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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 490 622
Rank change year-on-year +3 +132 -29
Permanent jobs citing API Design 255 161 261
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.38% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.40% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 179 115 208
10th Percentile £47,344 £56,750 £32,200
25th Percentile £55,000 £63,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +30.61% -23.44%
75th Percentile £93,750 £93,778 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £76,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.75% +38.64% -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 68,421 39,984 83,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.77% 93.29% 84.23%
Number of salaries quoted 44,440 20,998 60,038
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,913 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -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 25 May 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 25 May 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 +22 235 £72,500 -9.38% 106
UK excluding London -28 132 £65,000 -14.75% 70
London +37 111 £82,500 +3.13% 53
Work from Home +43 101 £72,500 -3.33% 68
North of England -13 45 £70,000 -25.39% 18
North West +24 32 £73,750 -20.70% 16
Midlands -19 24 £67,500 +12.50% 8
South West -46 23 £42,500 -54.73% 11
South East -30 17 £62,500 +2.04% 20
West Midlands -20 16 £67,500 +12.50% 5
East of England -21 13 £75,000 -11.76% 3
Yorkshire -52 12 £63,750 -32.64% 2
Wales - 9 £51,619 - 8
East Midlands -18 8 £61,250 -31.94% 3
North East - 1 £45,000 -
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 4 (1.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 4 (1.57%) CMS
2 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.78%) Appian
2 2 (0.78%) Cloud Foundry
2 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.39%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.39%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.39%) Camunda
3 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.39%) nginx
Business Applications
1 5 (1.96%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.78%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 136 (53.33%) AWS
2 128 (50.20%) Azure
3 41 (16.08%) Serverless
4 34 (13.33%) GCP
5 26 (10.20%) GitHub
6 19 (7.45%) Amazon S3
6 19 (7.45%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (6.67%) SaaS
8 14 (5.49%) Azure Logic Apps
9 11 (4.31%) Azure Service Bus
10 10 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (3.92%) Power Platform
11 9 (3.53%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (3.53%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (3.53%) Anthropic Claude
12 8 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (3.14%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (2.75%) Azure Key Vault
13 7 (2.75%) Entra ID
13 7 (2.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (9.02%) Broadband
2 4 (1.57%) MQTT
3 3 (1.18%) DMARC
3 3 (1.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (21.96%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (13.33%) MongoDB
3 20 (7.84%) MySQL
4 19 (7.45%) Redis
5 16 (6.27%) DynamoDB
6 13 (5.10%) NoSQL
7 11 (4.31%) Relational Database
8 10 (3.92%) SQL Server
9 8 (3.14%) MariaDB
10 5 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.57%) Power BI
12 3 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.18%) TimescaleDB
13 2 (0.78%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.78%) Metadata
13 2 (0.78%) Pinecone
13 2 (0.78%) Weaviate
14 1 (0.39%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.39%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 15 (5.88%) Git
1 15 (5.88%) Postman
2 7 (2.75%) Claude Code
3 6 (2.35%) GitLab
4 5 (1.96%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.96%) JUnit
4 5 (1.96%) Mockito
5 4 (1.57%) JIRA
5 4 (1.57%) NUnit
6 3 (1.18%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.18%) Gradle
6 3 (1.18%) Maven
6 3 (1.18%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.78%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.78%) JMeter
7 2 (0.78%) Storybook
8 1 (0.39%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.39%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.39%) Vite
General
1 77 (30.20%) Social Skills
2 37 (14.51%) Finance
3 25 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (9.02%) Games
5 18 (7.06%) Public Sector
6 17 (6.67%) Law
7 9 (3.53%) Front Office
8 7 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.75%) Legal
9 6 (2.35%) Retail
10 5 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.96%) Marketing
11 4 (1.57%) Banking
12 3 (1.18%) Digital Health
13 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.39%) Advertising
14 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 86 (33.73%) Developer
2 61 (23.92%) Senior
3 54 (21.18%) Architect
4 31 (12.16%) Lead
5 30 (11.76%) Software Engineer
6 23 (9.02%) Solutions Architect
7 19 (7.45%) Full-Stack Developer
8 16 (6.27%) Senior Developer
9 15 (5.88%) Analyst
10 14 (5.49%) .NET Developer
10 14 (5.49%) Data Analyst
11 13 (5.10%) Integration Architect
11 13 (5.10%) Senior Architect
11 13 (5.10%) Software Developer
12 12 (4.71%) Lead Developer
12 12 (4.71%) Python Developer
13 11 (4.31%) Python Engineer
13 11 (4.31%) Senior Software Engineer
14 10 (3.92%) Backend Developer
14 10 (3.92%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (40.39%) RESTful
2 61 (23.92%) REST
3 50 (19.61%) React
4 46 (18.04%) Node.js
5 37 (14.51%) .NET
6 30 (11.76%) Spring
7 29 (11.37%) Spring Boot
8 27 (10.59%) OAuth
9 25 (9.80%) OpenAPI
10 24 (9.41%) JSON
10 24 (9.41%) OAuth2
11 23 (9.02%) AngularJS
12 22 (8.63%) JWT
12 22 (8.63%) Swagger
13 20 (7.84%) Kafka
14 16 (6.27%) .NET Core
14 16 (6.27%) HTML
14 16 (6.27%) RabbitMQ
15 14 (5.49%) CSS
16 12 (4.71%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 64 (25.10%) Cloud Native
2 44 (17.25%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (11.76%) Low-Code
4 26 (10.20%) Product Ownership
5 22 (8.63%) Video\Live Streaming
6 17 (6.67%) Data Structures
7 10 (3.92%) Mobile App
7 10 (3.92%) Onboarding
8 8 (3.14%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.75%) Fixed Income
9 7 (2.75%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.96%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.57%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (1.57%) PropTech
12 3 (1.18%) Driving Licence
12 3 (1.18%) NHS
12 3 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.75%) Linux
2 3 (1.18%) Android
2 3 (1.18%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (52.55%) CI/CD
2 91 (35.69%) Software Engineering
3 82 (32.16%) Microservices
4 77 (30.20%) DevOps
4 77 (30.20%) Test Automation
5 75 (29.41%) AI
6 74 (29.02%) Full-Stack Development
7 71 (27.84%) Agile
8 63 (24.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 62 (24.31%) Containerisation
10 59 (23.14%) API Integration
10 59 (23.14%) Event-Driven
10 59 (23.14%) Infrastructure as Code
11 53 (20.78%) Integration Patterns
12 50 (19.61%) Observability
13 43 (16.86%) Problem-Solving
14 42 (16.47%) Mentoring
15 40 (15.69%) Decision-Making
16 37 (14.51%) Machine Learning
17 36 (14.12%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 99 (38.82%) Python
2 57 (22.35%) Java
3 55 (21.57%) JavaScript
4 50 (19.61%) SQL
4 50 (19.61%) TypeScript
5 38 (14.90%) C#
6 25 (9.80%) Go
7 10 (3.92%) Ruby
8 8 (3.14%) PHP
9 6 (2.35%) C++
9 6 (2.35%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.57%) Bicep
10 4 (1.57%) C
10 4 (1.57%) Rust
10 4 (1.57%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.57%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.78%) ActionScript
11 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.78%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.78%) R
Qualifications
1 36 (14.12%) Degree
2 34 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 29 (11.37%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (6.27%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.14%) CISSP
6 4 (1.57%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.57%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (0.78%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.78%) CCSP
7 2 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (11.37%) QA
2 10 (3.92%) GDPR
3 6 (2.35%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.35%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.78%) SLA
5 2 (0.78%) WCAG
6 1 (0.39%) HL7
6 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 65 (25.49%) Docker
2 6 (2.35%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 26 (10.20%) Terraform
3 6 (2.35%) Ansible
3 6 (2.35%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.18%) Grafana
4 3 (1.18%) Nagios
4 3 (1.18%) Podman
4 3 (1.18%) Puppet
5 2 (0.78%) Kibana
6 1 (0.39%) Istio
Vendors
1 39 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.49%) SAP
3 13 (5.10%) Google
4 10 (3.92%) Oracle
5 9 (3.53%) OpenAI
6 8 (3.14%) MuleSoft
7 7 (2.75%) Atlassian
7 7 (2.75%) Pega
8 6 (2.35%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.96%) SendGrid
9 5 (1.96%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.96%) Workday
10 4 (1.57%) Adobe
10 4 (1.57%) DevExpress
10 4 (1.57%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.18%) Foundry
11 3 (1.18%) NVIDIA
11 3 (1.18%) Tenable
12 2 (0.78%) Dell
12 2 (0.78%) Splunk