API Design Job Trends in the North of England

API Design
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England 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 240 285 210
Rank change year-on-year +45 -75 +215
Permanent jobs citing API Design 22 8 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.22% 0.074% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.086% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 16 8 10
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £52,375
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,438 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -14.98% +4.56%
75th Percentile £82,500 £67,221 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,853 £100,375
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
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,568 9,294 6,743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 85.60% 85.43% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 4,448 4,447 5,165
10th Percentile £26,885 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,720 £51,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.40% -6.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
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 North of England

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

API Design job vacancy trend in the North of England

API Design
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing API Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing API Design

API Design
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for API Design in the North of England

API Design
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Design within the North of England 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
North West +51 13 £57,500 +4.55% 45
Yorkshire +1 9 £75,000 +4.18% 29
API Design
England

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (4.55%) Apache Solr
1 1 (4.55%) CMS
1 1 (4.55%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) NetSuite
1 1 (4.55%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 14 (63.64%) AWS
2 9 (40.91%) Azure
3 6 (27.27%) GCP
4 4 (18.18%) SaaS
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
5 3 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (13.64%) Serverless
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (9.09%) GitHub
6 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.55%) Azure API Management
7 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (4.55%) BigCommerce
7 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) DynamoDB
1 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.55%) Redis
General
1 8 (36.36%) Finance
2 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Banking
4 2 (9.09%) Retail
4 2 (9.09%) Tech for Good
5 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.55%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Architect
2 6 (27.27%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (18.18%) AWS Architect
3 4 (18.18%) AWS Solution Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Azure Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Lead
3 4 (18.18%) Payments Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Payments Solutions Architect
3 4 (18.18%) TOGAF Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Java Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Software Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Applications Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Azure Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Cloud Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Django Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Python/Django Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) RESTful
2 6 (27.27%) React
3 3 (13.64%) .NET
3 3 (13.64%) Django
3 3 (13.64%) Node.js
3 3 (13.64%) Spring
4 2 (9.09%) CSS
4 2 (9.09%) FastAPI
4 2 (9.09%) Flask
4 2 (9.09%) GraphQL
4 2 (9.09%) HTML
4 2 (9.09%) OAuth
4 2 (9.09%) OpenAPI
4 2 (9.09%) REST
4 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
4 2 (9.09%) Swagger
5 1 (4.55%) MACH
5 1 (4.55%) Next.js
5 1 (4.55%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (4.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Management Information System
2 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.09%) IoT
4 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.55%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Agile
2 10 (45.45%) SDLC
3 9 (40.91%) CI/CD
3 9 (40.91%) DevOps
4 7 (31.82%) API Management
5 6 (27.27%) Mentoring
5 6 (27.27%) Microservices
5 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (18.18%) Business Strategy
7 4 (18.18%) Clean Code
7 4 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (18.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
7 4 (18.18%) TOGAF
8 3 (13.64%) AI
8 3 (13.64%) API Development
8 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
9 2 (9.09%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) SQL
2 5 (22.73%) Java
2 5 (22.73%) Python
2 5 (22.73%) TypeScript
3 4 (18.18%) C#
4 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.55%) Kotlin
5 1 (4.55%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Terraform
2 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Google
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle
2 1 (4.55%) Salesforce