OpenROAD Contract Job Trends

OpenROAD
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring OpenROAD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 645 552 -
Rank change year-on-year -93 - -
Contract jobs citing OpenROAD 4 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.008% 0.012% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.087% 0.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile £484 - -
25th Percentile £504 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £431 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.48% - -
75th Percentile £563 £473 -
90th Percentile £585 £482 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £431 -
% change year-on-year +15.48% - -

All Application Platform Skills
UK

OpenROAD falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,613 3,557 4,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.77% 10.96% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,048 2,322 3,099
10th Percentile £308 £290 £263
25th Percentile £404 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £725 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 86 153
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.92 £13.54
25th Percentile £19.14 £26.11 £16.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £47.12 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.72% +44.98% -38.10%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.73 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £49.81 £33.56
% change year-on-year -29.73% +48.43% -26.25%

OpenROAD
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenROAD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

OpenROAD job vacancy trend in the UK

OpenROAD
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OpenROAD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OpenROAD

OpenROAD
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenROAD over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OpenROAD in the UK

OpenROAD
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OpenROAD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OpenROAD

OpenROAD
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenROAD within the UK over the 6 months to 15 July 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
England - 4 £533 - 1
UK excluding London -109 2 £498 +15.48% 1
London - 2 £575 -
Midlands - 2 £498 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £498 - 1
Work from Home -63 1 £515 +8.42%

OpenROAD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Ingres
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Solution Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (50.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) AI
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (50.00%) Defect Management
3 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
3 2 (50.00%) Quality Management
3 2 (50.00%) Rapid Prototyping
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) VB
2 2 (50.00%) VB6
3 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Actian