OpenStack Contracts in London

OpenStack
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring OpenStack skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenStack over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 364 444
Rank change year-on-year +19 +80 +68
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 15 41 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.23% 0.16%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.99% 1.85% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 31 29
10th Percentile £588 £262 £493
25th Percentile £603 £394 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £510 £675
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -24.44% +3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £538 £738
90th Percentile - £600 £875
England median daily rate £600 £510 £655
% change year-on-year +17.65% -22.14% +5.65%

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 1,516 2,221 2,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.41% 12.60% 10.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,018 1,671 1,965
10th Percentile £352 £300 £313
25th Percentile £415 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £672 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £850 £800
England median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 29 30
10th Percentile £26.00 £19.50 £17.59
25th Percentile £26.35 £23.75 £21.56
Median hourly rate £34.50 £30.16 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.39% -7.20% -24.86%
75th Percentile £53.75 £33.75 £71.56
90th Percentile £75.63 £59.00 £83.70
England median hourly rate £50.00 £32.12 £48.50
% change year-on-year +55.69% -33.78% +122.99%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenStack in London.

Daily rate trend for OpenStack in London

OpenStack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OpenStack in London.

Hourly rate trend for OpenStack in London

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 5 July 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 +6 1 £650 +26.77% 1
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 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) IaaS
2 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.67%) PaaS
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) 3GPP
1 1 (6.67%) Anycast
1 1 (6.67%) BGP
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) InfiniBand
1 1 (6.67%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (6.67%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (6.67%) VSAN
1 1 (6.67%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (53.33%) Telecoms
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Architect
2 8 (53.33%) Telecoms Architect
3 7 (46.67%) Domain Architect
4 6 (40.00%) Senior
5 5 (33.33%) Senior Architect
6 3 (20.00%) Lead
6 3 (20.00%) Lead Architect
7 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Network Architect
7 1 (6.67%) Network Design Architect
7 1 (6.67%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Senior Network Architect
7 1 (6.67%) Senior Unix Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Unix Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) eBPF
1 1 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Private Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.67%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 14 (93.33%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Agile
1 7 (46.67%) Architectural Design
1 7 (46.67%) Edge Computing
1 7 (46.67%) Enterprise Architecture
1 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (46.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 4 (26.67%) API Design
2 4 (26.67%) Event-Driven
2 4 (26.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 4 (26.67%) Microservices
2 4 (26.67%) Open Source
3 3 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (6.67%) Co-Creation
5 1 (6.67%) Containerisation
5 1 (6.67%) Patch Management
5 1 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) CCIE
1 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (6.67%) CISSP
1 1 (6.67%) JNCIE
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Ceph
2 1 (6.67%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
2 1 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (20.00%) Ansible
2 3 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) Cobbler
3 1 (6.67%) Istio
3 1 (6.67%) Nagios
3 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (13.33%) Wind River
3 1 (6.67%) Arista
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco
3 1 (6.67%) VMware