diff --git a/changelog/20881.txt b/changelog/20881.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..fd3e6d5fa44f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/20881.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+```release-note:improvement
+sdk/framework: Fix non-deterministic ordering of 'required' fields in OpenAPI spec
+```
diff --git a/sdk/framework/openapi.go b/sdk/framework/openapi.go
index d69e0b83e69d..e43c5ff89eea 100644
--- a/sdk/framework/openapi.go
+++ b/sdk/framework/openapi.go
@@ -373,6 +373,10 @@ func documentPath(p *Path, specialPaths *logical.Paths, requestResponsePrefix st
 					s.Properties[name] = &p
 				}
 
+				// Make the ordering deterministic, so that the generated OpenAPI spec document, observed over several
+				// versions, doesn't contain spurious non-semantic changes.
+				sort.Strings(s.Required)
+
 				// If examples were given, use the first one as the sample
 				// of this schema.
 				if len(props.Examples) > 0 {