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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 149 190
Rank change year-on-year -63 +41 +13
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 16 5 9
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.25% 0.15% 0.16%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.22% 1.37% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £453
25th Percentile - - £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £498
Median % change year-on-year - - +57.94%
75th Percentile - - £544
90th Percentile - - £556
England median daily rate £500 £600 £510
% change year-on-year -16.67% +17.65% -21.84%

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 497 364 385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 7.66% 10.75% 6.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 222 248
10th Percentile £313 £220 £263
25th Percentile £425 £375 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% +13.89% -8.16%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £700 £659 £627
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -1.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 33
10th Percentile £16.33 £17.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £26.56 £30.48 £24.43
Median hourly rate £35.22 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.91% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £45.36 £60.72 £70.00
90th Percentile £63.54 £67.63 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £47.12 £32.31
% change year-on-year -31.03% +45.85% -32.69%

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 13 July 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 -18 16 £325 -
Thames Valley -34 16 £325 -
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 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) AWS
2 7 (43.75%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (56.25%) BGP
1 9 (56.25%) LAN
1 9 (56.25%) MPLS
1 9 (56.25%) WAN
2 6 (37.50%) 5G
2 6 (37.50%) Diameter Protocol
2 6 (37.50%) LTE
2 6 (37.50%) Radio Access Network
2 6 (37.50%) VoLTE
2 6 (37.50%) VoWiFi
2 6 (37.50%) Wireshark
3 2 (12.50%) SNMP
3 2 (12.50%) TACACS
3 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 2 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Architect
1 8 (50.00%) Network Architect
2 6 (37.50%) IP Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) IP Network Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Network Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) IP Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) NETCONF
1 9 (56.25%) YANG
2 8 (50.00%) REST
3 2 (12.50%) OpenConfig
3 2 (12.50%) RESTCONF
4 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (6.25%) Kafka
4 1 (6.25%) Mustache
4 1 (6.25%) Node.js
4 1 (6.25%) React
4 1 (6.25%) Spring
4 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (43.75%) Cloud Native
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 2 (12.50%) Private Cloud
3 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Linux
1 6 (37.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Network Design
2 8 (50.00%) Microservices
3 7 (43.75%) DevOps
3 7 (43.75%) Enterprise Architecture
3 7 (43.75%) Network Architecture
3 7 (43.75%) Network Segmentation
3 7 (43.75%) Network Virtualisation
3 7 (43.75%) Roadmaps
3 7 (43.75%) Strategic Thinking
3 7 (43.75%) TOGAF
4 6 (37.50%) High Availability
4 6 (37.50%) Service Delivery
5 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
6 1 (6.25%) Agile
6 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
6 1 (6.25%) Scrum
6 1 (6.25%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 15 (93.75%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Java
2 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) CCIE
1 9 (56.25%) Cisco Certification
1 9 (56.25%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) Ansible
2 7 (43.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) BT
1 6 (37.50%) Ericsson
1 6 (37.50%) Huawei
1 6 (37.50%) Nokia
2 2 (12.50%) Cisco
2 2 (12.50%) F5
2 2 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 2 (12.50%) Juniper
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft