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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 566 659
Rank change year-on-year +97 +93 -146
Permanent jobs citing API Design 354 132 157
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.26% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.30% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 243 97 108
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £61,625 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -8.93%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,700 £103,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +20.00% -7.59%

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 78,044 44,596 67,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.46% 89.30% 81.10%
Number of salaries quoted 53,720 25,240 43,624
10th Percentile £30,773 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,237 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,773 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.13% -4.45% -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 13 August 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 13 August 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 +71 315 £75,000 -3.23% 229
UK excluding London -4 171 £70,000 -6.67% 77
London +54 161 £77,500 -3.13% 172
Work from Home +69 136 £75,000 - 84
North of England -12 49 £70,000 -16.67% 25
North West +21 35 £80,000 +39.13% 14
Midlands -18 31 £65,000 +8.33% 4
South West -34 29 £57,500 -8.00% 11
South East -11 25 £60,000 - 17
West Midlands -12 22 £65,000 +8.33% 3
Wales -43 18 £58,750 +9.81% 1
East of England -26 17 £72,500 -14.71% 7
East Midlands -23 9 £70,000 +16.67% 1
Yorkshire -19 8 £55,000 -41.88% 9
North East - 6 £66,000 - 2
Scotland +15 1 £140,000 - 10
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 7 (1.98%) Camunda
1 7 (1.98%) Confluence
2 5 (1.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.56%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (2.26%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.56%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 4 (1.13%) SAP ERP
2 3 (0.85%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 192 (54.24%) AWS
2 180 (50.85%) Azure
3 58 (16.38%) GCP
4 51 (14.41%) GitHub
5 37 (10.45%) Serverless
6 36 (10.17%) Azure Service Bus
7 28 (7.91%) SaaS
8 25 (7.06%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (6.50%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (5.65%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (5.37%) Azure Key Vault
11 19 (5.37%) Azure Monitor
12 17 (4.80%) Amazon ECS
12 17 (4.80%) Amazon S3
13 16 (4.52%) Amazon EKS
13 16 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (4.52%) GitHub Copilot
14 15 (4.24%) Anthropic Claude
15 13 (3.67%) Azure Storage
15 13 (3.67%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (10.17%) Broadband
2 16 (4.52%) MQTT
3 13 (3.67%) DMARC
4 3 (0.85%) Network Security
5 2 (0.56%) HTTP
5 2 (0.56%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.28%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (29.10%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (15.54%) MongoDB
3 41 (11.58%) MySQL
4 39 (11.02%) Redis
5 32 (9.04%) Relational Database
6 17 (4.80%) SQL Server
7 16 (4.52%) NoSQL
8 11 (3.11%) DynamoDB
9 9 (2.54%) Geospatial Data
10 7 (1.98%) MariaDB
11 6 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.13%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.13%) Delta Lake
13 3 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
14 1 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database
14 1 (0.28%) Oracle Exadata
14 1 (0.28%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 41 (11.58%) Git
2 29 (8.19%) Claude Code
3 16 (4.52%) JIRA
4 13 (3.67%) JUnit
5 11 (3.11%) GitLab
5 11 (3.11%) Mockito
6 9 (2.54%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.98%) MSI
8 6 (1.69%) NUnit
9 3 (0.85%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.85%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.85%) Maven
9 3 (0.85%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.56%) JMeter
10 2 (0.56%) MLflow
10 2 (0.56%) Postman
10 2 (0.56%) Spock
11 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.28%) Mocha
11 1 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
General
1 100 (28.25%) Social Skills
2 44 (12.43%) Finance
3 37 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (9.60%) Public Sector
5 31 (8.76%) Games
6 24 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.39%) Pharmaceutical
8 11 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (3.11%) Marketing
9 9 (2.54%) Banking
9 9 (2.54%) Retail
10 6 (1.69%) Front Office
10 6 (1.69%) Legal
11 5 (1.41%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.13%) Law
12 4 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.85%) Digital Health
13 3 (0.85%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.85%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 120 (33.90%) Developer
2 107 (30.23%) Senior
3 66 (18.64%) Architect
3 66 (18.64%) Lead
4 48 (13.56%) Software Engineer
5 35 (9.89%) Senior Developer
6 32 (9.04%) Python Engineer
6 32 (9.04%) Solutions Architect
7 25 (7.06%) Technical Leader
8 23 (6.50%) Python Developer
9 19 (5.37%) Full-Stack Developer
9 19 (5.37%) Senior Software Engineer
10 18 (5.08%) Senior Python Developer
11 17 (4.80%) .NET Developer
11 17 (4.80%) Ruby Developer
12 16 (4.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 16 (4.52%) Lead Developer
13 15 (4.24%) Senior Architect
13 15 (4.24%) Software Developer
14 14 (3.95%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (41.53%) RESTful
2 79 (22.32%) REST
3 62 (17.51%) .NET
4 56 (15.82%) Spring
5 51 (14.41%) Spring Boot
6 50 (14.12%) Node.js
7 44 (12.43%) React
8 43 (12.15%) Kafka
9 40 (11.30%) OAuth
10 38 (10.73%) JWT
10 38 (10.73%) OAuth2
11 33 (9.32%) RabbitMQ
12 31 (8.76%) JSON
13 26 (7.34%) .NET Core
13 26 (7.34%) AngularJS
14 25 (7.06%) FastAPI
14 25 (7.06%) OpenAPI
14 25 (7.06%) Swagger
15 20 (5.65%) HTML
15 20 (5.65%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 121 (34.18%) Cloud Native
2 82 (23.16%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (9.60%) Low-Code
4 32 (9.04%) Product Ownership
5 31 (8.76%) Video\Live Streaming
6 28 (7.91%) Onboarding
7 15 (4.24%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (3.67%) Mobile App
9 11 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (3.11%) Virtual Team
10 10 (2.82%) Data Centre
10 10 (2.82%) Legacy Applications
11 9 (2.54%) AI Agents
11 9 (2.54%) Marketing Technology
12 7 (1.98%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
13 6 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (1.41%) Fixed Income
14 5 (1.41%) Public Cloud
15 4 (1.13%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.11%) Linux
1 11 (3.11%) Windows
2 3 (0.85%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.56%) Android
3 2 (0.56%) VMS
4 1 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (57.91%) CI/CD
2 142 (40.11%) Agile
3 139 (39.27%) AI
4 134 (37.85%) Microservices
4 134 (37.85%) Software Engineering
5 120 (33.90%) Containerisation
6 115 (32.49%) DevOps
7 114 (32.20%) Event-Driven
8 104 (29.38%) Test Automation
9 98 (27.68%) Full-Stack Development
10 88 (24.86%) Infrastructure as Code
11 84 (23.73%) Continuous Improvement
12 79 (22.32%) Integration Patterns
13 77 (21.75%) Mentoring
14 76 (21.47%) Observability
15 59 (16.67%) API Integration
16 57 (16.10%) Roadmaps
17 55 (15.54%) Validation
18 51 (14.41%) Machine Learning
19 50 (14.12%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 149 (42.09%) Python
2 89 (25.14%) Java
3 63 (17.80%) TypeScript
4 61 (17.23%) C#
5 60 (16.95%) JavaScript
6 59 (16.67%) SQL
7 35 (9.89%) Go
8 21 (5.93%) Ruby
9 16 (4.52%) Bicep
10 6 (1.69%) VB.NET
11 5 (1.41%) PHP
12 4 (1.13%) C++
12 4 (1.13%) Rust
12 4 (1.13%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.85%) VB
14 2 (0.56%) C
14 2 (0.56%) Groovy
14 2 (0.56%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.56%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.28%) Swift
Qualifications
1 41 (11.58%) Degree
2 36 (10.17%) Security Cleared
3 27 (7.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (6.21%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.26%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.69%) CISSP
7 5 (1.41%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.13%) MBA
9 2 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.56%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.56%) CCSP
9 2 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (12.43%) QA
2 15 (4.24%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.54%) GDPR
3 9 (2.54%) NCSC
4 7 (1.98%) WCAG
5 4 (1.13%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.28%) HL7
7 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 135 (38.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 97 (27.40%) Kubernetes
2 41 (11.58%) Terraform
3 15 (4.24%) Prometheus
4 13 (3.67%) Grafana
5 9 (2.54%) Puppet
6 6 (1.69%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.41%) Ansible
8 3 (0.85%) Podman
9 2 (0.56%) Kibana
10 1 (0.28%) Nagios
Vendors
1 44 (12.43%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.08%) SAP
3 17 (4.80%) Google
3 17 (4.80%) OpenAI
4 13 (3.67%) SendGrid
4 13 (3.67%) Splunk
5 12 (3.39%) Salesforce
6 11 (3.11%) MuleSoft
7 9 (2.54%) Adobe
7 9 (2.54%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.98%) Oracle
9 6 (1.69%) Databricks
10 4 (1.13%) DevExpress
10 4 (1.13%) Workday
11 3 (0.85%) IFS
11 3 (0.85%) NVIDIA
11 3 (0.85%) Tenable
12 2 (0.56%) Concur
12 2 (0.56%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.56%) Jitterbit