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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 548 671
Rank change year-on-year +83 +123 -160
Permanent jobs citing API Design 351 134 159
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.27% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.30% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 242 99 109
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £58,125 £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 £109,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £74,870 £61,305
% change year-on-year -6.50% +22.13% -9.36%

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 77,301 44,356 67,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 89.43% 81.01%
Number of salaries quoted 53,282 25,229 44,135
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.40% -3.00% -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 7 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 7 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 +72 311 £75,000 -1.64% 223
UK excluding London +12 171 £70,000 -6.50% 72
London +74 158 £77,500 -4.62% 168
Work from Home +66 138 £75,000 - 80
North of England -17 50 £72,500 -3.33% 25
North West +13 36 £77,500 +34.78% 16
Midlands -15 30 £65,000 +8.33% 4
South West -41 29 £57,500 -8.00% 6
South East -19 25 £60,000 - 20
West Midlands -18 21 £65,000 +8.33% 3
Wales -43 18 £58,750 +9.81%
East of England -30 17 £72,500 -14.71% 7
Yorkshire -18 9 £55,000 -35.16% 8
East Midlands -22 9 £70,000 +16.67% 1
North East - 5 £66,000 - 1
Scotland +15 1 £140,000 +86.99% 7
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

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 (1.99%) Confluence
2 6 (1.71%) Camunda
3 5 (1.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.57%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.28%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (1.99%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.57%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 5 (1.42%) SAP ERP
2 3 (0.85%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 192 (54.70%) AWS
2 180 (51.28%) Azure
3 57 (16.24%) GCP
4 49 (13.96%) GitHub
5 38 (10.83%) Serverless
6 33 (9.40%) Azure Service Bus
7 28 (7.98%) SaaS
8 25 (7.12%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (6.55%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (5.41%) Azure Key Vault
10 19 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
10 19 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (4.84%) Amazon ECS
11 17 (4.84%) Amazon S3
12 16 (4.56%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (4.56%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (3.99%) GitHub Copilot
14 13 (3.70%) Anthropic Claude
14 13 (3.70%) Azure Storage
15 12 (3.42%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 36 (10.26%) Broadband
2 15 (4.27%) MQTT
3 13 (3.70%) DMARC
4 3 (0.85%) Network Security
5 2 (0.57%) HTTP
5 2 (0.57%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.28%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (29.06%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (15.38%) MongoDB
3 41 (11.68%) MySQL
4 40 (11.40%) Redis
5 30 (8.55%) Relational Database
6 15 (4.27%) NoSQL
6 15 (4.27%) SQL Server
7 11 (3.13%) DynamoDB
8 9 (2.56%) Geospatial Data
9 7 (1.99%) MariaDB
10 6 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.14%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.57%) Power BI
14 1 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.28%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.28%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 41 (11.68%) Git
2 27 (7.69%) Claude Code
3 16 (4.56%) JIRA
4 13 (3.70%) JUnit
5 11 (3.13%) GitLab
5 11 (3.13%) Mockito
6 9 (2.56%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.99%) MSI
8 6 (1.71%) NUnit
9 4 (1.14%) Postman
10 3 (0.85%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.85%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.85%) Maven
10 3 (0.85%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.57%) JMeter
11 2 (0.57%) MLflow
11 2 (0.57%) Spock
12 1 (0.28%) Codeship
12 1 (0.28%) Gemini Tracker
12 1 (0.28%) Vite
General
1 101 (28.77%) Social Skills
2 40 (11.40%) Finance
3 38 (10.83%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (9.69%) Public Sector
5 31 (8.83%) Games
6 22 (6.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.42%) Pharmaceutical
8 10 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.56%) Retail
10 8 (2.28%) Banking
10 8 (2.28%) Marketing
11 6 (1.71%) Front Office
11 6 (1.71%) Legal
12 5 (1.42%) Law
12 5 (1.42%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.85%) Digital Health
13 3 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.85%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.57%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 120 (34.19%) Developer
2 106 (30.20%) Senior
3 65 (18.52%) Lead
4 64 (18.23%) Architect
5 46 (13.11%) Software Engineer
6 36 (10.26%) Senior Developer
7 32 (9.12%) Python Engineer
8 29 (8.26%) Solutions Architect
9 24 (6.84%) Technical Leader
10 22 (6.27%) Python Developer
11 19 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
12 18 (5.13%) Senior Python Developer
12 18 (5.13%) Senior Software Engineer
13 17 (4.84%) .NET Developer
13 17 (4.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 17 (4.84%) Ruby Developer
14 16 (4.56%) Lead Developer
14 16 (4.56%) Software Developer
15 14 (3.99%) Integration Architect
15 14 (3.99%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (41.88%) RESTful
2 79 (22.51%) REST
3 62 (17.66%) .NET
4 56 (15.95%) Spring
5 52 (14.81%) Spring Boot
6 51 (14.53%) Node.js
7 46 (13.11%) React
8 42 (11.97%) Kafka
9 41 (11.68%) OAuth
10 39 (11.11%) OAuth2
11 38 (10.83%) JWT
12 32 (9.12%) JSON
12 32 (9.12%) RabbitMQ
13 27 (7.69%) AngularJS
14 26 (7.41%) .NET Core
15 25 (7.12%) OpenAPI
15 25 (7.12%) Swagger
16 24 (6.84%) FastAPI
17 20 (5.70%) HTML
17 20 (5.70%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 121 (34.47%) Cloud Native
2 81 (23.08%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (10.26%) Low-Code
4 32 (9.12%) Product Ownership
5 31 (8.83%) Video\Live Streaming
6 27 (7.69%) Onboarding
7 14 (3.99%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (3.70%) Mobile App
9 11 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (3.13%) Virtual Team
10 10 (2.85%) Data Centre
10 10 (2.85%) Legacy Applications
11 9 (2.56%) Marketing Technology
12 7 (1.99%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.99%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.71%) Enterprise Cloud
14 5 (1.42%) Fixed Income
14 5 (1.42%) Public Cloud
15 4 (1.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.13%) Linux
1 11 (3.13%) Windows
2 2 (0.57%) Android
2 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.57%) VMS
3 1 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (58.12%) CI/CD
2 138 (39.32%) Agile
3 135 (38.46%) AI
4 133 (37.89%) Software Engineering
5 132 (37.61%) Microservices
6 121 (34.47%) Containerisation
7 116 (33.05%) DevOps
8 114 (32.48%) Event-Driven
9 105 (29.91%) Test Automation
10 100 (28.49%) Full-Stack Development
11 88 (25.07%) Infrastructure as Code
12 84 (23.93%) Continuous Improvement
13 79 (22.51%) Mentoring
14 77 (21.94%) Integration Patterns
15 75 (21.37%) Observability
16 60 (17.09%) API Integration
17 57 (16.24%) Roadmaps
18 53 (15.10%) Validation
19 49 (13.96%) Machine Learning
19 49 (13.96%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 149 (42.45%) Python
2 88 (25.07%) Java
3 64 (18.23%) TypeScript
4 63 (17.95%) JavaScript
5 61 (17.38%) C#
6 60 (17.09%) SQL
7 35 (9.97%) Go
8 21 (5.98%) Ruby
9 16 (4.56%) Bicep
10 6 (1.71%) VB.NET
11 5 (1.42%) PHP
12 4 (1.14%) C++
12 4 (1.14%) Rust
12 4 (1.14%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.85%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.85%) VB
14 2 (0.57%) C
14 2 (0.57%) Groovy
14 2 (0.57%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 41 (11.68%) Degree
2 37 (10.54%) Security Cleared
3 28 (7.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (6.27%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.28%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.71%) CISSP
7 5 (1.42%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.14%) MBA
9 3 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.57%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.57%) CCSP
10 2 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (12.25%) QA
2 15 (4.27%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.56%) GDPR
3 9 (2.56%) NCSC
4 7 (1.99%) WCAG
5 5 (1.42%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.28%) HL7
7 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 135 (38.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 96 (27.35%) Kubernetes
2 41 (11.68%) Terraform
3 14 (3.99%) Prometheus
4 12 (3.42%) Grafana
5 9 (2.56%) Puppet
6 6 (1.71%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.42%) Ansible
8 3 (0.85%) Podman
9 2 (0.57%) Kibana
10 1 (0.28%) Nagios
Vendors
1 48 (13.68%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.41%) SAP
3 17 (4.84%) Google
3 17 (4.84%) OpenAI
4 13 (3.70%) SendGrid
5 12 (3.42%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.42%) Splunk
6 11 (3.13%) MuleSoft
7 9 (2.56%) Adobe
7 9 (2.56%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.99%) Oracle
9 6 (1.71%) Databricks
10 5 (1.42%) Workday
11 4 (1.14%) DevExpress
12 3 (0.85%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.85%) IFS
12 3 (0.85%) NVIDIA
12 3 (0.85%) Pega
12 3 (0.85%) Tenable
13 2 (0.57%) Concur