OpenAPI Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

OpenAPI Specification
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring OpenAPI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAPI 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.93% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.48% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £428 - -
25th Percentile £431 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £544 - -
90th Percentile £563 - -
North East median daily rate £475 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 67 55 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 20.81% 25.11% 26.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 38 36
10th Percentile £388 £335 £334
25th Percentile £409 £369 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £460 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.98% -16.36% -
75th Percentile £575 £590 £625
90th Percentile £600 £650 £720
North East median daily rate £488 £455 £545
% change year-on-year +7.14% -16.51% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £45.85 - -
25th Percentile £47.88 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £54.38 - -
90th Percentile £54.75 - -
North East median hourly rate £52.50 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +13.69% - -5.76%

OpenAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

OpenAPI job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

OpenAPI
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing OpenAPI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing OpenAPI

OpenAPI
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAPI within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 3 December 2025. 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 3 £475 - 1
OpenAPI
North East

OpenAPI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) Swagger
2 2 (66.67%) Next.js
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (33.33%) JPA
3 1 (33.33%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (33.33%) Middleware
3 1 (33.33%) React
3 1 (33.33%) RESTful
3 1 (33.33%) Spring
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Competitor Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Functional Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) UML
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) QA
1 1 (33.33%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes