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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 331 457
Rank change year-on-year +3 +126 +37
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 25 60 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.20% 0.34% 0.13%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.71% 3.05% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 45 24
10th Percentile £530 £262 £454
25th Percentile £608 £300 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £480 £653
Median % change year-on-year +35.42% -26.44% +4.78%
75th Percentile £675 £538 £775
90th Percentile £775 £588 £875
England median daily rate £650 £475 £620
% change year-on-year +36.84% -23.39% +3.33%

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 1,460 1,967 2,926
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.64% 11.03% 10.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 984 1,456 2,104
10th Percentile £333 £263 £310
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £675 £638 £700
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 29 29
10th Percentile £25.34 £15.50 £17.75
25th Percentile £26.03 £22.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.73 £29.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.84% -17.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £50.94 £33.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £53.75 £58.75 £82.60
England median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenStack in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 1 May 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 +2 4 £650 +36.77% 6
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (16.00%) Apache
1 4 (16.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) OpenShift
2 5 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (16.00%) AWS
4 1 (4.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) HTTP
2 3 (12.00%) BGP
2 3 (12.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (12.00%) Multicast
2 3 (12.00%) OSPF
2 3 (12.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (12.00%) VXLAN
3 2 (8.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (8.00%) NX-OS
4 1 (4.00%) BIG-IP
4 1 (4.00%) InfiniBand
4 1 (4.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Couchbase
1 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.00%) Git
2 2 (8.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (28.00%) Telecoms
2 6 (24.00%) Finance
3 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Architect
2 5 (20.00%) Lead
2 5 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Unix Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Domain Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Site Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Telecoms Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Consultant
4 3 (12.00%) Network Consultant
4 3 (12.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) Cisco Consultant
5 2 (8.00%) Cisco Network Consultant
5 2 (8.00%) Lead Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Architect
6 1 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 9 (36.00%) Private Cloud
2 5 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (16.00%) Data Centre
3 4 (16.00%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (12.00%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.00%) NVMe
5 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (72.00%) Linux
2 5 (20.00%) Unix
3 1 (4.00%) Debian
3 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) High Availability
2 7 (28.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (28.00%) DevOps
2 7 (28.00%) Open Source
2 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (24.00%) Capacity Planning
3 6 (24.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (16.00%) Agile
5 4 (16.00%) Architectural Design
5 4 (16.00%) Canary Deployment
5 4 (16.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (16.00%) Edge Computing
5 4 (16.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (16.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 4 (16.00%) SDLC
6 3 (12.00%) Customer Service
6 3 (12.00%) Network Design
6 3 (12.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) Python
2 4 (16.00%) Groovy
2 4 (16.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.00%) Bash
3 1 (4.00%) Go
3 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) RHCSA
2 2 (8.00%) CCIE
2 2 (8.00%) CCIE Data Center
2 2 (8.00%) CCNP
2 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 8 (32.00%) Docker
2 7 (28.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (16.00%) vSphere
4 2 (8.00%) Ceph
5 1 (4.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (4.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (52.00%) Ansible
2 11 (44.00%) Kubernetes
3 10 (40.00%) Terraform
4 3 (12.00%) Progress Chef
5 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (8.00%) ZABBIX
6 1 (4.00%) Cobbler
6 1 (4.00%) Grafana
6 1 (4.00%) Istio
6 1 (4.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Red Hat
2 7 (28.00%) VMware
3 5 (20.00%) Splunk
4 4 (16.00%) AppDynamics
4 4 (16.00%) Dynatrace
5 2 (8.00%) Cisco
6 1 (4.00%) Arista
6 1 (4.00%) F5
6 1 (4.00%) Wind River