API Design Jobs in Edinburgh

API Design
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring API Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited API Design over the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 99 141
Rank change year-on-year +19 +42 +11
Permanent jobs citing API Design 12 13 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.31% 0.86% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 0.95% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7 11 0
10th Percentile - £61,250 -
25th Percentile £72,899 £68,718 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,870 £70,576 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.08% - -
75th Percentile £76,840 £91,216 -
90th Percentile - £110,000 -
Scotland median annual salary £74,870 £32,500 £66,250
% change year-on-year +130.37% -50.94% -10.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 894 1,369 2,024
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 97.39% 90.07% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 424 961 1,174
10th Percentile £26,929 £35,000 £36,390
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £97,500 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for API Design in Edinburgh

API Design
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for API Design in Edinburgh

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 3 (25.00%) Apache Solr
1 3 (25.00%) CMS
1 3 (25.00%) Sitecore CMS
1 3 (25.00%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) GCP
1 7 (58.33%) OpenShift
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (16.67%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) MSBuild
1 3 (25.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (25.00%) webpack
General
1 9 (75.00%) Banking
1 9 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Marketing
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Architect
1 7 (58.33%) Solutions Architect
2 5 (41.67%) Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Web Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Web Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Analyst Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Business Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) .NET
1 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (25.00%) CSS
1 3 (25.00%) Next.js
1 3 (25.00%) Sass
1 3 (25.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Private Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Roadmaps
2 7 (58.33%) Agile
2 7 (58.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 7 (58.33%) Customer Experience
2 7 (58.33%) Data Architecture
2 7 (58.33%) Microservices
2 7 (58.33%) Software Engineering
2 7 (58.33%) Technical Leadership
2 7 (58.33%) Translating Business Requirements
2 7 (58.33%) Zero Trust
3 3 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Strategy
3 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (25.00%) Personalization
3 3 (25.00%) SDLC
3 3 (25.00%) Web Development
4 2 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (16.67%) Business Analysis
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) C#
1 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Google
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Optimizely
2 3 (25.00%) Sitecore