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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 517 665
Rank change year-on-year +61 +148 -109
Permanent jobs citing API Design 348 165 216
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.34% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.37% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 236 119 161
10th Percentile £48,375 £52,350 £37,500
25th Percentile £60,938 £61,250 £50,625
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 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £119,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +30.43% -17.86%

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 72,820 44,444 83,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.76% 90.26% 82.20%
Number of salaries quoted 50,274 24,878 58,156
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 13 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 13 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 +70 311 £75,000 -3.23% 166
UK excluding London -13 168 £70,000 -6.67% 74
London +78 156 £77,500 -3.13% 127
Work from Home +43 136 £75,000 - 56
North of England -4 53 £72,500 -1.35% 18
North West +8 38 £75,000 +30.43% 14
South West -46 33 £47,500 -44.28% 21
Midlands -16 27 £68,750 +14.58% 5
South East -23 22 £60,000 -2.04% 20
West Midlands -9 18 £67,500 +12.50% 3
East of England -21 17 £72,500 -14.71% 2
Wales -34 15 £57,500 +7.48% 3
Yorkshire -36 12 £62,500 -16.67% 4
East Midlands -26 9 £70,000 +7.69% 2
North East - 3 £85,000 -
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 (1.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 5 (1.44%) Camunda
1 5 (1.44%) Confluence
2 3 (0.86%) CMS
3 2 (0.57%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (0.57%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.29%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Lightworks
1 2 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.44%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.29%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 191 (54.89%) AWS
2 175 (50.29%) Azure
3 49 (14.08%) GCP
4 43 (12.36%) GitHub
4 43 (12.36%) Serverless
5 29 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 28 (8.05%) SaaS
7 22 (6.32%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (5.46%) Amazon S3
8 19 (5.46%) AWS Lambda
8 19 (5.46%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (5.46%) Azure Key Vault
8 19 (5.46%) Azure Monitor
9 18 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
11 16 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (4.02%) Azure Logic Apps
12 14 (4.02%) Azure Storage
13 11 (3.16%) Anthropic Claude
13 11 (3.16%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 36 (10.34%) Broadband
2 13 (3.74%) DMARC
3 11 (3.16%) MQTT
4 3 (0.86%) Network Security
5 2 (0.57%) HTTP
5 2 (0.57%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (25.29%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (14.37%) MongoDB
3 40 (11.49%) MySQL
4 33 (9.48%) Redis
5 26 (7.47%) Relational Database
6 16 (4.60%) NoSQL
7 14 (4.02%) DynamoDB
8 13 (3.74%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.30%) MariaDB
10 7 (2.01%) Geospatial Data
11 6 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.15%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.15%) Power BI
13 3 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.57%) Metadata
14 2 (0.57%) TimescaleDB
15 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
15 1 (0.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 33 (9.48%) Git
2 25 (7.18%) Claude Code
3 14 (4.02%) JIRA
4 10 (2.87%) GitLab
4 10 (2.87%) JUnit
4 10 (2.87%) Postman
5 9 (2.59%) Mockito
6 6 (1.72%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.72%) NUnit
7 5 (1.44%) MSI
8 4 (1.15%) Maven
9 3 (0.86%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.86%) Gradle
9 3 (0.86%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.57%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.57%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.57%) JMeter
10 2 (0.57%) MLflow
11 1 (0.29%) Mocha
11 1 (0.29%) Oracle APEX
General
1 99 (28.45%) Social Skills
2 42 (12.07%) Finance
3 37 (10.63%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (8.91%) Games
5 29 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
8 11 (3.16%) Law
9 8 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.30%) Front Office
10 7 (2.01%) Legal
10 7 (2.01%) Retail
11 6 (1.72%) Banking
11 6 (1.72%) Marketing
12 5 (1.44%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.86%) Digital Health
13 3 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.86%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.57%) Advertising
15 1 (0.29%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 119 (34.20%) Developer
2 97 (27.87%) Senior
3 62 (17.82%) Architect
4 60 (17.24%) Lead
5 43 (12.36%) Software Engineer
6 31 (8.91%) Senior Developer
7 27 (7.76%) Solutions Architect
8 26 (7.47%) Python Engineer
9 23 (6.61%) Full-Stack Developer
9 23 (6.61%) Technical Leader
10 20 (5.75%) Python Developer
11 16 (4.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 16 (4.60%) Lead Developer
11 16 (4.60%) Senior Python Developer
11 16 (4.60%) Senior Software Engineer
11 16 (4.60%) Software Developer
12 15 (4.31%) .NET Developer
12 15 (4.31%) Integration Architect
12 15 (4.31%) Senior Architect
13 13 (3.74%) Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (41.38%) RESTful
2 75 (21.55%) REST
3 59 (16.95%) .NET
3 59 (16.95%) Node.js
3 59 (16.95%) React
4 52 (14.94%) Spring
5 50 (14.37%) Spring Boot
6 38 (10.92%) OAuth
7 36 (10.34%) OAuth2
8 35 (10.06%) Kafka
9 32 (9.20%) JSON
9 32 (9.20%) JWT
10 27 (7.76%) AngularJS
11 25 (7.18%) .NET Core
11 25 (7.18%) OpenAPI
11 25 (7.18%) RabbitMQ
12 23 (6.61%) Swagger
13 20 (5.75%) HTML
14 18 (5.17%) CSS
15 17 (4.89%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 114 (32.76%) Cloud Native
2 75 (21.55%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (10.92%) Low-Code
4 31 (8.91%) Video\Live Streaming
5 30 (8.62%) Product Ownership
6 23 (6.61%) Onboarding
7 13 (3.74%) Mobile App
8 10 (2.87%) Data Centre
9 9 (2.59%) Data Structures
9 9 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (2.59%) Legacy Applications
9 9 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (2.30%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (2.30%) Virtual Team
11 7 (2.01%) Algorithms
11 7 (2.01%) Fixed Income
11 7 (2.01%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
12 6 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.74%) Linux
2 7 (2.01%) Windows
3 3 (0.86%) Android
3 3 (0.86%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (56.61%) CI/CD
2 132 (37.93%) Software Engineering
3 129 (37.07%) Agile
4 127 (36.49%) AI
4 127 (36.49%) Microservices
5 119 (34.20%) DevOps
6 110 (31.61%) Containerisation
7 105 (30.17%) Test Automation
8 102 (29.31%) Event-Driven
8 102 (29.31%) Full-Stack Development
9 86 (24.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 86 (24.71%) Infrastructure as Code
10 78 (22.41%) Integration Patterns
11 77 (22.13%) Observability
12 75 (21.55%) Mentoring
13 61 (17.53%) API Integration
14 53 (15.23%) Data Modelling
15 52 (14.94%) Roadmaps
16 49 (14.08%) Machine Learning
16 49 (14.08%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 150 (43.10%) Python
2 84 (24.14%) Java
3 71 (20.40%) JavaScript
4 68 (19.54%) TypeScript
5 59 (16.95%) C#
5 59 (16.95%) SQL
6 35 (10.06%) Go
7 17 (4.89%) Ruby
8 14 (4.02%) Bicep
9 9 (2.59%) PHP
10 5 (1.44%) C++
11 4 (1.15%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.15%) Rust
11 4 (1.15%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.15%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.86%) C
13 2 (0.57%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.57%) R
13 2 (0.57%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 46 (13.22%) Security Cleared
2 45 (12.93%) Degree
3 32 (9.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (6.03%) SC Cleared
5 9 (2.59%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.30%) CISSP
7 5 (1.44%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.86%) MBA
9 2 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.57%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.57%) CCSP
9 2 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (11.78%) QA
2 13 (3.74%) Accessibility
3 11 (3.16%) GDPR
4 7 (2.01%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.01%) NCSC
5 5 (1.44%) WCAG
6 4 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.29%) HL7
7 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 123 (35.34%) Docker
2 6 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 85 (24.43%) Kubernetes
2 38 (10.92%) Terraform
3 9 (2.59%) Prometheus
3 9 (2.59%) Puppet
4 7 (2.01%) Grafana
5 6 (1.72%) Progress Chef
6 5 (1.44%) Ansible
7 3 (0.86%) Podman
8 2 (0.57%) Kibana
8 2 (0.57%) Nagios
9 1 (0.29%) Istio
Vendors
1 51 (14.66%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.46%) Google
3 16 (4.60%) OpenAI
4 14 (4.02%) SAP
5 13 (3.74%) SendGrid
6 9 (2.59%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.30%) Adobe
7 8 (2.30%) MuleSoft
8 7 (2.01%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.01%) Databricks
8 7 (2.01%) Oracle
9 6 (1.72%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.72%) Splunk
10 5 (1.44%) Pega
10 5 (1.44%) Workday
11 4 (1.15%) DevExpress
11 4 (1.15%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.86%) Foundry
12 3 (0.86%) NVIDIA
12 3 (0.86%) Tenable