API Design Job Trends in the West Midlands

API Design
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring API Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 208 149
Rank change year-on-year +35 -59 +150
Permanent jobs citing API Design 8 8 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.17% 0.16% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.18% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 8 4 20
10th Percentile £57,125 £24,625 -
25th Percentile £64,063 £29,688 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £50,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% +53.85% -53.57%
75th Percentile £76,250 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile - - £72,433
England median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +23.08% -7.90% -19.34%

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 3,904 4,360 3,031
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.62% 87.46% 92.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,123 1,988 2,448
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,175 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

API Design job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

API Design
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing API Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing API Design

API Design
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Design in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 December 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 13 December 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 +34 4 £66,250 +10.42% 4
Sutton Coldfield - 3 £72,500 -
Coventry - 1 £67,500 - 7
API Design
England

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (37.50%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Serverless
3 2 (25.00%) Azure API Management
3 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (25.00%) Power Automate
3 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (12.50%) InfluxDB
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Redis
2 1 (12.50%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MSTest
1 2 (25.00%) NUnit
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Influencing Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Manufacturing
3 2 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Architect
1 5 (62.50%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Developer
4 1 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Specialist
4 1 (12.50%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior C# .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior C# Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) RESTful
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (25.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (25.00%) Entity Framework
2 2 (25.00%) Kafka
2 2 (25.00%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) YAML
3 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) API Development
1 5 (62.50%) Integration Patterns
1 5 (62.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (37.50%) Business Strategy
2 3 (37.50%) Business Transformation
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) CRM
2 3 (37.50%) Data Architecture
2 3 (37.50%) Data Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Due Diligence
2 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (37.50%) ERP
2 3 (37.50%) Matrix Organization
2 3 (37.50%) Microservices
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
2 3 (37.50%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Bicep
1 2 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) C
2 1 (12.50%) C++
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Nagios
1 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (37.50%) SAP