API Design Jobs in the South East

API Design
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 350 330
Rank change year-on-year +66 -20 +116
Permanent jobs citing API Design 25 41 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.25% 0.22% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.27% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 23 30 25
10th Percentile £26,750 £41,250 -
25th Percentile £52,125 £50,625 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% -26.15%
75th Percentile £82,500 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile - £78,500 -
England median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +19.23% -13.33% -6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,945 15,025 12,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.05% 81.95% 94.20%
Number of salaries quoted 4,597 10,253 7,399
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.82% -12.00% +4.17%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for API Design in the South East

API Design
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing API Design in the South East.

Salary trend for API Design in the South East

API Design
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Design in the South East over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Salary histogram for API Design in the South East

API Design
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Design within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Thames Valley +39 9 £75,000 +76.47% 90
Middlesex -10 6 £62,500 +8.70%
Buckinghamshire +33 5 £75,000 +76.47% 15
Hampshire - 4 £28,500 - 18
Oxfordshire +49 3 £75,000 - 10
Sussex - 3 £77,500 - 1
Surrey +51 2 £60,000 -29.41% 25
Berkshire +21 1 £80,000 +48.84% 65
East Sussex - 1 £55,500 - 14
API Design
England

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (16.00%) IIS
2 1 (4.00%) Anypoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) AWS
3 4 (16.00%) Cloudflare
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.00%) Power Automate
5 1 (4.00%) PowerApps
5 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (32.00%) MongoDB
1 8 (32.00%) NoSQL
1 8 (32.00%) Redis
2 7 (28.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (16.00%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (16.00%) MySQL
4 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.00%) Power BI
4 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (32.00%) Jenkins
1 8 (32.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 7 (28.00%) Git
3 4 (16.00%) Jasmine
3 4 (16.00%) NUnit
3 4 (16.00%) TeamCity
4 3 (12.00%) git-flow
5 1 (4.00%) Moq
5 1 (4.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 13 (52.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Games
3 3 (12.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Back Office
4 1 (4.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Front Office
4 1 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (88.00%) Developer
2 14 (56.00%) .NET Developer
3 10 (40.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 10 (40.00%) C# Developer
4 5 (20.00%) Senior
5 4 (16.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Java Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Junior
5 4 (16.00%) Junior Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Junior Java Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Senior .NET Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Senior Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (12.00%) Integration Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Azure Developer
8 1 (4.00%) Automation Developer
8 1 (4.00%) Lead Developer
8 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft Developer
8 1 (4.00%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (72.00%) .NET
2 11 (44.00%) RESTful
3 9 (36.00%) RabbitMQ
3 9 (36.00%) REST
4 8 (32.00%) MSMQ
5 6 (24.00%) ASP.NET
6 5 (20.00%) AngularJS
7 4 (16.00%) ASP.NET Core
7 4 (16.00%) CSS
7 4 (16.00%) CSS3
7 4 (16.00%) HTML
7 4 (16.00%) HTML5
7 4 (16.00%) J2EE
7 4 (16.00%) Jest
7 4 (16.00%) React
7 4 (16.00%) Vue
8 3 (12.00%) .NET Framework
9 2 (8.00%) OAuth
9 2 (8.00%) OAuth2
10 1 (4.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Online Games
2 2 (8.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.00%) Client/Server
3 1 (4.00%) Clustering
3 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) CI/CD
2 15 (60.00%) Agile
3 14 (56.00%) Microservices
4 12 (48.00%) MVC
4 12 (48.00%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (32.00%) Design Patterns
5 8 (32.00%) TDD
5 8 (32.00%) Unit Testing
6 6 (24.00%) DevOps
7 5 (20.00%) Scrum
8 4 (16.00%) API Development
8 4 (16.00%) Collaborative Culture
8 4 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (16.00%) Mobile First
8 4 (16.00%) Translating Business Requirements
9 3 (12.00%) Front End Development
9 3 (12.00%) Investment Management
9 3 (12.00%) SDLC
9 3 (12.00%) Software Engineering
10 2 (8.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 16 (64.00%) C#
2 5 (20.00%) Java
2 5 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (16.00%) Python
4 3 (12.00%) SQL
5 1 (4.00%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (4.00%) Degree
1 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) CDISC
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (16.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) Rollbar
3 1 (4.00%) Blue Prism
3 1 (4.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft