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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 412 482
Rank change year-on-year -104 +70 -1
Permanent jobs citing API Development 226 251 290
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.57% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.64% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 146 203 198
10th Percentile £45,625 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,125 £52,500 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,620 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.11% +12.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -10.71%

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 69,735 39,168 58,616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.70% 89.33% 81.21%
Number of salaries quoted 49,222 22,629 38,358
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,259 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 -69 87 £77,500 - 26
North of England -61 50 £61,250 -7.55% 18
South East -39 31 £68,750 +37.50% 13
North West -17 30 £75,000 +15.38% 11
South West -61 29 £70,000 +33.33% 12
North East - 18 £47,000 - 3
Midlands -22 15 £55,000 -5.17% 7
East of England -50 12 £45,000 -47.06% 7
West Midlands -27 10 £55,000 -15.38% 2
East Midlands -21 5 £54,000 -6.90% 5
Yorkshire -46 2 £50,000 -28.57% 4
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 11 (4.87%) Apache
2 7 (3.10%) nginx
3 6 (2.65%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.65%) IIS
4 5 (2.21%) CMS
4 5 (2.21%) Confluence
4 5 (2.21%) JBoss
5 2 (0.88%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.88%) Moodle
6 1 (0.44%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.44%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.77%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.33%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.88%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 105 (46.46%) Azure
2 74 (32.74%) AWS
3 46 (20.35%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (13.72%) GCP
5 26 (11.50%) Serverless
6 21 (9.29%) LangSmith
7 13 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (5.75%) GitHub
8 12 (5.31%) OpenShift
9 11 (4.87%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (4.87%) Firebase
10 10 (4.42%) Power Platform
11 8 (3.54%) Amazon S3
11 8 (3.54%) Datadog
11 8 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (3.54%) SaaS
12 7 (3.10%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (3.10%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (2.65%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.21%) AMQP
1 5 (2.21%) SSL
2 4 (1.77%) Broadband
2 4 (1.77%) HTTP
3 3 (1.33%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.88%) DNS
5 1 (0.44%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (15.04%) MySQL
1 34 (15.04%) SQL Server
2 24 (10.62%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (8.41%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.87%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (2.65%) Big Data
5 6 (2.65%) DynamoDB
5 6 (2.65%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.21%) Cloudera CDH
6 5 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.21%) Geospatial Data
6 5 (2.21%) Hadoop
7 4 (1.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.33%) Power BI
8 3 (1.33%) SQLite
9 2 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.88%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 46 (20.35%) Git
2 26 (11.50%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.87%) fastlane
4 9 (3.98%) GitLab
5 8 (3.54%) JIRA
6 6 (2.65%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.65%) Postman
6 6 (2.65%) Xcode
7 5 (2.21%) Android Studio
7 5 (2.21%) Crashlytics
7 5 (2.21%) Gradle
7 5 (2.21%) MSI
8 4 (1.77%) JUnit
8 4 (1.77%) Mockito
8 4 (1.77%) SpecFlow
8 4 (1.77%) Subversion
9 3 (1.33%) CMake
9 3 (1.33%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.33%) Storybook
10 2 (0.88%) Mocha
General
1 44 (19.47%) Finance
2 41 (18.14%) Social Skills
3 26 (11.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 26 (11.50%) Public Sector
4 20 (8.85%) Banking
5 18 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (7.96%) Financial Institution
6 12 (5.31%) Retail
7 11 (4.87%) Law
8 10 (4.42%) Legal
9 6 (2.65%) Aerospace
10 5 (2.21%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.77%) Front Office
12 3 (1.33%) Electronics
12 3 (1.33%) Marketing
13 2 (0.88%) Aviation
13 2 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.88%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 126 (55.75%) Developer
2 58 (25.66%) Senior
3 42 (18.58%) Senior Developer
4 34 (15.04%) Software Engineer
5 33 (14.60%) Software Developer
6 25 (11.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 23 (10.18%) C# Developer
7 23 (10.18%) Lead
8 19 (8.41%) .NET Developer
9 17 (7.52%) Senior Software Developer
10 15 (6.64%) C# Software Developer
10 15 (6.64%) Python Developer
10 15 (6.64%) Senior C# Developer
10 15 (6.64%) Senior C# Software Developer
11 14 (6.19%) Full-Stack Developer
12 13 (5.75%) Backend Developer
13 11 (4.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 9 (3.98%) Lead Software Engineer
15 8 (3.54%) Architect
16 7 (3.10%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (31.86%) .NET
2 51 (22.57%) REST
3 49 (21.68%) RESTful
4 41 (18.14%) React
5 34 (15.04%) HTML
6 32 (14.16%) Node.js
7 31 (13.72%) CSS
8 30 (13.27%) .NET Framework
8 30 (13.27%) ASP.NET
9 26 (11.50%) Model Context Protocol
10 25 (11.06%) AngularJS
10 25 (11.06%) LangChain
10 25 (11.06%) LlamaIndex
11 24 (10.62%) .NET Core
12 21 (9.29%) Langfuse
13 20 (8.85%) Entity Framework
13 20 (8.85%) OAuth
14 17 (7.52%) OAuth2
14 17 (7.52%) Spring
14 17 (7.52%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 69 (30.53%) Cloud Native
2 31 (13.72%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (9.73%) AI Agents
3 22 (9.73%) Mobile App
4 18 (7.96%) e-Learning
5 16 (7.08%) Product Ownership
6 13 (5.75%) Onboarding
7 9 (3.98%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (3.98%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.65%) Low-Code
9 5 (2.21%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.21%) Data Centre
9 5 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (2.21%) Private Cloud
9 5 (2.21%) Social Media
10 4 (1.77%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.33%) Mobile Wallet
11 3 (1.33%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.08%) Linux
2 11 (4.87%) Windows
3 7 (3.10%) Android
4 6 (2.65%) Apple iOS
4 6 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.21%) CentOS
5 5 (2.21%) Debian
5 5 (2.21%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.33%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (51.77%) Agile
2 100 (44.25%) CI/CD
3 81 (35.84%) DevOps
4 78 (34.51%) AI
5 70 (30.97%) Software Engineering
6 69 (30.53%) Full-Stack Development
7 64 (28.32%) Problem-Solving
8 52 (23.01%) Microservices
8 52 (23.01%) Test Automation
9 50 (22.12%) Containerisation
10 49 (21.68%) API Integration
10 49 (21.68%) Observability
11 42 (18.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 40 (17.70%) LLM
13 39 (17.26%) Mentoring
14 35 (15.49%) Clean Code
14 35 (15.49%) Computer Science
15 32 (14.16%) Generative AI
15 32 (14.16%) Infrastructure as Code
16 31 (13.72%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 91 (40.27%) C#
2 89 (39.38%) Python
3 55 (24.34%) JavaScript
4 52 (23.01%) SQL
5 34 (15.04%) Java
6 29 (12.83%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.10%) PHP
8 6 (2.65%) C++
8 6 (2.65%) Swift
9 5 (2.21%) Bash
9 5 (2.21%) Bicep
9 5 (2.21%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.21%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.33%) Embedded C++
10 3 (1.33%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.33%) VB
10 3 (1.33%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.88%) DataWeave
11 2 (0.88%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 41 (18.14%) Degree
2 30 (13.27%) Security Cleared
3 24 (10.62%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.98%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.33%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.88%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.62%) Accessibility
2 17 (7.52%) QA
2 17 (7.52%) WCAG
3 7 (3.10%) GDPR
4 5 (2.21%) NCSC
5 4 (1.77%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.33%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.33%) PSD2
7 2 (0.88%) GRC
8 1 (0.44%) NIST
8 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 61 (26.99%) Docker
2 5 (2.21%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (20.35%) Kubernetes
2 31 (13.72%) Terraform
3 8 (3.54%) Ansible
3 8 (3.54%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (2.65%) Puppet
5 5 (2.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (2.21%) Grafana
5 5 (2.21%) Nagios
6 3 (1.33%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.88%) Kibana
8 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 27 (11.95%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.06%) Google
3 13 (5.75%) Dynatrace
4 10 (4.42%) Red Hat
4 10 (4.42%) Splunk
5 6 (2.65%) Apple
6 5 (2.21%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.21%) New Relic
6 5 (2.21%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.21%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.77%) Databricks
7 4 (1.77%) Oracle
8 3 (1.33%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.33%) SAP
9 2 (0.88%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.88%) Pega
9 2 (0.88%) Trapeze
9 2 (0.88%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.44%) IFS
10 1 (0.44%) Refinitiv