API Design Job Trends in the East Midlands

API Design
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands 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 128 146 -
Rank change year-on-year +18 - -
Permanent jobs citing API Design 5 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.21% 0.035% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.041% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - -
75th Percentile £67,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +23.08% -7.90% -19.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,970 2,422 1,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 80.84% 84.27% 92.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,253 1,052 1,039
10th Percentile £25,900 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £51,716
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -8.15% +3.43%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

API Design job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

API Design
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing API Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing API Design

API Design
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Design within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 December 2025. 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
Derbyshire - 4 £60,000 - 8
Leicestershire - 1 £60,000 - 2
API Design
England

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (20.00%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Big Data
2 2 (40.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Python Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Python Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Django
1 4 (80.00%) Flask
2 3 (60.00%) RESTful
3 2 (40.00%) FastAPI
4 1 (20.00%) .NET
4 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (20.00%) JSON
4 1 (20.00%) Middleware
4 1 (20.00%) Next.js
4 1 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (40.00%) IoT
3 1 (20.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
4 2 (40.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) Observability
4 2 (40.00%) Security Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) AI
5 1 (20.00%) Business Process Improvement
5 1 (20.00%) CRUD
5 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
5 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
5 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
5 1 (20.00%) Intelligent Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) HubSpot