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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

api design

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

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 904 postings naming api design that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer74.7%
  2. 2Full-Stack Engineer7.4%
  3. 3Backend Engineer6.7%
  4. 4AI Engineer3.9%
  5. 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer3.3%
  6. 6Frontend Engineer1.5%
  7. 7Machine Learning 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 = 560
10th
$160k
25th
$170k
Median
$196k
75th
$225k
90th
$262k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA19.9%
  2. 2Remote16.8%
  3. 3New York, NY12.4%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA9.4%
  5. 5Seattle, WA4%
  6. 6Boston, MA3.4%
  7. 7Los Angeles, CA2.5%
  8. 8Austin, TX1.2%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.