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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 566 680 576
Rank change year-on-year +114 -104 -182
Permanent jobs citing API Design 170 221 341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.21% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.26% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 123 166 255
10th Percentile £52,500 £37,125 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,875 £50,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £61,903 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.16% -17.46% -6.25%
75th Percentile £93,778 £75,000 £89,852
90th Percentile £119,750 £98,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £55,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +36.36% -21.43% +21.74%

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 54,035 85,534 82,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 89.93% 82.61% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 28,425 58,385 52,665
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,862 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,700 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

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 12 July 2025.

Salary histogram for API Design in the UK

API Design
Top 15 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 12 July 2025. 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 +116 157 £77,500 +24.00% 222
UK excluding London +134 114 £75,000 +36.36% 185
Work from Home +81 87 £75,000 +15.38% 96
London +77 49 £80,000 +14.29% 75
North of England +37 30 £71,991 +2.84% 51
South East +60 24 £61,250 +11.36% 40
East of England +50 21 £85,000 +30.77% 23
South West +106 19 £85,253 +61.62% 20
Yorkshire +49 15 £73,496 -2.01% 18
North West +1 15 £57,500 -17.86% 26
Midlands +60 11 £60,000 +14.29% 21
Scotland +91 8 £74,870 +106.54% 16
West Midlands +50 6 £60,000 +14.29% 12
East Midlands +44 5 £65,000 - 8
Wales +27 1 £53,500 +33.75% 18

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 4 (2.35%) IIS
2 2 (1.18%) CMS
3 1 (0.59%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.59%) Confluence
3 1 (0.59%) EPiServer
3 1 (0.59%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.59%) nginx
3 1 (0.59%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.59%) Sitefinity
3 1 (0.59%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Endur
1 1 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 71 (41.76%) Azure
2 66 (38.82%) AWS
3 46 (27.06%) GCP
4 23 (13.53%) Serverless
5 21 (12.35%) SaaS
6 16 (9.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 16 (9.41%) Boomi
7 15 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (8.82%) AWS Step Functions
8 14 (8.24%) Amazon EventBridge
8 14 (8.24%) Amazon SQS
8 14 (8.24%) AWS CodeBuild
8 14 (8.24%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 14 (8.24%) AWS CodePipeline
9 12 (7.06%) GitHub
10 11 (6.47%) npm
11 10 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (4.71%) OpenShift
13 6 (3.53%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.18%) Broadband
1 2 (1.18%) Firewall
2 1 (0.59%) Multicast
2 1 (0.59%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (17.65%) NoSQL
2 26 (15.29%) Big Data
3 21 (12.35%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (11.76%) MySQL
4 20 (11.76%) Relational Database
5 15 (8.82%) SQL Server
6 14 (8.24%) MongoDB
7 11 (6.47%) Redis
8 8 (4.71%) Data Lake
8 8 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.35%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.76%) Power BI
11 2 (1.18%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.59%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.59%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.59%) Spark SQL
12 1 (0.59%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 25 (14.71%) Git
2 11 (6.47%) Cucumber
2 11 (6.47%) Cypress.io
2 11 (6.47%) Sonatype Nexus
2 11 (6.47%) webpack
3 8 (4.71%) SpecFlow
4 7 (4.12%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.12%) Moq
4 7 (4.12%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (2.35%) Jasmine
5 4 (2.35%) NUnit
5 4 (2.35%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.76%) git-flow
6 3 (1.76%) JIRA
7 2 (1.18%) GitLab
7 2 (1.18%) Gradle
7 2 (1.18%) Maven
8 1 (0.59%) Grunt
8 1 (0.59%) gulp
8 1 (0.59%) Subversion
General
1 69 (40.59%) Finance
2 47 (27.65%) Social Skills
3 43 (25.29%) Banking
4 26 (15.29%) Law
5 17 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 13 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (7.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (6.47%) Games
9 10 (5.88%) Marketing
10 7 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (3.53%) Legal
11 6 (3.53%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.76%) Front Office
13 2 (1.18%) Health Technology
13 2 (1.18%) iGaming
13 2 (1.18%) Investment Banking
13 2 (1.18%) Local Government
13 2 (1.18%) Publishing
13 2 (1.18%) Retail
14 1 (0.59%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 51 (30.00%) Developer
2 44 (25.88%) Architect
3 39 (22.94%) Solutions Architect
4 34 (20.00%) Lead
4 34 (20.00%) Senior
5 32 (18.82%) Software Engineer
6 18 (10.59%) Senior Developer
7 13 (7.65%) .NET Developer
7 13 (7.65%) C# Developer
8 11 (6.47%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
10 9 (5.29%) C# .NET Developer
10 9 (5.29%) Java Developer
10 9 (5.29%) Payments Architect
10 9 (5.29%) Payments Solutions Architect
11 8 (4.71%) Database Engineer
12 7 (4.12%) AWS Solution Architect
12 7 (4.12%) Azure Architect
12 7 (4.12%) Java Engineer
12 7 (4.12%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (40.00%) RESTful
2 45 (26.47%) .NET
3 33 (19.41%) React
4 31 (18.24%) REST
5 30 (17.65%) OAuth
6 22 (12.94%) AngularJS
7 19 (11.18%) Spring Boot
8 18 (10.59%) .NET Core
9 16 (9.41%) .NET Framework
9 16 (9.41%) RabbitMQ
10 15 (8.82%) Jest
10 15 (8.82%) JWT
11 13 (7.65%) ASP.NET
11 13 (7.65%) Entity Framework
11 13 (7.65%) Web Services
12 12 (7.06%) Node.js
13 10 (5.88%) CSS
13 10 (5.88%) Kafka
13 10 (5.88%) Swagger
14 9 (5.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 35 (20.59%) Product Ownership
2 31 (18.24%) Cloud Native
3 19 (11.18%) Management Information System
4 18 (10.59%) Public Cloud
5 15 (8.82%) Private Cloud
6 11 (6.47%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (5.29%) Algorithms
7 9 (5.29%) Data Structures
8 6 (3.53%) Distributed Applications
8 6 (3.53%) Mobile App
8 6 (3.53%) Mobile Games
9 5 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (2.35%) Online Games
11 3 (1.76%) Low-Code
12 2 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (1.18%) IoT
12 2 (1.18%) Onboarding
12 2 (1.18%) Sports Betting
13 1 (0.59%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.71%) Unix
2 2 (1.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (62.35%) Agile
2 84 (49.41%) Microservices
3 82 (48.24%) CI/CD
4 70 (41.18%) DevOps
5 57 (33.53%) Software Engineering
6 47 (27.65%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (22.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (21.76%) API Development
9 34 (20.00%) Event-Driven
10 33 (19.41%) Containerisation
11 32 (18.82%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 32 (18.82%) Test Automation
12 30 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
13 29 (17.06%) Full-Stack Development
14 26 (15.29%) Domain-Driven Design
15 25 (14.71%) Enterprise Architecture
16 24 (14.12%) Mentoring
16 24 (14.12%) Roadmaps
16 24 (14.12%) SDLC
17 22 (12.94%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 59 (34.71%) C#
2 51 (30.00%) Java
3 44 (25.88%) Python
4 39 (22.94%) SQL
5 32 (18.82%) TypeScript
6 25 (14.71%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.71%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.35%) PHP
8 4 (2.35%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.76%) Ruby
10 2 (1.18%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.18%) Go
10 2 (1.18%) Groovy
10 2 (1.18%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.18%) Rust
10 2 (1.18%) Scala
11 1 (0.59%) C
11 1 (0.59%) C++
11 1 (0.59%) DataWeave
11 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (17.06%) Degree
2 20 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 19 (11.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.71%) Master's Degree
5 7 (4.12%) TOGAF Certification
6 5 (2.94%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.18%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.59%) CISSP
8 1 (0.59%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.59%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.59%) GIAC
8 1 (0.59%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.24%) QA
2 6 (3.53%) CDISC
3 3 (1.76%) GDPR
3 3 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.76%) PMBOK
4 2 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.18%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.18%) HL7
4 2 (1.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 66 (38.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 43 (25.29%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.24%) Terraform
3 9 (5.29%) Ansible
4 4 (2.35%) Grafana
5 3 (1.76%) Argo
6 2 (1.18%) Kibana
6 2 (1.18%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.59%) Istio
7 1 (0.59%) Kiali
7 1 (0.59%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.59%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 31 (18.24%) Google
2 29 (17.06%) Microsoft
3 20 (11.76%) Salesforce
4 15 (8.82%) MuleSoft
4 15 (8.82%) ServiceNow
5 14 (8.24%) Informatica
6 4 (2.35%) Rollbar
7 3 (1.76%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.76%) Oracle
7 3 (1.76%) Splunk
8 2 (1.18%) New Relic
8 2 (1.18%) SnapLogic
8 2 (1.18%) Sybase
9 1 (0.59%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.59%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.59%) Cisco
9 1 (0.59%) OpenLink
9 1 (0.59%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.59%) Snow
9 1 (0.59%) Sun