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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 450 515 658
Rank change year-on-year +65 +143 -96
Permanent jobs citing API Design 343 160 228
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.33% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.36% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 234 117 173
10th Percentile £48,225 £52,200 £37,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,750 £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 72,161 44,144 84,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.86% 90.58% 82.41%
Number of salaries quoted 49,802 24,628 59,539
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 £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 9 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 9 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 +80 308 £75,000 -3.23% 98
UK excluding London -12 168 £67,500 -10.00% 60
London +84 152 £77,500 -3.13% 62
Work from Home +48 136 £75,000 - 42
North of England -10 54 £70,000 -2.77% 13
North West +20 38 £75,000 +30.43% 8
South West -43 33 £47,500 -44.28% 6
Midlands -13 27 £68,750 +14.58% 6
South East -39 22 £60,000 -2.04% 22
West Midlands -11 18 £67,500 +12.50% 3
East of England -19 17 £72,500 -14.71% 3
Wales -36 14 £57,500 +7.48% 4
Yorkshire -34 13 £62,500 -24.98% 4
East Midlands -24 9 £70,000 +7.69% 3
North East - 3 £85,000 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

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 (1.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (1.17%) Camunda
2 4 (1.17%) CMS
2 4 (1.17%) Confluence
3 2 (0.58%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (0.58%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.29%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Lightworks
1 2 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.46%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.29%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 189 (55.10%) AWS
2 171 (49.85%) Azure
3 47 (13.70%) GCP
4 43 (12.54%) Serverless
5 42 (12.24%) GitHub
6 29 (8.45%) Azure Service Bus
7 27 (7.87%) SaaS
8 20 (5.83%) Amazon S3
8 20 (5.83%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (5.54%) Azure Key Vault
9 19 (5.54%) Azure Monitor
10 18 (5.25%) Amazon EKS
11 17 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (4.66%) Amazon ECS
12 16 (4.66%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (4.08%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (4.08%) Azure Storage
14 10 (2.92%) GitHub Copilot
14 10 (2.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 36 (10.50%) Broadband
2 13 (3.79%) DMARC
3 11 (3.21%) MQTT
4 3 (0.87%) Network Security
5 2 (0.58%) HTTP
5 2 (0.58%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (25.07%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (14.58%) MongoDB
3 40 (11.66%) MySQL
4 32 (9.33%) Redis
5 26 (7.58%) Relational Database
6 16 (4.66%) NoSQL
7 15 (4.37%) DynamoDB
8 13 (3.79%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.33%) MariaDB
10 6 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.75%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.17%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.17%) Power BI
12 3 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.58%) Metadata
13 2 (0.58%) TimescaleDB
14 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 32 (9.33%) Git
2 24 (7.00%) Claude Code
3 13 (3.79%) JIRA
4 10 (2.92%) GitLab
4 10 (2.92%) Postman
5 9 (2.62%) JUnit
6 8 (2.33%) Mockito
7 6 (1.75%) Jenkins
7 6 (1.75%) NUnit
8 4 (1.17%) Maven
8 4 (1.17%) MSI
9 3 (0.87%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.87%) Gradle
9 3 (0.87%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.58%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.58%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.58%) JMeter
10 2 (0.58%) MLflow
11 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.29%) Oracle APEX
General
1 98 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 42 (12.24%) Finance
3 36 (10.50%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (9.04%) Games
5 27 (7.87%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.50%) Pharmaceutical
8 11 (3.21%) Law
9 8 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.33%) Front Office
10 7 (2.04%) Legal
10 7 (2.04%) Retail
11 6 (1.75%) Banking
11 6 (1.75%) Marketing
12 5 (1.46%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.87%) Digital Health
13 3 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.87%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.58%) Advertising
15 1 (0.29%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 117 (34.11%) Developer
2 96 (27.99%) Senior
3 61 (17.78%) Architect
4 57 (16.62%) Lead
5 44 (12.83%) Software Engineer
6 30 (8.75%) Senior Developer
7 27 (7.87%) Solutions Architect
8 25 (7.29%) Python Engineer
9 23 (6.71%) Full-Stack Developer
10 22 (6.41%) Technical Leader
11 20 (5.83%) Python Developer
12 17 (4.96%) Senior Software Engineer
13 16 (4.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 16 (4.66%) Lead Developer
13 16 (4.66%) Senior Python Developer
14 15 (4.37%) .NET Developer
14 15 (4.37%) Senior Architect
14 15 (4.37%) Software Developer
15 14 (4.08%) Integration Architect
16 13 (3.79%) Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (42.27%) RESTful
2 72 (20.99%) REST
3 61 (17.78%) React
4 60 (17.49%) Node.js
5 57 (16.62%) .NET
6 51 (14.87%) Spring
7 49 (14.29%) Spring Boot
8 36 (10.50%) OAuth
9 34 (9.91%) Kafka
9 34 (9.91%) OAuth2
10 32 (9.33%) JSON
11 30 (8.75%) JWT
12 27 (7.87%) AngularJS
13 25 (7.29%) OpenAPI
14 24 (7.00%) .NET Core
14 24 (7.00%) RabbitMQ
15 23 (6.71%) Swagger
16 19 (5.54%) HTML
17 17 (4.96%) CSS
17 17 (4.96%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 111 (32.36%) Cloud Native
2 72 (20.99%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (11.08%) Low-Code
4 31 (9.04%) Video\Live Streaming
5 29 (8.45%) Product Ownership
6 21 (6.12%) Onboarding
7 13 (3.79%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.62%) Data Centre
8 9 (2.62%) Data Structures
9 8 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.33%) Marketing Technology
9 8 (2.33%) Virtual Team
10 7 (2.04%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.04%) Fixed Income
10 7 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
10 7 (2.04%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (1.46%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.79%) Linux
2 6 (1.75%) Windows
3 3 (0.87%) Android
3 3 (0.87%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (56.56%) CI/CD
2 132 (38.48%) Software Engineering
3 125 (36.44%) Microservices
4 124 (36.15%) Agile
5 123 (35.86%) AI
6 117 (34.11%) DevOps
7 107 (31.20%) Containerisation
8 104 (30.32%) Test Automation
9 102 (29.74%) Full-Stack Development
10 98 (28.57%) Event-Driven
11 85 (24.78%) Infrastructure as Code
12 84 (24.49%) Continuous Improvement
13 77 (22.45%) Observability
14 76 (22.16%) Integration Patterns
15 73 (21.28%) Mentoring
16 60 (17.49%) API Integration
17 53 (15.45%) Data Modelling
18 51 (14.87%) Roadmaps
19 49 (14.29%) Machine Learning
19 49 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 145 (42.27%) Python
2 81 (23.62%) Java
3 69 (20.12%) JavaScript
4 68 (19.83%) TypeScript
5 58 (16.91%) SQL
6 56 (16.33%) C#
7 34 (9.91%) Go
8 17 (4.96%) Ruby
9 12 (3.50%) Bicep
10 9 (2.62%) PHP
11 5 (1.46%) C++
12 4 (1.17%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.17%) Rust
12 4 (1.17%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.17%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.87%) C
14 2 (0.58%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.58%) R
14 2 (0.58%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.29%) Lua
Qualifications
1 45 (13.12%) Degree
2 43 (12.54%) Security Cleared
3 32 (9.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (5.83%) SC Cleared
5 9 (2.62%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.33%) CISSP
7 5 (1.46%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.87%) MBA
9 2 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.58%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.58%) CCSP
9 2 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (11.95%) QA
2 11 (3.21%) Accessibility
2 11 (3.21%) GDPR
3 7 (2.04%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.75%) NCSC
5 4 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.17%) WCAG
6 1 (0.29%) HL7
6 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 120 (34.99%) Docker
2 6 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 82 (23.91%) Kubernetes
2 37 (10.79%) Terraform
3 9 (2.62%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.33%) Puppet
5 7 (2.04%) Grafana
6 5 (1.46%) Ansible
6 5 (1.46%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.87%) Podman
8 2 (0.58%) Kibana
8 2 (0.58%) Nagios
9 1 (0.29%) Istio
Vendors
1 50 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.96%) Google
3 15 (4.37%) OpenAI
4 14 (4.08%) SAP
5 13 (3.79%) SendGrid
6 8 (2.33%) Adobe
6 8 (2.33%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.04%) Atlassian
7 7 (2.04%) Databricks
7 7 (2.04%) MuleSoft
7 7 (2.04%) Oracle
8 6 (1.75%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.75%) Splunk
9 5 (1.46%) Pega
9 5 (1.46%) Workday
10 4 (1.17%) DevExpress
10 4 (1.17%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.87%) Foundry
11 3 (0.87%) NVIDIA
11 3 (0.87%) Tenable