API Design Jobs

API Design
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 626 612
Rank change year-on-year +121 -14 -199
Permanent jobs citing API Design 189 278 407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.28% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.33% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 136 224 301
10th Percentile £56,250 £31,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £48,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £62,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% -21.88% -5.88%
75th Percentile £93,778 £77,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £113,125 £100,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,870 £56,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +32.51% -24.67% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,568 84,685 99,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.32% 85.99% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,511 59,837 58,366
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,009 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for API Design in the UK

API Design
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for API Design in the UK

API Design
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Design over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for API Design in the UK

API Design
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +121 173 £80,000 +23.08% 179
UK excluding London +139 117 £74,870 +32.51% 113
Work from Home +170 95 £75,000 +15.38% 95
London +107 66 £80,000 +3.23% 92
South East +96 32 £62,500 +13.64% 42
North of England +74 25 £71,991 +2.84% 32
East of England +72 24 £85,000 +30.77% 9
Yorkshire +82 19 £78,622 -21.38% 8
South West +100 16 £98,569 +67.78% 10
Scotland +115 12 £74,870 +87.17% 5
Midlands +45 8 £60,000 +17.07% 18
West Midlands +12 7 £60,000 +17.07% 9
North West +17 6 £47,500 -32.14% 24
East Midlands - 1 £90,000 - 6

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (2.65%) CMS
2 4 (2.12%) Confluence
2 4 (2.12%) Umbraco
3 3 (1.59%) Apache Solr
3 3 (1.59%) Sitecore CMS
4 2 (1.06%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.06%) nginx
5 1 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.53%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.53%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.53%) Mule
5 1 (0.53%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.53%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 9 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Endur
1 1 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.53%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 68 (35.98%) AWS
2 64 (33.86%) Azure
3 54 (28.57%) GCP
4 33 (17.46%) SaaS
5 24 (12.70%) Serverless
6 19 (10.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 19 (10.05%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (9.52%) AWS Step Functions
7 18 (9.52%) GitHub
8 15 (7.94%) Amazon EventBridge
8 15 (7.94%) Amazon SQS
8 15 (7.94%) AWS CodePipeline
8 15 (7.94%) Boomi
9 14 (7.41%) AWS CodeBuild
9 14 (7.41%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 13 (6.88%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (6.88%) npm
11 8 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (4.23%) OpenShift
12 6 (3.17%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.59%) Firewall
2 2 (1.06%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (24.34%) NoSQL
2 31 (16.40%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (12.70%) Big Data
4 21 (11.11%) MongoDB
5 20 (10.58%) Relational Database
6 17 (8.99%) MySQL
7 14 (7.41%) Redis
8 9 (4.76%) SQL Server
9 8 (4.23%) Data Lake
9 8 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (4.23%) RDBMS
10 5 (2.65%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (1.06%) Couchbase
13 1 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
13 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.53%) Geospatial Data
13 1 (0.53%) Power BI
13 1 (0.53%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 33 (17.46%) Git
2 18 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 16 (8.47%) webpack
4 14 (7.41%) Cucumber
5 13 (6.88%) Cypress.io
5 13 (6.88%) Sonatype Nexus
6 12 (6.35%) Octopus Deploy
7 9 (4.76%) JIRA
8 8 (4.23%) SpecFlow
9 7 (3.70%) Moq
10 6 (3.17%) Gradle
10 6 (3.17%) Maven
11 5 (2.65%) GitLab
12 3 (1.59%) git-flow
12 3 (1.59%) MSBuild
12 3 (1.59%) Visual Studio
13 2 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 1 (0.53%) gulp
14 1 (0.53%) Jaeger
14 1 (0.53%) Subversion
General
1 66 (34.92%) Finance
2 60 (31.75%) Social Skills
3 49 (25.93%) Banking
4 18 (9.52%) Games
4 18 (9.52%) Law
5 17 (8.99%) Public Sector
6 15 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (4.76%) Legal
8 6 (3.17%) iGaming
8 6 (3.17%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (3.17%) Publishing
9 5 (2.65%) Marketing
9 5 (2.65%) Retail
10 3 (1.59%) Front Office
11 2 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.06%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.06%) Local Government
12 1 (0.53%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.53%) Military
12 1 (0.53%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 70 (37.04%) Developer
2 43 (22.75%) Architect
3 38 (20.11%) Senior
4 36 (19.05%) Lead
5 35 (18.52%) Solutions Architect
6 27 (14.29%) Software Engineer
7 23 (12.17%) Senior Developer
8 19 (10.05%) C# Developer
9 16 (8.47%) .NET Developer
10 14 (7.41%) C# .NET Developer
11 13 (6.88%) Software Developer
12 12 (6.35%) Java Engineer
13 10 (5.29%) Lead Java Engineer
14 8 (4.23%) Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (4.23%) Java Developer
14 8 (4.23%) Senior Software Developer
15 7 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
16 6 (3.17%) Senior Architect
16 6 (3.17%) Senior Solutions Architect
16 6 (3.17%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (42.33%) RESTful
2 49 (25.93%) .NET
3 32 (16.93%) REST
4 28 (14.81%) RabbitMQ
5 26 (13.76%) React
6 22 (11.64%) OAuth
7 21 (11.11%) Kafka
7 21 (11.11%) Spring Boot
8 18 (9.52%) .NET Core
8 18 (9.52%) AngularJS
9 16 (8.47%) .NET Framework
10 15 (7.94%) JWT
10 15 (7.94%) Web Services
11 13 (6.88%) Entity Framework
11 13 (6.88%) Jest
11 13 (6.88%) Node.js
11 13 (6.88%) Spring
12 12 (6.35%) MSMQ
13 11 (5.82%) Swagger
14 10 (5.29%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 43 (22.75%) Cloud Native
2 38 (20.11%) Product Ownership
3 21 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
4 18 (9.52%) Mobile Games
5 15 (7.94%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (7.41%) Public Cloud
7 11 (5.82%) Mobile App
8 9 (4.76%) Management Information System
9 8 (4.23%) Distributed Applications
9 8 (4.23%) Private Cloud
10 7 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (3.17%) Sports Betting
12 3 (1.59%) Algorithms
13 2 (1.06%) Data Structures
13 2 (1.06%) Onboarding
14 1 (0.53%) Clustering
14 1 (0.53%) Data Centre
14 1 (0.53%) Distributed Architecture
14 1 (0.53%) Low-Code
14 1 (0.53%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.06%) Linux
2 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (55.56%) Microservices
2 100 (52.91%) Agile
3 97 (51.32%) CI/CD
4 73 (38.62%) DevOps
5 62 (32.80%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (29.10%) Software Engineering
7 51 (26.98%) API Development
7 51 (26.98%) Event-Driven
8 49 (25.93%) Containerisation
9 48 (25.40%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 40 (21.16%) Computer Science
11 36 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
12 34 (17.99%) Technical Leadership
13 33 (17.46%) Domain-Driven Design
14 32 (16.93%) Full-Stack Development
15 30 (15.87%) Analytics
16 28 (14.81%) Test Automation
17 26 (13.76%) Unit Testing
18 25 (13.23%) Roadmaps
18 25 (13.23%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 68 (35.98%) Java
2 62 (32.80%) C#
3 40 (21.16%) Python
3 40 (21.16%) SQL
4 25 (13.23%) TypeScript
5 22 (11.64%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.76%) Go
7 5 (2.65%) Apex Code
7 5 (2.65%) Kotlin
7 5 (2.65%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.12%) Ruby
8 4 (2.12%) Rust
9 2 (1.06%) C
9 2 (1.06%) PHP
10 1 (0.53%) Bash
10 1 (0.53%) C++
10 1 (0.53%) DataWeave
10 1 (0.53%) Perl
10 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (25.40%) Degree
2 35 (18.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (7.94%) Security Cleared
4 7 (3.70%) AWS Certification
4 7 (3.70%) Master's Degree
5 6 (3.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.53%) CISSP
6 1 (0.53%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.53%) CSSLP
6 1 (0.53%) GIAC
6 1 (0.53%) GWAPT
6 1 (0.53%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.11%) QA
2 6 (3.17%) CDISC
2 6 (3.17%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.65%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.12%) GDPR
5 3 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.59%) PMBOK
6 2 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.06%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 71 (37.57%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 62 (32.80%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.88%) Argo
3 11 (5.82%) Terraform
4 8 (4.23%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.70%) Grafana
6 4 (2.12%) Kustomize
7 3 (1.59%) Kibana
8 2 (1.06%) Ansible
8 2 (1.06%) Istio
8 2 (1.06%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.53%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.53%) Kiali
Vendors
1 29 (15.34%) Google
2 23 (12.17%) Microsoft
3 22 (11.64%) Salesforce
4 19 (10.05%) ServiceNow
5 15 (7.94%) MuleSoft
6 14 (7.41%) Informatica
7 6 (3.17%) New Relic
8 4 (2.12%) Optimizely
9 3 (1.59%) Sitecore
9 3 (1.59%) Splunk
10 2 (1.06%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.06%) Snow
11 1 (0.53%) Adobe
11 1 (0.53%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.53%) Cisco
11 1 (0.53%) OpenLink
11 1 (0.53%) Oracle
11 1 (0.53%) SnapLogic
11 1 (0.53%) Sun
11 1 (0.53%) Sybase