OpenUP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Open Unified Process
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for OpenUP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OpenUP over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 - 494
Rank change year-on-year - - -67
Contract jobs citing OpenUP 5 0 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.024% - 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.029% - 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 12
10th Percentile - - £419
25th Percentile - - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.75%
75th Percentile - - £563
90th Percentile £418 - £574
UK median daily rate £200 £338 £475
% change year-on-year -40.74% -28.95% -15.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

OpenUP is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,292 20,943 27,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 89.50% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,311 14,478 18,837
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £379 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,286 1,344
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.39 £14.21
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £46.88
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.65 £61.15
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OpenUP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OpenUP in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenUP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for OpenUP in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenUP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OpenUP in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OpenUP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for OpenUP in the UK excluding London

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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 OpenUP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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 - 4 £200 - 4
West Midlands - 4 £200 - 3
South West - 1 £543 - 1
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) MegaStream
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Coordinator
1 4 (80.00%) Project Coordinator
2 3 (60.00%) Project Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Electrical Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Fibre Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) WFM
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) VMware