OpenSCAP Contract Job Trends in the South East

OpenSCAP
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring OpenSCAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenSCAP 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.018% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £558 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 - -
75th Percentile £673 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £615 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South East

OpenSCAP falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 980 507 895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.27% 16.88% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 676 300 461
10th Percentile £309 £200 £255
25th Percentile £416 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £623 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £650 £640
England median daily rate £506 £508 £525
% change year-on-year -0.30% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 32 67
10th Percentile £17.30 £21.00 £10.82
25th Percentile £31.50 £24.54 £16.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £46.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.59% +68.36% -12.06%
75th Percentile £82.25 £62.24 £48.75
90th Percentile £85.92 £67.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.58 £33.81 £20.50
% change year-on-year -9.54% +64.90% -50.60%

OpenSCAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenSCAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

OpenSCAP job vacancy trend in the South East

OpenSCAP
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenSCAP within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 April 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
Buckinghamshire - 1 £615 -
Thames Valley - 1 £615 -
OpenSCAP
England

OpenSCAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CMDB
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) RHCA
1 1 (100.00%) RHCE
1 1 (100.00%) RHCSA
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Packer
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow