API Design Job Trends in the Thames Valley

API Design
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 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 178 186 170
Rank change year-on-year +8 -16 +82
Permanent jobs citing API Design 1 8 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.026% 0.20% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.031% 0.23% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1 8 4
10th Percentile - £55,150 -
25th Percentile £77,500 £59,875 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +8.33% -29.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £73,750 £65,625
90th Percentile - £88,750 £71,250
South East median annual salary £80,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +28.00% +4.17% -23.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,185 3,478 3,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 83.38% 87.96% 93.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,701 1,709 2,163
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £54,763
% change year-on-year -13.04% +5.00% -0.43%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

API Design job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

API Design
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing API Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing API Design

API Design
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Design within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +1 1 £80,000 +23.08% 11
API Design
South East

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Engineering Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Budget Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft