API Design Job Trends in Leeds

API Design
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring API Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 - 118
Rank change year-on-year - - +75
Permanent jobs citing API Design 7 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 0.60% - 0.073%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% - 0.076%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £52,500 - -
25th Percentile £62,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £100,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +50.38%
75th Percentile £83,750 - -
90th Percentile £85,000 - -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £77,500 £78,622 £70,576
% change year-on-year -1.43% +11.40% +6.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,010 1,026 1,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 86.32% 83.55% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 685 600 957
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

API Design job vacancy trend in Leeds

API Design
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing API Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing API Design

API Design
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Design in Leeds over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Salary histogram for API Design in Leeds

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) Azure API Management
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) DynamoDB
2 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (14.29%) Redis
General
1 2 (28.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Applications Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IoT Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) React
1 4 (57.14%) RESTful
2 3 (42.86%) Node.js
3 2 (28.57%) .NET
3 2 (28.57%) Django
3 2 (28.57%) FastAPI
3 2 (28.57%) Flask
3 2 (28.57%) OpenAPI
3 2 (28.57%) Swagger
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
4 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 1 (14.29%) CSS
4 1 (14.29%) Entity Framework
4 1 (14.29%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
4 3 (42.86%) Microservices
4 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Clean Code
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (28.57%) Observability
5 2 (28.57%) Pair Programming
5 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (14.29%) Android Development
6 1 (14.29%) API Management
6 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
6 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 1 (14.29%) Line Management
6 1 (14.29%) OO
6 1 (14.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) Python
3 3 (42.86%) C#
3 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
4 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes