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 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 139 173
Rank change year-on-year -75 +34 +27
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 14 17 10
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.21% 0.49% 0.21%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.14% 4.74% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £314 - £453
25th Percentile £316 - £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £498
Median % change year-on-year - - +53.08%
75th Percentile £334 - £544
90th Percentile £336 - £556
England median daily rate £450 £581 £495
% change year-on-year -22.58% +17.42% -1.00%

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 446 359 396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 6.75% 10.28% 8.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 217 248
10th Percentile £313 £208 £260
25th Percentile £413 £358 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £568
90th Percentile £675 £660 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 15 27
10th Percentile £15.75 £13.25 £20.07
25th Percentile £26.56 £23.30 £30.00
Median hourly rate £38.72 £32.77 £63.15
Median % change year-on-year +18.16% -48.11% +9.83%
75th Percentile £67.47 £58.09 £70.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £68.40 -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £43.80 £43.00
% change year-on-year -25.79% +1.85% -9.47%

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 7 September 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
Berkshire -25 14 £325 - 4
Thames Valley -49 14 £325 - 7
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:

Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (57.14%) BGP
1 8 (57.14%) MPLS
2 7 (50.00%) LAN
2 7 (50.00%) WAN
3 6 (42.86%) 5G
3 6 (42.86%) Diameter Protocol
3 6 (42.86%) LTE
3 6 (42.86%) Radio Access Network
3 6 (42.86%) VoLTE
3 6 (42.86%) VoWiFi
3 6 (42.86%) Wireshark
4 2 (14.29%) SNMP
4 2 (14.29%) TACACS
4 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
4 2 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (7.14%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (7.14%) IPv4
5 1 (7.14%) IPv6
5 1 (7.14%) VXLAN
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Architect
1 8 (57.14%) Network Architect
2 5 (35.71%) IP Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) IP Network Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Network Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) NETCONF
1 8 (57.14%) YANG
2 6 (42.86%) REST
3 3 (21.43%) OpenConfig
4 2 (14.29%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (35.71%) Cloud Native
3 3 (21.43%) Data Centre
4 2 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (14.29%) Private Cloud
4 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
5 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (7.14%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Linux
1 6 (42.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Network Design
2 6 (42.86%) High Availability
2 6 (42.86%) Network Architecture
2 6 (42.86%) Roadmaps
2 6 (42.86%) Service Delivery
2 6 (42.86%) Strategic Thinking
2 6 (42.86%) TOGAF
3 5 (35.71%) DevOps
3 5 (35.71%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (35.71%) Microservices
3 5 (35.71%) Network Segmentation
3 5 (35.71%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 1 (7.14%) Agile
5 1 (7.14%) Architecture Governance
5 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (7.14%) Migration
5 1 (7.14%) Product Management
5 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) CCIE
1 8 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
1 8 (57.14%) JNCIE
2 1 (7.14%) CCIE Service Provider
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Ansible
2 7 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) BT
1 6 (42.86%) Ericsson
1 6 (42.86%) Huawei
1 6 (42.86%) Nokia
2 3 (21.43%) Cisco
3 2 (14.29%) F5
3 2 (14.29%) Fortinet
3 2 (14.29%) Juniper
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) VMware