OASIS TOSCA Contracts

OASIS Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring OASIS TOSCA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OASIS TOSCA over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 520 - 691
Rank change year-on-year - - +159
Contract jobs citing OASIS TOSCA 1 0 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% - 0.016%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.022% - 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £508
25th Percentile £363 - £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.92%
75th Percentile £388 - £563
90th Percentile - - £580
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

OASIS TOSCA 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 4,584 6,062 7,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.71% 14.25% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,947 3,850 5,224
10th Percentile £272 £282 £280
25th Percentile £400 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £622 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £742
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £484 £480
% change year-on-year -1.76% +0.83% +6.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 380 234
10th Percentile £17.63 £10.95 £13.41
25th Percentile £22.14 £13.18 £18.71
Median hourly rate £34.50 £21.06 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.84% -39.84% +12.90%
75th Percentile £66.09 £45.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £82.94 £68.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.30 £18.27 £35.00
% change year-on-year +153.42% -47.80% +55.56%

OASIS TOSCA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OASIS TOSCA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OASIS TOSCA in the UK

OASIS TOSCA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OASIS TOSCA.

Daily rate trend for OASIS TOSCA in the UK

OASIS TOSCA
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OASIS TOSCA within the UK over the 6 months to 16 May 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
South East - 1 £375 - 1
England - 1 £375 - 1
UK excluding London - 1 £375 - 1

OASIS TOSCA
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Camunda
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) 4G
1 1 (100.00%) 5G
1 1 (100.00%) DOCSIS
1 1 (100.00%) GPON
1 1 (100.00%) LTE
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) xDSL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) OSS Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) TM Forum
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) eTOM
1 1 (100.00%) Fault Management
1 1 (100.00%) Inventory Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Amdocs OSS
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Amdocs
1 1 (100.00%) Ericsson
1 1 (100.00%) Huawei
1 1 (100.00%) NetCracker
1 1 (100.00%) Nokia