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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 354 340
Rank change year-on-year -68 -14 +85
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 12 14 39
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.060% 0.10% 0.24%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.62% 0.90% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 28
10th Percentile £523 £605 £262
25th Percentile £538 £613 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £510
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +27.45% -21.54%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £547
90th Percentile £628 - £600
England median daily rate £525 £600 £510
% change year-on-year -12.50% +17.65% -13.12%

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 1,940 1,563 2,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.74% 11.52% 12.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,284 1,063 1,557
10th Percentile £350 £350 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £624 £673 £750
90th Percentile £701 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 21 26
10th Percentile £15.45 £24.50 £20.75
25th Percentile £19.09 £26.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £27.75 £30.00 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -5.39% -33.24%
75th Percentile £41.00 £53.75 £39.69
90th Percentile £64.68 £87.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £43.09 £31.71
% change year-on-year -24.58% +35.89% -31.33%

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
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
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) 3GPP
1 5 (41.67%) 5G
1 5 (41.67%) LTE
2 4 (33.33%) HTTP
3 3 (25.00%) Diameter Protocol
3 3 (25.00%) VSAN
4 2 (16.67%) 4G
4 2 (16.67%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (8.33%) BGP
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (8.33%) NAS
5 1 (8.33%) SAN
5 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
5 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
5 1 (8.33%) VLAN
5 1 (8.33%) VXLAN
5 1 (8.33%) WAN
5 1 (8.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Electronics
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Architect
1 3 (25.00%) Designer
1 3 (25.00%) Mobile Designer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Support Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior VMware Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) Mustache
2 1 (8.33%) Node.js
2 1 (8.33%) React
2 1 (8.33%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (16.67%) Industry 4.0
3 2 (16.67%) IoT
3 2 (16.67%) Smart City
4 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (8.33%) AIX
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 6 (50.00%) High Availability
3 4 (33.33%) Migration
3 4 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (25.00%) Microservices
4 3 (25.00%) Network Design
4 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (16.67%) Network Architecture
5 2 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (16.67%) Use Case
6 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) CCNA
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
1 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (33.33%) Docker
3 3 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (25.00%) VMware NSX
3 3 (25.00%) vSphere
4 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (8.33%) Ceph
4 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (25.00%) vCenter Server
3 2 (16.67%) vRealize
4 1 (8.33%) Ansible
4 1 (8.33%) Nagios
4 1 (8.33%) Proxmox
4 1 (8.33%) SCCM
4 1 (8.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) VMware
2 5 (41.67%) Ericsson
2 5 (41.67%) Huawei
2 5 (41.67%) Nokia
3 4 (33.33%) Cisco
4 2 (16.67%) Samsung
5 1 (8.33%) F5
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (8.33%) Mirantis
5 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds