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 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 318 393
Rank change year-on-year +51 +75 +171
Contract jobs citing OpenAPI 42 22 59
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.43% 0.15% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.61% 0.59% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 19 46
10th Percentile £416 £333 -
25th Percentile £466 £428 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.10% -2.20% -
75th Percentile £575 £547 £675
90th Percentile £680 £620 £775
UK median daily rate £530 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +6.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 2,610 3,705 5,963
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.78% 25.26% 25.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,885 2,593 4,469
10th Percentile £358 £350 £383
25th Percentile £419 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £825 £825 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -3.11% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 92 76
10th Percentile £50.70 £24.23 £25.75
25th Percentile £61.25 - £49.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -33.85% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £62.00 £74.06
90th Percentile £88.00 £72.50 £79.50
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £51.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.11% -20.38% +23.81%

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 16 June 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 3 (7.14%) JBoss
1 3 (7.14%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.76%) Anypoint
2 2 (4.76%) Confluence
3 1 (2.38%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 11 (26.19%) AWS
2 10 (23.81%) Azure
3 6 (14.29%) GCP
3 6 (14.29%) Serverless
4 4 (9.52%) Amazon S3
4 4 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (9.52%) GitHub
5 3 (7.14%) Amazon Cognito
5 3 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Functions
6 2 (4.76%) npm
6 2 (4.76%) Slack
7 1 (2.38%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (2.38%) CloudFront
7 1 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.38%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 8 (19.05%) 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 16 (38.10%) Relational Database
3 6 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 6 (14.29%) MySQL
4 3 (7.14%) DynamoDB
4 3 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (7.14%) Neo4j
4 3 (7.14%) Redis
5 2 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 22 (52.38%) JUnit
2 16 (38.10%) Gradle
2 16 (38.10%) Mockito
3 14 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 13 (30.95%) Liquibase
5 7 (16.67%) Git
5 7 (16.67%) JIRA
6 5 (11.90%) Postman
7 4 (9.52%) Maven
8 3 (7.14%) Bitbucket
8 3 (7.14%) Cypress.io
8 3 (7.14%) Eclipse
8 3 (7.14%) IntelliJ
8 3 (7.14%) Mocha
8 3 (7.14%) Selenium
8 3 (7.14%) SonarQube
8 3 (7.14%) TestNG
8 3 (7.14%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (4.76%) Cucumber
9 2 (4.76%) GitLab
General
1 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.76%) Finance
3 2 (4.76%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (83.33%) Developer
2 21 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 16 (38.10%) Lead
3 16 (38.10%) Senior
4 15 (35.71%) Lead Developer
5 14 (33.33%) Lead Java Developer
5 14 (33.33%) Senior Developer
6 13 (30.95%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (9.52%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 3 (7.14%) Digital Developer
8 3 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (7.14%) JavaScript Engineer
8 3 (7.14%) React Developer
9 2 (4.76%) AWS Developer
9 2 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) AWS Software Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) Cloud Developer
9 2 (4.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 2 (4.76%) MuleSoft Developer
9 2 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (100.00%) Swagger
2 23 (54.76%) Spring Boot
3 19 (45.24%) React
3 19 (45.24%) Spring
4 18 (42.86%) Kafka
5 14 (33.33%) REST
6 10 (23.81%) RESTful
7 8 (19.05%) OAuth
8 7 (16.67%) Node.js
9 5 (11.90%) AngularJS
9 5 (11.90%) CSS
9 5 (11.90%) GraphQL
9 5 (11.90%) HTML
10 4 (9.52%) Next.js
11 3 (7.14%) AWS CDK
11 3 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (7.14%) GatsbyJS
11 3 (7.14%) Jest
11 3 (7.14%) JWT
11 3 (7.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.14%) Algorithms
1 3 (7.14%) Data Structures
1 3 (7.14%) Mobile App
1 3 (7.14%) Vector Graphics
2 2 (4.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (4.76%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.29%) Linux
2 3 (7.14%) Windows
2 3 (7.14%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (76.19%) Microservices
2 26 (61.90%) Containerisation
3 24 (57.14%) DevOps
4 21 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 20 (47.62%) Agile
6 19 (45.24%) Software Engineering
7 17 (40.48%) TDD
8 14 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (28.57%) Migration
10 11 (26.19%) API Development
11 10 (23.81%) Test Automation
12 8 (19.05%) API Management
13 7 (16.67%) Mentoring
14 6 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
14 6 (14.29%) User Experience
14 6 (14.29%) UX Design
15 5 (11.90%) API Design
15 5 (11.90%) Event-Driven
15 5 (11.90%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 5 (11.90%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 30 (71.43%) Java
2 19 (45.24%) SQL
2 19 (45.24%) TypeScript
3 11 (26.19%) JavaScript
4 7 (16.67%) Python
5 5 (11.90%) Go
6 3 (7.14%) C#
6 3 (7.14%) PL/SQL
7 2 (4.76%) Bash
7 2 (4.76%) C++
8 1 (2.38%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 20 (47.62%) SC Cleared
1 20 (47.62%) 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
1 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 25 (59.52%) Docker
2 3 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (28.57%) 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%) WSO2
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