OpenText Contract Job Trends in the South East

OpenText
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 29 October 2025, 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
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 174 205
Rank change year-on-year +1 +31 +55
Contract jobs citing OpenText 3 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.080% 0.095% 0.074%
As % of the Vendors category 0.15% 0.19% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £427 - £608
25th Percentile £445 - £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.05%
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile £520 - -
England median daily rate £496 £600 £594
% change year-on-year -17.32% +1.05% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
England median hourly rate - £15.00 -

All Vendors
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,969 2,085 2,869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 52.72% 49.50% 52.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,334 1,291 1,838
10th Percentile £205 £254 £205
25th Percentile £375 £401 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +0.49% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £627 £613
90th Percentile £650 £694 £680
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 73 130
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £15.48
25th Percentile £15.50 £26.25 £19.15
Median hourly rate £20.00 £57.25 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -65.07% +26.63% +97.94%
75th Percentile £33.05 £67.50 £64.69
90th Percentile £72.55 £70.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.08 £35.36 £43.90
% change year-on-year -29.09% -19.45% +75.60%

OpenText
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

OpenText job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing OpenText.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing OpenText

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing OpenText.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing OpenText

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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 OpenText within the South East region over the 6 months to 29 October 2025. 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
Thames Valley +6 1 £500 - 2
Berkshire +4 1 £500 - 2
Hampshire - 1 £500 -
OpenText
England

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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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SSL
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (66.67%) Workshop Facilitation
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Quality Management
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) NDS
1 1 (33.33%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Micro Focus
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) NetIQ
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle