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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 620 507 509
Rank change year-on-year -113 +2 +105
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 47 39 63
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.089% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.02% 1.09% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 41
10th Percentile £333 £430 £300
25th Percentile £448 £447 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £510
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +17.65% -10.53%
75th Percentile £597 £666 £564
90th Percentile £636 £675 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £442 £525
% change year-on-year +18.71% -15.76% +66.67%

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 4,628 3,577 4,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.75% 10.92% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,058 2,341 2,920
10th Percentile £306 £288 £272
25th Percentile £405 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £725 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -4.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 87 123
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.03 £13.54
25th Percentile £19.03 £26.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.09 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% +39.00% -40.95%
75th Percentile £61.57 £67.63 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.41 £79.25 £74.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £46.65 £30.00
% change year-on-year -24.97% +55.50% -25.00%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -102 42 £525 -12.50% 17
UK excluding London -80 29 £525 +18.71% 9
South East -60 14 £325 - 1
Work from Home -64 13 £465 -22.50% 6
London -68 12 £575 -11.54% 8
Midlands -46 6 £538 - 1
West Midlands -47 6 £538 - 1
East of England -20 5 £475 - 3
North of England -73 4 £700 +58.28% 2
North West -48 3 £700 +58.28% 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 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 1 (2.13%) Apache
1 1 (2.13%) JBoss
1 1 (2.13%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (8.51%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.13%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 19 (40.43%) AWS
2 17 (36.17%) Azure
3 6 (12.77%) OpenShift
4 5 (10.64%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (8.51%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (8.51%) Amazon S3
5 4 (8.51%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (8.51%) GCP
5 4 (8.51%) GitHub
5 4 (8.51%) Serverless
6 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.13%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.13%) Datadog
7 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (2.13%) npm
7 1 (2.13%) Nutanix
7 1 (2.13%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 11 (23.40%) 5G
1 11 (23.40%) BGP
1 11 (23.40%) LTE
1 11 (23.40%) WAN
2 9 (19.15%) Diameter Protocol
2 9 (19.15%) LAN
2 9 (19.15%) MPLS
3 8 (17.02%) Radio Access Network
3 8 (17.02%) Wireshark
4 7 (14.89%) TCP/IP
5 6 (12.77%) VoLTE
5 6 (12.77%) VoWiFi
6 5 (10.64%) 3GPP
7 4 (8.51%) HTTP
7 4 (8.51%) SNMP
7 4 (8.51%) TACACS
7 4 (8.51%) VSAN
7 4 (8.51%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (6.38%) VLAN
9 2 (4.26%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (8.51%) Relational Database
2 3 (6.38%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.13%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 9 (19.15%) Git
2 6 (12.77%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.26%) Gerrit
3 2 (4.26%) GitLab
4 1 (2.13%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.13%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.13%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.13%) Gradle
4 1 (2.13%) JUnit
4 1 (2.13%) Maven
4 1 (2.13%) Postman
4 1 (2.13%) Selenium
4 1 (2.13%) Snyk
4 1 (2.13%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.13%) webpack
General
1 17 (36.17%) Social Skills
2 13 (27.66%) Telecoms
3 5 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Electronics
4 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (31.91%) Architect
2 8 (17.02%) Network Architect
3 7 (14.89%) Developer
4 5 (10.64%) IP Architect
4 5 (10.64%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (8.51%) Java Developer
5 4 (8.51%) Senior
6 3 (6.38%) Consultant
6 3 (6.38%) Designer
6 3 (6.38%) IP Network Consultant
6 3 (6.38%) Mobile Designer
6 3 (6.38%) Network Consultant
6 3 (6.38%) Senior VMware Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) VMware Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Lead
7 2 (4.26%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) SIEM Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Storage Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) VMware Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (27.66%) REST
2 9 (19.15%) NETCONF
2 9 (19.15%) YANG
3 8 (17.02%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (8.51%) Kafka
4 4 (8.51%) Mustache
4 4 (8.51%) Node.js
4 4 (8.51%) OpenConfig
4 4 (8.51%) React
4 4 (8.51%) RESTCONF
4 4 (8.51%) Spring
4 4 (8.51%) Spring Boot
4 4 (8.51%) Web Services
5 1 (2.13%) JSON
5 1 (2.13%) RESTful
5 1 (2.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (27.66%) Cloud Native
2 12 (25.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (23.40%) Private Cloud
4 7 (14.89%) Data Centre
5 6 (12.77%) Public Cloud
6 5 (10.64%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (8.51%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (4.26%) Industry 4.0
8 2 (4.26%) IoT
8 2 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (4.26%) Smart City
9 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (2.13%) Grid Computing
9 1 (2.13%) Security Posture
9 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (36.17%) Linux
2 6 (12.77%) Unix
3 3 (6.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.26%) Windows
5 1 (2.13%) AIX
5 1 (2.13%) Rocky
5 1 (2.13%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (40.43%) CI/CD
2 14 (29.79%) High Availability
3 13 (27.66%) DevOps
4 12 (25.53%) Network Design
5 11 (23.40%) Microservices
6 9 (19.15%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (19.15%) Roadmaps
7 7 (14.89%) Network Architecture
7 7 (14.89%) Network Segmentation
7 7 (14.89%) Network Virtualisation
8 6 (12.77%) Agile
8 6 (12.77%) Enterprise Architecture
8 6 (12.77%) Incident Response
8 6 (12.77%) Service Delivery
8 6 (12.77%) Strategic Thinking
8 6 (12.77%) TOGAF
9 5 (10.64%) Containerisation
9 5 (10.64%) Service Management
9 5 (10.64%) Technical Leadership
10 4 (8.51%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 25 (53.19%) Python
2 5 (10.64%) Java
3 4 (8.51%) Bash
3 4 (8.51%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.26%) C++
5 1 (2.13%) Perl
5 1 (2.13%) Ruby
5 1 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (23.40%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (19.15%) CCIE
2 9 (19.15%) JNCIE
3 5 (10.64%) Security Cleared
4 4 (8.51%) Degree
5 3 (6.38%) SC Cleared
6 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.26%) CCNA
6 2 (4.26%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.89%) SLA
2 2 (4.26%) NIST
2 2 (4.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (19.15%) Docker
2 7 (14.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.51%) Ceph
3 4 (8.51%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (8.51%) VMware NSX
3 4 (8.51%) vSphere
4 2 (4.26%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.26%) KVM
4 2 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.13%) GPFS
5 1 (2.13%) iptables
5 1 (2.13%) Lustre
5 1 (2.13%) NFS
5 1 (2.13%) Samba
5 1 (2.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 33 (70.21%) Kubernetes
2 19 (40.43%) Ansible
3 9 (19.15%) Terraform
4 4 (8.51%) vCenter Server
5 3 (6.38%) Grafana
5 3 (6.38%) vRealize
6 2 (4.26%) Kibana
6 2 (4.26%) logstash
6 2 (4.26%) Prometheus
6 2 (4.26%) Puppet
7 1 (2.13%) Nagios
7 1 (2.13%) Podman
7 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.13%) Proxmox
7 1 (2.13%) Rundeck
7 1 (2.13%) SCCM
7 1 (2.13%) SCOM
7 1 (2.13%) SELinux
7 1 (2.13%) systemd
7 1 (2.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (23.40%) Ericsson
1 11 (23.40%) Huawei
1 11 (23.40%) Nokia
2 9 (19.15%) Cisco
3 8 (17.02%) VMware
4 6 (12.77%) BT
5 5 (10.64%) F5
5 5 (10.64%) Microsoft
6 4 (8.51%) Fortinet
6 4 (8.51%) Juniper
7 2 (4.26%) NetApp
7 2 (4.26%) Samsung
8 1 (2.13%) Google
8 1 (2.13%) Mirantis
8 1 (2.13%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.13%) SaltStack
8 1 (2.13%) SAP
8 1 (2.13%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.13%) Splunk