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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 239 244 218
Rank change year-on-year +5 -26 +98
Permanent jobs citing OpenAPI 1 2 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.019% 0.026% 0.042%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.094% 0.14% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £83,500 - £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,000 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £90,500 - £62,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -37.50% +3.23%

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 1,062 1,396 1,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 20.61% 17.86% 24.55%
Number of salaries quoted 402 885 883
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £38,800
25th Percentile £50,313 £44,106 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% -7.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £73,500
90th Percentile £89,900 £80,000 £84,056
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

OpenAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing OpenAPI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for OpenAPI 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 10 September 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
Cheshire - 1 £87,000 - 3
OpenAPI
England

OpenAPI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Product Owner
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) Lean Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Portfolio Management
1 1 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) Product Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Product Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories