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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 540 513 502
Rank change year-on-year -27 -11 +218
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 51 37 101
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.11% 0.23%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.35% 0.99% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 28 66
10th Percentile £406 £370 £262
25th Percentile £466 £491 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% +27.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £550
90th Percentile £671 £775 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £550 £400
% change year-on-year +4.55% +37.50% -15.34%

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 3,785 3,732 4,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.18% 11.09% 10.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,601 2,302 2,944
10th Percentile £290 £255 £255
25th Percentile £400 £385 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £591 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +5.56% -4.26% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 77 132
10th Percentile £15.54 £17.05 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +45.83% +30.08%
75th Percentile £64.50 £63.75 £64.06
90th Percentile £81.00 £66.41 £71.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £42.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -35.98% +93.18% +25.71%

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 27 December 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 27 December 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 -26 47 £575 -5.15% 12
UK excluding London -30 33 £575 +4.55% 7
Work from Home +4 18 £450 -26.83% 3
South East -9 12 - - 3
West Midlands -17 10 £575 +219.44% 1
London -23 10 £600 -2.44% 6
Midlands -31 10 £575 +219.44% 1
North of England - 6 £679 - 3
North West - 5 £679 - 1
East of England - 5 £413 -
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2

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 (1.96%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (11.76%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 36 (70.59%) AWS
2 23 (45.10%) Azure
3 20 (39.22%) OpenShift
4 15 (29.41%) GCP
5 12 (23.53%) GitHub
5 12 (23.53%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (9.80%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (9.80%) Azure AKS
7 5 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (9.80%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (9.80%) Datadog
7 5 (9.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 5 (9.80%) npm
7 5 (9.80%) Pulumi
8 2 (3.92%) IaaS
8 2 (3.92%) PaaS
8 2 (3.92%) SaaS
9 1 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.96%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 18 (35.29%) BGP
2 16 (31.37%) MPLS
3 12 (23.53%) LAN
3 12 (23.53%) WAN
4 11 (21.57%) Firewall
5 10 (19.61%) OSPF
6 8 (15.69%) TCP/IP
7 6 (11.76%) 3GPP
7 6 (11.76%) DNS
7 6 (11.76%) Radio Access Network
7 6 (11.76%) SNMP
7 6 (11.76%) TACACS
7 6 (11.76%) VLAN
7 6 (11.76%) Wireless
8 4 (7.84%) 4G
8 4 (7.84%) 5G
8 4 (7.84%) DHCP
8 4 (7.84%) IPsec
8 4 (7.84%) Wireshark
9 3 (5.88%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (1.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (27.45%) GitLab
2 13 (25.49%) Jenkins
3 9 (17.65%) Git
4 7 (13.73%) CircleCI
5 5 (9.80%) Artifactory
5 5 (9.80%) Bitbucket
5 5 (9.80%) Cypress.io
5 5 (9.80%) Gradle
5 5 (9.80%) JUnit
5 5 (9.80%) Maven
5 5 (9.80%) Postman
5 5 (9.80%) Selenium
5 5 (9.80%) Snyk
5 5 (9.80%) SonarQube
5 5 (9.80%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (9.80%) webpack
6 3 (5.88%) JIRA
7 1 (1.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 18 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 10 (19.61%) Documentation Skills
3 9 (17.65%) Telecoms
4 6 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Banking
5 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.96%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (43.14%) Architect
2 7 (13.73%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (11.76%) Designer
3 6 (11.76%) IP Architect
3 6 (11.76%) IP Designer
3 6 (11.76%) IP Specialist
3 6 (11.76%) Senior
3 6 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (9.80%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Senior Architect
5 3 (5.88%) Automation Architect
5 3 (5.88%) Consultant
5 3 (5.88%) Domain Architect
5 3 (5.88%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Engineering Specialist
6 2 (3.92%) Network Architect
6 2 (3.92%) Network Design Architect
6 2 (3.92%) Principal Architect
6 2 (3.92%) Senior Network Architect
6 2 (3.92%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (21.57%) REST
2 9 (17.65%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (11.76%) NETCONF
3 6 (11.76%) YANG
4 5 (9.80%) JSON
4 5 (9.80%) YAML
5 4 (7.84%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (5.88%) Kafka
7 2 (3.92%) eBPF
8 1 (1.96%) Loki
8 1 (1.96%) Node.js
8 1 (1.96%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (1.96%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (33.33%) Private Cloud
2 13 (25.49%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (21.57%) Cloud Native
3 11 (21.57%) Data Centre
4 6 (11.76%) Grid Computing
4 6 (11.76%) Public Cloud
5 4 (7.84%) Operational Technology
6 3 (5.88%) Onboarding
6 3 (5.88%) Product Ownership
7 2 (3.92%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.96%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 25 (49.02%) Linux
2 4 (7.84%) VMS
2 4 (7.84%) Windows
3 2 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.96%) CentOS
4 1 (1.96%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (62.75%) DevOps
2 20 (39.22%) CI/CD
3 17 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (31.37%) Containerisation
5 14 (27.45%) Agile
5 14 (27.45%) Network Virtualisation
6 13 (25.49%) Infrastructure Automation
7 12 (23.53%) Configuration Management
7 12 (23.53%) Incident Response
7 12 (23.53%) Microservices
8 9 (17.65%) Enterprise Architecture
8 9 (17.65%) Software Delivery
9 8 (15.69%) Network Design
9 8 (15.69%) Strategic Thinking
10 7 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (13.73%) SDLC
10 7 (13.73%) Software Engineering
11 6 (11.76%) Test Automation
11 6 (11.76%) TOGAF
11 6 (11.76%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 35 (68.63%) Python
2 18 (35.29%) Bash
3 5 (9.80%) Go
4 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.92%) C
6 2 (3.92%) SQL
7 1 (1.96%) C++
7 1 (1.96%) Java
7 1 (1.96%) Perl
7 1 (1.96%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.96%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (27.45%) CCIE
1 14 (27.45%) Cisco Certification
1 14 (27.45%) JNCIE
2 8 (15.69%) Security Cleared
3 6 (11.76%) AWS Certification
3 6 (11.76%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.88%) Degree
5 2 (3.92%) CISSP
6 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.96%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.80%) QA
System Software
1 23 (45.10%) Docker
2 12 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (15.69%) VMware NSX
4 6 (11.76%) GPFS
4 6 (11.76%) Lustre
4 6 (11.76%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 6 (11.76%) vSphere
5 4 (7.84%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (3.92%) Ceph
6 2 (3.92%) KVM
7 1 (1.96%) Active Directory
7 1 (1.96%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 33 (64.71%) Kubernetes
2 31 (60.78%) Ansible
3 28 (54.90%) Terraform
4 10 (19.61%) Grafana
5 7 (13.73%) Prometheus
5 7 (13.73%) Puppet
6 5 (9.80%) Podman
6 5 (9.80%) Progress Chef
7 4 (7.84%) Argo
8 2 (3.92%) Istio
8 2 (3.92%) Rancher
8 2 (3.92%) Salt
9 1 (1.96%) Consul
9 1 (1.96%) Kibana
9 1 (1.96%) logstash
Vendors
1 13 (25.49%) VMware
2 10 (19.61%) Cisco
2 10 (19.61%) F5
3 7 (13.73%) Splunk
4 6 (11.76%) Fortinet
4 6 (11.76%) Juniper
5 5 (9.80%) Red Hat
6 4 (7.84%) Arista
6 4 (7.84%) Dell
6 4 (7.84%) Palo Alto
6 4 (7.84%) Wind River
7 1 (1.96%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.96%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.96%) Oracle