OpenStack Contracts in the North of England

OpenStack
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 182 -
Rank change year-on-year +14 - -
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 4 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.12% 0.081% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.79% 0.97% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £422 - -
25th Percentile £428 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 - -
75th Percentile £448 - -
90th Percentile £451 - -
England median daily rate £613 £501 £653
% change year-on-year +22.38% -23.30% +8.75%

All Application Platform Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 504 414 471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.49% 8.42% 8.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 270 316
10th Percentile £235 £238 £193
25th Percentile £358 £326 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £457
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +4.05% +1.44%
75th Percentile £524 £569 £550
90th Percentile £600 £675 £653
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 36 16
10th Percentile £37.80 £13.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £42.94 £13.50 £16.53
Median hourly rate £50.37 £24.40 £22.25
Median % change year-on-year +106.41% +9.66% -1.11%
75th Percentile £73.75 £45.00 £26.69
90th Percentile £77.63 £46.18 £36.88
England median hourly rate £52.50 £30.49 £48.00
% change year-on-year +72.17% -36.47% +125.88%

OpenStack
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing OpenStack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for OpenStack in the North of England

OpenStack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenStack in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for OpenStack in the North of England

OpenStack
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenStack within the North of England region over the 6 months to 21 June 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
North West - 4 £442 - 12
OpenStack
England

OpenStack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) 3GPP
1 4 (100.00%) 4G
1 4 (100.00%) 5G
1 4 (100.00%) BGP
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) IPsec
1 4 (100.00%) MPLS
1 4 (100.00%) OSPF
1 4 (100.00%) Radio Access Network
1 4 (100.00%) VLAN
1 4 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Designer
1 4 (100.00%) Network Designer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Dell