OpenStack Contracts

OpenStack
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring OpenStack skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenStack over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 509 620
Rank change year-on-year 0 +111 +83
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 41 65 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.15% 0.10%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.16% 1.46% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 44 43
10th Percentile £433 £276 £308
25th Percentile £447 £441 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £509 £600
Median % change year-on-year +17.99% -15.25% -2.04%
75th Percentile £656 £538 £713
90th Percentile £675 £600 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £442 £498 £315
% change year-on-year -11.11% +57.94% -37.00%

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 3,531 4,454 5,978
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.10% 10.28% 10.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,290 3,097 4,125
10th Percentile £289 £263 £263
25th Percentile £400 £371 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £644
90th Percentile £718 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 157 163
10th Percentile £17.45 £13.51 £16.32
25th Percentile £26.35 £16.50 £21.13
Median hourly rate £51.25 £32.12 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.58% -38.83% +128.26%
75th Percentile £66.00 £51.91 £66.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £74.18 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £33.56 £46.75
% change year-on-year +56.45% -28.22% +133.75%

OpenStack
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OpenStack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OpenStack in the UK

OpenStack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenStack.

Daily rate trend for OpenStack in the UK

OpenStack
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenStack over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenStack in the UK

OpenStack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OpenStack.

Hourly rate trend for OpenStack in the UK

OpenStack
Top 10 Contract 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 5 July 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 +30 33 £600 +17.65% 80
Work from Home +23 21 £600 +26.32% 46
UK excluding London +39 15 £442 -11.11% 33
London +19 15 £638 +25.00% 53
South East +32 5 - - 9
East of England +29 5 - - 1
North of England +5 4 £442 - 6
North West - 4 £442 - 6
Midlands +8 1 - - 3
West Midlands +6 1 - - 2

OpenStack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 26 (63.41%) AWS
2 6 (14.63%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (9.76%) OpenShift
4 3 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (7.32%) GitHub
4 3 (7.32%) IaaS
4 3 (7.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (4.88%) PaaS
5 2 (4.88%) SaaS
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (29.27%) DNS
2 7 (17.07%) 3GPP
2 7 (17.07%) BGP
2 7 (17.07%) Firewall
2 7 (17.07%) Radio Access Network
3 6 (14.63%) 4G
3 6 (14.63%) 5G
4 5 (12.20%) DHCP
4 5 (12.20%) IPsec
4 5 (12.20%) MPLS
4 5 (12.20%) OSPF
4 5 (12.20%) VLAN
4 5 (12.20%) Wireshark
5 4 (9.76%) iSCSI
5 4 (9.76%) SAN
6 2 (4.88%) Anycast
6 2 (4.88%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (4.88%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (4.88%) VXLAN
7 1 (2.44%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (7.32%) SAP HANA
2 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (26.83%) GitLab
2 5 (12.20%) Jenkins
2 5 (12.20%) JIRA
2 5 (12.20%) TeamCity
3 3 (7.32%) Artifactory
4 2 (4.88%) Git
General
1 20 (48.78%) Social Skills
2 15 (36.59%) Telecoms
3 3 (7.32%) Finance
4 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.88%) German Language
5 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (29.27%) Architect
2 11 (26.83%) Senior
3 9 (21.95%) Telecoms Architect
4 7 (17.07%) Domain Architect
5 6 (14.63%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (14.63%) Senior Architect
6 5 (12.20%) Administrator
6 5 (12.20%) Designer
6 5 (12.20%) Network Designer
6 5 (12.20%) Support Engineer
7 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (9.76%) Lead
7 4 (9.76%) Linux Administrator
8 3 (7.32%) Lead Architect
8 3 (7.32%) Systems Administrator
9 2 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (4.88%) Network Design Architect
9 2 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
9 2 (4.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 2 (4.88%) Senior Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.88%) eBPF
2 1 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.44%) Kafka
2 1 (2.44%) Mustache
2 1 (2.44%) Node.js
2 1 (2.44%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (2.44%) React
2 1 (2.44%) REST
2 1 (2.44%) Spring
2 1 (2.44%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.95%) Cloud Native
2 8 (19.51%) Data Centre
3 5 (12.20%) Operational Technology
4 4 (9.76%) Enterprise Storage
4 4 (9.76%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (7.32%) Private Cloud
6 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
7 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.44%) NVMe
7 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 31 (75.61%) Linux
2 5 (12.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (9.76%) CentOS
3 4 (9.76%) Ubuntu
4 2 (4.88%) SUSE
5 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (36.59%) CI/CD
2 11 (26.83%) DevOps
2 11 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (24.39%) Computer Science
3 10 (24.39%) Open Source
4 9 (21.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (19.51%) Agile
6 7 (17.07%) Architectural Design
6 7 (17.07%) Edge Computing
6 7 (17.07%) Enterprise Architecture
6 7 (17.07%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 6 (14.63%) Containerisation
7 6 (14.63%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (12.20%) ITSM
8 5 (12.20%) Microservices
9 4 (9.76%) API Design
9 4 (9.76%) Event-Driven
9 4 (9.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 3 (7.32%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (46.34%) Python
2 7 (17.07%) Bash
3 5 (12.20%) Shell Script
4 3 (7.32%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.88%) C
6 1 (2.44%) Java
6 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (24.39%) Degree
2 5 (12.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.88%) CCIE
3 2 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.88%) CISSP
3 2 (4.88%) JNCIE
3 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) ISEB
4 1 (2.44%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (24.39%) Docker
2 6 (14.63%) vSphere
3 5 (12.20%) Active Directory
3 5 (12.20%) Hyper-V
4 3 (7.32%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (4.88%) Ceph
6 1 (2.44%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (2.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (51.22%) Ansible
2 18 (43.90%) Kubernetes
3 12 (29.27%) Terraform
4 4 (9.76%) Progress Chef
5 3 (7.32%) Argo
5 3 (7.32%) Consul
5 3 (7.32%) logstash
6 1 (2.44%) Cobbler
6 1 (2.44%) Istio
6 1 (2.44%) Nagios
6 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.44%) Puppet
6 1 (2.44%) Salt
6 1 (2.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (17.07%) SAP
1 7 (17.07%) VMware
2 6 (14.63%) Dell
2 6 (14.63%) Microsoft
3 5 (12.20%) Red Hat
3 5 (12.20%) ServiceNow
4 3 (7.32%) Arista
4 3 (7.32%) Cisco
4 3 (7.32%) Dynatrace
4 3 (7.32%) Google
4 3 (7.32%) Splunk
4 3 (7.32%) Wind River
5 1 (2.44%) Ericsson
5 1 (2.44%) Juniper
5 1 (2.44%) Mavenir
5 1 (2.44%) Nokia