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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 - 232
Rank change year-on-year - - +37
Permanent jobs citing OpenAPI 6 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.11% - 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.19% - 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62,500 - £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.71%
75th Percentile £67,500 - £70,250
90th Percentile - - £78,300
England median annual salary £65,000 £115,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -43.48% +84.00% -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 504 803 1,430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.51% 19.84% 25.56%
Number of salaries quoted 368 458 1,156
10th Percentile £36,750 £42,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £43,285
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +0.22%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -5.55%

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 23 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 - - 1
Wiltshire - 2 £65,000 - 1
Bristol - 1 - - 1
Gloucestershire - 1 - - 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 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (16.67%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) GitHub
1 4 (66.67%) Serverless
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (33.33%) Azure API Management
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Functions
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (33.33%) Slack
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
4 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) AMQP
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) CockroachDB
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Big Data
2 1 (16.67%) Cloudera CDH
2 1 (16.67%) DB2
2 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Checkstyle
1 2 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 2 (33.33%) ESLint
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
1 2 (33.33%) Gradle
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) JUnit
1 2 (33.33%) Maven
1 2 (33.33%) Mockito
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
1 2 (33.33%) SonarQube
1 2 (33.33%) TestNG
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) .NET Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Senior .NET Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Swagger
2 4 (66.67%) Spring
2 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
3 3 (50.00%) REST
4 2 (33.33%) .NET
4 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
4 2 (33.33%) CSS
4 2 (33.33%) CSS3
4 2 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (33.33%) HTML
4 2 (33.33%) HTML5
4 2 (33.33%) jQuery
4 2 (33.33%) LESS
4 2 (33.33%) OAuth
4 2 (33.33%) OAuth2
4 2 (33.33%) Razor View Engine
4 2 (33.33%) RESTful
4 2 (33.33%) Sass
4 2 (33.33%) Spring MVC
4 2 (33.33%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) CentOS
1 1 (16.67%) Debian
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) MVC
4 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (33.33%) Agile Project Management
5 2 (33.33%) API Management
5 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
5 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
5 2 (33.33%) Dependency Management
5 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (33.33%) Migration
5 2 (33.33%) Project Management
5 2 (33.33%) Static Code Analysis
5 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
5 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 1 (16.67%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) Bash
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) VB
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Grafana
2 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Puppet
3 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) Splunk
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) SaltStack