API Design Job Trends in Birmingham

API Design
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring API Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 126 98
Rank change year-on-year +34 -28 +52
Permanent jobs citing API Design 4 4 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.26% 0.20% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.22% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 8
10th Percentile £56,625 £28,500 £52,750
25th Percentile £57,188 £39,375 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £60,000 £65,288
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -8.10% -6.73%
75th Percentile £73,750 £62,500 £72,433
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £72,500 £50,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year +45.00% +53.85% -53.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

API Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,280 1,820 1,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 82.32% 88.87% 92.81%
Number of salaries quoted 901 885 890
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,850 £31,343
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,652 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing API Design relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

API Design job vacancy trend in Birmingham

API Design
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing API Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing API Design

API Design
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Design in Birmingham over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Salary histogram for API Design in Birmingham

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure API Management
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (50.00%) Power Automate
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MSTest
1 2 (50.00%) NUnit
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (50.00%) Entity Framework
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
1 2 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) API Development
1 2 (50.00%) API Management
1 2 (50.00%) Case Management
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) SDLC
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bicep
1 2 (50.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA