OpenAPI Job Trends in Gloucestershire

OpenAPI Specification
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring OpenAPI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
3 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 63 92
Rank change year-on-year -43 +29 -
Permanent jobs citing OpenAPI 3 1 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.15% 0.17% 0.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.01% 1.28% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
75th Percentile £72,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £85,000 - £52,000
% change year-on-year - - -5.45%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Gloucestershire

OpenAPI falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 149 78 225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 7.51% 13.02% 17.61%
Number of salaries quoted 98 58 142
10th Percentile £39,250 £27,250 £38,875
25th Percentile £48,750 £37,338 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,438 £68,750
90th Percentile £96,625 £83,750 £77,375
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

OpenAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OpenAPI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

OpenAPI job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

OpenAPI
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing OpenAPI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing OpenAPI

OpenAPI
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAPI within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 3 August 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
Gloucester - 2 - - 4
Cheltenham -35 1 £70,000 - 2
OpenAPI
South West

OpenAPI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Apache
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
1 2 (66.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Big Data
1 2 (66.67%) Cloudera CDH
1 2 (66.67%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Aerospace
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 2 (66.67%) gRPC
1 2 (66.67%) Material-UI
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
1 2 (66.67%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (66.67%) React
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
1 2 (66.67%) Swagger
2 1 (33.33%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (33.33%) Jetpack Compose
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) CentOS
1 2 (66.67%) Debian
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
2 1 (33.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) API Development
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Android Development
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) MVVM
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) Go
3 1 (33.33%) Kotlin
3 1 (33.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Puppet
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 2 (66.67%) SaltStack
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