API Design Jobs in the UK excluding London

API Design
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 597 633
Rank change year-on-year +124 +36 -79
Permanent jobs citing API Design 106 166 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.22% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.27% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 85 132 88
10th Percentile £50,000 £31,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £45,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £55,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.53% -20.36% +16.67%
75th Percentile £93,778 £72,433 £88,750
90th Percentile £102,800 £87,500 -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £62,500 £78,566
% change year-on-year +28.00% -20.45% -1.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,721 61,614 54,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.53% 82.28% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,560 42,296 28,644
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing API Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for API Design in the UK excluding London

API Design
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing API Design in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for API Design in the UK excluding London

API Design
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Design in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for API Design in the UK excluding London

API Design
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Design within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
South East +69 30 £62,500 +13.64% 29
North of England +22 24 £93,819 +34.03% 44
East of England +61 19 £85,000 +30.77% 11
South West +108 16 £85,253 +61.62% 14
Yorkshire +59 16 £94,637 -5.36% 14
Scotland +113 10 £74,870 +130.37%
North West -14 8 £93,000 +32.86% 27
Midlands +32 7 £60,000 +14.29% 11
West Midlands +22 6 £60,000 +14.29% 6
East Midlands - 1 £90,000 - 5
API Design
UK

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (3.77%) IIS
2 3 (2.83%) CMS
3 2 (1.89%) Apache Solr
3 2 (1.89%) Confluence
3 2 (1.89%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (1.89%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.94%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 8 (7.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 32 (30.19%) Azure
2 30 (28.30%) GCP
3 28 (26.42%) AWS
4 17 (16.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 17 (16.04%) SaaS
5 16 (15.09%) Serverless
6 15 (14.15%) Boomi
7 14 (13.21%) Amazon EventBridge
7 14 (13.21%) Amazon SQS
7 14 (13.21%) AWS CodeBuild
7 14 (13.21%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 14 (13.21%) AWS CodePipeline
7 14 (13.21%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (13.21%) AWS Step Functions
8 11 (10.38%) npm
9 7 (6.60%) OpenShift
10 4 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (3.77%) Cloudflare
10 4 (3.77%) GitHub
10 4 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (20.75%) Big Data
2 21 (19.81%) NoSQL
3 12 (11.32%) MongoDB
4 11 (10.38%) Redis
5 10 (9.43%) SQL Server
6 9 (8.49%) MySQL
6 9 (8.49%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (7.55%) Data Lake
7 8 (7.55%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (3.77%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.83%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.83%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.94%) CockroachDB
10 1 (0.94%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (19.81%) Git
2 13 (12.26%) webpack
3 11 (10.38%) Cucumber
3 11 (10.38%) Cypress.io
3 11 (10.38%) Jenkins
3 11 (10.38%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (8.49%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (3.77%) Jasmine
5 4 (3.77%) NUnit
5 4 (3.77%) SpecFlow
5 4 (3.77%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.83%) git-flow
6 3 (2.83%) JIRA
6 3 (2.83%) Moq
7 2 (1.89%) GitLab
7 2 (1.89%) MSBuild
7 2 (1.89%) Visual Studio
General
1 49 (46.23%) Finance
2 41 (38.68%) Banking
3 32 (30.19%) Social Skills
4 17 (16.04%) Law
5 14 (13.21%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.77%) Games
7 3 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.89%) Marketing
8 2 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.94%) Front Office
9 1 (0.94%) Legal
Job Titles
1 39 (36.79%) Developer
2 28 (26.42%) Architect
2 28 (26.42%) Solutions Architect
3 23 (21.70%) Lead
4 16 (15.09%) .NET Developer
5 13 (12.26%) C# Developer
6 11 (10.38%) C# .NET Developer
6 11 (10.38%) Senior
7 10 (9.43%) Software Engineer
8 9 (8.49%) Senior Developer
9 8 (7.55%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (6.60%) Java Engineer
10 7 (6.60%) Lead Java Engineer
11 5 (4.72%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 4 (3.77%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 4 (3.77%) Java Developer
12 4 (3.77%) Junior
12 4 (3.77%) Junior Developer
12 4 (3.77%) Junior Java Developer
12 4 (3.77%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (43.40%) RESTful
2 34 (32.08%) .NET
3 16 (15.09%) OAuth
4 15 (14.15%) Jest
5 14 (13.21%) AngularJS
5 14 (13.21%) JWT
5 14 (13.21%) React
5 14 (13.21%) REST
6 13 (12.26%) Spring Boot
7 11 (10.38%) Web Services
8 10 (9.43%) ASP.NET
8 10 (9.43%) RabbitMQ
9 9 (8.49%) .NET Core
9 9 (8.49%) MSMQ
10 8 (7.55%) .NET Framework
10 8 (7.55%) Node.js
10 8 (7.55%) Vue
11 7 (6.60%) CSS
12 6 (5.66%) Entity Framework
13 5 (4.72%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 27 (25.47%) Product Ownership
2 12 (11.32%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.32%) Management Information System
3 7 (6.60%) Private Cloud
4 6 (5.66%) Distributed Applications
4 6 (5.66%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (5.66%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.77%) Online Games
6 2 (1.89%) Clustering
6 2 (1.89%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.94%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.94%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.94%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.94%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.94%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (62.26%) Agile
2 62 (58.49%) Microservices
3 58 (54.72%) CI/CD
4 44 (41.51%) DevOps
5 31 (29.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (26.42%) Event-Driven
6 28 (26.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 28 (26.42%) Technical Leadership
7 25 (23.58%) Containerisation
8 24 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (20.75%) Technology Strategy
10 21 (19.81%) API Development
11 20 (18.87%) Collaborative Culture
11 20 (18.87%) Full-Stack Development
11 20 (18.87%) Software Engineering
12 19 (17.92%) Change Management
12 19 (17.92%) Domain-Driven Design
12 19 (17.92%) Enterprise Architecture
12 19 (17.92%) Test Automation
13 15 (14.15%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 45 (42.45%) C#
2 39 (36.79%) Java
3 15 (14.15%) JavaScript
4 12 (11.32%) Python
5 10 (9.43%) TypeScript
6 8 (7.55%) SQL
7 4 (3.77%) Go
8 2 (1.89%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.94%) C
9 1 (0.94%) C++
9 1 (0.94%) PHP
9 1 (0.94%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (15.09%) Degree
2 14 (13.21%) Security Cleared
3 10 (9.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.83%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.83%) PMBOK
2 2 (1.89%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.89%) CDISC
2 2 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 43 (40.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (29.25%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.77%) Grafana
2 4 (3.77%) Terraform
3 3 (2.83%) Kibana
Vendors
1 19 (17.92%) Microsoft
2 17 (16.04%) Salesforce
3 14 (13.21%) Informatica
3 14 (13.21%) MuleSoft
3 14 (13.21%) ServiceNow
4 10 (9.43%) Google
5 4 (3.77%) Rollbar
6 2 (1.89%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.89%) Optimizely
6 2 (1.89%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.94%) Oracle
7 1 (0.94%) SnapLogic
7 1 (0.94%) Splunk
7 1 (0.94%) Sybase