API Design Job Trends in Edinburgh

API Design
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring API Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 68 89
Rank change year-on-year 0 +21 +14
Permanent jobs citing API Design 1 4 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.094% 0.48% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.50% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £135,000 £72,899 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £140,000 £74,870 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +86.99% +19.79% -7.59%
75th Percentile £145,000 £76,840 £63,750
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £140,000 £74,870 £51,250
% change year-on-year +86.99% +46.09% -24.15%

All Process & 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 726 795 1,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 68.43% 94.42% 84.19%
Number of salaries quoted 466 376 764
10th Percentile £29,875 £25,313 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £46,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,221 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.05% -9.63% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £74,381 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £98,181
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% -

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

API Design job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

API Design
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing API Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing API Design

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Python Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Programming
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL