Micro Focus Contract Job Trends in England

Micro Focus
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of Micro Focus products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Micro Focus over the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Micro Focus.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 511 562
Rank change year-on-year +5 +51 +201
Contract jobs citing Micro Focus 8 17 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.029% 0.052% 0.073%
As % of the Vendors category 0.062% 0.12% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 23
10th Percentile £475 £256 £426
25th Percentile £494 £361 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £439 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.36% -12.25% -6.15%
75th Percentile £619 £465 £615
90th Percentile £645 £471 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £458 £500
% change year-on-year +3.83% -8.50% -6.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 -

All Vendors
England

Micro Focus falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 12,963 14,377 18,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.08% 44.22% 43.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,222 8,762 12,414
10th Percentile £275 £300 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £615 £630 £650
90th Percentile £702 £732 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 613 597 587
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.26 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £15.62 £18.97
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -17.65% +77.75%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £70.00 £75.35
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.21 £43.79
% change year-on-year -16.74% -31.03% +83.16%

Micro Focus
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Micro Focus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Micro Focus in England

Micro Focus
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Micro Focus.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Micro Focus

Micro Focus
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Micro Focus in England over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Micro Focus in England

Micro Focus
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Micro Focus.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Micro Focus

Micro Focus
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Micro Focus within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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
Midlands - 6 £625 -
West Midlands - 6 £625 -
South East +14 1 - -
Micro Focus
UK

Micro Focus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (25.00%) Veeva
2 1 (12.50%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) LAN
1 5 (62.50%) WAN
2 4 (50.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) LoadRunner
General
1 5 (62.50%) Telecoms
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Network Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Test Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Test Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Manager
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (12.50%) Life Science
3 1 (12.50%) Pharmacovigilance
3 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (62.50%) End-to-End Testing
2 5 (62.50%) Remote Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Defect Management
4 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) Test Management
4 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
5 1 (12.50%) Change Control
5 1 (12.50%) Exploratory Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Kanban
5 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
5 1 (12.50%) PDM
5 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Scrum
5 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team Management
5 1 (12.50%) V-Model
5 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) GxP
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) HP
2 5 (62.50%) Cisco
2 5 (62.50%) Progress
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) SAP