API Design Job Trends in Manchester

API Design
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester 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 123 157 126
Rank change year-on-year +34 -31 +133
Permanent jobs citing API Design 7 5 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.28% 0.16% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.17% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile £44,000 - £53,500
25th Percentile £44,375 £43,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,000 £64,500 £66,500
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,097 2,866 2,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 85.31% 89.96% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,226 1,381 1,698
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.60% +5.53%
75th Percentile £71,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £51,369 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.67% -6.60% +2.33%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

API Design job vacancy trend in Manchester

API Design
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing API Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing API Design

API Design
Salary Histogram in Manchester

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

Salary histogram for API Design in Manchester

API Design
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Design within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 13 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
Bolton - 1 £47,500 - 2
API Design
North West

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) NetSuite
1 1 (14.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) BigCommerce
3 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
3 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (57.14%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Architect
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Solution Architect
1 4 (57.14%) Azure Architect
1 4 (57.14%) Payments Architect
1 4 (57.14%) Payments Solutions Architect
1 4 (57.14%) Solutions Architect
1 4 (57.14%) TOGAF Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) OAuth
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) SDLC
2 6 (85.71%) Agile
3 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (57.14%) API Management
4 4 (57.14%) Business Strategy
4 4 (57.14%) Enterprise Architecture
4 4 (57.14%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 4 (57.14%) TOGAF
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) Information Security
5 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
6 1 (14.29%) API Development
6 1 (14.29%) API Integration
6 1 (14.29%) BDD
6 1 (14.29%) Coaching
6 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
6 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
6 1 (14.29%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Kotlin
2 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce