OpenAPI Specification
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 672 774 882
Rank change year-on-year +102 +108 +90
Permanent jobs citing OpenAPI 37 138 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.067% 0.13% 0.082%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.39% 0.64% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 12 87 56
10th Percentile - £40,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £58,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £62,500 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -15.25% -1.67%
75th Percentile £65,313 £75,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,625 £101,084 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% -6.12%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,499 21,396 29,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.14% 20.72% 29.95%
Number of salaries quoted 5,834 15,919 18,040
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,810
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,206 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

OpenAPI
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OpenAPI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OpenAPI in the UK

OpenAPI
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OpenAPI.

Salary trend for OpenAPI in the UK

OpenAPI
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenAPI over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for OpenAPI in the UK

OpenAPI
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenAPI within the UK 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
England +76 24 £67,500 +8.00% 312
London +95 19 £57,500 -11.54% 27
UK excluding London +128 15 £55,000 -12.00% 322
Work from Home +83 10 £57,617 -11.36% 181
Northern Ireland - 5 £55,000 - 5
Scotland +103 4 - - 15
Midlands +83 2 £77,500 +86.75% 60
South East +80 2 - - 92
West Midlands +55 2 £77,500 +86.75% 32
South West +76 1 - - 40
Wales +47 1 £37,733 +4.51% 9

OpenAPI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (21.62%) nginx
1 8 (21.62%) Tomcat
2 4 (10.81%) Camunda
2 4 (10.81%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (8.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 28 (75.68%) AWS
2 10 (27.03%) Azure
3 8 (21.62%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 8 (21.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 8 (21.62%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (13.51%) GCP
4 5 (13.51%) SaaS
5 4 (10.81%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (10.81%) Serverless
6 3 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (8.11%) Apigee
6 3 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (8.11%) Kong
7 2 (5.41%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (5.41%) Figma
7 2 (5.41%) SonarCloud
8 1 (2.70%) GitHub
8 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) 3GPP
1 3 (8.11%) 5G
2 1 (2.70%) 4G
2 1 (2.70%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (2.70%) HTTP
2 1 (2.70%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (24.32%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (21.62%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (21.62%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (21.62%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (21.62%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (32.43%) JUnit
2 9 (24.32%) Bitbucket
2 9 (24.32%) Jenkins
3 8 (21.62%) Cucumber
3 8 (21.62%) Maven
3 8 (21.62%) Mockito
3 8 (21.62%) Postman
3 8 (21.62%) Selenium
3 8 (21.62%) SonarQube
3 8 (21.62%) TestNG
4 6 (16.22%) Git
5 4 (10.81%) JIRA
6 2 (5.41%) Cypress.io
6 2 (5.41%) GitLab
6 2 (5.41%) Vite
6 2 (5.41%) webpack
7 1 (2.70%) Robot Framework
General
1 21 (56.76%) Finance
2 17 (45.95%) Social Skills
3 12 (32.43%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (29.73%) Law
5 10 (27.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (21.62%) Manufacturing
6 8 (21.62%) Public Sector
7 7 (18.92%) Games
8 6 (16.22%) Banking
8 6 (16.22%) Marketing
9 3 (8.11%) Telecoms
10 2 (5.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) Java Engineer
1 10 (27.03%) Senior
2 9 (24.32%) Software Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Architect
3 5 (13.51%) Senior Architect
3 5 (13.51%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 5 (13.51%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (10.81%) Developer
4 4 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Lead
6 2 (5.41%) Android Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Gen AI Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (5.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 2 (5.41%) UI Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (78.38%) Swagger
2 17 (45.95%) REST
3 15 (40.54%) RESTful
3 15 (40.54%) Spring Boot
4 14 (37.84%) Spring
5 13 (35.14%) Kafka
6 8 (21.62%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (21.62%) Gherkin
6 8 (21.62%) Guice
6 8 (21.62%) JAX-RS
6 8 (21.62%) Mustache
6 8 (21.62%) WireMock
7 5 (13.51%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (13.51%) React
8 4 (10.81%) JDBC
8 4 (10.81%) Vue
8 4 (10.81%) WSDL
9 3 (8.11%) Node.js
10 2 (5.41%) NumPy
10 2 (5.41%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 11 (29.73%) Cloud Native
2 8 (21.62%) Life Science
3 7 (18.92%) Mobile App
4 6 (16.22%) Algorithms
5 5 (13.51%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (13.51%) Mobile Games
6 3 (8.11%) Management Information System
6 3 (8.11%) Public Cloud
7 1 (2.70%) Driving Licence
7 1 (2.70%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Android
2 1 (2.70%) Debian
2 1 (2.70%) Linux
2 1 (2.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (67.57%) CI/CD
2 19 (51.35%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (43.24%) Software Engineering
4 15 (40.54%) Agile
5 11 (29.73%) DevOps
5 11 (29.73%) Test Automation
6 10 (27.03%) Microservices
6 10 (27.03%) OO
7 9 (24.32%) Artificial Intelligence
7 9 (24.32%) Code Quality
7 9 (24.32%) Machine Learning
7 9 (24.32%) SDLC
8 8 (21.62%) Architectural Design
8 8 (21.62%) Auto-Scaling
8 8 (21.62%) BDD
8 8 (21.62%) Dependency Injection
8 8 (21.62%) Full-Stack Development
8 8 (21.62%) Innovative Thinking
8 8 (21.62%) Multithreading
8 8 (21.62%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (45.95%) Java
2 9 (24.32%) Python
3 8 (21.62%) SQL
4 6 (16.22%) Go
5 5 (13.51%) JavaScript
6 3 (8.11%) Lua
6 3 (8.11%) TypeScript
7 2 (5.41%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.70%) C#
8 1 (2.70%) C++
8 1 (2.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (16.22%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 14 (37.84%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 19 (51.35%) Kubernetes
2 13 (35.14%) Terraform
3 9 (24.32%) Packer
4 8 (21.62%) Ansible
4 8 (21.62%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Red Hat
2 5 (13.51%) Google
3 4 (10.81%) Dynatrace
3 4 (10.81%) Oracle
3 4 (10.81%) Splunk
4 3 (8.11%) MKS
4 3 (8.11%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.70%) Databricks