OpenAPI Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

OpenAPI Specification
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring OpenAPI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAPI 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.10% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.66% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £431 £638 £523
% change year-on-year -32.39% +22.01% -19.62%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 152 88 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 15.73% 15.33% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 72 79
10th Percentile £360 £320 £285
25th Percentile £400 £354 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £445 £419
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% +6.09% -4.77%
75th Percentile £546 £531 £528
90th Percentile £625 £555 £652
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile £25.05 - -
25th Percentile £25.07 - £10.90
Median hourly rate £25.11 - £16.59
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.65%
75th Percentile £25.14 - £38.94
90th Percentile £25.15 - £58.70
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

OpenAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

OpenAPI job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

OpenAPI
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing OpenAPI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing OpenAPI

OpenAPI
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAPI within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 February 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
Nottinghamshire - 1 - -
OpenAPI
England

OpenAPI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) TestNG
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA