OpenStack Swift Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

OpenStack Swift
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OpenStack Swift skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenStack Swift 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.005% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.035% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate - - -

All Database & BI Skills
UK excluding London

OpenStack Swift falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,876 2,150 2,753
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.50% 16.10% 12.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,022 1,449 1,909
10th Percentile £319 £313 £305
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £599
90th Percentile £650 £675 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 61 121
10th Percentile £18.00 £19.25 £14.36
25th Percentile £28.72 £23.50 £19.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% -31.25% -29.37%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.73 £62.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £68.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £30.11 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.39% -29.16% -25.26%

OpenStack Swift
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenStack Swift relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

OpenStack Swift job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

OpenStack Swift
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OpenStack Swift.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OpenStack Swift

OpenStack Swift
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenStack Swift within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 March 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
Scotland - 1 - -
OpenStack Swift
UK

OpenStack Swift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Rocky
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) iptables
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) Samba
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Rundeck
1 1 (100.00%) SELinux
1 1 (100.00%) systemd
1 1 (100.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SaltStack