OpenAPI Job Trends in London

OpenAPI Specification
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring OpenAPI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 367 481
Rank change year-on-year +10 +114 +96
Permanent jobs citing OpenAPI 46 17 35
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.23% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.42% 0.52% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 15 8 31
10th Percentile £62,750 - -
25th Percentile - £56,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £115,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -43.48% +76.92% -18.75%
75th Percentile - £125,000 £108,125
90th Percentile - - £111,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £110,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -40.91% +76.00% -4.58%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,230 3,267 5,743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.85% 25.88% 24.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,231 2,412 4,706
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £130,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £67,000 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.13% +10.42% -11.11%

OpenAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

OpenAPI job vacancy trend in London

OpenAPI
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing OpenAPI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing OpenAPI

OpenAPI
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenAPI in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for OpenAPI in London

OpenAPI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 12 (26.09%) Appian
2 1 (2.17%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 30 (65.22%) Azure
2 12 (26.09%) Anthropic Claude
2 12 (26.09%) Azure AI
2 12 (26.09%) Azure Data Factory
2 12 (26.09%) GCP
2 12 (26.09%) Power Automate
3 8 (17.39%) Figma
4 7 (15.22%) SaaS
5 4 (8.70%) AWS
6 3 (6.52%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.17%) Azure API Management
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.17%) npm
7 1 (2.17%) Serverless
7 1 (2.17%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) AMQP
1 1 (2.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (26.09%) Pinecone
1 12 (26.09%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.52%) Power BI
3 1 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.17%) Metadata
3 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.17%) MySQL
3 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (36.96%) Postman
2 12 (26.09%) MLflow
3 8 (17.39%) Storybook
4 1 (2.17%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.17%) JUnit
4 1 (2.17%) Mocha
4 1 (2.17%) Mockito
4 1 (2.17%) webpack
General
1 21 (45.65%) Social Skills
2 19 (41.30%) Law
3 18 (39.13%) Finance
4 6 (13.04%) Back Office
4 6 (13.04%) Banking
4 6 (13.04%) Financial Institution
4 6 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (13.04%) Retail
5 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (36.96%) Analyst
2 16 (34.78%) Data Analyst
3 12 (26.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 12 (26.09%) Automation Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Architect
4 6 (13.04%) Software Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (10.87%) Developer
6 3 (6.52%) React Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Integration Analyst
8 1 (2.17%) .NET Software Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Software Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (2.17%) Java Developer
8 1 (2.17%) Lead
8 1 (2.17%) Lead Software Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) QA Analyst
8 1 (2.17%) QA Tester
8 1 (2.17%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (91.30%) Swagger
2 35 (76.09%) RESTful
3 19 (41.30%) REST
4 14 (30.43%) OAuth
5 13 (28.26%) JWT
6 12 (26.09%) Django
6 12 (26.09%) Faiss
6 12 (26.09%) FastAPI
6 12 (26.09%) Flask
6 12 (26.09%) Hugging Face
6 12 (26.09%) NumPy
6 12 (26.09%) Pandas
6 12 (26.09%) pytest
6 12 (26.09%) PyTorch
6 12 (26.09%) scikit-learn
6 12 (26.09%) TensorFlow
6 12 (26.09%) Web Services
7 9 (19.57%) Express.js
7 9 (19.57%) Node.js
7 9 (19.57%) React
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.78%) Data Structures
2 13 (28.26%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (26.09%) Low-Code
4 7 (15.22%) Product Ownership
5 6 (13.04%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (10.87%) Mobile App
7 2 (4.35%) Blog
7 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
8 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (60.87%) Data Modelling
1 28 (60.87%) ETL
2 26 (56.52%) AI
2 26 (56.52%) API Integration
3 21 (45.65%) API Development
3 21 (45.65%) Containerisation
4 18 (39.13%) API Design
5 16 (34.78%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 16 (34.78%) Decision-Making
5 16 (34.78%) Software Engineering
6 14 (30.43%) CI/CD
7 13 (28.26%) Data Analysis
7 13 (28.26%) LLM
7 13 (28.26%) Natural Language Understanding
7 13 (28.26%) Prompt Engineering
7 13 (28.26%) Validation
8 12 (26.09%) Data Cleansing
8 12 (26.09%) Data Validation
8 12 (26.09%) Machine Learning
8 12 (26.09%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 30 (65.22%) Python
2 29 (63.04%) SQL
3 4 (8.70%) Java
4 2 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.17%) Bash
5 1 (2.17%) C#
5 1 (2.17%) R
5 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (10.87%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (10.87%) Degree
2 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (32.61%) Data Quality
2 8 (17.39%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 22 (47.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (30.43%) Kubernetes
2 8 (17.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (26.09%) Automation Anywhere
1 12 (26.09%) OpenAI
1 12 (26.09%) UiPath
2 9 (19.57%) Microsoft
3 8 (17.39%) Google
4 5 (10.87%) Atlassian
5 3 (6.52%) Foundry