OpenStack Contracts in the UK excluding London

OpenStack
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 382 439
Rank change year-on-year +45 +57 +29
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 2 17 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.016% 0.082% 0.033%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.13% 0.96% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - - £255
25th Percentile - £263 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £323 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -28.17% -10.00%
75th Percentile - £454 £480
90th Percentile - £602 £483
UK median daily rate £650 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +30.00% -5.66% -11.67%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,500 1,778 2,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.73% 8.57% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 982 1,188 1,917
10th Percentile £213 £211 £200
25th Percentile £350 £324 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £511
% change year-on-year - -2.15% -1.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 125 98
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.00 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.30 £15.00 £17.56
Median hourly rate £46.18 £23.75 £26.48
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -10.31% +43.14%
75th Percentile £64.50 £46.18 £65.44
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £45.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -38.86% +104.55%

OpenStack
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OpenStack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OpenStack in the UK excluding London

OpenStack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenStack in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for OpenStack in the UK excluding London

OpenStack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OpenStack in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for OpenStack in the UK excluding London

OpenStack
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
South East +39 2 - - 14
OpenStack
UK

OpenStack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) 3G
1 2 (100.00%) 3GPP
1 2 (100.00%) 4G
1 2 (100.00%) 5G
1 2 (100.00%) LTE
General
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Design Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Design Authority
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware