OpenStack Contract Job Trends

OpenStack
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring OpenStack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 605 485 528
Rank change year-on-year -120 +43 +108
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 45 40 67
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.090% 0.14% 0.15%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.05% 1.21% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 46
10th Percentile £414 £444 £262
25th Percentile £453 £460 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £613 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +28.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £550 £669 £515
90th Percentile £634 £675 £581
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £447 £450
% change year-on-year +14.65% -0.67% -3.74%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,296 3,300 4,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.60% 11.21% 10.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,881 2,176 3,063
10th Percentile £313 £289 £263
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -2.75% -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £597 £619
90th Percentile £675 £703 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 66 163
10th Percentile £16.03 £17.33 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £26.45 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +65.56% -39.60%
75th Percentile £61.58 £71.88 £51.91
90th Percentile £74.93 £79.38 £73.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £53.61 £30.00
% change year-on-year -39.38% +78.70% -38.14%

OpenStack
Job Vacancy Trend

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

OpenStack job vacancy trend in the UK

OpenStack
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

OpenStack
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenStack over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OpenStack in the UK

OpenStack
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OpenStack.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OpenStack

OpenStack
Top 12 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 June 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
England -111 38 £525 -16.00% 11
UK excluding London -76 26 £513 +14.65% 10
Work from Home -57 16 £525 -12.50% 6
South East -64 13 - - 3
London -72 10 £593 -8.85% 1
West Midlands -53 6 £550 -
Midlands -58 6 £550 -
North of England -68 6 £431 -3.58%
North West -29 5 £431 -3.58%
East of England -25 1 - - 2
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - -

OpenStack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) Apache
2 1 (2.22%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 15 (33.33%) AWS
1 15 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (11.11%) GitHub
3 3 (6.67%) OpenShift
4 2 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (4.44%) Amazon S3
4 2 (4.44%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (4.44%) Serverless
5 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.22%) GCP
5 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.22%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 11 (24.44%) 5G
1 11 (24.44%) LTE
2 9 (20.00%) Diameter Protocol
3 8 (17.78%) BGP
3 8 (17.78%) Radio Access Network
3 8 (17.78%) WAN
3 8 (17.78%) Wireshark
4 6 (13.33%) LAN
4 6 (13.33%) MPLS
4 6 (13.33%) VoLTE
4 6 (13.33%) VoWiFi
5 5 (11.11%) 3GPP
6 4 (8.89%) HTTP
6 4 (8.89%) VSAN
7 3 (6.67%) TCP/IP
7 3 (6.67%) VLAN
8 2 (4.44%) 4G
8 2 (4.44%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (4.44%) SD-WAN
8 2 (4.44%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.22%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 8 (17.78%) GitLab
2 5 (11.11%) Git
2 5 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.67%) JIRA
3 3 (6.67%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.44%) Gerrit
General
1 12 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Electronics
5 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (26.67%) Architect
2 7 (15.56%) Developer
3 5 (11.11%) IP Architect
3 5 (11.11%) Network Architect
4 4 (8.89%) Security Specialist
5 3 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 3 (6.67%) Designer
5 3 (6.67%) Mobile Designer
5 3 (6.67%) Senior
5 3 (6.67%) Senior VMware Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.67%) VMware Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Java Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Kubernetes Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Support Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) SIEM Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Support Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) VMware Support Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Architect
7 1 (2.22%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (22.22%) REST
2 7 (15.56%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (13.33%) NETCONF
3 6 (13.33%) YANG
4 5 (11.11%) RESTful
5 4 (8.89%) YAML
6 2 (4.44%) Kafka
6 2 (4.44%) Mustache
6 2 (4.44%) Node.js
6 2 (4.44%) OpenAPI
6 2 (4.44%) React
6 2 (4.44%) React Native
6 2 (4.44%) Spring
6 2 (4.44%) Spring Boot
6 2 (4.44%) Swagger
6 2 (4.44%) Web Services
7 1 (2.22%) Hibernate
7 1 (2.22%) JPA
7 1 (2.22%) Loki
7 1 (2.22%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 16 (35.56%) Cloud Native
2 7 (15.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (11.11%) Private Cloud
4 4 (8.89%) Data Centre
5 3 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (4.44%) Industry 4.0
6 2 (4.44%) IoT
6 2 (4.44%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (4.44%) Public Cloud
6 2 (4.44%) Smart City
7 1 (2.22%) Driving Licence
7 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.22%) Grid Computing
7 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
7 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (22.22%) Linux
2 6 (13.33%) Unix
3 2 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.22%) AIX
4 1 (2.22%) Rocky
4 1 (2.22%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.22%) VMS
4 1 (2.22%) Windows
4 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 18 (40.00%) DevOps
2 10 (22.22%) High Availability
2 10 (22.22%) Microservices
3 9 (20.00%) Network Design
4 8 (17.78%) Network Architecture
4 8 (17.78%) Network Segmentation
4 8 (17.78%) Network Virtualisation
4 8 (17.78%) Roadmaps
5 7 (15.56%) Enterprise Architecture
5 7 (15.56%) Strategic Thinking
5 7 (15.56%) TOGAF
6 6 (13.33%) Agile
6 6 (13.33%) Incident Response
6 6 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (13.33%) Service Delivery
6 6 (13.33%) TDD
7 5 (11.11%) Containerisation
7 5 (11.11%) Security Operations
7 5 (11.11%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 21 (46.67%) Python
2 7 (15.56%) Java
3 5 (11.11%) Bash
4 2 (4.44%) C++
4 2 (4.44%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.22%) Perl
5 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.22%) Ruby
5 1 (2.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (13.33%) CCIE
2 6 (13.33%) JNCIE
3 4 (8.89%) Degree
4 2 (4.44%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.44%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.44%) CCNA
4 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) SLA
2 2 (4.44%) NIST
2 2 (4.44%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 7 (15.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (13.33%) Docker
3 4 (8.89%) VMware NSX
3 4 (8.89%) vSphere
4 3 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (4.44%) Hyper-V
6 1 (2.22%) Ceph
6 1 (2.22%) GPFS
6 1 (2.22%) iptables
6 1 (2.22%) Lustre
6 1 (2.22%) NFS
6 1 (2.22%) Samba
6 1 (2.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 33 (73.33%) Kubernetes
2 14 (31.11%) Ansible
3 7 (15.56%) Terraform
4 4 (8.89%) Kibana
4 4 (8.89%) logstash
5 3 (6.67%) Grafana
5 3 (6.67%) vCenter Server
5 3 (6.67%) vRealize
6 2 (4.44%) Prometheus
6 2 (4.44%) Rancher
7 1 (2.22%) Argo
7 1 (2.22%) Consul
7 1 (2.22%) Istio
7 1 (2.22%) Nagios
7 1 (2.22%) Rundeck
7 1 (2.22%) Salt
7 1 (2.22%) SCCM
7 1 (2.22%) SCOM
7 1 (2.22%) SELinux
7 1 (2.22%) systemd
Vendors
1 11 (24.44%) Ericsson
1 11 (24.44%) Huawei
1 11 (24.44%) Nokia
2 7 (15.56%) VMware
3 6 (13.33%) BT
3 6 (13.33%) Cisco
4 3 (6.67%) Salesforce
4 3 (6.67%) Veracode
5 2 (4.44%) Red Hat
5 2 (4.44%) Samsung
6 1 (2.22%) Arista
6 1 (2.22%) Google
6 1 (2.22%) SaltStack
6 1 (2.22%) SAP
6 1 (2.22%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.22%) Wind River