API Design Jobs in Scotland

API Design
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring API Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited API Design over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 256 220
Rank change year-on-year +118 -36 +21
Permanent jobs citing API Design 12 28 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.42% 0.42% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.45% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 7 26 2
10th Percentile - - £59,125
25th Percentile £72,899 £31,250 £59,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,870 £36,250 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +106.54% -45.28% -10.47%
75th Percentile £76,840 £72,433 £74,063
90th Percentile - £91,216 £75,375
UK median annual salary £77,500 £62,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +24.00% -21.88% -4.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,642 6,252 4,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.25% 92.81% 94.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,350 2,422 2,244
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,321
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,654
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.94% +9.82%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £73,875
90th Percentile £83,074 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing API Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for API Design in Scotland

API Design
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing API Design in Scotland.

Salary trend for API Design in Scotland

API Design
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Design within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Edinburgh +18 12 £74,870 +6.08% 2
API Design
UK

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) Apache Solr
1 3 (25.00%) CMS
1 3 (25.00%) Sitecore CMS
1 3 (25.00%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) GCP
1 7 (58.33%) OpenShift
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (16.67%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) MSBuild
1 3 (25.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (25.00%) webpack
General
1 9 (75.00%) Banking
1 9 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Marketing
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Architect
1 7 (58.33%) Solutions Architect
2 5 (41.67%) Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Web Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Web Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Analyst Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Business Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) .NET
1 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (25.00%) CSS
1 3 (25.00%) Next.js
1 3 (25.00%) Sass
1 3 (25.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Private Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Roadmaps
2 7 (58.33%) Agile
2 7 (58.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 7 (58.33%) Customer Experience
2 7 (58.33%) Data Architecture
2 7 (58.33%) Microservices
2 7 (58.33%) Software Engineering
2 7 (58.33%) Technical Leadership
2 7 (58.33%) Translating Business Requirements
2 7 (58.33%) Zero Trust
3 3 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Strategy
3 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (25.00%) Personalization
3 3 (25.00%) SDLC
3 3 (25.00%) Web Development
4 2 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (16.67%) Business Analysis
4 2 (16.67%) Matrix Organization
4 2 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) C#
1 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Google
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Optimizely
2 3 (25.00%) Sitecore