API Design
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring API Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 448 513 672
Rank change year-on-year +65 +159 -95
Permanent jobs citing API Design 327 159 235
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.34% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.37% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 223 119 180
10th Percentile £48,150 £52,350 £36,750
25th Percentile £60,625 £59,375 £50,469
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £75,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +32.74% -19.29%

All Process & 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 71,140 43,093 86,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.59% 91.19% 82.11%
Number of salaries quoted 49,140 23,729 61,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,688 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.38% - -9.09%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend

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

API Design job vacancy trend in the UK

API Design
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing API Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing API Design

API Design
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Design over the 6 months to 3 July 2026.

Salary histogram for API Design in the UK

API Design
Top 16 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 3 July 2026. 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 +65 293 £75,000 -3.23% 179
UK excluding London -9 162 £68,750 -8.33% 91
London +69 142 £77,500 -3.13% 111
Work from Home +52 134 £75,000 - 127
North of England -9 52 £72,500 -12.12% 38
North West +16 37 £75,000 +30.43% 19
South West -50 32 £45,000 -47.22% 8
Midlands -8 25 £70,000 +16.67% 5
South East -28 22 £60,000 -4.00% 28
East of England -14 17 £72,500 -14.71% 3
West Midlands -12 16 £70,000 +16.67% 3
Wales -29 13 £57,500 +7.48% 3
Yorkshire -35 12 £62,500 -33.96% 15
East Midlands -10 9 £70,000 +7.69% 2
North East - 3 £85,000 - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 5 (1.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (1.22%) CMS
2 4 (1.22%) Confluence
3 2 (0.61%) Camunda
3 2 (0.61%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.31%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.31%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.31%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 5 (1.53%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.31%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 181 (55.35%) AWS
2 165 (50.46%) Azure
3 43 (13.15%) GCP
4 42 (12.84%) Serverless
5 40 (12.23%) GitHub
6 29 (8.87%) Azure Service Bus
7 26 (7.95%) SaaS
8 20 (6.12%) Amazon S3
8 20 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (5.81%) Azure Key Vault
9 19 (5.81%) Azure Monitor
10 17 (5.20%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (4.89%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (4.89%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (4.28%) Amazon ECS
13 14 (4.28%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (4.28%) Azure Storage
14 10 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (3.06%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 36 (11.01%) Broadband
2 13 (3.98%) DMARC
3 11 (3.36%) MQTT
4 3 (0.92%) Network Security
5 2 (0.61%) HTTP
5 2 (0.61%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.31%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (24.46%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (14.98%) MongoDB
3 37 (11.31%) MySQL
4 28 (8.56%) Redis
5 24 (7.34%) Relational Database
6 15 (4.59%) DynamoDB
6 15 (4.59%) NoSQL
7 13 (3.98%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.45%) MariaDB
9 6 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.83%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.22%) Delta Lake
10 4 (1.22%) Power BI
11 3 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.61%) Metadata
12 2 (0.61%) TimescaleDB
13 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 28 (8.56%) Git
2 21 (6.42%) Claude Code
3 13 (3.98%) JIRA
4 11 (3.36%) Postman
5 9 (2.75%) GitLab
6 6 (1.83%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.83%) JUnit
6 6 (1.83%) Mockito
6 6 (1.83%) NUnit
7 4 (1.22%) MSI
8 3 (0.92%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.92%) Gradle
8 3 (0.92%) Maven
8 3 (0.92%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.61%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.61%) JMeter
9 2 (0.61%) MLflow
10 1 (0.31%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.31%) Vite
General
1 94 (28.75%) Social Skills
2 40 (12.23%) Finance
3 35 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (9.48%) Games
5 26 (7.95%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.67%) Law
8 10 (3.06%) Pharmaceutical
9 8 (2.45%) Front Office
10 7 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.14%) Legal
10 7 (2.14%) Retail
11 6 (1.83%) Marketing
12 5 (1.53%) Banking
12 5 (1.53%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.92%) Digital Health
13 3 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.61%) Tech for Good
15 1 (0.31%) Automotive
15 1 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 114 (34.86%) Developer
2 91 (27.83%) Senior
3 57 (17.43%) Architect
4 53 (16.21%) Lead
5 42 (12.84%) Software Engineer
6 30 (9.17%) Senior Developer
7 25 (7.65%) Solutions Architect
8 22 (6.73%) Full-Stack Developer
8 22 (6.73%) Python Engineer
9 20 (6.12%) Python Developer
9 20 (6.12%) Technical Leader
10 16 (4.89%) Lead Developer
10 16 (4.89%) Senior Python Developer
10 16 (4.89%) Senior Software Engineer
11 15 (4.59%) .NET Developer
11 15 (4.59%) Software Developer
12 14 (4.28%) Integration Architect
12 14 (4.28%) Senior Architect
13 12 (3.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 12 (3.67%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (44.04%) RESTful
2 67 (20.49%) REST
3 59 (18.04%) Node.js
4 58 (17.74%) React
5 54 (16.51%) .NET
6 47 (14.37%) Spring
7 46 (14.07%) Spring Boot
8 34 (10.40%) OAuth
9 33 (10.09%) Kafka
10 32 (9.79%) OAuth2
11 31 (9.48%) JSON
12 27 (8.26%) JWT
13 26 (7.95%) OpenAPI
14 25 (7.65%) AngularJS
15 24 (7.34%) .NET Core
15 24 (7.34%) Swagger
16 23 (7.03%) RabbitMQ
17 19 (5.81%) HTML
18 17 (5.20%) CSS
19 15 (4.59%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 106 (32.42%) Cloud Native
2 67 (20.49%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (11.62%) Low-Code
4 31 (9.48%) Video\Live Streaming
5 28 (8.56%) Product Ownership
6 19 (5.81%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.67%) Mobile App
8 10 (3.06%) Data Structures
9 8 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.45%) Marketing Technology
9 8 (2.45%) Virtual Team
10 7 (2.14%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.14%) Data Centre
10 7 (2.14%) Fixed Income
10 7 (2.14%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.53%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.22%) AI Agents
13 4 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.98%) Linux
2 6 (1.83%) Windows
3 3 (0.92%) Android
3 3 (0.92%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (56.57%) CI/CD
2 127 (38.84%) Software Engineering
3 117 (35.78%) Microservices
4 115 (35.17%) Agile
4 115 (35.17%) AI
5 112 (34.25%) DevOps
6 103 (31.50%) Containerisation
7 101 (30.89%) Test Automation
8 98 (29.97%) Full-Stack Development
9 90 (27.52%) Event-Driven
10 84 (25.69%) Infrastructure as Code
11 81 (24.77%) Continuous Improvement
12 74 (22.63%) Integration Patterns
13 72 (22.02%) Observability
14 67 (20.49%) Mentoring
15 58 (17.74%) API Integration
16 52 (15.90%) Data Modelling
17 49 (14.98%) Machine Learning
17 49 (14.98%) Roadmaps
17 49 (14.98%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 138 (42.20%) Python
2 77 (23.55%) Java
3 68 (20.80%) JavaScript
4 65 (19.88%) TypeScript
5 56 (17.13%) SQL
6 54 (16.51%) C#
7 34 (10.40%) Go
8 16 (4.89%) Ruby
9 12 (3.67%) Bicep
10 9 (2.75%) PHP
11 5 (1.53%) C++
12 4 (1.22%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.22%) Rust
12 4 (1.22%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.92%) C
13 3 (0.92%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.61%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.61%) R
14 2 (0.61%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.31%) Lua
Qualifications
1 44 (13.46%) Degree
2 41 (12.54%) Security Cleared
3 31 (9.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (6.12%) SC Cleared
5 9 (2.75%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.45%) CISSP
7 5 (1.53%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.92%) MBA
9 2 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.61%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.61%) CCSP
9 2 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.31%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (12.23%) QA
2 11 (3.36%) Accessibility
2 11 (3.36%) GDPR
3 7 (2.14%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.83%) NCSC
5 4 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.22%) WCAG
6 1 (0.31%) HL7
6 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 113 (34.56%) Docker
2 6 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 79 (24.16%) Kubernetes
2 36 (11.01%) Terraform
3 8 (2.45%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.83%) Grafana
4 6 (1.83%) Puppet
5 5 (1.53%) Ansible
6 3 (0.92%) Podman
6 3 (0.92%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.61%) Kibana
7 2 (0.61%) Nagios
8 1 (0.31%) Istio
Vendors
1 49 (14.98%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.59%) Google
3 13 (3.98%) OpenAI
3 13 (3.98%) SendGrid
4 12 (3.67%) SAP
5 8 (2.45%) Adobe
6 7 (2.14%) Atlassian
6 7 (2.14%) Databricks
6 7 (2.14%) Oracle
7 6 (1.83%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.53%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.53%) Pega
8 5 (1.53%) Workday
9 4 (1.22%) DevExpress
9 4 (1.22%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.22%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.22%) Splunk
10 3 (0.92%) Foundry
10 3 (0.92%) NVIDIA
10 3 (0.92%) Tenable