OpenAPI Contracts in Scotland

OpenAPI Specification
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for OpenAPI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OpenAPI over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 160 174
Rank change year-on-year +35 +14 -
Contract jobs citing OpenAPI 3 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.14% 0.10% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.64% 0.43% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £524
25th Percentile £613 - £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £568
75th Percentile £638 - £603
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £490 £600 £513
% change year-on-year -18.42% +17.07% +0.24%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

OpenAPI is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 469 691 720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.13% 24.14% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 527 486
10th Percentile £330 £406 £360
25th Percentile £410 £438 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £549 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 10
10th Percentile £33.58 £49.99 £37.73
25th Percentile £44.94 £53.38 £41.89
Median hourly rate £53.75 £59.03 £47.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.94% +24.93% +15.24%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.52 £49.34
90th Percentile - £67.81 £56.75
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

OpenAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenAPI in Scotland

OpenAPI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for OpenAPI in Scotland

OpenAPI
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAPI within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
Edinburgh +41 3 £625 - 4
OpenAPI
UK

OpenAPI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) iPaaS
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Django Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (33.33%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) Django
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) Laravel
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) Swagger
1 3 (100.00%) Yii
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland