OpenAPI Job Trends in the South West

OpenAPI Specification
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring OpenAPI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 - 212
Rank change year-on-year - - +64
Permanent jobs citing OpenAPI 3 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.059% - 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.62% - 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -42.86%
75th Percentile - - £50,000
90th Percentile - - £66,800
England median annual salary £65,000 £112,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -42.22% +80.00% -3.85%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 481 805 1,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.47% 19.41% 25.85%
Number of salaries quoted 361 462 993
10th Percentile £36,750 £42,500 £34,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +3.86%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +1.54% -3.70%

OpenAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

OpenAPI job vacancy trend in the South West

OpenAPI
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing OpenAPI

OpenAPI
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAPI within the South West region over the 6 months to 14 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
Dorset - 2 - -
Bristol - 1 - -
OpenAPI
England

OpenAPI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 2 (66.67%) Confluence
2 1 (33.33%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) Slack
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) CockroachDB
2 1 (33.33%) DB2
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Checkstyle
1 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
1 2 (66.67%) ESLint
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) Gradle
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) JUnit
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
1 2 (66.67%) Mockito
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
1 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
1 2 (66.67%) TestNG
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (66.67%) JWT
2 2 (66.67%) OAuth
2 2 (66.67%) OAuth2
2 2 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) Spring MVC
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Security
2 2 (66.67%) Swagger
3 1 (33.33%) EJB
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Private Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Dependency Management
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Static Code Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk