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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 449 515 662
Rank change year-on-year +66 +147 -95
Permanent jobs citing API Design 330 162 237
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.34% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.37% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 225 119 182
10th Percentile £48,300 £52,350 £36,825
25th Percentile £61,250 £59,375 £50,156
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 £76,875
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 71,495 43,542 85,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.57% 90.95% 82.13%
Number of salaries quoted 49,394 24,103 60,537
10th Percentile £30,250 £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% -8.72%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -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 5 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 5 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 +66 295 £75,000 -3.23% 179
UK excluding London -9 163 £70,000 -6.67% 91
London +73 144 £77,500 -3.13% 111
Work from Home +44 134 £75,000 - 127
North of England -8 52 £72,500 -12.12% 38
North West +14 37 £75,000 +30.43% 19
South West -49 32 £45,000 -47.22% 8
Midlands -8 25 £70,000 +16.67% 5
South East -38 22 £60,000 -4.00% 28
East of England -20 17 £72,500 -14.71% 3
West Midlands -7 16 £70,000 +16.67% 3
Wales -40 14 £57,500 +7.48% 3
Yorkshire -30 12 £62,500 -33.96% 15
East Midlands -20 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 (1.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (1.21%) CMS
2 4 (1.21%) Confluence
3 3 (0.91%) Camunda
4 2 (0.61%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.30%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
5 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
1 183 (55.45%) AWS
2 167 (50.61%) Azure
3 44 (13.33%) GCP
4 43 (13.03%) Serverless
5 40 (12.12%) GitHub
6 29 (8.79%) Azure Service Bus
7 26 (7.88%) SaaS
8 20 (6.06%) Amazon S3
8 20 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (5.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (5.76%) Azure Key Vault
9 19 (5.76%) Azure Monitor
10 17 (5.15%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (4.85%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
13 14 (4.24%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (4.24%) Azure Storage
14 10 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (3.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 36 (10.91%) Broadband
2 13 (3.94%) DMARC
3 11 (3.33%) 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 82 (24.85%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (15.15%) MongoDB
3 38 (11.52%) MySQL
4 28 (8.48%) Redis
5 24 (7.27%) Relational Database
6 16 (4.85%) NoSQL
7 15 (4.55%) DynamoDB
8 13 (3.94%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.42%) MariaDB
10 6 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.82%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.21%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.21%) Power BI
12 3 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.61%) Metadata
13 2 (0.61%) TimescaleDB
14 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 29 (8.79%) Git
2 21 (6.36%) Claude Code
3 13 (3.94%) JIRA
4 11 (3.33%) Postman
5 9 (2.73%) GitLab
6 7 (2.12%) JUnit
6 7 (2.12%) Mockito
7 6 (1.82%) Jenkins
7 6 (1.82%) NUnit
8 4 (1.21%) MSI
9 3 (0.91%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.91%) Gradle
9 3 (0.91%) Maven
9 3 (0.91%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.61%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.61%) JMeter
10 2 (0.61%) MLflow
11 1 (0.30%) CMake
11 1 (0.30%) Mocha
11 1 (0.30%) SpecFlow
General
1 94 (28.48%) Social Skills
2 40 (12.12%) Finance
3 36 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (9.39%) Games
5 27 (8.18%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.64%) Law
8 10 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
9 8 (2.42%) Front Office
10 7 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.12%) Legal
10 7 (2.12%) Retail
11 6 (1.82%) Banking
11 6 (1.82%) Marketing
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%) Billing
15 1 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 115 (34.85%) Developer
2 92 (27.88%) Senior
3 57 (17.27%) Architect
4 54 (16.36%) Lead
5 42 (12.73%) Software Engineer
6 30 (9.09%) Senior Developer
7 25 (7.58%) Solutions Architect
8 22 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
8 22 (6.67%) Python Engineer
9 21 (6.36%) Technical Leader
10 20 (6.06%) Python Developer
11 16 (4.85%) Lead Developer
11 16 (4.85%) Senior Python Developer
11 16 (4.85%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (4.55%) .NET Developer
12 15 (4.55%) Software Developer
13 14 (4.24%) Integration Architect
13 14 (4.24%) Senior Architect
14 12 (3.64%) Java Engineer
14 12 (3.64%) Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (43.94%) RESTful
2 68 (20.61%) REST
3 59 (17.88%) Node.js
4 58 (17.58%) React
5 54 (16.36%) .NET
6 49 (14.85%) Spring
7 48 (14.55%) Spring Boot
8 35 (10.61%) OAuth
9 34 (10.30%) Kafka
10 33 (10.00%) OAuth2
11 31 (9.39%) JSON
12 28 (8.48%) JWT
13 26 (7.88%) OpenAPI
14 25 (7.58%) AngularJS
15 24 (7.27%) .NET Core
15 24 (7.27%) RabbitMQ
15 24 (7.27%) Swagger
16 19 (5.76%) HTML
17 17 (5.15%) CSS
18 15 (4.55%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 108 (32.73%) Cloud Native
2 69 (20.91%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (11.52%) Low-Code
4 31 (9.39%) Video\Live Streaming
5 29 (8.79%) Product Ownership
6 20 (6.06%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.64%) Mobile App
8 10 (3.03%) Data Structures
9 9 (2.73%) Virtual Team
10 8 (2.42%) Data Centre
10 8 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (2.42%) Marketing Technology
11 7 (2.12%) Algorithms
11 7 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (2.12%) Fixed Income
11 7 (2.12%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
13 5 (1.52%) Public Cloud
14 4 (1.21%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.94%) Linux
2 6 (1.82%) Windows
3 3 (0.91%) Android
3 3 (0.91%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (56.67%) CI/CD
2 128 (38.79%) Software Engineering
3 120 (36.36%) Microservices
4 117 (35.45%) Agile
5 116 (35.15%) AI
6 114 (34.55%) DevOps
7 105 (31.82%) Containerisation
8 101 (30.61%) Test Automation
9 98 (29.70%) Full-Stack Development
10 92 (27.88%) Event-Driven
11 85 (25.76%) Infrastructure as Code
12 81 (24.55%) Continuous Improvement
13 74 (22.42%) Integration Patterns
13 74 (22.42%) Observability
14 70 (21.21%) Mentoring
15 60 (18.18%) API Integration
16 52 (15.76%) Data Modelling
17 50 (15.15%) Roadmaps
18 49 (14.85%) Machine Learning
18 49 (14.85%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 139 (42.12%) Python
2 79 (23.94%) Java
3 68 (20.61%) JavaScript
4 65 (19.70%) TypeScript
5 57 (17.27%) SQL
6 54 (16.36%) C#
7 34 (10.30%) Go
8 16 (4.85%) Ruby
9 12 (3.64%) Bicep
10 9 (2.73%) PHP
11 5 (1.52%) C++
12 4 (1.21%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.21%) Rust
12 4 (1.21%) 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 (13.33%) Degree
2 42 (12.73%) Security Cleared
3 31 (9.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (6.06%) SC Cleared
5 9 (2.73%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.42%) 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 41 (12.42%) QA
2 11 (3.33%) Accessibility
2 11 (3.33%) GDPR
3 7 (2.12%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.82%) NCSC
5 4 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.21%) WCAG
6 1 (0.30%) HL7
6 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 115 (34.85%) Docker
2 6 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 81 (24.55%) Kubernetes
2 37 (11.21%) Terraform
3 9 (2.73%) Prometheus
4 7 (2.12%) Grafana
4 7 (2.12%) Puppet
5 5 (1.52%) Ansible
6 4 (1.21%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.91%) Podman
8 2 (0.61%) Kibana
8 2 (0.61%) Nagios
9 1 (0.30%) Istio
Vendors
1 49 (14.85%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.85%) Google
3 14 (4.24%) OpenAI
4 13 (3.94%) SendGrid
5 12 (3.64%) SAP
6 8 (2.42%) Adobe
7 7 (2.12%) Atlassian
7 7 (2.12%) Databricks
7 7 (2.12%) Oracle
8 6 (1.82%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.52%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.52%) Pega
9 5 (1.52%) Splunk
9 5 (1.52%) Workday
10 4 (1.21%) DevExpress
10 4 (1.21%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.21%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.91%) Foundry
11 3 (0.91%) NVIDIA
11 3 (0.91%) Tenable