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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 523 643 792
Rank change year-on-year +120 +149 -113
Contract jobs citing Micro Focus 52 39 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.070% 0.053%
As % of the Vendors category 0.28% 0.16% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 27 31
10th Percentile - £239 £213
25th Percentile - £386 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £80 £470 £521
Median % change year-on-year -82.98% -9.70% +5.15%
75th Percentile £285 £525 £564
90th Percentile £415 £577 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £80 £478 £425
% change year-on-year -83.26% +12.47% -14.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 1 1
10th Percentile £72.50 - -
25th Percentile £78.13 £37.80 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £40.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +97.09% +102.95% -
75th Percentile - £43.39 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £40.59 £20.00
% change year-on-year +97.09% +102.95% -

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 18,277 24,339 35,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.45% 43.42% 40.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,373 16,241 23,612
10th Percentile £263 £265 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,141 647 855
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.97 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +4.88%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.98
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -42.77% +92.31% +8.33%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +103 49 £80 -82.42%
UK excluding London +58 42 £80 -83.26% 1
South West +21 20 £80 -87.10%
East of England - 16 £80 -
Work from Home +106 7 £481 +2.39% 1
London +92 7 £513 +36.67%
South East +13 5 £400 -5.88%
North West +13 1 - -
North of England +13 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 (5.77%) WebLogic
1 3 (5.77%) WebSphere
2 2 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (1.92%) Power Automate
2 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.62%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.77%) MySQL
1 3 (5.77%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (5.77%) HP UFT
1 3 (5.77%) Katalon Studio
1 3 (5.77%) Selenium
2 2 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 10 (19.23%) Aerospace
2 4 (7.69%) Aviation
2 4 (7.69%) Finance
2 4 (7.69%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.77%) Marketing
4 2 (3.85%) Military
5 1 (1.92%) Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 37 (71.15%) Data Engineer
1 37 (71.15%) Data Migration Engineer
1 37 (71.15%) Migration Engineer
2 6 (11.54%) Analyst
3 5 (9.62%) Senior
4 4 (7.69%) Lead
4 4 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (5.77%) QA Analyst
5 3 (5.77%) Senior QA Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) Analyst Developer
6 2 (3.85%) Analyst Programmer
6 2 (3.85%) COBOL Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) COBOL Analyst Programmer
6 2 (3.85%) COBOL Developer
6 2 (3.85%) COBOL Programmer
6 2 (3.85%) Consultant
6 2 (3.85%) Developer
6 2 (3.85%) Developer Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) Programmer
7 1 (1.92%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.69%) ADO
1 4 (7.69%) Web Services
2 3 (5.77%) AngularJS
2 3 (5.77%) jQuery
2 3 (5.77%) Kafka
2 3 (5.77%) RESTful
2 3 (5.77%) SOAP
2 3 (5.77%) Spring
2 3 (5.77%) Spring Boot
2 3 (5.77%) Struts
2 3 (5.77%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 1 (1.92%) .NET
3 1 (1.92%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (1.92%) Mobile Banking
1 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (71.15%) Data Migration
1 37 (71.15%) Migration
2 25 (48.08%) DevSecOps
3 7 (13.46%) Agile
3 7 (13.46%) SDLC
3 7 (13.46%) Test Automation
4 4 (7.69%) Computer Science
4 4 (7.69%) ERP
4 4 (7.69%) Test Scripting
4 4 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (5.77%) Batch Processing
5 3 (5.77%) Database Migration
5 3 (5.77%) DevOps
5 3 (5.77%) Software Testing
5 3 (5.77%) Unit Testing
6 2 (3.85%) Mentoring
7 1 (1.92%) Data Protection
7 1 (1.92%) Scenario Testing
7 1 (1.92%) Visualisation
7 1 (1.92%) Workflow Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (13.46%) Java
2 4 (7.69%) C
2 4 (7.69%) Python
2 4 (7.69%) VBScript
3 2 (3.85%) COBOL
3 2 (3.85%) Micro Focus COBOL
3 2 (3.85%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (28.85%) SC Cleared
1 15 (28.85%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.46%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (9.62%) Degree
4 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (1.92%) GDPR
2 1 (1.92%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (5.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.77%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.85%) CA Service Virtualization
3 1 (1.92%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (9.62%) Microsoft
1 5 (9.62%) SAP
2 4 (7.69%) Twitter
3 3 (5.77%) IBM
3 3 (5.77%) Oracle
4 2 (3.85%) CA
4 2 (3.85%) OpenText
5 1 (1.92%) Avaloq
5 1 (1.92%) HP
5 1 (1.92%) Isilon
5 1 (1.92%) Novell