OpenView Contract Job Trends

HP OpenView (HPOV)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring OpenView skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 586 - 593
Rank change year-on-year - - +168
Contract jobs citing OpenView 1 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.002% - 0.016%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.016% - 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £321
25th Percentile - - £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 - £365
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.67%
75th Percentile - - £393
90th Percentile - - £409
UK excluding London median daily rate £315 - £365

All Systems Management Skills
UK

OpenView falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,371 4,720 5,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.12% 15.71% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,414 3,091 3,808
10th Percentile £313 £313 £260
25th Percentile £413 £424 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £632
90th Percentile £688 £745 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £498
% change year-on-year -1.60% +0.50% -5.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 54 146
10th Percentile £18.43 £16.09 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.29 £21.56 £20.00
Median hourly rate £53.25 £25.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.82% -36.25% -23.27%
75th Percentile £64.20 £56.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.65 £76.58 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.25 £24.09 £40.16
% change year-on-year +121.05% -40.01% -15.46%

OpenView
Job Vacancy Trend

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

OpenView job vacancy trend in the UK

OpenView
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

OpenView
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

OpenView
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 OpenView within the UK over the 6 months to 4 March 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 West - 1 £315 - 3
England - 1 £315 - 6
Work from Home - 1 £315 - 3
UK excluding London - 1 £315 - 4

OpenView
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Search Processing Language
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
1 1 (100.00%) Netcool
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BMC
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk