API Design Jobs in the West Midlands

API Design
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring API Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited API Design over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 206 245
Rank change year-on-year +9 +39 +17
Permanent jobs citing API Design 7 41 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.16% 0.55% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.67% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3 36 10
10th Percentile £28,500 - £50,500
25th Percentile £39,375 £31,250 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -30.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,625 £81,250
90th Percentile - £68,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +23.08% -18.75% -5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,962 6,160 6,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.29% 82.46% 96.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,634 4,566 3,147
10th Percentile £28,875 £26,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,713 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing API Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for API Design in the West Midlands

API Design
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing API Design in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for API Design in the West Midlands

API Design
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Design in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for API Design in the West Midlands

API Design
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Design within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 May 2025. 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
Birmingham +32 1 £22,500 -62.50% 2
Wolverhampton +17 1 £60,000 +14.29%
Staffordshire +10 1 - - 2
Shropshire - 1 £60,000 -
API Design
England

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) CMS
1 1 (14.29%) Sitefinity
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) SaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Figma
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Head of Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Backend Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Digital Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Junior
4 1 (14.29%) Junior Backend Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Junior Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) .NET
1 4 (57.14%) .NET Framework
1 4 (57.14%) Entity Framework
2 3 (42.86%) AngularJS
2 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET
2 3 (42.86%) RESTful
3 2 (28.57%) .NET Core
3 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (28.57%) Dapper ORM
3 2 (28.57%) Swagger
4 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (14.29%) CSS
4 1 (14.29%) HTML
4 1 (14.29%) JSON
4 1 (14.29%) React
4 1 (14.29%) SOAP
4 1 (14.29%) Vue
4 1 (14.29%) WebAssembly
4 1 (14.29%) XML
4 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) Cost Control
3 3 (42.86%) Customer Service
3 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps
3 3 (42.86%) PRINCE2
3 3 (42.86%) Process Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) Product Management
3 3 (42.86%) Product Roadmap
3 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
3 3 (42.86%) SDLC
3 3 (42.86%) Software Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Strategic Thinking
3 3 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (42.86%) Technology Roadmap
3 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) PMBOK
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Salesforce
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft