API Design Job Trends in Gloucestershire

API Design
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring API Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 - 120
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Permanent jobs citing API Design 6 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.76% - 0.075%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% - 0.084%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £44,175 - -
25th Percentile £44,813 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,750 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £50,438 - -
90th Percentile £50,925 - -
South West median annual salary £72,500 £112,636 £70,576
% change year-on-year -35.63% +59.60% +12.02%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 616 521 1,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 77.97% 93.04% 89.77%
Number of salaries quoted 421 203 844
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £29,375
25th Percentile £37,691 £41,250 £37,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +8.91% -8.18%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,450 £78,750
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -2.04%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

API Design job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

API Design
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing API Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing API Design

API Design
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Design within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 17 February 2026. 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
Stroud - 2 £47,750 - 4
Cheltenham - 1 - -
API Design
South West

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 2 (33.33%) CMS
2 1 (16.67%) Headless CMS
2 1 (16.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) DigitalOcean
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) Gradle
1 2 (33.33%) Maven
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Web Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Hibernate
1 2 (33.33%) JPA
1 2 (33.33%) Laravel
1 2 (33.33%) Node.js
1 2 (33.33%) React
1 2 (33.33%) RESTful
1 2 (33.33%) Spring
1 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 2 (33.33%) Vue
2 1 (16.67%) LEMP Stack
2 1 (16.67%) LoopBack
2 1 (16.67%) Nuxt
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (66.67%) TDD
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) AI
3 2 (33.33%) API Development
3 2 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (33.33%) Asynchronous Programming
3 2 (33.33%) BDD
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Observability
3 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) PHP
2 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Atlassian