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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 596 497 510
Rank change year-on-year -99 +13 +122
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 43 41 67
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.084% 0.14% 0.15%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.97% 1.21% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 45
10th Percentile £405 £431 £262
25th Percentile £431 £447 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £501
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +19.88% -16.58%
75th Percentile £550 £663 £538
90th Percentile - £675 £595
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £442 £450
% change year-on-year +15.88% -1.72% +17.65%

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 4,414 3,377 4,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.67% 11.24% 10.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,953 2,224 3,062
10th Percentile £313 £289 £262
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -1.77%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £713 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 74 165
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.68 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £26.45 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £52.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +65.56% -39.60%
75th Percentile £60.75 £69.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.63 £72.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £53.61 £30.91
% change year-on-year -34.71% +73.42% -38.18%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 38 £513 -16.33% 11
UK excluding London -83 28 £513 +15.88% 8
South East -51 14 - - 3
Work from Home -54 14 £465 -22.50% 5
London -77 9 £525 -19.23% 5
Midlands -48 6 £550 -
West Midlands -51 6 £550 -
North of England -77 6 £431 -2.54%
North West -47 5 £431 -2.54%
East of England -30 2 - - 1
Yorkshire - 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 3 (6.98%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) Apache
2 1 (2.33%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.33%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 16 (37.21%) AWS
1 16 (37.21%) Azure
2 4 (9.30%) GitHub
3 2 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (4.65%) Amazon S3
3 2 (4.65%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (4.65%) OpenShift
3 2 (4.65%) Serverless
4 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.33%) GCP
4 1 (2.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 11 (25.58%) 5G
1 11 (25.58%) LTE
2 10 (23.26%) BGP
2 10 (23.26%) WAN
3 9 (20.93%) Diameter Protocol
4 8 (18.60%) LAN
4 8 (18.60%) MPLS
4 8 (18.60%) Radio Access Network
4 8 (18.60%) Wireshark
5 6 (13.95%) VoLTE
5 6 (13.95%) VoWiFi
6 5 (11.63%) 3GPP
7 4 (9.30%) HTTP
7 4 (9.30%) TCP/IP
8 3 (6.98%) VLAN
8 3 (6.98%) VSAN
9 2 (4.65%) 4G
9 2 (4.65%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (4.65%) SD-WAN
9 2 (4.65%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.63%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.33%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 6 (13.95%) GitLab
2 4 (9.30%) Git
2 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.98%) JIRA
3 3 (6.98%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.65%) Gerrit
General
1 13 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.93%) Telecoms
3 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Electronics
5 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (20.93%) Architect
2 7 (16.28%) Developer
3 6 (13.95%) IP Architect
3 6 (13.95%) Network Architect
4 4 (9.30%) Security Specialist
4 4 (9.30%) Senior
5 3 (6.98%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 3 (6.98%) Designer
5 3 (6.98%) Mobile Designer
5 3 (6.98%) Senior VMware Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) VMware Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Java Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Lead
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Support Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) SIEM Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Support Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) VMware Support Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Network Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Salesforce Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (25.58%) REST
2 8 (18.60%) NETCONF
2 8 (18.60%) YANG
3 7 (16.28%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (11.63%) RESTful
5 4 (9.30%) YAML
6 2 (4.65%) Kafka
6 2 (4.65%) Mustache
6 2 (4.65%) Node.js
6 2 (4.65%) OpenAPI
6 2 (4.65%) React
6 2 (4.65%) React Native
6 2 (4.65%) Spring
6 2 (4.65%) Spring Boot
6 2 (4.65%) Swagger
6 2 (4.65%) Web Services
7 1 (2.33%) Hibernate
7 1 (2.33%) JPA
7 1 (2.33%) OpenConfig
7 1 (2.33%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 16 (37.21%) Cloud Native
2 9 (20.93%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (9.30%) Data Centre
3 4 (9.30%) Private Cloud
4 3 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (6.98%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.65%) Industry 4.0
5 2 (4.65%) IoT
5 2 (4.65%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (4.65%) Smart City
6 1 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.33%) Grid Computing
6 1 (2.33%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.26%) Linux
2 6 (13.95%) Unix
3 2 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.33%) AIX
4 1 (2.33%) Rocky
4 1 (2.33%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.33%) Windows
4 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (39.53%) DevOps
2 16 (37.21%) CI/CD
3 11 (25.58%) Microservices
3 11 (25.58%) Network Design
4 10 (23.26%) High Availability
5 9 (20.93%) Network Architecture
5 9 (20.93%) Network Segmentation
5 9 (20.93%) Network Virtualisation
5 9 (20.93%) Roadmaps
6 8 (18.60%) Enterprise Architecture
6 8 (18.60%) Strategic Thinking
6 8 (18.60%) TOGAF
7 6 (13.95%) Agile
7 6 (13.95%) Incident Response
7 6 (13.95%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (13.95%) Service Delivery
7 6 (13.95%) TDD
8 5 (11.63%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (11.63%) Security Operations
8 5 (11.63%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 22 (51.16%) Python
2 7 (16.28%) Java
3 4 (9.30%) Bash
4 2 (4.65%) C++
4 2 (4.65%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.33%) Perl
5 1 (2.33%) Ruby
5 1 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (23.26%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (18.60%) CCIE
2 8 (18.60%) JNCIE
3 4 (9.30%) Degree
4 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.65%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.65%) CCNA
4 2 (4.65%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.28%) SLA
2 2 (4.65%) NIST
2 2 (4.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (13.95%) Docker
1 6 (13.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (6.98%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (6.98%) VMware NSX
2 3 (6.98%) vSphere
3 2 (4.65%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.33%) Ceph
4 1 (2.33%) GPFS
4 1 (2.33%) iptables
4 1 (2.33%) Lustre
4 1 (2.33%) NFS
4 1 (2.33%) Samba
4 1 (2.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 29 (67.44%) Kubernetes
2 15 (34.88%) Ansible
3 6 (13.95%) Terraform
4 4 (9.30%) Kibana
4 4 (9.30%) logstash
5 3 (6.98%) vCenter Server
5 3 (6.98%) vRealize
6 2 (4.65%) Grafana
7 1 (2.33%) Consul
7 1 (2.33%) Nagios
7 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.33%) Puppet
7 1 (2.33%) Rundeck
7 1 (2.33%) Salt
7 1 (2.33%) SCCM
7 1 (2.33%) SCOM
7 1 (2.33%) SELinux
7 1 (2.33%) systemd
7 1 (2.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (25.58%) Ericsson
1 11 (25.58%) Huawei
1 11 (25.58%) Nokia
2 6 (13.95%) BT
2 6 (13.95%) Cisco
2 6 (13.95%) VMware
3 3 (6.98%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.98%) Veracode
4 2 (4.65%) Samsung
5 1 (2.33%) F5
5 1 (2.33%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.33%) Google
5 1 (2.33%) Juniper
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.33%) SaltStack
5 1 (2.33%) SAP
5 1 (2.33%) SolarWinds