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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 473 510 657
Rank change year-on-year +37 +147 -62
Permanent jobs citing API Design 279 167 250
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.38% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.41% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 195 117 196
10th Percentile £47,930 £54,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £55,363 £65,000 £50,469
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +28.00% -18.03%
75th Percentile £89,375 £93,778 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £119,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +36.36% -21.43%

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 66,949 41,023 87,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.83% 92.72% 82.59%
Number of salaries quoted 45,661 21,815 61,905
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £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 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.89% +0.11% -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 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 9 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 +29 258 £72,500 -9.38% 119
UK excluding London -38 143 £65,000 -13.33% 71
London +21 123 £77,500 -3.13% 60
Work from Home +38 117 £72,500 -3.33% 84
North of England -17 49 £70,000 -26.03% 24
North West +31 35 £73,750 -20.70% 17
South West -33 25 £42,500 -50.15% 10
Midlands -5 24 £70,000 +16.67% 2
South East -24 19 £60,000 -4.00% 22
West Midlands -11 16 £70,000 +16.67% 1
East of England -12 15 £72,500 -14.71% 6
Yorkshire -45 13 £62,500 -33.96% 6
Wales - 10 £54,560 - 3
East Midlands -17 8 £61,250 -31.94% 1
North East - 1 £45,000 - 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 (1.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (1.43%) CMS
3 2 (0.72%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (0.72%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.36%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 5 (1.79%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.72%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.36%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 154 (55.20%) AWS
2 144 (51.61%) Azure
3 42 (15.05%) Serverless
4 35 (12.54%) GCP
5 33 (11.83%) GitHub
6 22 (7.89%) SaaS
7 21 (7.53%) Amazon S3
7 21 (7.53%) AWS Lambda
7 21 (7.53%) Azure Service Bus
8 15 (5.38%) Azure Logic Apps
9 13 (4.66%) Azure Key Vault
10 12 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (3.94%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (3.58%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (3.58%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (3.58%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (3.58%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (3.58%) Azure Storage
12 10 (3.58%) Power Platform
13 9 (3.23%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 29 (10.39%) Broadband
2 9 (3.23%) DMARC
3 7 (2.51%) MQTT
4 3 (1.08%) Network Security
5 1 (0.36%) HTTP
5 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (22.94%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (15.05%) MongoDB
3 20 (7.17%) MySQL
3 20 (7.17%) Redis
4 16 (5.73%) DynamoDB
5 13 (4.66%) Relational Database
6 12 (4.30%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.94%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.87%) MariaDB
9 4 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.43%) Power BI
10 3 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.72%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.72%) Metadata
11 2 (0.72%) TimescaleDB
12 1 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.36%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 19 (6.81%) Git
2 14 (5.02%) Postman
3 9 (3.23%) Claude Code
4 5 (1.79%) GitLab
4 5 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.79%) JIRA
4 5 (1.79%) JUnit
4 5 (1.79%) Mockito
5 4 (1.43%) NUnit
6 3 (1.08%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.08%) Gradle
6 3 (1.08%) Maven
6 3 (1.08%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.72%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.72%) JMeter
7 2 (0.72%) Storybook
8 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.36%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.36%) SpecFlow
General
1 87 (31.18%) Social Skills
2 41 (14.70%) Finance
3 29 (10.39%) Games
4 27 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.17%) Public Sector
6 16 (5.73%) Law
7 8 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.87%) Front Office
7 8 (2.87%) Retail
8 7 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.51%) Legal
9 6 (2.15%) Marketing
10 4 (1.43%) Banking
11 3 (1.08%) Digital Health
11 3 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.36%) Billing
13 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.36%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 99 (35.48%) Developer
2 72 (25.81%) Senior
3 52 (18.64%) Architect
4 41 (14.70%) Lead
5 35 (12.54%) Software Engineer
6 23 (8.24%) Senior Developer
7 21 (7.53%) Full-Stack Developer
7 21 (7.53%) Solutions Architect
8 16 (5.73%) .NET Developer
8 16 (5.73%) Python Developer
9 14 (5.02%) Analyst
9 14 (5.02%) Lead Developer
9 14 (5.02%) Senior Architect
9 14 (5.02%) Software Developer
10 13 (4.66%) Data Analyst
10 13 (4.66%) Integration Architect
10 13 (4.66%) Technical Leader
11 12 (4.30%) Python Engineer
11 12 (4.30%) Senior Python Developer
11 12 (4.30%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (44.44%) RESTful
2 62 (22.22%) REST
3 53 (19.00%) Node.js
4 50 (17.92%) React
5 41 (14.70%) .NET
6 38 (13.62%) Spring
7 37 (13.26%) Spring Boot
8 34 (12.19%) OAuth
9 30 (10.75%) OAuth2
10 28 (10.04%) JSON
11 26 (9.32%) Kafka
12 25 (8.96%) OpenAPI
13 24 (8.60%) JWT
14 23 (8.24%) AngularJS
14 23 (8.24%) Swagger
15 19 (6.81%) RabbitMQ
16 18 (6.45%) .NET Core
17 17 (6.09%) HTML
18 15 (5.38%) CSS
19 13 (4.66%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 82 (29.39%) Cloud Native
2 52 (18.64%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (12.90%) Low-Code
4 28 (10.04%) Video\Live Streaming
5 25 (8.96%) Product Ownership
6 15 (5.38%) Data Structures
7 12 (4.30%) Onboarding
8 10 (3.58%) Mobile App
9 7 (2.51%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.51%) Fixed Income
9 7 (2.51%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.79%) Marketing Technology
10 5 (1.79%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.43%) PropTech
12 3 (1.08%) Driving Licence
12 3 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.08%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.51%) Linux
2 3 (1.08%) Android
2 3 (1.08%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (55.91%) CI/CD
2 102 (36.56%) Software Engineering
3 95 (34.05%) Microservices
4 92 (32.97%) Test Automation
5 88 (31.54%) Agile
5 88 (31.54%) DevOps
6 86 (30.82%) AI
7 82 (29.39%) Full-Stack Development
8 79 (28.32%) Containerisation
9 75 (26.88%) Continuous Improvement
9 75 (26.88%) Event-Driven
10 70 (25.09%) Infrastructure as Code
11 63 (22.58%) Integration Patterns
12 62 (22.22%) API Integration
13 61 (21.86%) Observability
14 53 (19.00%) Mentoring
15 47 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
16 46 (16.49%) Machine Learning
17 45 (16.13%) Validation
18 42 (15.05%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 110 (39.43%) Python
2 63 (22.58%) Java
3 62 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 53 (19.00%) TypeScript
5 50 (17.92%) SQL
6 43 (15.41%) C#
7 30 (10.75%) Go
8 12 (4.30%) Ruby
9 9 (3.23%) PHP
10 6 (2.15%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.79%) Bicep
12 4 (1.43%) C++
12 4 (1.43%) Rust
12 4 (1.43%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.43%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.08%) C
14 2 (0.72%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.72%) ActionScript 2.0
14 2 (0.72%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.72%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 39 (13.98%) Degree
2 33 (11.83%) Security Cleared
3 31 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (5.38%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.87%) CISSP
6 5 (1.79%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.79%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (0.72%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.72%) CCSP
7 2 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.90%) QA
2 11 (3.94%) GDPR
3 8 (2.87%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.51%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.72%) WCAG
7 1 (0.36%) HL7
7 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 77 (27.60%) Docker
2 6 (2.15%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 60 (21.51%) Kubernetes
2 28 (10.04%) Terraform
3 6 (2.15%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.79%) Ansible
5 4 (1.43%) Grafana
6 3 (1.08%) Podman
6 3 (1.08%) Puppet
7 2 (0.72%) Kibana
7 2 (0.72%) Nagios
8 1 (0.36%) Istio
Vendors
1 42 (15.05%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.38%) SAP
3 14 (5.02%) Google
4 11 (3.94%) SendGrid
5 9 (3.23%) Oracle
6 8 (2.87%) MuleSoft
6 8 (2.87%) OpenAI
7 7 (2.51%) Atlassian
7 7 (2.51%) Pega
8 6 (2.15%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.79%) Adobe
9 5 (1.79%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.79%) Workday
10 4 (1.43%) DevExpress
10 4 (1.43%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.08%) Foundry
11 3 (1.08%) NVIDIA
11 3 (1.08%) Tenable
12 2 (0.72%) Concur
12 2 (0.72%) Databricks