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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 448 511 654
Rank change year-on-year +63 +143 -54
Permanent jobs citing API Design 316 162 242
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.36% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.39% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 218 118 187
10th Percentile £47,979 £52,500 £37,200
25th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £76,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +22.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £116,125 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 69,314 41,679 88,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.17% 92.27% 81.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47,751 22,444 62,987
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £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% -9.41%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,159
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +70 287 £75,000 -4.76% 94
UK excluding London -12 161 £67,500 -10.00% 54
London +55 137 £77,500 -3.13% 56
Work from Home +57 131 £75,000 - 53
North of England -2 54 £70,000 -26.03% 18
North West +37 39 £72,500 -22.04% 12
South West -43 30 £42,500 -50.15% 10
Midlands -23 25 £70,000 +16.67%
South East -28 21 £60,000 -4.00% 18
East of England -20 17 £72,500 -14.71% 1
West Midlands -12 16 £70,000 +16.67%
Wales - 13 £57,500 - 2
Yorkshire -35 12 £62,500 -33.96% 3
East Midlands -19 9 £70,000 +7.69%
North East - 3 £85,000 - 3
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 (1.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (1.27%) CMS
3 3 (0.95%) Confluence
4 2 (0.63%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (0.63%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.32%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.32%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 5 (1.58%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.63%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.32%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 173 (54.75%) AWS
2 162 (51.27%) Azure
3 42 (13.29%) Serverless
4 39 (12.34%) GitHub
5 38 (12.03%) GCP
6 28 (8.86%) Azure Service Bus
7 26 (8.23%) SaaS
8 20 (6.33%) Amazon S3
8 20 (6.33%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (5.70%) Azure Key Vault
9 18 (5.70%) Azure Monitor
10 16 (5.06%) Azure Logic Apps
11 15 (4.75%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (4.75%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (4.75%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (4.11%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (4.11%) Azure Storage
13 12 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (3.16%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (3.16%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 36 (11.39%) Broadband
2 12 (3.80%) DMARC
3 9 (2.85%) MQTT
4 3 (0.95%) Network Security
5 1 (0.32%) HTTP
5 1 (0.32%) Internet
5 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (23.73%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (15.19%) MongoDB
3 32 (10.13%) MySQL
4 22 (6.96%) Redis
5 20 (6.33%) Relational Database
6 17 (5.38%) NoSQL
7 15 (4.75%) DynamoDB
8 13 (4.11%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.53%) MariaDB
10 6 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.58%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.27%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.27%) Power BI
13 3 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.63%) Metadata
14 2 (0.63%) TimescaleDB
15 1 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
15 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 28 (8.86%) Git
2 16 (5.06%) Claude Code
3 13 (4.11%) Postman
4 12 (3.80%) JIRA
5 9 (2.85%) GitLab
6 6 (1.90%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.90%) NUnit
7 5 (1.58%) JUnit
7 5 (1.58%) Mockito
8 3 (0.95%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.95%) Gradle
8 3 (0.95%) Maven
8 3 (0.95%) MSI
8 3 (0.95%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.63%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.63%) JMeter
9 2 (0.63%) MLflow
10 1 (0.32%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.32%) Storybook
10 1 (0.32%) Vite
General
1 93 (29.43%) Social Skills
2 40 (12.66%) Finance
3 35 (11.08%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (10.13%) Games
5 25 (7.91%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.43%) Law
7 13 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.85%) Retail
9 8 (2.53%) Front Office
10 7 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.22%) Legal
11 6 (1.90%) Marketing
11 6 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.58%) Banking
13 4 (1.27%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.95%) Digital Health
14 3 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.63%) Tech for Good
16 1 (0.32%) Advertising
16 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 113 (35.76%) Developer
2 86 (27.22%) Senior
3 56 (17.72%) Architect
4 51 (16.14%) Lead
5 41 (12.97%) Software Engineer
6 29 (9.18%) Senior Developer
7 24 (7.59%) Solutions Architect
8 21 (6.65%) Full-Stack Developer
9 20 (6.33%) Python Developer
10 19 (6.01%) Technical Leader
11 18 (5.70%) Python Engineer
12 16 (5.06%) .NET Developer
12 16 (5.06%) Lead Developer
12 16 (5.06%) Senior Python Developer
12 16 (5.06%) Senior Software Engineer
13 15 (4.75%) Software Developer
14 14 (4.43%) Integration Architect
14 14 (4.43%) Senior Architect
15 13 (4.11%) Analyst
16 12 (3.80%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (44.62%) RESTful
2 66 (20.89%) REST
3 54 (17.09%) Node.js
4 53 (16.77%) .NET
5 52 (16.46%) React
6 45 (14.24%) Spring
7 44 (13.92%) Spring Boot
8 36 (11.39%) OAuth
9 33 (10.44%) OAuth2
10 31 (9.81%) Kafka
11 30 (9.49%) JSON
12 28 (8.86%) OpenAPI
13 26 (8.23%) JWT
13 26 (8.23%) Swagger
14 23 (7.28%) .NET Core
14 23 (7.28%) RabbitMQ
15 22 (6.96%) AngularJS
16 19 (6.01%) HTML
17 17 (5.38%) CSS
18 13 (4.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 103 (32.59%) Cloud Native
2 65 (20.57%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (12.03%) Low-Code
4 31 (9.81%) Video\Live Streaming
5 29 (9.18%) Product Ownership
6 17 (5.38%) Onboarding
7 13 (4.11%) Data Structures
8 10 (3.16%) Mobile App
9 8 (2.53%) Virtual Team
10 7 (2.22%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.22%) Fixed Income
10 7 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (2.22%) Management Information System
10 7 (2.22%) Marketing Technology
11 6 (1.90%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.58%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.27%) AI Agents
13 4 (1.27%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.80%) Linux
2 5 (1.58%) Windows
3 3 (0.95%) Android
3 3 (0.95%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (56.01%) CI/CD
2 120 (37.97%) Software Engineering
3 113 (35.76%) Microservices
4 109 (34.49%) Agile
5 108 (34.18%) DevOps
6 107 (33.86%) AI
7 100 (31.65%) Test Automation
8 96 (30.38%) Containerisation
9 92 (29.11%) Full-Stack Development
10 86 (27.22%) Event-Driven
11 84 (26.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 82 (25.95%) Infrastructure as Code
13 74 (23.42%) Integration Patterns
14 70 (22.15%) Observability
15 66 (20.89%) Mentoring
16 61 (19.30%) API Integration
17 50 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
18 49 (15.51%) Machine Learning
18 49 (15.51%) Validation
19 48 (15.19%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 130 (41.14%) Python
2 75 (23.73%) Java
3 67 (21.20%) JavaScript
4 59 (18.67%) TypeScript
5 57 (18.04%) SQL
6 54 (17.09%) C#
7 33 (10.44%) Go
8 14 (4.43%) Ruby
9 11 (3.48%) Bicep
10 9 (2.85%) PHP
11 6 (1.90%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.58%) C++
13 4 (1.27%) Rust
13 4 (1.27%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.95%) C
14 3 (0.95%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.95%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.63%) ActionScript
15 2 (0.63%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 43 (13.61%) Degree
2 38 (12.03%) Security Cleared
3 31 (9.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (5.70%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.53%) CISSP
6 7 (2.22%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.58%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.63%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.63%) CCSP
8 2 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.63%) MBA
9 1 (0.32%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (12.66%) QA
2 11 (3.48%) Accessibility
2 11 (3.48%) GDPR
3 7 (2.22%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.58%) NCSC
5 4 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.27%) WCAG
6 1 (0.32%) HL7
6 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 103 (32.59%) Docker
2 6 (1.90%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 76 (24.05%) Kubernetes
2 34 (10.76%) Terraform
3 8 (2.53%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.90%) Grafana
5 5 (1.58%) Ansible
5 5 (1.58%) Puppet
6 3 (0.95%) Podman
7 2 (0.63%) Kibana
7 2 (0.63%) Nagios
7 2 (0.63%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.32%) Istio
Vendors
1 47 (14.87%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.43%) Google
2 14 (4.43%) SAP
3 13 (4.11%) SendGrid
4 11 (3.48%) OpenAI
5 9 (2.85%) Oracle
6 7 (2.22%) Adobe
6 7 (2.22%) Atlassian
6 7 (2.22%) Databricks
6 7 (2.22%) MuleSoft
7 6 (1.90%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.58%) Pega
8 5 (1.58%) Workday
9 4 (1.27%) DevExpress
9 4 (1.27%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.27%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.27%) Splunk
10 3 (0.95%) Foundry
10 3 (0.95%) NVIDIA
10 3 (0.95%) Tenable