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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 344 325
Rank change year-on-year -31 -19 +181
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 9 19 71
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.062% 0.14% 0.39%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.60% 1.16% 3.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 16 46
10th Percentile £404 £431 £262
25th Percentile £432 £556 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £633 £438
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% +44.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £525
90th Percentile - £775 £580
England median daily rate £570 £615 £400
% change year-on-year -7.32% +53.75% -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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,511 1,645 1,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.35% 11.77% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,042 1,038 1,383
10th Percentile £325 £308 £263
25th Percentile £413 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £523
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £638
90th Percentile £738 £810 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 14 28
10th Percentile - £17.35 £17.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.91 £21.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -7.57% +14.11%
75th Percentile £46.00 £38.00 £32.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £41.91 £51.61
England median hourly rate £27.21 £42.50 £25.25
% change year-on-year -35.98% +68.32% +36.49%

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

OpenStack
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenStack in London over the 6 months to 22 January 2026.

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 22 January 2026. 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 0 1 - -
OpenStack
England

OpenStack
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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) VLAN
2 2 (22.22%) 3GPP
2 2 (22.22%) 4G
2 2 (22.22%) 5G
2 2 (22.22%) BGP
2 2 (22.22%) Calico
2 2 (22.22%) DHCP
2 2 (22.22%) DNS
2 2 (22.22%) Firewall
2 2 (22.22%) IPsec
2 2 (22.22%) MPLS
2 2 (22.22%) OSPF
2 2 (22.22%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
2 2 (22.22%) VSAN
2 2 (22.22%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Domain Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Principal Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Solutions Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Private Cloud
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
2 2 (22.22%) Operational Technology
3 1 (11.11%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (11.11%) VMS
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Agile
1 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
2 3 (33.33%) API Design
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Edge Computing
2 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 3 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 3 (33.33%) Microservices
2 3 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
3 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
3 2 (22.22%) Thought Leadership
4 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Bash
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (22.22%) VMware NSX
1 2 (22.22%) vSphere
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Ceph
2 1 (11.11%) GPFS
2 1 (11.11%) KVM
2 1 (11.11%) Lustre
2 1 (11.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Ansible
2 2 (22.22%) Istio
3 1 (11.11%) Puppet
3 1 (11.11%) Salt
3 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 2 (22.22%) Arista
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco
2 2 (22.22%) Dell
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
2 2 (22.22%) Wind River