API Design
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for API Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited API Design over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 620 602 424
Rank change year-on-year -18 -178 +87
Permanent jobs citing API Design 281 412 1,317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.39% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.41% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 227 305 320
10th Percentile £31,250 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,375 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,294 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% -2.67% +32.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £92,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £104,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -23.33% +15.38% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

API Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for API Design in the UK

API Design
Top 14 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 27 April 2024. 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 -14 230 £65,000 -19.05% 41
UK excluding London +61 190 £57,500 -23.33% 30
Work from Home +55 123 £65,000 -18.75% 27
London -36 69 £77,500 -6.06% 12
West Midlands +58 45 £51,250 -32.79% 5
Midlands +33 45 £51,250 -33.87% 6
South East +38 44 £55,000 +4.76% 6
North of England +64 37 £70,000 - 9
Scotland -40 32 £62,500 -5.66% 6
South West +14 23 £58,750 -11.32% 1
North West +19 21 £70,000 +19.66% 5
Yorkshire +98 14 £100,000 +37.93% 3
East of England -22 9 £65,000 -25.71% 1
North East -1 2 £61,250 -23.44% 1

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 26 (9.25%) IIS
2 13 (4.63%) Confluence
3 5 (1.78%) CMS
4 4 (1.42%) Anypoint
4 4 (1.42%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.36%) nginx
5 1 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 8 (2.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 116 (41.28%) Azure
2 85 (30.25%) AWS
3 45 (16.01%) SaaS
4 42 (14.95%) Cloud Computing
5 23 (8.19%) GCP
6 19 (6.76%) Serverless
7 16 (5.69%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (3.91%) Google Play
8 11 (3.91%) Power Platform
9 9 (3.20%) Boomi
9 9 (3.20%) iPaaS
10 8 (2.85%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (2.85%) Slack
11 7 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.14%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (1.78%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (1.78%) Azure API Management
13 5 (1.78%) Kong
14 4 (1.42%) Amazon S3
14 4 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.25%) WAN
2 9 (3.20%) Firewall
3 3 (1.07%) HTTP
3 3 (1.07%) Internet
3 3 (1.07%) MQTT
4 1 (0.36%) DHCP
4 1 (0.36%) DNS
4 1 (0.36%) Network Security
4 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (25.62%) NoSQL
2 60 (21.35%) SQL Server
3 19 (6.76%) MongoDB
3 19 (6.76%) MySQL
4 18 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (6.41%) Redis
5 15 (5.34%) Big Data
6 11 (3.91%) Relational Database
7 8 (2.85%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (2.85%) CockroachDB
7 8 (2.85%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (2.85%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.42%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.07%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.71%) GIS
12 1 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.36%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 64 (22.78%) Git
2 38 (13.52%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.63%) Cucumber
3 13 (4.63%) GitLab
3 13 (4.63%) JIRA
3 13 (4.63%) Octopus Deploy
4 10 (3.56%) Appium
4 10 (3.56%) JUnit
4 10 (3.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 9 (3.20%) Selenium
6 8 (2.85%) CircleCI
6 8 (2.85%) Jaeger
7 6 (2.14%) NUnit
8 5 (1.78%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.42%) Jasmine
10 3 (1.07%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.07%) Maven
11 2 (0.71%) Snyk
11 2 (0.71%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.36%) fastlane
General
1 83 (29.54%) Social Skills
2 81 (28.83%) Finance
3 33 (11.74%) Banking
4 24 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (7.47%) Retail
6 20 (7.12%) Legal
7 19 (6.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (3.56%) Billing
9 9 (3.20%) Law
10 8 (2.85%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.78%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.07%) Front Office
12 3 (1.07%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.71%) Aviation
13 2 (0.71%) Police
13 2 (0.71%) Publishing
14 1 (0.36%) Marketing
14 1 (0.36%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 106 (37.72%) Developer
2 87 (30.96%) Architect
3 43 (15.30%) Solutions Architect
4 35 (12.46%) Senior
5 32 (11.39%) Technical Architect
6 31 (11.03%) Lead
7 28 (9.96%) Software Engineer
8 26 (9.25%) Systems Engineer
9 21 (7.47%) Senior Developer
10 19 (6.76%) C# Developer
11 17 (6.05%) .NET Developer
12 16 (5.69%) Web Developer
13 15 (5.34%) C# .NET Developer
14 12 (4.27%) Full Stack Developer
15 11 (3.91%) Integration Developer
15 11 (3.91%) Principal Architect
16 10 (3.56%) .NET Software Engineer
16 10 (3.56%) Android Developer
16 10 (3.56%) Lead Software Engineer
16 10 (3.56%) Senior Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (22.06%) .NET
2 60 (21.35%) REST
3 52 (18.51%) RESTful
4 36 (12.81%) React
5 35 (12.46%) CSS
6 34 (12.10%) HTML
6 34 (12.10%) Spring Boot
7 32 (11.39%) Node.js
8 31 (11.03%) Kafka
9 27 (9.61%) JSON
10 25 (8.90%) Spring
11 19 (6.76%) AngularJS
12 18 (6.41%) .NET Core
13 17 (6.05%) .NET Framework
13 17 (6.05%) ASP.NET Web API
13 17 (6.05%) RabbitMQ
14 14 (4.98%) XML
15 13 (4.63%) MSMQ
15 13 (4.63%) Vue
16 11 (3.91%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 41 (14.59%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (10.32%) Cloud Native
3 28 (9.96%) Public Cloud
4 26 (9.25%) Clustering
5 23 (8.19%) Product Ownership
6 19 (6.76%) Blockchain
6 19 (6.76%) Mobile App
7 17 (6.05%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (5.34%) Robotics
9 10 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (2.85%) Data Structures
10 8 (2.85%) Management Information System
11 7 (2.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 4 (1.42%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.42%) IoT
13 3 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (1.07%) FMCG
14 2 (0.71%) Educational Technology
14 2 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.05%) Linux
2 13 (4.63%) Android
3 6 (2.14%) Windows
4 3 (1.07%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (45.91%) Agile
1 129 (45.91%) Microservices
2 100 (35.59%) CI/CD
3 87 (30.96%) Problem-Solving
4 80 (28.47%) API Development
5 75 (26.69%) DevOps
6 74 (26.33%) TDD
7 61 (21.71%) Mentoring
8 57 (20.28%) Software Engineering
9 51 (18.15%) Design Patterns
10 49 (17.44%) Architectural Patterns
11 47 (16.73%) Software Testing
11 47 (16.73%) Technical Leadership
12 42 (14.95%) Roadmaps
13 41 (14.59%) Unit Testing
14 40 (14.23%) Coaching
15 38 (13.52%) MVC
16 37 (13.17%) Containerisation
16 37 (13.17%) SDLC
17 36 (12.81%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 105 (37.37%) SQL
2 94 (33.45%) Java
3 75 (26.69%) C#
4 73 (25.98%) JavaScript
5 32 (11.39%) Python
6 24 (8.54%) TypeScript
7 16 (5.69%) PHP
8 14 (4.98%) Go
8 14 (4.98%) T-SQL
9 10 (3.56%) Kotlin
10 7 (2.49%) VB.NET
11 6 (2.14%) C
12 4 (1.42%) C++
12 4 (1.42%) Rust
13 3 (1.07%) Bash
13 3 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (1.07%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.36%) Scala
15 1 (0.36%) XAML
Qualifications
1 31 (11.03%) Security Cleared
2 27 (9.61%) Degree
3 19 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.78%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.71%) HND
5 2 (0.71%) OCP
5 2 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.36%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.19%) QA
2 10 (3.56%) SEPA
3 8 (2.85%) GDPR
3 8 (2.85%) PSD2
4 4 (1.42%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.07%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.07%) ISO 9000
5 3 (1.07%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.36%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.36%) SLA
6 1 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 70 (24.91%) Docker
2 26 (9.25%) VMware NSX
3 3 (1.07%) Firmware
4 1 (0.36%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 67 (23.84%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.69%) Terraform
3 10 (3.56%) Ansible
4 8 (2.85%) Kiali
5 4 (1.42%) Istio
6 2 (0.71%) Grafana
6 2 (0.71%) Kibana
6 2 (0.71%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.36%) Consul
7 1 (0.36%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.36%) Packer
Vendors
1 70 (24.91%) Microsoft
2 31 (11.03%) Google
3 26 (9.25%) VMware
4 18 (6.41%) MuleSoft
5 10 (3.56%) Salesforce
6 9 (3.20%) Jitterbit
6 9 (3.20%) Talend
7 8 (2.85%) AppDynamics
7 8 (2.85%) Duck Creek
7 8 (2.85%) Splunk
8 4 (1.42%) Oracle
9 2 (0.71%) Okta
10 1 (0.36%) Apple
10 1 (0.36%) Cisco
10 1 (0.36%) Mapbox
10 1 (0.36%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.36%) Sitecore