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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 630 623 399
Rank change year-on-year -7 -224 +122
Permanent jobs citing API Design 263 382 1,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.38% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.40% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 209 279 325
10th Percentile £32,300 £47,500 £39,124
25th Percentile £50,625 £58,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% - +25.49%
75th Percentile £78,750 £90,625 £100,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -21.43% +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 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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% +10.53%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -32 222 £65,000 -18.75% 69
UK excluding London +39 172 £55,000 -21.43% 41
Work from Home +35 109 £65,000 -13.33% 34
London -43 68 £77,500 -3.48% 27
West Midlands +39 41 £52,500 -30.00% 7
South East +14 41 £55,000 - 11
Midlands +12 41 £52,500 -30.00% 8
North of England +52 40 £70,000 -1.75% 14
North West +10 24 £70,000 +48.94% 10
Scotland -51 22 £32,500 -50.94% 5
South West -9 20 £52,750 -21.85%
Yorkshire +85 13 £100,000 +35.59% 2
East of England -11 8 £65,000 -25.71% 2
North East +1 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 21 (7.98%) IIS
2 15 (5.70%) Confluence
3 5 (1.90%) Anypoint
4 4 (1.52%) CMS
4 4 (1.52%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.76%) Apache
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.38%) nginx
6 1 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 8 (3.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 102 (38.78%) Azure
2 77 (29.28%) AWS
3 46 (17.49%) SaaS
4 35 (13.31%) Cloud Computing
5 23 (8.75%) GCP
6 18 (6.84%) Serverless
7 15 (5.70%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (4.18%) Google Play
9 10 (3.80%) Power Platform
10 9 (3.42%) Boomi
10 9 (3.42%) iPaaS
11 8 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (3.04%) Slack
12 6 (2.28%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (1.90%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (1.90%) PaaS
14 4 (1.52%) Amazon S3
14 4 (1.52%) Azure API Management
14 4 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 20 (7.60%) WAN
2 10 (3.80%) Firewall
3 5 (1.90%) HTTP
4 3 (1.14%) MQTT
5 2 (0.76%) DSL
5 2 (0.76%) Internet
6 1 (0.38%) DHCP
6 1 (0.38%) DNS
6 1 (0.38%) Network Security
6 1 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (25.10%) NoSQL
2 54 (20.53%) SQL Server
3 20 (7.60%) MongoDB
3 20 (7.60%) MySQL
3 20 (7.60%) Redis
4 18 (6.84%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (4.56%) Relational Database
6 8 (3.04%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (3.04%) CockroachDB
6 8 (3.04%) Data Lake
6 8 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.04%) DynamoDB
7 7 (2.66%) Big Data
8 5 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.52%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.14%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.76%) GIS
12 1 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.38%) Firebird
12 1 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 66 (25.10%) Git
2 40 (15.21%) Jenkins
3 16 (6.08%) Octopus Deploy
4 15 (5.70%) JIRA
5 13 (4.94%) GitLab
6 11 (4.18%) Cucumber
7 10 (3.80%) Appium
7 10 (3.80%) JUnit
8 9 (3.42%) Selenium
9 8 (3.04%) CircleCI
9 8 (3.04%) Jaeger
9 8 (3.04%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (2.28%) NUnit
11 5 (1.90%) Visual Studio
12 4 (1.52%) Jasmine
13 3 (1.14%) Maven
14 2 (0.76%) Postman
14 2 (0.76%) Snyk
14 2 (0.76%) SonarQube
15 1 (0.38%) webpack
General
1 89 (33.84%) Social Skills
2 64 (24.33%) Finance
3 23 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.22%) Banking
4 19 (7.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (7.22%) Retail
5 10 (3.80%) Billing
5 10 (3.80%) Law
5 10 (3.80%) Legal
6 8 (3.04%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.52%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.52%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.14%) Front Office
8 3 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.76%) Aviation
9 2 (0.76%) Marketing
9 2 (0.76%) Police
10 1 (0.38%) Electronics
10 1 (0.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 105 (39.92%) Developer
2 70 (26.62%) Architect
3 34 (12.93%) Senior
4 33 (12.55%) Lead
5 28 (10.65%) Software Engineer
5 28 (10.65%) Technical Architect
6 26 (9.89%) Solutions Architect
7 21 (7.98%) C# Developer
8 20 (7.60%) Senior Developer
8 20 (7.60%) Systems Engineer
9 19 (7.22%) .NET Developer
10 18 (6.84%) C# .NET Developer
11 17 (6.46%) Web Developer
12 13 (4.94%) Full Stack Developer
13 11 (4.18%) Integration Developer
13 11 (4.18%) Principal Architect
14 10 (3.80%) .NET Software Engineer
14 10 (3.80%) Android Developer
14 10 (3.80%) Principal Solutions Architect
14 10 (3.80%) Senior Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (24.33%) .NET
2 63 (23.95%) REST
3 51 (19.39%) RESTful
4 34 (12.93%) React
5 33 (12.55%) CSS
5 33 (12.55%) HTML
5 33 (12.55%) Node.js
6 28 (10.65%) JSON
7 21 (7.98%) Kafka
7 21 (7.98%) RabbitMQ
8 20 (7.60%) Spring Boot
9 19 (7.22%) .NET Core
10 18 (6.84%) ASP.NET Web API
11 17 (6.46%) .NET Framework
12 16 (6.08%) AngularJS
12 16 (6.08%) MSMQ
12 16 (6.08%) Spring
13 14 (5.32%) XML
14 12 (4.56%) Vue
15 11 (4.18%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 36 (13.69%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (9.51%) Product Ownership
3 24 (9.13%) Cloud Native
4 20 (7.60%) Clustering
4 20 (7.60%) Public Cloud
5 19 (7.22%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (6.46%) Mobile App
7 11 (4.18%) Blockchain
8 10 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (3.04%) Data Structures
9 8 (3.04%) Management Information System
10 7 (2.66%) Robotics
11 5 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.52%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 3 (1.14%) FMCG
14 2 (0.76%) Data Centre
14 2 (0.76%) IoT
14 2 (0.76%) PMI
14 2 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.84%) Linux
2 13 (4.94%) Android
3 9 (3.42%) Windows
4 3 (1.14%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.76%) VMS
6 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (46.39%) Agile
2 118 (44.87%) Microservices
3 102 (38.78%) CI/CD
4 83 (31.56%) Problem-Solving
5 75 (28.52%) DevOps
6 73 (27.76%) API Development
7 69 (26.24%) TDD
8 62 (23.57%) Mentoring
9 58 (22.05%) Software Engineering
10 57 (21.67%) Design Patterns
11 43 (16.35%) Unit Testing
12 42 (15.97%) MVC
13 41 (15.59%) Coaching
14 40 (15.21%) Software Testing
15 38 (14.45%) Roadmaps
16 37 (14.07%) Continuous Improvement
17 36 (13.69%) Architectural Patterns
17 36 (13.69%) Technical Leadership
18 35 (13.31%) Containerisation
18 35 (13.31%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 101 (38.40%) SQL
2 77 (29.28%) C#
3 76 (28.90%) Java
4 72 (27.38%) JavaScript
5 31 (11.79%) Python
6 24 (9.13%) TypeScript
7 15 (5.70%) T-SQL
8 14 (5.32%) PHP
9 13 (4.94%) Go
10 10 (3.80%) Kotlin
11 8 (3.04%) VB.NET
12 7 (2.66%) C
13 5 (1.90%) C++
14 4 (1.52%) Rust
15 2 (0.76%) Bash
15 2 (0.76%) DataWeave
15 2 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.76%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.76%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.38%) XAML
Qualifications
1 29 (11.03%) Degree
2 26 (9.89%) Security Cleared
3 18 (6.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.28%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.76%) ACCA
6 2 (0.76%) HND
6 2 (0.76%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.38%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.27%) QA
2 8 (3.04%) GDPR
2 8 (3.04%) PSD2
3 4 (1.52%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.52%) SEPA
4 3 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.76%) ISO 9000
5 2 (0.76%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.38%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.38%) SLA
6 1 (0.38%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 59 (22.43%) Docker
2 20 (7.60%) VMware NSX
3 3 (1.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 56 (21.29%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.32%) Terraform
3 10 (3.80%) Ansible
4 8 (3.04%) Kiali
5 4 (1.52%) Istio
6 2 (0.76%) Grafana
6 2 (0.76%) Kibana
6 2 (0.76%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.38%) Consul
7 1 (0.38%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.38%) Packer
Vendors
1 64 (24.33%) Microsoft
2 30 (11.41%) Google
3 21 (7.98%) MuleSoft
4 20 (7.60%) VMware
5 10 (3.80%) Salesforce
6 9 (3.42%) Jitterbit
6 9 (3.42%) Talend
7 8 (3.04%) AppDynamics
7 8 (3.04%) Duck Creek
7 8 (3.04%) Splunk
8 4 (1.52%) Oracle
9 2 (0.76%) Cisco
10 1 (0.38%) Apple
10 1 (0.38%) Mapbox
10 1 (0.38%) Okta
10 1 (0.38%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.38%) Sitecore