OpenAPI Job Trends in the North of England

OpenAPI Specification
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring OpenAPI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 243 272 281
Rank change year-on-year +29 +9 +126
Permanent jobs citing OpenAPI 13 5 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.12% 0.053% 0.067%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.21% 0.31% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 10 3 1
10th Percentile £33,625 - -
25th Percentile £34,375 £41,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £42,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% -37.04% +3.85%
75th Percentile £58,438 £51,875 £71,250
90th Percentile £61,925 £56,750 -
England median annual salary £65,000 £85,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -23.53% +36.00% -3.85%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,075 1,604 1,894
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 10.22% 16.94% 25.34%
Number of salaries quoted 876 964 1,514
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,438 £43,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £74,444 £71,281 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,175 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

OpenAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

OpenAPI job vacancy trend in the North of England

OpenAPI
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing OpenAPI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing OpenAPI

OpenAPI
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenAPI in the North of England over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for OpenAPI in the North of England

OpenAPI
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAPI within the North of England region over the 6 months to 30 December 2025. 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
Yorkshire +10 9 £42,500 -29.17% 10
North West +28 4 £87,000 +104.71% 7
OpenAPI
England

OpenAPI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (38.46%) Anypoint
2 3 (23.08%) Apache
2 3 (23.08%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) Datadog
2 5 (38.46%) Serverless
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (23.08%) GCP
3 3 (23.08%) OpenShift
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon Cognito
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.69%) Azure API Management
5 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Big Data
1 3 (23.08%) Cloudera CDH
1 3 (23.08%) Hadoop
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Postman
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Law
3 3 (23.08%) Aerospace
4 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Integration Developer
3 3 (23.08%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Software Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Applications Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Designer
5 1 (7.69%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) IoT Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Junior
5 1 (7.69%) Product Owner
5 1 (7.69%) Solutions Designer
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (100.00%) Swagger
2 6 (46.15%) RESTful
3 5 (38.46%) JWT
3 5 (38.46%) OAuth
3 5 (38.46%) RAML
3 5 (38.46%) SAML
4 4 (30.77%) Node.js
4 4 (30.77%) REST
5 3 (23.08%) AngularJS
5 3 (23.08%) gRPC
5 3 (23.08%) Material-UI
5 3 (23.08%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (23.08%) React
5 3 (23.08%) Spring
5 3 (23.08%) Spring Boot
6 1 (7.69%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Product Ownership
2 5 (38.46%) Cloud Native
3 2 (15.38%) Data Structures
3 2 (15.38%) IoT
4 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) CentOS
1 3 (23.08%) Debian
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Ubuntu
2 1 (7.69%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
2 4 (30.77%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (23.08%) API Development
3 3 (23.08%) Collaborative Culture
3 3 (23.08%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (23.08%) Kanban
3 3 (23.08%) Microservices
3 3 (23.08%) Open Source
3 3 (23.08%) Scrum
3 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) User Stories
4 2 (15.38%) Business Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) Business Strategy
4 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
4 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) Requirements Management
4 2 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) DataWeave
1 5 (38.46%) PHP
1 5 (38.46%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 2 (15.38%) C#
5 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) DV Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) IIBA
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) CloudHub
1 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 3 (23.08%) Ansible
2 3 (23.08%) Puppet
2 3 (23.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) MuleSoft
2 3 (23.08%) Google
2 3 (23.08%) Red Hat
2 3 (23.08%) SaltStack