OpenSCAP Contract Job Trends

OpenSCAP
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring OpenSCAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 631 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenSCAP 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.002% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.013% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £558 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 - -
75th Percentile £673 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £615 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

OpenSCAP 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 7,836 4,525 6,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.03% 15.42% 14.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,075 2,914 3,997
10th Percentile £336 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £630
90th Percentile £700 £720 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 176 378
10th Percentile £14.02 £17.95 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £13.00
Median hourly rate £31.86 £32.66 £20.47
Median % change year-on-year -2.43% +59.57% -45.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.40 £82.86 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £33.11 £17.46
% change year-on-year +8.73% +89.63% -50.11%

OpenSCAP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

OpenSCAP job vacancy trend in the UK

OpenSCAP
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

OpenSCAP
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenSCAP within the UK over the 6 months to 17 April 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 East - 1 £615 -
England - 1 £615 -
Work from Home - 1 £615 -
UK excluding London - 1 £615 -

OpenSCAP
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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CMDB
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) RHCA
1 1 (100.00%) RHCE
1 1 (100.00%) RHCSA
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Packer
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow