RightScale Contract Job Trends

RightScale
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of RightScale products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RightScale over the 6 months leading up to 8 April 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 RightScale, Inc.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 627 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RightScale 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.002% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.005% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Vendors
UK

RightScale 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 19,716 13,778 18,727
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.10% 47.15% 42.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,642 8,710 11,700
10th Percentile £313 £290 £258
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% -0.03% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £617 £626
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.57% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 988 506 1,054
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.35 £12.05
25th Percentile £18.50 £19.19 £14.40
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +27.78% -46.63%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.13 £57.33
90th Percentile £78.40 £80.34 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.21 £27.13 £21.50
% change year-on-year -7.08% +26.16% -44.16%

RightScale
Job Vacancy Trend

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

RightScale job vacancy trend in the UK

RightScale
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

RightScale
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 RightScale within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
Yorkshire - 1 - -
England - 1 - - 1
UK excluding London - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -

RightScale
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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SAP