OpenAPI Contracts in the Thames Valley

OpenAPI Specification
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 138 134 163
Rank change year-on-year -4 +29 -27
Contract jobs citing OpenAPI 2 17 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.075% 0.58% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.54% 3.41% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 17 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 £575 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% +57.14%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £588
90th Percentile - £715 -
South East median daily rate £600 £650 £525
% change year-on-year -7.69% +23.81% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley 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 370 498 605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.79% 16.96% 17.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 358 437
10th Percentile £325 £363 £354
25th Percentile £425 £432 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.67%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 5
10th Percentile £56.58 £52.90 £30.50
25th Percentile £56.65 £75.06 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £78.75 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.78% +20.23% +63.75%
75th Percentile - £80.25 £68.25
90th Percentile £62.00 £80.48 £75.54
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +55.56% -

OpenAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing OpenAPI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for OpenAPI in the Thames Valley

OpenAPI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenAPI in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for OpenAPI in the Thames Valley

OpenAPI
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAPI within the Thames Valley 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
Buckinghamshire +13 2 £600 -7.69%
OpenAPI
South East

OpenAPI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Developer
1 2 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Management
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Creative Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) SOLID
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft