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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 452 498 668
Rank change year-on-year +46 +170 -82
Permanent jobs citing API Design 296 162 246
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.36% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.39% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 206 118 191
10th Percentile £47,930 £52,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +24.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £78,125
90th Percentile £95,000 £116,125 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +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 68,162 41,264 88,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.90% 92.57% 81.89%
Number of salaries quoted 46,887 22,044 62,842
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,607
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £91,991
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 17 June 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 17 June 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 +41 271 £73,750 -7.81% 266
UK excluding London -21 150 £65,000 -13.33% 267
London +39 130 £77,500 -3.13% 68
Work from Home +51 126 £75,000 - 254
North of England -10 48 £68,750 -27.35% 60
North West +23 35 £75,000 -19.35% 32
South West -39 30 £42,500 -50.15% 23
Midlands -4 25 £70,000 +16.67% 23
South East -21 19 £60,000 -4.00% 63
West Midlands -7 16 £70,000 +16.67% 10
East of England -17 16 £72,500 -14.71% 36
Yorkshire -45 12 £62,500 -33.96% 18
Wales - 11 £57,500 - 18
East Midlands -23 9 £70,000 +7.69% 13
North East - 1 £45,000 - 10
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 18

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 (1.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (1.35%) CMS
3 3 (1.01%) Confluence
4 2 (0.68%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.34%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.34%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 5 (1.69%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.68%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.34%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 161 (54.39%) AWS
2 156 (52.70%) Azure
3 39 (13.18%) Serverless
4 37 (12.50%) GitHub
5 35 (11.82%) GCP
6 25 (8.45%) Azure Service Bus
7 24 (8.11%) SaaS
8 19 (6.42%) Amazon S3
8 19 (6.42%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (5.74%) Azure Key Vault
9 17 (5.74%) Azure Logic Apps
10 16 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (4.05%) Azure Storage
13 11 (3.72%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (3.72%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (3.38%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (3.38%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (3.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 35 (11.82%) Broadband
2 11 (3.72%) DMARC
3 8 (2.70%) MQTT
4 3 (1.01%) Network Security
5 1 (0.34%) HTTP
5 1 (0.34%) Internet
5 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (24.66%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (15.54%) MongoDB
3 26 (8.78%) MySQL
4 22 (7.43%) Redis
5 16 (5.41%) Relational Database
6 14 (4.73%) DynamoDB
6 14 (4.73%) NoSQL
7 12 (4.05%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.70%) MariaDB
9 6 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.69%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.35%) Power BI
12 3 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.01%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.68%) Metadata
13 2 (0.68%) TimescaleDB
14 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 26 (8.78%) Git
2 14 (4.73%) Postman
3 12 (4.05%) Claude Code
4 11 (3.72%) JIRA
5 8 (2.70%) GitLab
6 5 (1.69%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.69%) JUnit
6 5 (1.69%) Mockito
6 5 (1.69%) NUnit
7 3 (1.01%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.01%) Gradle
7 3 (1.01%) Maven
7 3 (1.01%) MSI
7 3 (1.01%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.68%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.68%) JMeter
9 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.34%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.34%) SpecFlow
General
1 90 (30.41%) Social Skills
2 39 (13.18%) Finance
3 32 (10.81%) Games
4 31 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.77%) Public Sector
6 16 (5.41%) Law
7 12 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.70%) Front Office
8 8 (2.70%) Retail
9 7 (2.36%) Legal
10 6 (2.03%) Marketing
11 4 (1.35%) Banking
12 3 (1.01%) Digital Health
12 3 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.01%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.68%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.34%) Billing
14 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 109 (36.82%) Developer
2 79 (26.69%) Senior
3 54 (18.24%) Architect
4 45 (15.20%) Lead
5 37 (12.50%) Software Engineer
6 27 (9.12%) Senior Developer
7 23 (7.77%) Solutions Architect
8 21 (7.09%) Full-Stack Developer
9 19 (6.42%) Python Developer
10 16 (5.41%) .NET Developer
10 16 (5.41%) Lead Developer
10 16 (5.41%) Technical Leader
11 15 (5.07%) Senior Python Developer
11 15 (5.07%) Senior Software Engineer
12 14 (4.73%) Analyst
12 14 (4.73%) Python Engineer
12 14 (4.73%) Senior Architect
12 14 (4.73%) Software Developer
13 13 (4.39%) Data Analyst
13 13 (4.39%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (46.28%) RESTful
2 65 (21.96%) REST
3 51 (17.23%) Node.js
4 50 (16.89%) .NET
4 50 (16.89%) React
5 43 (14.53%) Spring
6 42 (14.19%) Spring Boot
7 34 (11.49%) OAuth
8 31 (10.47%) OAuth2
9 30 (10.14%) JSON
10 28 (9.46%) OpenAPI
11 27 (9.12%) Kafka
12 26 (8.78%) Swagger
13 25 (8.45%) JWT
14 22 (7.43%) .NET Core
14 22 (7.43%) AngularJS
15 20 (6.76%) RabbitMQ
16 19 (6.42%) HTML
17 17 (5.74%) CSS
18 13 (4.39%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 96 (32.43%) Cloud Native
2 59 (19.93%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (13.18%) Low-Code
4 31 (10.47%) Video\Live Streaming
5 27 (9.12%) Product Ownership
6 15 (5.07%) Onboarding
7 14 (4.73%) Data Structures
8 10 (3.38%) Mobile App
9 7 (2.36%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.36%) Fixed Income
9 7 (2.36%) Management Information System
10 6 (2.03%) Marketing Technology
10 6 (2.03%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.69%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.35%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.35%) PropTech
13 3 (1.01%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.38%) Linux
2 5 (1.69%) Windows
3 3 (1.01%) Android
3 3 (1.01%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (56.42%) CI/CD
2 110 (37.16%) Software Engineering
3 103 (34.80%) Microservices
4 102 (34.46%) Agile
5 98 (33.11%) Test Automation
6 97 (32.77%) AI
6 97 (32.77%) DevOps
7 90 (30.41%) Full-Stack Development
8 88 (29.73%) Containerisation
9 81 (27.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 79 (26.69%) Event-Driven
11 78 (26.35%) Infrastructure as Code
12 70 (23.65%) Integration Patterns
13 67 (22.64%) Observability
14 61 (20.61%) API Integration
15 58 (19.59%) Mentoring
16 48 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
16 48 (16.22%) Validation
17 47 (15.88%) Machine Learning
18 44 (14.86%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 122 (41.22%) Python
2 69 (23.31%) Java
3 65 (21.96%) JavaScript
4 56 (18.92%) SQL
5 54 (18.24%) TypeScript
6 51 (17.23%) C#
7 32 (10.81%) Go
8 14 (4.73%) Ruby
9 10 (3.38%) Bicep
10 9 (3.04%) PHP
11 6 (2.03%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.35%) Rust
12 4 (1.35%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.01%) C
13 3 (1.01%) C++
13 3 (1.01%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.01%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.68%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.68%) ActionScript 2.0
14 2 (0.68%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 42 (14.19%) Degree
2 36 (12.16%) Security Cleared
3 31 (10.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (6.08%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.70%) CISSP
6 6 (2.03%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.69%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.68%) CCSP
8 2 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.34%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.34%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (12.84%) QA
2 11 (3.72%) GDPR
3 10 (3.38%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.36%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.69%) NCSC
6 4 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.35%) WCAG
7 1 (0.34%) HL7
7 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 90 (30.41%) Docker
2 6 (2.03%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 68 (22.97%) Kubernetes
2 31 (10.47%) Terraform
3 7 (2.36%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.69%) Ansible
4 5 (1.69%) Grafana
5 3 (1.01%) Podman
5 3 (1.01%) Puppet
6 2 (0.68%) Kibana
6 2 (0.68%) Nagios
7 1 (0.34%) Istio
Vendors
1 47 (15.88%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.07%) SAP
3 13 (4.39%) Google
4 12 (4.05%) SendGrid
5 9 (3.04%) OpenAI
5 9 (3.04%) Oracle
6 7 (2.36%) Atlassian
6 7 (2.36%) MuleSoft
7 6 (2.03%) Adobe
7 6 (2.03%) Pega
7 6 (2.03%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.69%) Databricks
8 5 (1.69%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.69%) Workday
9 4 (1.35%) DevExpress
9 4 (1.35%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.01%) Foundry
10 3 (1.01%) NVIDIA
10 3 (1.01%) Splunk
10 3 (1.01%) Tenable