OpenStack Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

OpenStack
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 312 449
Rank change year-on-year +31 +137 +109
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 23 33 28
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.22% 0.11%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.04% 2.12% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 22 15
10th Percentile £538 £262 £410
25th Percentile £608 £300 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £431 £500
Median % change year-on-year +50.72% -13.75% -15.97%
75th Percentile £700 £500 £688
90th Percentile £775 £550 £775
UK median daily rate £650 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +30.00% -5.66% -11.67%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

OpenStack falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,129 1,560 2,932
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.40% 10.17% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 1,093 2,063
10th Percentile £313 £300 £313
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -2.50%
75th Percentile £633 £608 £638
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 39 72
10th Percentile £27.03 £16.28 £19.33
25th Percentile £38.39 £22.55 £22.16
Median hourly rate £57.00 £30.16 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.99% -45.16% +57.14%
75th Percentile £64.50 £47.94 £66.69
90th Percentile £66.00 £71.50 £82.40
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

OpenStack
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing OpenStack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OpenStack trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

OpenStack
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing OpenStack.

OpenStack daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

OpenStack
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing OpenStack over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

OpenStack daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

OpenStack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (17.39%) Apache
1 4 (17.39%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) Cloud Computing
1 5 (21.74%) OpenShift
2 2 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (8.70%) AWS
2 2 (8.70%) GitHub
2 2 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) HTTP
2 2 (8.70%) BGP
2 2 (8.70%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (8.70%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (8.70%) Multicast
2 2 (8.70%) NX-OS
2 2 (8.70%) OSPF
2 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
2 2 (8.70%) VXLAN
3 1 (4.35%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (8.70%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.04%) GitLab
3 2 (8.70%) Artifactory
3 2 (8.70%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (4.35%) Git
General
1 6 (26.09%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
4 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Unix Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Senior
2 4 (17.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Consultant
3 3 (13.04%) Lead
3 3 (13.04%) Site Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Development Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Network Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Development Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 9 (39.13%) Private Cloud
2 7 (30.43%) Cloud Native
3 4 (17.39%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (13.04%) Data Centre
5 2 (8.70%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
6 1 (4.35%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 17 (73.91%) Linux
2 5 (21.74%) Unix
3 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) DevOps
2 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
3 8 (34.78%) High Availability
4 7 (30.43%) Open Source
5 6 (26.09%) Capacity Planning
5 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (26.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (17.39%) Canary Deployment
7 4 (17.39%) Computer Science
7 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
7 4 (17.39%) SDLC
8 3 (13.04%) Benchmarking
8 3 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (13.04%) Migration
8 3 (13.04%) Resource Management
8 3 (13.04%) Roadmaps
8 3 (13.04%) Technical Architecture
8 3 (13.04%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) Python
2 4 (17.39%) Groovy
2 4 (17.39%) Shell Script
3 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (17.39%) Degree
2 3 (13.04%) RHCSA
3 2 (8.70%) CCIE
3 2 (8.70%) CCIE Data Center
3 2 (8.70%) CCNP
3 2 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 10 (43.48%) Docker
2 5 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.70%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (8.70%) Ceph
3 2 (8.70%) vSphere
4 1 (4.35%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 15 (65.22%) Ansible
2 13 (56.52%) Terraform
3 10 (43.48%) Kubernetes
4 4 (17.39%) Progress Chef
5 2 (8.70%) Argo
5 2 (8.70%) Consul
5 2 (8.70%) logstash
6 1 (4.35%) Cobbler
6 1 (4.35%) Nagios
6 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
6 1 (4.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Dynatrace
1 6 (26.09%) Red Hat
1 6 (26.09%) Splunk
2 5 (21.74%) VMware
3 4 (17.39%) AppDynamics
3 4 (17.39%) SAP
4 2 (8.70%) Cisco
4 2 (8.70%) Google