OpenText Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

OpenText
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of OpenText products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenText over the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Open Text Corporation.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 341 399
Rank change year-on-year -34 +58 +100
Contract jobs citing OpenText 22 21 19
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.13% 0.092%
As % of the Vendors category 0.27% 0.28% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 13
10th Percentile £325 £501 £570
25th Percentile £415 £517 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% - +2.13%
75th Percentile £515 £638 -
90th Percentile £575 £649 £620
UK median daily rate £488 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -18.71% +2.13% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £15.00 -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

OpenText falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,082 7,488 9,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 47.96% 44.78% 47.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,150 4,330 6,233
10th Percentile £220 £220 £210
25th Percentile £365 £390 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £660 £688 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 640 430 518
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.62 £17.81
Median hourly rate £22.32 £28.50 £42.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.70% -33.33% +94.32%
75th Percentile £38.55 £62.54 £59.88
90th Percentile £71.46 £70.00 £73.94
UK median hourly rate £25.04 £31.50 £43.90
% change year-on-year -20.52% -28.25% +75.60%

OpenText
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

OpenText job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

OpenText
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenText in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenText in the UK excluding London

OpenText
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

OpenText
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 OpenText within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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
East of England -11 8 £490 -4.39% 7
South West +6 3 £550 -13.75% 4
South East -2 3 £500 - 14
Midlands -22 3 £300 -50.00% 2
Northern Ireland - 3 £350 -
West Midlands -19 2 £300 -50.00%
North of England -42 2 £575 +6.98%
East Midlands -14 1 - - 2
North West -27 1 - -
North East - 1 £575 -
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UK

OpenText
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (18.18%) Documentum
2 2 (9.09%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.55%) Alfresco
3 1 (4.55%) CMS
3 1 (4.55%) FileNet
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.55%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 8 (36.36%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 8 (36.36%) SAP FI
1 8 (36.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (31.82%) SAP MM
3 1 (4.55%) iTrent
3 1 (4.55%) SAP CO
3 1 (4.55%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) AWS
2 4 (18.18%) Azure
3 2 (9.09%) GCP
3 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
3 2 (9.09%) SaaS
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) SSL
2 1 (4.55%) Firewall
2 1 (4.55%) HTTP
2 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (40.91%) Metadata
2 2 (9.09%) Power BI
3 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.55%) SAP HANA
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) GitLab
General
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Finance
3 5 (22.73%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.55%) Military
5 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Consultant
2 8 (36.36%) SAP Consultant
3 6 (27.27%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
4 3 (13.64%) Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Developer
4 3 (13.64%) EDI Specialist
5 2 (9.09%) Data Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Documentum Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (4.55%) SAP Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) SAP Business Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) SAP Basis
1 6 (27.27%) SAP Business Workflow
1 6 (27.27%) SAP Fiori
2 3 (13.64%) EDI
2 3 (13.64%) XML
3 2 (9.09%) .NET
3 2 (9.09%) REST
3 2 (9.09%) SOAP
3 2 (9.09%) Web Services
3 2 (9.09%) XSLT
4 1 (4.55%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
1 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.55%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
1 2 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Workflow
2 9 (40.91%) Knowledge Transfer
3 8 (36.36%) Accounts Payable
3 8 (36.36%) Analytics
3 8 (36.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 8 (36.36%) Validation
4 7 (31.82%) Business Continuity
4 7 (31.82%) Invoice Processing
4 7 (31.82%) ITSM
4 7 (31.82%) Migration
4 7 (31.82%) OCR
4 7 (31.82%) Performance Improvement
5 6 (27.27%) ERP
6 4 (18.18%) Agile
6 4 (18.18%) Content Management
7 3 (13.64%) B2B
7 3 (13.64%) Data Modelling
7 3 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (9.09%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) ABAP
2 4 (18.18%) Java
2 4 (18.18%) SQL
3 3 (13.64%) Python
4 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 2 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
1 1 (4.55%) NDS
1 1 (4.55%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Ansible
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) SAP
2 7 (31.82%) ServiceNow
3 3 (13.64%) IBM
3 3 (13.64%) IBM Sterling
3 3 (13.64%) Oracle
3 3 (13.64%) SEEBURGER
4 2 (9.09%) Micro Focus
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.55%) NetIQ