OpenStack Contracts in the South East

OpenStack
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 196 206
Rank change year-on-year +38 +10 +42
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 5 8 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.15% 0.14% 0.15%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.37% 2.09% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 5
10th Percentile - £452 £280
25th Percentile - £455 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £470 £315
Median % change year-on-year - +49.21% -37.00%
75th Percentile - £509 £323
90th Percentile - £526 -
England median daily rate £600 £509 £655
% change year-on-year +17.99% -22.37% +5.65%

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 366 383 610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.13% 6.74% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 249 432
10th Percentile £221 £255 £231
25th Percentile £375 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year +12.89% -8.22% +3.22%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £623
90th Percentile £650 £626 £694
England median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 33 33
10th Percentile £17.05 £16.00 £22.01
25th Percentile £30.48 £24.43 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +175.00%
75th Percentile £60.72 £70.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £67.63 £75.00 £74.74
England median hourly rate £48.56 £32.12 £48.50
% change year-on-year +51.21% -33.78% +122.99%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenStack in the South East.

Daily rate trend for OpenStack in the South East

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 6 July 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 +22 5 - - 5
Thames Valley +21 5 - - 5
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 5 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 5 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
1 5 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes