API Design Job Trends

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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 467 542
Rank change year-on-year -49 +75 +99
Permanent jobs citing API Design 170 191 315
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.43% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.46% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 131 120 259
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £58,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,870 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% +10.92% -20.59%
75th Percentile £93,750 £98,474 £78,750
90th Percentile £121,250 £111,625 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £71,991 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.24% +10.76% -13.33%

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 56,840 41,126 73,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.06% 93.65% 87.53%
Number of salaries quoted 34,202 22,190 55,823
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%
75th Percentile £77,219 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £94,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 10 March 2026.

Salary histogram for API Design in the UK

API Design
Top 13 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 10 March 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 -7 161 £72,500 -3.33% 174
London +20 85 £85,000 +3.03% 49
UK excluding London -60 74 £67,500 -6.24% 118
Work from Home +3 52 £72,500 -3.16% 128
North of England -26 33 £62,500 -13.18% 33
North West 0 17 £57,500 +6.98% 21
Yorkshire -49 16 £72,500 -14.96% 10
South West -27 15 £62,500 -36.59% 13
East of England +1 12 £63,750 - 22
Midlands -12 11 £72,500 +20.83% 5
West Midlands +4 10 £72,500 +20.83% 4
South East -40 3 £67,500 +8.00% 35
East Midlands -27 1 £60,000 -33.33% 1

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 6 (3.53%) CMS
2 5 (2.94%) Apache Pulsar
3 4 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.35%) Appian
4 1 (0.59%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.59%) Camunda
4 1 (0.59%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.59%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.59%) nginx
4 1 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.53%) NetSuite
2 4 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.76%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 83 (48.82%) Azure
2 75 (44.12%) AWS
3 31 (18.24%) GCP
4 24 (14.12%) Serverless
5 18 (10.59%) GitHub
6 15 (8.82%) SaaS
7 13 (7.65%) Amazon S3
7 13 (7.65%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (7.06%) Azure Service Bus
9 11 (6.47%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (5.29%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (4.12%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (4.12%) Power Automate
13 6 (3.53%) Azure API Management
13 6 (3.53%) Power Platform
14 5 (2.94%) Boomi
14 5 (2.94%) Datadog
15 4 (2.35%) iPaaS
15 4 (2.35%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.76%) Multicast
2 2 (1.18%) AMQP
2 2 (1.18%) HTTP
2 2 (1.18%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.18%) VPN
3 1 (0.59%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.59%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (7.06%) DynamoDB
3 10 (5.88%) MySQL
3 10 (5.88%) Redis
4 9 (5.29%) NoSQL
5 7 (4.12%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.94%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.35%) Pinecone
7 4 (2.35%) Power BI
7 4 (2.35%) Weaviate
8 3 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.76%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.76%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.76%) TimescaleDB
9 2 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.18%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.59%) DTS
10 1 (0.59%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.59%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 19 (11.18%) Postman
2 12 (7.06%) Git
3 2 (1.18%) GitLab
3 2 (1.18%) Gradle
3 2 (1.18%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.18%) Maven
3 2 (1.18%) Snyk
3 2 (1.18%) Storybook
4 1 (0.59%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.59%) SpecFlow
General
1 57 (33.53%) Social Skills
2 40 (23.53%) Finance
3 22 (12.94%) Law
4 11 (6.47%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.29%) Legal
7 8 (4.71%) Banking
7 8 (4.71%) Telecoms
8 7 (4.12%) Front Office
9 6 (3.53%) Retail
10 4 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.35%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.76%) Advertising
11 3 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.18%) Games
12 2 (1.18%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.59%) Military
13 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (27.65%) Developer
2 34 (20.00%) Senior
3 29 (17.06%) Architect
4 20 (11.76%) Software Engineer
5 19 (11.18%) Analyst
5 19 (11.18%) Data Analyst
5 19 (11.18%) Solutions Architect
6 14 (8.24%) Full-Stack Developer
6 14 (8.24%) Lead
7 9 (5.29%) Technical Architect
8 8 (4.71%) Cloud Developer
8 8 (4.71%) Integration Engineer
8 8 (4.71%) Senior Developer
9 7 (4.12%) Security Engineer
10 6 (3.53%) Applications Developer
10 6 (3.53%) Development Manager
10 6 (3.53%) Python Engineer
10 6 (3.53%) React Developer
10 6 (3.53%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (2.94%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (32.94%) RESTful
2 49 (28.82%) React
3 43 (25.29%) REST
4 41 (24.12%) Node.js
5 25 (14.71%) OAuth
6 23 (13.53%) OpenAPI
6 23 (13.53%) Swagger
7 21 (12.35%) OAuth2
8 15 (8.82%) Kafka
9 14 (8.24%) Django
9 14 (8.24%) GraphQL
10 13 (7.65%) .NET
11 12 (7.06%) FastAPI
12 10 (5.88%) JWT
12 10 (5.88%) Spring
13 9 (5.29%) JSON
13 9 (5.29%) Spring Boot
14 8 (4.71%) AngularJS
14 8 (4.71%) CSS
14 8 (4.71%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 31 (18.24%) Cloud Native
2 22 (12.94%) Data Structures
3 19 (11.18%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (6.47%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.71%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (4.71%) Product Ownership
6 7 (4.12%) Low-Code
7 6 (3.53%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.94%) Mobile App
9 4 (2.35%) Fixed Income
9 4 (2.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (2.35%) Hackathon
9 4 (2.35%) IoT
10 3 (1.76%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.76%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.76%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.18%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.59%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.53%) Linux
2 2 (1.18%) Android
3 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (41.76%) CI/CD
2 64 (37.65%) DevOps
3 59 (34.71%) Microservices
4 47 (27.65%) Software Engineering
5 44 (25.88%) API Integration
6 38 (22.35%) Agile
6 38 (22.35%) AI
7 36 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (21.18%) Test Automation
8 33 (19.41%) Decision-Making
8 33 (19.41%) Full-Stack Development
9 32 (18.82%) Data Modelling
10 31 (18.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (17.65%) Event-Driven
12 28 (16.47%) Mentoring
13 25 (14.71%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 25 (14.71%) ETL
13 25 (14.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 25 (14.71%) Observability
13 25 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (39.41%) Python
2 43 (25.29%) TypeScript
3 37 (21.76%) SQL
4 34 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 28 (16.47%) Java
6 14 (8.24%) C#
7 13 (7.65%) Go
8 7 (4.12%) PHP
9 6 (3.53%) C++
10 5 (2.94%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.76%) C
12 2 (1.18%) ActionScript
12 2 (1.18%) ActionScript 2.0
12 2 (1.18%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.18%) R
12 2 (1.18%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.59%) Bash
13 1 (0.59%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (15.88%) Degree
2 23 (13.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (12.94%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.88%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.53%) CISSP
6 3 (1.76%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.18%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.06%) GDPR
2 11 (6.47%) QA
3 6 (3.53%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.35%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.35%) SLA
5 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.18%) WCAG
6 1 (0.59%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.59%) NIST
6 1 (0.59%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.59%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (20.00%) Docker
2 6 (3.53%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (16.47%) Kubernetes
2 22 (12.94%) Terraform
3 6 (3.53%) Ansible
3 6 (3.53%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.76%) Grafana
4 3 (1.76%) Nagios
5 1 (0.59%) Istio
Vendors
1 21 (12.35%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.65%) SAP
3 12 (7.06%) Google
4 11 (6.47%) MuleSoft
5 10 (5.88%) Salesforce
6 8 (4.71%) Oracle
7 6 (3.53%) Atlassian
7 6 (3.53%) Foundry
7 6 (3.53%) Pega
8 5 (2.94%) Ericsson
8 5 (2.94%) Mavenir
8 5 (2.94%) Nokia
8 5 (2.94%) OpenAI
8 5 (2.94%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.76%) Workday
10 2 (1.18%) Checkmarx
10 2 (1.18%) Databricks
10 2 (1.18%) Dell
10 2 (1.18%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.18%) Qualys