OpenFin Contract Job Trends in England

OpenFin
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring OpenFin skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 581 - 531
Rank change year-on-year - - +137
Contract jobs citing OpenFin 2 0 14
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.005% - 0.037%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.026% - 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 12
10th Percentile £788 - £664
25th Percentile £789 - £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £827 - £813
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £864 - £900
90th Percentile £865 - -
UK median daily rate £827 - £813
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

OpenFin falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,840 5,821 7,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.53% 22.65% 20.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,265 3,854 5,485
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £419 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £674
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 84 209
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.22 £21.16
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.40 £81.88 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

OpenFin
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

OpenFin job vacancy trend in England

OpenFin
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing OpenFin.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing OpenFin

OpenFin
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 OpenFin within the England region over the 6 months to 7 March 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 - 2 £827 - 1
OpenFin
UK

OpenFin
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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Electron
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 2 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 2 (100.00%) Release Management
1 2 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Solace