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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 517 669
Rank change year-on-year +75 +152 -105
Permanent jobs citing API Design 346 165 224
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.34% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.37% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 235 119 169
10th Percentile £48,300 £52,350 £37,350
25th Percentile £60,625 £61,250 £50,000
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 £97,500 £119,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +36.36% -21.43%

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 72,639 44,292 83,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.85% 90.34% 82.30%
Number of salaries quoted 50,181 24,710 58,516
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.72%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,777 £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 11 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 11 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 +69 309 £75,000 -3.23% 93
UK excluding London -2 168 £70,000 -6.67% 55
London +81 154 £77,500 -3.13% 61
Work from Home +36 136 £75,000 - 41
North of England -9 53 £72,500 -1.35% 14
North West +17 38 £75,000 +30.43% 10
South West -45 33 £47,500 -44.28% 6
Midlands -16 27 £68,750 +14.58% 5
South East -32 22 £60,000 -2.04% 19
West Midlands -6 18 £67,500 +12.50% 3
East of England -18 17 £72,500 -14.71% 2
Wales -32 15 £57,500 +7.48% 4
Yorkshire -28 12 £62,500 -16.67% 4
East Midlands -25 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 (1.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 5 (1.45%) Confluence
2 4 (1.16%) Camunda
3 3 (0.87%) CMS
4 2 (0.58%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (0.58%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.29%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Lightworks
1 2 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.45%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.58%) 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
1 190 (54.91%) AWS
2 174 (50.29%) Azure
3 49 (14.16%) GCP
4 43 (12.43%) GitHub
5 42 (12.14%) Serverless
6 29 (8.38%) Azure Service Bus
7 28 (8.09%) SaaS
8 21 (6.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (5.49%) Amazon S3
9 19 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (5.49%) Azure Key Vault
9 19 (5.49%) Azure Monitor
10 18 (5.20%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (4.91%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (4.62%) Amazon ECS
12 16 (4.62%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (4.05%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (4.05%) Azure Storage
14 11 (3.18%) Anthropic Claude
14 11 (3.18%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 36 (10.40%) Broadband
2 13 (3.76%) DMARC
3 11 (3.18%) MQTT
4 3 (0.87%) Network Security
5 2 (0.58%) HTTP
5 2 (0.58%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (25.14%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (14.45%) MongoDB
3 40 (11.56%) MySQL
4 33 (9.54%) Redis
5 26 (7.51%) Relational Database
6 16 (4.62%) NoSQL
7 14 (4.05%) DynamoDB
8 13 (3.76%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.31%) MariaDB
10 7 (2.02%) Geospatial Data
11 6 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.16%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.16%) Power BI
13 3 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.58%) Metadata
14 2 (0.58%) TimescaleDB
15 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
15 1 (0.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 33 (9.54%) Git
2 25 (7.23%) Claude Code
3 14 (4.05%) JIRA
4 10 (2.89%) GitLab
4 10 (2.89%) Postman
5 9 (2.60%) JUnit
6 8 (2.31%) Mockito
7 6 (1.73%) Jenkins
7 6 (1.73%) NUnit
8 5 (1.45%) MSI
9 4 (1.16%) Maven
10 3 (0.87%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.87%) Gradle
10 3 (0.87%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.58%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.58%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.58%) JMeter
11 2 (0.58%) MLflow
12 1 (0.29%) Mocha
12 1 (0.29%) Oracle APEX
General
1 99 (28.61%) Social Skills
2 42 (12.14%) Finance
3 37 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (8.96%) Games
5 29 (8.38%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.47%) Pharmaceutical
8 11 (3.18%) Law
9 8 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.31%) Front Office
10 7 (2.02%) Legal
10 7 (2.02%) Retail
11 6 (1.73%) Banking
11 6 (1.73%) Marketing
12 5 (1.45%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.87%) Digital Health
13 3 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.87%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.58%) Advertising
15 1 (0.29%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 119 (34.39%) Developer
2 96 (27.75%) Senior
3 62 (17.92%) Architect
4 59 (17.05%) Lead
5 43 (12.43%) Software Engineer
6 31 (8.96%) Senior Developer
7 27 (7.80%) Solutions Architect
8 26 (7.51%) Python Engineer
9 23 (6.65%) Full-Stack Developer
10 22 (6.36%) Technical Leader
11 20 (5.78%) Python Developer
12 16 (4.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 16 (4.62%) Lead Developer
12 16 (4.62%) Senior Python Developer
12 16 (4.62%) Senior Software Engineer
12 16 (4.62%) Software Developer
13 15 (4.34%) .NET Developer
13 15 (4.34%) Integration Architect
13 15 (4.34%) Senior Architect
14 13 (3.76%) Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (41.62%) RESTful
2 74 (21.39%) REST
3 59 (17.05%) .NET
3 59 (17.05%) Node.js
3 59 (17.05%) React
4 51 (14.74%) Spring
5 49 (14.16%) Spring Boot
6 37 (10.69%) OAuth
7 35 (10.12%) Kafka
7 35 (10.12%) OAuth2
8 32 (9.25%) JSON
9 31 (8.96%) JWT
10 27 (7.80%) AngularJS
11 25 (7.23%) .NET Core
11 25 (7.23%) OpenAPI
11 25 (7.23%) RabbitMQ
12 23 (6.65%) Swagger
13 20 (5.78%) HTML
14 18 (5.20%) CSS
15 17 (4.91%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 113 (32.66%) Cloud Native
2 74 (21.39%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (10.98%) Low-Code
4 31 (8.96%) Video\Live Streaming
5 30 (8.67%) Product Ownership
6 22 (6.36%) Onboarding
7 13 (3.76%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.60%) Data Centre
8 9 (2.60%) Data Structures
8 9 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.31%) Legacy Applications
9 8 (2.31%) Marketing Technology
9 8 (2.31%) Virtual Team
10 7 (2.02%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.02%) Fixed Income
10 7 (2.02%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (1.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.76%) Linux
2 7 (2.02%) Windows
3 3 (0.87%) Android
3 3 (0.87%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (56.65%) CI/CD
2 132 (38.15%) Software Engineering
3 128 (36.99%) Agile
4 126 (36.42%) AI
5 125 (36.13%) Microservices
6 118 (34.10%) DevOps
7 109 (31.50%) Containerisation
8 105 (30.35%) Test Automation
9 102 (29.48%) Full-Stack Development
10 101 (29.19%) Event-Driven
11 86 (24.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 86 (24.86%) Infrastructure as Code
12 78 (22.54%) Integration Patterns
13 76 (21.97%) Observability
14 73 (21.10%) Mentoring
15 60 (17.34%) API Integration
16 53 (15.32%) Data Modelling
17 52 (15.03%) Roadmaps
18 49 (14.16%) Machine Learning
18 49 (14.16%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 149 (43.06%) Python
2 83 (23.99%) Java
3 71 (20.52%) JavaScript
4 68 (19.65%) TypeScript
5 59 (17.05%) C#
6 58 (16.76%) SQL
7 35 (10.12%) Go
8 17 (4.91%) Ruby
9 14 (4.05%) Bicep
10 9 (2.60%) PHP
11 5 (1.45%) C++
12 4 (1.16%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.16%) Rust
12 4 (1.16%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.16%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.87%) C
14 2 (0.58%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.58%) R
14 2 (0.58%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.29%) Lua
Qualifications
1 45 (13.01%) Degree
1 45 (13.01%) Security Cleared
2 32 (9.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (6.07%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.60%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.31%) CISSP
6 5 (1.45%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.87%) MBA
8 2 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.58%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.58%) CCSP
8 2 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (11.85%) QA
2 13 (3.76%) Accessibility
3 11 (3.18%) GDPR
4 7 (2.02%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.02%) NCSC
5 5 (1.45%) WCAG
6 4 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.29%) HL7
7 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 122 (35.26%) Docker
2 6 (1.73%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 84 (24.28%) Kubernetes
2 38 (10.98%) Terraform
3 9 (2.60%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.31%) Puppet
5 7 (2.02%) Grafana
6 5 (1.45%) Ansible
6 5 (1.45%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.87%) Podman
8 2 (0.58%) Kibana
8 2 (0.58%) Nagios
9 1 (0.29%) Istio
Vendors
1 51 (14.74%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.20%) Google
3 15 (4.34%) OpenAI
4 14 (4.05%) SAP
5 13 (3.76%) SendGrid
6 9 (2.60%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.31%) Adobe
7 8 (2.31%) MuleSoft
8 7 (2.02%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.02%) Databricks
8 7 (2.02%) Oracle
9 6 (1.73%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.73%) Splunk
10 5 (1.45%) Pega
10 5 (1.45%) Workday
11 4 (1.16%) DevExpress
11 4 (1.16%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.87%) Foundry
12 3 (0.87%) NVIDIA
12 3 (0.87%) Tenable