Micro Focus Contracts

Micro Focus
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Micro Focus products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Micro Focus over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Micro Focus.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 518 644 790
Rank change year-on-year +126 +146 -129
Contract jobs citing Micro Focus 53 43 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.076% 0.062%
As % of the Vendors category 0.29% 0.18% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 29 32
10th Percentile - £269 £213
25th Percentile - £410 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £80 £485 £533
Median % change year-on-year -83.51% -8.96% +7.63%
75th Percentile £375 £550 £575
90th Percentile £424 £583 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £80 £491 £425
% change year-on-year -83.70% +15.49% -14.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 1 3
10th Percentile £72.50 - £46.20
25th Percentile £78.13 £37.80 £53.63
Median hourly rate £80.00 £40.59 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +97.09% -38.50% -
75th Percentile - £43.39 £74.38
90th Percentile - - £79.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £40.59 £61.50
% change year-on-year +97.09% -34.00% -

All Vendors
UK

Micro Focus is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,101 24,501 35,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.51% 43.03% 40.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,253 16,404 23,407
10th Percentile £263 £270 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £630 £645 £638
90th Percentile £738 £742 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +8.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,116 662 881
10th Percentile £12.07 £15.02 £12.04
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £40.55 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.97% +88.58% -
75th Percentile £57.33 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £33.00 £18.75
% change year-on-year -34.97% +76.00% +1.35%

Micro Focus
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Micro Focus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Micro Focus in the UK

Micro Focus
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Micro Focus.

Daily rate trend for Micro Focus in the UK

Micro Focus
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Micro Focus over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Micro Focus in the UK

Micro Focus
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Micro Focus.

Hourly rate trend for Micro Focus in the UK

Micro Focus
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Micro Focus over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Micro Focus in the UK

Micro Focus
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Micro Focus within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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 +124 50 £80 -83.26% 3
UK excluding London +77 40 £80 -83.70% 3
South West +22 20 £80 -87.10%
East of England - 16 £80 - 1
London +95 8 £413 +3.13%
Work from Home +101 7 £481 +1.85%
South East +31 3 £400 -28.89% 1
North of England +25 1 - - 1
North West +15 1 - -

Micro Focus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.66%) WebLogic
1 3 (5.66%) WebSphere
2 2 (3.77%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.55%) AWS
2 1 (1.89%) Power Automate
2 1 (1.89%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.66%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.66%) MySQL
1 3 (5.66%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.89%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) HP UFT
1 3 (5.66%) Katalon Studio
1 3 (5.66%) Selenium
2 2 (3.77%) JIRA
General
1 10 (18.87%) Aerospace
2 4 (7.55%) Aviation
2 4 (7.55%) Finance
2 4 (7.55%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.66%) Marketing
3 3 (5.66%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.77%) Electronics
4 2 (3.77%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.77%) Military
4 2 (3.77%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.89%) Banking
5 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (69.81%) Data Engineer
1 37 (69.81%) Data Migration Engineer
1 37 (69.81%) Migration Engineer
2 6 (11.32%) Lead
3 4 (7.55%) Analyst
4 3 (5.66%) Senior
5 2 (3.77%) Analyst Developer
5 2 (3.77%) Analyst Programmer
5 2 (3.77%) COBOL Analyst
5 2 (3.77%) COBOL Analyst Programmer
5 2 (3.77%) COBOL Developer
5 2 (3.77%) COBOL Programmer
5 2 (3.77%) Consultant
5 2 (3.77%) Developer
5 2 (3.77%) Developer Analyst
5 2 (3.77%) Programmer
5 2 (3.77%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (3.77%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 1 (1.89%) QA Analyst
6 1 (1.89%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.55%) Web Services
2 3 (5.66%) AngularJS
2 3 (5.66%) jQuery
2 3 (5.66%) Kafka
2 3 (5.66%) RESTful
2 3 (5.66%) SOAP
2 3 (5.66%) Spring
2 3 (5.66%) Spring Boot
2 3 (5.66%) Struts
2 3 (5.66%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 2 (3.77%) ADO
4 1 (1.89%) .NET
4 1 (1.89%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (1.89%) Mobile Banking
1 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (69.81%) Data Migration
1 37 (69.81%) Migration
2 25 (47.17%) DevSecOps
3 5 (9.43%) Agile
3 5 (9.43%) SDLC
3 5 (9.43%) Test Automation
4 4 (7.55%) Mentoring
5 3 (5.66%) Batch Processing
5 3 (5.66%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (5.66%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (5.66%) Data Security
5 3 (5.66%) Database Migration
5 3 (5.66%) DevOps
5 3 (5.66%) Software Testing
5 3 (5.66%) Unit Testing
6 2 (3.77%) Computer Science
6 2 (3.77%) ERP
6 2 (3.77%) Programme Management
6 2 (3.77%) Test Scripting
6 2 (3.77%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.43%) Java
2 2 (3.77%) C
2 2 (3.77%) COBOL
2 2 (3.77%) Micro Focus COBOL
2 2 (3.77%) Python
2 2 (3.77%) VB
2 2 (3.77%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 15 (28.30%) SC Cleared
1 15 (28.30%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.21%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (5.66%) Degree
4 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) GDPR
1 3 (5.66%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.77%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.43%) CA Service Virtualization
2 3 (5.66%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.89%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (9.43%) CA
1 5 (9.43%) SAP
2 4 (7.55%) Twitter
3 3 (5.66%) IBM
3 3 (5.66%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.66%) Oracle
4 2 (3.77%) OpenText
5 1 (1.89%) Avaloq
5 1 (1.89%) HP
5 1 (1.89%) Isilon
5 1 (1.89%) Novell