OpenAPI Job Trends in the UK excluding London

OpenAPI Specification
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OpenAPI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 564 521
Rank change year-on-year +77 -43 +187
Permanent jobs citing OpenAPI 30 16 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.072% 0.043% 0.098%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.78% 0.22% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 13 5 9
10th Percentile £33,750 £39,000 -
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -28.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £93,000 £81,900
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -3.85%

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 3,839 7,185 7,328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.15% 19.28% 23.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,936 4,046 5,721
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

OpenAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OpenAPI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

OpenAPI job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

OpenAPI
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OpenAPI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OpenAPI

OpenAPI
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenAPI in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

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 1 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
North of England +34 13 £48,750 +14.71% 5
Scotland - 11 - -
Yorkshire +3 9 £42,500 -29.17% 3
North West +28 4 £87,000 +104.71% 2
South East +20 3 £65,000 -40.91% 4
South West - 3 - - 2
OpenAPI
UK

OpenAPI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (16.67%) Anypoint
2 3 (10.00%) Apache
2 3 (10.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (6.67%) Confluence
4 1 (3.33%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 19 (63.33%) Azure
2 12 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (36.67%) AWS
3 11 (36.67%) Azure Key Vault
3 11 (36.67%) dbt
3 11 (36.67%) Snowflake
4 6 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (20.00%) Serverless
5 5 (16.67%) Datadog
6 3 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (10.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (10.00%) GCP
6 3 (10.00%) GitHub
6 3 (10.00%) OpenShift
6 3 (10.00%) Power Automate
6 3 (10.00%) Zapier
7 2 (6.67%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (6.67%) Slack
8 1 (3.33%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) AMQP
2 1 (3.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Big Data
1 3 (10.00%) Cloudera CDH
1 3 (10.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.67%) CockroachDB
3 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.33%) DB2
3 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.33%) Redis
3 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Postman
2 2 (6.67%) Checkstyle
2 2 (6.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (6.67%) ESLint
2 2 (6.67%) GitLab
2 2 (6.67%) Gradle
2 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.67%) JIRA
2 2 (6.67%) JUnit
2 2 (6.67%) Maven
2 2 (6.67%) Mockito
2 2 (6.67%) Selenium
2 2 (6.67%) SonarQube
2 2 (6.67%) TestNG
General
1 14 (46.67%) Finance
2 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Law
4 3 (10.00%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (40.00%) Senior
2 11 (36.67%) Azure Engineer
3 9 (30.00%) Developer
4 6 (20.00%) Integration Developer
5 3 (10.00%) C# Developer
5 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Applications Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Cloud Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Business Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Designer
7 1 (3.33%) IoT Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Product Owner
7 1 (3.33%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Solutions Designer
7 1 (3.33%) Technical Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (96.67%) Swagger
2 18 (60.00%) OAuth
3 11 (36.67%) GraphQL
4 9 (30.00%) REST
5 7 (23.33%) JWT
6 6 (20.00%) RESTful
6 6 (20.00%) Spring
6 6 (20.00%) Spring Boot
7 5 (16.67%) RAML
7 5 (16.67%) SAML
8 4 (13.33%) .NET
8 4 (13.33%) Node.js
9 3 (10.00%) AngularJS
9 3 (10.00%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (10.00%) gRPC
9 3 (10.00%) Material-UI
9 3 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (10.00%) React
10 2 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (6.67%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 5 (16.67%) IoT
3 2 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.67%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) CentOS
1 3 (10.00%) Debian
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
1 3 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (10.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (3.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (66.67%) Agile
2 15 (50.00%) DevOps
3 14 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 14 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (46.67%) Software Engineering
4 12 (40.00%) OO
5 11 (36.67%) Asset Management
5 11 (36.67%) Coaching
5 11 (36.67%) Mentoring
5 11 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 4 (13.33%) Event-Driven
7 4 (13.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 4 (13.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 3 (10.00%) Kanban
8 3 (10.00%) Microservices
8 3 (10.00%) Open Source
8 3 (10.00%) Scrum
8 3 (10.00%) Telematics
8 3 (10.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 17 (56.67%) SQL
2 16 (53.33%) C#
3 11 (36.67%) PowerShell
4 8 (26.67%) Python
5 7 (23.33%) Java
6 5 (16.67%) DataWeave
6 5 (16.67%) PHP
7 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
8 2 (6.67%) Bash
9 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Degree
2 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.67%) IIBA
3 2 (6.67%) PhD
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (46.67%) Terraform
2 8 (26.67%) Kubernetes
3 5 (16.67%) CloudHub
4 3 (10.00%) Ansible
4 3 (10.00%) Puppet
5 2 (6.67%) Grafana
5 2 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.67%) Google
2 5 (16.67%) MuleSoft
3 3 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (10.00%) SaltStack
4 2 (6.67%) Oracle
4 2 (6.67%) Splunk