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 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 316 390 547
Rank change year-on-year +74 +157 -116
Contract jobs citing OpenAPI 25 65 72
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.26% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.69% 1.04% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 48 51
10th Percentile £338 - £469
25th Percentile £444 £458 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £547 £675 £603
90th Percentile £624 £775 £688
UK median daily rate £490 £585 £509
% change year-on-year -16.24% +14.99% -0.73%

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 3,632 6,254 13,181
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.67% 25.24% 29.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,554 4,663 9,746
10th Percentile £343 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -1.82% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £650
90th Percentile £800 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 75 122
10th Percentile £24.23 £22.35 £21.10
25th Percentile - £41.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £60.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% +20.60% +10.56%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £65.47
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.15 £75.76
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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 20 May 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 15 (60.00%) Azure
2 14 (56.00%) AWS
3 9 (36.00%) Serverless
4 5 (20.00%) GCP
5 4 (16.00%) Apigee
6 3 (12.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (12.00%) PaaS
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (8.00%) Azure API Management
7 2 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (8.00%) Azure Functions
7 2 (8.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (8.00%) GitHub
8 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (4.00%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
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%) Git
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%) 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%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Health Technology
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (52.00%) 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%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.00%) SQL Developer
4 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft 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 13 (52.00%) REST
3 7 (28.00%) SOAP
4 5 (20.00%) JSON
4 5 (20.00%) Node.js
4 5 (20.00%) OAuth
5 4 (16.00%) RESTful
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%) 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%) GraphQL
7 2 (8.00%) gRPC
7 2 (8.00%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (8.00%) WireMock
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%) CI/CD
1 12 (48.00%) Test Automation
2 9 (36.00%) API Design
3 8 (32.00%) Agile
3 8 (32.00%) TDD
4 7 (28.00%) API Development
4 7 (28.00%) API Management
4 7 (28.00%) Data Modelling
4 7 (28.00%) DevOps
4 7 (28.00%) Software Engineering
5 6 (24.00%) BDD
5 6 (24.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 6 (24.00%) Microservices
6 5 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
6 5 (20.00%) API Testing
6 5 (20.00%) Data Mapping
6 5 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
6 5 (20.00%) Service Design
6 5 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 5 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) Java
1 7 (28.00%) Python
1 7 (28.00%) SQL
2 6 (24.00%) C#
3 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) QA
2 2 (8.00%) GDPR
2 2 (8.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 10 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (36.00%) 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 6 (24.00%) Google
2 5 (20.00%) Atlassian
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