API Design Job Trends in the South East

API Design
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East 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 266 283 249
Rank change year-on-year +17 -34 +165
Permanent jobs citing API Design 5 35 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.051% 0.34% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.062% 0.40% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 5 23 7
10th Percentile £55,550 £47,500 £55,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% +4.17% -23.08%
75th Percentile £118,750 £71,250 £74,375
90th Percentile £134,500 £73,750 £83,000
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
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,085 8,795 6,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 82.56% 84.58% 92.79%
Number of salaries quoted 4,925 4,575 4,815
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £54,763
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +5.00% -0.43%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
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 South East

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

API Design job vacancy trend in the South East

API Design
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing API Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing API Design

API Design
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for API Design in the South East

API Design
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Design within the South East 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
Hampshire +42 1 £60,000 - 8
Thames Valley +8 1 £80,000 +23.08% 33
Berkshire +1 1 £80,000 +23.08% 20
Kent -1 1 £112,500 - 3
Surrey -4 1 £140,000 +107.41% 6
East Sussex - 1 £55,500 - 3
API Design
England

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (20.00%) Anypoint
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) AMQP
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Snyk
General
1 1 (20.00%) Automotive
1 1 (20.00%) Back Office
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Developer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (20.00%) MuleSoft Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) OAuth
1 3 (60.00%) OAuth2
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (20.00%) JSON
3 1 (20.00%) JWT
3 1 (20.00%) RAML
3 1 (20.00%) React
3 1 (20.00%) React Native
3 1 (20.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (20.00%) IoT
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) B2C
3 2 (40.00%) CRM
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) B2B
4 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Information Security
4 1 (20.00%) Network Design
4 1 (20.00%) OWASP
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (20.00%) SDLC
4 1 (20.00%) Software Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DBS Check
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Blue Prism
1 1 (20.00%) Checkmarx
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (20.00%) Qualys
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce