OpenAPI Specification
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for OpenAPI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited OpenAPI over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 758 893 974
Rank change year-on-year +135 +81 -176
Permanent jobs citing OpenAPI 136 88 249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.087% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.65% 0.29% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 88 61 43
10th Percentile £44,375 £45,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,392 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% -2.96% +8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £95,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,431 £100,000 £93,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% - -8.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

OpenAPI is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,085 30,349 64,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.25% 30.08% 40.67%
Number of salaries quoted 15,771 18,723 29,931
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,834 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.14% +14.55%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for OpenAPI in the UK

OpenAPI
Top 13 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 11 May 2024. 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 +107 103 £62,500 -4.58% 23
UK excluding London +51 81 £62,500 +8.70% 13
Work from Home +98 46 £65,000 -25.71% 11
London +117 36 £65,000 -21.21% 13
South West - 28 £60,000 - 2
Scotland -41 20 £82,606 - 3
North of England +38 16 £62,500 -5.66% 5
North West +17 14 £62,500 +25.00% 3
South East +7 11 £62,500 +4.17% 2
Midlands - 5 £41,500 -
West Midlands - 5 £41,500 -
North East - 2 £57,500 -
Wales +5 1 £36,103 -11.41%

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 26 (19.12%) Apache
1 26 (19.12%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.88%) Confluence
2 8 (5.88%) nginx
3 1 (0.74%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 67 (49.26%) Serverless
2 65 (47.79%) AWS
3 59 (43.38%) Azure
4 36 (26.47%) AWS Lambda
5 35 (25.74%) GCP
6 33 (24.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (19.12%) Amazon EKS
7 26 (19.12%) OpenShift
8 22 (16.18%) npm
9 14 (10.29%) Yarn
10 13 (9.56%) Azure Functions
11 12 (8.82%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (8.82%) Azure Service Bus
12 11 (8.09%) Azure API Management
12 11 (8.09%) Azure Logic Apps
13 9 (6.62%) GitHub
13 9 (6.62%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (1.47%) Azure App Service
14 2 (1.47%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 33 (24.26%) AMQP
2 1 (0.74%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (23.53%) Big Data
2 31 (22.79%) SQL Server
3 26 (19.12%) Cloudera CDH
3 26 (19.12%) Hadoop
4 17 (12.50%) MongoDB
4 17 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (12.50%) Relational Database
5 15 (11.03%) NoSQL
6 10 (7.35%) DynamoDB
7 6 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.94%) RDBMS
9 3 (2.21%) MySQL
10 2 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.47%) Redis
11 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.74%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 32 (23.53%) Git
2 17 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
3 16 (11.76%) Postman
4 15 (11.03%) Jasmine
4 15 (11.03%) Karma Test Runner
5 11 (8.09%) Cypress.io
6 10 (7.35%) Jenkins
6 10 (7.35%) Maven
7 9 (6.62%) Cucumber
7 9 (6.62%) JIRA
7 9 (6.62%) Mocha
8 6 (4.41%) JUnit
9 5 (3.68%) Visual Studio
10 3 (2.21%) Mockito
11 2 (1.47%) ESLint
12 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.74%) GitLab
12 1 (0.74%) Storybook
12 1 (0.74%) Vite
12 1 (0.74%) webpack
General
1 32 (23.53%) Aerospace
1 32 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 31 (22.79%) Finance
3 24 (17.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (12.50%) Law
5 15 (11.03%) Banking
5 15 (11.03%) Private Banking
6 11 (8.09%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (5.15%) Health Technology
8 6 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (3.68%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.47%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.74%) Legal
11 1 (0.74%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 71 (52.21%) Developer
2 55 (40.44%) Software Engineer
3 32 (23.53%) Senior
4 26 (19.12%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 20 (14.71%) Senior Developer
6 14 (10.29%) UI Developer
7 13 (9.56%) Backend Developer
7 13 (9.56%) Senior Backend Developer
8 12 (8.82%) Senior Software Engineer
9 11 (8.09%) Azure Developer
9 11 (8.09%) C# Developer
10 10 (7.35%) Python Developer
11 9 (6.62%) DevOps Developer
11 9 (6.62%) Django Developer
11 9 (6.62%) Java Engineer
11 9 (6.62%) Python/Django Developer
12 8 (5.88%) Lead
13 7 (5.15%) Java Developer
13 7 (5.15%) Java Software Engineer
13 7 (5.15%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (88.24%) Swagger
2 72 (52.94%) AngularJS
3 55 (40.44%) React
4 53 (38.97%) Node.js
5 43 (31.62%) .NET
5 43 (31.62%) Spring
6 41 (30.15%) Spring Boot
7 40 (29.41%) REST
8 39 (28.68%) RESTful
9 35 (25.74%) gRPC
10 33 (24.26%) CSS
10 33 (24.26%) HTML
10 33 (24.26%) OAuth
10 33 (24.26%) RabbitMQ
11 26 (19.12%) Material-UI
12 25 (18.38%) JSON
13 23 (16.91%) OAuth2
14 21 (15.44%) ASP.NET
14 21 (15.44%) jQuery
15 20 (14.71%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 45 (33.09%) Cloud Native
2 18 (13.24%) Product Ownership
3 11 (8.09%) Data Structures
4 10 (7.35%) Public Cloud
5 8 (5.88%) IoT
6 7 (5.15%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.74%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.74%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.74%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 27 (19.85%) Linux
2 26 (19.12%) CentOS
2 26 (19.12%) Debian
2 26 (19.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 26 (19.12%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (67.65%) Agile
2 69 (50.74%) Software Engineering
3 58 (42.65%) Microservices
4 51 (37.50%) Scrum
5 42 (30.88%) Containerisation
6 36 (26.47%) DevOps
7 34 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 33 (24.26%) Test Automation
9 29 (21.32%) CI/CD
10 28 (20.59%) API Development
11 27 (19.85%) Configuration Management
12 26 (19.12%) Collaborative Working
12 26 (19.12%) Kanban
12 26 (19.12%) Open Source
12 26 (19.12%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 23 (16.91%) Actionable Insight
14 22 (16.18%) Stakeholder Management
15 21 (15.44%) Front End Development
15 21 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
16 20 (14.71%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 77 (56.62%) JavaScript
2 65 (47.79%) Java
3 45 (33.09%) C#
4 41 (30.15%) Python
4 41 (30.15%) TypeScript
5 36 (26.47%) SQL
6 21 (15.44%) T-SQL
7 10 (7.35%) Go
8 8 (5.88%) Kotlin
9 7 (5.15%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.74%) C++
10 1 (0.74%) Dart
10 1 (0.74%) F#
10 1 (0.74%) R
10 1 (0.74%) Ruby
10 1 (0.74%) Scala
Qualifications
1 42 (30.88%) Security Cleared
2 38 (27.94%) SC Cleared
3 26 (19.12%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.88%) Degree
5 3 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (16.18%) Accessibility
2 15 (11.03%) WAI
3 9 (6.62%) QA
4 6 (4.41%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
System Software
1 30 (22.06%) Docker
2 2 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (32.35%) Kubernetes
2 27 (19.85%) Ansible
2 27 (19.85%) Terraform
3 26 (19.12%) Puppet
4 9 (6.62%) Grafana
4 9 (6.62%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.47%) Istio
5 2 (1.47%) Kibana
6 1 (0.74%) Consul
6 1 (0.74%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.74%) Packer
Vendors
1 37 (27.21%) Google
2 27 (19.85%) Red Hat
3 26 (19.12%) SaltStack
4 19 (13.97%) Microsoft
5 6 (4.41%) Oracle
6 5 (3.68%) DevExpress
6 5 (3.68%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.74%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.74%) Databricks