OpenStack Contracts

OpenStack
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 518 664
Rank change year-on-year +37 +146 +20
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 38 82 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.19% 0.082%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.15% 1.96% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 56 31
10th Percentile £496 £262 £425
25th Percentile £599 £300 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £493 £530
Median % change year-on-year +31.98% -7.08% -11.67%
75th Percentile £675 £541 £725
90th Percentile £775 £588 £875
UK excluding London median daily rate - £323 £450
% change year-on-year - -28.17% -10.00%

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 3,308 4,179 6,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.31% 9.59% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,205 2,874 4,603
10th Percentile £275 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.97%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £713 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +0.72% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 161 147
10th Percentile £16.65 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.25 £15.42 £18.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%
75th Percentile £64.13 £46.18 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.50 £68.00 £78.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £23.75 £26.24
% change year-on-year +94.44% -9.49% +41.84%

OpenStack
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OpenStack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OpenStack in the UK

OpenStack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenStack.

Daily rate trend for OpenStack in the UK

OpenStack
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenStack over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenStack in the UK

OpenStack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OpenStack.

Hourly rate trend for OpenStack in the UK

OpenStack
Top 5 Contract 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 30 April 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 +21 29 £650 +36.84% 20
London -1 25 £650 +36.13% 11
Work from Home +39 23 £650 +67.74% 14
UK excluding London +39 2 - - 10
South East +36 2 - - 4

OpenStack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (10.53%) Apache
1 4 (10.53%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 12 (31.58%) OpenShift
2 7 (18.42%) AWS
3 5 (13.16%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (7.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (7.89%) GitHub
4 3 (7.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.16%) BGP
1 5 (13.16%) Ethernet VPN
1 5 (13.16%) Multicast
1 5 (13.16%) OSPF
1 5 (13.16%) TCP/IP
1 5 (13.16%) VXLAN
2 4 (10.53%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (10.53%) HTTP
2 4 (10.53%) NX-OS
3 3 (7.89%) 3G
3 3 (7.89%) 4G
3 3 (7.89%) 5G
3 3 (7.89%) LTE
4 2 (5.26%) 3GPP
5 1 (2.63%) BIG-IP
5 1 (2.63%) InfiniBand
5 1 (2.63%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (7.89%) SAP HANA
2 1 (2.63%) Couchbase
2 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 6 (15.79%) GitLab
3 4 (10.53%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (7.89%) Artifactory
5 2 (5.26%) Git
General
1 12 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 10 (26.32%) Telecoms
3 6 (15.79%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (15.79%) Finance
4 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.26%) German Language
Job Titles
1 9 (23.68%) Architect
2 7 (18.42%) Senior
3 6 (15.79%) Consultant
3 6 (15.79%) Lead
4 5 (13.16%) Network Consultant
4 5 (13.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Unix Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Domain Architect
5 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Site Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Telecoms Architect
6 3 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Cisco Network Consultant
7 2 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Architect
7 2 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Technical Design Architect
7 2 (5.26%) Technical Design Authority
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.16%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.63%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.95%) Cloud Native
2 9 (23.68%) Private Cloud
3 7 (18.42%) Data Centre
4 5 (13.16%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (5.26%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
7 1 (2.63%) NVMe
7 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (65.79%) Linux
2 6 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (13.16%) Unix
4 2 (5.26%) SUSE
5 1 (2.63%) Debian
5 1 (2.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (34.21%) CI/CD
1 13 (34.21%) DevOps
2 11 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (26.32%) High Availability
4 9 (23.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (21.05%) Open Source
6 7 (18.42%) Infrastructure Automation
6 7 (18.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (15.79%) Capacity Planning
8 5 (13.16%) Computer Science
8 5 (13.16%) Roadmaps
9 4 (10.53%) Architectural Design
9 4 (10.53%) Canary Deployment
9 4 (10.53%) Containerisation
9 4 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (10.53%) Edge Computing
9 4 (10.53%) Enterprise Architecture
9 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (10.53%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 4 (10.53%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 17 (44.74%) Python
2 4 (10.53%) Groovy
2 4 (10.53%) Shell Script
3 3 (7.89%) Bash
3 3 (7.89%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.63%) Go
4 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (13.16%) Degree
2 4 (10.53%) CCIE
2 4 (10.53%) CCIE Data Center
2 4 (10.53%) CCNP
2 4 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (7.89%) RHCSA
4 1 (2.63%) ISEB
4 1 (2.63%) ISTQB
System Software
1 11 (28.95%) Docker
2 9 (23.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (15.79%) vSphere
4 3 (7.89%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (5.26%) Ceph
6 1 (2.63%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (57.89%) Ansible
2 17 (44.74%) Kubernetes
2 17 (44.74%) Terraform
3 8 (21.05%) Progress Chef
4 3 (7.89%) Argo
4 3 (7.89%) Consul
4 3 (7.89%) logstash
5 2 (5.26%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.26%) ZABBIX
6 1 (2.63%) Cobbler
6 1 (2.63%) Grafana
6 1 (2.63%) Istio
6 1 (2.63%) Nagios
Vendors
1 12 (31.58%) Red Hat
1 12 (31.58%) VMware
2 8 (21.05%) Splunk
3 7 (18.42%) Dynatrace
3 7 (18.42%) SAP
4 5 (13.16%) Cisco
5 4 (10.53%) AppDynamics
6 3 (7.89%) Google
7 2 (5.26%) Arista
8 1 (2.63%) Dell
8 1 (2.63%) Ericsson
8 1 (2.63%) F5
8 1 (2.63%) Juniper
8 1 (2.63%) Mavenir
8 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
8 1 (2.63%) Nokia
8 1 (2.63%) Wind River