OutSystems Contract Job Trends

OutSystems
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of OutSystems products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OutSystems over the 6 months leading up to 18 March 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 OutSystems.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 504 587
Rank change year-on-year -95 +83 +154
Contract jobs citing OutSystems 7 27 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.016% 0.092% 0.002%
As % of the Vendors category 0.037% 0.19% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 21 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £465 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £491 - -
90th Percentile £496 £601 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 - £400
% change year-on-year - - +105.13%

All Vendors
UK

OutSystems 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 18,925 13,857 19,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.74% 47.27% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,095 8,657 11,944
10th Percentile £310 £291 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -2.75%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 966 462 1,030
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.62 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% +17.65% -31.05%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £76.04 £82.91 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.50 £27.43 £23.11
% change year-on-year -14.31% +18.68% -29.98%

OutSystems
Job Vacancy Trend

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

OutSystems job vacancy trend in the UK

OutSystems
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

OutSystems
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 OutSystems within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England -113 6 £475 -5.00% 1
London -54 3 - -
Midlands - 3 £475 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £475 - 1
UK excluding London - 3 £475 - 1
Work from Home -41 1 £500 -

OutSystems
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 1 (14.29%) Mendix
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
1 1 (14.29%) Unqork
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (14.29%) PowerBuilder
1 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Migration Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) HTML5
1 1 (14.29%) J2EE
1 1 (14.29%) jQuery
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
1 4 (57.14%) Low-Code
2 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Agile
2 1 (14.29%) AI
2 1 (14.29%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
2 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
2 1 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (14.29%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (14.29%) Microservices
2 1 (14.29%) Observability
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
2 1 (14.29%) Software Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (14.29%) User Experience
2 1 (14.29%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) C
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
2 1 (14.29%) ProC
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
2 1 (14.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce