OpenROAD Contract Job Trends in England

OpenROAD
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring OpenROAD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 614 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenROAD 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.009% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.099% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £484 - -
25th Percentile £504 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 - -
75th Percentile £563 - -
90th Percentile £585 - -
UK median daily rate £533 £431 -
% change year-on-year +23.48% - -

All Application Platform Skills
England

OpenROAD falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,031 3,040 3,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.01% 11.20% 10.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,677 2,011 2,728
10th Percentile £309 £290 £267
25th Percentile £405 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.49%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £738 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 77 135
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.33 £13.51
25th Percentile £19.02 £26.45 £19.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.12 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% +44.98% -31.58%
75th Percentile £61.17 £70.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.25 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £47.12 £32.50
% change year-on-year -25.72% +44.98% -38.10%

OpenROAD
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

OpenROAD job vacancy trend in England

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Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing OpenROAD

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenROAD in England over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OpenROAD in England

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing OpenROAD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing OpenROAD

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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 OpenROAD within the England region over the 6 months to 15 July 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 £575 -
Midlands - 2 £498 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £498 - 1
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UK

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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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Ingres
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Solution Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (50.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) AI
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (50.00%) Defect Management
3 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
3 2 (50.00%) Quality Management
3 2 (50.00%) Rapid Prototyping
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) VB
2 2 (50.00%) VB6
3 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Actian