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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 561 658
Rank change year-on-year +87 +97 -137
Permanent jobs citing API Design 349 134 159
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.27% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.30% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 241 99 108
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £58,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £109,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £74,870 £60,653
% change year-on-year -6.50% +23.44% -10.32%

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 76,965 44,351 67,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.55% 89.45% 81.04%
Number of salaries quoted 53,101 25,205 44,372
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.82% -2.50% -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 6 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 6 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 +70 310 £75,000 -1.64% 220
UK excluding London 0 169 £70,000 -6.50% 69
London +56 158 £77,500 -4.62% 170
Work from Home +51 138 £75,000 - 80
North of England -4 50 £72,500 -3.33% 20
North West +20 36 £77,500 +34.78% 12
Midlands -18 30 £65,000 +8.33% 5
South West -39 29 £57,500 -8.00% 6
South East -33 24 £60,000 - 21
West Midlands -14 21 £65,000 +8.33% 5
East of England -28 17 £72,500 -14.71% 7
Wales -37 17 £60,000 +12.15% 1
East Midlands -11 9 £70,000 +16.67%
Yorkshire -19 9 £55,000 -35.16% 7
North East - 5 £66,000 - 1
Scotland +24 1 £140,000 +86.99% 7
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

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 (2.01%) Confluence
2 6 (1.72%) Camunda
3 5 (1.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.57%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (2.01%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.57%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 5 (1.43%) SAP ERP
2 3 (0.86%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 191 (54.73%) AWS
2 178 (51.00%) Azure
3 56 (16.05%) GCP
4 49 (14.04%) GitHub
5 38 (10.89%) Serverless
6 33 (9.46%) Azure Service Bus
7 28 (8.02%) SaaS
8 24 (6.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (5.44%) Azure Key Vault
10 19 (5.44%) Azure Monitor
10 19 (5.44%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (4.87%) Amazon ECS
11 17 (4.87%) Amazon S3
12 16 (4.58%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (4.58%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (4.01%) GitHub Copilot
14 13 (3.72%) Anthropic Claude
14 13 (3.72%) Azure Storage
15 12 (3.44%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 36 (10.32%) Broadband
2 15 (4.30%) MQTT
3 13 (3.72%) DMARC
4 3 (0.86%) Network Security
5 2 (0.57%) HTTP
5 2 (0.57%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (28.94%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (15.19%) MongoDB
3 40 (11.46%) MySQL
3 40 (11.46%) Redis
4 30 (8.60%) Relational Database
5 15 (4.30%) SQL Server
6 14 (4.01%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.15%) DynamoDB
8 9 (2.58%) Geospatial Data
9 7 (2.01%) MariaDB
10 6 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.15%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.86%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.57%) Power BI
14 1 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.29%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 40 (11.46%) Git
2 27 (7.74%) Claude Code
3 16 (4.58%) JIRA
4 13 (3.72%) JUnit
5 11 (3.15%) GitLab
5 11 (3.15%) Mockito
6 9 (2.58%) Jenkins
7 7 (2.01%) MSI
8 6 (1.72%) NUnit
9 4 (1.15%) Postman
10 3 (0.86%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.86%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.86%) Maven
10 3 (0.86%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.57%) JMeter
11 2 (0.57%) MLflow
11 2 (0.57%) Spock
12 1 (0.29%) Codeship
12 1 (0.29%) Gemini Tracker
12 1 (0.29%) Vite
General
1 101 (28.94%) Social Skills
2 40 (11.46%) Finance
3 37 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (9.46%) Public Sector
5 31 (8.88%) Games
6 22 (6.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.44%) Pharmaceutical
8 10 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.58%) Retail
10 8 (2.29%) Marketing
11 7 (2.01%) Banking
12 6 (1.72%) Front Office
12 6 (1.72%) Legal
13 5 (1.43%) Law
13 5 (1.43%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.86%) Digital Health
14 3 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.86%) Tech for Good
15 2 (0.57%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 119 (34.10%) Developer
2 106 (30.37%) Senior
3 64 (18.34%) Architect
3 64 (18.34%) Lead
4 46 (13.18%) Software Engineer
5 36 (10.32%) Senior Developer
6 32 (9.17%) Python Engineer
7 29 (8.31%) Solutions Architect
8 24 (6.88%) Technical Leader
9 22 (6.30%) Python Developer
10 19 (5.44%) Full-Stack Developer
11 18 (5.16%) Senior Python Developer
11 18 (5.16%) Senior Software Engineer
12 17 (4.87%) .NET Developer
12 17 (4.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 17 (4.87%) Ruby Developer
13 16 (4.58%) Lead Developer
13 16 (4.58%) Software Developer
14 14 (4.01%) Integration Architect
14 14 (4.01%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (41.83%) RESTful
2 79 (22.64%) REST
3 62 (17.77%) .NET
4 55 (15.76%) Spring
5 51 (14.61%) Spring Boot
6 50 (14.33%) Node.js
7 45 (12.89%) React
8 41 (11.75%) Kafka
8 41 (11.75%) OAuth
9 39 (11.17%) OAuth2
10 38 (10.89%) JWT
11 32 (9.17%) JSON
12 31 (8.88%) RabbitMQ
13 27 (7.74%) AngularJS
14 26 (7.45%) .NET Core
15 25 (7.16%) OpenAPI
15 25 (7.16%) Swagger
16 24 (6.88%) FastAPI
17 20 (5.73%) HTML
17 20 (5.73%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 120 (34.38%) Cloud Native
2 80 (22.92%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (10.32%) Low-Code
4 31 (8.88%) Product Ownership
4 31 (8.88%) Video\Live Streaming
5 27 (7.74%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.72%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (3.44%) Mobile App
8 11 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (2.87%) Data Centre
9 10 (2.87%) Legacy Applications
10 9 (2.58%) Marketing Technology
10 9 (2.58%) Virtual Team
11 7 (2.01%) AI Agents
11 7 (2.01%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
12 6 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.43%) Fixed Income
13 5 (1.43%) Public Cloud
14 4 (1.15%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.15%) Linux
1 11 (3.15%) Windows
2 2 (0.57%) Android
2 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.57%) VMS
3 1 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (58.17%) CI/CD
2 137 (39.26%) Agile
3 135 (38.68%) AI
4 132 (37.82%) Software Engineering
5 130 (37.25%) Microservices
6 120 (34.38%) Containerisation
7 115 (32.95%) DevOps
8 113 (32.38%) Event-Driven
9 105 (30.09%) Test Automation
10 100 (28.65%) Full-Stack Development
11 87 (24.93%) Infrastructure as Code
12 84 (24.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 77 (22.06%) Integration Patterns
13 77 (22.06%) Mentoring
14 74 (21.20%) Observability
15 58 (16.62%) API Integration
16 55 (15.76%) Roadmaps
17 53 (15.19%) Validation
18 49 (14.04%) Clean Code
18 49 (14.04%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 149 (42.69%) Python
2 87 (24.93%) Java
3 64 (18.34%) TypeScript
4 63 (18.05%) JavaScript
5 61 (17.48%) C#
6 60 (17.19%) SQL
7 35 (10.03%) Go
8 21 (6.02%) Ruby
9 16 (4.58%) Bicep
10 6 (1.72%) VB.NET
11 5 (1.43%) PHP
12 4 (1.15%) C++
12 4 (1.15%) Rust
12 4 (1.15%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.86%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.86%) VB
14 2 (0.57%) C
14 2 (0.57%) Groovy
14 2 (0.57%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 41 (11.75%) Degree
2 37 (10.60%) Security Cleared
3 28 (8.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (6.30%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.29%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.72%) CISSP
7 5 (1.43%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.15%) MBA
9 3 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.57%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.57%) CCSP
10 2 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (12.03%) QA
2 15 (4.30%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.58%) GDPR
3 9 (2.58%) NCSC
4 7 (2.01%) WCAG
5 5 (1.43%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.29%) HL7
7 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 134 (38.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 95 (27.22%) Kubernetes
2 40 (11.46%) Terraform
3 13 (3.72%) Prometheus
4 11 (3.15%) Grafana
5 9 (2.58%) Puppet
6 6 (1.72%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.43%) Ansible
8 3 (0.86%) Podman
9 2 (0.57%) Kibana
10 1 (0.29%) Nagios
Vendors
1 47 (13.47%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.44%) SAP
3 17 (4.87%) Google
3 17 (4.87%) OpenAI
4 13 (3.72%) SendGrid
5 11 (3.15%) MuleSoft
5 11 (3.15%) Salesforce
5 11 (3.15%) Splunk
6 9 (2.58%) Adobe
6 9 (2.58%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.01%) Oracle
8 6 (1.72%) Databricks
9 5 (1.43%) Workday
10 4 (1.15%) DevExpress
11 3 (0.86%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.86%) IFS
11 3 (0.86%) NVIDIA
11 3 (0.86%) Pega
11 3 (0.86%) Tenable
12 2 (0.57%) Concur