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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 568 490 485
Rank change year-on-year -78 -5 +205
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 47 30 100
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.10% 0.23%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.13% 0.88% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 23 63
10th Percentile £406 £500 £262
25th Percentile £442 £531 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £615 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +36.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £550
90th Percentile £671 £775 £598
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £323
% change year-on-year -4.55% +70.15% -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 4,141 3,414 4,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.52% 11.67% 9.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,866 2,218 2,847
10th Percentile £305 £263 £250
25th Percentile £404 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £498
Median % change year-on-year - +0.50% -3.12%
75th Percentile £588 £605 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 71 169
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.50 £23.15 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £41.91 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.38% +64.35% +13.33%
75th Percentile £69.44 £64.13 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £66.00 £68.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.17 £50.66 £23.22
% change year-on-year -36.50% +118.21% +5.52%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -80 40 £550 -15.38% 3
UK excluding London -57 31 £525 -4.55% 3
Work from Home -34 15 £469 -27.88% 2
West Midlands - 12 £538 -
Midlands - 12 £538 -
North of England - 11 £563 -
North West - 9 £563 -
London -63 7 £660 +1.54%
East of England - 5 £413 -
South East -56 3 - - 3
Yorkshire - 2 - -
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 (6.38%) Confluence
2 1 (2.13%) Apache
2 1 (2.13%) JBoss
Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 23 (48.94%) AWS
2 22 (46.81%) Azure
3 12 (25.53%) GCP
3 12 (25.53%) GitHub
4 8 (17.02%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (17.02%) OpenShift
5 5 (10.64%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.26%) Azure AKS
8 2 (4.26%) Datadog
8 2 (4.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (4.26%) npm
8 2 (4.26%) Pulumi
8 2 (4.26%) Serverless
9 1 (2.13%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.89%) TCP/IP
2 4 (8.51%) Firewall
3 3 (6.38%) 3GPP
3 3 (6.38%) 5G
3 3 (6.38%) LTE
3 3 (6.38%) VLAN
4 2 (4.26%) 4G
4 2 (4.26%) BGP
4 2 (4.26%) Calico
4 2 (4.26%) HTTP
4 2 (4.26%) LAN
4 2 (4.26%) MPLS
4 2 (4.26%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (4.26%) VSAN
4 2 (4.26%) WAN
5 1 (2.13%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (2.13%) InfiniBand
5 1 (2.13%) SSH
5 1 (2.13%) VXLAN
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 16 (34.04%) GitLab
2 12 (25.53%) Jenkins
3 9 (19.15%) Git
4 6 (12.77%) JIRA
5 5 (10.64%) SonarQube
6 4 (8.51%) CircleCI
7 2 (4.26%) Artifactory
7 2 (4.26%) Bitbucket
7 2 (4.26%) Cypress.io
7 2 (4.26%) Gerrit
7 2 (4.26%) Gradle
7 2 (4.26%) JUnit
7 2 (4.26%) Maven
7 2 (4.26%) Postman
7 2 (4.26%) Selenium
7 2 (4.26%) Snyk
7 2 (4.26%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (4.26%) webpack
General
1 10 (21.28%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.89%) Telecoms
3 4 (8.51%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Electronics
6 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (23.40%) Architect
2 7 (14.89%) Developer
3 4 (8.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (8.51%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (8.51%) Security Specialist
4 3 (6.38%) Automation Architect
4 3 (6.38%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 3 (6.38%) SIEM Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (6.38%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Elasticsearch Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Engineering Specialist
5 2 (4.26%) Java Developer
5 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes Architect
5 2 (4.26%) Principal Architect
6 1 (2.13%) IP Architect
6 1 (2.13%) IP Specialist
6 1 (2.13%) Salesforce Specialist
6 1 (2.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (27.66%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (12.77%) REST
2 6 (12.77%) YAML
3 5 (10.64%) Kafka
3 5 (10.64%) RESTful
4 3 (6.38%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (4.26%) JSON
5 2 (4.26%) Mustache
5 2 (4.26%) NETCONF
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
5 2 (4.26%) YANG
6 1 (2.13%) Loki
6 1 (2.13%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.04%) Private Cloud
2 10 (21.28%) Cloud Native
3 7 (14.89%) Public Cloud
4 6 (12.77%) Grid Computing
5 4 (8.51%) Data Centre
6 3 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (6.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (6.38%) Product Ownership
7 2 (4.26%) Industry 4.0
7 2 (4.26%) IoT
7 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
7 2 (4.26%) Security Posture
7 2 (4.26%) Smart City
8 1 (2.13%) Driving Licence
8 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 18 (38.30%) Linux
2 4 (8.51%) VMS
2 4 (8.51%) Windows
3 3 (6.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.26%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.13%) CentOS
5 1 (2.13%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (70.21%) DevOps
2 28 (59.57%) CI/CD
3 14 (29.79%) Agile
3 14 (29.79%) Containerisation
4 12 (25.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (23.40%) Incident Response
6 10 (21.28%) Infrastructure Automation
7 9 (19.15%) Configuration Management
7 9 (19.15%) SIEM
8 8 (17.02%) Microservices
9 7 (14.89%) Observability
9 7 (14.89%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (14.89%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (12.77%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (12.77%) Security Operations
10 6 (12.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 6 (12.77%) Software Delivery
10 6 (12.77%) TDD
10 6 (12.77%) Threat Detection
11 5 (10.64%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 25 (53.19%) Python
2 16 (34.04%) 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 6 (12.77%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.64%) Degree
3 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.26%) CCIE
3 2 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.26%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.26%) JNCIE
3 2 (4.26%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.64%) QA
2 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (40.43%) Docker
2 6 (12.77%) GPFS
2 6 (12.77%) Lustre
2 6 (12.77%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 6 (12.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (12.77%) vSphere
3 5 (10.64%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (6.38%) Ceph
5 2 (4.26%) KVM
5 2 (4.26%) VMware NSX
6 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
6 1 (2.13%) iptables
6 1 (2.13%) NFS
6 1 (2.13%) QEMU
6 1 (2.13%) Samba
Systems Management
1 37 (78.72%) Kubernetes
2 21 (44.68%) Terraform
3 20 (42.55%) Ansible
4 8 (17.02%) Grafana
5 5 (10.64%) Kibana
5 5 (10.64%) logstash
6 4 (8.51%) Argo
6 4 (8.51%) Prometheus
6 4 (8.51%) Puppet
7 2 (4.26%) Istio
7 2 (4.26%) Podman
7 2 (4.26%) Progress Chef
7 2 (4.26%) Rancher
7 2 (4.26%) Salt
8 1 (2.13%) Consul
8 1 (2.13%) Rundeck
8 1 (2.13%) SELinux
8 1 (2.13%) systemd
8 1 (2.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (12.77%) VMware
2 4 (8.51%) F5
2 4 (8.51%) Palo Alto
3 3 (6.38%) Cisco
3 3 (6.38%) Ericsson
3 3 (6.38%) Huawei
3 3 (6.38%) Nokia
3 3 (6.38%) Red Hat
3 3 (6.38%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.38%) Veracode
4 2 (4.26%) Arista
4 2 (4.26%) Samsung
4 2 (4.26%) Splunk
4 2 (4.26%) Wind River
5 1 (2.13%) Google
5 1 (2.13%) SaltStack
5 1 (2.13%) SAP