OpenAPI Contracts in the UK excluding London

OpenAPI Specification
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 405 507
Rank change year-on-year +21 +102 -90
Contract jobs citing OpenAPI 16 33 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.077% 0.14% 0.056%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.48% 0.80% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 25 13
10th Percentile £313 £454 -
25th Percentile £417 £575 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.08% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £516 £675 £588
90th Percentile £580 - £603
UK median daily rate £500 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -11.11% +7.14% +2.94%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London 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 3,346 4,139 6,067
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.06% 18.17% 19.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,187 3,088 4,346
10th Percentile £325 £350 £361
25th Percentile £406 £424 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £588
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 86 134
10th Percentile £22.70 £22.37 £19.73
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.56 £35.00
Median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.49% +17.65% +22.78%
75th Percentile £68.38 £75.00 £67.84
90th Percentile £74.45 £79.19 £77.22
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%

OpenAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OpenAPI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OpenAPI in the UK excluding London

OpenAPI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenAPI in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for OpenAPI in the UK excluding London

OpenAPI
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenAPI in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OpenAPI in the UK excluding London

OpenAPI
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Midlands +29 7 £490 - 1
North of England +24 6 £505 -15.83% 5
Yorkshire +18 5 £506 -15.67% 2
East Midlands +16 5 £490 -
South East -4 2 £600 -7.69% 2
West Midlands - 2 £550 - 1
East of England +5 1 £325 -38.10%
North West - 1 £325 - 3
OpenAPI
UK

OpenAPI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) AWS
2 9 (56.25%) Azure
3 6 (37.50%) Serverless
4 5 (31.25%) GCP
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Functions
6 1 (6.25%) Azure API Management
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (6.25%) GitHub
6 1 (6.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) Postman
General
1 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Developer
5 1 (6.25%) C# Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) SQL Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (100.00%) Swagger
2 10 (62.50%) RESTful
3 5 (31.25%) GraphQL
3 5 (31.25%) gRPC
3 5 (31.25%) JWT
3 5 (31.25%) OAuth
3 5 (31.25%) RAML
4 3 (18.75%) REST
5 2 (12.50%) .NET
5 2 (12.50%) .NET Core
5 2 (12.50%) .NET Framework
5 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET
5 2 (12.50%) Entity Framework
5 2 (12.50%) jQuery
5 2 (12.50%) Lambda Expressions
5 2 (12.50%) LINQ
5 2 (12.50%) SOAP
5 2 (12.50%) Web Services
6 1 (6.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Augmented Reality
1 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 6 (37.50%) API Development
2 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (31.25%) Architectural Design
3 5 (31.25%) Containerisation
3 5 (31.25%) Data Integration
3 5 (31.25%) Data Modelling
3 5 (31.25%) Data Privacy
3 5 (31.25%) Data Validation
3 5 (31.25%) Event-Driven
3 5 (31.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 5 (31.25%) Mentoring
3 5 (31.25%) OO
3 5 (31.25%) Project Delivery
3 5 (31.25%) Validation
4 4 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 4 (25.00%) TDD
5 3 (18.75%) Agile
6 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (12.50%) Load Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Java
2 8 (50.00%) C#
3 7 (43.75%) Python
4 3 (18.75%) SQL
5 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) GDPR
1 5 (31.25%) HIPAA
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft