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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 354 427
Rank change year-on-year +10 +73 +74
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 17 26 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.16% 0.15%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.13% 1.29% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 20 21
10th Percentile £508 £262 -
25th Percentile £600 £347 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £431 £587
Median % change year-on-year +44.93% -26.53% -5.32%
75th Percentile £675 £515 £688
90th Percentile - £578 £713
England median daily rate £575 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +21.05% -5.00% -16.67%

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 1,511 2,010 2,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.41% 12.50% 10.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,009 1,431 1,656
10th Percentile £323 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £663 £750 £686
90th Percentile £825 £850 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 27 29
10th Percentile £24.50 £17.08 £21.20
25th Percentile £26.00 £21.50 £22.49
Median hourly rate £33.50 £28.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.54% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £53.75 £48.13 £76.00
90th Percentile £88.38 £75.00 £86.00
England median hourly rate £41.45 £47.50 £46.09
% change year-on-year -12.74% +3.06% +111.91%

OpenStack
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing OpenStack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for OpenStack 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

OpenStack
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenStack in London over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenStack in London

OpenStack
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

OpenStack
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenStack within the London region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. 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
Central London +3 2 £650 +44.44%
OpenStack
England

OpenStack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) IaaS
2 2 (11.76%) OpenShift
3 1 (5.88%) PaaS
3 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) 3GPP
1 3 (17.65%) BGP
1 3 (17.65%) DNS
1 3 (17.65%) Firewall
1 3 (17.65%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (11.76%) 4G
2 2 (11.76%) 5G
2 2 (11.76%) DHCP
2 2 (11.76%) IPsec
2 2 (11.76%) MPLS
2 2 (11.76%) OSPF
2 2 (11.76%) VLAN
2 2 (11.76%) Wireshark
3 1 (5.88%) Anycast
3 1 (5.88%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (5.88%) InfiniBand
3 1 (5.88%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (5.88%) VSAN
3 1 (5.88%) VXLAN
General
1 11 (64.71%) Telecoms
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (88.24%) Architect
2 10 (58.82%) Domain Architect
3 8 (47.06%) Senior
3 8 (47.06%) Senior Architect
3 8 (47.06%) Telecoms Architect
4 3 (17.65%) Lead
4 3 (17.65%) Lead Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Consultant
6 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Network Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Network Design Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Network Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
1 2 (11.76%) Operational Technology
1 2 (11.76%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 14 (82.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Agile
1 10 (58.82%) Edge Computing
1 10 (58.82%) Enterprise Architecture
1 10 (58.82%) Problem-Solving
1 10 (58.82%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 7 (41.18%) API Design
2 7 (41.18%) Architectural Design
2 7 (41.18%) Event-Driven
2 7 (41.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 7 (41.18%) Microservices
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Thinking
3 3 (17.65%) Open Source
3 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (11.76%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (5.88%) Network Design
5 1 (5.88%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (5.88%) Re-Platforming
5 1 (5.88%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) CCIE
1 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (5.88%) CISSP
1 1 (5.88%) JNCIE
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Ceph
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.88%) VMware NSX
2 1 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Ansible
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Dell
1 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
1 2 (11.76%) Wind River
2 1 (5.88%) Arista
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco
2 1 (5.88%) VMware