OpenAPI Contracts in London

OpenAPI Specification
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for OpenAPI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OpenAPI over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 447 540
Rank change year-on-year +78 +93 -139
Contract jobs citing OpenAPI 23 48 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.18% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.52% 0.65% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 28 39
10th Percentile £338 - £450
25th Percentile £422 £458 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £465 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -22.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £555 £750 £663
90th Percentile £606 £828 £760
England median daily rate £490 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -18.33% +14.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

OpenAPI is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,463 7,397 12,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.03% 27.37% 31.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,349 5,507 9,418
10th Percentile £375 £413 £425
25th Percentile £459 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £730 £700
90th Percentile £825 £813 £788
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 40 69
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.68 £30.25
25th Percentile £23.90 £37.84 £35.00
Median hourly rate £37.17 £66.00 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -43.68% +35.86% -0.35%
75th Percentile £61.25 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £68.50 £76.63 £79.60
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

OpenAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing OpenAPI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for OpenAPI in London

OpenAPI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenAPI in London.

Daily rate trend for OpenAPI in London

OpenAPI
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenAPI in London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OpenAPI in London

OpenAPI
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAPI within the London region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Central London +36 2 £475 -20.17%
West London - 2 £450 - 3
OpenAPI
England

OpenAPI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 5 (21.74%) Anypoint
2 4 (17.39%) nginx
3 3 (13.04%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) AWS
2 9 (39.13%) Azure
3 8 (34.78%) Serverless
4 7 (30.43%) Apigee
5 6 (26.09%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (21.74%) OpenShift
6 5 (21.74%) SaaS
7 3 (13.04%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 3 (13.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 3 (13.04%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (13.04%) GCP
8 2 (8.70%) GitHub
8 2 (8.70%) Snowflake
9 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (4.35%) AWS CodeBuild
9 1 (4.35%) Firebase
9 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (4.35%) npm
9 1 (4.35%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) HTTP
2 1 (4.35%) AMQP
2 1 (4.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) NoSQL
2 3 (13.04%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (13.04%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (13.04%) MongoDB
2 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.70%) Big Data
3 2 (8.70%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (39.13%) Git
2 8 (34.78%) Jenkins
3 5 (21.74%) Bitbucket
3 5 (21.74%) TeamCity
4 3 (13.04%) Cucumber
4 3 (13.04%) EasyMock
4 3 (13.04%) JUnit
4 3 (13.04%) Maven
4 3 (13.04%) Mockito
4 3 (13.04%) Postman
4 3 (13.04%) Selenium
4 3 (13.04%) SonarQube
4 3 (13.04%) TestNG
5 2 (8.70%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (4.35%) Cypress.io
6 1 (4.35%) GitLab
6 1 (4.35%) Mocha
6 1 (4.35%) Xcode
General
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Banking
3 1 (4.35%) Health Technology
3 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (82.61%) Developer
2 6 (26.09%) Backend Developer
3 5 (21.74%) MuleSoft Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Angular Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Java Developer
6 2 (8.70%) C++ Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Python Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Python Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior
6 2 (8.70%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Cloud Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Full Stack Developer
7 1 (4.35%) GCP Developer
7 1 (4.35%) iOS Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Lead
7 1 (4.35%) Lead Full Stack Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Node.js Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (82.61%) Swagger
2 14 (60.87%) REST
3 9 (39.13%) Node.js
3 9 (39.13%) Spring
4 7 (30.43%) SOAP
5 6 (26.09%) Kafka
5 6 (26.09%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (21.74%) ActiveMQ
6 5 (21.74%) AngularJS
6 5 (21.74%) Apache Camel
6 5 (21.74%) RAML
7 4 (17.39%) Spring Boot
8 3 (13.04%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (13.04%) Gherkin
8 3 (13.04%) Guice
8 3 (13.04%) JAX-RS
8 3 (13.04%) Mustache
8 3 (13.04%) OAuth
8 3 (13.04%) OAuth2
8 3 (13.04%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Public Cloud
2 5 (21.74%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (13.04%) IoT
4 2 (8.70%) Data Fabric
4 2 (8.70%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
5 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
5 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
1 2 (8.70%) Unix
2 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) CI/CD
2 9 (39.13%) Microservices
3 8 (34.78%) Agile
3 8 (34.78%) Configuration Management
4 7 (30.43%) API Management
4 7 (30.43%) Software Delivery
5 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (26.09%) Software Engineering
6 5 (21.74%) Continuous Deployment
6 5 (21.74%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (21.74%) Functional Programming
6 5 (21.74%) Integration Patterns
6 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
7 4 (17.39%) Computer Science
7 4 (17.39%) Full Stack Development
7 4 (17.39%) Security Testing
8 3 (13.04%) Multithreading
8 3 (13.04%) MVC
8 3 (13.04%) Performance Improvement
8 3 (13.04%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) SQL
2 8 (34.78%) Java
2 8 (34.78%) Python
3 7 (30.43%) TypeScript
4 5 (21.74%) JavaScript
5 3 (13.04%) C
6 2 (8.70%) C++
7 1 (4.35%) C#
7 1 (4.35%) Kotlin
7 1 (4.35%) MATLAB
7 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
7 1 (4.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (13.04%) Degree
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (56.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (52.17%) Kubernetes
2 8 (34.78%) Ansible
2 8 (34.78%) Terraform
3 3 (13.04%) Kustomize
3 3 (13.04%) Packer
4 1 (4.35%) Grafana
4 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Google
2 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
3 5 (21.74%) MuleSoft
3 5 (21.74%) Salesforce
3 5 (21.74%) SAP
3 5 (21.74%) WSO2
4 4 (17.39%) Oracle
5 3 (13.04%) Red Hat
6 2 (8.70%) Databricks
6 2 (8.70%) OpenAI