OpenAPI Job Trends in the North West

OpenAPI Specification
England > North West

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 203 195
Rank change year-on-year +25 -8 +109
Permanent jobs citing OpenAPI 4 2 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.064% 0.039% 0.049%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.78% 0.23% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £83,500 £41,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,000 £42,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +104.71% -37.04% +35.00%
75th Percentile £90,500 £43,750 £71,250
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £65,000 £110,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -40.91% +76.00% -3.85%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 512 884 1,023
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.21% 17.33% 24.91%
Number of salaries quoted 438 553 813
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £86,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

OpenAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

OpenAPI job vacancy trend in the North West

OpenAPI
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing OpenAPI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing OpenAPI

OpenAPI
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAPI within the North West region over the 6 months to 6 January 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
Manchester +28 3 - -
Cheshire - 1 £87,000 -
OpenAPI
England

OpenAPI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (75.00%) Apache
1 3 (75.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
1 3 (75.00%) OpenShift
1 3 (75.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Big Data
1 3 (75.00%) Cloudera CDH
1 3 (75.00%) Hadoop
General
1 3 (75.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) REST
1 4 (100.00%) Swagger
2 3 (75.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (75.00%) gRPC
2 3 (75.00%) Material-UI
2 3 (75.00%) Node.js
2 3 (75.00%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (75.00%) React
2 3 (75.00%) Spring
2 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) CentOS
1 3 (75.00%) Debian
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 3 (75.00%) API Development
2 3 (75.00%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Kanban
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Open Source
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Backlog Management
3 1 (25.00%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (25.00%) Product Backlog
3 1 (25.00%) Product Management
3 1 (25.00%) Product Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Product Vision
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Puppet
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (75.00%) SaltStack