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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

api design

903 live US technical postings name api design in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 903 postings naming api design that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer72.6%
  2. 2Full-Stack Engineer8.1%
  3. 3Backend Engineer7.5%
  4. 4AI Engineer4.7%
  5. 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer3%
  6. 6Machine Learning Engineer1.6%
  7. 7Frontend Engineer1.3%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where api design is named
n = 545
10th
$157k
25th
$180k
Median
$203k
75th
$230k
90th
$265k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA21.9%
  2. 2Remote17.1%
  3. 3New York, NY14.6%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA11.1%
  5. 5Seattle, WA5%
  6. 6Boston, MA3.4%
  7. 7Chicago, IL1.7%
  8. 8Los Angeles, CA1.7%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.