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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 423 396
Rank change year-on-year -17 -27 +115
Permanent jobs citing API Development 157 266 314
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.55% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.61% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 106 170 251
10th Percentile £48,750 £43,625 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,438 £50,906 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £80,938 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £64,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.20% +4.17% -7.69%

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 42,425 43,642 44,587
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.21% 90.74% 89.79%
Number of salaries quoted 25,405 21,401 34,519
10th Percentile £28,675 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,628 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 +54 80 £76,250 -21.79% 33
Midlands +12 29 £59,720 -0.47% 13
North of England -18 24 £59,250 +7.73% 23
North West +18 18 £52,500 -4.55% 13
East Midlands -1 16 £60,250 +0.42% 3
West Midlands +9 13 £59,720 -0.47% 10
South West -3 11 £60,000 +11.63% 8
South East -12 4 £57,500 -14.81% 37
Yorkshire -21 4 £70,000 +21.74% 8
East of England +7 3 £90,000 +100.00% 15
North East +2 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 9 (5.73%) Appian
1 9 (5.73%) Confluence
2 5 (3.18%) Apache
3 4 (2.55%) Camunda
3 4 (2.55%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.91%) Anypoint
4 3 (1.91%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.91%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.27%) JBoss
5 2 (1.27%) Moodle
6 1 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.64%) CMS
6 1 (0.64%) nginx
6 1 (0.64%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.64%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (2.55%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.64%) Magento
3 1 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.64%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 75 (47.77%) Azure
2 57 (36.31%) AWS
3 26 (16.56%) GCP
3 26 (16.56%) Serverless
4 20 (12.74%) GitHub
5 19 (12.10%) Power Automate
6 17 (10.83%) Power Platform
7 15 (9.55%) Azure AI
8 13 (8.28%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (8.28%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (7.64%) Azure Functions
10 10 (6.37%) Anthropic Claude
11 9 (5.73%) Amazon S3
11 9 (5.73%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (5.73%) OpenShift
12 8 (5.10%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (5.10%) PowerApps
13 7 (4.46%) Azure App Service
13 7 (4.46%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (4.46%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.91%) AMQP
2 1 (0.64%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (18.47%) NoSQL
2 26 (16.56%) SQL Server
3 10 (6.37%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.73%) Pinecone
5 6 (3.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (3.18%) MySQL
7 3 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.91%) Big Data
7 3 (1.91%) Cloudera CDH
7 3 (1.91%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.91%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.91%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.91%) Tableau
8 2 (1.27%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.27%) DB2
8 2 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.64%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.64%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 22 (14.01%) Jenkins
2 21 (13.38%) Git
3 11 (7.01%) GitLab
4 10 (6.37%) JIRA
4 10 (6.37%) MLflow
4 10 (6.37%) Selenium
5 7 (4.46%) Bitbucket
5 7 (4.46%) Cucumber
5 7 (4.46%) JUnit
5 7 (4.46%) Visual Studio
6 6 (3.82%) Postman
6 6 (3.82%) Storybook
7 5 (3.18%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (2.55%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.55%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.91%) ESLint
9 3 (1.91%) JMeter
9 3 (1.91%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (1.91%) webpack
10 2 (1.27%) NUnit
General
1 61 (38.85%) Social Skills
2 41 (26.11%) Finance
3 20 (12.74%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.28%) Retail
5 9 (5.73%) Law
6 8 (5.10%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.46%) Legal
8 5 (3.18%) Banking
9 3 (1.91%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.91%) Games
9 3 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.91%) Marketing
9 3 (1.91%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.91%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 83 (52.87%) Developer
2 40 (25.48%) Senior
3 29 (18.47%) Full-Stack Developer
4 28 (17.83%) Senior Developer
5 20 (12.74%) Lead
6 19 (12.10%) Software Engineer
7 17 (10.83%) Architect
8 12 (7.64%) .NET Developer
8 12 (7.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 12 (7.64%) Software Developer
9 11 (7.01%) Python Developer
10 9 (5.73%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (5.10%) Lead Developer
12 7 (4.46%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (4.46%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
13 6 (3.82%) Azure Developer
13 6 (3.82%) React Developer
13 6 (3.82%) Senior .NET Developer
13 6 (3.82%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (32.48%) React
2 45 (28.66%) RESTful
3 41 (26.11%) Node.js
4 39 (24.84%) REST
5 36 (22.93%) .NET
6 32 (20.38%) CSS
7 29 (18.47%) HTML
8 23 (14.65%) Swagger
9 21 (13.38%) .NET Core
9 21 (13.38%) Spring
10 20 (12.74%) OpenAPI
11 19 (12.10%) Flask
12 18 (11.46%) AngularJS
12 18 (11.46%) Spring Boot
13 17 (10.83%) OAuth
13 17 (10.83%) pytest
13 17 (10.83%) PyTorch
14 16 (10.19%) Django
15 14 (8.92%) NumPy
15 14 (8.92%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 30 (19.11%) Cloud Native
2 22 (14.01%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (10.83%) Low-Code
4 11 (7.01%) Mobile App
5 8 (5.10%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (3.18%) Algorithms
7 5 (3.18%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.55%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.91%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.27%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.64%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.64%) IoT
11 1 (0.64%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.64%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.18%) Linux
2 3 (1.91%) CentOS
2 3 (1.91%) Debian
2 3 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (1.91%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (42.68%) CI/CD
2 58 (36.94%) Agile
3 49 (31.21%) DevOps
4 43 (27.39%) Microservices
5 41 (26.11%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (25.48%) Full-Stack Development
7 39 (24.84%) AI
8 36 (22.93%) Containerisation
9 33 (21.02%) Mentoring
10 32 (20.38%) API Integration
11 31 (19.75%) Test Automation
12 30 (19.11%) Software Engineering
13 29 (18.47%) Machine Learning
14 25 (15.92%) Infrastructure as Code
15 24 (15.29%) Continuous Improvement
16 23 (14.65%) Data Pipeline
17 22 (14.01%) Clean Code
18 20 (12.74%) Stakeholder Management
19 19 (12.10%) ETL
20 17 (10.83%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 68 (43.31%) SQL
2 60 (38.22%) Python
3 58 (36.94%) JavaScript
4 38 (24.20%) C#
5 37 (23.57%) Java
6 32 (20.38%) TypeScript
7 10 (6.37%) Bicep
7 10 (6.37%) PHP
8 5 (3.18%) Delphi
9 2 (1.27%) DataWeave
9 2 (1.27%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.27%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.27%) R
9 2 (1.27%) RPG
9 2 (1.27%) XAML
10 1 (0.64%) Bash
10 1 (0.64%) Go
10 1 (0.64%) Ruby
10 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.64%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 20 (12.74%) Degree
2 12 (7.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (6.37%) Security Cleared
4 7 (4.46%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.18%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.55%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.27%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.64%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.92%) Accessibility
2 12 (7.64%) QA
3 10 (6.37%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.91%) WCAG
5 2 (1.27%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.64%) GDPR
System Software
1 49 (31.21%) Docker
2 3 (1.91%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.64%) Squid
Systems Management
1 40 (25.48%) Kubernetes
2 20 (12.74%) Terraform
3 6 (3.82%) Grafana
4 4 (2.55%) Ansible
5 3 (1.91%) Puppet
6 1 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.64%) Kibana
6 1 (0.64%) Nagios
6 1 (0.64%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.19%) OpenAI
3 15 (9.55%) Google
4 11 (7.01%) Oracle
5 10 (6.37%) UiPath
6 9 (5.73%) Automation Anywhere
7 8 (5.10%) Atlassian
8 5 (3.18%) iManage
9 4 (2.55%) MuleSoft
9 4 (2.55%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.91%) Databricks
10 3 (1.91%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.91%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.91%) SaltStack
10 3 (1.91%) SAP
10 3 (1.91%) Zoho
11 2 (1.27%) IBM
11 2 (1.27%) New Relic
11 2 (1.27%) Ping Identity
11 2 (1.27%) Splunk