OpenAPI Contracts in the South East

OpenAPI Specification
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 206 248
Rank change year-on-year +10 +42 -43
Contract jobs citing OpenAPI 4 20 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.072% 0.34% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.55% 1.90% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 20 11
10th Percentile £535 - £500
25th Percentile £550 £575 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +23.81% -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £569
90th Percentile - £685 £588
England median daily rate £490 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -18.42% +14.29% +5.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 the South East 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 730 1,052 1,548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.21% 18.05% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 749 1,028
10th Percentile £313 £363 £354
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £600
90th Percentile £667 £725 £673
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 36 41
10th Percentile £35.00 £39.75 £21.00
25th Percentile £56.13 £54.38 £31.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +55.56% +4.05%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £76.25 £79.72 £67.80
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 the South East

Job postings citing OpenAPI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for OpenAPI in the South East

OpenAPI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenAPI in the South East.

Daily rate trend for OpenAPI in the South East

OpenAPI
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAPI within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 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
Buckinghamshire +9 2 £600 -7.69%
Thames Valley -9 2 £600 -7.69%
Hampshire +3 1 - -
Surrey - 1 £550 - 1
OpenAPI
England

OpenAPI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Functions
1 3 (75.00%) Serverless
2 2 (50.00%) Azure API Management
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Developer
1 2 (50.00%) C# Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Swagger
2 2 (50.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) JSON
3 1 (25.00%) Node.js
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) API Management
2 2 (50.00%) Creative Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) SOLID
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Refactoring
3 1 (25.00%) SOA
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce