OpenStack Contract Job Trends in Scotland

OpenStack
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring OpenStack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 - 132
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.062% - 0.043%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.63% - 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £700
UK median daily rate £538 £615 £450
% change year-on-year -12.60% +36.67% -18.18%

All Application Platform Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 159 279 340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 9.78% 16.40% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 165 195
10th Percentile £275 £208 £294
25th Percentile £361 £313 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% +14.68%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £600
90th Percentile £625 £575 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -4.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 8
10th Percentile £13.41 £21.84 £15.32
25th Percentile £16.86 £22.50 £15.42
Median hourly rate £53.75 £24.09 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +123.12% +41.71% -6.13%
75th Percentile £64.00 £27.91 £17.56
90th Percentile £65.50 £28.38 £28.53
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £41.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -33.63% +60.78% +15.07%

OpenStack
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

OpenStack job vacancy trend in Scotland

OpenStack
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing OpenStack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing OpenStack

OpenStack
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing OpenStack.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing OpenStack

OpenStack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Rocky
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) iptables
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) Samba
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Rundeck
1 1 (100.00%) SELinux
1 1 (100.00%) systemd
1 1 (100.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SaltStack