OpenSCAP Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

OpenSCAP
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OpenSCAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 437 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenSCAP 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.004% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.027% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £558 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 - -
75th Percentile £673 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £615 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,711 2,050 3,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.88% 16.07% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,344 1,294 1,848
10th Percentile £313 £206 £254
25th Percentile £402 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £492
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.36% +3.47%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £676 £650 £683
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 136 306
10th Percentile £13.95 £17.24 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £23.89 £12.43
Median hourly rate £34.50 £34.06 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% +92.18% -49.37%
75th Percentile £67.25 £65.15 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £78.58 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £31.00 £32.96 £20.46
% change year-on-year -5.95% +61.09% -45.44%

OpenSCAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

OpenSCAP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

OpenSCAP
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

OpenSCAP
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 OpenSCAP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
South East - 1 £615 -
OpenSCAP
UK

OpenSCAP
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%) 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