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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 529 527 516
Rank change year-on-year -2 -11 +208
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 50 37 102
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.10% 0.22%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.30% 0.92% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 30 65
10th Percentile £406 £390 £262
25th Percentile £431 £422 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -16.28%
75th Percentile £600 £617 £575
90th Percentile £665 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £400
% change year-on-year +4.76% +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 3,854 4,027 4,716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.74% 11.04% 10.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,593 2,492 3,134
10th Percentile £283 £262 £250
25th Percentile £400 £392 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £595 £638 £625
90th Percentile £713 £788 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £468
% change year-on-year +5.56% -3.85% -1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 83 138
10th Percentile £17.33 £18.00 £14.83
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.80 £17.88
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +35.78% +39.74%
75th Percentile £69.25 £64.73 £65.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.45 £75.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £47.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +97.92% +37.14%

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 21 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 21 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 +1 48 £525 - 17
UK excluding London -12 39 £550 +4.76% 13
Work from Home +11 21 £447 -22.93% 7
South East +9 15 - - 6
North of England - 10 £536 - 1
North West - 9 £536 - 1
West Midlands -17 8 £575 +35.29% 2
Midlands -23 8 £575 +35.29% 2
London -19 7 £524 -6.93% 8
East of England -7 6 £413 -21.43% 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 1 (2.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (12.00%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 44 (88.00%) AWS
2 22 (44.00%) Azure
3 14 (28.00%) GCP
4 13 (26.00%) OpenShift
5 8 (16.00%) GitHub
5 8 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (12.00%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (8.00%) Azure AKS
8 4 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (8.00%) Datadog
8 4 (8.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (8.00%) npm
8 4 (8.00%) Pulumi
9 2 (4.00%) IaaS
9 2 (4.00%) PaaS
9 2 (4.00%) SaaS
10 1 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 23 (46.00%) BGP
2 21 (42.00%) MPLS
3 16 (32.00%) Firewall
4 15 (30.00%) OSPF
5 12 (24.00%) DNS
5 12 (24.00%) LAN
5 12 (24.00%) WAN
6 11 (22.00%) 3GPP
6 11 (22.00%) Radio Access Network
7 10 (20.00%) VLAN
8 9 (18.00%) 4G
8 9 (18.00%) 5G
8 9 (18.00%) DHCP
8 9 (18.00%) IPsec
8 9 (18.00%) Wireshark
9 7 (14.00%) TCP/IP
10 6 (12.00%) SNMP
10 6 (12.00%) TACACS
10 6 (12.00%) Wireless
11 3 (6.00%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (18.00%) GitLab
1 9 (18.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (12.00%) CircleCI
3 5 (10.00%) Git
4 4 (8.00%) Artifactory
4 4 (8.00%) Bitbucket
4 4 (8.00%) Cypress.io
4 4 (8.00%) Gradle
4 4 (8.00%) JIRA
4 4 (8.00%) JUnit
4 4 (8.00%) Maven
4 4 (8.00%) Postman
4 4 (8.00%) Selenium
4 4 (8.00%) Snyk
4 4 (8.00%) SonarQube
4 4 (8.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (8.00%) webpack
5 1 (2.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.00%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (38.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.00%) Telecoms
3 10 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.00%) Banking
6 1 (2.00%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (30.00%) Architect
2 11 (22.00%) Designer
3 6 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (12.00%) IP Architect
3 6 (12.00%) IP Designer
3 6 (12.00%) IP Specialist
3 6 (12.00%) Senior
4 5 (10.00%) Network Designer
4 5 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Senior Architect
5 4 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Consultant
6 3 (6.00%) Domain Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Support Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Network Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Network Design Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Network Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.00%) REST
2 7 (14.00%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (12.00%) NETCONF
3 6 (12.00%) YANG
4 4 (8.00%) JSON
4 4 (8.00%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (8.00%) YAML
5 3 (6.00%) Kafka
6 2 (4.00%) eBPF
7 1 (2.00%) Node.js
7 1 (2.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (26.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (22.00%) Private Cloud
3 9 (18.00%) Cloud Native
3 9 (18.00%) Data Centre
3 9 (18.00%) Operational Technology
4 6 (12.00%) Grid Computing
4 6 (12.00%) Public Cloud
5 3 (6.00%) Product Ownership
6 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 27 (54.00%) Linux
2 3 (6.00%) Windows
3 2 (4.00%) CentOS
3 2 (4.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (56.00%) DevOps
2 17 (34.00%) CI/CD
3 14 (28.00%) Agile
3 14 (28.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 13 (26.00%) Containerisation
4 13 (26.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (24.00%) Microservices
6 11 (22.00%) Incident Response
7 9 (18.00%) Enterprise Architecture
8 8 (16.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 8 (16.00%) Network Design
8 8 (16.00%) Software Delivery
8 8 (16.00%) Strategic Thinking
9 7 (14.00%) Configuration Management
9 7 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (12.00%) Network Architecture
10 6 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 6 (12.00%) Software Engineering
10 6 (12.00%) TOGAF
10 6 (12.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 35 (70.00%) Python
2 17 (34.00%) Bash
3 4 (8.00%) Go
4 3 (6.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.00%) C
5 2 (4.00%) SQL
6 1 (2.00%) C++
6 1 (2.00%) Java
6 1 (2.00%) Perl
6 1 (2.00%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.00%) Ruby
6 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (28.00%) CCIE
1 14 (28.00%) Cisco Certification
1 14 (28.00%) JNCIE
2 8 (16.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (12.00%) AWS Certification
4 5 (10.00%) DV Cleared
5 3 (6.00%) Degree
6 2 (4.00%) CISSP
6 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (54.00%) Docker
2 10 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (14.00%) vSphere
4 6 (12.00%) GPFS
4 6 (12.00%) Lustre
4 6 (12.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 6 (12.00%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.00%) Ceph
5 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.00%) KVM
5 1 (2.00%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 29 (58.00%) Ansible
2 27 (54.00%) Kubernetes
3 23 (46.00%) Terraform
4 8 (16.00%) Grafana
5 6 (12.00%) Puppet
6 5 (10.00%) Prometheus
7 4 (8.00%) Podman
7 4 (8.00%) Progress Chef
8 3 (6.00%) Argo
9 2 (4.00%) Salt
10 1 (2.00%) Consul
Vendors
1 12 (24.00%) VMware
2 10 (20.00%) F5
3 9 (18.00%) Dell
4 8 (16.00%) Cisco
5 6 (12.00%) Fortinet
5 6 (12.00%) Juniper
5 6 (12.00%) Splunk
6 4 (8.00%) Palo Alto
7 2 (4.00%) Arista
7 2 (4.00%) Red Hat
7 2 (4.00%) Wind River
8 1 (2.00%) AppDynamics
8 1 (2.00%) Dynatrace
8 1 (2.00%) Microsoft
8 1 (2.00%) Oracle
8 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow