OpenAPI Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

OpenAPI Specification
South East > Thames Valley

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 115 142
Rank change year-on-year -12 +27 +7
Contract jobs citing OpenAPI 5 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.22% 0.060% 0.037%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.35% 0.33% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £465 - -
25th Percentile £469 £525 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £499 £575 £625
90th Percentile £507 - -
South East median daily rate £475 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -13.64% -1.79% -13.85%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 370 303 403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.44% 18.09% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 206 216
10th Percentile £363 £382 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £625
90th Percentile £641 £670 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 15
10th Percentile - £72.18 £56.50
25th Percentile - £73.01 £56.65
Median hourly rate £81.00 £75.22 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +22.11% -21.78%
75th Percentile £81.25 £76.61 £66.00
90th Percentile £81.70 £76.96 £90.25
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +0.81% -4.62%

OpenAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

OpenAPI job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

OpenAPI
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing OpenAPI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing OpenAPI

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 6 February 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
Berkshire - 3 £475 -
Oxfordshire - 2 - - 1
OpenAPI
South East

OpenAPI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (40.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) Redis
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Postman
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (40.00%) Billing
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Backend Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Backend Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Python Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Swagger
2 4 (80.00%) RESTful
3 2 (40.00%) JSON
3 2 (40.00%) OAuth
3 2 (40.00%) OAuth2
3 2 (40.00%) OpenID
3 2 (40.00%) REST
4 1 (20.00%) .NET
4 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (20.00%) Celery
4 1 (20.00%) Django
4 1 (20.00%) Flask
4 1 (20.00%) Kafka
4 1 (20.00%) Next.js
4 1 (20.00%) React
4 1 (20.00%) SOAP
4 1 (20.00%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (20.00%) WSDL
4 1 (20.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (40.00%) TM Forum
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) CRM
1 2 (40.00%) Microservices
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) API Design
2 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Order Management
2 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (20.00%) Runbook
2 1 (20.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Argo
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce