API Design Job Trends in Watford

API Design
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Watford requiring API Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing API Design 9 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Watford 2.52% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.16% - -
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - -
75th Percentile £81,250 - -
90th Percentile £90,000 - -
Hertfordshire median annual salary £72,500 £85,000 -
% change year-on-year -14.71% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Watford

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 in Watford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 285 143 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Watford 79.83% 94.08% 75.70%
Number of salaries quoted 214 105 163
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £43,795 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £44,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +59.09% -9.28% -19.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £55,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £81,250 £78,750
Hertfordshire median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% - -9.09%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing API Design relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Watford.

API Design job vacancy trend in Watford

API Design
Salary Trend in Watford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing API Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing API Design

API Design
Salary Histogram in Watford

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Design in Watford over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for API Design in Watford

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (33.33%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) MQTT
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
1 6 (66.67%) Python Developer
1 6 (66.67%) Senior
1 6 (66.67%) Senior Developer
1 6 (66.67%) Senior Python Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Integration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) FastAPI
1 6 (66.67%) Kafka
1 6 (66.67%) OpenAPI
1 6 (66.67%) RabbitMQ
1 6 (66.67%) RESTful
1 6 (66.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 9 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 6 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 6 (66.67%) Clean Code
2 6 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 6 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 6 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 6 (66.67%) Validation
3 3 (33.33%) API Management
4 1 (11.11%) Business Agility
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Contract Management
4 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft