OpenFlow Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

OpenFlow
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring OpenFlow skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenFlow 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.030% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £454 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 - -
75th Percentile £461 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £458 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

OpenFlow falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 421 255 384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.81% 15.32% 16.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 142 180
10th Percentile £325 £300 £261
25th Percentile £400 £393 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% -4.50% +4.05%
75th Percentile £590 £538 £608
90th Percentile £639 £600 £638
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 13 20
10th Percentile £17.50 - £52.88
25th Percentile £19.34 £14.20 £65.00
Median hourly rate £33.86 £21.90 £75.24
Median % change year-on-year +54.61% -70.89% +8.39%
75th Percentile £53.94 £89.63 £87.46
90th Percentile £71.34 - -
South East median hourly rate £49.36 £54.94 £57.35
% change year-on-year -10.15% -4.21% -0.26%

OpenFlow
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenFlow relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

OpenFlow job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

OpenFlow
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenFlow within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 August 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
Berkshire - 1 £458 -
OpenFlow
South East

OpenFlow
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce