API Design Job Trends in Merseyside

API Design
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring API Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing API Design 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 0.072% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.095% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - -
75th Percentile £87,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £80,000 £57,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +39.13% -17.86% +7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,057 549 596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 76.21% 90.89% 74.41%
Number of salaries quoted 691 254 386
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,900 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% -
75th Percentile £72,000 £63,750 £69,688
90th Percentile £85,000 £70,875 £81,124
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% -8.18%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

API Design job vacancy trend in Merseyside

API Design
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing API Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing API Design

API Design
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Design within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
Liverpool - 1 £85,000 - 1
API Design
North West

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript