OpenAPI Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

OpenAPI Specification
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring OpenAPI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 - 33
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAPI 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 0.43% - 1.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.85% - 8.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £421
25th Percentile £331 - £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 - £490
75th Percentile £340 - £495
90th Percentile - - £505
East Midlands median daily rate £380 - £490

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 54 106 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 22.98% 34.75% 20.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 101 42
10th Percentile £375 £256 £341
25th Percentile £381 £313 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £375 £448
Median % change year-on-year +25.67% -16.20% -5.79%
75th Percentile £575 £430 £595
90th Percentile £588 £492 £622
East Midlands median daily rate £500 £408 £445
% change year-on-year +22.70% -8.43% -6.32%

OpenAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

OpenAPI job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

OpenAPI
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing OpenAPI

OpenAPI
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAPI within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 22 August 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
Northampton - 1 £335 -
OpenAPI
East Midlands

OpenAPI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle