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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 450 526 666
Rank change year-on-year +76 +140 -105
Permanent jobs citing API Design 337 160 229
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.33% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.37% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 231 117 174
10th Percentile £48,000 £52,200 £37,500
25th Percentile £59,375 £60,000 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £76,875
90th Percentile £95,000 £116,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 71,935 43,736 84,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.79% 90.86% 82.47%
Number of salaries quoted 49,710 24,302 59,641
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,068 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.14% - -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 8 July 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 8 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 +61 303 £75,000 -3.23% 118
UK excluding London -3 168 £67,500 -10.00% 69
London +71 147 £77,500 -3.13% 76
Work from Home +50 135 £75,000 - 77
North of England -15 54 £70,000 -2.77% 13
North West +15 38 £75,000 +30.43% 8
South West -40 33 £47,500 -44.28% 10
Midlands -8 27 £68,750 +14.58% 7
South East -29 22 £60,000 -2.04% 24
West Midlands -3 18 £67,500 +12.50% 3
East of England -26 17 £72,500 -14.71% 4
Wales -39 14 £57,500 +7.48% 4
Yorkshire -28 13 £62,500 -24.98% 4
East Midlands -21 9 £70,000 +7.69% 4
North East - 3 £85,000 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3

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 (1.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (1.19%) Camunda
2 4 (1.19%) CMS
2 4 (1.19%) Confluence
3 2 (0.59%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (0.59%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.30%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Lightworks
1 2 (0.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.48%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.30%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 184 (54.60%) AWS
2 172 (51.04%) Azure
3 44 (13.06%) GCP
4 42 (12.46%) Serverless
5 41 (12.17%) GitHub
6 29 (8.61%) Azure Service Bus
7 27 (8.01%) SaaS
8 20 (5.93%) Amazon S3
8 20 (5.93%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (5.64%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (5.64%) Azure Key Vault
9 19 (5.64%) Azure Monitor
10 17 (5.04%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (4.75%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (4.45%) Amazon ECS
13 14 (4.15%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (4.15%) Azure Storage
14 10 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (2.97%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 36 (10.68%) Broadband
2 13 (3.86%) DMARC
3 11 (3.26%) MQTT
4 3 (0.89%) Network Security
5 2 (0.59%) HTTP
5 2 (0.59%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (24.93%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (14.84%) MongoDB
3 38 (11.28%) MySQL
4 29 (8.61%) Redis
5 24 (7.12%) Relational Database
6 16 (4.75%) NoSQL
7 15 (4.45%) DynamoDB
8 13 (3.86%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.37%) MariaDB
10 6 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.78%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.19%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.19%) Power BI
12 3 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.59%) Metadata
13 2 (0.59%) TimescaleDB
14 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 32 (9.50%) Git
2 21 (6.23%) Claude Code
3 13 (3.86%) JIRA
4 11 (3.26%) Postman
5 10 (2.97%) GitLab
6 9 (2.67%) JUnit
7 8 (2.37%) Mockito
8 6 (1.78%) Jenkins
8 6 (1.78%) NUnit
9 4 (1.19%) Maven
9 4 (1.19%) MSI
10 3 (0.89%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.89%) Gradle
10 3 (0.89%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.59%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.59%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.59%) JMeter
11 2 (0.59%) MLflow
12 1 (0.30%) Mocha
12 1 (0.30%) Oracle APEX
General
1 97 (28.78%) Social Skills
2 42 (12.46%) Finance
3 36 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (9.20%) Games
5 27 (8.01%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.56%) Law
8 10 (2.97%) Pharmaceutical
9 8 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.37%) Front Office
10 7 (2.08%) Legal
10 7 (2.08%) Retail
11 6 (1.78%) Banking
11 6 (1.78%) Marketing
12 5 (1.48%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.89%) Digital Health
13 3 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.89%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.59%) Advertising
15 1 (0.30%) Billing
Job Titles
1 117 (34.72%) Developer
2 91 (27.00%) Senior
3 60 (17.80%) Architect
4 55 (16.32%) Lead
5 43 (12.76%) Software Engineer
6 30 (8.90%) Senior Developer
7 27 (8.01%) Solutions Architect
8 23 (6.82%) Full-Stack Developer
9 22 (6.53%) Python Engineer
9 22 (6.53%) Technical Leader
10 20 (5.93%) Python Developer
11 16 (4.75%) Lead Developer
11 16 (4.75%) Senior Python Developer
11 16 (4.75%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (4.45%) .NET Developer
12 15 (4.45%) Software Developer
13 14 (4.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 14 (4.15%) Integration Architect
13 14 (4.15%) Senior Architect
14 13 (3.86%) Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (43.32%) RESTful
2 72 (21.36%) REST
3 59 (17.51%) Node.js
3 59 (17.51%) React
4 56 (16.62%) .NET
5 51 (15.13%) Spring
6 49 (14.54%) Spring Boot
7 36 (10.68%) OAuth
8 34 (10.09%) Kafka
8 34 (10.09%) OAuth2
9 32 (9.50%) JSON
10 30 (8.90%) JWT
11 26 (7.72%) AngularJS
11 26 (7.72%) OpenAPI
12 24 (7.12%) .NET Core
12 24 (7.12%) RabbitMQ
12 24 (7.12%) Swagger
13 19 (5.64%) HTML
14 17 (5.04%) CSS
15 16 (4.75%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 109 (32.34%) Cloud Native
2 72 (21.36%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (11.28%) Low-Code
4 31 (9.20%) Video\Live Streaming
5 29 (8.61%) Product Ownership
6 20 (5.93%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.56%) Mobile App
8 10 (2.97%) Data Structures
9 8 (2.37%) Data Centre
9 8 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.37%) Marketing Technology
9 8 (2.37%) Virtual Team
10 7 (2.08%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (2.08%) Fixed Income
10 7 (2.08%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (1.48%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.86%) Linux
2 6 (1.78%) Windows
3 3 (0.89%) Android
3 3 (0.89%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (56.68%) CI/CD
2 129 (38.28%) Software Engineering
3 124 (36.80%) Microservices
4 123 (36.50%) Agile
5 119 (35.31%) AI
6 117 (34.72%) DevOps
7 106 (31.45%) Containerisation
8 103 (30.56%) Test Automation
9 100 (29.67%) Full-Stack Development
10 94 (27.89%) Event-Driven
11 85 (25.22%) Infrastructure as Code
12 84 (24.93%) Continuous Improvement
13 76 (22.55%) Integration Patterns
13 76 (22.55%) Observability
14 72 (21.36%) Mentoring
15 61 (18.10%) API Integration
16 51 (15.13%) Data Modelling
17 50 (14.84%) Roadmaps
18 49 (14.54%) Machine Learning
18 49 (14.54%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 141 (41.84%) Python
2 81 (24.04%) Java
3 69 (20.47%) JavaScript
4 66 (19.58%) TypeScript
5 58 (17.21%) SQL
6 55 (16.32%) C#
7 34 (10.09%) Go
8 17 (5.04%) Ruby
9 12 (3.56%) Bicep
10 9 (2.67%) PHP
11 5 (1.48%) C++
12 4 (1.19%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.19%) Rust
12 4 (1.19%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.19%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.89%) C
14 2 (0.59%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.59%) R
14 2 (0.59%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.30%) Bash
Qualifications
1 45 (13.35%) Degree
2 42 (12.46%) Security Cleared
3 32 (9.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (5.93%) SC Cleared
5 9 (2.67%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.37%) CISSP
7 5 (1.48%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.89%) 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 (0.30%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (12.17%) QA
2 11 (3.26%) Accessibility
2 11 (3.26%) GDPR
3 7 (2.08%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.78%) NCSC
5 4 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.19%) WCAG
6 1 (0.30%) HL7
6 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 117 (34.72%) Docker
2 6 (1.78%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 81 (24.04%) Kubernetes
2 37 (10.98%) Terraform
3 9 (2.67%) Prometheus
4 7 (2.08%) Grafana
4 7 (2.08%) Puppet
5 5 (1.48%) Ansible
6 4 (1.19%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.89%) Podman
8 2 (0.59%) Kibana
8 2 (0.59%) Nagios
9 1 (0.30%) Istio
Vendors
1 50 (14.84%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.04%) Google
3 15 (4.45%) OpenAI
4 14 (4.15%) SAP
5 13 (3.86%) SendGrid
6 8 (2.37%) Adobe
6 8 (2.37%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.08%) Atlassian
7 7 (2.08%) Databricks
7 7 (2.08%) MuleSoft
7 7 (2.08%) Oracle
8 6 (1.78%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.78%) Splunk
9 5 (1.48%) Pega
9 5 (1.48%) Workday
10 4 (1.19%) DevExpress
10 4 (1.19%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.89%) Foundry
11 3 (0.89%) NVIDIA
11 3 (0.89%) Tenable