OpenText Contract Job Trends in the North of England

OpenText
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring knowledge or experience of OpenText products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenText over the 6 months leading up to 20 June 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 the Open Text Corporation.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 168 180
Rank change year-on-year -73 +12 -
Contract jobs citing OpenText 4 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.058% 0.029% 0.061%
As % of the Vendors category 0.15% 0.058% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - -
75th Percentile £638 - £588
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £505 £483 £533
% change year-on-year +4.66% -9.39% -13.06%

All Vendors
North of England

OpenText 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,721 1,729 2,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 39.58% 49.87% 41.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,671 1,121 1,184
10th Percentile £313 £268 £252
25th Percentile £406 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £584 £563 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £652
England median daily rate £505 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -1.46% -1.44% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 86 226
10th Percentile £17.13 £13.00 £10.95
25th Percentile £24.08 £18.60 £12.64
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.27 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.12% +82.94% -44.25%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.00 £26.47
90th Percentile £74.26 £81.25 £46.03
England median hourly rate £34.94 £27.13 £24.00
% change year-on-year +28.81% +13.02% -39.36%

OpenText
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

OpenText job vacancy trend in the North of England

OpenText
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing OpenText.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing OpenText

OpenText
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing OpenText.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing OpenText

OpenText
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenText within the North of England region over the 6 months to 20 June 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
Yorkshire - 2 - - 2
North West - 2 £625 -
OpenText
England

OpenText
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 1 (25.00%) SAP FI-AP
1 1 (25.00%) SAP HCM
1 1 (25.00%) SAP Retail
1 1 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Boomi
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SAP HANA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Consultant
2 3 (75.00%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) SAP Financial Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) SAP Functional Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
1 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Accounts Payable
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Invoice Processing
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) System Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) vRealize
1 1 (25.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) DocuSign
2 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) VMware