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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 451 520 673
Rank change year-on-year +69 +153 -107
Permanent jobs citing API Design 328 156 236
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.33% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.37% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 225 116 180
10th Percentile £48,300 £52,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,938 £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 £116,875 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 70,838 42,616 86,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.43% 91.47% 82.17%
Number of salaries quoted 48,971 23,341 61,278
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 £53,171 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.34% - -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 1 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 1 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 +72 294 £75,000 -3.23% 147
UK excluding London -15 163 £67,500 -10.00% 78
London +64 142 £77,500 -3.13% 92
Work from Home +55 134 £75,000 - 87
North of England -14 53 £70,000 -24.73% 22
North West +21 38 £75,000 -0.33% 12
South West -43 32 £45,000 -47.22% 10
Midlands -24 25 £70,000 +16.67% 5
South East -30 22 £60,000 -4.00% 24
East of England -17 17 £72,500 -14.71% 5
West Midlands -20 16 £70,000 +16.67% 3
Wales - 13 £57,500 - 4
Yorkshire -36 12 £62,500 -33.96% 6
East Midlands -21 9 £70,000 +7.69% 2
North East - 3 £85,000 - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 5

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 (1.52%) 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 (0.30%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.30%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 5 (1.52%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.30%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 181 (55.18%) AWS
2 166 (50.61%) Azure
3 43 (13.11%) GCP
4 41 (12.50%) Serverless
5 40 (12.20%) GitHub
6 29 (8.84%) Azure Service Bus
7 26 (7.93%) SaaS
8 20 (6.10%) Amazon S3
8 20 (6.10%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (5.79%) Azure Key Vault
9 19 (5.79%) Azure Monitor
10 16 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (4.57%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (4.27%) Azure Logic Apps
12 14 (4.27%) Azure Storage
13 13 (3.96%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (3.05%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 36 (10.98%) Broadband
2 13 (3.96%) DMARC
3 11 (3.35%) MQTT
4 3 (0.91%) Network Security
5 2 (0.61%) HTTP
5 2 (0.61%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (24.39%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (14.94%) MongoDB
3 37 (11.28%) MySQL
4 28 (8.54%) Redis
5 24 (7.32%) Relational Database
6 15 (4.57%) DynamoDB
6 15 (4.57%) NoSQL
7 13 (3.96%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.44%) 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 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.61%) Metadata
12 2 (0.61%) TimescaleDB
13 1 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 28 (8.54%) Git
2 21 (6.40%) Claude Code
3 13 (3.96%) JIRA
4 12 (3.66%) Postman
5 9 (2.74%) 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 (0.91%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.91%) Gradle
8 3 (0.91%) Maven
8 3 (0.91%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.61%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.61%) JMeter
9 2 (0.61%) MLflow
10 1 (0.30%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.30%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.30%) Vite
General
1 94 (28.66%) Social Skills
2 40 (12.20%) Finance
3 35 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (9.45%) Games
5 26 (7.93%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (3.96%) Law
8 10 (3.05%) Pharmaceutical
9 8 (2.44%) Front Office
10 7 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.13%) Legal
10 7 (2.13%) Retail
11 6 (1.83%) Marketing
12 5 (1.52%) Banking
12 5 (1.52%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.91%) Digital Health
13 3 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.61%) Tech for Good
15 1 (0.30%) Advertising
15 1 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 114 (34.76%) Developer
2 91 (27.74%) Senior
3 57 (17.38%) Architect
4 53 (16.16%) Lead
5 42 (12.80%) Software Engineer
6 30 (9.15%) Senior Developer
7 25 (7.62%) Solutions Architect
8 22 (6.71%) Full-Stack Developer
8 22 (6.71%) Python Engineer
9 20 (6.10%) Python Developer
9 20 (6.10%) Technical Leader
10 16 (4.88%) Lead Developer
10 16 (4.88%) Senior Python Developer
10 16 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
11 15 (4.57%) .NET Developer
11 15 (4.57%) Software Developer
12 14 (4.27%) Integration Architect
12 14 (4.27%) Senior Architect
13 13 (3.96%) Java Engineer
14 12 (3.66%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (44.21%) RESTful
2 67 (20.43%) REST
3 59 (17.99%) Node.js
4 58 (17.68%) React
5 54 (16.46%) .NET
6 48 (14.63%) Spring
7 47 (14.33%) Spring Boot
8 35 (10.67%) OAuth
9 33 (10.06%) Kafka
9 33 (10.06%) OAuth2
10 31 (9.45%) JSON
11 27 (8.23%) JWT
11 27 (8.23%) OpenAPI
12 25 (7.62%) AngularJS
12 25 (7.62%) Swagger
13 24 (7.32%) .NET Core
14 23 (7.01%) RabbitMQ
15 19 (5.79%) HTML
16 17 (5.18%) CSS
17 15 (4.57%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 105 (32.01%) Cloud Native
2 67 (20.43%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (11.59%) Low-Code
4 31 (9.45%) Video\Live Streaming
5 28 (8.54%) Product Ownership
6 18 (5.49%) Onboarding
7 13 (3.96%) Mobile App
8 11 (3.35%) Data Structures
9 8 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.44%) Marketing Technology
9 8 (2.44%) Virtual Team
10 7 (2.13%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.13%) Fixed Income
10 7 (2.13%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.83%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.52%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.22%) AI Agents
13 4 (1.22%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.96%) Linux
2 6 (1.83%) Windows
3 3 (0.91%) Android
3 3 (0.91%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (56.40%) CI/CD
2 127 (38.72%) Software Engineering
3 117 (35.67%) Microservices
4 115 (35.06%) Agile
4 115 (35.06%) AI
5 112 (34.15%) DevOps
6 102 (31.10%) Containerisation
6 102 (31.10%) Test Automation
7 98 (29.88%) Full-Stack Development
8 90 (27.44%) Event-Driven
9 84 (25.61%) Infrastructure as Code
10 82 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 74 (22.56%) Integration Patterns
12 72 (21.95%) Observability
13 67 (20.43%) Mentoring
14 59 (17.99%) API Integration
15 53 (16.16%) Data Modelling
16 49 (14.94%) Machine Learning
16 49 (14.94%) Roadmaps
16 49 (14.94%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 139 (42.38%) Python
2 78 (23.78%) Java
3 68 (20.73%) JavaScript
4 65 (19.82%) TypeScript
5 57 (17.38%) SQL
6 54 (16.46%) C#
7 34 (10.37%) Go
8 16 (4.88%) Ruby
9 12 (3.66%) Bicep
10 9 (2.74%) PHP
11 5 (1.52%) C++
11 5 (1.52%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.22%) Rust
12 4 (1.22%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.91%) C
13 3 (0.91%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.61%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.61%) R
14 2 (0.61%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.30%) Bash
Qualifications
1 44 (13.41%) Degree
2 40 (12.20%) Security Cleared
3 31 (9.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (6.10%) SC Cleared
5 9 (2.74%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.44%) CISSP
7 5 (1.52%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.91%) 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 (0.30%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (12.20%) QA
2 11 (3.35%) Accessibility
2 11 (3.35%) GDPR
3 7 (2.13%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.83%) NCSC
5 4 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.22%) WCAG
6 1 (0.30%) HL7
6 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 112 (34.15%) Docker
2 6 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 78 (23.78%) Kubernetes
2 36 (10.98%) Terraform
3 8 (2.44%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.83%) Grafana
5 5 (1.52%) Ansible
5 5 (1.52%) Puppet
6 3 (0.91%) Podman
7 2 (0.61%) Kibana
7 2 (0.61%) Nagios
7 2 (0.61%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.30%) Istio
Vendors
1 49 (14.94%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.57%) Google
3 13 (3.96%) OpenAI
3 13 (3.96%) SendGrid
4 12 (3.66%) SAP
5 8 (2.44%) Adobe
6 7 (2.13%) Atlassian
6 7 (2.13%) Databricks
6 7 (2.13%) Oracle
7 6 (1.83%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.52%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.52%) Pega
8 5 (1.52%) Workday
9 4 (1.22%) DevExpress
9 4 (1.22%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.22%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.22%) Splunk
10 3 (0.91%) Foundry
10 3 (0.91%) NVIDIA
10 3 (0.91%) Tenable