OpenMP Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

OpenMP
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OpenMP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 - 412
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenMP 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.006% - 0.024%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.030% - 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £775
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £800
75th Percentile - - £900
90th Percentile - - £945
UK median daily rate - - £800

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

OpenMP falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,295 2,903 3,670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.75% 17.37% 17.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,184 1,755 2,546
10th Percentile £325 £338 £325
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £685 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 91 147
10th Percentile £31.25 £22.00 £44.31
25th Percentile £43.75 £44.34 £46.18
Median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +19.13% -16.06%
75th Percentile £66.75 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £77.70
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -14.73%

OpenMP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenMP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

OpenMP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

OpenMP
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OpenMP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OpenMP

OpenMP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenMP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 November 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
South West - 1 - -
OpenMP
UK

OpenMP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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%) Cloud Computing
General
1 1 (100.00%) Military
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Python Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Scientific Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Fortran
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Postgraduate
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Software Quality Assurance