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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 536 520 534
Rank change year-on-year -16 +14 +181
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 51 35 100
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.095% 0.21%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.36% 0.86% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 28 63
10th Percentile £407 £370 £262
25th Percentile £435 £413 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +10.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £600
90th Percentile £679 £641 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £525 £400
% change year-on-year +9.52% +31.25% -20.00%

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 3,753 4,056 4,820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.74% 11.04% 10.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,510 2,519 3,222
10th Percentile £286 £263 £251
25th Percentile £400 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.84% +2.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £591 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £800 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £465 £470
% change year-on-year -0.54% -1.06% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 78 145
10th Percentile £15.95 £19.85 £15.80
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.18 £19.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £40.46 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.48% +39.50% +44.14%
75th Percentile £65.25 £66.77 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £74.00 £74.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% +103.70% +50.00%

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 7 November 2025.

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 11 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 7 November 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
England -3 49 £575 +9.52% 12
UK excluding London -14 40 £575 +9.52% 11
Work from Home +23 22 £447 -16.84% 5
South East +14 17 - - 3
North of England - 10 £536 - 1
North West - 9 £536 - 1
London -6 7 £524 +4.70% 4
East of England -7 7 £413 -21.43% 3
Midlands -18 6 £575 +35.29% 1
West Midlands -27 6 £575 +35.29%
Yorkshire - 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 (1.96%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 48 (94.12%) AWS
2 20 (39.22%) Azure
3 13 (25.49%) GCP
3 13 (25.49%) OpenShift
4 7 (13.73%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (9.80%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (9.80%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (9.80%) GitHub
5 5 (9.80%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (7.84%) Azure AKS
6 4 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (7.84%) Datadog
6 4 (7.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (7.84%) npm
6 4 (7.84%) Pulumi
7 2 (3.92%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.92%) IaaS
7 2 (3.92%) PaaS
7 2 (3.92%) SaaS
8 1 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (45.10%) BGP
2 21 (41.18%) MPLS
3 16 (31.37%) Firewall
4 15 (29.41%) OSPF
5 14 (27.45%) DNS
6 12 (23.53%) LAN
6 12 (23.53%) WAN
7 11 (21.57%) 3GPP
7 11 (21.57%) Radio Access Network
8 10 (19.61%) VLAN
9 9 (17.65%) 4G
9 9 (17.65%) 5G
9 9 (17.65%) DHCP
9 9 (17.65%) IPsec
9 9 (17.65%) Wireshark
10 6 (11.76%) SNMP
10 6 (11.76%) TACACS
10 6 (11.76%) Wireless
11 5 (9.80%) TCP/IP
12 3 (5.88%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.96%) Redis
1 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (15.69%) GitLab
2 7 (13.73%) Jenkins
3 6 (11.76%) Git
4 4 (7.84%) Artifactory
4 4 (7.84%) Bitbucket
4 4 (7.84%) CircleCI
4 4 (7.84%) Cypress.io
4 4 (7.84%) Gradle
4 4 (7.84%) JUnit
4 4 (7.84%) Maven
4 4 (7.84%) Postman
4 4 (7.84%) Selenium
4 4 (7.84%) Snyk
4 4 (7.84%) SonarQube
4 4 (7.84%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (7.84%) webpack
5 3 (5.88%) JIRA
5 3 (5.88%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 20 (39.22%) Social Skills
2 11 (21.57%) Telecoms
3 9 (17.65%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.96%) Banking
6 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (31.37%) Architect
2 11 (21.57%) Designer
3 6 (11.76%) IP Architect
3 6 (11.76%) IP Designer
3 6 (11.76%) IP Specialist
3 6 (11.76%) Senior
3 6 (11.76%) Senior Architect
4 5 (9.80%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Network Designer
4 5 (9.80%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Support Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Domain Architect
5 4 (7.84%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.88%) Administrator
6 3 (5.88%) Consultant
6 3 (5.88%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (5.88%) Telecoms Architect
6 3 (5.88%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Senior Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (21.57%) REST
2 6 (11.76%) NETCONF
2 6 (11.76%) YANG
3 5 (9.80%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (7.84%) JSON
4 4 (7.84%) YAML
5 2 (3.92%) eBPF
5 2 (3.92%) Node.js
6 1 (1.96%) Kafka
6 1 (1.96%) Mustache
6 1 (1.96%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.96%) React
6 1 (1.96%) RESTful
6 1 (1.96%) Spring
6 1 (1.96%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (25.49%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (21.57%) Data Centre
3 9 (17.65%) Cloud Native
3 9 (17.65%) Operational Technology
3 9 (17.65%) Private Cloud
4 5 (9.80%) Public Cloud
5 4 (7.84%) Grid Computing
6 3 (5.88%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (54.90%) Linux
2 4 (7.84%) CentOS
2 4 (7.84%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.96%) Unix
3 1 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (49.02%) DevOps
2 17 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 14 (27.45%) Network Virtualisation
4 12 (23.53%) Containerisation
4 12 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (23.53%) Microservices
5 11 (21.57%) Agile
5 11 (21.57%) Incident Response
6 10 (19.61%) Enterprise Architecture
7 8 (15.69%) Infrastructure Automation
7 8 (15.69%) Network Design
7 8 (15.69%) Strategic Thinking
8 7 (13.73%) SDLC
9 6 (11.76%) Configuration Management
9 6 (11.76%) Network Architecture
9 6 (11.76%) Network Segmentation
9 6 (11.76%) Open Source
9 6 (11.76%) Roadmaps
9 6 (11.76%) TOGAF
9 6 (11.76%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 34 (66.67%) Python
2 17 (33.33%) Bash
3 3 (5.88%) Shell Script
4 2 (3.92%) C
4 2 (3.92%) Java
4 2 (3.92%) SQL
5 1 (1.96%) C++
5 1 (1.96%) Go
5 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.96%) Perl
5 1 (1.96%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.96%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (27.45%) CCIE
1 14 (27.45%) Cisco Certification
1 14 (27.45%) JNCIE
2 8 (15.69%) Security Cleared
3 6 (11.76%) AWS Certification
4 5 (9.80%) Degree
4 5 (9.80%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.92%) CISSP
5 2 (3.92%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (47.06%) Docker
2 10 (19.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (17.65%) vSphere
4 6 (11.76%) VMware NSX
5 4 (7.84%) GPFS
5 4 (7.84%) Lustre
5 4 (7.84%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (5.88%) Active Directory
6 3 (5.88%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.96%) Ceph
7 1 (1.96%) KVM
7 1 (1.96%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 29 (56.86%) Ansible
2 27 (52.94%) Kubernetes
3 19 (37.25%) Terraform
4 5 (9.80%) Grafana
4 5 (9.80%) Prometheus
4 5 (9.80%) Puppet
5 4 (7.84%) Podman
5 4 (7.84%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.96%) Consul
6 1 (1.96%) Salt
Vendors
1 14 (27.45%) VMware
2 10 (19.61%) F5
3 9 (17.65%) Dell
4 8 (15.69%) Cisco
5 6 (11.76%) Fortinet
5 6 (11.76%) Juniper
5 6 (11.76%) Splunk
6 4 (7.84%) Palo Alto
7 3 (5.88%) Microsoft
7 3 (5.88%) ServiceNow
8 2 (3.92%) Arista
8 2 (3.92%) Red Hat
8 2 (3.92%) Wind River
9 1 (1.96%) AppDynamics
9 1 (1.96%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.96%) Oracle