API Design Jobs in the South West

API Design
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 263 267
Rank change year-on-year +97 +4 +45
Permanent jobs citing API Design 14 20 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.39% 0.21% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.26% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 14 17 7
10th Percentile £65,893 £38,750 £50,500
25th Percentile £76,727 £41,250 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £93,876 £52,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +77.96% -21.85% +28.57%
75th Percentile £140,677 £72,433 £97,290
90th Percentile - £77,500 -
England median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +23.08% -18.75% -5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,345 7,776 6,348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.18% 82.91% 94.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,905 5,600 3,523
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £39,225
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £51,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% -3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,650
90th Percentile £78,900 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing API Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for API Design in the South West

API Design
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing API Design in the South West.

Salary trend for API Design in the South West

API Design
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Design in the South West over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for API Design in the South West

API Design
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 20 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
Bristol +61 12 £112,636 +59.60% 7
Devon - 2 £62,500 -
API Design
England

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) Azure
1 11 (78.57%) GCP
1 11 (78.57%) npm
2 1 (7.14%) Boomi
Development Applications
1 11 (78.57%) Cucumber
1 11 (78.57%) Cypress.io
1 11 (78.57%) Git
1 11 (78.57%) Sonatype Nexus
1 11 (78.57%) webpack
General
1 11 (78.57%) Banking
1 11 (78.57%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Lead
2 6 (42.86%) Java Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) Lead Java Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 5 (35.71%) Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) C# Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (85.71%) RESTful
2 11 (78.57%) Jest
2 11 (78.57%) Spring Boot
2 11 (78.57%) Web Services
3 6 (42.86%) Node.js
4 5 (35.71%) AngularJS
4 5 (35.71%) React
5 2 (14.29%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Cloud Native
1 6 (42.86%) Distributed Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Public Cloud
2 5 (35.71%) Product Ownership
3 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
4 1 (7.14%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) CI/CD
2 12 (85.71%) Agile
2 12 (85.71%) Microservices
3 11 (78.57%) Change Management
3 11 (78.57%) Containerisation
3 11 (78.57%) End-to-End Testing
3 11 (78.57%) Event-Driven
3 11 (78.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 11 (78.57%) Full-Stack Development
3 11 (78.57%) Micro Frontends
3 11 (78.57%) Release Automation
3 11 (78.57%) Test Automation
4 6 (42.86%) Architectural Design
4 6 (42.86%) Software Engineering
5 5 (35.71%) DevOps
6 3 (21.43%) API Integration
7 2 (14.29%) Data Protection
7 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
7 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (14.29%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 11 (78.57%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) SnapLogic