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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 463 507 655
Rank change year-on-year +44 +148 -60
Permanent jobs citing API Design 289 162 246
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.36% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.39% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 200 118 191
10th Percentile £47,930 £52,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £57,056 £62,500 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +24.00% -19.35%
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £78,125
90th Percentile £95,250 £116,125 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +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 67,964 41,274 88,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.85% 92.59% 81.93%
Number of salaries quoted 46,731 22,044 62,765
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,525
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £91,991
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 16 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 16 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 +19 265 £72,500 -9.38% 163
UK excluding London -4 147 £65,000 -13.33% 92
London +44 127 £77,500 -3.13% 84
Work from Home +40 123 £75,000 - 78
North of England -6 48 £68,750 -27.35% 33
North West +30 35 £75,000 -19.35% 22
South West -44 27 £42,500 -50.15% 15
Midlands +4 25 £70,000 +16.67% 3
South East -23 19 £60,000 -4.00% 27
West Midlands -11 16 £70,000 +16.67% 1
East of England -21 16 £72,500 -14.71% 6
Yorkshire -40 12 £62,500 -33.96% 6
Wales - 11 £57,500 - 4
East Midlands -16 9 £70,000 +7.69% 2
North East - 1 £45,000 - 5
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 5 (1.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (1.38%) CMS
3 2 (0.69%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.35%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.35%) Confluence
4 1 (0.35%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.35%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 5 (1.73%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.69%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.35%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 158 (54.67%) AWS
2 152 (52.60%) Azure
3 39 (13.49%) Serverless
4 35 (12.11%) GCP
4 35 (12.11%) GitHub
5 24 (8.30%) Azure Service Bus
6 23 (7.96%) SaaS
7 19 (6.57%) Amazon S3
7 19 (6.57%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (5.54%) Azure Logic Apps
9 15 (5.19%) Azure Key Vault
10 14 (4.84%) Azure Monitor
11 13 (4.50%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (3.81%) Azure Storage
13 10 (3.46%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (3.46%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (3.46%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (3.46%) Power Platform
14 9 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 34 (11.76%) Broadband
2 10 (3.46%) DMARC
3 8 (2.77%) MQTT
4 3 (1.04%) Network Security
5 1 (0.35%) HTTP
5 1 (0.35%) Internet
5 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (24.57%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (15.92%) MongoDB
3 23 (7.96%) MySQL
4 21 (7.27%) Redis
5 14 (4.84%) DynamoDB
5 14 (4.84%) NoSQL
5 14 (4.84%) Relational Database
6 12 (4.15%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.77%) MariaDB
8 5 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.38%) Power BI
10 3 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.69%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.69%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.69%) Metadata
11 2 (0.69%) TimescaleDB
12 1 (0.35%) DTS
12 1 (0.35%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 23 (7.96%) Git
2 14 (4.84%) Postman
3 10 (3.46%) Claude Code
4 8 (2.77%) JIRA
5 7 (2.42%) GitLab
6 5 (1.73%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.73%) JUnit
6 5 (1.73%) Mockito
6 5 (1.73%) NUnit
7 3 (1.04%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.04%) Gradle
7 3 (1.04%) Maven
7 3 (1.04%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.69%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.69%) JMeter
9 1 (0.35%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.35%) MLflow
9 1 (0.35%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.35%) Storybook
9 1 (0.35%) Vite
General
1 89 (30.80%) Social Skills
2 39 (13.49%) Finance
3 32 (11.07%) Games
4 30 (10.38%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.61%) Public Sector
6 16 (5.54%) Law
7 9 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.77%) Front Office
8 8 (2.77%) Retail
9 7 (2.42%) Legal
10 6 (2.08%) Marketing
11 4 (1.38%) Banking
12 3 (1.04%) Digital Health
12 3 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.69%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.35%) Billing
14 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 106 (36.68%) Developer
2 76 (26.30%) Senior
3 54 (18.69%) Architect
4 43 (14.88%) Lead
5 36 (12.46%) Software Engineer
6 26 (9.00%) Senior Developer
7 22 (7.61%) Solutions Architect
8 21 (7.27%) Full-Stack Developer
9 19 (6.57%) Python Developer
10 16 (5.54%) .NET Developer
11 15 (5.19%) Lead Developer
11 15 (5.19%) Senior Python Developer
12 14 (4.84%) Analyst
12 14 (4.84%) Senior Architect
12 14 (4.84%) Senior Software Engineer
12 14 (4.84%) Software Developer
12 14 (4.84%) Technical Leader
13 13 (4.50%) Data Analyst
13 13 (4.50%) Integration Architect
14 12 (4.15%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (45.33%) RESTful
2 63 (21.80%) REST
3 50 (17.30%) Node.js
4 49 (16.96%) React
5 47 (16.26%) .NET
6 42 (14.53%) Spring
7 41 (14.19%) Spring Boot
8 33 (11.42%) OAuth
9 30 (10.38%) OAuth2
10 29 (10.03%) JSON
11 27 (9.34%) Kafka
11 27 (9.34%) OpenAPI
12 25 (8.65%) Swagger
13 24 (8.30%) JWT
14 22 (7.61%) AngularJS
15 20 (6.92%) .NET Core
15 20 (6.92%) RabbitMQ
16 17 (5.88%) HTML
17 15 (5.19%) CSS
18 13 (4.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 92 (31.83%) Cloud Native
2 58 (20.07%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (13.49%) Low-Code
4 31 (10.73%) Video\Live Streaming
5 26 (9.00%) Product Ownership
6 14 (4.84%) Data Structures
7 13 (4.50%) Onboarding
8 10 (3.46%) Mobile App
9 7 (2.42%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.42%) Fixed Income
9 7 (2.42%) Management Information System
10 6 (2.08%) Marketing Technology
11 5 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.73%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.73%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.38%) PropTech
13 3 (1.04%) Operational Technology
13 3 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.11%) Linux
2 3 (1.04%) Android
2 3 (1.04%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (56.40%) CI/CD
2 107 (37.02%) Software Engineering
3 100 (34.60%) Microservices
4 98 (33.91%) Agile
5 97 (33.56%) Test Automation
6 93 (32.18%) AI
6 93 (32.18%) DevOps
7 87 (30.10%) Full-Stack Development
8 84 (29.07%) Containerisation
9 81 (28.03%) Continuous Improvement
10 77 (26.64%) Event-Driven
11 75 (25.95%) Infrastructure as Code
12 69 (23.88%) Integration Patterns
13 66 (22.84%) Observability
14 61 (21.11%) API Integration
15 57 (19.72%) Mentoring
16 49 (16.96%) Validation
17 48 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
18 47 (16.26%) Machine Learning
19 44 (15.22%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 117 (40.48%) Python
2 68 (23.53%) Java
3 63 (21.80%) JavaScript
4 55 (19.03%) SQL
5 51 (17.65%) TypeScript
6 48 (16.61%) C#
7 32 (11.07%) Go
8 13 (4.50%) Ruby
9 9 (3.11%) PHP
10 7 (2.42%) Bicep
11 6 (2.08%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.38%) Rust
12 4 (1.38%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.04%) C
13 3 (1.04%) C++
13 3 (1.04%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.04%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.69%) ActionScript 2.0
14 2 (0.69%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.69%) R
Qualifications
1 41 (14.19%) Degree
2 34 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 31 (10.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (5.54%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.77%) CISSP
6 6 (2.08%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.73%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.69%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.69%) CCSP
8 2 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.35%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.35%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (13.15%) QA
2 11 (3.81%) GDPR
3 8 (2.77%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.42%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.69%) NCSC
6 2 (0.69%) WCAG
7 1 (0.35%) HL7
7 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 84 (29.07%) Docker
2 6 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 65 (22.49%) Kubernetes
2 28 (9.69%) Terraform
3 7 (2.42%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.73%) Ansible
4 5 (1.73%) Grafana
5 3 (1.04%) Podman
5 3 (1.04%) Puppet
6 2 (0.69%) Kibana
6 2 (0.69%) Nagios
7 1 (0.35%) Istio
Vendors
1 44 (15.22%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.19%) SAP
3 13 (4.50%) Google
4 11 (3.81%) SendGrid
5 9 (3.11%) OpenAI
5 9 (3.11%) Oracle
6 8 (2.77%) MuleSoft
7 7 (2.42%) Atlassian
8 6 (2.08%) Adobe
8 6 (2.08%) Pega
8 6 (2.08%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.73%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.73%) Workday
10 4 (1.38%) Databricks
10 4 (1.38%) DevExpress
10 4 (1.38%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.04%) Foundry
11 3 (1.04%) NVIDIA
11 3 (1.04%) Splunk
11 3 (1.04%) Tenable