API Design Job Trends in the North West

API Design
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West 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 167 218 133
Rank change year-on-year +51 -85 +187
Permanent jobs citing API Design 13 5 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.23% 0.083% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.097% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 4
10th Percentile £44,500 - £51,625
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,250 £64,500 -
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 West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,779 5,163 3,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 86.19% 86.04% 94.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,365 2,670 2,602
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,099 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,369 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% -6.60% +2.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £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 West

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

API Design job vacancy trend in the North West

API Design
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing API Design

API Design
Salary Histogram in the North West

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

Salary histogram for API Design in the North West

API Design
Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +34 7 £50,000 -9.09% 21
Cheshire - 6 £57,500 - 11
API Design
England

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (7.69%) NetSuite
1 1 (7.69%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) GCP
3 3 (23.08%) SaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.69%) BigCommerce
4 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
General
1 8 (61.54%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Architect
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
1 6 (46.15%) Solutions Architect
2 4 (30.77%) AWS Architect
2 4 (30.77%) AWS Solution Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Azure Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Payments Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Payments Solutions Architect
2 4 (30.77%) TOGAF Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Java Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Django Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead
5 1 (7.69%) Product Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Python/Django Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) RESTful
1 3 (23.08%) Spring
2 2 (15.38%) OAuth
2 2 (15.38%) React
2 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
3 1 (7.69%) .NET
3 1 (7.69%) CSS
3 1 (7.69%) Django
3 1 (7.69%) HTML
3 1 (7.69%) Middleware
3 1 (7.69%) Next.js
3 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
3 1 (7.69%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (7.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Agile
2 7 (53.85%) SDLC
3 6 (46.15%) API Management
4 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (30.77%) Business Strategy
5 4 (30.77%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (30.77%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 4 (30.77%) TOGAF
6 3 (23.08%) API Development
6 3 (23.08%) Microservices
7 2 (15.38%) AI
7 2 (15.38%) Architectural Design
7 2 (15.38%) Clean Code
7 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (15.38%) DevOps
7 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (15.38%) Information Security
7 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
7 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
7 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Java
1 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) C#
2 1 (7.69%) Kotlin
2 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Salesforce