API Design Job Trends in London

API Design
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring API Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 376 380
Rank change year-on-year +85 +4 +18
Permanent jobs citing API Design 82 66 77
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.62% 0.39% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.42% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 62 22 58
10th Percentile £62,750 £40,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £55,938 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £80,294
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -0.37% -10.79%
75th Percentile £120,000 £99,375 £101,875
90th Percentile £134,750 £104,875 £115,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +23.08% -7.90% -19.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,932 15,634 17,243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 90.27% 92.49% 93.54%
Number of salaries quoted 7,643 9,118 14,030
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

API Design job vacancy trend in London

API Design
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing API Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing API Design

API Design
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Design in London over the 6 months to 11 December 2025.

Salary histogram for API Design in London

API Design
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Design within the London region over the 6 months to 11 December 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
Central London +56 18 £100,000 +33.33% 13
API Design
England

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 5 (6.10%) Confluence
2 4 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.88%) Apache Pulsar
2 4 (4.88%) Appian
3 1 (1.22%) Camunda
3 1 (1.22%) CMS
3 1 (1.22%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 42 (51.22%) Azure
2 25 (30.49%) AWS
3 14 (17.07%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (17.07%) GCP
3 14 (17.07%) GitHub
4 12 (14.63%) Azure Service Bus
5 9 (10.98%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (10.98%) Power Platform
5 9 (10.98%) Serverless
6 6 (7.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 6 (7.32%) Azure Functions
7 5 (6.10%) Azure API Management
8 4 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (4.88%) Azure App Service
8 4 (4.88%) Datadog
8 4 (4.88%) Google Gemini
8 4 (4.88%) iPaaS
8 4 (4.88%) Power Automate
8 4 (4.88%) PowerApps
8 4 (4.88%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.10%) Multicast
2 2 (2.44%) AMQP
2 2 (2.44%) HTTP
2 2 (2.44%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.44%) VPN
3 1 (1.22%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.41%) NoSQL
2 7 (8.54%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.10%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (6.10%) MySQL
4 4 (4.88%) Pinecone
4 4 (4.88%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.88%) Weaviate
5 3 (3.66%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.66%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.66%) Redis
5 3 (3.66%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.44%) Power BI
7 1 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.22%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.22%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (1.22%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (10.98%) Postman
2 7 (8.54%) Git
3 3 (3.66%) JIRA
3 3 (3.66%) JMeter
3 3 (3.66%) Selenium
3 3 (3.66%) Visual Studio
3 3 (3.66%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.44%) Snyk
5 1 (1.22%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.22%) GitLab
5 1 (1.22%) SpecFlow
General
1 21 (25.61%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.07%) Finance
3 13 (15.85%) Law
4 7 (8.54%) Legal
4 7 (8.54%) Telecoms
5 5 (6.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.10%) Retail
6 4 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.88%) Banking
7 3 (3.66%) Marketing
8 2 (2.44%) Advertising
8 2 (2.44%) Front Office
8 2 (2.44%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.22%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.22%) Military
9 1 (1.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (25.61%) Senior
2 16 (19.51%) Software Engineer
3 13 (15.85%) Developer
4 10 (12.20%) Lead
5 8 (9.76%) Architect
6 6 (7.32%) Analyst
6 6 (7.32%) Data Analyst
6 6 (7.32%) Security Engineer
7 5 (6.10%) Development Manager
7 5 (6.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (6.10%) Senior Security Engineer
7 5 (6.10%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Principal Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Python Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) React Developer
8 4 (4.88%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.88%) Technical Architect
9 3 (3.66%) Azure Developer
9 3 (3.66%) Senior React Developer
9 3 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (28.05%) REST
2 20 (24.39%) React
3 19 (23.17%) Node.js
4 17 (20.73%) RESTful
5 15 (18.29%) .NET
6 13 (15.85%) OAuth
7 11 (13.41%) OpenAPI
7 11 (13.41%) Swagger
8 9 (10.98%) GraphQL
8 9 (10.98%) Kafka
8 9 (10.98%) OAuth2
9 8 (9.76%) Django
9 8 (9.76%) HTML
10 7 (8.54%) FastAPI
11 6 (7.32%) CSS
12 5 (6.10%) AngularJS
12 5 (6.10%) FIX Protocol
12 5 (6.10%) gRPC
12 5 (6.10%) PyTorch
12 5 (6.10%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 24 (29.27%) Cloud Native
2 17 (20.73%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (12.20%) Data Structures
4 5 (6.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (4.88%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.88%) Hackathon
6 3 (3.66%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.66%) Low-Code
6 3 (3.66%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.66%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.66%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.66%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.44%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.44%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.22%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.22%) Blockchain
8 1 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.10%) Linux
2 2 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (41.46%) DevOps
2 32 (39.02%) CI/CD
3 31 (37.80%) AI
4 27 (32.93%) Software Engineering
5 26 (31.71%) Microservices
6 24 (29.27%) Agile
7 20 (24.39%) Roadmaps
8 16 (19.51%) Full-Stack Development
9 15 (18.29%) API Integration
9 15 (18.29%) Containerisation
10 14 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (14.63%) Analytics
11 12 (14.63%) Decision-Making
11 12 (14.63%) Machine Learning
11 12 (14.63%) Technical Leadership
11 12 (14.63%) Test Automation
12 11 (13.41%) Computer Science
12 11 (13.41%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 10 (12.20%) Information Security
13 10 (12.20%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 40 (48.78%) Python
2 27 (32.93%) SQL
3 21 (25.61%) TypeScript
4 20 (24.39%) JavaScript
5 15 (18.29%) Java
6 13 (15.85%) C#
6 13 (15.85%) Go
7 2 (2.44%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.22%) C++
8 1 (1.22%) Groovy
8 1 (1.22%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.22%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (19.51%) Degree
2 11 (13.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.66%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.66%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.44%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.44%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.22%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.22%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.32%) GDPR
2 5 (6.10%) Accessibility
2 5 (6.10%) QA
3 4 (4.88%) SLA
4 3 (3.66%) WCAG
5 2 (2.44%) HL7
5 2 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.44%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (1.22%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.22%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (26.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (24.39%) Kubernetes
2 12 (14.63%) Terraform
3 8 (9.76%) Ansible
4 3 (3.66%) Grafana
4 3 (3.66%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (20.73%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.76%) OpenAI
3 6 (7.32%) Google
4 4 (4.88%) Ericsson
4 4 (4.88%) Mavenir
4 4 (4.88%) Nokia
5 3 (3.66%) Databricks
5 3 (3.66%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.66%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.66%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.44%) Checkmarx
6 2 (2.44%) Foundry
6 2 (2.44%) Qualys
7 1 (1.22%) Palantir
7 1 (1.22%) Sybase