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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 493 512
Rank change year-on-year -80 +19 +155
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 47 36 82
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.100% 0.12% 0.19%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.11% 1.09% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 20 56
10th Percentile £406 £496 £262
25th Percentile £453 £599 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £493
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +31.98% -7.08%
75th Percentile £580 £675 £541
90th Percentile £654 £775 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 - £323
% change year-on-year - - -28.17%

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 4,230 3,308 4,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.99% 11.34% 9.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,899 2,207 2,864
10th Percentile £313 £275 £250
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £606 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £460 £450
% change year-on-year +1.96% +2.22% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 80 161
10th Percentile £15.20 £16.70 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.38 £15.42
Median hourly rate £30.00 £41.46 £27.52
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% +50.66% -29.45%
75th Percentile £73.00 £63.94 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.25 £68.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.06 £46.18 £23.75
% change year-on-year -21.91% +94.44% -8.65%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -77 40 £525 -19.23% 3
UK excluding London -64 27 £525 - 2
Work from Home -41 17 £525 -19.23% 2
London -87 11 £660 +1.54% 1
Midlands - 11 £525 -
West Midlands - 11 £525 -
South East -53 7 - -
North of England - 6 £431 -
North West - 5 £431 -
East of England - 3 £413 -
Scotland - 1 - -
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 3 (6.38%) Confluence
2 1 (2.13%) Apache
2 1 (2.13%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 16 (34.04%) AWS
2 15 (31.91%) Azure
3 11 (23.40%) GitHub
4 7 (14.89%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (14.89%) OpenShift
5 4 (8.51%) GCP
6 3 (6.38%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.26%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (4.26%) Serverless
8 1 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.13%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.13%) Datadog
8 1 (2.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (2.13%) npm
8 1 (2.13%) Nutanix
8 1 (2.13%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.02%) 5G
1 8 (17.02%) LTE
2 6 (12.77%) Diameter Protocol
3 5 (10.64%) 3GPP
3 5 (10.64%) Radio Access Network
3 5 (10.64%) TCP/IP
4 4 (8.51%) HTTP
4 4 (8.51%) VSAN
5 3 (6.38%) BGP
5 3 (6.38%) LAN
5 3 (6.38%) MPLS
5 3 (6.38%) VoLTE
5 3 (6.38%) VoWiFi
5 3 (6.38%) WAN
5 3 (6.38%) Wireshark
6 2 (4.26%) 4G
6 2 (4.26%) Calico
6 2 (4.26%) VLAN
7 1 (2.13%) InfiniBand
7 1 (2.13%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.77%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.26%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.13%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 15 (31.91%) GitLab
2 11 (23.40%) Jenkins
3 8 (17.02%) Git
4 6 (12.77%) JIRA
5 4 (8.51%) SonarQube
6 3 (6.38%) CircleCI
7 2 (4.26%) Gerrit
8 1 (2.13%) Artifactory
8 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
8 1 (2.13%) Cypress.io
8 1 (2.13%) Gradle
8 1 (2.13%) JUnit
8 1 (2.13%) Maven
8 1 (2.13%) Postman
8 1 (2.13%) Selenium
8 1 (2.13%) Snyk
8 1 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (2.13%) webpack
General
1 13 (27.66%) Social Skills
2 11 (23.40%) Telecoms
3 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.38%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.26%) Electronics
5 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (25.53%) Architect
2 7 (14.89%) Developer
3 4 (8.51%) Security Specialist
4 3 (6.38%) Automation Architect
4 3 (6.38%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 3 (6.38%) Designer
4 3 (6.38%) Mobile Designer
4 3 (6.38%) Senior
4 3 (6.38%) SIEM Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.26%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Elasticsearch Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Engineering Specialist
5 2 (4.26%) IP Architect
5 2 (4.26%) Java Developer
5 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes Architect
5 2 (4.26%) Senior VMware Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Support Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (25.53%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (12.77%) REST
3 5 (10.64%) Kafka
3 5 (10.64%) RESTful
3 5 (10.64%) YAML
4 3 (6.38%) NETCONF
4 3 (6.38%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (6.38%) YANG
5 2 (4.26%) Mustache
5 2 (4.26%) Node.js
5 2 (4.26%) OpenAPI
5 2 (4.26%) React
5 2 (4.26%) React Native
5 2 (4.26%) Spring
5 2 (4.26%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.26%) Swagger
5 2 (4.26%) Web Services
6 1 (2.13%) Hibernate
6 1 (2.13%) JPA
6 1 (2.13%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 13 (27.66%) Cloud Native
2 12 (25.53%) Private Cloud
3 4 (8.51%) Data Centre
3 4 (8.51%) Grid Computing
3 4 (8.51%) Public Cloud
4 3 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (6.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (6.38%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.26%) Industry 4.0
5 2 (4.26%) IoT
5 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.26%) Security Posture
5 2 (4.26%) Smart City
6 1 (2.13%) Driving Licence
6 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 13 (27.66%) Linux
2 4 (8.51%) VMS
3 3 (6.38%) Unix
3 3 (6.38%) Windows
4 2 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.13%) Rocky
5 1 (2.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (55.32%) DevOps
2 24 (51.06%) CI/CD
3 12 (25.53%) Agile
4 10 (21.28%) Containerisation
5 9 (19.15%) Microservices
5 9 (19.15%) SIEM
6 8 (17.02%) Configuration Management
6 8 (17.02%) High Availability
7 7 (14.89%) Incident Response
7 7 (14.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (14.89%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (14.89%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (12.77%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (12.77%) Migration
8 6 (12.77%) Network Design
8 6 (12.77%) Security Operations
8 6 (12.77%) TDD
8 6 (12.77%) Threat Detection
9 5 (10.64%) Mentoring
9 5 (10.64%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (46.81%) Python
2 9 (19.15%) Bash
3 7 (14.89%) Java
4 5 (10.64%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.51%) Go
6 3 (6.38%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.26%) C++
8 1 (2.13%) Perl
8 1 (2.13%) Ruby
8 1 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (10.64%) Degree
2 4 (8.51%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.38%) CCIE
3 3 (6.38%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (6.38%) JNCIE
4 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.26%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.64%) QA
2 4 (8.51%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (23.40%) Docker
2 5 (10.64%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (8.51%) GPFS
3 4 (8.51%) Lustre
3 4 (8.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 4 (8.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.51%) VMware NSX
3 4 (8.51%) vSphere
4 2 (4.26%) Ceph
4 2 (4.26%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.13%) iptables
5 1 (2.13%) KVM
5 1 (2.13%) NFS
5 1 (2.13%) Samba
Systems Management
1 36 (76.60%) Kubernetes
2 19 (40.43%) Ansible
3 15 (31.91%) Terraform
4 7 (14.89%) Grafana
5 5 (10.64%) Kibana
5 5 (10.64%) logstash
6 4 (8.51%) Argo
7 3 (6.38%) Prometheus
7 3 (6.38%) Puppet
8 2 (4.26%) Istio
8 2 (4.26%) Rancher
8 2 (4.26%) Salt
8 2 (4.26%) vCenter Server
8 2 (4.26%) vRealize
9 1 (2.13%) Consul
9 1 (2.13%) Podman
9 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
9 1 (2.13%) Rundeck
9 1 (2.13%) SELinux
9 1 (2.13%) systemd
Vendors
1 8 (17.02%) Ericsson
1 8 (17.02%) Huawei
1 8 (17.02%) Nokia
2 5 (10.64%) Cisco
3 4 (8.51%) VMware
4 3 (6.38%) BT
4 3 (6.38%) Red Hat
4 3 (6.38%) Salesforce
4 3 (6.38%) Veracode
5 2 (4.26%) Arista
5 2 (4.26%) Samsung
5 2 (4.26%) Wind River
6 1 (2.13%) Google
6 1 (2.13%) SaltStack
6 1 (2.13%) SAP
6 1 (2.13%) Splunk