OpenAPI Contract Job Trends in Scotland

OpenAPI Specification
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring OpenAPI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 114 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAPI 15 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.63% 0.063% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.95% 0.22% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% - -
75th Percentile - £488 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -5.00% -16.67% +8.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 508 465 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.48% 29.25% 22.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 272 278
10th Percentile £320 £376 £354
25th Percentile £400 £430 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -2.06%
75th Percentile £538 £555 £550
90th Percentile £634 £625 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 £52.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% - -2.48%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.70 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.83% -12.48% +4.17%

OpenAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

OpenAPI job vacancy trend in Scotland

OpenAPI
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing OpenAPI

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 September 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
Glasgow - 14 £425 - 4
OpenAPI
UK

OpenAPI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 10 (66.67%) Kong
2 9 (60.00%) AWS
3 7 (46.67%) Amazon ECS
3 7 (46.67%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (46.67%) Amazon MSK
4 6 (40.00%) Apigee
5 2 (13.33%) Akamai
5 2 (13.33%) CloudFront
General
1 13 (86.67%) Finance
2 8 (53.33%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Lead
2 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Technical Leader
3 1 (6.67%) Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (93.33%) Swagger
2 11 (73.33%) Terraform
3 10 (66.67%) RESTful
4 5 (33.33%) JWT
4 5 (33.33%) OAuth
4 5 (33.33%) OAuth2
4 5 (33.33%) OpenID
5 2 (13.33%) JSON
5 2 (13.33%) JSON Schema
5 2 (13.33%) Next.js
5 2 (13.33%) React
5 2 (13.33%) REST
6 1 (6.67%) gRPC
6 1 (6.67%) Spring
6 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (80.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (66.67%) DevOps
3 7 (46.67%) API Management
3 7 (46.67%) Validation
4 6 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 6 (40.00%) Operational Stability
5 3 (20.00%) API Design
5 3 (20.00%) GitOps
6 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
7 1 (6.67%) Analytical Modelling
7 1 (6.67%) Analytical Thinking
7 1 (6.67%) Architectural Patterns
7 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security
7 1 (6.67%) Concurrent Programming
7 1 (6.67%) Event-Driven
7 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (6.67%) Multithreaded Programming
7 1 (6.67%) Prototyping
7 1 (6.67%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) Go
2 7 (46.67%) Java
2 7 (46.67%) Lua
3 3 (20.00%) Python
4 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 1 (6.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (80.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft