OpenAPI Contracts

OpenAPI Specification
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 594 738
Rank change year-on-year +61 +144 -149
Contract jobs citing OpenAPI 46 90 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.16% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.51% 0.70% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 63 68
10th Percentile £338 - £463
25th Percentile £453 £458 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.14% +2.94%
75th Percentile £584 £656 £603
90th Percentile £613 £770 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -17.08% +9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 9,060 12,931 23,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.02% 22.94% 26.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,282 9,442 17,368
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 148 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.53 £22.75
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.48 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -25.49% +18.18% +22.22%

OpenAPI
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OpenAPI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OpenAPI in the UK

OpenAPI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OpenAPI in the UK

OpenAPI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenAPI over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OpenAPI in the UK

OpenAPI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OpenAPI.

Hourly rate trend for OpenAPI in the UK

OpenAPI
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAPI within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 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
England +66 41 £500 -15.97% 19
London +78 22 £500 +7.53% 8
Work from Home +67 22 £488 -11.23% 12
UK excluding London +32 16 £498 -17.08% 16
Midlands +31 7 £490 - 1
North of England +30 6 £505 -15.83% 5
Yorkshire +21 5 £506 -15.67% 2
East Midlands +14 5 £490 -
South East -5 2 £600 -7.69% 3
West Midlands - 2 £550 - 1
East of England +8 1 £325 -38.10%
North West - 1 £325 - 3

OpenAPI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (15.22%) Anypoint
2 5 (10.87%) Confluence
3 4 (8.70%) nginx
4 1 (2.17%) CMS
4 1 (2.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 31 (67.39%) AWS
2 26 (56.52%) Azure
3 20 (43.48%) Serverless
4 12 (26.09%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (23.91%) GCP
6 10 (21.74%) Apigee
7 7 (15.22%) OpenShift
7 7 (15.22%) SaaS
8 3 (6.52%) GitHub
8 3 (6.52%) npm
8 3 (6.52%) Yarn
9 2 (4.35%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (4.35%) Azure Functions
9 2 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (4.35%) PaaS
10 1 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (2.17%) AWS CodeBuild
10 1 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (2.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) Firewall
2 3 (6.52%) AMQP
2 3 (6.52%) HTTP
3 2 (4.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (26.09%) NoSQL
2 7 (15.22%) SQL Server
3 6 (13.04%) MongoDB
4 4 (8.70%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.35%) Big Data
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (41.30%) Git
2 8 (17.39%) Jenkins
3 7 (15.22%) JIRA
3 7 (15.22%) TeamCity
4 5 (10.87%) Bitbucket
5 4 (8.70%) Cypress.io
6 3 (6.52%) Mocha
7 2 (4.35%) GitLab
7 2 (4.35%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (4.35%) Postman
8 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.17%) EasyMock
8 1 (2.17%) JUnit
8 1 (2.17%) Maven
8 1 (2.17%) Mockito
8 1 (2.17%) Selenium
8 1 (2.17%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.17%) TestNG
8 1 (2.17%) Xcode
General
1 9 (19.57%) Finance
2 6 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.87%) Banking
4 3 (6.52%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.17%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.17%) Tech for Good
5 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (52.17%) Developer
2 7 (15.22%) MuleSoft Developer
3 5 (10.87%) Analyst
3 5 (10.87%) Senior
3 5 (10.87%) Technical Analyst
4 4 (8.70%) Angular Developer
4 4 (8.70%) Architect
5 3 (6.52%) Backend Developer
5 3 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.35%) .NET Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Developer
6 2 (4.35%) C++ Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Cloud Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Data Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Java Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Python Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Python Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (89.13%) Swagger
2 23 (50.00%) REST
3 15 (32.61%) Node.js
4 13 (28.26%) SOAP
5 12 (26.09%) RAML
6 11 (23.91%) OAuth
7 10 (21.74%) RabbitMQ
7 10 (21.74%) RESTful
8 9 (19.57%) Spring
9 8 (17.39%) GraphQL
9 8 (17.39%) gRPC
9 8 (17.39%) JWT
10 7 (15.22%) ActiveMQ
10 7 (15.22%) AngularJS
10 7 (15.22%) Apache Camel
11 6 (13.04%) .NET
11 6 (13.04%) OAuth2
12 5 (10.87%) JSON
12 5 (10.87%) Kafka
13 3 (6.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Public Cloud
2 7 (15.22%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (10.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (8.70%) Product Ownership
5 3 (6.52%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
6 2 (4.35%) IoT
7 1 (2.17%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (2.17%) Data Fabric
7 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.70%) Windows
2 3 (6.52%) Linux
2 3 (6.52%) Unix
3 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (45.65%) CI/CD
2 17 (36.96%) Agile
3 16 (34.78%) Software Engineering
4 14 (30.43%) Microservices
5 12 (26.09%) API Management
5 12 (26.09%) Data Modelling
6 11 (23.91%) API Development
7 10 (21.74%) Configuration Management
7 10 (21.74%) Software Delivery
7 10 (21.74%) Test Automation
8 9 (19.57%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (19.57%) TDD
9 8 (17.39%) API Design
9 8 (17.39%) Event-Driven
9 8 (17.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (15.22%) Continuous Deployment
10 7 (15.22%) DevOps
10 7 (15.22%) Functional Programming
10 7 (15.22%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 17 (36.96%) Java
2 16 (34.78%) SQL
3 15 (32.61%) Python
4 10 (21.74%) JavaScript
5 8 (17.39%) C#
5 8 (17.39%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.52%) C
6 3 (6.52%) Kotlin
7 2 (4.35%) C++
8 1 (2.17%) MATLAB
8 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (8.70%) Degree
2 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) GDPR
1 5 (10.87%) HIPAA
1 5 (10.87%) QA
2 3 (6.52%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (47.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (43.48%) Kubernetes
2 8 (17.39%) Ansible
2 8 (17.39%) Terraform
3 3 (6.52%) Grafana
3 3 (6.52%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.17%) Kustomize
4 1 (2.17%) Packer
Vendors
1 15 (32.61%) Google
2 9 (19.57%) Microsoft
3 7 (15.22%) MuleSoft
3 7 (15.22%) Salesforce
3 7 (15.22%) SAP
3 7 (15.22%) WSO2
4 6 (13.04%) Oracle
5 5 (10.87%) Atlassian
6 2 (4.35%) OpenAI
7 1 (2.17%) Databricks
7 1 (2.17%) Red Hat