OpenAPI Contracts in Edinburgh

OpenAPI Specification
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring OpenAPI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenAPI over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 69 109
Rank change year-on-year +5 +40 +16
Contract jobs citing OpenAPI 3 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.48% 0.37% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.10% 1.65% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £205 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -66.40% - -
75th Percentile £370 £638 -
90th Percentile £463 - -
Scotland median daily rate £343 £625 -
% change year-on-year -45.20% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 143 182 386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.88% 22.33% 29.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 121 319
10th Percentile £400 £363 £406
25th Percentile £417 £430 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £480 £488
Median % change year-on-year +1.72% -1.54% -2.50%
75th Percentile £529 £619 £538
90th Percentile £600 £700 £613
Scotland median daily rate £471 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £53.75 £59.03
% change year-on-year - -8.94% +24.93%

OpenAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenAPI in Edinburgh

OpenAPI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for OpenAPI in Edinburgh

OpenAPI
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenAPI in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenAPI in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Apigee
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (33.33%) CloudFront
3 1 (33.33%) Route 53
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Ant
2 1 (33.33%) webpack
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 2 (66.67%) Lead Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) RESTful
1 3 (100.00%) Swagger
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Security
3 1 (33.33%) JSON
3 1 (33.33%) JSON Schema
3 1 (33.33%) Node.js
3 1 (33.33%) OAuth
3 1 (33.33%) TypeORM
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) API Design
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes