OpenStack Contract Job Trends in the South East

OpenStack
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring OpenStack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 158 196
Rank change year-on-year -15 +38 +32
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 14 3 16
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.31% 0.093% 0.30%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.63% 0.93% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £353
25th Percentile - - £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - +77.78%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £615 £400
% change year-on-year -10.57% +53.75% -20.00%

All Application Platform Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 386 322 496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 8.42% 10.02% 9.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 184 323
10th Percentile £255 £219 £204
25th Percentile £413 £384 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +2.16% -3.13%
75th Percentile £610 £550 £574
90th Percentile £675 £638 £648
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 19 43
10th Percentile £15.12 £41.25 £23.70
25th Percentile - £55.00 £30.00
Median hourly rate £81.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.60% +4.17% +36.13%
75th Percentile £95.00 £64.73 £70.00
90th Percentile £101.10 £67.87 £75.88
England median hourly rate £27.21 £42.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -35.98% +63.46% +33.33%

OpenStack
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

OpenStack job vacancy trend in the South East

OpenStack
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing OpenStack

OpenStack
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenStack within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 January 2026. 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
Thames Valley -9 14 - -
Berkshire -10 14 - -
OpenStack
England

OpenStack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (57.14%) Azure
3 6 (42.86%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (100.00%) BGP
1 14 (100.00%) LAN
1 14 (100.00%) MPLS
1 14 (100.00%) WAN
2 6 (42.86%) OSPF
2 6 (42.86%) SNMP
2 6 (42.86%) TACACS
2 6 (42.86%) Wireless
General
1 14 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Architect
1 7 (50.00%) IP Architect
1 7 (50.00%) IP Specialist
2 6 (42.86%) Designer
2 6 (42.86%) IP Designer
3 1 (7.14%) Network Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) NETCONF
1 8 (57.14%) REST
1 8 (57.14%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 14 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (57.14%) Cloud Native
3 6 (42.86%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 8 (57.14%) DevOps
2 8 (57.14%) Enterprise Architecture
2 8 (57.14%) Microservices
2 8 (57.14%) Network Architecture
2 8 (57.14%) Network Design
2 8 (57.14%) Network Segmentation
2 8 (57.14%) Roadmaps
2 8 (57.14%) Strategic Thinking
2 8 (57.14%) TOGAF
3 6 (42.86%) Incident Response
3 6 (42.86%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) CCIE
1 14 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 14 (100.00%) JNCIE
2 6 (42.86%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (42.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (100.00%) Ansible
2 6 (42.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Cisco
1 6 (42.86%) F5
1 6 (42.86%) Fortinet
1 6 (42.86%) Juniper
1 6 (42.86%) VMware