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 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 373 431
Rank change year-on-year +15 +58 +63
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 15 19 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.092% 0.064%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.90% 1.05% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 11
10th Percentile £422 £413 £263
25th Percentile £428 £450 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £525 £315
Median % change year-on-year -15.76% +66.67% -37.00%
75th Percentile £448 £538 £600
90th Percentile £451 £569 -
UK median daily rate £600 £510 £600
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -2.04%

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 1,664 1,817 2,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.16% 8.76% 10.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,059 1,219 1,703
10th Percentile £235 £220 £200
25th Percentile £356 £340 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +2.70%
75th Percentile £562 £570 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 118 112
10th Percentile £15.45 £13.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £30.62 £16.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £33.56 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.45% -26.25% +127.50%
75th Percentile £72.50 £54.69 £64.81
90th Percentile £78.88 £74.44 £77.75
UK median hourly rate £48.56 £32.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +49.42% -38.10% +121.71%

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 13 July 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 +41 5 - - 1
East of England +21 5 - - 1
North of England +9 4 £442 - 3
North West - 4 £442 - 2
West Midlands +7 1 - - 2
Midlands +2 1 - - 3
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 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (60.00%) DNS
2 4 (26.67%) 3GPP
2 4 (26.67%) 4G
2 4 (26.67%) 5G
2 4 (26.67%) BGP
2 4 (26.67%) DHCP
2 4 (26.67%) Firewall
2 4 (26.67%) IPsec
2 4 (26.67%) iSCSI
2 4 (26.67%) MPLS
2 4 (26.67%) OSPF
2 4 (26.67%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (26.67%) SAN
2 4 (26.67%) VLAN
2 4 (26.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) GitLab
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
1 5 (33.33%) TeamCity
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Administrator
1 5 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Designer
2 4 (26.67%) Linux Administrator
2 4 (26.67%) Network Designer
3 3 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (13.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (6.67%) Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (6.67%) Kafka
1 1 (6.67%) Mustache
1 1 (6.67%) Node.js
1 1 (6.67%) React
1 1 (6.67%) REST
1 1 (6.67%) Spring
1 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
1 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Data Centre
1 4 (26.67%) Enterprise Storage
1 4 (26.67%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (26.67%) Operational Technology
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) CentOS
2 4 (26.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
2 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 5 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 5 (33.33%) DevOps
2 5 (33.33%) ITSM
2 5 (33.33%) Open Source
3 2 (13.33%) Data Science
3 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (6.67%) Agile
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (6.67%) Microservices
4 1 (6.67%) Scrum
4 1 (6.67%) SDLC
4 1 (6.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) Bash
2 5 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.67%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 5 (33.33%) Docker
1 5 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 5 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (66.67%) Ansible
2 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (6.67%) Puppet
3 1 (6.67%) Salt
3 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 5 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 5 (33.33%) VMware
2 4 (26.67%) Dell