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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 544 654
Rank change year-on-year +76 +110 -126
Permanent jobs citing API Design 347 139 163
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.28% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.31% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 239 103 112
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,350 £37,750
25th Percentile £61,407 £59,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,750 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £74,870 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.50% +24.78% -11.29%

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 76,247 44,374 67,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 89.45% 81.06%
Number of salaries quoted 52,515 25,244 44,456
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,246
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,246 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -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 4 August 2026.

Salary histogram for API Design in the UK

API Design
Top 17 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 4 August 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 +81 308 £75,000 - 174
UK excluding London 0 167 £70,000 -6.50% 61
London +64 158 £77,500 -4.62% 132
Work from Home +57 135 £75,000 - 73
North of England -5 50 £72,500 -1.35% 16
North West +17 36 £77,500 +34.78% 8
Midlands -21 29 £66,250 +10.42% 7
South West -37 29 £57,500 -8.00% 6
South East -25 24 £60,000 - 18
West Midlands -19 20 £65,000 +8.33% 6
Wales -35 17 £60,000 +12.15% 1
East of England -30 16 £72,500 -14.71% 4
East Midlands -14 9 £70,000 +16.67% 1
Yorkshire -29 9 £55,000 -26.67% 7
North East - 5 £66,000 - 1
Scotland +5 1 £140,000 +86.99% 7
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 7 (2.02%) Confluence
2 6 (1.73%) Camunda
3 5 (1.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.58%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (1.73%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.58%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 5 (1.44%) SAP ERP
2 3 (0.86%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 190 (54.76%) AWS
2 177 (51.01%) Azure
3 57 (16.43%) GCP
4 48 (13.83%) GitHub
5 38 (10.95%) Serverless
6 32 (9.22%) Azure Service Bus
7 29 (8.36%) SaaS
8 24 (6.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (6.63%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (5.48%) Azure Key Vault
10 19 (5.48%) Azure Monitor
10 19 (5.48%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (4.90%) Amazon ECS
11 17 (4.90%) Amazon S3
12 16 (4.61%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (4.61%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (3.75%) Anthropic Claude
13 13 (3.75%) Azure Storage
13 13 (3.75%) GitHub Copilot
14 11 (3.17%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 36 (10.37%) Broadband
2 14 (4.03%) MQTT
3 13 (3.75%) DMARC
4 3 (0.86%) Network Security
5 2 (0.58%) HTTP
5 2 (0.58%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (28.53%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (15.27%) MongoDB
3 39 (11.24%) MySQL
3 39 (11.24%) Redis
4 29 (8.36%) Relational Database
5 15 (4.32%) SQL Server
6 14 (4.03%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.17%) DynamoDB
8 9 (2.59%) Geospatial Data
9 7 (2.02%) MariaDB
10 6 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.15%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.86%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.58%) Power BI
14 1 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.29%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 39 (11.24%) Git
2 27 (7.78%) Claude Code
3 16 (4.61%) JIRA
4 13 (3.75%) JUnit
5 11 (3.17%) GitLab
5 11 (3.17%) Mockito
6 9 (2.59%) Jenkins
7 7 (2.02%) MSI
8 6 (1.73%) NUnit
9 4 (1.15%) Postman
10 3 (0.86%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.86%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.86%) Maven
10 3 (0.86%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.58%) JMeter
11 2 (0.58%) MLflow
11 2 (0.58%) Spock
12 1 (0.29%) Codeship
12 1 (0.29%) Gradle
12 1 (0.29%) Vite
General
1 99 (28.53%) Social Skills
2 41 (11.82%) Finance
3 38 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (9.51%) Public Sector
5 31 (8.93%) Games
6 22 (6.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.46%) Pharmaceutical
8 10 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.59%) Retail
10 8 (2.31%) Banking
10 8 (2.31%) Marketing
11 7 (2.02%) Front Office
12 6 (1.73%) Legal
13 5 (1.44%) Law
13 5 (1.44%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.86%) Digital Health
14 3 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.86%) Tech for Good
15 2 (0.58%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 119 (34.29%) Developer
2 105 (30.26%) Senior
3 64 (18.44%) Architect
3 64 (18.44%) Lead
4 44 (12.68%) Software Engineer
5 36 (10.37%) Senior Developer
6 31 (8.93%) Python Engineer
7 29 (8.36%) Solutions Architect
8 24 (6.92%) Technical Leader
9 22 (6.34%) Python Developer
10 19 (5.48%) Full-Stack Developer
11 18 (5.19%) Senior Python Developer
12 17 (4.90%) .NET Developer
12 17 (4.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 17 (4.90%) Senior Software Engineer
13 16 (4.61%) Lead Developer
13 16 (4.61%) Ruby Developer
13 16 (4.61%) Software Developer
14 15 (4.32%) Integration Architect
15 14 (4.03%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (41.79%) RESTful
2 78 (22.48%) REST
3 62 (17.87%) .NET
4 55 (15.85%) Spring
5 51 (14.70%) Spring Boot
6 50 (14.41%) Node.js
7 45 (12.97%) React
8 41 (11.82%) OAuth
9 40 (11.53%) Kafka
10 39 (11.24%) OAuth2
11 37 (10.66%) JWT
12 31 (8.93%) JSON
13 30 (8.65%) RabbitMQ
14 27 (7.78%) AngularJS
15 26 (7.49%) .NET Core
16 24 (6.92%) OpenAPI
16 24 (6.92%) Swagger
17 23 (6.63%) FastAPI
18 20 (5.76%) HTML
19 19 (5.48%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 119 (34.29%) Cloud Native
2 80 (23.05%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (10.37%) Low-Code
4 31 (8.93%) Product Ownership
4 31 (8.93%) Video\Live Streaming
5 27 (7.78%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (3.46%) Mobile App
8 11 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (2.88%) Data Centre
9 10 (2.88%) Legacy Applications
10 9 (2.59%) Marketing Technology
10 9 (2.59%) Virtual Team
11 7 (2.02%) AI Agents
11 7 (2.02%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.73%) Enterprise Cloud
12 6 (1.73%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.44%) Public Cloud
14 4 (1.15%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.17%) Linux
1 11 (3.17%) Windows
2 2 (0.58%) Android
2 2 (0.58%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.58%) VMS
3 1 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (58.50%) CI/CD
2 135 (38.90%) Agile
3 133 (38.33%) AI
4 131 (37.75%) Software Engineering
5 130 (37.46%) Microservices
6 117 (33.72%) Containerisation
7 116 (33.43%) DevOps
8 111 (31.99%) Event-Driven
9 104 (29.97%) Test Automation
10 100 (28.82%) Full-Stack Development
11 86 (24.78%) Infrastructure as Code
12 83 (23.92%) Continuous Improvement
13 77 (22.19%) Integration Patterns
14 76 (21.90%) Mentoring
15 74 (21.33%) Observability
16 58 (16.71%) API Integration
17 55 (15.85%) Roadmaps
18 53 (15.27%) Validation
19 49 (14.12%) Machine Learning
20 48 (13.83%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 147 (42.36%) Python
2 86 (24.78%) Java
3 64 (18.44%) JavaScript
3 64 (18.44%) TypeScript
4 61 (17.58%) C#
5 60 (17.29%) SQL
6 35 (10.09%) Go
7 20 (5.76%) Ruby
8 16 (4.61%) Bicep
9 6 (1.73%) VB.NET
10 5 (1.44%) PHP
11 4 (1.15%) C++
11 4 (1.15%) Rust
11 4 (1.15%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.86%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.86%) VB
13 2 (0.58%) C
13 2 (0.58%) Groovy
13 2 (0.58%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 41 (11.82%) Degree
2 37 (10.66%) Security Cleared
3 28 (8.07%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (6.34%) SC Cleared
5 9 (2.59%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.73%) CISSP
7 5 (1.44%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.15%) MBA
9 3 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.58%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.58%) CCSP
10 2 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (12.10%) QA
2 15 (4.32%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.59%) GDPR
3 9 (2.59%) NCSC
4 7 (2.02%) WCAG
5 5 (1.44%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.29%) HL7
7 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 132 (38.04%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 94 (27.09%) Kubernetes
2 40 (11.53%) Terraform
3 13 (3.75%) Prometheus
4 11 (3.17%) Grafana
5 9 (2.59%) Puppet
6 6 (1.73%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.44%) Ansible
8 3 (0.86%) Podman
9 2 (0.58%) Kibana
10 1 (0.29%) Nagios
Vendors
1 47 (13.54%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.19%) SAP
3 17 (4.90%) Google
3 17 (4.90%) OpenAI
4 13 (3.75%) SendGrid
5 11 (3.17%) Splunk
6 10 (2.88%) MuleSoft
6 10 (2.88%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.59%) Adobe
8 8 (2.31%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.02%) Oracle
10 6 (1.73%) Databricks
11 5 (1.44%) Workday
12 4 (1.15%) DevExpress
13 3 (0.86%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.86%) IFS
13 3 (0.86%) NVIDIA
13 3 (0.86%) Pega
13 3 (0.86%) Tenable
14 2 (0.58%) Concur