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 13 September 2026, 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
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 621 509 518
Rank change year-on-year -112 +9 +60
Contract jobs citing Micro Focus 6 8 18
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.013% 0.029% 0.055%
As % of the Vendors category 0.031% 0.061% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £435 £475 £256
25th Percentile £451 £494 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £550 £439
Median % change year-on-year -13.27% +25.36% -9.16%
75th Percentile £651 £619 £465
90th Percentile £755 £645 £471
UK median daily rate £464 £475 £458
% change year-on-year -2.42% +3.83% -5.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £68.75
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 19,237 13,065 14,551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.65% 47.09% 44.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,983 8,285 8,941
10th Percentile £312 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -
75th Percentile £619 £615 £630
90th Percentile £707 £705 £731
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,114 613 610
10th Percentile £14.08 £14.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.79 £15.62
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% -16.97%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.09 £64.81
90th Percentile £82.85 £69.65 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.44 £25.15 £31.00
% change year-on-year +9.11% -18.87% -27.06%

Micro Focus
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Micro Focus relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Micro Focus job vacancy trend 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 13 September 2026.

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 13 September 2026. 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
London - 5 £625 -
Midlands -48 1 £477 -23.68%
West Midlands -51 1 £477 -23.68%
Micro Focus
UK

Micro Focus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Aladdin
1 1 (16.67%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (16.67%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Appium
1 3 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (50.00%) JMeter
1 3 (50.00%) LoadRunner
1 3 (50.00%) Postman
1 3 (50.00%) REST Assured
1 3 (50.00%) Selenium
2 2 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) TestDirector
3 1 (16.67%) Tricentis qTest
3 1 (16.67%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Arabic Language
3 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Test Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Programme Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Programme Test Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Playwright
1 3 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (16.67%) CMDB
2 1 (16.67%) IVR
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 3 (50.00%) AI
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Generative AI
3 3 (50.00%) Observability
3 3 (50.00%) Performance Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (33.33%) Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) Conversational UI
5 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) HP ALM
2 1 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) OpenText
2 2 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (16.67%) BMC
3 1 (16.67%) Charles River
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Genesys
3 1 (16.67%) Remedy
3 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (16.67%) SGI
3 1 (16.67%) SimCorp
3 1 (16.67%) Tanium