OpenAPI Contracts in England

OpenAPI Specification
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 489 576 691
Rank change year-on-year +87 +115 -163
Contract jobs citing OpenAPI 42 70 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.14% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.56% 0.63% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 50 58
10th Percentile £338 - £450
25th Percentile £425 £458 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% +2.94%
75th Percentile £556 £675 £612
90th Percentile £619 £753 £725
UK median daily rate £490 £585 £509
% change year-on-year -16.24% +14.99% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 advertised in England 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 7,506 11,095 19,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.62% 22.90% 26.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,332 8,243 14,310
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £570
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% -1.84% +14.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £788 £769
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 127 214
10th Percentile £22.50 £25.75 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.65 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +6.10%
75th Percentile £65.64 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

OpenAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenAPI in England

OpenAPI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for OpenAPI in England

OpenAPI
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenAPI in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OpenAPI in England

OpenAPI
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAPI within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
London +82 23 £500 +7.53% 18
Midlands +23 6 £490 -
North of England +30 5 £505 -15.83% 4
East Midlands +21 5 £490 -
Yorkshire +18 4 £506 -15.67% 1
South East +6 3 £600 -4.00% 2
East of England +11 1 £325 -38.10%
West Midlands - 1 - -
North West - 1 £325 - 3
OpenAPI
UK

OpenAPI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (11.90%) Anypoint
1 5 (11.90%) nginx
2 3 (7.14%) Tomcat
3 2 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 27 (64.29%) AWS
2 20 (47.62%) Azure
3 16 (38.10%) Serverless
4 9 (21.43%) GCP
5 8 (19.05%) Apigee
5 8 (19.05%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (11.90%) OpenShift
6 5 (11.90%) SaaS
7 3 (7.14%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 3 (7.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 3 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (7.14%) Azure Functions
7 3 (7.14%) GitHub
8 2 (4.76%) Azure API Management
8 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (4.76%) npm
8 2 (4.76%) Snowflake
8 2 (4.76%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) Firewall
2 3 (7.14%) HTTP
3 2 (4.76%) AMQP
3 2 (4.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.81%) NoSQL
2 7 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 6 (14.29%) MongoDB
4 4 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (9.52%) Relational Database
5 3 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (4.76%) Big Data
6 2 (4.76%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (35.71%) Git
2 8 (19.05%) Jenkins
3 6 (14.29%) Bitbucket
4 5 (11.90%) Postman
4 5 (11.90%) TeamCity
5 4 (9.52%) Cucumber
6 3 (7.14%) Cypress.io
6 3 (7.14%) EasyMock
6 3 (7.14%) JIRA
6 3 (7.14%) JUnit
6 3 (7.14%) Maven
6 3 (7.14%) Mockito
6 3 (7.14%) Selenium
6 3 (7.14%) SonarQube
6 3 (7.14%) TestNG
7 2 (4.76%) GitLab
7 2 (4.76%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (4.76%) Mocha
8 1 (2.38%) Xcode
General
1 8 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Banking
4 2 (4.76%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.38%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.38%) Tech for Good
5 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (59.52%) Developer
2 5 (11.90%) Backend Developer
2 5 (11.90%) MuleSoft Developer
3 4 (9.52%) Angular Developer
3 4 (9.52%) Architect
4 3 (7.14%) Azure Developer
4 3 (7.14%) Java Developer
4 3 (7.14%) Senior
4 3 (7.14%) Software Developer
4 3 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.76%) .NET Developer
5 2 (4.76%) C# Developer
5 2 (4.76%) C++ Developer
5 2 (4.76%) Data Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (4.76%) GCP Developer
5 2 (4.76%) Lead
5 2 (4.76%) Python Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) SQL Developer
5 2 (4.76%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (90.48%) Swagger
2 20 (47.62%) REST
3 12 (28.57%) Node.js
4 10 (23.81%) RAML
4 10 (23.81%) SOAP
4 10 (23.81%) Spring
5 9 (21.43%) OAuth
5 9 (21.43%) RESTful
6 8 (19.05%) Kafka
7 7 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (14.29%) AngularJS
8 6 (14.29%) GraphQL
8 6 (14.29%) gRPC
8 6 (14.29%) JWT
9 5 (11.90%) ActiveMQ
9 5 (11.90%) Apache Camel
9 5 (11.90%) OAuth2
10 4 (9.52%) .NET
10 4 (9.52%) JSON
10 4 (9.52%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 7 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 4 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.14%) IoT
4 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.76%) Data Fabric
4 2 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.38%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) Windows
2 3 (7.14%) Linux
2 3 (7.14%) Unix
3 1 (2.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (33.33%) Agile
3 11 (26.19%) Microservices
3 11 (26.19%) Software Engineering
4 10 (23.81%) API Management
4 10 (23.81%) Test Automation
5 9 (21.43%) Configuration Management
6 8 (19.05%) Data Modelling
6 8 (19.05%) Software Delivery
7 7 (16.67%) Event-Driven
7 7 (16.67%) TDD
8 6 (14.29%) API Design
8 6 (14.29%) API Development
8 6 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (14.29%) Validation
9 5 (11.90%) DevOps
9 5 (11.90%) Functional Programming
Programming Languages
1 19 (45.24%) Java
2 15 (35.71%) SQL
3 14 (33.33%) Python
4 9 (21.43%) C#
5 8 (19.05%) JavaScript
6 7 (16.67%) TypeScript
7 3 (7.14%) C
8 2 (4.76%) C++
8 2 (4.76%) Kotlin
9 1 (2.38%) MATLAB
9 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.38%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) Degree
2 3 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) GDPR
1 4 (9.52%) HIPAA
2 2 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 20 (47.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (45.24%) Kubernetes
2 8 (19.05%) Ansible
2 8 (19.05%) Terraform
3 3 (7.14%) Grafana
3 3 (7.14%) Kustomize
3 3 (7.14%) Packer
3 3 (7.14%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.38%) Istio
4 1 (2.38%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (28.57%) Google
2 7 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.90%) MuleSoft
3 5 (11.90%) Oracle
3 5 (11.90%) Salesforce
3 5 (11.90%) SAP
3 5 (11.90%) WSO2
4 3 (7.14%) Red Hat
5 2 (4.76%) Atlassian
5 2 (4.76%) Databricks
5 2 (4.76%) OpenAI