OpenAPI Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

OpenAPI Specification
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 397 544 640
Rank change year-on-year +147 +96 +59
Permanent jobs citing OpenAPI 16 45 31
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.13% 0.073%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.41% 0.50% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4 45 22
10th Percentile £44,413 - £52,392
25th Percentile £54,433 £61,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -10.34% +26.09%
75th Percentile £89,688 £75,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £104,875 £111,250 £136,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 3,933 8,978 14,466
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.28% 26.53% 33.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,186 7,510 10,860
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,225 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £79,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%

OpenAPI
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing OpenAPI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OpenAPI trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

OpenAPI
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing OpenAPI.

OpenAPI salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

OpenAPI
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing OpenAPI over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

OpenAPI salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

OpenAPI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) AWS
2 7 (43.75%) Azure
3 6 (37.50%) GCP
3 6 (37.50%) SaaS
4 3 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (18.75%) Serverless
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (12.50%) GitHub
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (6.25%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) 3GPP
1 1 (6.25%) 4G
1 1 (6.25%) 5G
1 1 (6.25%) Diameter Protocol
1 1 (6.25%) HTTP
1 1 (6.25%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (18.75%) DynamoDB
3 1 (6.25%) Big Data
3 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
3 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Git
2 5 (31.25%) Cypress.io
2 5 (31.25%) Vite
2 5 (31.25%) webpack
3 1 (6.25%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) Robot Framework
General
1 11 (68.75%) Games
2 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 5 (31.25%) Law
4 1 (6.25%) Advertising
4 1 (6.25%) Back Office
4 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Senior
2 6 (37.50%) Architect
2 6 (37.50%) Senior Architect
2 6 (37.50%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 6 (37.50%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (31.25%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 5 (31.25%) Gen AI Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 5 (31.25%) UI Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) UX Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Software Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Developer
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Software Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Development Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Lead Software Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Kafka
1 6 (37.50%) Node.js
1 6 (37.50%) RabbitMQ
1 6 (37.50%) React
2 5 (31.25%) Enzyme
2 5 (31.25%) Jest
2 5 (31.25%) Next.js
2 5 (31.25%) Parceljs
2 5 (31.25%) Svelte
2 5 (31.25%) Vue
2 5 (31.25%) WebAssembly
3 4 (25.00%) Swagger
4 3 (18.75%) RESTful
5 2 (12.50%) GraphQL
5 2 (12.50%) REST
6 1 (6.25%) AWS CDK
6 1 (6.25%) gRPC
6 1 (6.25%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (6.25%) SOAP
6 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Cloud Native
2 6 (37.50%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (37.50%) Mobile App
2 6 (37.50%) Mobile Games
3 5 (31.25%) Algorithms
4 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (6.25%) Driving Licence
4 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Debian
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Software Engineering
2 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
3 8 (50.00%) Agile
3 8 (50.00%) DevOps
3 8 (50.00%) Event-Driven
3 8 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 8 (50.00%) Microservices
4 7 (43.75%) API Design
4 7 (43.75%) Architectural Patterns
4 7 (43.75%) Computer Science
4 7 (43.75%) Containerisation
4 7 (43.75%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (37.50%) B2B
5 6 (37.50%) Data Analytics
5 6 (37.50%) Data Modelling
5 6 (37.50%) Domain-Driven Design
5 6 (37.50%) Integration Patterns
5 6 (37.50%) Migration
5 6 (37.50%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) JavaScript
2 8 (50.00%) Python
2 8 (50.00%) SQL
3 7 (43.75%) TypeScript
4 6 (37.50%) Go
5 3 (18.75%) Java
6 1 (6.25%) C#
6 1 (6.25%) C++
6 1 (6.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (43.75%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Argo
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Google