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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 396 491
Rank change year-on-year -112 +95 +1
Permanent jobs citing API Development 204 283 362
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.65% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.72% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 142 230 268
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,625 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,653
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +15.41% -16.34%
75th Percentile £76,875 £87,500 £75,188
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -14.29%

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 64,786 39,214 72,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.00% 90.35% 82.40%
Number of salaries quoted 45,806 22,355 52,169
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 12 July 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 July 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 -50 78 £80,000 +3.23% 46
North of England -38 45 £60,625 -10.19% 21
North West -24 28 £70,000 +21.74% 12
Midlands -18 26 £55,000 -0.45% 4
South East -39 23 £68,750 +37.50% 12
South West -58 22 £60,000 +2.13% 22
West Midlands -15 15 £55,000 +4.76% 2
North East -41 15 £47,000 -10.48% 2
East Midlands -18 11 £55,000 -5.17% 2
East of England -40 8 £45,000 -46.27% 4
Yorkshire -53 2 £50,000 -28.57% 7
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 (5.39%) CMS
2 8 (3.92%) Apache
3 7 (3.43%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.94%) IIS
5 5 (2.45%) nginx
6 3 (1.47%) Appian
6 3 (1.47%) Confluence
6 3 (1.47%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.98%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.98%) Moodle
7 2 (0.98%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.98%) WordPress
8 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.49%) JBoss
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.96%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.49%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 91 (44.61%) Azure
2 67 (32.84%) AWS
3 37 (18.14%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (12.75%) GCP
4 26 (12.75%) Serverless
5 17 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (7.84%) LangSmith
7 14 (6.86%) GitHub
8 11 (5.39%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (5.39%) Firebase
9 10 (4.90%) Amazon S3
10 8 (3.92%) Anthropic Claude
10 8 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (3.92%) OpenShift
10 8 (3.92%) Power Platform
10 8 (3.92%) SaaS
11 7 (3.43%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (2.94%) Power Automate
13 5 (2.45%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.94%) AMQP
2 4 (1.96%) Broadband
3 3 (1.47%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.98%) DNS
4 2 (0.98%) HTTP
5 1 (0.49%) LTE
5 1 (0.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (16.67%) MySQL
2 33 (16.18%) SQL Server
3 17 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 16 (7.84%) NoSQL
5 15 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (4.41%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.43%) Big Data
8 6 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.94%) Cloudera CDH
8 6 (2.94%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.96%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.96%) Pinecone
9 4 (1.96%) Power BI
10 3 (1.47%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.98%) Qlik Sense
12 1 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (18.63%) Git
2 23 (11.27%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.39%) fastlane
4 6 (2.94%) GitLab
4 6 (2.94%) JIRA
4 6 (2.94%) Postman
4 6 (2.94%) Xcode
5 5 (2.45%) Android Studio
5 5 (2.45%) Crashlytics
5 5 (2.45%) Gradle
6 4 (1.96%) JUnit
6 4 (1.96%) Mockito
6 4 (1.96%) SpecFlow
7 3 (1.47%) MLflow
7 3 (1.47%) MSI
7 3 (1.47%) Storybook
8 2 (0.98%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.98%) JMeter
9 1 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.49%) webpack
General
1 37 (18.14%) Finance
2 35 (17.16%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (10.29%) Public Sector
4 17 (8.33%) Banking
5 16 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (7.35%) Financial Institution
7 9 (4.41%) Retail
8 7 (3.43%) Law
9 6 (2.94%) Front Office
10 5 (2.45%) Aerospace
10 5 (2.45%) Legal
11 3 (1.47%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.47%) Marketing
12 2 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.98%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.49%) Advertising
13 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.49%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 119 (58.33%) Developer
2 46 (22.55%) Senior
3 33 (16.18%) Software Developer
4 32 (15.69%) Senior Developer
5 27 (13.24%) Full-Stack Developer
6 24 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 24 (11.76%) Lead
6 24 (11.76%) Software Engineer
7 21 (10.29%) .NET Developer
8 18 (8.82%) C# Developer
9 15 (7.35%) Senior Software Developer
10 13 (6.37%) C# Software Developer
10 13 (6.37%) Senior C# Developer
10 13 (6.37%) Senior C# Software Developer
11 10 (4.90%) Python Developer
12 8 (3.92%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 8 (3.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 8 (3.92%) Lead Developer
13 7 (3.43%) Lead Software Engineer
13 7 (3.43%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (28.92%) .NET
2 49 (24.02%) REST
3 47 (23.04%) RESTful
4 39 (19.12%) React
5 38 (18.63%) HTML
5 38 (18.63%) Node.js
6 35 (17.16%) CSS
7 31 (15.20%) AngularJS
8 24 (11.76%) ASP.NET
9 21 (10.29%) .NET Framework
9 21 (10.29%) LlamaIndex
9 21 (10.29%) Model Context Protocol
10 20 (9.80%) LangChain
11 19 (9.31%) .NET Core
11 19 (9.31%) OpenAPI
12 17 (8.33%) Swagger
13 16 (7.84%) Langfuse
13 16 (7.84%) OAuth
13 16 (7.84%) Vue
14 14 (6.86%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 57 (27.94%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.78%) Mobile App
3 21 (10.29%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (7.84%) Product Ownership
5 15 (7.35%) AI Agents
6 13 (6.37%) e-Learning
7 11 (5.39%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (3.92%) Low-Code
9 7 (3.43%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (2.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (1.47%) Operational Technology
13 2 (0.98%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.98%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.98%) Mobile Wallet
13 2 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
14 1 (0.49%) Hybrid Cloud
14 1 (0.49%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.33%) Linux
2 7 (3.43%) Android
2 7 (3.43%) Windows
3 6 (2.94%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.94%) CentOS
3 6 (2.94%) Debian
3 6 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.94%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (50.98%) Agile
2 86 (42.16%) CI/CD
3 69 (33.82%) DevOps
3 69 (33.82%) Full-Stack Development
4 64 (31.37%) AI
5 61 (29.90%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (26.96%) Software Engineering
7 45 (22.06%) Test Automation
8 44 (21.57%) API Integration
9 43 (21.08%) Microservices
10 41 (20.10%) Containerisation
11 39 (19.12%) LLM
12 35 (17.16%) Clean Code
12 35 (17.16%) Mentoring
13 33 (16.18%) Observability
14 31 (15.20%) TDD
15 30 (14.71%) Computer Science
15 30 (14.71%) Scrum
16 27 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
16 27 (13.24%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 78 (38.24%) C#
2 76 (37.25%) Python
3 55 (26.96%) JavaScript
4 51 (25.00%) SQL
5 31 (15.20%) TypeScript
6 28 (13.73%) Java
7 15 (7.35%) PHP
8 6 (2.94%) Swift
9 5 (2.45%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.45%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.96%) Bash
11 3 (1.47%) Bicep
11 3 (1.47%) C++
11 3 (1.47%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.98%) DataWeave
12 2 (0.98%) Rust
12 2 (0.98%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.49%) Go
13 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.49%) VB
Qualifications
1 33 (16.18%) Degree
2 19 (9.31%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.43%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.47%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.98%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.80%) Accessibility
2 15 (7.35%) WCAG
3 8 (3.92%) QA
4 7 (3.43%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.47%) GDPR
5 3 (1.47%) NCSC
6 2 (0.98%) GRC
6 2 (0.98%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.98%) PSD2
7 1 (0.49%) NIST
7 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 53 (25.98%) Docker
2 4 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (20.10%) Kubernetes
2 27 (13.24%) Terraform
3 6 (2.94%) Ansible
3 6 (2.94%) Puppet
4 5 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.47%) Grafana
6 2 (0.98%) Kibana
6 2 (0.98%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.49%) Nagios
Vendors
1 23 (11.27%) Google
2 21 (10.29%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.37%) Dynatrace
4 9 (4.41%) OpenAI
5 7 (3.43%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.94%) Apple
6 6 (2.94%) SaltStack
6 6 (2.94%) Splunk
7 4 (1.96%) Oracle
8 3 (1.47%) Automation Anywhere
8 3 (1.47%) Databricks
8 3 (1.47%) UiPath
9 2 (0.98%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.98%) Pega
9 2 (0.98%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.98%) Trapeze
9 2 (0.98%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.49%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.49%) New Relic
10 1 (0.49%) SAP