OpenROAD Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

OpenROAD
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OpenROAD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 357 -
Rank change year-on-year -109 - -
Contract jobs citing OpenROAD 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.007% 0.027% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.087% 0.25% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £475 - -
25th Percentile £482 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £431 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.48% - -
75th Percentile £509 £473 -
90th Percentile £513 £482 -
UK median daily rate £533 £431 -
% change year-on-year +23.48% - -

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

OpenROAD falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 2,289 1,626 1,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.51% 11.01% 8.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,533 1,051 1,221
10th Percentile £263 £235 £220
25th Percentile £364 £356 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £551 £564 £570
90th Percentile £655 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 60 118
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.45 £13.50
25th Percentile £18.75 £30.62 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £49.81 £33.56
Median % change year-on-year -29.73% +48.43% -26.25%
75th Percentile £61.17 £72.50 £54.69
90th Percentile £74.26 £78.88 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £47.12 £32.50
% change year-on-year -25.72% +44.98% -38.10%

OpenROAD
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

OpenROAD job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

OpenROAD
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

OpenROAD
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OpenROAD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OpenROAD

OpenROAD
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 OpenROAD within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 July 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
Midlands - 2 £498 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £498 - 1
OpenROAD
UK

OpenROAD
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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) Quality Management
1 2 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) VB
1 2 (100.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Actian