API Design Jobs

API Design
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring API Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited API Design over the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 644 513 490
Rank change year-on-year -131 -23 +18
Permanent jobs citing API Design 134 255 933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.43% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.45% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 59 162 346
10th Percentile £44,250 £50,000 £51,875
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,135 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -18.66% +30.77%
75th Percentile £74,375 £89,852 £100,000
90th Percentile £89,000 £103,375 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,903 £66,250 £63,750
% change year-on-year -6.56% +3.92% +6.25%

All Process and 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 63,410 56,130 135,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.81% 94.41% 96.14%
Number of salaries quoted 31,055 40,211 76,155
10th Percentile £33,875 £32,500 £33,986
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £97,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £52,700 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.47% +0.38% +5.00%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing API Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for API Design in the UK

API Design
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing API Design.

Salary trend for API Design in the UK

API Design
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Design over the 6 months to 23 October 2024.

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 23 October 2024. 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 -133 117 £65,000 -5.98% 60
UK excluding London -120 71 £61,903 -6.56% 35
London -24 59 £70,000 -11.11% 27
Work from Home -85 51 £58,750 -16.42% 113
South East +1 28 £61,903 +3.17% 7
Scotland -17 11 £70,000 -0.82% 2
Midlands -31 11 £60,000 +41.18% 9
West Midlands -37 10 £60,000 +41.18% 6
North of England -87 9 £65,000 -7.90% 12
North West -69 8 £66,250 +1.92% 9
East of England -57 6 £80,000 +33.33% 3
Northern Ireland +28 4 £62,500 -
Wales +38 3 £40,000 -20.00%
South West -15 1 - - 2
East Midlands -24 1 - - 3
North East -29 1 £65,000 -33.33% 1

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (10.45%) nginx
2 3 (2.24%) Confluence
3 2 (1.49%) Apache
4 1 (0.75%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.75%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.75%) CMS
4 1 (0.75%) IIS
4 1 (0.75%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.75%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.75%) InDesign
1 1 (0.75%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.49%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.75%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 58 (43.28%) Azure
2 49 (36.57%) AWS
3 39 (29.10%) GCP
4 15 (11.19%) Amazon ECS
4 15 (11.19%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (10.45%) Amazon S3
6 13 (9.70%) MinIO
6 13 (9.70%) SaaS
7 11 (8.21%) Serverless
8 7 (5.22%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.99%) PaaS
10 3 (2.24%) Apigee
10 3 (2.24%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (1.49%) Boomi
11 2 (1.49%) GitHub
11 2 (1.49%) IaaS
12 1 (0.75%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (0.75%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (0.75%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.75%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.45%) Broadband
2 6 (4.48%) HTTP
3 3 (2.24%) DNS
3 3 (2.24%) VPN
4 2 (1.49%) DSL
5 1 (0.75%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (20.90%) NoSQL
2 18 (13.43%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (11.19%) SQL Server
4 13 (9.70%) MongoDB
5 10 (7.46%) Redis
6 9 (6.72%) MySQL
7 7 (5.22%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.24%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.75%) Firebird
10 1 (0.75%) Hasura
10 1 (0.75%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.75%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 23 (17.16%) Jenkins
2 21 (15.67%) Git
3 11 (8.21%) Postman
4 10 (7.46%) Octopus Deploy
5 9 (6.72%) Visual Studio
6 6 (4.48%) Maven
7 4 (2.99%) Gradle
7 4 (2.99%) JIRA
7 4 (2.99%) JUnit
7 4 (2.99%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.49%) GitLab
9 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.75%) GoogleTest
9 1 (0.75%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.75%) webpack
General
1 55 (41.04%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (9.70%) Finance
3 13 (9.70%) Games
3 13 (9.70%) Legal
4 6 (4.48%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.73%) Banking
6 4 (2.99%) Tech for Good
7 3 (2.24%) Law
7 3 (2.24%) Retail
8 2 (1.49%) Marketing
8 2 (1.49%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.49%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.75%) Electronics
9 1 (0.75%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 67 (50.00%) Developer
2 30 (22.39%) Senior
3 24 (17.91%) Lead
3 24 (17.91%) Senior Developer
4 19 (14.18%) Architect
5 13 (9.70%) Technical Architect
6 12 (8.96%) .NET Developer
6 12 (8.96%) C# Developer
7 11 (8.21%) C# .NET Developer
7 11 (8.21%) Java Developer
8 9 (6.72%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (6.72%) Software Developer
8 9 (6.72%) Software Engineer
9 8 (5.97%) Java Engineer
9 8 (5.97%) Lead Java Engineer
10 7 (5.22%) Business Analyst
11 6 (4.48%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (3.73%) Analyst
12 5 (3.73%) Business Developer
12 5 (3.73%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (39.55%) REST
2 44 (32.84%) React
3 40 (29.85%) RESTful
4 35 (26.12%) .NET
4 35 (26.12%) CSS
5 34 (25.37%) HTML
6 29 (21.64%) Node.js
7 26 (19.40%) SOAP
8 24 (17.91%) AngularJS
9 20 (14.93%) Spring Boot
10 18 (13.43%) Spring
11 17 (12.69%) ASP.NET
11 17 (12.69%) Swagger
12 13 (9.70%) RabbitMQ
12 13 (9.70%) Web Services
12 13 (9.70%) WebSockets
13 12 (8.96%) Vue
14 11 (8.21%) .NET Framework
15 10 (7.46%) ASP.NET Core
15 10 (7.46%) MSMQ
Miscellaneous
1 27 (20.15%) Public Cloud
2 25 (18.66%) Product Ownership
3 17 (12.69%) Cloud Native
4 13 (9.70%) Mobile Games
5 3 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.49%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.49%) PMI
6 2 (1.49%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.75%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.75%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.75%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.75%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.75%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.97%) Linux
1 8 (5.97%) Windows
2 3 (2.24%) Android
2 3 (2.24%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.49%) Unix
3 2 (1.49%) VMS
4 1 (0.75%) CentOS
4 1 (0.75%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.75%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (58.96%) Agile
2 59 (44.03%) CI/CD
3 44 (32.84%) Roadmaps
4 42 (31.34%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (31.34%) Software Engineering
5 39 (29.10%) Mentoring
6 34 (25.37%) DevOps
7 33 (24.63%) Microservices
8 32 (23.88%) API Development
9 27 (20.15%) Scrum
9 27 (20.15%) Technology Roadmap
10 21 (15.67%) Design Patterns
11 20 (14.93%) Unit Testing
12 19 (14.18%) Containerisation
12 19 (14.18%) Technical Leadership
13 18 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (13.43%) SOLID
14 17 (12.69%) Infrastructure as Code
15 16 (11.94%) TDD
16 15 (11.19%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 46 (34.33%) JavaScript
2 33 (24.63%) C#
2 33 (24.63%) TypeScript
3 32 (23.88%) Java
3 32 (23.88%) Python
3 32 (23.88%) SQL
4 6 (4.48%) C
4 6 (4.48%) C++
5 4 (2.99%) Ruby
6 3 (2.24%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.24%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.24%) VB.NET
7 2 (1.49%) DataWeave
7 2 (1.49%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.49%) PHP
8 1 (0.75%) Go
8 1 (0.75%) Perl
8 1 (0.75%) Rust
Qualifications
1 21 (15.67%) Degree
2 9 (6.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.22%) Security Cleared
4 6 (4.48%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.99%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.49%) ACCA
6 2 (1.49%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.75%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (27.61%) QA
System Software
1 50 (37.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 58 (43.28%) Kubernetes
2 13 (9.70%) Istio
3 4 (2.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (26.12%) Google
2 30 (22.39%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.22%) MuleSoft
4 2 (1.49%) Oracle
4 2 (1.49%) Pega
5 1 (0.75%) Adobe
5 1 (0.75%) Cisco
5 1 (0.75%) Informatica
5 1 (0.75%) OpenLink
5 1 (0.75%) Optimizely
5 1 (0.75%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.75%) Sage
5 1 (0.75%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.75%) Sybase