API Design Job Trends in Glasgow

API Design
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring API Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 85 125
Rank change year-on-year +12 +40 -49
Permanent jobs citing API Design 2 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.14% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.15% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
Scotland median annual salary £75,000 - £66,250
% change year-on-year - - -2.05%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,078 685 1,381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 75.44% 90.85% 89.44%
Number of salaries quoted 675 279 542
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,625 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £83,400
Scotland median annual salary £54,194 £38,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +42.62% -30.91% +4.76%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

API Design job vacancy trend in Glasgow

API Design
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing API Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing API Design

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Iceberg
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (50.00%) Games
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior .NET Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Memcached
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Human-in-the-Loop
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 1 (50.00%) Red Team
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAI
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk