OpenStack Contract Job Trends

OpenStack
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring OpenStack skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 507 588
Rank change year-on-year -1 +81 +118
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 60 52 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.69% 1.25% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 35 44
10th Percentile £426 £262 £309
25th Percentile £447 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £551 £605
90th Percentile £675 £606 £705
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 3,557 4,145 5,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.80% 10.76% 10.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,307 2,728 3,455
10th Percentile £275 £263 £256
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £525 £501
Median % change year-on-year -8.10% +4.90% -4.67%
75th Percentile £595 £649 £643
90th Percentile £701 £825 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 86 159
10th Percentile £17.40 £17.08 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.25 £23.80 £21.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £38.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% -27.62% +138.64%
75th Percentile £65.06 £70.00 £66.13
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.03 £48.56 £47.04
% change year-on-year -21.68% +3.24% +143.03%

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
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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +21 51 £575 +21.05% 22
UK excluding London +2 32 £575 +9.52% 19
Work from Home +31 25 £525 +10.53% 6
South East +27 17 - - 3
London +13 17 £625 +44.93% 4
East of England +8 5 - -
West Midlands -8 5 £575 +35.29% 2
North of England -13 5 £447 - 3
Midlands -14 5 £575 +35.29% 8
North West - 5 £447 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.67%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 49 (81.67%) AWS
2 13 (21.67%) OpenShift
3 10 (16.67%) Azure
4 7 (11.67%) GitHub
5 5 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (5.00%) Azure AKS
7 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.00%) Datadog
7 3 (5.00%) GCP
7 3 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (5.00%) IaaS
7 3 (5.00%) npm
7 3 (5.00%) Pulumi
7 3 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (3.33%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (38.33%) BGP
2 21 (35.00%) MPLS
3 16 (26.67%) DNS
4 15 (25.00%) OSPF
5 12 (20.00%) Firewall
5 12 (20.00%) LAN
5 12 (20.00%) WAN
6 11 (18.33%) 3GPP
6 11 (18.33%) Radio Access Network
7 9 (15.00%) 4G
7 9 (15.00%) 5G
7 9 (15.00%) DHCP
7 9 (15.00%) IPsec
7 9 (15.00%) VLAN
7 9 (15.00%) Wireshark
8 6 (10.00%) SNMP
8 6 (10.00%) TACACS
8 6 (10.00%) Wireless
9 4 (6.67%) iSCSI
9 4 (6.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (5.00%) SAP HANA
2 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.67%) Redis
2 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (25.00%) GitLab
2 9 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (10.00%) Artifactory
4 5 (8.33%) Git
4 5 (8.33%) JIRA
4 5 (8.33%) TeamCity
5 3 (5.00%) Bitbucket
5 3 (5.00%) CircleCI
5 3 (5.00%) Cypress.io
5 3 (5.00%) Gradle
5 3 (5.00%) JUnit
5 3 (5.00%) Maven
5 3 (5.00%) Postman
5 3 (5.00%) Selenium
5 3 (5.00%) Snyk
5 3 (5.00%) SonarQube
5 3 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (5.00%) webpack
6 1 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 32 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 17 (28.33%) Telecoms
3 10 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Finance
5 2 (3.33%) German Language
6 1 (1.67%) Banking
6 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.67%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (40.00%) Architect
2 13 (21.67%) Senior
3 11 (18.33%) Designer
4 10 (16.67%) Domain Architect
5 9 (15.00%) Senior Architect
5 9 (15.00%) Telecoms Architect
6 6 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) IP Architect
6 6 (10.00%) IP Designer
6 6 (10.00%) IP Specialist
7 5 (8.33%) Administrator
7 5 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) Network Designer
7 5 (8.33%) Support Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Linux Administrator
8 4 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (5.00%) Lead Architect
9 3 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.67%) REST
2 6 (10.00%) NETCONF
2 6 (10.00%) YANG
3 4 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (5.00%) JSON
4 3 (5.00%) YAML
5 2 (3.33%) eBPF
5 2 (3.33%) Node.js
6 1 (1.67%) Kafka
6 1 (1.67%) Mustache
6 1 (1.67%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.67%) React
6 1 (1.67%) RESTful
6 1 (1.67%) Spring
6 1 (1.67%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (26.67%) Cloud Native
2 12 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 12 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (15.00%) Operational Technology
4 5 (8.33%) Private Cloud
5 4 (6.67%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 34 (56.67%) Linux
2 5 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (6.67%) CentOS
3 4 (6.67%) Ubuntu
4 2 (3.33%) SUSE
5 1 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (33.33%) DevOps
2 19 (31.67%) CI/CD
3 16 (26.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 15 (25.00%) Microservices
4 15 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (23.33%) Network Virtualisation
6 13 (21.67%) Agile
6 13 (21.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (18.33%) Computer Science
8 10 (16.67%) Edge Computing
8 10 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 9 (15.00%) Containerisation
10 8 (13.33%) Network Design
10 8 (13.33%) Open Source
10 8 (13.33%) Strategic Thinking
11 7 (11.67%) API Design
11 7 (11.67%) Architectural Design
11 7 (11.67%) Event-Driven
11 7 (11.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 6 (10.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 33 (55.00%) Python
2 10 (16.67%) Bash
3 5 (8.33%) Shell Script
4 4 (6.67%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.33%) C
6 1 (1.67%) Go
6 1 (1.67%) Java
6 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.67%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (23.33%) CCIE
1 14 (23.33%) Cisco Certification
1 14 (23.33%) JNCIE
2 11 (18.33%) Degree
3 6 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 6 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 5 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (6.67%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.33%) CISSP
6 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (28.33%) Docker
2 7 (11.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (11.67%) VMware NSX
3 6 (10.00%) vSphere
4 5 (8.33%) Active Directory
4 5 (8.33%) Hyper-V
5 3 (5.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (1.67%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 36 (60.00%) Ansible
2 24 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 21 (35.00%) Terraform
4 7 (11.67%) Progress Chef
5 4 (6.67%) Grafana
5 4 (6.67%) Prometheus
5 4 (6.67%) Puppet
6 3 (5.00%) Argo
6 3 (5.00%) Consul
6 3 (5.00%) logstash
6 3 (5.00%) Podman
7 1 (1.67%) Istio
7 1 (1.67%) Salt
Vendors
1 13 (21.67%) VMware
2 9 (15.00%) Dell
3 8 (13.33%) Cisco
3 8 (13.33%) Splunk
4 7 (11.67%) SAP
5 6 (10.00%) F5
5 6 (10.00%) Fortinet
5 6 (10.00%) Juniper
6 5 (8.33%) Microsoft
6 5 (8.33%) ServiceNow
7 4 (6.67%) Dynatrace
8 3 (5.00%) Google
8 3 (5.00%) Red Hat
8 3 (5.00%) Wind River
9 2 (3.33%) Arista
10 1 (1.67%) AppDynamics
10 1 (1.67%) Oracle