API Design Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

API Design
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 473 513
Rank change year-on-year +170 +40 -148
Permanent jobs citing API Design 95 119 162
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.64% 0.35% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.38% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 68 111 115
10th Percentile £57,500 £45,000 £48,400
25th Percentile £70,072 £54,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -18.75% +6.67%
75th Percentile £98,474 £73,750 £89,852
90th Percentile £125,328 £100,000 £109,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £62,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +24.00% -21.88% -5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,930 31,014 41,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.15% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,709 23,583 28,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,930 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

API Design
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing API Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

API Design trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

API Design
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing API Design.

API Design salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

API Design
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing API Design over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

API Design salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (4.21%) CMS
1 4 (4.21%) Umbraco
2 3 (3.16%) Apache Solr
2 3 (3.16%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.05%) Confluence
3 1 (1.05%) EPiServer
3 1 (1.05%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.05%) Mule
Applications
1 8 (8.42%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 48 (50.53%) Azure
2 42 (44.21%) GCP
3 27 (28.42%) AWS
4 13 (13.68%) npm
5 10 (10.53%) GitHub
5 10 (10.53%) SaaS
6 8 (8.42%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (8.42%) OpenShift
7 4 (4.21%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.21%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (4.21%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (4.21%) Serverless
8 3 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.16%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.16%) Power Automate
8 3 (3.16%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.11%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (2.11%) Azure API Management
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (27.37%) NoSQL
2 23 (24.21%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (12.63%) Relational Database
4 9 (9.47%) Big Data
5 8 (8.42%) Data Lake
5 8 (8.42%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (7.37%) MongoDB
7 6 (6.32%) MySQL
8 5 (5.26%) SQL Server
9 3 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (2.11%) DynamoDB
11 1 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (1.05%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (1.05%) RDBMS
11 1 (1.05%) Redis
11 1 (1.05%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 25 (26.32%) Git
2 16 (16.84%) webpack
3 13 (13.68%) Cucumber
3 13 (13.68%) Cypress.io
3 13 (13.68%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (6.32%) Gradle
4 6 (6.32%) Maven
4 6 (6.32%) Moq
4 6 (6.32%) SpecFlow
5 3 (3.16%) git-flow
5 3 (3.16%) MSBuild
5 3 (3.16%) Visual Studio
6 2 (2.11%) GitLab
7 1 (1.05%) Grunt
7 1 (1.05%) gulp
7 1 (1.05%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.05%) JIRA
7 1 (1.05%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.05%) Subversion
General
1 46 (48.42%) Finance
2 44 (46.32%) Banking
3 36 (37.89%) Social Skills
4 12 (12.63%) Games
5 6 (6.32%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.21%) Law
7 4 (4.21%) Marketing
8 2 (2.11%) Legal
8 2 (2.11%) Retail
9 1 (1.05%) Advertising
9 1 (1.05%) Front Office
9 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.05%) Local Government
9 1 (1.05%) Military
9 1 (1.05%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (35.79%) Developer
2 31 (32.63%) Architect
2 31 (32.63%) Solutions Architect
3 27 (28.42%) Senior
4 15 (15.79%) Lead
4 15 (15.79%) Senior Developer
5 14 (14.74%) Software Engineer
6 12 (12.63%) Software Developer
7 10 (10.53%) Java Engineer
8 9 (9.47%) Lead Java Engineer
9 8 (8.42%) Senior Software Developer
10 6 (6.32%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (6.32%) Senior Architect
10 6 (6.32%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (6.32%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 5 (5.26%) C# Developer
11 5 (5.26%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 4 (4.21%) .NET Developer
12 4 (4.21%) Gen AI Developer
12 4 (4.21%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (37.89%) RESTful
2 21 (22.11%) .NET
3 18 (18.95%) React
4 15 (15.79%) Spring Boot
5 14 (14.74%) Web Services
6 13 (13.68%) Jest
6 13 (13.68%) RabbitMQ
7 12 (12.63%) Kafka
8 11 (11.58%) .NET Core
8 11 (11.58%) AngularJS
8 11 (11.58%) REST
9 10 (10.53%) .NET Framework
9 10 (10.53%) Entity Framework
10 9 (9.47%) Swagger
11 8 (8.42%) Spring
12 7 (7.37%) ASP.NET
12 7 (7.37%) Node.js
12 7 (7.37%) OAuth
12 7 (7.37%) OAuth2
12 7 (7.37%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 29 (30.53%) Cloud Native
1 29 (30.53%) Product Ownership
2 20 (21.05%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (12.63%) Mobile Games
4 8 (8.42%) Distributed Applications
4 8 (8.42%) Management Information System
4 8 (8.42%) Mobile App
4 8 (8.42%) Private Cloud
4 8 (8.42%) Public Cloud
5 6 (6.32%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.05%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.05%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (70.53%) Agile
2 60 (63.16%) Microservices
3 43 (45.26%) CI/CD
4 40 (42.11%) DevOps
5 38 (40.00%) Software Engineering
6 36 (37.89%) Containerisation
7 30 (31.58%) Domain-Driven Design
7 30 (31.58%) Technical Leadership
8 27 (28.42%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (27.37%) Event-Driven
9 26 (27.37%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 26 (27.37%) Full-Stack Development
10 25 (26.32%) Computer Science
11 24 (25.26%) Test Automation
12 22 (23.16%) Change Management
13 19 (20.00%) Front End Development
14 16 (16.84%) API Development
14 16 (16.84%) Enterprise Architecture
15 15 (15.79%) Integration Patterns
15 15 (15.79%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 30 (31.58%) Java
2 23 (24.21%) SQL
3 21 (22.11%) C#
3 21 (22.11%) Python
4 17 (17.89%) JavaScript
5 14 (14.74%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.26%) Go
6 5 (5.26%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.11%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.11%) Ruby
8 1 (1.05%) C
8 1 (1.05%) DataWeave
8 1 (1.05%) Rust
8 1 (1.05%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (32.63%) Degree
2 23 (24.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (7.37%) AWS Certification
4 6 (6.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (6.32%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.05%) CISSP
5 1 (1.05%) CREST Certified
5 1 (1.05%) CSSLP
5 1 (1.05%) GIAC
5 1 (1.05%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.68%) QA
2 6 (6.32%) CDISC
3 5 (5.26%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.16%) PMBOK
5 1 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.05%) GDPR
5 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 45 (47.37%) Docker
2 1 (1.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (30.53%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.37%) Argo
3 6 (6.32%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.11%) Terraform
5 1 (1.05%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 20 (21.05%) Google
2 16 (16.84%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.32%) New Relic
4 4 (4.21%) Optimizely
5 3 (3.16%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.16%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.16%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.05%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.05%) Sun