OpenAPI Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

OpenAPI Specification
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring OpenAPI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAPI 14 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.17% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.62% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £425 £475 -
% change year-on-year -10.53% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 303 270 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 25.33% 36.73% 21.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 148 110
10th Percentile £306 £352 £350
25th Percentile £325 £413 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £484 £435
Median % change year-on-year -12.19% +11.26% -14.71%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £513
90th Percentile £624 £650 £620
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -2.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% - -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% - -2.48%

OpenAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

OpenAPI job vacancy trend in Glasgow

OpenAPI
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing OpenAPI

OpenAPI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 10 (71.43%) Kong
2 8 (57.14%) AWS
3 7 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
3 7 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (50.00%) Amazon MSK
4 6 (42.86%) Apigee
5 2 (14.29%) Akamai
5 2 (14.29%) CloudFront
General
1 13 (92.86%) Finance
2 8 (57.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Technical Leader
3 1 (7.14%) Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (92.86%) Swagger
2 11 (78.57%) Terraform
3 10 (71.43%) RESTful
4 5 (35.71%) JWT
4 5 (35.71%) OAuth
4 5 (35.71%) OAuth2
4 5 (35.71%) OpenID
5 2 (14.29%) JSON
5 2 (14.29%) JSON Schema
5 2 (14.29%) Next.js
5 2 (14.29%) React
6 1 (7.14%) gRPC
6 1 (7.14%) REST
6 1 (7.14%) Spring
6 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (85.71%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 10 (71.43%) DevOps
3 7 (50.00%) API Management
3 7 (50.00%) Validation
4 6 (42.86%) Continuous Delivery
4 6 (42.86%) Operational Stability
5 3 (21.43%) GitOps
6 2 (14.29%) API Design
6 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
7 1 (7.14%) Concurrent Programming
7 1 (7.14%) Configuration Management
7 1 (7.14%) Deployment Automation
7 1 (7.14%) Event-Driven
7 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (7.14%) Kalman Filter
7 1 (7.14%) Microservices
7 1 (7.14%) Multithreaded Programming
7 1 (7.14%) Multithreading
7 1 (7.14%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) Go
2 7 (50.00%) Java
2 7 (50.00%) Lua
3 3 (21.43%) Python
4 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 1 (7.14%) C++
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (85.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) MuleSoft