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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 768 871 974
Rank change year-on-year +103 +103 -160
Permanent jobs citing OpenAPI 139 76 289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.080% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.65% 0.28% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 87 55 39
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £48,010
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,625 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% +6.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,084 £109,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £62,500
% 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 21,541 27,618 70,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.52% 29.18% 41.54%
Number of salaries quoted 16,014 17,838 29,844
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +4.65% +17.27%
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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +76 108 £62,500 -21.88% 18
UK excluding London +21 81 £62,500 +8.70% 14
Work from Home +67 47 £65,000 -31.58% 11
London +109 39 £65,000 -27.78% 8
South West - 31 £60,000 - 2
Scotland -50 18 £82,606 - 1
North of England +33 16 £62,500 -7.41% 5
North West +9 14 £62,500 +4.17% 3
South East -2 10 £62,500 +8.70% 2
Midlands - 5 £41,500 - 1
West Midlands - 5 £41,500 - 1
North East - 2 £57,500 -
Wales +7 1 £36,103 -11.41% 1

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 30 (21.58%) Apache Spark
2 29 (20.86%) Apache
3 9 (6.47%) nginx
4 7 (5.04%) Confluence
5 2 (1.44%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.72%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 70 (50.36%) AWS
1 70 (50.36%) Serverless
2 62 (44.60%) Azure
3 39 (28.06%) AWS Lambda
4 38 (27.34%) GCP
5 36 (25.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 29 (20.86%) Amazon EKS
6 29 (20.86%) OpenShift
7 22 (15.83%) npm
8 14 (10.07%) Yarn
9 13 (9.35%) Azure Functions
9 13 (9.35%) Azure Service Bus
10 12 (8.63%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (7.91%) Azure API Management
11 11 (7.91%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (7.91%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (6.47%) GitHub
12 9 (6.47%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (1.44%) Amazon Cognito
13 2 (1.44%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (25.90%) AMQP
2 1 (0.72%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (25.18%) Big Data
2 29 (20.86%) Cloudera CDH
2 29 (20.86%) Hadoop
2 29 (20.86%) SQL Server
3 20 (14.39%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (12.23%) MongoDB
5 16 (11.51%) Relational Database
6 15 (10.79%) NoSQL
7 10 (7.19%) DynamoDB
8 7 (5.04%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (3.60%) MySQL
10 4 (2.88%) RDBMS
11 3 (2.16%) MariaDB
12 2 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.44%) Redis
13 1 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.72%) Flink
13 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (21.58%) Git
2 17 (12.23%) Postman
3 15 (10.79%) Visual Studio Code
4 13 (9.35%) Jasmine
4 13 (9.35%) Karma Test Runner
5 12 (8.63%) Cucumber
6 11 (7.91%) Cypress.io
6 11 (7.91%) Jenkins
6 11 (7.91%) Maven
7 9 (6.47%) Mocha
8 8 (5.76%) JIRA
9 7 (5.04%) JUnit
10 5 (3.60%) Visual Studio
11 4 (2.88%) Mockito
12 2 (1.44%) Bitbucket
12 2 (1.44%) ESLint
12 2 (1.44%) GitLab
12 2 (1.44%) Selenium
13 1 (0.72%) Storybook
13 1 (0.72%) Vite
General
1 35 (25.18%) Aerospace
2 33 (23.74%) Social Skills
3 29 (20.86%) Finance
4 22 (15.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (10.79%) Law
6 13 (9.35%) Banking
6 13 (9.35%) Private Banking
7 11 (7.91%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (5.04%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (5.04%) Health Technology
9 6 (4.32%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (3.60%) Financial Institution
11 3 (2.16%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.72%) Automotive
12 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.72%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 68 (48.92%) Developer
2 60 (43.17%) Software Engineer
3 32 (23.02%) Senior
4 29 (20.86%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 20 (14.39%) Senior Developer
6 14 (10.07%) Backend Developer
7 13 (9.35%) Senior Backend Developer
8 12 (8.63%) Senior Software Engineer
8 12 (8.63%) UI Developer
9 11 (7.91%) Azure Developer
9 11 (7.91%) C# Developer
9 11 (7.91%) Java Engineer
10 10 (7.19%) Lead
11 9 (6.47%) Java Software Engineer
12 8 (5.76%) Java Developer
12 8 (5.76%) Python Developer
13 7 (5.04%) DevOps Developer
13 7 (5.04%) Django Developer
13 7 (5.04%) Python/Django Developer
13 7 (5.04%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (87.05%) Swagger
2 73 (52.52%) AngularJS
3 58 (41.73%) React
4 56 (40.29%) Node.js
5 49 (35.25%) Spring
6 47 (33.81%) Spring Boot
7 44 (31.65%) REST
8 40 (28.78%) .NET
9 39 (28.06%) RESTful
10 38 (27.34%) gRPC
11 37 (26.62%) RabbitMQ
12 31 (22.30%) CSS
12 31 (22.30%) HTML
13 29 (20.86%) Material-UI
14 28 (20.14%) OAuth
15 23 (16.55%) JSON
16 20 (14.39%) Kafka
16 20 (14.39%) OAuth2
17 19 (13.67%) ASP.NET
17 19 (13.67%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 47 (33.81%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.51%) Product Ownership
3 10 (7.19%) Public Cloud
4 9 (6.47%) Data Structures
5 8 (5.76%) IoT
6 7 (5.04%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.72%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.72%) Life Science
7 1 (0.72%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.72%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 30 (21.58%) Linux
2 29 (20.86%) CentOS
2 29 (20.86%) Debian
2 29 (20.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 29 (20.86%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (66.19%) Agile
2 75 (53.96%) Software Engineering
3 64 (46.04%) Microservices
4 52 (37.41%) Scrum
5 44 (31.65%) Containerisation
6 38 (27.34%) Infrastructure as Code
7 34 (24.46%) CI/CD
7 34 (24.46%) DevOps
8 33 (23.74%) Test Automation
9 32 (23.02%) API Development
10 30 (21.58%) Configuration Management
11 29 (20.86%) Collaborative Working
11 29 (20.86%) Kanban
11 29 (20.86%) Open Source
11 29 (20.86%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 23 (16.55%) Actionable Insight
13 21 (15.11%) SDLC
13 21 (15.11%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (13.67%) Front End Development
14 19 (13.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 78 (56.12%) JavaScript
2 72 (51.80%) Java
3 42 (30.22%) C#
3 42 (30.22%) Python
4 39 (28.06%) TypeScript
5 38 (27.34%) SQL
6 19 (13.67%) T-SQL
7 10 (7.19%) Go
8 8 (5.76%) Kotlin
9 7 (5.04%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.72%) C++
10 1 (0.72%) Dart
10 1 (0.72%) F#
10 1 (0.72%) R
10 1 (0.72%) Ruby
10 1 (0.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 45 (32.37%) Security Cleared
2 41 (29.50%) SC Cleared
3 29 (20.86%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.76%) Degree
5 3 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.39%) Accessibility
2 13 (9.35%) WAI
3 7 (5.04%) QA
4 6 (4.32%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (4.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.72%) Data Quality
System Software
1 30 (21.58%) Docker
2 2 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (35.25%) Kubernetes
2 31 (22.30%) Ansible
2 31 (22.30%) Terraform
3 29 (20.86%) Puppet
4 9 (6.47%) Grafana
4 9 (6.47%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.44%) Istio
5 2 (1.44%) Kibana
5 2 (1.44%) Kustomize
5 2 (1.44%) Packer
6 1 (0.72%) Consul
Vendors
1 38 (27.34%) Google
2 31 (22.30%) Red Hat
3 29 (20.86%) SaltStack
4 16 (11.51%) Microsoft
5 6 (4.32%) Oracle
6 5 (3.60%) DevExpress
6 5 (3.60%) Xamarin