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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 451 386 416
Rank change year-on-year -65 +30 +91
Permanent jobs citing API Development 176 284 381
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.29% 0.65% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.70% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 120 194 307
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,355 £49,063 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year - -2.04% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £93,458 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -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 48,128 40,388 58,996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.10% 92.71% 88.19%
Number of salaries quoted 29,549 20,191 46,643
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £40,250
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 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 22 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 22 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 +29 79 £75,000 -16.67% 24
Midlands +3 39 £55,000 -8.33% 11
North of England -48 26 £56,000 +1.82% 28
East Midlands -8 22 £55,000 -8.33% 2
North West -13 19 £52,500 -4.55% 16
South West -27 19 £60,000 +9.09% 7
West Midlands +3 17 £55,000 -8.33% 9
South East -36 5 £50,000 -9.09% 19
Yorkshire -45 5 £65,000 - 7
East of England 0 3 £90,000 +100.00% 7
North East -17 2 £55,200 +2.70% 5
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 (6.82%) Appian
2 8 (4.55%) Apache
2 8 (4.55%) CMS
3 5 (2.84%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.27%) Anypoint
4 4 (2.27%) nginx
5 3 (1.70%) Confluence
5 3 (1.70%) Moodle
5 3 (1.70%) NServiceBus
6 2 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.14%) Headless CMS
6 2 (1.14%) JBoss
6 2 (1.14%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.57%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.57%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (2.27%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.14%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.57%) Magento
4 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 73 (41.48%) Azure
2 67 (38.07%) AWS
3 30 (17.05%) GCP
4 26 (14.77%) Serverless
5 20 (11.36%) AWS Lambda
5 20 (11.36%) Power Automate
6 19 (10.80%) GitHub
7 15 (8.52%) Amazon S3
8 14 (7.95%) Anthropic Claude
8 14 (7.95%) Azure AI
8 14 (7.95%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (6.82%) Power Platform
10 10 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (5.68%) OpenShift
11 8 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (4.55%) PowerApps
12 7 (3.98%) Figma
13 6 (3.41%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (2.84%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (2.84%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.84%) AMQP
2 2 (1.14%) SSL
3 1 (0.57%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 24 (13.64%) NoSQL
3 14 (7.95%) MySQL
4 12 (6.82%) Amazon Redshift
4 12 (6.82%) Pinecone
5 11 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (4.55%) Relational Database
7 7 (3.98%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.84%) Big Data
8 5 (2.84%) Cloudera CDH
8 5 (2.84%) Hadoop
9 4 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.27%) Power BI
10 3 (1.70%) Tableau
11 2 (1.14%) BigQuery
11 2 (1.14%) DB2
11 2 (1.14%) Qlik Sense
12 1 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.57%) Looker
12 1 (0.57%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 29 (16.48%) Git
2 17 (9.66%) Jenkins
3 13 (7.39%) MLflow
4 8 (4.55%) Selenium
5 7 (3.98%) Cucumber
5 7 (3.98%) GitLab
5 7 (3.98%) Storybook
6 5 (2.84%) JUnit
6 5 (2.84%) Visual Studio
7 4 (2.27%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.27%) JIRA
7 4 (2.27%) Postman
7 4 (2.27%) webpack
8 3 (1.70%) ESLint
9 2 (1.14%) Subversion
9 2 (1.14%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.14%) Vite
10 1 (0.57%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.57%) JMeter
10 1 (0.57%) PHPUnit
General
1 56 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 37 (21.02%) Finance
3 24 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.82%) Retail
5 11 (6.25%) Law
6 9 (5.11%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.84%) Legal
8 4 (2.27%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.27%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.70%) Banking
9 3 (1.70%) Games
9 3 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.70%) Marketing
9 3 (1.70%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.14%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.14%) Front Office
11 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 96 (54.55%) Developer
2 47 (26.70%) Full-Stack Developer
3 41 (23.30%) Senior
4 28 (15.91%) Senior Developer
5 23 (13.07%) Software Engineer
6 22 (12.50%) Lead
7 18 (10.23%) .NET Developer
8 17 (9.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 14 (7.95%) Architect
10 12 (6.82%) Automation Engineer
10 12 (6.82%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (6.25%) Software Developer
12 10 (5.68%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 9 (5.11%) Lead Developer
13 9 (5.11%) Web Developer
14 8 (4.55%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
15 6 (3.41%) Cloud Developer
15 6 (3.41%) React Developer
15 6 (3.41%) Senior Software Engineer
15 6 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (34.09%) React
2 46 (26.14%) Node.js
3 44 (25.00%) CSS
4 43 (24.43%) .NET
5 41 (23.30%) HTML
5 41 (23.30%) RESTful
6 38 (21.59%) REST
7 26 (14.77%) AngularJS
7 26 (14.77%) Swagger
8 25 (14.20%) OpenAPI
9 22 (12.50%) OAuth
10 20 (11.36%) Flask
10 20 (11.36%) Spring
11 19 (10.80%) Django
12 18 (10.23%) ASP.NET
12 18 (10.23%) pytest
13 17 (9.66%) .NET Core
13 17 (9.66%) FastAPI
14 16 (9.09%) JWT
14 16 (9.09%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.77%) Cloud Native
1 26 (14.77%) Legacy Systems
2 18 (10.23%) Low-Code
3 8 (4.55%) Mobile App
4 6 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.84%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.84%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.84%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.27%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.70%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.70%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.57%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.68%) Linux
2 5 (2.84%) CentOS
2 5 (2.84%) Debian
2 5 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.84%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (39.77%) Agile
1 70 (39.77%) CI/CD
2 56 (31.82%) Full-Stack Development
3 51 (28.98%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (26.70%) Containerisation
5 45 (25.57%) Microservices
6 43 (24.43%) AI
7 39 (22.16%) DevOps
8 38 (21.59%) Mentoring
8 38 (21.59%) Software Engineering
9 37 (21.02%) API Integration
10 33 (18.75%) Test Automation
11 27 (15.34%) Data Pipeline
11 27 (15.34%) Machine Learning
12 24 (13.64%) Computer Science
12 24 (13.64%) ETL
12 24 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
13 23 (13.07%) Stakeholder Management
14 22 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (12.50%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 71 (40.34%) JavaScript
2 69 (39.20%) SQL
3 68 (38.64%) Python
4 45 (25.57%) C#
5 35 (19.89%) Java
6 34 (19.32%) TypeScript
7 18 (10.23%) PHP
8 6 (3.41%) Bicep
9 5 (2.84%) Delphi
10 3 (1.70%) DataWeave
11 2 (1.14%) C++
11 2 (1.14%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.14%) R
11 2 (1.14%) RPG
11 2 (1.14%) Rust
12 1 (0.57%) Bash
12 1 (0.57%) Go
12 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.57%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 30 (17.05%) Degree
2 20 (11.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (7.39%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.68%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.41%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.27%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.95%) Accessibility
2 13 (7.39%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.98%) QA
4 2 (1.14%) GRC
5 1 (0.57%) GDPR
5 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (35.23%) Docker
2 4 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.57%) Squid
Systems Management
1 48 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 23 (13.07%) Terraform
3 5 (2.84%) Ansible
3 5 (2.84%) Grafana
3 5 (2.84%) Puppet
4 3 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.14%) Nagios
6 1 (0.57%) Kibana
Vendors
1 21 (11.93%) Google
1 21 (11.93%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.66%) OpenAI
3 13 (7.39%) UiPath
4 12 (6.82%) Automation Anywhere
5 10 (5.68%) Oracle
6 9 (5.11%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.98%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.84%) MuleSoft
8 5 (2.84%) SaltStack
9 4 (2.27%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.70%) iManage
10 3 (1.70%) New Relic
10 3 (1.70%) SAP
10 3 (1.70%) Zoho
11 2 (1.14%) IBM
11 2 (1.14%) Ping Identity
11 2 (1.14%) Splunk
11 2 (1.14%) Trapeze
12 1 (0.57%) Adobe