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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 447 527 670
Rank change year-on-year +80 +143 -123
Permanent jobs citing API Design 345 155 211
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.32% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.35% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 237 115 157
10th Percentile £48,450 £52,050 £37,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,875 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £91,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £119,500 £98,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +30.43% -17.86%

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 72,896 44,261 80,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.68% 90.09% 82.12%
Number of salaries quoted 50,426 24,863 55,989
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £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 17 July 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 17 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 +63 306 £75,000 -3.23% 86
UK excluding London -16 167 £70,000 -6.67% 44
London +85 154 £77,500 -3.13% 60
Work from Home +43 137 £75,000 - 43
North of England -4 52 £72,500 +0.71% 10
North West +16 37 £75,000 +30.43% 7
South West -38 31 £47,500 -44.28% 8
Midlands -14 27 £68,750 +14.58% 3
South East -25 22 £60,000 -2.04% 19
West Midlands -7 18 £67,500 +12.50% 3
East of England -15 17 £72,500 -14.71% 1
Wales -36 16 £58,750 +9.81% 2
Yorkshire -36 12 £62,500 -14.96% 3
East Midlands -9 9 £70,000 +7.69%
North East - 3 £85,000 -
Scotland 0 1 £140,000 +86.99%
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 5 (1.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 5 (1.45%) Camunda
1 5 (1.45%) Confluence
2 3 (0.87%) CMS
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 3 (0.87%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.58%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 5 (1.45%) 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
1 195 (56.52%) AWS
2 174 (50.43%) Azure
3 51 (14.78%) GCP
4 44 (12.75%) GitHub
5 43 (12.46%) Serverless
6 29 (8.41%) Azure Service Bus
7 28 (8.12%) SaaS
8 23 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 20 (5.80%) Amazon S3
10 19 (5.51%) Amazon EKS
10 19 (5.51%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (5.51%) Azure Key Vault
10 19 (5.51%) Azure Monitor
11 17 (4.93%) Amazon ECS
11 17 (4.93%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (3.77%) Azure Logic Apps
12 13 (3.77%) Azure Storage
13 11 (3.19%) Anthropic Claude
13 11 (3.19%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 36 (10.43%) Broadband
2 13 (3.77%) DMARC
3 12 (3.48%) 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 92 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (15.07%) MongoDB
3 41 (11.88%) MySQL
4 36 (10.43%) Redis
5 26 (7.54%) Relational Database
6 14 (4.06%) DynamoDB
6 14 (4.06%) NoSQL
7 13 (3.77%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.32%) MariaDB
9 7 (2.03%) Geospatial Data
10 6 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.16%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.87%) Power BI
13 2 (0.58%) Metadata
13 2 (0.58%) TimescaleDB
14 1 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 34 (9.86%) Git
2 25 (7.25%) Claude Code
3 14 (4.06%) JIRA
4 10 (2.90%) GitLab
4 10 (2.90%) JUnit
5 9 (2.61%) Mockito
6 8 (2.32%) Postman
7 6 (1.74%) Jenkins
7 6 (1.74%) NUnit
8 5 (1.45%) MSI
9 3 (0.87%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.87%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.58%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.58%) JMeter
10 2 (0.58%) Maven
10 2 (0.58%) MLflow
11 1 (0.29%) Mocha
11 1 (0.29%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.29%) Spock
11 1 (0.29%) Vite
General
1 99 (28.70%) Social Skills
2 41 (11.88%) Finance
3 37 (10.72%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (8.99%) Games
5 30 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.48%) Pharmaceutical
8 8 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.32%) Front Office
9 7 (2.03%) Law
9 7 (2.03%) Legal
9 7 (2.03%) Retail
10 6 (1.74%) Marketing
11 5 (1.45%) Banking
11 5 (1.45%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.87%) Digital Health
12 3 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.87%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.29%) Billing
13 1 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 121 (35.07%) Developer
2 99 (28.70%) Senior
3 61 (17.68%) Architect
3 61 (17.68%) Lead
4 42 (12.17%) Software Engineer
5 31 (8.99%) Senior Developer
6 28 (8.12%) Python Engineer
7 27 (7.83%) Solutions Architect
8 23 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
8 23 (6.67%) Technical Leader
9 21 (6.09%) Python Developer
10 17 (4.93%) Senior Python Developer
10 17 (4.93%) Senior Software Engineer
11 16 (4.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 16 (4.64%) Lead Developer
11 16 (4.64%) Software Developer
12 15 (4.35%) .NET Developer
12 15 (4.35%) Integration Architect
12 15 (4.35%) Senior Architect
13 14 (4.06%) Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (41.16%) RESTful
2 75 (21.74%) REST
3 59 (17.10%) Node.js
4 58 (16.81%) .NET
4 58 (16.81%) React
5 50 (14.49%) Spring
6 49 (14.20%) Spring Boot
7 39 (11.30%) OAuth
8 37 (10.72%) OAuth2
9 36 (10.43%) Kafka
10 34 (9.86%) JWT
11 33 (9.57%) JSON
12 27 (7.83%) RabbitMQ
13 26 (7.54%) AngularJS
14 25 (7.25%) .NET Core
15 24 (6.96%) OpenAPI
16 22 (6.38%) Swagger
17 20 (5.80%) HTML
18 19 (5.51%) FastAPI
19 18 (5.22%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 116 (33.62%) Cloud Native
2 77 (22.32%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (10.72%) Low-Code
4 31 (8.99%) Video\Live Streaming
5 30 (8.70%) Product Ownership
6 23 (6.67%) Onboarding
7 13 (3.77%) Mobile App
8 10 (2.90%) Data Centre
8 10 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (2.61%) Legacy Applications
9 9 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (2.32%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (2.32%) Virtual Team
11 7 (2.03%) Algorithms
11 7 (2.03%) Data Structures
11 7 (2.03%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.74%) Enterprise Cloud
12 6 (1.74%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.77%) Linux
2 7 (2.03%) Windows
3 2 (0.58%) Android
3 2 (0.58%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (57.10%) CI/CD
2 131 (37.97%) Software Engineering
3 129 (37.39%) Agile
4 126 (36.52%) AI
5 125 (36.23%) Microservices
6 116 (33.62%) DevOps
7 112 (32.46%) Containerisation
8 105 (30.43%) Event-Driven
9 103 (29.86%) Full-Stack Development
9 103 (29.86%) Test Automation
10 86 (24.93%) Infrastructure as Code
11 83 (24.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 79 (22.90%) Observability
13 77 (22.32%) Mentoring
14 75 (21.74%) Integration Patterns
15 61 (17.68%) API Integration
16 51 (14.78%) Data Modelling
16 51 (14.78%) Roadmaps
17 49 (14.20%) Technical Leadership
17 49 (14.20%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 148 (42.90%) Python
2 82 (23.77%) Java
3 70 (20.29%) JavaScript
4 68 (19.71%) TypeScript
5 59 (17.10%) C#
6 57 (16.52%) SQL
7 35 (10.14%) Go
8 18 (5.22%) Ruby
9 14 (4.06%) Bicep
10 9 (2.61%) PHP
11 5 (1.45%) C++
12 4 (1.16%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.16%) Rust
12 4 (1.16%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.16%) 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 43 (12.46%) Degree
1 43 (12.46%) Security Cleared
2 30 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (6.09%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.61%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.32%) CISSP
6 5 (1.45%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.87%) MBA
8 2 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.58%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.58%) CCSP
8 2 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (11.59%) QA
2 12 (3.48%) Accessibility
3 11 (3.19%) GDPR
4 7 (2.03%) NCSC
5 6 (1.74%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.45%) WCAG
7 4 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.29%) HL7
8 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 125 (36.23%) Docker
2 6 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 86 (24.93%) Kubernetes
2 38 (11.01%) Terraform
3 11 (3.19%) Prometheus
4 9 (2.61%) Puppet
5 8 (2.32%) Grafana
6 6 (1.74%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.45%) Ansible
8 3 (0.87%) Podman
9 2 (0.58%) Kibana
9 2 (0.58%) Nagios
Vendors
1 50 (14.49%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.22%) Google
3 16 (4.64%) OpenAI
4 14 (4.06%) SAP
5 13 (3.77%) SendGrid
6 9 (2.61%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.32%) Adobe
7 8 (2.32%) MuleSoft
8 7 (2.03%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.03%) Oracle
8 7 (2.03%) Splunk
9 6 (1.74%) Databricks
9 6 (1.74%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.45%) Workday
11 4 (1.16%) DevExpress
11 4 (1.16%) Pega
12 3 (0.87%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.87%) NVIDIA
12 3 (0.87%) Tenable
13 2 (0.58%) Concur