OpenAPI Contract Job Trends in Leeds

OpenAPI Specification
West Yorkshire > Leeds

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 47 -
Rank change year-on-year -30 - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAPI 2 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.26% 1.43% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.98% 5.51% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £324 £731 -
25th Percentile £341 £739 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £765 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.98% - -
75th Percentile £403 £779 -
90th Percentile £416 £780 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £375 £765 -
% change year-on-year -50.98% - -

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 204 127 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 26.53% 26.02% 23.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 72 158
10th Percentile £363 £405 £368
25th Percentile £440 £450 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £615
90th Percentile £675 £738 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £102.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year - +64.52% -11.43%
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £102.00 £44.39
% change year-on-year - +129.78% -36.59%

OpenAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

OpenAPI job vacancy trend in Leeds

OpenAPI
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing OpenAPI

OpenAPI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 2 (100.00%) Apigee
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (50.00%) Stackdriver
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Spinnaker
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Swagger
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Design
1 2 (100.00%) API Management
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Istio
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (50.00%) Google