OpenAPI Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

OpenAPI Specification
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring OpenAPI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAPI 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.100% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.34% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £375 £765 -
% change year-on-year -50.98% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 293 76 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 29.21% 21.47% 26.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 55 59
10th Percentile £374 £370 £400
25th Percentile £447 £432 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £445
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +23.60% -15.24%
75th Percentile £546 £650 £538
90th Percentile £625 £706 £588
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £486
% change year-on-year - +2.83% -7.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £14.35
25th Percentile - - £16.94
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £67.50 £96.85 £22.50
% change year-on-year -30.30% +330.42% -67.86%

OpenAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

OpenAPI job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

OpenAPI
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAPI within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 April 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
Sheffield - 1 - - 1
OpenAPI
Yorkshire

OpenAPI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) gRPC
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (100.00%) Quarkus
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 20022
1 1 (100.00%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes