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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 472 508 649
Rank change year-on-year +36 +141 -40
Permanent jobs citing API Design 268 163 252
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.37% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.40% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 190 116 199
10th Percentile £47,637 £56,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £56,169 £65,000 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £80,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.94% +28.00% -18.03%
75th Percentile £90,000 £94,952 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £119,375 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £76,250 £55,750
% change year-on-year -14.75% +36.77% -20.36%

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 68,040 40,758 85,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.42% 93.05% 83.05%
Number of salaries quoted 45,181 21,501 61,227
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +41 248 £72,500 -9.38% 180
UK excluding London -22 139 £65,000 -14.75% 95
London +40 116 £77,500 -3.13% 93
Work from Home +36 112 £73,750 -1.67% 111
North of England -30 48 £70,000 -26.03% 38
North West +19 35 £73,750 -20.70% 27
Midlands -16 24 £70,000 +16.67% 5
South West -40 24 £42,500 -50.15% 11
South East -44 19 £62,500 - 27
West Midlands -25 16 £70,000 +16.67% 4
East of England -25 14 £72,500 -14.71% 7
Yorkshire -45 12 £63,750 -32.64% 9
Wales - 9 £51,619 - 4
East Midlands -19 8 £61,250 -31.94% 1
North East - 1 £45,000 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

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 (1.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (1.49%) CMS
3 2 (0.75%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.37%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.37%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 5 (1.87%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.75%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 147 (54.85%) AWS
2 140 (52.24%) Azure
3 41 (15.30%) Serverless
4 35 (13.06%) GCP
5 31 (11.57%) GitHub
6 22 (8.21%) SaaS
7 20 (7.46%) Amazon S3
7 20 (7.46%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (6.72%) Azure Service Bus
9 15 (5.60%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (4.10%) Azure Key Vault
11 10 (3.73%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (3.73%) Power Platform
12 9 (3.36%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (3.36%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (3.36%) Anthropic Claude
12 9 (3.36%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (3.36%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (2.99%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.58%) Broadband
2 7 (2.61%) DMARC
3 6 (2.24%) MQTT
4 3 (1.12%) Network Security
5 1 (0.37%) HTTP
5 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (21.64%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (13.43%) MongoDB
3 20 (7.46%) MySQL
3 20 (7.46%) Redis
4 15 (5.60%) DynamoDB
5 13 (4.85%) Relational Database
6 12 (4.48%) NoSQL
7 10 (3.73%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.99%) MariaDB
9 4 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.49%) Power BI
10 3 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.75%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.75%) Metadata
11 2 (0.75%) TimescaleDB
12 1 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.37%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 17 (6.34%) Git
2 14 (5.22%) Postman
3 9 (3.36%) Claude Code
4 5 (1.87%) GitLab
4 5 (1.87%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.87%) JIRA
4 5 (1.87%) JUnit
4 5 (1.87%) Mockito
5 4 (1.49%) NUnit
6 3 (1.12%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.12%) Gradle
6 3 (1.12%) Maven
6 3 (1.12%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.75%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.75%) JMeter
7 2 (0.75%) Storybook
8 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.37%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.37%) Vite
General
1 86 (32.09%) Social Skills
2 40 (14.93%) Finance
3 27 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (8.58%) Games
5 19 (7.09%) Public Sector
6 16 (5.97%) Law
7 8 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.99%) Front Office
8 7 (2.61%) Legal
8 7 (2.61%) Retail
9 6 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.24%) Marketing
10 4 (1.49%) Banking
11 3 (1.12%) Digital Health
11 3 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.37%) Advertising
13 1 (0.37%) Billing
13 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 93 (34.70%) Developer
2 66 (24.63%) Senior
3 52 (19.40%) Architect
4 38 (14.18%) Lead
5 34 (12.69%) Software Engineer
6 21 (7.84%) Full-Stack Developer
6 21 (7.84%) Solutions Architect
7 19 (7.09%) Senior Developer
8 15 (5.60%) .NET Developer
9 14 (5.22%) Analyst
10 13 (4.85%) Data Analyst
10 13 (4.85%) Integration Architect
10 13 (4.85%) Lead Developer
10 13 (4.85%) Senior Architect
10 13 (4.85%) Software Developer
11 12 (4.48%) Python Developer
11 12 (4.48%) Python Engineer
11 12 (4.48%) Senior Software Engineer
11 12 (4.48%) Technical Leader
12 10 (3.73%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (42.54%) RESTful
2 62 (23.13%) REST
3 50 (18.66%) Node.js
3 50 (18.66%) React
4 39 (14.55%) .NET
5 36 (13.43%) Spring
6 35 (13.06%) Spring Boot
7 32 (11.94%) OAuth
8 28 (10.45%) JSON
8 28 (10.45%) OAuth2
9 25 (9.33%) Kafka
10 24 (8.96%) JWT
10 24 (8.96%) OpenAPI
11 23 (8.58%) AngularJS
12 21 (7.84%) Swagger
13 18 (6.72%) .NET Core
13 18 (6.72%) RabbitMQ
14 17 (6.34%) HTML
15 15 (5.60%) CSS
16 13 (4.85%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 71 (26.49%) Cloud Native
2 45 (16.79%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (11.19%) Low-Code
4 25 (9.33%) Product Ownership
5 22 (8.21%) Video\Live Streaming
6 15 (5.60%) Data Structures
7 12 (4.48%) Onboarding
8 10 (3.73%) Mobile App
9 7 (2.61%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.61%) Fixed Income
9 7 (2.61%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.87%) Marketing Technology
10 5 (1.87%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.49%) PropTech
12 3 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.12%) NHS
12 3 (1.12%) Operational Technology
12 3 (1.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.61%) Linux
2 3 (1.12%) Android
2 3 (1.12%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (54.10%) CI/CD
2 93 (34.70%) Software Engineering
3 90 (33.58%) Microservices
4 86 (32.09%) Agile
5 83 (30.97%) Test Automation
6 82 (30.60%) DevOps
7 78 (29.10%) AI
8 75 (27.99%) Full-Stack Development
9 74 (27.61%) Containerisation
10 71 (26.49%) Event-Driven
11 67 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 62 (23.13%) API Integration
12 62 (23.13%) Infrastructure as Code
13 56 (20.90%) Integration Patterns
14 54 (20.15%) Observability
15 49 (18.28%) Mentoring
16 47 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
17 42 (15.67%) Decision-Making
18 39 (14.55%) Machine Learning
19 38 (14.18%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 102 (38.06%) Python
2 61 (22.76%) JavaScript
3 60 (22.39%) Java
4 52 (19.40%) TypeScript
5 49 (18.28%) SQL
6 40 (14.93%) C#
7 23 (8.58%) Go
8 12 (4.48%) Ruby
9 9 (3.36%) PHP
10 6 (2.24%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.87%) C++
12 4 (1.49%) Bicep
12 4 (1.49%) Rust
12 4 (1.49%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.49%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.12%) C
14 2 (0.75%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.75%) ActionScript 2.0
14 2 (0.75%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.75%) R
Qualifications
1 39 (14.55%) Degree
2 33 (12.31%) Security Cleared
3 31 (11.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (5.60%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.99%) CISSP
6 5 (1.87%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.87%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (0.75%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.75%) CCSP
7 2 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.37%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (12.69%) QA
2 11 (4.10%) GDPR
3 7 (2.61%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.61%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.75%) WCAG
6 1 (0.37%) HL7
6 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 76 (28.36%) Docker
2 6 (2.24%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (21.64%) Kubernetes
2 26 (9.70%) Terraform
3 6 (2.24%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.87%) Ansible
5 4 (1.49%) Grafana
6 3 (1.12%) Podman
6 3 (1.12%) Puppet
7 2 (0.75%) Kibana
7 2 (0.75%) Nagios
8 1 (0.37%) Istio
Vendors
1 42 (15.67%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.22%) SAP
3 13 (4.85%) Google
4 9 (3.36%) Oracle
4 9 (3.36%) SendGrid
5 8 (2.99%) MuleSoft
5 8 (2.99%) OpenAI
6 7 (2.61%) Atlassian
6 7 (2.61%) Pega
7 6 (2.24%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.87%) Adobe
8 5 (1.87%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.87%) Workday
9 4 (1.49%) DevExpress
9 4 (1.49%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.12%) Foundry
10 3 (1.12%) NVIDIA
10 3 (1.12%) Tenable
11 2 (0.75%) Concur
11 2 (0.75%) Splunk