API Development Job Trends in Chester

API Development
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Chester requiring API Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing API Development 5 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Chester 3.47% - 3.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.03% - 3.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
75th Percentile £75,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median annual salary £57,500 - £60,000

All Process and Methodology Skills
Chester

API Development 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 Chester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 124 103 112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 86.11% 67.76% 97.39%
Number of salaries quoted 61 74 64
10th Percentile £30,750 £35,000 £32,353
25th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 £39,824
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.27% +27.42%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,484 £68,733
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,548
Cheshire median annual salary £48,850 £49,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.31% -1.00% +11.11%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing API Development relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Chester.

API Development job vacancy trend in Chester

API Development
Salary Trend in Chester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing API Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing API Development

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (80.00%) Bitbucket
2 4 (80.00%) GitLab
2 4 (80.00%) SonarQube
2 4 (80.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) Backend Developer
2 4 (80.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Business Strategy
1 4 (80.00%) Code Quality
1 4 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (80.00%) Decision-Making
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (80.00%) Secure Coding
1 4 (80.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 4 (80.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (20.00%) TDD
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes