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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 451 379 410
Rank change year-on-year -72 +31 +112
Permanent jobs citing API Development 174 284 378
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.29% 0.65% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.70% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 119 190 305
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,862 £50,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +2.04% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £95,938 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £110,125 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.14% +5.42% -11.11%

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 47,788 40,729 58,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.33% 92.55% 88.14%
Number of salaries quoted 29,331 20,236 46,053
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,984 £46,250 £40,058
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,875 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -12.00%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 +20 80 £75,000 -18.92% 26
Midlands -4 38 £55,200 -8.00% 11
North of England -57 25 £59,250 +7.73% 29
East Midlands -9 21 £55,100 -8.17% 2
North West -13 19 £52,500 -4.55% 14
South West -17 18 £58,250 +5.91% 7
West Midlands +1 17 £55,200 -8.00% 9
South East -27 5 £50,000 -15.43% 21
Yorkshire -48 4 £70,000 +16.67% 9
East of England -4 3 £90,000 +100.00% 7
North East -11 2 £55,200 +2.70% 6
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 (6.90%) Appian
2 8 (4.60%) Apache
3 7 (4.02%) CMS
4 5 (2.87%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.30%) Anypoint
5 4 (2.30%) Confluence
5 4 (2.30%) nginx
6 3 (1.72%) Moodle
6 3 (1.72%) SharePoint
7 2 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.15%) Headless CMS
7 2 (1.15%) JBoss
7 2 (1.15%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.57%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.57%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (2.30%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.57%) Magento
3 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.57%) Shopify
3 1 (0.57%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 74 (42.53%) Azure
2 68 (39.08%) AWS
3 29 (16.67%) GCP
4 27 (15.52%) Serverless
5 20 (11.49%) AWS Lambda
5 20 (11.49%) Power Automate
6 19 (10.92%) GitHub
7 15 (8.62%) Azure AI
8 14 (8.05%) Amazon S3
8 14 (8.05%) Anthropic Claude
9 13 (7.47%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (7.47%) Power Platform
10 11 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (5.75%) OpenShift
12 8 (4.60%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (4.02%) PowerApps
14 6 (3.45%) Azure Functions
14 6 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (3.45%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.87%) AMQP
2 2 (1.15%) SSL
3 1 (0.57%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (18.39%) SQL Server
2 26 (14.94%) NoSQL
3 12 (6.90%) MySQL
3 12 (6.90%) Pinecone
4 11 (6.32%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (4.02%) MongoDB
6 7 (4.02%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.87%) Big Data
7 5 (2.87%) Cloudera CDH
7 5 (2.87%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.72%) Power BI
8 3 (1.72%) Tableau
9 2 (1.15%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.15%) DB2
10 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.57%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.57%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (16.09%) Git
2 18 (10.34%) Jenkins
3 13 (7.47%) MLflow
4 8 (4.60%) Selenium
5 7 (4.02%) Cucumber
5 7 (4.02%) GitLab
6 6 (3.45%) JUnit
6 6 (3.45%) Storybook
7 5 (2.87%) JIRA
7 5 (2.87%) Visual Studio
8 4 (2.30%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.30%) Postman
8 4 (2.30%) webpack
9 3 (1.72%) ESLint
9 3 (1.72%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.15%) Subversion
10 2 (1.15%) Vite
11 1 (0.57%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.57%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 58 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 38 (21.84%) Finance
3 22 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.90%) Retail
5 11 (6.32%) Law
6 9 (5.17%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.45%) Legal
8 4 (2.30%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.30%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.72%) Banking
9 3 (1.72%) Games
9 3 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.72%) Marketing
9 3 (1.72%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.15%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.15%) Front Office
11 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 93 (53.45%) Developer
2 44 (25.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 42 (24.14%) Senior
4 28 (16.09%) Senior Developer
5 23 (13.22%) Software Engineer
6 22 (12.64%) Lead
7 17 (9.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 16 (9.20%) .NET Developer
9 15 (8.62%) Architect
10 12 (6.90%) Automation Engineer
11 11 (6.32%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (6.32%) Software Developer
12 9 (5.17%) Lead Developer
12 9 (5.17%) Web Developer
13 8 (4.60%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 8 (4.60%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
14 6 (3.45%) Cloud Developer
14 6 (3.45%) Full-Stack Web Developer
14 6 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
14 6 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (33.91%) React
2 48 (27.59%) Node.js
3 43 (24.71%) RESTful
4 42 (24.14%) .NET
5 40 (22.99%) CSS
6 39 (22.41%) REST
7 37 (21.26%) HTML
8 26 (14.94%) Swagger
9 25 (14.37%) AngularJS
10 24 (13.79%) OpenAPI
11 22 (12.64%) OAuth
12 21 (12.07%) Spring
13 20 (11.49%) Flask
14 19 (10.92%) .NET Core
14 19 (10.92%) Django
15 18 (10.34%) pytest
16 17 (9.77%) ASP.NET
16 17 (9.77%) FastAPI
16 17 (9.77%) PyTorch
16 17 (9.77%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.52%) Cloud Native
2 26 (14.94%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (10.34%) Low-Code
4 9 (5.17%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.45%) AI Agents
5 6 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.87%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.87%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.30%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.72%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.15%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.75%) Linux
2 5 (2.87%) CentOS
2 5 (2.87%) Debian
2 5 (2.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.87%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (40.80%) CI/CD
2 69 (39.66%) Agile
3 52 (29.89%) Full-Stack Development
4 50 (28.74%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (25.86%) Containerisation
5 45 (25.86%) Microservices
6 42 (24.14%) AI
7 40 (22.99%) DevOps
8 38 (21.84%) API Integration
9 37 (21.26%) Software Engineering
10 36 (20.69%) Mentoring
11 34 (19.54%) Test Automation
12 28 (16.09%) Machine Learning
13 27 (15.52%) Data Pipeline
14 26 (14.94%) Infrastructure as Code
15 23 (13.22%) Computer Science
15 23 (13.22%) ETL
16 22 (12.64%) Clean Code
16 22 (12.64%) Stakeholder Management
17 21 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 69 (39.66%) JavaScript
1 69 (39.66%) SQL
2 68 (39.08%) Python
3 44 (25.29%) C#
4 36 (20.69%) Java
5 34 (19.54%) TypeScript
6 16 (9.20%) PHP
7 7 (4.02%) Bicep
8 5 (2.87%) Delphi
9 3 (1.72%) DataWeave
10 2 (1.15%) C++
10 2 (1.15%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.15%) R
10 2 (1.15%) RPG
10 2 (1.15%) Rust
11 1 (0.57%) Bash
11 1 (0.57%) Go
11 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.57%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.57%) XAML
Qualifications
1 29 (16.67%) Degree
2 19 (10.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (7.47%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.75%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.45%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.30%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.47%) Accessibility
1 13 (7.47%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.60%) QA
3 2 (1.15%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.57%) GDPR
4 1 (0.57%) GRC
4 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 60 (34.48%) Docker
2 4 (2.30%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.57%) Squid
Systems Management
1 49 (28.16%) Kubernetes
2 23 (13.22%) Terraform
3 5 (2.87%) Ansible
3 5 (2.87%) Grafana
3 5 (2.87%) Puppet
4 3 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.15%) Nagios
6 1 (0.57%) Kibana
Vendors
1 21 (12.07%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.49%) Google
3 18 (10.34%) OpenAI
4 13 (7.47%) UiPath
5 12 (6.90%) Automation Anywhere
6 10 (5.75%) Oracle
7 9 (5.17%) Atlassian
8 7 (4.02%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.87%) MuleSoft
9 5 (2.87%) SaltStack
10 4 (2.30%) iManage
10 4 (2.30%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.72%) New Relic
11 3 (1.72%) SAP
11 3 (1.72%) Zoho
12 2 (1.15%) IBM
12 2 (1.15%) Ping Identity
12 2 (1.15%) Splunk
13 1 (0.57%) Adobe
13 1 (0.57%) Trapeze