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

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 763 872 975
Rank change year-on-year +109 +103 -156
Permanent jobs citing OpenAPI 139 76 294
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% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 86 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 £74,375 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,737 £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 21,537 27,503 70,550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.43% 29.08% 41.53%
Number of salaries quoted 16,000 17,922 30,039
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,837 £37,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,700 £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 3 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 3 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 +105 108 £62,500 -21.88% 19
UK excluding London +30 81 £62,500 +8.70% 16
Work from Home +61 46 £65,000 -31.58% 12
London +95 39 £65,000 -27.78% 8
South West - 30 £60,000 - 2
Scotland -59 18 £82,606 - 1
North of England +26 16 £62,500 -7.41% 5
North West +1 14 £62,500 +4.17% 3
South East +20 10 £62,500 +8.70% 3
Midlands - 6 £41,500 - 1
West Midlands - 6 £41,500 - 1
North East - 2 £57,500 -
Wales +7 1 £36,103 -11.41% 2

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
1 1 (0.72%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 71 (51.08%) AWS
1 71 (51.08%) Serverless
2 62 (44.60%) Azure
3 40 (28.78%) 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 16 (11.51%) MongoDB
5 15 (10.79%) NoSQL
5 15 (10.79%) Relational Database
6 10 (7.19%) DynamoDB
7 6 (4.32%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (3.60%) MySQL
9 3 (2.16%) MariaDB
9 3 (2.16%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.44%) Redis
11 1 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.72%) Flink
11 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 11 (7.91%) Cucumber
5 11 (7.91%) Cypress.io
6 10 (7.19%) Jenkins
6 10 (7.19%) Maven
7 9 (6.47%) JIRA
7 9 (6.47%) Mocha
8 6 (4.32%) JUnit
9 5 (3.60%) Visual Studio
10 4 (2.88%) Mockito
11 3 (2.16%) 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 28 (20.14%) 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 4 (2.88%) 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 69 (49.64%) 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 72 (51.80%) AngularJS
3 58 (41.73%) React
4 56 (40.29%) Node.js
5 48 (34.53%) Spring
6 46 (33.09%) Spring Boot
7 44 (31.65%) REST
8 40 (28.78%) .NET
9 39 (28.06%) RESTful
10 37 (26.62%) gRPC
10 37 (26.62%) RabbitMQ
11 31 (22.30%) CSS
11 31 (22.30%) HTML
12 29 (20.86%) Material-UI
13 28 (20.14%) OAuth
14 23 (16.55%) JSON
15 20 (14.39%) OAuth2
16 19 (13.67%) ASP.NET
16 19 (13.67%) jQuery
16 19 (13.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 46 (33.09%) 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 93 (66.91%) Agile
2 75 (53.96%) Software Engineering
3 63 (45.32%) Microservices
4 52 (37.41%) Scrum
5 43 (30.94%) Containerisation
6 38 (27.34%) Infrastructure as Code
7 35 (25.18%) CI/CD
8 34 (24.46%) DevOps
9 33 (23.74%) Test Automation
10 32 (23.02%) API Development
11 30 (21.58%) Configuration Management
12 29 (20.86%) Collaborative Working
12 29 (20.86%) Kanban
12 29 (20.86%) Open Source
12 29 (20.86%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 23 (16.55%) Actionable Insight
14 21 (15.11%) SDLC
14 21 (15.11%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (13.67%) Front End Development
15 19 (13.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 79 (56.83%) JavaScript
2 71 (51.08%) Java
3 43 (30.94%) Python
4 42 (30.22%) C#
5 39 (28.06%) SQL
5 39 (28.06%) TypeScript
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 48 (34.53%) 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