API Design
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for API Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited API Design over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 637 620 404
Rank change year-on-year -17 -216 +110
Permanent jobs citing API Design 270 387 1,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.38% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.40% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 217 283 313
10th Percentile £31,250 £47,500 £39,124
25th Percentile £48,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% -3.03% +32.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £92,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £106,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

API Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing API Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for API Design in the UK

API Design
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing API Design.

Salary trend for API Design in the UK

API Design
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Design over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for API Design in the UK

API Design
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Design within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 -9 227 £65,000 -18.75% 61
UK excluding London +57 179 £55,000 -21.43% 36
Work from Home +29 112 £65,000 -13.33% 35
London -53 69 £77,500 -3.48% 20
West Midlands +42 44 £52,500 -30.00% 7
Midlands +13 44 £52,500 -31.15% 7
South East +4 41 £55,000 - 7
North of England +69 39 £70,000 -1.75% 12
Scotland -50 24 £32,500 -50.94% 3
North West +23 23 £70,000 +19.66% 9
South West -6 22 £57,500 -14.81% 2
Yorkshire +94 13 £100,000 +33.33% 3
East of England +1 9 £65,000 -25.71% 3
North East -2 3 £65,000 -18.75%
Wales +5 2 - - 2

API Design
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 27 (10.00%) IIS
2 15 (5.56%) Confluence
3 5 (1.85%) Anypoint
3 5 (1.85%) CMS
4 4 (1.48%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.74%) Apache
6 1 (0.37%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.37%) nginx
6 1 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 8 (2.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 109 (40.37%) Azure
2 84 (31.11%) AWS
3 43 (15.93%) SaaS
4 41 (15.19%) Cloud Computing
5 23 (8.52%) GCP
6 18 (6.67%) Serverless
7 15 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (4.07%) Google Play
9 10 (3.70%) Power Platform
10 9 (3.33%) Boomi
10 9 (3.33%) iPaaS
11 8 (2.96%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (2.96%) Slack
12 7 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (1.85%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (1.85%) Azure API Management
14 5 (1.85%) Kong
15 4 (1.48%) Azure Service Bus
15 4 (1.48%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.63%) WAN
2 9 (3.33%) Firewall
3 5 (1.85%) HTTP
4 3 (1.11%) MQTT
5 2 (0.74%) DSL
5 2 (0.74%) Internet
6 1 (0.37%) DHCP
6 1 (0.37%) DNS
6 1 (0.37%) Network Security
6 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (26.30%) NoSQL
2 61 (22.59%) SQL Server
3 21 (7.78%) MongoDB
4 20 (7.41%) MySQL
4 20 (7.41%) Redis
5 18 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (4.44%) Relational Database
7 10 (3.70%) Big Data
8 8 (2.96%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (2.96%) CockroachDB
8 8 (2.96%) Data Lake
8 8 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (2.96%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.48%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.11%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.74%) GIS
13 1 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.37%) Firebird
13 1 (0.37%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 66 (24.44%) Git
2 39 (14.44%) Jenkins
3 15 (5.56%) JIRA
3 15 (5.56%) Octopus Deploy
4 13 (4.81%) GitLab
5 11 (4.07%) Cucumber
6 10 (3.70%) Appium
6 10 (3.70%) JUnit
7 9 (3.33%) Selenium
8 8 (2.96%) CircleCI
8 8 (2.96%) Jaeger
8 8 (2.96%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (2.22%) NUnit
10 5 (1.85%) Visual Studio
11 4 (1.48%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.74%) Postman
12 2 (0.74%) Snyk
12 2 (0.74%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.37%) Crashlytics
13 1 (0.37%) fastlane
General
1 85 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 67 (24.81%) Finance
3 24 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (8.52%) Banking
5 21 (7.78%) Retail
6 19 (7.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.07%) Legal
8 10 (3.70%) Billing
8 10 (3.70%) Law
9 8 (2.96%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.48%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.48%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.11%) Front Office
13 2 (0.74%) Aviation
13 2 (0.74%) Police
14 1 (0.37%) Electronics
14 1 (0.37%) Marketing
14 1 (0.37%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 104 (38.52%) Developer
2 75 (27.78%) Architect
3 33 (12.22%) Senior
4 32 (11.85%) Lead
5 31 (11.48%) Solutions Architect
6 30 (11.11%) Technical Architect
7 28 (10.37%) Software Engineer
8 26 (9.63%) Systems Engineer
9 20 (7.41%) C# Developer
10 19 (7.04%) Senior Developer
11 18 (6.67%) .NET Developer
12 17 (6.30%) C# .NET Developer
12 17 (6.30%) Web Developer
13 12 (4.44%) Full Stack Developer
14 11 (4.07%) Integration Developer
14 11 (4.07%) Principal Architect
15 10 (3.70%) .NET Software Engineer
15 10 (3.70%) Android Developer
15 10 (3.70%) Lead Software Engineer
15 10 (3.70%) Senior Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (23.70%) .NET
2 63 (23.33%) REST
3 52 (19.26%) RESTful
4 35 (12.96%) CSS
4 35 (12.96%) HTML
5 34 (12.59%) React
6 31 (11.48%) Node.js
7 30 (11.11%) JSON
8 24 (8.89%) Kafka
8 24 (8.89%) Spring Boot
9 20 (7.41%) RabbitMQ
10 19 (7.04%) .NET Core
11 18 (6.67%) .NET Framework
11 18 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
12 16 (5.93%) AngularJS
12 16 (5.93%) Spring
13 15 (5.56%) MSMQ
14 14 (5.19%) XML
15 12 (4.44%) Vue
16 11 (4.07%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 43 (15.93%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (9.63%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.63%) Clustering
2 26 (9.63%) Public Cloud
3 24 (8.89%) Product Ownership
4 17 (6.30%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (6.30%) Mobile App
5 14 (5.19%) Blockchain
6 10 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (3.70%) Robotics
7 8 (2.96%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.96%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.48%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.11%) FMCG
11 2 (0.74%) Educational Technology
11 2 (0.74%) IoT
11 2 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.67%) Linux
2 13 (4.81%) Android
3 9 (3.33%) Windows
4 3 (1.11%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.74%) VMS
6 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (44.81%) Agile
2 120 (44.44%) Microservices
3 104 (38.52%) CI/CD
4 88 (32.59%) Problem-Solving
5 78 (28.89%) API Development
6 75 (27.78%) TDD
7 73 (27.04%) DevOps
8 61 (22.59%) Mentoring
9 59 (21.85%) Software Engineering
10 55 (20.37%) Design Patterns
11 46 (17.04%) Software Testing
12 42 (15.56%) Unit Testing
13 41 (15.19%) Coaching
13 41 (15.19%) MVC
14 39 (14.44%) Architectural Patterns
14 39 (14.44%) Roadmaps
14 39 (14.44%) Technical Leadership
15 36 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
16 35 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
16 35 (12.96%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 107 (39.63%) SQL
2 83 (30.74%) Java
3 77 (28.52%) C#
4 73 (27.04%) JavaScript
5 30 (11.11%) Python
6 24 (8.89%) TypeScript
7 16 (5.93%) PHP
8 15 (5.56%) T-SQL
9 14 (5.19%) Go
10 10 (3.70%) Kotlin
11 8 (2.96%) VB.NET
12 7 (2.59%) C
13 5 (1.85%) C++
14 4 (1.48%) Rust
15 3 (1.11%) Bash
15 3 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (1.11%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.37%) Scala
17 1 (0.37%) XAML
Qualifications
1 32 (11.85%) Security Cleared
2 27 (10.00%) Degree
3 18 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.22%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.74%) HND
7 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.37%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.89%) QA
2 8 (2.96%) GDPR
2 8 (2.96%) PSD2
3 4 (1.48%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.48%) SEPA
4 3 (1.11%) ISO 9000
4 3 (1.11%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.37%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.37%) SLA
5 1 (0.37%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 61 (22.59%) Docker
2 26 (9.63%) VMware NSX
3 3 (1.11%) Firmware
4 1 (0.37%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 58 (21.48%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.19%) Terraform
3 10 (3.70%) Ansible
4 8 (2.96%) Kiali
5 4 (1.48%) Istio
6 2 (0.74%) Grafana
6 2 (0.74%) Kibana
6 2 (0.74%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.37%) Consul
7 1 (0.37%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.37%) Packer
Vendors
1 71 (26.30%) Microsoft
2 30 (11.11%) Google
3 26 (9.63%) VMware
4 19 (7.04%) MuleSoft
5 10 (3.70%) Salesforce
6 9 (3.33%) Jitterbit
6 9 (3.33%) Talend
7 8 (2.96%) AppDynamics
7 8 (2.96%) Duck Creek
7 8 (2.96%) Splunk
8 4 (1.48%) Oracle
9 2 (0.74%) Okta
10 1 (0.37%) Apple
10 1 (0.37%) Cisco
10 1 (0.37%) Mapbox
10 1 (0.37%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.37%) Sitecore