API Design Job Trends

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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 626 468
Rank change year-on-year +110 -158 +71
Permanent jobs citing API Design 144 129 269
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.19% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.23% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 107 57 172
10th Percentile £52,500 £40,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -11.44% -16.97%
75th Percentile £105,000 £77,500 £89,852
90th Percentile £137,400 £92,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £62,500 £68,540
% change year-on-year +16.00% -8.81% -2.09%

All Process and 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 45,000 56,139 49,550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.91% 83.40% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,163 29,129 38,015
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,112 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,625 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -

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 17 November 2025.

Salary histogram for API Design in the UK

API Design
Top 15 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 17 November 2025. 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 +126 140 £75,000 +20.00% 218
London +94 74 £90,000 +24.14% 125
UK excluding London +90 64 £72,500 +16.00% 101
Work from Home +84 45 £75,000 +22.45% 123
North of England +58 25 £57,500 +4.55% 41
North West +60 16 £57,500 +4.55% 26
Midlands +70 13 £65,000 +15.56% 12
South East +18 9 £75,000 +17.65% 19
Yorkshire - 9 £75,000 - 9
South West +29 8 £62,500 -42.50% 7
East of England +22 7 £78,750 +10.53% 12
West Midlands +51 6 £72,500 +28.89% 9
East Midlands +23 5 £60,000 - 3
Wales +11 1 £53,500 +33.75%
Scotland -9 1 - - 4

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 (3.47%) Confluence
2 4 (2.78%) IIS
3 3 (2.08%) Apache Pulsar
3 3 (2.08%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.39%) CMS
5 1 (0.69%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.69%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.69%) Appian
5 1 (0.69%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (4.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.78%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.39%) Shopify
4 1 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 73 (50.69%) Azure
2 64 (44.44%) AWS
3 29 (20.14%) GCP
4 22 (15.28%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (13.89%) GitHub
6 19 (13.19%) Serverless
7 14 (9.72%) Power Platform
8 13 (9.03%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (8.33%) Azure Functions
9 12 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
10 11 (7.64%) Power Automate
11 8 (5.56%) Azure API Management
11 8 (5.56%) SaaS
12 7 (4.86%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (4.17%) Amazon S3
13 6 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (4.17%) PowerApps
14 5 (3.47%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (3.47%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (3.47%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.17%) Multicast
2 3 (2.08%) AMQP
2 3 (2.08%) HTTP
2 3 (2.08%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.08%) VPN
3 1 (0.69%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.89%) MySQL
2 14 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (9.72%) SQL Server
3 13 (9.03%) NoSQL
3 13 (9.03%) Relational Database
4 7 (4.86%) DynamoDB
4 7 (4.86%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.47%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (3.47%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (3.47%) Redis
6 4 (2.78%) Big Data
7 3 (2.08%) MariaDB
7 3 (2.08%) Power BI
8 2 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.39%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.69%) CockroachDB
9 1 (0.69%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.69%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.69%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 16 (11.11%) Git
2 7 (4.86%) Postman
3 6 (4.17%) NUnit
4 4 (2.78%) Jasmine
4 4 (2.78%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.08%) JIRA
5 3 (2.08%) JMeter
5 3 (2.08%) Selenium
5 3 (2.08%) Snyk
5 3 (2.08%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.39%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.39%) MSTest
7 1 (0.69%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.69%) GitLab
7 1 (0.69%) SpecFlow
General
1 40 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 37 (25.69%) Finance
3 20 (13.89%) Law
4 13 (9.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (8.33%) Marketing
6 10 (6.94%) Banking
6 10 (6.94%) Retail
7 9 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (4.86%) Legal
9 5 (3.47%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.78%) Games
10 4 (2.78%) Manufacturing
11 3 (2.08%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.39%) Advertising
12 2 (1.39%) Health Technology
12 2 (1.39%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.69%) Automotive
13 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.69%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 34 (23.61%) Developer
1 34 (23.61%) Senior
2 32 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 24 (16.67%) Architect
4 20 (13.89%) Lead
5 19 (13.19%) Solutions Architect
6 11 (7.64%) Senior Developer
7 10 (6.94%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (6.94%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (5.56%) .NET Developer
8 8 (5.56%) Database Engineer
8 8 (5.56%) Senior .NET Developer
9 7 (4.86%) Python Engineer
9 7 (4.86%) Security Engineer
10 6 (4.17%) AWS Architect
10 6 (4.17%) AWS Solution Architect
10 6 (4.17%) Azure Architect
10 6 (4.17%) Azure Developer
10 6 (4.17%) Payments Architect
10 6 (4.17%) Payments Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (29.17%) RESTful
2 38 (26.39%) React
3 35 (24.31%) REST
4 31 (21.53%) .NET
5 21 (14.58%) Node.js
5 21 (14.58%) OAuth
6 17 (11.81%) HTML
7 15 (10.42%) AngularJS
7 15 (10.42%) CSS
8 13 (9.03%) Django
9 12 (8.33%) ASP.NET
10 11 (7.64%) Kafka
10 11 (7.64%) Vue
11 10 (6.94%) .NET Core
11 10 (6.94%) FastAPI
11 10 (6.94%) OAuth2
11 10 (6.94%) OpenAPI
11 10 (6.94%) Swagger
12 9 (6.25%) GraphQL
12 9 (6.25%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 43 (29.86%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.42%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (9.03%) Algorithms
3 13 (9.03%) Data Structures
4 12 (8.33%) Management Information System
5 11 (7.64%) Product Ownership
6 9 (6.25%) Public Cloud
7 8 (5.56%) Private Cloud
8 6 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (3.47%) Low-Code
10 4 (2.78%) IoT
10 4 (2.78%) Online Games
10 4 (2.78%) Security Posture
11 3 (2.08%) AI Agents
11 3 (2.08%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (2.08%) Mobile App
12 2 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.56%) Unix
2 6 (4.17%) Linux
3 1 (0.69%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (46.53%) Agile
2 64 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 59 (40.97%) DevOps
4 45 (31.25%) Microservices
4 45 (31.25%) Software Engineering
5 36 (25.00%) AI
6 33 (22.92%) SDLC
7 30 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (20.83%) Test Automation
8 28 (19.44%) Roadmaps
9 25 (17.36%) API Development
10 24 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
10 24 (16.67%) Mentoring
11 21 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (13.19%) API Integration
12 19 (13.19%) Infrastructure as Code
12 19 (13.19%) TDD
13 16 (11.11%) API Management
13 16 (11.11%) Containerisation
13 16 (11.11%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 61 (42.36%) Python
2 44 (30.56%) SQL
3 35 (24.31%) C#
3 35 (24.31%) TypeScript
4 31 (21.53%) JavaScript
5 19 (13.19%) Java
6 9 (6.25%) Go
7 8 (5.56%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.86%) PHP
9 3 (2.08%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.39%) Bicep
10 2 (1.39%) C++
10 2 (1.39%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.69%) C
11 1 (0.69%) DataWeave
11 1 (0.69%) Groovy
11 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (13.19%) Degree
2 12 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.56%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (1.39%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.39%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.39%) MCP
6 1 (0.69%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.25%) QA
2 7 (4.86%) GDPR
3 6 (4.17%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.08%) WCAG
6 2 (1.39%) HL7
6 2 (1.39%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.69%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.69%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.69%) NIST
7 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.69%) SLA
7 1 (0.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (18.06%) Kubernetes
2 24 (16.67%) Terraform
3 11 (7.64%) Ansible
4 3 (2.08%) Grafana
5 2 (1.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 31 (21.53%) Microsoft
2 20 (13.89%) Google
3 10 (6.94%) Salesforce
4 7 (4.86%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.78%) MuleSoft
5 4 (2.78%) Rollbar
5 4 (2.78%) SAP
6 3 (2.08%) Checkmarx
6 3 (2.08%) Databricks
6 3 (2.08%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.08%) Ericsson
6 3 (2.08%) Foundry
6 3 (2.08%) Mavenir
6 3 (2.08%) Nokia
6 3 (2.08%) Oracle
6 3 (2.08%) Qualys
7 2 (1.39%) Adobe
7 2 (1.39%) Sybase
8 1 (0.69%) Palantir
8 1 (0.69%) Splunk