OpenStack Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

OpenStack
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring OpenStack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 120 -
Rank change year-on-year -30 - -
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 10 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.32% 0.086% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.39% 0.95% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 0
10th Percentile - £203 -
25th Percentile £513 £238 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £303 -
Median % change year-on-year +90.08% - -
75th Percentile £588 £373 -
90th Percentile £589 £412 -
England median daily rate £575 £600 £400
% change year-on-year -4.17% +50.00% -22.89%

All Application Platform Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 419 211 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.46% 9.04% 8.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 126 150
10th Percentile £291 £210 £200
25th Percentile £400 £355 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £403
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +11.80% -18.69%
75th Percentile £538 £534 £538
90th Percentile £588 £626 £662
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 14
10th Percentile £15.60 £16.55 £13.42
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.88 £17.50
Median hourly rate £25.42 £18.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.19% -2.70% +9.24%
75th Percentile £27.21 £20.24 £21.06
90th Percentile £37.27 £25.64 £29.73
England median hourly rate £35.00 £41.91 £24.00
% change year-on-year -16.49% +74.63% +29.73%

OpenStack
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenStack relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

OpenStack job vacancy trend in the Midlands

OpenStack
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing OpenStack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing OpenStack

OpenStack
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenStack within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
West Midlands -28 10 £575 +90.08% 11
OpenStack
England

OpenStack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) GitHub
1 9 (90.00%) GitHub Actions
2 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 7 (70.00%) Azure
3 6 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (50.00%) Azure AKS
4 5 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (50.00%) Datadog
4 5 (50.00%) GCP
4 5 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 5 (50.00%) npm
4 5 (50.00%) OpenShift
4 5 (50.00%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) GitLab
1 9 (90.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (70.00%) CircleCI
3 6 (60.00%) Git
4 5 (50.00%) Artifactory
4 5 (50.00%) Bitbucket
4 5 (50.00%) Cypress.io
4 5 (50.00%) Gradle
4 5 (50.00%) JUnit
4 5 (50.00%) Maven
4 5 (50.00%) Postman
4 5 (50.00%) Selenium
4 5 (50.00%) Snyk
4 5 (50.00%) SonarQube
4 5 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (50.00%) webpack
5 3 (30.00%) JIRA
6 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
1 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Engineering Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (50.00%) JSON
2 5 (50.00%) REST
2 5 (50.00%) YAML
3 3 (30.00%) Kafka
3 3 (30.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Private Cloud
2 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (90.00%) Software Delivery
3 7 (70.00%) Containerisation
3 7 (70.00%) Software Engineering
4 6 (60.00%) Configuration Management
4 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (60.00%) SDLC
4 6 (60.00%) Test Automation
5 5 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (50.00%) DevSecOps
5 5 (50.00%) Task Automation
6 4 (40.00%) Agile
6 4 (40.00%) SIEM
7 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (30.00%) Sprint Planning
8 2 (20.00%) Product Backlog
8 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
8 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) Go
3 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (20.00%) Bash
5 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) DV Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Ansible
1 10 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform
2 9 (90.00%) Grafana
3 6 (60.00%) Prometheus
4 5 (50.00%) Podman
4 5 (50.00%) Progress Chef
4 5 (50.00%) Puppet
5 3 (30.00%) Argo
6 1 (10.00%) Kibana
6 1 (10.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Splunk
2 1 (10.00%) VMware