Open Workbench Contracts

Open Workbench
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Open Workbench skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Open Workbench over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 - 712
Rank change year-on-year - - +135
Contract jobs citing Open Workbench 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% - 0.002%
As % of the Applications category 0.083% - 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £850
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £900
Median % change year-on-year - - +76.82%
75th Percentile - - £950
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £900

All Software Application Skills
UK

Open Workbench falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring software application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 2,424 3,448 4,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.29% 7.91% 7.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,446 1,743 2,896
10th Percentile £188 £163 £188
25th Percentile £261 £213 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% -0.76%
75th Percentile £541 £538 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £684
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £350 £391
% change year-on-year +7.14% -10.54% +4.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 635 264
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.57 £13.94
25th Percentile £15.62 £14.00 £18.48
Median hourly rate £23.59 £17.80 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.53% -51.23% +69.77%
75th Percentile £43.75 £39.92 £53.45
90th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £16.06 £32.30
% change year-on-year +40.10% -50.28% +70.00%

Open Workbench
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Open Workbench as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Open Workbench in the UK

Open Workbench
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Open Workbench.

Daily rate trend for Open Workbench in the UK

Open Workbench
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Open Workbench 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
Midlands - 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 - -
England - 2 - -
UK excluding London - 2 - -

Open Workbench
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 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Engagement Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Commercial Awareness
1 2 (100.00%) Compliance Audit
1 2 (100.00%) Conflict Management
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Line Management
1 2 (100.00%) Matrix Management
1 2 (100.00%) Matrix Organization
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Project Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Atlassian