API Design Job Trends in the East of England

API Design
England > East of England

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 172 111
Rank change year-on-year +22 -61 +99
Permanent jobs citing API Design 7 12 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.18% 0.30% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.36% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 21
10th Percentile £70,875 £49,250 -
25th Percentile £81,563 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.00% +4.17% -31.43%
75th Percentile £93,125 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £94,250 £78,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £78,750 £65,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +21.15% -7.90% -19.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,012 3,326 1,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 78.09% 83.32% 92.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,804 1,418 1,281
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £63,188 £73,750 £69,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
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 of England

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

API Design job vacancy trend in the East of England

API Design
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing API Design

API Design
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Design in the East of England over the 6 months to 6 December 2025.

Salary histogram for API Design in the East of England

API Design
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 6 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
Hertfordshire +15 6 £90,000 +44.00% 3
Cambridgeshire +12 1 - -
API Design
England

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (14.29%) PaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Law
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Architect
1 5 (71.43%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) Semantic Kernel
1 1 (14.29%) SOAP
1 1 (14.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Native
2 4 (57.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
3 1 (14.29%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
1 5 (71.43%) Prototyping
2 4 (57.14%) API Development
2 4 (57.14%) Microservices
2 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (57.14%) Strategic Thinking
2 4 (57.14%) Technology Transformation
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) AI
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Data Privacy
4 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Rapid Prototyping
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) C#
2 4 (57.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) MCP
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) EU AI Act
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Foundry
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft
1 1 (14.29%) Pega
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
1 1 (14.29%) SAP
1 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow