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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 518 670
Rank change year-on-year +65 +152 -90
Permanent jobs citing API Design 324 158 236
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.34% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.37% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 224 118 180
10th Percentile £48,225 £52,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £59,688 £61,250 £50,469
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £76,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +22.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £116,125 £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 70,675 42,514 86,697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.44% 91.57% 82.17%
Number of salaries quoted 48,811 23,148 61,276
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.34% - -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 30 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 30 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 +58 291 £75,000 -4.76% 86
UK excluding London -12 161 £67,500 -10.00% 47
London +63 141 £77,500 -3.13% 53
Work from Home +41 133 £75,000 - 41
North of England -30 53 £70,000 -25.39% 15
North West +25 38 £75,000 -0.33% 8
South West -47 31 £42,500 -50.15% 4
Midlands -22 25 £70,000 +16.67% 3
South East -28 21 £60,000 -4.00% 20
East of England -21 17 £72,500 -14.71% 2
West Midlands -13 16 £70,000 +16.67% 3
Wales - 13 £57,500 - 2
Yorkshire -34 12 £62,500 -33.96% 5
East Midlands -23 9 £70,000 +7.69%
North East - 3 £85,000 - 2
Northern Ireland - 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 5 (1.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (1.23%) CMS
3 3 (0.93%) Confluence
4 2 (0.62%) Camunda
4 2 (0.62%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (0.62%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.31%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.31%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 5 (1.54%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.31%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.31%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 177 (54.63%) AWS
2 164 (50.62%) Azure
3 41 (12.65%) Serverless
4 40 (12.35%) GCP
4 40 (12.35%) GitHub
5 29 (8.95%) Azure Service Bus
6 26 (8.02%) SaaS
7 20 (6.17%) Amazon S3
7 20 (6.17%) AWS Lambda
8 19 (5.86%) Azure Key Vault
8 19 (5.86%) Azure Monitor
9 16 (4.94%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (4.63%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (4.63%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (4.63%) Azure Logic Apps
11 14 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (4.32%) Azure Storage
12 13 (4.01%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (3.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 36 (11.11%) Broadband
2 13 (4.01%) DMARC
3 10 (3.09%) MQTT
4 3 (0.93%) Network Security
5 1 (0.31%) HTTP
5 1 (0.31%) Internet
5 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (24.38%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (15.12%) MongoDB
3 36 (11.11%) MySQL
4 26 (8.02%) Redis
5 23 (7.10%) Relational Database
6 16 (4.94%) NoSQL
7 15 (4.63%) DynamoDB
8 13 (4.01%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.47%) MariaDB
10 6 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.54%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.23%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.23%) Power BI
13 3 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.62%) Metadata
14 2 (0.62%) TimescaleDB
15 1 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
15 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 27 (8.33%) Git
2 20 (6.17%) Claude Code
3 12 (3.70%) JIRA
3 12 (3.70%) Postman
4 9 (2.78%) GitLab
5 6 (1.85%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.85%) JUnit
5 6 (1.85%) Mockito
5 6 (1.85%) NUnit
6 3 (0.93%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.93%) Gradle
6 3 (0.93%) Maven
6 3 (0.93%) MSI
6 3 (0.93%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.62%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.62%) JMeter
7 2 (0.62%) MLflow
8 1 (0.31%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.31%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.31%) Vite
General
1 93 (28.70%) Social Skills
2 40 (12.35%) Finance
3 34 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (9.88%) Games
5 25 (7.72%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (4.01%) Law
7 9 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
8 8 (2.47%) Front Office
8 8 (2.47%) Retail
9 7 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.16%) Legal
10 6 (1.85%) Marketing
11 5 (1.54%) Banking
11 5 (1.54%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.93%) Digital Health
12 3 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.62%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.31%) Automotive
14 1 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 114 (35.19%) Developer
2 88 (27.16%) Senior
3 56 (17.28%) Architect
4 53 (16.36%) Lead
5 42 (12.96%) Software Engineer
6 29 (8.95%) Senior Developer
7 24 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
8 22 (6.79%) Full-Stack Developer
9 21 (6.48%) Python Engineer
10 20 (6.17%) Python Developer
10 20 (6.17%) Technical Leader
11 16 (4.94%) .NET Developer
11 16 (4.94%) Lead Developer
11 16 (4.94%) Senior Python Developer
11 16 (4.94%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (4.63%) Software Developer
13 14 (4.32%) Integration Architect
13 14 (4.32%) Senior Architect
14 13 (4.01%) Java Engineer
15 12 (3.70%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (43.83%) RESTful
2 68 (20.99%) REST
3 58 (17.90%) Node.js
4 57 (17.59%) React
5 53 (16.36%) .NET
6 48 (14.81%) Spring
7 47 (14.51%) Spring Boot
8 36 (11.11%) OAuth
9 34 (10.49%) OAuth2
10 32 (9.88%) Kafka
11 30 (9.26%) JSON
12 27 (8.33%) JWT
12 27 (8.33%) OpenAPI
13 25 (7.72%) Swagger
14 24 (7.41%) AngularJS
15 23 (7.10%) .NET Core
15 23 (7.10%) RabbitMQ
16 18 (5.56%) HTML
17 16 (4.94%) CSS
18 14 (4.32%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 104 (32.10%) Cloud Native
2 66 (20.37%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (11.73%) Low-Code
4 31 (9.57%) Video\Live Streaming
5 28 (8.64%) Product Ownership
6 17 (5.25%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.70%) Mobile App
8 11 (3.40%) Data Structures
9 8 (2.47%) Virtual Team
10 7 (2.16%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.16%) Fixed Income
10 7 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (2.16%) Management Information System
10 7 (2.16%) Marketing Technology
11 6 (1.85%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.54%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.23%) AI Agents
13 4 (1.23%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.01%) Linux
2 5 (1.54%) Windows
3 3 (0.93%) Android
3 3 (0.93%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (56.48%) CI/CD
2 125 (38.58%) Software Engineering
3 115 (35.49%) Microservices
4 113 (34.88%) AI
5 112 (34.57%) Agile
6 110 (33.95%) DevOps
7 101 (31.17%) Test Automation
8 99 (30.56%) Containerisation
9 96 (29.63%) Full-Stack Development
10 89 (27.47%) Event-Driven
11 83 (25.62%) Continuous Improvement
12 82 (25.31%) Infrastructure as Code
13 74 (22.84%) Integration Patterns
14 72 (22.22%) Observability
15 67 (20.68%) Mentoring
16 60 (18.52%) API Integration
17 51 (15.74%) Data Modelling
18 49 (15.12%) Machine Learning
18 49 (15.12%) Validation
19 48 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 135 (41.67%) Python
2 77 (23.77%) Java
3 66 (20.37%) JavaScript
4 63 (19.44%) TypeScript
5 58 (17.90%) SQL
6 54 (16.67%) C#
7 34 (10.49%) Go
8 15 (4.63%) Ruby
9 11 (3.40%) Bicep
10 9 (2.78%) PHP
11 5 (1.54%) C++
11 5 (1.54%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.23%) Rust
12 4 (1.23%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.93%) C
13 3 (0.93%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.62%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.62%) R
14 2 (0.62%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.31%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 42 (12.96%) Degree
2 39 (12.04%) Security Cleared
3 30 (9.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (5.86%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.47%) CISSP
6 7 (2.16%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.54%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.62%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.62%) CCSP
8 2 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.62%) MBA
9 1 (0.31%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (12.35%) QA
2 11 (3.40%) GDPR
3 10 (3.09%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.16%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.54%) NCSC
6 4 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.93%) WCAG
8 1 (0.31%) HL7
8 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 108 (33.33%) Docker
2 6 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 76 (23.46%) Kubernetes
2 34 (10.49%) Terraform
3 8 (2.47%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.85%) Grafana
5 5 (1.54%) Ansible
5 5 (1.54%) Puppet
6 3 (0.93%) Podman
7 2 (0.62%) Kibana
7 2 (0.62%) Nagios
7 2 (0.62%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.31%) Istio
Vendors
1 48 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.63%) Google
3 13 (4.01%) OpenAI
3 13 (4.01%) SAP
3 13 (4.01%) SendGrid
4 8 (2.47%) Oracle
5 7 (2.16%) Adobe
5 7 (2.16%) Atlassian
5 7 (2.16%) Databricks
6 6 (1.85%) MuleSoft
6 6 (1.85%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.54%) Pega
7 5 (1.54%) Workday
8 4 (1.23%) DevExpress
8 4 (1.23%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.23%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.23%) Splunk
9 3 (0.93%) Foundry
9 3 (0.93%) NVIDIA
9 3 (0.93%) Tenable