OpenView Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

HP OpenView (HPOV)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OpenView skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 - 398
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenView 1 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.005% - 0.033%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.033% - 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £321
25th Percentile - - £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 - £365
75th Percentile - - £393
90th Percentile - - £409
UK median daily rate £315 - £365
% change year-on-year - - -2.67%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

OpenView falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,054 2,018 2,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.53% 15.44% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,140 1,320 1,733
10th Percentile £263 £223 £213
25th Percentile £400 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £498
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +0.50% -5.24%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £595
90th Percentile £655 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 32 108
10th Percentile £16.58 £12.77 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.09 £19.51 £17.72
Median hourly rate £53.25 £24.09 £40.16
Median % change year-on-year +121.05% -40.01% -15.46%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.06 £62.13
90th Percentile £79.30 £74.00 £76.82
UK median hourly rate £53.25 £25.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +108.82% -36.25% -23.27%

OpenView
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

OpenView job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

OpenView
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

OpenView
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

OpenView
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 OpenView within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 March 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 West - 1 £315 - 3
OpenView
UK

OpenView
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Search Processing Language
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
1 1 (100.00%) Netcool
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BMC
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk