OpenAPI Contract Job Trends in Manchester

OpenAPI Specification
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring OpenAPI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 79 94
Rank change year-on-year -17 +15 -
Contract jobs citing OpenAPI 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.15% 0.20% 0.063%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.54% 0.82% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £461 - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 - £325
75th Percentile £494 - £338
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £394 £475 £325
% change year-on-year -17.11% +46.15% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 369 243 386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 27.46% 23.94% 24.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 175 320
10th Percentile £342 £368 £367
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £602 £650 £659
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 0 10
10th Percentile - - £64.38
25th Percentile £52.50 - £67.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £72.19
Median % change year-on-year - - +60.41%
75th Percentile £77.50 - £80.44
90th Percentile £95.00 - £82.50
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £67.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year +3.32% +46.71% +2.62%

OpenAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

OpenAPI job vacancy trend in Manchester

OpenAPI
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing OpenAPI

OpenAPI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (50.00%) Apigee
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (50.00%) Stackdriver
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Spinnaker
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Swagger
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) JSF
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) API Design
1 1 (50.00%) API Development
1 1 (50.00%) API Management
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (50.00%) Coaching
1 1 (50.00%) Community of Practice
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Istio
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace