OpenAPI Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

OpenAPI Specification
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring OpenAPI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAPI 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.28% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £508 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 - -
75th Percentile £523 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £600 £825 -
% change year-on-year -27.27% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 43 32 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 12.08% 13.62% 17.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 25 53
10th Percentile £502 £184 £400
25th Percentile £538 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.09% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £750 £681 £675
90th Percentile £875 £730 £715
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £525
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.26%
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +7.69%

OpenAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

OpenAPI job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

OpenAPI
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAPI within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 19 June 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
Cheltenham - 1 £515 - 1
OpenAPI
South West

OpenAPI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Android Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Android Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Android Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (100.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Android Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Kotlin
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes