OpenAPI Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

OpenAPI Specification
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring OpenAPI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenAPI over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 262 320 414
Rank change year-on-year +58 +94 +144
Contract jobs citing OpenAPI 42 25 63
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.42% 0.16% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.64% 0.68% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 23 44
10th Percentile £414 £338 -
25th Percentile £459 £444 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £488 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.44% -18.75% +18.81%
75th Percentile £613 £603 £675
90th Percentile £688 £625 £775
UK median daily rate £530 £490 £600
% change year-on-year +8.27% -18.42% +17.07%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

OpenAPI
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing OpenAPI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OpenAPI trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

OpenAPI
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing OpenAPI over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 6 (14.29%) Confluence
2 3 (7.14%) JBoss
2 3 (7.14%) Tomcat
3 2 (4.76%) Anypoint
4 1 (2.38%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 11 (26.19%) AWS
2 10 (23.81%) Azure
3 7 (16.67%) Serverless
4 6 (14.29%) GCP
4 6 (14.29%) Slack
5 5 (11.90%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (9.52%) Amazon S3
6 4 (9.52%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (7.14%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (7.14%) Azure Functions
7 3 (7.14%) GitHub
8 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.76%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (2.38%) Apigee
9 1 (2.38%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (2.38%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (2.38%) CloudFront
9 1 (2.38%) npm
9 1 (2.38%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 12 (28.57%) HTTP
2 2 (4.76%) 3GPP
2 2 (4.76%) 4G
2 2 (4.76%) 5G
2 2 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (45.24%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (30.95%) Relational Database
3 10 (23.81%) MongoDB
3 10 (23.81%) MySQL
4 6 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (7.14%) DynamoDB
5 3 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (7.14%) Neo4j
5 3 (7.14%) Redis
6 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.38%) Adabas
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (52.38%) JUnit
2 12 (28.57%) Git
2 12 (28.57%) Gradle
2 12 (28.57%) JIRA
2 12 (28.57%) Mockito
3 11 (26.19%) Jenkins
4 9 (21.43%) Liquibase
5 7 (16.67%) Cucumber
6 6 (14.29%) Jasmine
7 5 (11.90%) Postman
8 4 (9.52%) Bitbucket
8 4 (9.52%) Maven
9 3 (7.14%) Cypress.io
9 3 (7.14%) Eclipse
9 3 (7.14%) IntelliJ
9 3 (7.14%) Mocha
9 3 (7.14%) Selenium
9 3 (7.14%) SonarQube
9 3 (7.14%) TestNG
9 3 (7.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.76%) Finance
3 2 (4.76%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 32 (76.19%) Developer
2 19 (45.24%) Java Developer
3 16 (38.10%) Senior
4 14 (33.33%) Lead
5 13 (30.95%) Senior Developer
6 12 (28.57%) Lead Developer
6 12 (28.57%) Senior Java Developer
7 11 (26.19%) Lead Java Developer
8 4 (9.52%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 4 (9.52%) Software Engineer
9 3 (7.14%) Digital Developer
9 3 (7.14%) Java Engineer
9 3 (7.14%) JavaScript Engineer
10 2 (4.76%) AWS Developer
10 2 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
10 2 (4.76%) AWS Software Engineer
10 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
10 2 (4.76%) Java Software Engineer
10 2 (4.76%) MuleSoft Developer
10 2 (4.76%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (100.00%) Swagger
2 22 (52.38%) Spring Boot
3 20 (47.62%) Spring
4 15 (35.71%) RESTful
5 14 (33.33%) Kafka
5 14 (33.33%) React
5 14 (33.33%) REST
6 8 (19.05%) OAuth
7 6 (14.29%) Node.js
8 5 (11.90%) AngularJS
8 5 (11.90%) GraphQL
8 5 (11.90%) Spring Batch
8 5 (11.90%) Spring Security
9 4 (9.52%) CSS
9 4 (9.52%) Hibernate
9 4 (9.52%) HTML
10 3 (7.14%) JSP
10 3 (7.14%) LDAP
10 3 (7.14%) Struts
10 3 (7.14%) SVG
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 3 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 3 (7.14%) Mobile App
2 3 (7.14%) Vector Graphics
3 2 (4.76%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (21.43%) Linux
2 6 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (7.14%) Windows
3 3 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (73.81%) Microservices
2 25 (59.52%) Containerisation
3 23 (54.76%) CI/CD
4 21 (50.00%) DevOps
5 20 (47.62%) Software Engineering
6 18 (42.86%) Agile
7 16 (38.10%) Continuous Integration
7 16 (38.10%) TDD
8 14 (33.33%) Test Automation
9 11 (26.19%) API Development
9 11 (26.19%) Mentoring
10 10 (23.81%) Migration
11 9 (21.43%) API Design
11 9 (21.43%) High Availability
11 9 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
12 8 (19.05%) API Management
13 6 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
13 6 (14.29%) Kernel Tuning
13 6 (14.29%) Operational Stability
13 6 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 31 (73.81%) Java
2 19 (45.24%) SQL
3 13 (30.95%) TypeScript
4 10 (23.81%) JavaScript
5 6 (14.29%) Bash
5 6 (14.29%) Python
6 5 (11.90%) Go
7 3 (7.14%) C#
7 3 (7.14%) PL/SQL
8 2 (4.76%) C++
9 1 (2.38%) DataWeave
9 1 (2.38%) Natural
9 1 (2.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (45.24%) SC Cleared
1 19 (45.24%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.76%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) Degree
3 1 (2.38%) OCP
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 25 (59.52%) Docker
2 3 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.14%) Grafana
2 3 (7.14%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.76%) Terraform
4 1 (2.38%) Argo
Vendors
1 4 (9.52%) Google
2 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.76%) MuleSoft
3 2 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.38%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.38%) WSO2