Hybrid/Remote OpenStack Contract Job Trends

OpenStack
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring OpenStack skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 307 391
Rank change year-on-year +13 +84 +152
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 23 23 33
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.24% 0.18% 0.16%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.06% 1.43% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 21
10th Percentile - £262 £308
25th Percentile £447 £337 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -1.23%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £630 £599 £713
UK median daily rate £575 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +17.35% -2.00% -16.67%

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 1,115 1,613 2,088
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.56% 12.86% 10.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 753 1,129 1,444
10th Percentile £300 £315 £313
25th Percentile £400 £419 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% -2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £713 £650
90th Percentile £825 £850 £745
UK median daily rate £485 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.62% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 11 63
10th Percentile £20.42 £16.00 £20.10
25th Percentile £20.50 £17.08 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.50 £37.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% -34.78% +9.52%
75th Percentile £60.63 £72.26 £66.00
90th Percentile £65.25 £78.75 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £38.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year -7.89% -21.65% +122.99%

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 Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing OpenStack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing OpenStack

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 22 September 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:

Cloud Services
1 18 (78.26%) AWS
2 8 (34.78%) OpenShift
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (8.70%) GitHub
3 2 (8.70%) IaaS
3 2 (8.70%) PaaS
3 2 (8.70%) SaaS
3 2 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (56.52%) BGP
2 11 (47.83%) MPLS
2 11 (47.83%) OSPF
3 7 (30.43%) 3GPP
3 7 (30.43%) DNS
3 7 (30.43%) Firewall
3 7 (30.43%) Radio Access Network
4 6 (26.09%) LAN
4 6 (26.09%) SNMP
4 6 (26.09%) TACACS
4 6 (26.09%) WAN
4 6 (26.09%) Wireless
5 5 (21.74%) 4G
5 5 (21.74%) 5G
5 5 (21.74%) DHCP
5 5 (21.74%) IPsec
5 5 (21.74%) VLAN
5 5 (21.74%) Wireshark
6 2 (8.70%) Anycast
6 2 (8.70%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (8.70%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) GitLab
2 2 (8.70%) Artifactory
2 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (65.22%) Social Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Documentation Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Telecoms
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Designer
2 6 (26.09%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) IP Designer
3 5 (21.74%) Architect
3 5 (21.74%) Senior
3 5 (21.74%) Support Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Network Designer
5 2 (8.70%) Development Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Network Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Network Design Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Development Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Network Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Telecoms Architect
6 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Data Centre
2 6 (26.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (21.74%) Cloud Native
3 5 (21.74%) Operational Technology
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (47.83%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) CI/CD
1 8 (34.78%) Network Virtualisation
2 7 (30.43%) DevOps
3 6 (26.09%) Incident Response
3 6 (26.09%) Open Source
3 6 (26.09%) Validation
4 4 (17.39%) Computer Science
4 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (8.70%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (8.70%) Network Design
5 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (8.70%) Service Management
5 2 (8.70%) SIEM
5 2 (8.70%) Strategic Thinking
6 1 (4.35%) Analytical Thinking
6 1 (4.35%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (4.35%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) Python
2 5 (21.74%) Bash
3 2 (8.70%) C
3 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) CCIE
1 8 (34.78%) Cisco Certification
1 8 (34.78%) JNCIE
2 6 (26.09%) AWS Certification
3 4 (17.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (17.39%) Degree
4 2 (8.70%) CISSP
5 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Docker
2 6 (26.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (26.09%) VMware NSX
3 5 (21.74%) vSphere
4 2 (8.70%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 17 (73.91%) Ansible
2 12 (52.17%) Terraform
3 9 (39.13%) Kubernetes
4 2 (8.70%) Argo
4 2 (8.70%) Consul
4 2 (8.70%) logstash
4 2 (8.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Cisco
2 6 (26.09%) F5
2 6 (26.09%) Fortinet
2 6 (26.09%) Juniper
2 6 (26.09%) VMware
3 5 (21.74%) Dell
4 4 (17.39%) SAP
5 2 (8.70%) Arista
5 2 (8.70%) Dynatrace
5 2 (8.70%) Google
5 2 (8.70%) Red Hat
5 2 (8.70%) Splunk
5 2 (8.70%) Wind River