OpenAPI Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

OpenAPI Specification
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring OpenAPI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAPI 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.26% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East of England median daily rate - - £325
% change year-on-year - - -38.10%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cambridgeshire

OpenAPI falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 43 34 81
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 11.17% 13.55% 16.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 29 51
10th Percentile £400 £413 £325
25th Percentile £410 £415 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £524 £538 £556
90th Percentile £637 £683 £700
East of England median daily rate £532 £488 £498
% change year-on-year +9.10% -2.01% -6.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - £50.10
25th Percentile £29.83 - £58.75
Median hourly rate £32.00 - £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +67.95%
75th Percentile £34.17 - £75.00
90th Percentile - - £79.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £75.34 £56.25
% change year-on-year -13.72% +33.93% -13.46%

OpenAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

OpenAPI job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

OpenAPI
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAPI within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 5 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
Cambridge - 1 - -
OpenAPI
East of England

OpenAPI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Celery
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) SQLAlchemy
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) LIMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Database Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Informatics
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker