OpenSCAP Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

OpenSCAP
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring OpenSCAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenSCAP 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.034% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £558 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 - -
75th Percentile £673 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £615 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 530 297 523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.26% 19.84% 18.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 161 264
10th Percentile £311 £250 £204
25th Percentile £425 £400 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -2.06%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £600
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 14 29
10th Percentile £18.72 £26.84 £18.76
25th Percentile £36.00 £46.30 £24.00
Median hourly rate £81.50 £57.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.75% +109.08% +19.57%
75th Percentile £83.00 £64.77 £65.00
90th Percentile £103.80 £67.50 £68.04
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £46.30 £27.50
% change year-on-year +29.59% +68.36% -12.06%

OpenSCAP
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 OpenSCAP within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 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 -
OpenSCAP
South East

OpenSCAP
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%) 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