API Design Jobs in England

API Design
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 604 589
Rank change year-on-year +71 -15 -188
Permanent jobs citing API Design 162 223 358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.26% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.30% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 121 178 264
10th Percentile £56,250 £41,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -18.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £93,778 £78,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £103,750
UK median annual salary £78,750 £62,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +26.00% -21.88% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,644 73,553 84,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.10% 85.14% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23,839 53,945 50,143
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for API Design in England

API Design
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for API Design in England

API Design
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Design in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for API Design in England

API Design
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
London +103 57 £80,000 +3.23% 108
South East +81 32 £62,500 +13.64% 54
North of England +30 25 £85,253 +21.79% 37
East of England +54 23 £85,000 +30.77% 13
Yorkshire +72 19 £78,622 -21.38% 10
South West +102 14 £93,876 +70.30% 15
Midlands +31 8 £60,000 +14.29% 9
West Midlands +14 7 £60,000 +14.29% 4
North West -19 6 £93,000 +32.86% 27
East Midlands - 1 £90,000 - 3
API Design
UK

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (1.85%) Confluence
2 1 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.62%) CMS
2 1 (0.62%) Mule
2 1 (0.62%) nginx
2 1 (0.62%) NServiceBus
2 1 (0.62%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 9 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Endur
1 1 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.62%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 60 (37.04%) AWS
2 55 (33.95%) Azure
3 38 (23.46%) GCP
4 28 (17.28%) SaaS
5 21 (12.96%) Serverless
6 19 (11.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 16 (9.88%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (9.88%) AWS Step Functions
8 15 (9.26%) Amazon EventBridge
8 15 (9.26%) Amazon SQS
8 15 (9.26%) AWS CodePipeline
8 15 (9.26%) Boomi
9 14 (8.64%) AWS CodeBuild
9 14 (8.64%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 14 (8.64%) GitHub
10 11 (6.79%) npm
11 10 (6.17%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (3.09%) Amazon S3
13 5 (3.09%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.23%) Firewall
2 1 (0.62%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (25.93%) NoSQL
2 26 (16.05%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (14.81%) Big Data
4 19 (11.73%) MongoDB
5 17 (10.49%) Relational Database
6 14 (8.64%) MySQL
7 13 (8.02%) Redis
8 10 (6.17%) SQL Server
9 8 (4.94%) Data Lake
9 8 (4.94%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.09%) DynamoDB
10 5 (3.09%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (1.23%) Couchbase
13 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.62%) Geospatial Data
13 1 (0.62%) Power BI
13 1 (0.62%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 28 (17.28%) Git
2 17 (10.49%) Jenkins
3 12 (7.41%) Cucumber
4 11 (6.79%) Cypress.io
4 11 (6.79%) Octopus Deploy
4 11 (6.79%) Sonatype Nexus
4 11 (6.79%) webpack
5 8 (4.94%) SpecFlow
6 7 (4.32%) Moq
7 6 (3.70%) JIRA
8 5 (3.09%) GitLab
8 5 (3.09%) Gradle
8 5 (3.09%) Maven
9 3 (1.85%) git-flow
10 1 (0.62%) Crucible
General
1 55 (33.95%) Finance
2 52 (32.10%) Social Skills
3 38 (23.46%) Banking
4 18 (11.11%) Law
5 17 (10.49%) Public Sector
6 14 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (8.64%) Games
7 6 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (3.09%) Legal
9 3 (1.85%) Front Office
9 3 (1.85%) iGaming
9 3 (1.85%) Publishing
9 3 (1.85%) Retail
10 2 (1.23%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.23%) Local Government
10 2 (1.23%) Marketing
11 1 (0.62%) Advertising
11 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.62%) Military
11 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (37.04%) Developer
2 35 (21.60%) Architect
3 33 (20.37%) Senior
4 30 (18.52%) Lead
5 29 (17.90%) Solutions Architect
6 24 (14.81%) Software Engineer
7 20 (12.35%) Senior Developer
8 18 (11.11%) C# Developer
9 15 (9.26%) .NET Developer
10 13 (8.02%) C# .NET Developer
11 11 (6.79%) Software Developer
12 9 (5.56%) Java Engineer
13 8 (4.94%) Java Developer
13 8 (4.94%) Lead Java Engineer
14 6 (3.70%) Senior Software Developer
14 6 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
15 5 (3.09%) Junior
15 5 (3.09%) Junior Developer
15 5 (3.09%) Senior Architect
15 5 (3.09%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (45.06%) RESTful
2 43 (26.54%) .NET
3 28 (17.28%) REST
4 26 (16.05%) RabbitMQ
5 22 (13.58%) React
6 21 (12.96%) OAuth
7 18 (11.11%) Spring Boot
8 17 (10.49%) .NET Core
8 17 (10.49%) Kafka
9 15 (9.26%) .NET Framework
9 15 (9.26%) JWT
10 14 (8.64%) AngularJS
11 13 (8.02%) Entity Framework
12 12 (7.41%) Web Services
13 11 (6.79%) Jest
13 11 (6.79%) MSMQ
13 11 (6.79%) Node.js
13 11 (6.79%) Spring
13 11 (6.79%) Swagger
14 8 (4.94%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 34 (20.99%) Cloud Native
1 34 (20.99%) Product Ownership
2 17 (10.49%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (8.02%) Mobile Games
4 10 (6.17%) Management Information System
5 9 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (5.56%) Mobile App
5 9 (5.56%) Public Cloud
6 7 (4.32%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (3.70%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.85%) Sports Betting
9 2 (1.23%) Clustering
9 2 (1.23%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.62%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.62%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.62%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.62%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.62%) Mobile Wallet
10 1 (0.62%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.62%) Linux
1 1 (0.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (54.94%) Microservices
2 84 (51.85%) CI/CD
3 83 (51.23%) Agile
4 71 (43.83%) DevOps
5 56 (34.57%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (27.78%) Event-Driven
7 44 (27.16%) Software Engineering
8 43 (26.54%) API Development
8 43 (26.54%) Containerisation
9 42 (25.93%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 35 (21.60%) Computer Science
11 34 (20.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (19.14%) Domain-Driven Design
13 27 (16.67%) Analytics
14 25 (15.43%) Full-Stack Development
14 25 (15.43%) Technical Leadership
14 25 (15.43%) Test Automation
15 24 (14.81%) Technology Strategy
16 23 (14.20%) Collaborative Culture
16 23 (14.20%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 57 (35.19%) Java
2 56 (34.57%) C#
3 37 (22.84%) SQL
4 36 (22.22%) Python
5 20 (12.35%) TypeScript
6 15 (9.26%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.94%) Go
8 5 (3.09%) Apex Code
8 5 (3.09%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.47%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.85%) Ruby
10 3 (1.85%) Rust
11 2 (1.23%) PHP
12 1 (0.62%) Bash
12 1 (0.62%) C
12 1 (0.62%) C++
12 1 (0.62%) DataWeave
12 1 (0.62%) Perl
12 1 (0.62%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (24.69%) Degree
2 33 (20.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (9.26%) Security Cleared
4 7 (4.32%) Master's Degree
5 6 (3.70%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.62%) CISSP
8 1 (0.62%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.62%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.62%) GIAC
8 1 (0.62%) GWAPT
8 1 (0.62%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.49%) QA
2 6 (3.70%) CDISC
2 6 (3.70%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.47%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.47%) GDPR
4 3 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.85%) PMBOK
5 2 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 56 (34.57%) Docker
2 1 (0.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 48 (29.63%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.56%) Terraform
3 8 (4.94%) Argo
4 5 (3.09%) Grafana
4 5 (3.09%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.85%) Kibana
6 2 (1.23%) Ansible
6 2 (1.23%) Kustomize
6 2 (1.23%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.62%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.62%) Istio
Vendors
1 22 (13.58%) Salesforce
2 20 (12.35%) Microsoft
3 18 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 16 (9.88%) Google
5 15 (9.26%) MuleSoft
6 14 (8.64%) Informatica
7 5 (3.09%) New Relic
8 2 (1.23%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.23%) Oracle
8 2 (1.23%) Snow
8 2 (1.23%) Splunk
9 1 (0.62%) Adobe
9 1 (0.62%) Cisco
9 1 (0.62%) OpenLink
9 1 (0.62%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.62%) Sun
9 1 (0.62%) Sybase