OpenText Contract Job Trends

OpenText
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of OpenText products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenText over the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, 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 the Open Text Corporation.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 626 525 523
Rank change year-on-year -101 -2 +49
Contract jobs citing OpenText 45 34 50
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.083% 0.10% 0.13%
As % of the Vendors category 0.20% 0.22% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 21 25
10th Percentile £421 £325 £505
25th Percentile £435 £363 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 £600
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -31.25% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £650
90th Percentile £638 £700 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £350 £600
% change year-on-year +21.43% -41.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £14.50
Median hourly rate - - £15.00
75th Percentile - - £15.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £15.00

All Vendors
UK

OpenText 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 22,712 15,566 16,911
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.85% 47.26% 44.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,926 9,545 10,148
10th Percentile £313 £275 £285
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,251 789 677
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.69 £14.26
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.44 £15.62
Median hourly rate £27.00 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -16.17% -31.56%
75th Percentile £63.00 £43.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £21.19 £30.00
% change year-on-year +23.36% -29.37% -27.71%

OpenText
Job Vacancy Trend

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

OpenText job vacancy trend in the UK

OpenText
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

OpenText
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenText over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OpenText in the UK

OpenText
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

OpenText
Top 9 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenText within the UK over the 6 months to 16 September 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 -128 35 £550 +32.53% 30
London -76 26 £550 +33.33% 14
UK excluding London -101 12 £425 +21.43% 16
Work from Home -56 9 £588 +2.17% 21
North of England -70 8 £575 - 2
Yorkshire - 5 £525 - 2
North West -42 3 £625 -
Wales - 2 £400 -
Scotland - 2 £425 -

OpenText
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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (28.89%) SharePoint
2 5 (11.11%) Appian
2 5 (11.11%) Camunda
2 5 (11.11%) IIS
2 5 (11.11%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (6.67%) Documentum
4 2 (4.44%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) EngageOne
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (15.56%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 5 (11.11%) OpenText MBPM
2 5 (11.11%) Oracle BPM
3 3 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (2.22%) Exstream
4 1 (2.22%) SAP FI
4 1 (2.22%) SAP FI-AP
4 1 (2.22%) SAP HCM
4 1 (2.22%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.89%) SuccessFactors
2 2 (4.44%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.22%) AWS
3 1 (2.22%) Azure
3 1 (2.22%) Boomi
3 1 (2.22%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) DNS
1 2 (4.44%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.22%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.11%) Oracle Database
1 5 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.67%) EDMS
2 3 (6.67%) SAP HANA
3 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.22%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (2.22%) Appium
2 1 (2.22%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.22%) JMeter
2 1 (2.22%) LoadRunner
2 1 (2.22%) Postman
2 1 (2.22%) REST Assured
2 1 (2.22%) Selenium
2 1 (2.22%) TestDirector
General
1 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.56%) Banking
3 6 (13.33%) Finance
4 4 (8.89%) Retail
5 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.22%) General Ledger
5 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.22%) Legal
5 1 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 26 (57.78%) Consultant
2 10 (22.22%) Enterprise Consultant
2 10 (22.22%) Enterprise Management Consultant
2 10 (22.22%) Management Consultant
3 8 (17.78%) SAP Consultant
4 5 (11.11%) BPM Developer
4 5 (11.11%) Developer
5 4 (8.89%) VMware Consultant
6 3 (6.67%) Senior
7 2 (4.44%) Document Controller
7 2 (4.44%) Documentum Specialist
7 2 (4.44%) Lead
7 2 (4.44%) Lead Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) SAP Functional Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Technical Specialist
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
7 2 (4.44%) Solutions Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Strategy Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Strategy Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.33%) REST
2 5 (11.11%) .NET
2 5 (11.11%) .NET Framework
3 3 (6.67%) XML
4 2 (4.44%) JSON
4 2 (4.44%) YAML
5 1 (2.22%) Playwright
5 1 (2.22%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.22%) Life Science
4 1 (2.22%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.22%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.56%) Windows
2 6 (13.33%) Linux
3 2 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.67%) Workflow
2 10 (22.22%) Content Management
2 10 (22.22%) Enterprise Content Management
2 10 (22.22%) OO
3 8 (17.78%) AI
3 8 (17.78%) DevOps
3 8 (17.78%) Generative AI
3 8 (17.78%) Migration
4 7 (15.56%) Change Management
4 7 (15.56%) User Acceptance Testing
4 7 (15.56%) Validation
4 7 (15.56%) Workflow Development
5 6 (13.33%) Data Migration
5 6 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 5 (11.11%) Data Analysis
6 5 (11.11%) OOP
6 5 (11.11%) System Integration Testing
6 5 (11.11%) Web Application Development
7 4 (8.89%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.11%) C#
1 5 (11.11%) PL/SQL
1 5 (11.11%) SQL
1 5 (11.11%) T-SQL
2 4 (8.89%) PowerShell
2 4 (8.89%) Python
3 3 (6.67%) Bash
3 3 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 14 (31.11%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.89%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) QA
2 2 (4.44%) PMO
3 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (8.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (8.89%) Ansible
1 4 (8.89%) vRealize Orchestrator
2 1 (2.22%) HP ALM
2 1 (2.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) SAP
2 10 (22.22%) Laserfiche
3 5 (11.11%) Citrix
3 5 (11.11%) Oracle
3 5 (11.11%) VMware
4 3 (6.67%) Red Hat
5 2 (4.44%) Ariba
5 2 (4.44%) DocuSign
5 2 (4.44%) Quadient
6 1 (2.22%) HP
6 1 (2.22%) IFS
6 1 (2.22%) iManage
6 1 (2.22%) Micro Focus
6 1 (2.22%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.22%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow