API Development Jobs in England

API Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring API Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited API Development over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 429 495 512
Rank change year-on-year +66 +17 -24
Permanent jobs citing API Development 281 393 392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.54% 0.42% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.51% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 228 280 300
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £49,925
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -18.64% +22.92%
75th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £87,813
90th Percentile £110,375 £95,000 £106,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +16.67%

All Process and 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 47,493 76,893 74,965
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 91.26% 82.55% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 24,808 54,372 47,819
10th Percentile £28,750 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £45,077
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,435 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.43% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing API Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for API Development in England

API Development
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing API Development in England.

Salary trend for API Development in England

API Development
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Development in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

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 5 July 2025. 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 +78 111 £77,500 +3.33% 319
North of England +50 67 £67,500 +17.39% 150
North West -5 40 £57,500 - 98
South East +42 34 £50,000 -23.08% 117
East of England +46 30 £85,000 +88.89% 66
Yorkshire +53 26 £70,000 +21.74% 49
South West +63 23 £58,750 +2.17% 64
Midlands +49 14 £55,250 +5.24% 59
West Midlands +38 13 £52,500 +5.00% 28
East Midlands +29 1 £58,000 -3.33% 31
North East - 1 £52,500 - 4
API Development
UK

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (3.91%) CMS
2 7 (2.49%) Confluence
3 6 (2.14%) Headless CMS
4 3 (1.07%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.07%) IIS
4 3 (1.07%) OpenEdge
5 2 (0.71%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.71%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.36%) Apache
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.36%) JBoss
6 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.36%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (1.42%) Chatbot
1 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (3.91%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.42%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.42%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.71%) Shopify
4 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 117 (41.64%) Azure
2 109 (38.79%) AWS
3 51 (18.15%) Serverless
4 28 (9.96%) GitHub
5 27 (9.61%) GCP
6 26 (9.25%) SaaS
7 22 (7.83%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (7.83%) Cloud Computing
8 17 (6.05%) Power Platform
9 16 (5.69%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (5.69%) AWS Step Functions
9 16 (5.69%) Boomi
10 15 (5.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (4.98%) Amazon EventBridge
11 14 (4.98%) Amazon SQS
11 14 (4.98%) AWS CodeBuild
11 14 (4.98%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 14 (4.98%) AWS CodePipeline
12 13 (4.63%) Azure Functions
13 11 (3.91%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.27%) HTTP
2 1 (0.36%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.36%) RS-232
2 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (18.51%) SQL Server
2 50 (17.79%) NoSQL
3 30 (10.68%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (9.96%) MongoDB
5 20 (7.12%) Relational Database
6 17 (6.05%) Big Data
7 15 (5.34%) Power BI
8 13 (4.63%) MySQL
9 10 (3.56%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (3.56%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (2.85%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (2.49%) BigQuery
11 7 (2.49%) RDBMS
11 7 (2.49%) Tableau
12 5 (1.78%) Data Mining
12 5 (1.78%) Data Vault
13 3 (1.07%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.07%) Looker
13 3 (1.07%) Metadata
14 2 (0.71%) Redis
Development Applications
1 51 (18.15%) Git
2 25 (8.90%) JIRA
3 15 (5.34%) GitLab
4 12 (4.27%) Jenkins
5 11 (3.91%) PowerBuilder
6 10 (3.56%) Visual Studio
7 9 (3.20%) Selenium
8 6 (2.14%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.14%) Postman
9 5 (1.78%) JUnit
9 5 (1.78%) Storybook
10 4 (1.42%) Mocha
10 4 (1.42%) NUnit
11 3 (1.07%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.07%) Gradle
11 3 (1.07%) Maven
11 3 (1.07%) Mockito
11 3 (1.07%) Moq
11 3 (1.07%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.71%) TeamCity
General
1 72 (25.62%) Social Skills
2 68 (24.20%) Finance
3 29 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.90%) Banking
5 23 (8.19%) Public Sector
5 23 (8.19%) Retail
6 21 (7.47%) Law
7 15 (5.34%) Marketing
8 9 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.85%) Legal
9 8 (2.85%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (2.49%) Electronics
10 7 (2.49%) Investment Banking
11 6 (2.14%) Games
12 5 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.78%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.78%) Retail Banking
12 5 (1.78%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.42%) Front Office
13 4 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 133 (47.33%) Developer
2 68 (24.20%) Lead
3 51 (18.15%) Senior
4 41 (14.59%) Full-Stack Developer
5 35 (12.46%) .NET Developer
6 34 (12.10%) Software Engineer
7 21 (7.47%) C# Developer
7 21 (7.47%) Senior Developer
8 19 (6.76%) C# .NET Developer
9 16 (5.69%) Technical Leader
10 15 (5.34%) Architect
10 15 (5.34%) Senior Software Engineer
11 14 (4.98%) Software Developer
12 13 (4.63%) Lead Developer
13 12 (4.27%) Java Developer
13 12 (4.27%) Python Developer
14 11 (3.91%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 11 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
15 9 (3.20%) Full-Stack C# Developer
15 9 (3.20%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (41.64%) .NET
2 90 (32.03%) RESTful
3 78 (27.76%) React
4 63 (22.42%) REST
5 49 (17.44%) AngularJS
6 38 (13.52%) GraphQL
7 34 (12.10%) .NET Core
8 29 (10.32%) HTML
8 29 (10.32%) Vue
9 28 (9.96%) CSS
9 28 (9.96%) OAuth
10 24 (8.54%) Node.js
11 23 (8.19%) JWT
11 23 (8.19%) SOAP
12 22 (7.83%) ASP.NET
13 21 (7.47%) Kafka
14 18 (6.41%) .NET Framework
15 16 (5.69%) Spring
16 15 (5.34%) Entity Framework
17 14 (4.98%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.39%) Product Ownership
2 28 (9.96%) Cloud Native
3 18 (6.41%) Mobile App
4 11 (3.91%) Algorithms
4 11 (3.91%) Reinsurance
5 9 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (3.20%) Private Cloud
6 8 (2.85%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.49%) IoT
7 7 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.14%) Wiki
9 4 (1.42%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.07%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.07%) YARA
11 2 (0.71%) Educational Technology
11 2 (0.71%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (0.71%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.63%) Windows
2 9 (3.20%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.14%) Android
3 6 (2.14%) Linux
4 3 (1.07%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.36%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (52.31%) CI/CD
2 132 (46.98%) DevOps
3 111 (39.50%) Agile
4 104 (37.01%) Microservices
5 78 (27.76%) Software Engineering
6 71 (25.27%) Containerisation
6 71 (25.27%) Problem-Solving
7 62 (22.06%) Full-Stack Development
8 51 (18.15%) API Integration
8 51 (18.15%) Mentoring
9 40 (14.23%) Continuous Improvement
10 39 (13.88%) E-Commerce
11 37 (13.17%) Coaching
12 36 (12.81%) API Design
13 35 (12.46%) Roadmaps
14 34 (12.10%) User Experience
15 29 (10.32%) Analytics
15 29 (10.32%) Migration
16 28 (9.96%) Computer Science
16 28 (9.96%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 127 (45.20%) C#
2 86 (30.60%) SQL
3 84 (29.89%) Java
4 81 (28.83%) JavaScript
5 78 (27.76%) Python
6 44 (15.66%) TypeScript
7 16 (5.69%) PowerShell
8 14 (4.98%) PHP
9 10 (3.56%) C++
10 6 (2.14%) C
10 6 (2.14%) Go
11 4 (1.42%) Swift
12 3 (1.07%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.07%) OpenEdge ABL
12 3 (1.07%) Progress 4GL
12 3 (1.07%) Ruby
12 3 (1.07%) Rust
13 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.71%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.71%) XAML
Qualifications
1 31 (11.03%) Degree
2 27 (9.61%) Security Cleared
3 21 (7.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (4.27%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.78%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.42%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.42%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.71%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.96%) QA
2 17 (6.05%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.85%) GDPR
4 3 (1.07%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.07%) WCAG
5 2 (0.71%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.36%) CDISC
6 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 70 (24.91%) Docker
2 2 (0.71%) Squid
Systems Management
1 61 (21.71%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.56%) Grafana
3 8 (2.85%) Prometheus
4 7 (2.49%) Terraform
5 3 (1.07%) Ansible
5 3 (1.07%) Kibana
5 3 (1.07%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.71%) Argo
7 1 (0.36%) logstash
Vendors
1 49 (17.44%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.12%) MuleSoft
3 19 (6.76%) Salesforce
3 19 (6.76%) ServiceNow
4 15 (5.34%) Databricks
5 14 (4.98%) Google
5 14 (4.98%) Informatica
6 11 (3.91%) Oracle
7 6 (2.14%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.42%) New Relic
8 4 (1.42%) Remedy
8 4 (1.42%) SnapLogic
9 3 (1.07%) Progress
9 3 (1.07%) SAP
9 3 (1.07%) Splunk
9 3 (1.07%) Telerik
10 2 (0.71%) CyberSource
10 2 (0.71%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.71%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.71%) Rollbar