OpenAPI Contracts with Work from Home Options

OpenAPI Specification
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 414 558
Rank change year-on-year +94 +144 -136
Contract jobs citing OpenAPI 25 63 74
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.24% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.68% 0.97% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 44 53
10th Percentile £338 - £470
25th Percentile £444 £458 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £600 £505
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +18.81% +1.00%
75th Percentile £603 £675 £603
90th Percentile £625 £775 £698
UK median daily rate £490 £600 £513
% change year-on-year -18.42% +17.07% +0.24%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 3,665 6,516 13,243
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 23.88% 25.20% 29.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,555 4,857 9,782
10th Percentile £331 £395 £396
25th Percentile £428 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.46% +13.02%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £775 £753 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 80 120
10th Percentile £28.00 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £42.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £63.25 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.02% +29.08% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

OpenAPI
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing OpenAPI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OpenAPI trend for jobs with a WFH option

OpenAPI
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing OpenAPI.

OpenAPI daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

OpenAPI
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing OpenAPI over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

OpenAPI daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

OpenAPI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (20.00%) Confluence
2 2 (8.00%) nginx
2 2 (8.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.00%) Anypoint
3 1 (4.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 13 (52.00%) Azure
2 12 (48.00%) AWS
3 9 (36.00%) Serverless
4 4 (16.00%) Apigee
5 3 (12.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (12.00%) GCP
5 3 (12.00%) PaaS
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (8.00%) Azure API Management
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Functions
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (8.00%) GitHub
6 2 (8.00%) iPaaS
7 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.00%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) HTTP
2 2 (8.00%) Firewall
2 2 (8.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 5 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (8.00%) Big Data
3 2 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (8.00%) Redis
3 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) JIRA
2 4 (16.00%) Postman
3 3 (12.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (8.00%) Bitbucket
4 2 (8.00%) EasyMock
4 2 (8.00%) Git
4 2 (8.00%) GitLab
4 2 (8.00%) JUnit
4 2 (8.00%) Maven
4 2 (8.00%) Mockito
4 2 (8.00%) Selenium
4 2 (8.00%) SonarQube
4 2 (8.00%) TestNG
5 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
5 1 (4.00%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Health Technology
4 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (60.00%) Developer
2 5 (20.00%) Analyst
2 5 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (8.00%) Architect
3 2 (8.00%) Azure Developer
3 2 (8.00%) Backend Developer
3 2 (8.00%) C# Developer
3 2 (8.00%) Cloud Developer
3 2 (8.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) GCP Developer
3 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.00%) Python Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Senior
3 2 (8.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (8.00%) Software Developer
3 2 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.00%) SQL Developer
4 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (92.00%) Swagger
2 15 (60.00%) REST
3 7 (28.00%) SOAP
4 5 (20.00%) JSON
4 5 (20.00%) Node.js
5 4 (16.00%) Spring
6 3 (12.00%) .NET
6 3 (12.00%) .NET Core
6 3 (12.00%) Kafka
6 3 (12.00%) OAuth
6 3 (12.00%) OAuth2
6 3 (12.00%) OpenID
6 3 (12.00%) RAML
6 3 (12.00%) YAML
7 2 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (8.00%) Entity Framework
7 2 (8.00%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (8.00%) Spring Boot
7 2 (8.00%) WireMock
7 2 (8.00%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (16.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (12.00%) Public Cloud
4 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
1 3 (12.00%) Unix
2 2 (8.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Test Automation
2 10 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (36.00%) API Design
4 8 (32.00%) Agile
4 8 (32.00%) TDD
5 7 (28.00%) API Management
5 7 (28.00%) DevOps
5 7 (28.00%) Software Engineering
6 6 (24.00%) BDD
6 6 (24.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 6 (24.00%) Microservices
7 5 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
7 5 (20.00%) API Development
7 5 (20.00%) API Testing
7 5 (20.00%) Data Mapping
7 5 (20.00%) Data Modelling
7 5 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
7 5 (20.00%) Service Design
7 5 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
7 5 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) Python
1 7 (28.00%) SQL
2 6 (24.00%) C#
3 5 (20.00%) Java
3 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.00%) PHP
5 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 8 (32.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (12.00%) Ansible
2 3 (12.00%) Terraform
3 2 (8.00%) Kustomize
3 2 (8.00%) Packer
4 1 (4.00%) Grafana
4 1 (4.00%) Istio
4 1 (4.00%) Kibana
4 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 4 (16.00%) Google
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.00%) OpenAI
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle
3 2 (8.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.00%) SAP
4 1 (4.00%) WSO2