Micro Focus Contracts

Micro Focus
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Micro Focus products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Micro Focus over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 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 Micro Focus.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 540 671
Rank change year-on-year +28 +131 +115
Contract jobs citing Micro Focus 7 60 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.14% 0.070%
As % of the Vendors category 0.050% 0.32% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 35 29
10th Percentile £443 - £325
25th Percentile £474 £80 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £320 £481
Median % change year-on-year +52.19% -33.47% -11.74%
75th Percentile £575 £419 £550
90th Percentile £631 £619 £583
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £80 £489
% change year-on-year +650.00% -83.63% +15.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 19 1
10th Percentile - £72.50 -
25th Percentile - - £37.80
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year - +97.09% -25.18%
75th Percentile - - £43.39
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £80.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year - +97.09% -4.49%

All Vendors
UK

Micro Focus 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,870 18,503 25,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.44% 42.44% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,703 11,477 17,115
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £619 £627 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 1,097 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.15 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.46% -49.37% +108.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +107.55%

Micro Focus
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Micro Focus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Micro Focus in the UK

Micro Focus
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Micro Focus.

Daily rate trend for Micro Focus in the UK

Micro Focus
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Micro Focus over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Micro Focus in the UK

Micro Focus
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Micro Focus.

Hourly rate trend for Micro Focus in the UK

Micro Focus
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Micro Focus within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +14 7 £487 +156.32% 2
London +29 4 £474 +14.91%
UK excluding London +17 3 £600 +650.00% 2
Work from Home +42 1 £625 +25.00% 3
South East +42 1 £425 -16.05%
East of England +18 1 £600 +650.00%
West Midlands - 1 £625 - 1
Midlands - 1 £625 - 1

Micro Focus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP ERP
1 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (14.29%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) ChangeMan
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) LoadRunner
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (42.86%) Banking
3 3 (42.86%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) SAP Manager
1 2 (28.57%) SAP Test Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Test Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Change Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Configuration Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Mainframe
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) SDLC
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Project Management
3 2 (28.57%) Test Management
4 1 (14.29%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) Defect Management
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) ERP
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) System Integration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (14.29%) Test Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
4 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team Management
4 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) HP ALM
1 1 (14.29%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) CyberArk
2 1 (14.29%) HP
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow