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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 483 493 648
Rank change year-on-year +10 +155 -35
Permanent jobs citing API Design 266 159 259
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.37% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.40% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 190 115 206
10th Percentile £47,637 £57,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £55,625 £66,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +33.33% -24.65%
75th Percentile £92,500 £98,474 £78,438
90th Percentile £97,500 £120,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £77,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.13% +40.91% -21.43%

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 68,838 39,983 83,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.88% 93.25% 83.85%
Number of salaries quoted 44,890 21,039 60,407
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,903 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +19 246 £72,500 -9.38% 131
UK excluding London -26 139 £65,000 -16.13% 77
London +38 115 £78,750 -1.56% 72
Work from Home +46 106 £75,000 - 81
North of England -24 48 £70,000 -25.39% 21
North West +23 35 £73,750 -20.70% 17
Midlands -12 25 £68,750 +14.58% 8
South West -44 24 £42,500 -54.73% 8
South East -39 18 £62,500 - 24
West Midlands -23 17 £68,750 +14.58% 5
East of England -25 14 £77,500 -8.82% 5
Yorkshire -59 12 £63,750 -32.64% 4
Wales - 9 £51,619 - 8
East Midlands -27 8 £61,250 -31.94% 3
North East - 1 £45,000 -
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 5 (1.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (1.50%) CMS
3 2 (0.75%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.38%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.38%) Appian
4 1 (0.38%) Camunda
4 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.38%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 5 (1.88%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.75%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 143 (53.76%) AWS
2 137 (51.50%) Azure
3 42 (15.79%) Serverless
4 36 (13.53%) GCP
5 31 (11.65%) GitHub
6 20 (7.52%) Amazon S3
6 20 (7.52%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (7.52%) SaaS
7 15 (5.64%) Azure Logic Apps
7 15 (5.64%) Azure Service Bus
8 11 (4.14%) Azure Key Vault
8 11 (4.14%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (3.76%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (3.76%) Power Platform
10 9 (3.38%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (3.38%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (3.38%) Anthropic Claude
10 9 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (3.38%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (3.01%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.65%) Broadband
2 7 (2.63%) DMARC
3 5 (1.88%) MQTT
4 3 (1.13%) Network Security
5 1 (0.38%) HTTP
5 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (13.53%) MongoDB
3 20 (7.52%) Redis
4 18 (6.77%) MySQL
5 15 (5.64%) DynamoDB
6 12 (4.51%) NoSQL
7 11 (4.14%) Relational Database
8 10 (3.76%) SQL Server
9 8 (3.01%) MariaDB
10 4 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.50%) Power BI
11 3 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.13%) TimescaleDB
12 2 (0.75%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.75%) Metadata
13 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.38%) InfluxDB
13 1 (0.38%) Pinecone
13 1 (0.38%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 18 (6.77%) Git
2 15 (5.64%) Postman
3 7 (2.63%) Claude Code
4 6 (2.26%) GitLab
5 5 (1.88%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.88%) JIRA
5 5 (1.88%) JUnit
5 5 (1.88%) Mockito
6 4 (1.50%) NUnit
7 3 (1.13%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.13%) Gradle
7 3 (1.13%) Maven
7 3 (1.13%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.75%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.75%) JMeter
8 2 (0.75%) Storybook
9 1 (0.38%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.38%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.38%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.38%) Vite
General
1 83 (31.20%) Social Skills
2 41 (15.41%) Finance
3 27 (10.15%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (8.65%) Games
5 18 (6.77%) Public Sector
6 17 (6.39%) Law
7 8 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.01%) Front Office
8 7 (2.63%) Legal
8 7 (2.63%) Retail
9 6 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.26%) Marketing
10 4 (1.50%) Banking
11 3 (1.13%) Digital Health
11 3 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.38%) Advertising
13 1 (0.38%) Billing
13 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 88 (33.08%) Developer
2 64 (24.06%) Senior
3 53 (19.92%) Architect
4 38 (14.29%) Lead
5 33 (12.41%) Software Engineer
6 22 (8.27%) Solutions Architect
7 20 (7.52%) Full-Stack Developer
8 17 (6.39%) Senior Developer
9 15 (5.64%) .NET Developer
9 15 (5.64%) Analyst
10 14 (5.26%) Data Analyst
11 13 (4.89%) Integration Architect
11 13 (4.89%) Lead Developer
11 13 (4.89%) Senior Architect
11 13 (4.89%) Software Developer
12 12 (4.51%) Python Engineer
12 12 (4.51%) Senior Software Engineer
12 12 (4.51%) Technical Leader
13 11 (4.14%) Python Developer
14 10 (3.76%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (42.48%) RESTful
2 59 (22.18%) REST
3 52 (19.55%) Node.js
4 49 (18.42%) React
5 38 (14.29%) .NET
6 34 (12.78%) Spring
7 33 (12.41%) Spring Boot
8 32 (12.03%) OAuth
9 28 (10.53%) OAuth2
10 27 (10.15%) JSON
11 24 (9.02%) OpenAPI
12 23 (8.65%) AngularJS
12 23 (8.65%) JWT
13 21 (7.89%) Kafka
13 21 (7.89%) Swagger
14 17 (6.39%) .NET Core
14 17 (6.39%) HTML
14 17 (6.39%) RabbitMQ
15 15 (5.64%) CSS
16 13 (4.89%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 68 (25.56%) Cloud Native
2 46 (17.29%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (11.28%) Low-Code
4 25 (9.40%) Product Ownership
5 22 (8.27%) Video\Live Streaming
6 16 (6.02%) Data Structures
7 12 (4.51%) Onboarding
8 10 (3.76%) Mobile App
9 7 (2.63%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.63%) Fixed Income
9 7 (2.63%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.88%) Marketing Technology
10 5 (1.88%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.50%) PropTech
12 3 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.13%) NHS
12 3 (1.13%) Operational Technology
12 3 (1.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.63%) Linux
2 3 (1.13%) Android
2 3 (1.13%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (54.14%) CI/CD
2 92 (34.59%) Software Engineering
3 88 (33.08%) Microservices
4 84 (31.58%) DevOps
5 83 (31.20%) Test Automation
6 78 (29.32%) Agile
6 78 (29.32%) AI
7 75 (28.20%) Full-Stack Development
8 69 (25.94%) Containerisation
9 68 (25.56%) Event-Driven
10 64 (24.06%) Continuous Improvement
11 62 (23.31%) API Integration
11 62 (23.31%) Infrastructure as Code
12 54 (20.30%) Integration Patterns
13 52 (19.55%) Observability
14 48 (18.05%) Mentoring
15 47 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
16 40 (15.04%) Decision-Making
16 40 (15.04%) Machine Learning
17 38 (14.29%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 103 (38.72%) Python
2 61 (22.93%) Java
3 60 (22.56%) JavaScript
4 51 (19.17%) TypeScript
5 50 (18.80%) SQL
6 39 (14.66%) C#
7 24 (9.02%) Go
8 11 (4.14%) Ruby
9 8 (3.01%) PHP
10 6 (2.26%) C++
10 6 (2.26%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.50%) Bicep
11 4 (1.50%) C
11 4 (1.50%) Rust
11 4 (1.50%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.50%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.75%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.75%) ActionScript 2.0
12 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 38 (14.29%) Degree
2 34 (12.78%) Security Cleared
3 30 (11.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (6.02%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.01%) CISSP
6 5 (1.88%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.50%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.75%) CCSP
8 2 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.75%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (12.78%) QA
2 11 (4.14%) GDPR
3 7 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.63%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.75%) WCAG
6 1 (0.38%) HL7
6 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 71 (26.69%) Docker
2 6 (2.26%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 27 (10.15%) Terraform
3 6 (2.26%) Ansible
3 6 (2.26%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.13%) Grafana
4 3 (1.13%) Nagios
4 3 (1.13%) Podman
4 3 (1.13%) Puppet
5 2 (0.75%) Kibana
6 1 (0.38%) Istio
Vendors
1 40 (15.04%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.26%) SAP
3 13 (4.89%) Google
4 9 (3.38%) OpenAI
4 9 (3.38%) Oracle
4 9 (3.38%) SendGrid
5 8 (3.01%) MuleSoft
6 7 (2.63%) Atlassian
6 7 (2.63%) Pega
7 6 (2.26%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.88%) Adobe
8 5 (1.88%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.88%) Workday
9 4 (1.50%) DevExpress
9 4 (1.50%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.13%) Foundry
10 3 (1.13%) NVIDIA
10 3 (1.13%) Tenable
11 2 (0.75%) Concur
11 2 (0.75%) Splunk