API Design Jobs

API Design
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for API Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited API Design over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 657 626 384
Rank change year-on-year -31 -242 +132
Permanent jobs citing API Design 256 344 1,644
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.36% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.38% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 203 253 329
10th Percentile £36,350 £47,500 £39,124
25th Percentile £50,313 £58,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% - +19.23%
75th Percentile £78,750 £89,852 £97,290
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,750 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -20.36% +16.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

API Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing API Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for API Design in the UK

API Design
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for API Design in the UK

API Design
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Design over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for API Design in the UK

API Design
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Design within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
England -55 218 £65,000 -18.37% 63
UK excluding London +22 166 £55,750 -20.36% 39
Work from Home +5 109 £65,000 -13.33% 34
London -23 67 £77,500 -3.48% 25
North of England +51 40 £70,000 -6.67% 12
West Midlands +14 40 £52,500 -30.00% 7
Midlands +8 40 £52,500 -30.00% 8
South East -4 39 £55,000 -4.35% 8
North West +8 24 £70,000 +48.94% 10
South West -13 20 £52,750 -21.85% 3
Scotland -55 19 £32,500 -50.94% 3
Yorkshire +67 13 £100,000 +33.33%
East of England -12 8 £65,000 -25.71% 3
North East -8 3 £65,000 -18.75% 2
Wales - 2 - -

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 19 (7.42%) IIS
2 15 (5.86%) Confluence
3 5 (1.95%) Anypoint
4 4 (1.56%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.17%) CMS
6 2 (0.78%) Apache
7 1 (0.39%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.39%) nginx
7 1 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 8 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 99 (38.67%) Azure
2 75 (29.30%) AWS
3 44 (17.19%) SaaS
4 33 (12.89%) Cloud Computing
5 23 (8.98%) GCP
6 18 (7.03%) Serverless
7 15 (5.86%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (3.91%) Google Play
8 10 (3.91%) Power Platform
9 9 (3.52%) Boomi
9 9 (3.52%) iPaaS
10 8 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (3.13%) Slack
11 7 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.34%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (1.95%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (1.95%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (1.95%) PaaS
14 4 (1.56%) Amazon S3
14 4 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.03%) WAN
2 10 (3.91%) Firewall
3 5 (1.95%) HTTP
4 3 (1.17%) MQTT
5 2 (0.78%) DSL
5 2 (0.78%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (24.61%) NoSQL
2 53 (20.70%) SQL Server
3 21 (8.20%) MongoDB
3 21 (8.20%) MySQL
3 21 (8.20%) Redis
4 19 (7.42%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (5.08%) Relational Database
6 8 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (3.13%) CockroachDB
6 8 (3.13%) Data Lake
6 8 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.13%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.95%) Big Data
8 4 (1.56%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.17%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.78%) GIS
11 1 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.39%) Firebird
11 1 (0.39%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 66 (25.78%) Git
2 42 (16.41%) Jenkins
3 17 (6.64%) Octopus Deploy
4 15 (5.86%) JIRA
5 13 (5.08%) GitLab
6 11 (4.30%) Cucumber
6 11 (4.30%) JUnit
7 10 (3.91%) Appium
8 9 (3.52%) Selenium
9 8 (3.13%) CircleCI
9 8 (3.13%) Jaeger
9 8 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.95%) NUnit
10 5 (1.95%) Visual Studio
11 4 (1.56%) Maven
12 3 (1.17%) Jasmine
12 3 (1.17%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.78%) Postman
13 2 (0.78%) Snyk
14 1 (0.39%) fastlane
General
1 89 (34.77%) Social Skills
2 59 (23.05%) Finance
3 22 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (7.42%) Retail
5 16 (6.25%) Banking
6 11 (4.30%) Law
7 10 (3.91%) Billing
8 8 (3.13%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.13%) Legal
9 4 (1.56%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.56%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.17%) Front Office
10 3 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.78%) Aviation
11 2 (0.78%) Marketing
11 2 (0.78%) Police
12 1 (0.39%) Electronics
12 1 (0.39%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 107 (41.80%) Developer
2 65 (25.39%) Architect
3 34 (13.28%) Senior
4 33 (12.89%) Lead
5 28 (10.94%) Technical Architect
6 27 (10.55%) Software Engineer
7 22 (8.59%) C# Developer
8 21 (8.20%) .NET Developer
8 21 (8.20%) Senior Developer
8 21 (8.20%) Solutions Architect
9 19 (7.42%) C# .NET Developer
10 18 (7.03%) Systems Engineer
10 18 (7.03%) Web Developer
11 13 (5.08%) Full Stack Developer
12 11 (4.30%) Integration Developer
12 11 (4.30%) Principal Architect
13 10 (3.91%) .NET Software Engineer
13 10 (3.91%) Android Developer
13 10 (3.91%) Lead Software Engineer
13 10 (3.91%) Principal Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (25.78%) .NET
2 65 (25.39%) REST
3 52 (20.31%) RESTful
4 35 (13.67%) CSS
4 35 (13.67%) HTML
5 34 (13.28%) React
6 33 (12.89%) Node.js
7 28 (10.94%) JSON
8 23 (8.98%) RabbitMQ
9 19 (7.42%) Kafka
10 18 (7.03%) .NET Core
10 18 (7.03%) .NET Framework
10 18 (7.03%) ASP.NET Web API
10 18 (7.03%) Spring Boot
11 17 (6.64%) AngularJS
11 17 (6.64%) MSMQ
12 15 (5.86%) XML
13 14 (5.47%) Spring
14 12 (4.69%) CSS3
14 12 (4.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 34 (13.28%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (9.77%) Product Ownership
3 22 (8.59%) Cloud Native
4 19 (7.42%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (7.03%) Clustering
5 18 (7.03%) Public Cloud
6 15 (5.86%) Mobile App
7 9 (3.52%) Blockchain
7 9 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (3.13%) Data Structures
8 8 (3.13%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.95%) Robotics
10 4 (1.56%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.17%) FMCG
12 2 (0.78%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.78%) IoT
12 2 (0.78%) PMI
12 2 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.03%) Linux
2 12 (4.69%) Android
3 10 (3.91%) Windows
4 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.78%) VMS
5 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (46.09%) Agile
2 114 (44.53%) Microservices
3 101 (39.45%) CI/CD
4 81 (31.64%) Problem-Solving
5 74 (28.91%) DevOps
6 70 (27.34%) API Development
7 67 (26.17%) TDD
8 62 (24.22%) Mentoring
9 58 (22.66%) Design Patterns
9 58 (22.66%) Software Engineering
10 44 (17.19%) MVC
10 44 (17.19%) Unit Testing
11 40 (15.63%) Coaching
12 38 (14.84%) Software Testing
13 36 (14.06%) Containerisation
13 36 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (14.06%) Roadmaps
14 34 (13.28%) Technical Leadership
14 34 (13.28%) Test Automation
15 32 (12.50%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 99 (38.67%) SQL
2 79 (30.86%) C#
3 74 (28.91%) JavaScript
4 72 (28.13%) Java
5 31 (12.11%) Python
6 23 (8.98%) TypeScript
7 16 (6.25%) T-SQL
8 14 (5.47%) PHP
9 12 (4.69%) Go
10 10 (3.91%) Kotlin
11 9 (3.52%) VB.NET
12 7 (2.73%) C
13 5 (1.95%) C++
14 4 (1.56%) Rust
15 2 (0.78%) Bash
15 2 (0.78%) DataWeave
15 2 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.78%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (11.72%) Degree
2 25 (9.77%) Security Cleared
3 19 (7.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.73%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.78%) ACCA
6 2 (0.78%) HND
6 2 (0.78%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.39%) CISSP
7 1 (0.39%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.77%) QA
2 8 (3.13%) GDPR
2 8 (3.13%) PSD2
3 4 (1.56%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.78%) ISO 9000
5 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.78%) SEPA
6 1 (0.39%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.39%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.39%) SLA
6 1 (0.39%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 58 (22.66%) Docker
2 18 (7.03%) VMware NSX
3 3 (1.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 56 (21.88%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.47%) Terraform
3 10 (3.91%) Ansible
4 8 (3.13%) Kiali
5 4 (1.56%) Istio
6 2 (0.78%) Grafana
6 2 (0.78%) Kibana
6 2 (0.78%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.39%) Consul
7 1 (0.39%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.39%) Packer
Vendors
1 63 (24.61%) Microsoft
2 29 (11.33%) Google
3 21 (8.20%) MuleSoft
4 18 (7.03%) VMware
5 10 (3.91%) Salesforce
6 9 (3.52%) Jitterbit
6 9 (3.52%) Talend
7 8 (3.13%) AppDynamics
7 8 (3.13%) Duck Creek
7 8 (3.13%) Splunk
8 4 (1.56%) Oracle
9 2 (0.78%) Cisco
10 1 (0.39%) Mapbox
10 1 (0.39%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.39%) Sitecore