OpenAPI Jobs in the UK excluding London

OpenAPI Specification
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OpenAPI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited OpenAPI over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 562 690 726
Rank change year-on-year +128 +36 +97
Permanent jobs citing OpenAPI 15 81 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.038% 0.11% 0.050%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.28% 0.56% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 7 36 12
10th Percentile £45,093 £39,750 £36,052
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,625 £45,575
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% -6.12%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,813 £66,875
90th Percentile £68,500 £78,375 £68,750
UK median annual salary £56,250 £62,500 £73,750
% change year-on-year -10.00% -15.25% -1.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,357 14,578 15,822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.60% 19.55% 27.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,285 10,484 8,797
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,250 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £66,206 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.34% -11.11% +3.85%

OpenAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OpenAPI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OpenAPI in the UK excluding London

OpenAPI
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OpenAPI in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for OpenAPI in the UK excluding London

OpenAPI
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenAPI in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for OpenAPI in the UK excluding London

OpenAPI
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAPI within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
Northern Ireland - 5 £55,000 - 5
Scotland +103 4 - - 15
Midlands +83 2 £77,500 +86.75% 60
South East +80 2 - - 91
West Midlands +55 2 £77,500 +86.75% 32
South West +76 1 - - 40
Wales +47 1 £37,733 +4.51% 9
OpenAPI
UK

OpenAPI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (33.33%) nginx
1 5 (33.33%) Tomcat
2 4 (26.67%) Camunda
2 4 (26.67%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 13 (86.67%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 5 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 5 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (20.00%) Serverless
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (6.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) JUnit
2 6 (40.00%) Bitbucket
3 5 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 5 (33.33%) Maven
3 5 (33.33%) Mockito
3 5 (33.33%) Postman
3 5 (33.33%) Selenium
3 5 (33.33%) SonarQube
3 5 (33.33%) TestNG
4 3 (20.00%) Git
5 2 (13.33%) Cypress.io
5 2 (13.33%) Vite
5 2 (13.33%) webpack
6 1 (6.67%) GitLab
6 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 9 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (60.00%) Finance
2 6 (40.00%) Law
2 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (33.33%) Manufacturing
3 5 (33.33%) Public Sector
4 4 (26.67%) Marketing
5 2 (13.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Java Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Gen AI Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 2 (13.33%) UI Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) UX Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Developer
5 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (80.00%) Swagger
2 11 (73.33%) REST
3 10 (66.67%) Spring Boot
4 9 (60.00%) Spring
5 5 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (33.33%) Gherkin
5 5 (33.33%) Guice
5 5 (33.33%) JAX-RS
5 5 (33.33%) Kafka
5 5 (33.33%) Mustache
5 5 (33.33%) RESTful
5 5 (33.33%) WireMock
6 4 (26.67%) JDBC
6 4 (26.67%) WSDL
7 3 (20.00%) Node.js
7 3 (20.00%) React
8 2 (13.33%) Enzyme
8 2 (13.33%) Jest
8 2 (13.33%) Vue
8 2 (13.33%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Algorithms
2 5 (33.33%) Life Science
3 1 (6.67%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) CI/CD
2 9 (60.00%) Agile
2 9 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (46.67%) OO
3 7 (46.67%) Software Engineering
4 6 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 6 (40.00%) Machine Learning
5 5 (33.33%) Auto-Scaling
5 5 (33.33%) BDD
5 5 (33.33%) Code Quality
5 5 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
5 5 (33.33%) Innovative Thinking
5 5 (33.33%) Multithreading
5 5 (33.33%) MVC
5 5 (33.33%) OOP
5 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 5 (33.33%) Unit Testing
6 4 (26.67%) ETL
6 4 (26.67%) Visualisation
6 4 (26.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Java
2 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 5 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (13.33%) Go
4 2 (13.33%) SQL
5 1 (6.67%) C#
5 1 (6.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 12 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (66.67%) Terraform
3 6 (40.00%) Packer
4 5 (33.33%) Ansible
4 5 (33.33%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 4 (26.67%) Dynatrace
2 4 (26.67%) Oracle
2 4 (26.67%) Splunk