OpenAPI Contracts

OpenAPI Specification
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 612 751
Rank change year-on-year +76 +139 -164
Contract jobs citing OpenAPI 48 85 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.52% 0.67% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 60 61
10th Percentile £338 - £469
25th Percentile £450 £458 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £588 £628 £609
90th Percentile £615 £775 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -17.08% +4.35% +15.00%
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 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 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 9,217 12,733 23,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.10% 22.93% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,352 9,286 17,244
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 153 227
10th Percentile £22.20 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £67.18
90th Percentile £74.48 £80.85 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +62 43 £500 -12.85% 18
Work from Home +78 23 £488 -2.35% 13
London +61 21 £500 +7.53% 8
UK excluding London +17 19 £498 -17.08% 16
North of England +20 8 £505 -15.83% 3
Midlands +23 7 £490 - 1
Yorkshire +16 7 £506 -15.67%
East Midlands +11 5 £490 -
South East +2 2 £600 -7.69% 3
West Midlands - 2 £550 - 1
East of England +5 1 £325 -38.10%
South West 0 1 - - 2
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 (14.58%) Anypoint
2 5 (10.42%) Confluence
3 4 (8.33%) nginx
4 1 (2.08%) CMS
4 1 (2.08%) Mendix
4 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.08%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 32 (66.67%) AWS
2 28 (58.33%) Azure
3 21 (43.75%) Serverless
4 12 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (25.00%) GCP
5 10 (20.83%) Apigee
6 7 (14.58%) OpenShift
6 7 (14.58%) SaaS
7 4 (8.33%) GitHub
8 3 (6.25%) Azure Functions
8 3 (6.25%) npm
8 3 (6.25%) Yarn
9 2 (4.17%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (4.17%) PaaS
10 1 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (2.08%) Kong
10 1 (2.08%) Power Platform
10 1 (2.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) Firewall
2 3 (6.25%) AMQP
2 3 (6.25%) HTTP
3 2 (4.17%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 7 (14.58%) SQL Server
3 6 (12.50%) MongoDB
4 4 (8.33%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.17%) Big Data
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.08%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.08%) Power BI
6 1 (2.08%) Redis
6 1 (2.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (41.67%) Git
2 9 (18.75%) Jenkins
3 8 (16.67%) JIRA
4 7 (14.58%) TeamCity
5 5 (10.42%) Bitbucket
6 4 (8.33%) Cypress.io
7 3 (6.25%) Mocha
7 3 (6.25%) Postman
8 2 (4.17%) GitLab
8 2 (4.17%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (4.17%) Maven
9 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
9 1 (2.08%) EasyMock
9 1 (2.08%) JUnit
9 1 (2.08%) Mockito
9 1 (2.08%) Selenium
9 1 (2.08%) SonarQube
9 1 (2.08%) TestNG
9 1 (2.08%) Xcode
General
1 9 (18.75%) Finance
2 6 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.42%) Banking
4 3 (6.25%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.08%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.08%) Tech for Good
5 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (52.08%) Developer
2 7 (14.58%) MuleSoft Developer
3 5 (10.42%) Analyst
3 5 (10.42%) Senior
3 5 (10.42%) Technical Analyst
4 4 (8.33%) Angular Developer
4 4 (8.33%) Architect
5 3 (6.25%) Backend Developer
5 3 (6.25%) Python Developer
5 3 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.17%) .NET Developer
6 2 (4.17%) C++ Developer
6 2 (4.17%) Cloud Developer
6 2 (4.17%) Data Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.17%) Java Developer
6 2 (4.17%) Lead
6 2 (4.17%) Python Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (89.58%) Swagger
2 23 (47.92%) REST
3 15 (31.25%) Node.js
4 14 (29.17%) OAuth
5 13 (27.08%) SOAP
6 12 (25.00%) RAML
7 11 (22.92%) RESTful
8 10 (20.83%) RabbitMQ
9 9 (18.75%) GraphQL
9 9 (18.75%) gRPC
9 9 (18.75%) JWT
9 9 (18.75%) Spring
10 7 (14.58%) ActiveMQ
10 7 (14.58%) AngularJS
10 7 (14.58%) Apache Camel
10 7 (14.58%) OAuth2
11 6 (12.50%) .NET
11 6 (12.50%) JSON
12 4 (8.33%) Kafka
13 3 (6.25%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.75%) Public Cloud
2 7 (14.58%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (10.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (8.33%) Product Ownership
5 3 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
6 2 (4.17%) Mobile App
7 1 (2.08%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.08%) IoT
7 1 (2.08%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.33%) Linux
1 4 (8.33%) Unix
1 4 (8.33%) Windows
2 1 (2.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (47.92%) CI/CD
2 18 (37.50%) Agile
3 16 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 15 (31.25%) Microservices
5 14 (29.17%) Data Modelling
6 12 (25.00%) API Development
6 12 (25.00%) API Management
7 11 (22.92%) Test Automation
8 10 (20.83%) TDD
9 9 (18.75%) API Design
9 9 (18.75%) Configuration Management
9 9 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (18.75%) Event-Driven
9 9 (18.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 9 (18.75%) Software Delivery
10 8 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (16.67%) Validation
11 7 (14.58%) DevOps
11 7 (14.58%) Integration Patterns
11 7 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 17 (35.42%) Java
1 17 (35.42%) Python
2 16 (33.33%) SQL
3 10 (20.83%) JavaScript
4 9 (18.75%) C#
4 9 (18.75%) TypeScript
5 3 (6.25%) C
5 3 (6.25%) Kotlin
6 2 (4.17%) C++
7 1 (2.08%) Groovy
7 1 (2.08%) MATLAB
7 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.08%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (10.42%) Degree
2 3 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.50%) GDPR
1 6 (12.50%) HIPAA
1 6 (12.50%) QA
2 3 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 24 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (45.83%) Kubernetes
2 9 (18.75%) Ansible
3 8 (16.67%) Terraform
4 3 (6.25%) Grafana
4 3 (6.25%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.08%) Kustomize
5 1 (2.08%) Packer
Vendors
1 16 (33.33%) Google
2 10 (20.83%) Microsoft
3 7 (14.58%) MuleSoft
3 7 (14.58%) Salesforce
3 7 (14.58%) SAP
3 7 (14.58%) WSO2
4 6 (12.50%) Oracle
5 5 (10.42%) Atlassian
6 2 (4.17%) OpenAI
7 1 (2.08%) AppDynamics
7 1 (2.08%) OutSystems
7 1 (2.08%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.08%) Splunk
7 1 (2.08%) UiPath