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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 537 658
Rank change year-on-year +76 +121 -104
Permanent jobs citing API Design 339 154 188
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.31% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.35% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 237 116 139
10th Percentile £48,450 £52,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -15.25%
75th Percentile £87,500 £91,882 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £119,375 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +30.43% -17.86%

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 73,858 44,154 75,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.61% 89.93% 81.83%
Number of salaries quoted 51,064 24,939 51,848
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,599 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,043 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.01% +0.08% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 23 July 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 23 July 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 +56 301 £75,000 -3.23% 145
UK excluding London -18 164 £70,000 -6.67% 54
London +75 153 £77,500 -3.13% 111
Work from Home +44 137 £75,000 - 60
North of England -9 49 £72,500 +0.71% 15
North West +20 36 £75,000 +30.43% 8
South West -45 30 £47,750 -43.99% 3
Midlands -14 27 £67,500 +12.50% 5
South East -21 23 £60,000 -2.04% 24
West Midlands -19 18 £67,500 +12.50% 5
Wales -35 17 £60,000 +12.15% 1
East of England -11 16 £72,500 -14.71% 2
Yorkshire -32 10 £58,750 -18.39% 5
East Midlands -22 9 £70,000 +16.67%
North East - 3 £85,000 - 2
Scotland +14 1 £140,000 +86.99% 3
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 6 (1.77%) Camunda
1 6 (1.77%) Confluence
2 5 (1.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (0.88%) CMS
4 2 (0.59%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (0.59%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.29%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.18%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.59%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 5 (1.47%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.59%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 188 (55.46%) AWS
2 172 (50.74%) Azure
3 52 (15.34%) GCP
4 44 (12.98%) GitHub
5 40 (11.80%) Serverless
6 31 (9.14%) Azure Service Bus
7 28 (8.26%) SaaS
8 24 (7.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (6.49%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (5.60%) Azure Key Vault
10 19 (5.60%) Azure Monitor
11 18 (5.31%) Amazon S3
12 17 (5.01%) Amazon ECS
12 17 (5.01%) Amazon EKS
12 17 (5.01%) AWS Lambda
12 17 (5.01%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (3.83%) Azure Logic Apps
13 13 (3.83%) Azure Storage
14 11 (3.24%) Anthropic Claude
14 11 (3.24%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 36 (10.62%) Broadband
2 13 (3.83%) DMARC
2 13 (3.83%) MQTT
3 3 (0.88%) Network Security
4 2 (0.59%) HTTP
4 2 (0.59%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (28.02%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (15.63%) MongoDB
3 42 (12.39%) MySQL
4 37 (10.91%) Redis
5 27 (7.96%) Relational Database
6 15 (4.42%) NoSQL
6 15 (4.42%) SQL Server
7 12 (3.54%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.36%) Geospatial Data
8 8 (2.36%) MariaDB
9 6 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.18%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.59%) Power BI
13 1 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.29%) Metadata
13 1 (0.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 37 (10.91%) Git
2 25 (7.37%) Claude Code
3 15 (4.42%) JIRA
4 11 (3.24%) JUnit
5 10 (2.95%) GitLab
5 10 (2.95%) Mockito
6 6 (1.77%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.77%) MSI
6 6 (1.77%) NUnit
6 6 (1.77%) Postman
7 3 (0.88%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.88%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.59%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.59%) JMeter
8 2 (0.59%) Maven
8 2 (0.59%) MLflow
9 1 (0.29%) Codeship
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.29%) Spock
9 1 (0.29%) Vite
General
1 96 (28.32%) Social Skills
2 39 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (10.03%) Finance
4 31 (9.14%) Games
5 30 (8.85%) Public Sector
6 17 (5.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.54%) Pharmaceutical
8 9 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.36%) Retail
10 7 (2.06%) Front Office
11 6 (1.77%) Banking
11 6 (1.77%) Law
11 6 (1.77%) Legal
11 6 (1.77%) Marketing
12 5 (1.47%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.88%) Digital Health
13 3 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.88%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.29%) Advertising
14 1 (0.29%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 118 (34.81%) Developer
2 101 (29.79%) Senior
3 62 (18.29%) Lead
4 61 (17.99%) Architect
5 40 (11.80%) Software Engineer
6 34 (10.03%) Senior Developer
7 29 (8.55%) Python Engineer
8 27 (7.96%) Solutions Architect
9 24 (7.08%) Technical Leader
10 22 (6.49%) Full-Stack Developer
10 22 (6.49%) Python Developer
11 18 (5.31%) Senior Python Developer
12 16 (4.72%) .NET Developer
12 16 (4.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 16 (4.72%) Lead Developer
12 16 (4.72%) Senior Software Engineer
12 16 (4.72%) Software Developer
13 15 (4.42%) Integration Architect
13 15 (4.42%) Ruby Developer
14 14 (4.13%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (42.18%) RESTful
2 76 (22.42%) REST
3 61 (17.99%) .NET
4 56 (16.52%) Node.js
5 52 (15.34%) Spring
6 51 (15.04%) Spring Boot
7 48 (14.16%) React
8 40 (11.80%) OAuth
9 39 (11.50%) Kafka
10 38 (11.21%) OAuth2
11 36 (10.62%) JWT
12 33 (9.73%) JSON
13 29 (8.55%) RabbitMQ
14 26 (7.67%) .NET Core
14 26 (7.67%) AngularJS
15 23 (6.78%) OpenAPI
16 22 (6.49%) Swagger
17 21 (6.19%) FastAPI
17 21 (6.19%) HTML
18 19 (5.60%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 118 (34.81%) Cloud Native
2 79 (23.30%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (10.91%) Low-Code
4 31 (9.14%) Product Ownership
4 31 (9.14%) Video\Live Streaming
5 24 (7.08%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.83%) Mobile App
7 12 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.95%) Data Centre
8 10 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.65%) Legacy Applications
9 9 (2.65%) Marketing Technology
9 9 (2.65%) Virtual Team
10 7 (2.06%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.77%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (1.77%) Fixed Income
11 6 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.47%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.47%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.18%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.83%) Linux
2 9 (2.65%) Windows
3 2 (0.59%) Android
3 2 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (58.70%) CI/CD
2 130 (38.35%) Software Engineering
3 128 (37.76%) Agile
4 127 (37.46%) AI
5 125 (36.87%) Microservices
6 116 (34.22%) Containerisation
6 116 (34.22%) DevOps
7 107 (31.56%) Event-Driven
8 103 (30.38%) Full-Stack Development
9 102 (30.09%) Test Automation
10 85 (25.07%) Infrastructure as Code
11 81 (23.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 78 (23.01%) Mentoring
13 77 (22.71%) Integration Patterns
14 74 (21.83%) Observability
15 60 (17.70%) API Integration
16 54 (15.93%) Roadmaps
17 50 (14.75%) Validation
18 49 (14.45%) Data Modelling
19 48 (14.16%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 143 (42.18%) Python
2 81 (23.89%) Java
3 65 (19.17%) JavaScript
3 65 (19.17%) TypeScript
4 60 (17.70%) C#
5 58 (17.11%) SQL
6 35 (10.32%) Go
7 19 (5.60%) Ruby
8 15 (4.42%) Bicep
9 8 (2.36%) PHP
10 5 (1.47%) VB.NET
11 4 (1.18%) C++
11 4 (1.18%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.18%) Rust
11 4 (1.18%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.59%) C
12 2 (0.59%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.59%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.59%) VB
13 1 (0.29%) R
Qualifications
1 43 (12.68%) Degree
2 36 (10.62%) Security Cleared
3 30 (8.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (5.90%) SC Cleared
5 10 (2.95%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.77%) CISSP
7 5 (1.47%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.18%) MBA
9 2 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.59%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.59%) CCSP
9 2 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (12.09%) QA
2 13 (3.83%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.65%) GDPR
4 8 (2.36%) NCSC
5 6 (1.77%) WCAG
6 5 (1.47%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.29%) HL7
8 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 128 (37.76%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 88 (25.96%) Kubernetes
2 38 (11.21%) Terraform
3 11 (3.24%) Prometheus
4 9 (2.65%) Grafana
4 9 (2.65%) Puppet
5 6 (1.77%) Progress Chef
6 5 (1.47%) Ansible
7 3 (0.88%) Podman
8 2 (0.59%) Kibana
9 1 (0.29%) Nagios
Vendors
1 49 (14.45%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.01%) Google
2 17 (5.01%) OpenAI
3 16 (4.72%) SAP
4 13 (3.83%) SendGrid
5 10 (2.95%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.65%) Adobe
6 9 (2.65%) MuleSoft
7 8 (2.36%) Splunk
8 7 (2.06%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.77%) Databricks
9 6 (1.77%) Oracle
10 5 (1.47%) Workday
11 4 (1.18%) DevExpress
11 4 (1.18%) Pega
12 3 (0.88%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.88%) NVIDIA
12 3 (0.88%) Tenable
13 2 (0.59%) Concur
13 2 (0.59%) IFS