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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 349 361
Rank change year-on-year -73 +12 +58
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 14 15 34
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.070% 0.11% 0.21%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.69% 0.97% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 25
10th Percentile £523 £604 £262
25th Percentile £538 £609 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £638 £480
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% +32.81% -15.57%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £515
90th Percentile £628 - £583
England median daily rate £475 £588 £510
% change year-on-year -19.15% +15.20% +2.00%

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 2,024 1,553 2,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.09% 11.61% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,333 1,048 1,496
10th Percentile £313 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £671 £763
90th Percentile £712 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 24 25
10th Percentile £19.03 £24.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £28.40 £30.75 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -7.66% +29.20% -42.30%
75th Percentile £41.44 £50.94 £38.75
90th Percentile £73.15 £80.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £41.26 £37.50
% change year-on-year -21.22% +10.01% -18.64%

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 (7.14%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
2 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) 5G
2 5 (35.71%) 3GPP
2 5 (35.71%) HTTP
2 5 (35.71%) LTE
3 3 (21.43%) 4G
3 3 (21.43%) Diameter Protocol
3 3 (21.43%) VSAN
4 2 (14.29%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (14.29%) SSH
4 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
5 1 (7.14%) BGP
5 1 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (7.14%) DNS
5 1 (7.14%) HTTPS
5 1 (7.14%) NAS
5 1 (7.14%) SAN
5 1 (7.14%) VLAN
5 1 (7.14%) VXLAN
5 1 (7.14%) WAN
5 1 (7.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.14%) MySQL
2 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Redis
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
1 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Selenium
General
1 9 (64.29%) Telecoms
2 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Electronics
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Architect
1 3 (21.43%) Designer
1 3 (21.43%) Mobile Designer
2 2 (14.29%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Support Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior VMware Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) REST
2 2 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (14.29%) Kafka
2 2 (14.29%) RESTful
3 1 (7.14%) CSS
3 1 (7.14%) DCOM
3 1 (7.14%) FastAPI
3 1 (7.14%) Flask
3 1 (7.14%) HTML
3 1 (7.14%) Jinja
3 1 (7.14%) Mustache
3 1 (7.14%) Node.js
3 1 (7.14%) Pandas
3 1 (7.14%) Playwright
3 1 (7.14%) pytest
3 1 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (7.14%) React
3 1 (7.14%) Spring
3 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
3 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 3 (21.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (14.29%) Industry 4.0
3 2 (14.29%) IoT
3 2 (14.29%) Smart City
4 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
4 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Windows
3 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (7.14%) AIX
4 1 (7.14%) Unix
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
2 6 (42.86%) High Availability
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (28.57%) Migration
3 4 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (21.43%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
4 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
4 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) Microservices
4 3 (21.43%) Network Design
4 3 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (14.29%) Agile
5 2 (14.29%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (14.29%) Network Architecture
5 2 (14.29%) Scrum
5 2 (14.29%) Use Case
5 2 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Bash
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) CCNA
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
1 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
1 1 (7.14%) QA
1 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (35.71%) Docker
3 3 (21.43%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (21.43%) VMware NSX
3 3 (21.43%) vSphere
4 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
4 1 (7.14%) Ceph
4 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
4 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 3 (21.43%) vCenter Server
3 2 (14.29%) Ansible
3 2 (14.29%) vRealize
4 1 (7.14%) Grafana
4 1 (7.14%) Nagios
4 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
4 1 (7.14%) Proxmox
4 1 (7.14%) SCCM
4 1 (7.14%) SCOM
4 1 (7.14%) WMI
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) VMware
2 5 (35.71%) Ericsson
2 5 (35.71%) Huawei
2 5 (35.71%) Nokia
3 4 (28.57%) Cisco
4 2 (14.29%) Samsung
5 1 (7.14%) BMC
5 1 (7.14%) CyberArk
5 1 (7.14%) F5
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
5 1 (7.14%) Mirantis
5 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
5 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds