OpenAPI Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

OpenAPI Specification
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring OpenAPI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAPI 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 3.21% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £375 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 52 55 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 20.88% 23.71% 26.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 39 55
10th Percentile £305 £168 £203
25th Percentile £405 £215 £217
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £425 £350
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +21.43% -22.22%
75th Percentile £532 £541 £463
90th Percentile £639 £550 £558
South Wales median daily rate £475 £431 £350
% change year-on-year +10.14% +23.21% -30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £25.60 -
South Wales median hourly rate £80.00 £22.00 -
% change year-on-year +263.64% - -

OpenAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

OpenAPI job vacancy trend in Cardiff

OpenAPI
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing OpenAPI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing OpenAPI

OpenAPI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle Service Bus
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 8 (100.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 8 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Consultant
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle Consultant
2 5 (62.50%) Oracle SOA Consultant
2 5 (62.50%) SOA Consultant
3 3 (37.50%) BPM Consultant
4 2 (25.00%) IT Consultant
4 2 (25.00%) Lead
4 2 (25.00%) Lead Consultant
4 2 (25.00%) Middleware Consultant
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle Middleware Consultant
4 2 (25.00%) Senior
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) JSON
1 8 (100.00%) OAuth
1 8 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 8 (100.00%) REST
1 8 (100.00%) SOAP
1 8 (100.00%) Swagger
1 8 (100.00%) XML
1 8 (100.00%) XSD
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
1 8 (100.00%) API Design
1 8 (100.00%) API Management
1 8 (100.00%) BPEL
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (100.00%) SDLC
1 8 (100.00%) SOA
1 8 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 8 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle