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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 510 530 541
Rank change year-on-year +20 +11 +194
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 57 33 92
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.089% 0.19%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.57% 0.81% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 25 57
10th Percentile £417 £393 £274
25th Percentile £447 £413 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +10.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £684 £630 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £525 £400
% change year-on-year +9.52% +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 3,622 4,053 4,924
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.81% 10.91% 10.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,409 2,532 3,278
10th Percentile £284 £263 £250
25th Percentile £390 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.47% +3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £810 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £458 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +1.67% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 73 152
10th Percentile £16.81 £18.33 £16.14
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.80 £19.81
Median hourly rate £34.99 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.43% +23.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.00 £75.99
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.43 £56.13 £27.00
% change year-on-year -38.65% +107.87% +52.37%

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 23 October 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 10 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 23 October 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 +5 52 £575 +9.52% 8
UK excluding London +5 39 £575 +9.52% 7
Work from Home +25 21 £449 -14.57% 13
South East +22 17 - - 2
London +10 11 £524 +16.33% 2
North West - 9 £536 - 3
North of England - 9 £536 - 3
East of England -1 7 £513 -2.38% 1
West Midlands -12 6 £575 +35.29% 1
Midlands -25 6 £575 +35.29% 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 (1.75%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 53 (92.98%) AWS
2 17 (29.82%) Azure
3 13 (22.81%) OpenShift
4 10 (17.54%) GCP
5 7 (12.28%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (12.28%) GitHub
6 6 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (8.77%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (8.77%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (7.02%) Azure AKS
8 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (7.02%) Datadog
8 4 (7.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (7.02%) npm
8 4 (7.02%) Pulumi
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.51%) IaaS
9 2 (3.51%) SaaS
9 2 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (40.35%) BGP
2 21 (36.84%) MPLS
3 16 (28.07%) DNS
3 16 (28.07%) Firewall
4 15 (26.32%) OSPF
5 12 (21.05%) LAN
5 12 (21.05%) WAN
6 11 (19.30%) 3GPP
6 11 (19.30%) Radio Access Network
7 9 (15.79%) 4G
7 9 (15.79%) 5G
7 9 (15.79%) DHCP
7 9 (15.79%) IPsec
7 9 (15.79%) VLAN
7 9 (15.79%) Wireshark
8 6 (10.53%) SNMP
8 6 (10.53%) TACACS
8 6 (10.53%) Wireless
9 4 (7.02%) iSCSI
9 4 (7.02%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (3.51%) SAP HANA
2 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.75%) Redis
2 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (22.81%) GitLab
2 9 (15.79%) Jenkins
3 6 (10.53%) Artifactory
3 6 (10.53%) Git
4 5 (8.77%) JIRA
4 5 (8.77%) TeamCity
5 4 (7.02%) Bitbucket
5 4 (7.02%) CircleCI
5 4 (7.02%) Cypress.io
5 4 (7.02%) Gradle
5 4 (7.02%) JUnit
5 4 (7.02%) Maven
5 4 (7.02%) Postman
5 4 (7.02%) Selenium
5 4 (7.02%) Snyk
5 4 (7.02%) SonarQube
5 4 (7.02%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (7.02%) webpack
6 1 (1.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 27 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 15 (26.32%) Telecoms
3 9 (15.79%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.75%) Banking
6 1 (1.75%) German Language
6 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (35.09%) Architect
2 11 (19.30%) Designer
3 10 (17.54%) Senior
4 8 (14.04%) Domain Architect
4 8 (14.04%) Senior Architect
5 7 (12.28%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (12.28%) Telecoms Architect
6 6 (10.53%) IP Architect
6 6 (10.53%) IP Designer
6 6 (10.53%) IP Specialist
6 6 (10.53%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (8.77%) Administrator
7 5 (8.77%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (8.77%) Network Designer
7 5 (8.77%) Support Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Linux Administrator
8 4 (7.02%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (5.26%) Systems Administrator
9 3 (5.26%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 2 (3.51%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.30%) REST
2 6 (10.53%) NETCONF
2 6 (10.53%) YANG
3 5 (8.77%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (7.02%) JSON
4 4 (7.02%) YAML
5 2 (3.51%) eBPF
5 2 (3.51%) Node.js
6 1 (1.75%) Kafka
6 1 (1.75%) Mustache
6 1 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.75%) React
6 1 (1.75%) RESTful
6 1 (1.75%) Spring
6 1 (1.75%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.05%) Cloud Native
1 12 (21.05%) Data Centre
1 12 (21.05%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (15.79%) Operational Technology
3 6 (10.53%) Private Cloud
4 4 (7.02%) Enterprise Storage
4 4 (7.02%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.51%) Grid Computing
5 2 (3.51%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.51%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 33 (57.89%) Linux
2 4 (7.02%) CentOS
2 4 (7.02%) Ubuntu
3 3 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.75%) SUSE
4 1 (1.75%) Unix
4 1 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (43.86%) DevOps
2 20 (35.09%) CI/CD
3 16 (28.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (24.56%) Containerisation
4 14 (24.56%) Enterprise Architecture
4 14 (24.56%) Microservices
4 14 (24.56%) Network Virtualisation
5 13 (22.81%) Agile
6 11 (19.30%) Incident Response
7 10 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (14.04%) Computer Science
8 8 (14.04%) Edge Computing
8 8 (14.04%) Infrastructure Automation
8 8 (14.04%) Network Design
8 8 (14.04%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 8 (14.04%) Strategic Thinking
9 7 (12.28%) SDLC
10 6 (10.53%) API Design
10 6 (10.53%) Network Architecture
10 6 (10.53%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 36 (63.16%) Python
2 15 (26.32%) Bash
3 5 (8.77%) Shell Script
4 3 (5.26%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.51%) C
5 2 (3.51%) Java
5 2 (3.51%) SQL
6 1 (1.75%) C++
6 1 (1.75%) Go
6 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.75%) Perl
6 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.75%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (24.56%) CCIE
1 14 (24.56%) Cisco Certification
1 14 (24.56%) JNCIE
2 9 (15.79%) Degree
3 8 (14.04%) Security Cleared
4 6 (10.53%) AWS Certification
5 5 (8.77%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.51%) CISSP
6 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.77%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (40.35%) Docker
2 10 (17.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (15.79%) vSphere
4 6 (10.53%) VMware NSX
5 5 (8.77%) Active Directory
5 5 (8.77%) Hyper-V
6 2 (3.51%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (3.51%) GPFS
6 2 (3.51%) Lustre
6 2 (3.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 33 (57.89%) Ansible
2 28 (49.12%) Kubernetes
3 22 (38.60%) Terraform
4 7 (12.28%) Progress Chef
5 6 (10.53%) Puppet
6 5 (8.77%) Grafana
6 5 (8.77%) Prometheus
7 4 (7.02%) Podman
8 3 (5.26%) Consul
9 2 (3.51%) Argo
9 2 (3.51%) logstash
9 2 (3.51%) Salt
Vendors
1 16 (28.07%) VMware
2 10 (17.54%) F5
3 9 (15.79%) Dell
4 8 (14.04%) Cisco
4 8 (14.04%) Splunk
5 6 (10.53%) Fortinet
5 6 (10.53%) Juniper
6 5 (8.77%) Microsoft
6 5 (8.77%) ServiceNow
7 4 (7.02%) Palo Alto
8 3 (5.26%) Dynatrace
8 3 (5.26%) SAP
9 2 (3.51%) Arista
9 2 (3.51%) Google
9 2 (3.51%) Red Hat
9 2 (3.51%) Wind River
10 1 (1.75%) AppDynamics
10 1 (1.75%) Oracle