,361	1,046	1,330
10^th Percentile	£313	£313	£308
25^th Percentile	£423	£413	£430
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£525	£565
Median % change year-on-year	-	-7.08%	+2.73%
75^th Percentile	£625	£638	£738
90^th Percentile	£714	£775	£850
England median daily rate	£500	£500	£525
% change year-on-year	-	-4.76%	+2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted	30	22	22
10^th Percentile	£17.08	£19.71	£18.19
25^th Percentile	£19.77	£24.66	-
Median hourly rate	£32.11	£33.50	£23.80
Median % change year-on-year	-4.16%	+40.76%	-11.03%
75^th Percentile	£53.23	£52.19	£35.00
90^th Percentile	£64.75	£88.63	£73.88
England median hourly rate	£27.95	£35.25	£42.50
% change year-on-year	-20.72%	-17.06%	+55.96%

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 Daily Rate Trend in London

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

OpenStack Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

OpenStack Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 20 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing OpenStack also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region with a requirement for OpenStack.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Kubernetes	66.7%	6
1	Linux	66.7%	6
1	REST	66.7%	6
1	VMware	66.7%	6
5	CI/CD	55.6%	5
5	Python	55.6%	5
5	VMware Infrastructure	55.6%	5
8	Docker	44.4%	4
8	Git	44.4%	4
8	Infrastructure as Code	44.4%	4
8	Jenkins	44.4%	4
12	Agile	33.3%	3
12	Bash	33.3%	3
12	DevOps	33.3%	3
12	Elastic Stack	33.3%	3
12	Kafka	33.3%	3
12	PostgreSQL	33.3%	3
12	Scrum	33.3%	3
12	SQL	33.3%	3
12	SSH	33.3%	3
12	TCP/IP	33.3%	3
12	Validation	33.3%	3
12	Windows	33.3%	3
24	4G	22.2%	2
24	5G	22.2%	2
24	Ansible	22.2%	2
24	API Integration	22.2%	2
24	Application Packaging	22.2%	2
24	AWS	22.2%	2
24	Azure	22.2%	2

OpenStack Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Application Platforms

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	nginx	11.1%	1