OpenStack Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

OpenStack
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring OpenStack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 117 126
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 +35
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 12 7 19
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.59% 0.33% 0.74%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.77% 3.78% 8.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 10
10th Percentile - £471 £303
25th Percentile - £486 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +31.25% -13.04%
75th Percentile - £551 -
90th Percentile - £559 -
South East median daily rate - £525 £400
% change year-on-year - +31.25% -13.04%

All Application Platform Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 208 185 234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 10.28% 8.78% 9.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 107 154
10th Percentile £363 £250 £206
25th Percentile £413 £389 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £467 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.18% +3.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £591 £550 £546
90th Percentile £650 £608 £638
South East median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 16
10th Percentile £57.70 - £22.44
25th Percentile £72.88 £41.25 £24.00
Median hourly rate £81.00 £63.15 £30.41
Median % change year-on-year +28.27% +107.64% +125.28%
75th Percentile £91.50 £64.73 £65.91
90th Percentile £100.55 - £70.32
South East median hourly rate £80.50 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +28.80% +4.17% +157.95%

OpenStack
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

OpenStack job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

OpenStack
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing OpenStack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing OpenStack

OpenStack
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenStack within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 December 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 +4 12 - - 1
OpenStack
South East

OpenStack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (100.00%) BGP
1 12 (100.00%) LAN
1 12 (100.00%) MPLS
1 12 (100.00%) WAN
2 6 (50.00%) OSPF
2 6 (50.00%) SNMP
2 6 (50.00%) TACACS
2 6 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 12 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Architect
1 6 (50.00%) Designer
1 6 (50.00%) IP Architect
1 6 (50.00%) IP Designer
1 6 (50.00%) IP Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) NETCONF
1 6 (50.00%) REST
1 6 (50.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 12 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 6 (50.00%) DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 6 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 6 (50.00%) Microservices
2 6 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 6 (50.00%) Network Design
2 6 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 6 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 6 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 6 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 6 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) CCIE
1 12 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 12 (100.00%) JNCIE
2 6 (50.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Ansible
2 6 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Cisco
1 6 (50.00%) F5
1 6 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 6 (50.00%) Juniper
1 6 (50.00%) VMware