OpenAPI Contracts in Leeds

OpenAPI Specification
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 54 - 91
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAPI 6 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.29% - 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.50% - 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £731 - -
25th Percentile £739 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £765 - £600
75th Percentile £779 - -
90th Percentile £780 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £765 - £600

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 109 190 319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 23.44% 23.78% 23.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 136 253
10th Percentile £388 £325 £414
25th Percentile £441 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £770 £675 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 6
10th Percentile £84.38 - £61.25
25th Percentile £84.67 - £63.44
Median hourly rate £96.85 £13.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +598.23% -80.19% -
75th Percentile £102.00 - -
90th Percentile - - £75.00
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £96.85 £13.87 £70.00
% change year-on-year +598.23% -80.19% -

OpenAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenAPI in Leeds

OpenAPI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for OpenAPI in Leeds

OpenAPI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Slack
2 4 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 6 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 6 (100.00%) MySQL
1 6 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 6 (100.00%) Git
1 6 (100.00%) Jasmine
1 6 (100.00%) JIRA
1 6 (100.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Senior
2 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Java Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Senior Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) RESTful
1 6 (100.00%) Spring
1 6 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 6 (100.00%) Swagger
2 5 (83.33%) Spring Batch
2 5 (83.33%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) API Design
1 6 (100.00%) BDD
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 6 (100.00%) Kernel Tuning
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
1 6 (100.00%) OWASP
1 6 (100.00%) TDD
2 5 (83.33%) High Availability
2 5 (83.33%) Mentoring
2 5 (83.33%) Operational Stability
2 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Technical Leadership
2 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
3 4 (66.67%) Coaching
3 4 (66.67%) Integration Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
5 1 (16.67%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Bash
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes