API Design Job Trends in the Midlands

API Design
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands 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 216 258 202
Rank change year-on-year +42 -56 +137
Permanent jobs citing API Design 15 9 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.21% 0.11% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.13% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 15 4 20
10th Percentile £53,500 £24,625 -
25th Percentile £56,875 £29,688 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £50,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% +53.85% -53.57%
75th Percentile £76,250 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £120,500 - £72,433
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
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,893 6,808 4,480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.67% 86.29% 92.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3,389 3,056 3,520
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,656 £38,750 £36,376
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

API Design job vacancy trend in the Midlands

API Design
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing API Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing API Design

API Design
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

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

Salary histogram for API Design in the Midlands

API Design
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Design within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +35 8 £72,500 +45.00% 36
East Midlands +18 5 £60,000 - 20
API Design
England

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 6 (40.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (20.00%) NetSuite
3 2 (13.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) Azure
2 8 (53.33%) AWS
3 7 (46.67%) GCP
4 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) Power Automate
4 3 (20.00%) Serverless
5 2 (13.33%) Azure API Management
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Functions
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (13.33%) GitHub
5 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
5 2 (13.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.67%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Big Data
2 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (13.33%) DynamoDB
3 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (6.67%) InfluxDB
4 1 (6.67%) Redis
4 1 (6.67%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) MSTest
2 2 (13.33%) NUnit
3 1 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (13.33%) Marketing
3 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Architect
2 5 (33.33%) Enterprise Architect
2 5 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (26.67%) Senior
4 3 (20.00%) Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Lead
5 2 (13.33%) Lead Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Lead Enterprise Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Python Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Python Software Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) .NET Developer
6 1 (6.67%) C# Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Integration Specialist
6 1 (6.67%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) RESTful
2 4 (26.67%) Django
2 4 (26.67%) Flask
3 3 (20.00%) .NET
3 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (13.33%) .NET Core
4 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
4 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
4 2 (13.33%) ARM Templates
4 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (13.33%) Entity Framework
4 2 (13.33%) FastAPI
4 2 (13.33%) Kafka
4 2 (13.33%) React
4 2 (13.33%) REST
4 2 (13.33%) YAML
5 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
5 1 (6.67%) JSON
5 1 (6.67%) Next.js
5 1 (6.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Cloud Native
2 5 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (13.33%) Algorithms
3 2 (13.33%) IoT
3 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (6.67%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Agile
1 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
1 8 (53.33%) DevOps
2 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (46.67%) Microservices
3 6 (40.00%) CRM
3 6 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
4 5 (33.33%) API Development
4 5 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (33.33%) ERP
4 5 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 5 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
5 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (20.00%) Business Strategy
6 3 (20.00%) Due Diligence
6 3 (20.00%) Matrix Organization
6 3 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
6 3 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) Bicep
4 1 (6.67%) C
4 1 (6.67%) C++
4 1 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (26.67%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) Nagios
3 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (20.00%) SAP
2 2 (13.33%) Adobe
2 2 (13.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.67%) HubSpot