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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 166 199
Rank change year-on-year +20 +33 +53
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 17 10 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.49% 0.22% 0.28%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.83% 2.58% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 12
10th Percentile - £453 £305
25th Percentile - £458 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £498 £363
Median % change year-on-year - +37.24% -21.20%
75th Percentile - £544 £400
90th Percentile - £556 -
England median daily rate £575 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +21.05% -5.00% -16.67%

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 352 388 585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.11% 8.44% 10.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 247 388
10th Percentile £207 £259 £213
25th Percentile £357 £363 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -3.22% -2.11%
75th Percentile £600 £565 £588
90th Percentile £650 £638 £678
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 26 38
10th Percentile £13.25 £25.06 £25.09
25th Percentile £22.63 £30.10 £51.56
Median hourly rate £32.41 £65.09 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -50.20% +12.13% +190.23%
75th Percentile £59.06 £70.00 £69.06
90th Percentile £70.73 - £75.33
England median hourly rate £41.26 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -13.15% +5.56% +122.33%

OpenStack
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing OpenStack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for OpenStack 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 20 September 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
Berkshire +27 17 - -
Thames Valley +22 17 - -
OpenStack
England

OpenStack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (70.59%) BGP
1 12 (70.59%) LAN
1 12 (70.59%) MPLS
1 12 (70.59%) WAN
2 6 (35.29%) OSPF
2 6 (35.29%) SNMP
2 6 (35.29%) TACACS
2 6 (35.29%) Wireless
General
1 17 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (29.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Architect
1 6 (35.29%) Designer
1 6 (35.29%) IP Architect
1 6 (35.29%) IP Designer
1 6 (35.29%) IP Specialist
2 5 (29.41%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) NETCONF
1 6 (35.29%) REST
1 6 (35.29%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 12 (70.59%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (35.29%) Cloud Native
2 6 (35.29%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Network Virtualisation
2 11 (64.71%) DevOps
3 6 (35.29%) Enterprise Architecture
3 6 (35.29%) Incident Response
3 6 (35.29%) Microservices
3 6 (35.29%) Network Architecture
3 6 (35.29%) Network Design
3 6 (35.29%) Network Segmentation
3 6 (35.29%) Roadmaps
3 6 (35.29%) Strategic Thinking
3 6 (35.29%) TOGAF
3 6 (35.29%) Validation
4 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 5 (29.41%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (70.59%) CCIE
1 12 (70.59%) Cisco Certification
1 12 (70.59%) JNCIE
2 6 (35.29%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (35.29%) VMware NSX
2 5 (29.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (100.00%) Ansible
2 6 (35.29%) Terraform
3 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Cisco
1 6 (35.29%) F5
1 6 (35.29%) Fortinet
1 6 (35.29%) Juniper
1 6 (35.29%) VMware