API Development Job Trends in England

API Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring API Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 338 426
Rank change year-on-year -140 +88 +70
Permanent jobs citing API Development 188 287 426
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.79% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.84% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 123 241 328
10th Percentile £45,250 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £78,125 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £94,500 £110,000 £86,625
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -13.95%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 54,454 34,050 67,812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 76.60% 93.17% 86.25%
Number of salaries quoted 34,258 20,315 52,343
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

API Development job vacancy trend in England

API Development
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing API Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing API Development

API Development
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Development in England over the 6 months to 3 April 2026.

Salary histogram for API Development in England

API Development
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Development within the England region over the 6 months to 3 April 2026. 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
London -26 80 £81,250 -4.41% 26
Midlands -24 39 £55,000 -8.33% 11
North of England -103 27 £56,000 -2.61% 20
East Midlands -24 21 £55,000 -8.33%
North West -46 20 £54,250 -1.36% 12
South West -47 19 £60,000 +9.09% 12
West Midlands -26 18 £55,100 -8.17% 11
East of England -49 9 £61,250 -2.00% 6
South East -55 8 £67,500 +35.00% 12
Yorkshire -75 5 £68,750 -1.79% 6
North East -23 2 £55,200 +0.36% 2
API Development
UK

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 12 (6.38%) Appian
2 11 (5.85%) CMS
3 8 (4.26%) Apache
4 5 (2.66%) Anypoint
4 5 (2.66%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.13%) Moodle
5 4 (2.13%) nginx
6 3 (1.60%) Headless CMS
6 3 (1.60%) NServiceBus
7 2 (1.06%) Confluence
7 2 (1.06%) JBoss
8 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.53%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.60%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.06%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.53%) Magento
3 1 (0.53%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 76 (40.43%) Azure
2 75 (39.89%) AWS
3 33 (17.55%) GCP
4 28 (14.89%) Serverless
5 23 (12.23%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (10.64%) GitHub
7 17 (9.04%) Power Automate
8 15 (7.98%) Amazon S3
9 14 (7.45%) Anthropic Claude
9 14 (7.45%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (6.38%) Azure AI
11 11 (5.85%) Power Platform
12 10 (5.32%) OpenShift
13 9 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (4.26%) Figma
14 8 (4.26%) SaaS
15 7 (3.72%) Apigee
16 6 (3.19%) Azure Monitor
16 6 (3.19%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.66%) AMQP
2 4 (2.13%) Broadband
3 2 (1.06%) SSL
4 1 (0.53%) DNS
4 1 (0.53%) HTTP
4 1 (0.53%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (21.81%) SQL Server
2 23 (12.23%) MySQL
3 18 (9.57%) NoSQL
4 15 (7.98%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (6.38%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (6.38%) Pinecone
5 12 (6.38%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.66%) Big Data
6 5 (2.66%) Cloudera CDH
6 5 (2.66%) Hadoop
7 4 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.13%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.13%) Power BI
8 2 (1.06%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.06%) DB2
8 2 (1.06%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.53%) Looker
9 1 (0.53%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (17.55%) Git
2 19 (10.11%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.91%) MLflow
4 8 (4.26%) Storybook
5 7 (3.72%) Cucumber
5 7 (3.72%) JUnit
5 7 (3.72%) Selenium
6 6 (3.19%) Postman
7 5 (2.66%) GitLab
8 4 (2.13%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.13%) JIRA
8 4 (2.13%) Visual Studio
8 4 (2.13%) webpack
9 3 (1.60%) ESLint
9 3 (1.60%) SpecFlow
10 2 (1.06%) Mockito
10 2 (1.06%) Subversion
10 2 (1.06%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.06%) Vite
11 1 (0.53%) PHPUnit
General
1 59 (31.38%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.62%) Finance
3 27 (14.36%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.38%) Retail
5 10 (5.32%) Law
5 10 (5.32%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.19%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.13%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.13%) Banking
7 4 (2.13%) Front Office
7 4 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.60%) Games
8 3 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.60%) Legal
8 3 (1.60%) Marketing
8 3 (1.60%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.06%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.53%) Advertising
10 1 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 99 (52.66%) Developer
2 48 (25.53%) Full-Stack Developer
3 39 (20.74%) Senior
4 30 (15.96%) Lead
5 28 (14.89%) Software Engineer
6 27 (14.36%) Senior Developer
7 19 (10.11%) .NET Developer
8 17 (9.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 16 (8.51%) Software Developer
10 14 (7.45%) Architect
11 13 (6.91%) Automation Engineer
12 12 (6.38%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 10 (5.32%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 10 (5.32%) Lead Developer
13 10 (5.32%) Web Developer
14 8 (4.26%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
15 7 (3.72%) Lead Software Engineer
15 7 (3.72%) Senior Software Developer
15 7 (3.72%) Senior Software Engineer
16 6 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (35.64%) React
2 50 (26.60%) .NET
3 47 (25.00%) CSS
4 46 (24.47%) Node.js
5 44 (23.40%) HTML
6 42 (22.34%) RESTful
7 41 (21.81%) REST
8 30 (15.96%) AngularJS
9 27 (14.36%) OpenAPI
9 27 (14.36%) Swagger
10 25 (13.30%) OAuth
11 24 (12.77%) Django
12 21 (11.17%) ASP.NET
12 21 (11.17%) Flask
13 20 (10.64%) .NET Core
13 20 (10.64%) Spring
14 19 (10.11%) JWT
15 17 (9.04%) pytest
16 16 (8.51%) Spring Boot
16 16 (8.51%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 29 (15.43%) Cloud Native
2 28 (14.89%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (8.51%) Low-Code
4 9 (4.79%) Mobile App
5 8 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.19%) Algorithms
6 6 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.13%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.60%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.60%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.06%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.06%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.06%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.53%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.45%) Linux
2 5 (2.66%) CentOS
2 5 (2.66%) Debian
2 5 (2.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.66%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.53%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (43.09%) CI/CD
2 76 (40.43%) Agile
3 57 (30.32%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (29.79%) Full-Stack Development
5 50 (26.60%) Containerisation
6 49 (26.06%) AI
7 47 (25.00%) Mentoring
8 46 (24.47%) Software Engineering
9 45 (23.94%) Microservices
10 43 (22.87%) Test Automation
11 42 (22.34%) DevOps
12 40 (21.28%) API Integration
13 27 (14.36%) Data Pipeline
13 27 (14.36%) Infrastructure as Code
14 26 (13.83%) Continuous Improvement
15 25 (13.30%) Computer Science
15 25 (13.30%) Machine Learning
16 24 (12.77%) Clean Code
16 24 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
17 23 (12.23%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 75 (39.89%) JavaScript
2 69 (36.70%) Python
3 66 (35.11%) SQL
4 54 (28.72%) C#
5 34 (18.09%) Java
5 34 (18.09%) TypeScript
6 20 (10.64%) PHP
7 5 (2.66%) Bicep
7 5 (2.66%) Delphi
8 4 (2.13%) DataWeave
9 3 (1.60%) Bash
10 2 (1.06%) C++
10 2 (1.06%) RPG
10 2 (1.06%) Rust
11 1 (0.53%) Go
11 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.53%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 31 (16.49%) Degree
2 22 (11.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (6.38%) Security Cleared
4 9 (4.79%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.66%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.13%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.45%) Accessibility
2 13 (6.91%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.66%) QA
4 2 (1.06%) GRC
System Software
1 66 (35.11%) Docker
2 4 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 28 (14.89%) Terraform
3 5 (2.66%) Ansible
3 5 (2.66%) Grafana
3 5 (2.66%) Puppet
4 4 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.06%) Nagios
Vendors
1 24 (12.77%) Google
2 19 (10.11%) Microsoft
3 16 (8.51%) OpenAI
4 12 (6.38%) Automation Anywhere
4 12 (6.38%) UiPath
5 10 (5.32%) Oracle
6 9 (4.79%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.72%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.66%) MuleSoft
8 5 (2.66%) SaltStack
9 4 (2.13%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.60%) SAP
10 3 (1.60%) Zoho
11 2 (1.06%) IBM
11 2 (1.06%) New Relic
11 2 (1.06%) Pega
11 2 (1.06%) Ping Identity
11 2 (1.06%) Splunk
11 2 (1.06%) Trapeze
12 1 (0.53%) Adobe