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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 350 463
Rank change year-on-year -132 +113 +27
Permanent jobs citing API Development 195 304 397
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.80% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.86% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 125 258 308
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,810 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% +7.08% -14.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £102,000 £110,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £59,860 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.91% +8.33% -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 60,123 35,337 71,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.78% 93.01% 85.54%
Number of salaries quoted 38,109 20,607 53,811
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,625 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £58,599 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.34% +9.09% -10.57%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -35 85 £82,500 - 35
Midlands -21 41 £55,000 -8.33% 7
North of England -104 24 £60,000 +4.35% 15
East Midlands -19 21 £55,000 -8.33% 2
North West -34 21 £61,250 +11.36% 10
West Midlands -26 20 £55,000 -8.33% 5
South West -64 17 £55,000 +2.33% 5
South East -41 15 £65,000 +30.00% 21
East of England -43 9 £61,250 -2.00% 1
Yorkshire -86 2 £50,000 -16.67% 5
North East -34 1 £55,200 +2.70%
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 (6.15%) Appian
1 12 (6.15%) CMS
2 8 (4.10%) Apache
3 5 (2.56%) Anypoint
3 5 (2.56%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.05%) Moodle
4 4 (2.05%) nginx
5 3 (1.54%) Headless CMS
5 3 (1.54%) NServiceBus
6 2 (1.03%) Confluence
6 2 (1.03%) JBoss
6 2 (1.03%) WordPress
7 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.51%) IIS
7 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.54%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.51%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 77 (39.49%) Azure
2 70 (35.90%) AWS
3 33 (16.92%) GCP
4 29 (14.87%) Serverless
5 24 (12.31%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (9.23%) GitHub
7 16 (8.21%) Anthropic Claude
8 15 (7.69%) Amazon S3
8 15 (7.69%) Power Automate
9 14 (7.18%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (6.15%) Azure AI
10 12 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (5.13%) OpenShift
12 9 (4.62%) SaaS
13 8 (4.10%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (4.10%) Figma
13 8 (4.10%) Power Platform
14 7 (3.59%) Apigee
15 6 (3.08%) Azure Logic Apps
15 6 (3.08%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.56%) AMQP
2 4 (2.05%) Broadband
3 2 (1.03%) DNS
3 2 (1.03%) HTTP
3 2 (1.03%) SSL
4 1 (0.51%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (22.56%) SQL Server
2 25 (12.82%) MySQL
3 17 (8.72%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (7.18%) NoSQL
5 12 (6.15%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (6.15%) Pinecone
5 12 (6.15%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.56%) Big Data
6 5 (2.56%) Cloudera CDH
6 5 (2.56%) Hadoop
6 5 (2.56%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.05%) Power BI
8 3 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.03%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.03%) DB2
9 2 (1.03%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (0.51%) Looker
10 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (17.44%) Git
2 19 (9.74%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.67%) MLflow
4 8 (4.10%) Storybook
5 7 (3.59%) Cucumber
5 7 (3.59%) JUnit
5 7 (3.59%) Postman
5 7 (3.59%) Selenium
6 5 (2.56%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.56%) GitLab
7 4 (2.05%) JIRA
7 4 (2.05%) SpecFlow
7 4 (2.05%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.54%) ESLint
8 3 (1.54%) webpack
9 2 (1.03%) Mockito
9 2 (1.03%) Subversion
9 2 (1.03%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.51%) PHPUnit
General
1 50 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 33 (16.92%) Finance
3 27 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.13%) Retail
5 8 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.08%) Banking
6 6 (3.08%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.08%) Law
6 6 (3.08%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.08%) Marketing
7 5 (2.56%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.05%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.05%) Front Office
8 4 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.54%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.51%) Advertising
10 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Legal
10 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 109 (55.90%) Developer
2 47 (24.10%) Full-Stack Developer
3 40 (20.51%) Senior
4 32 (16.41%) Lead
5 30 (15.38%) Senior Developer
6 25 (12.82%) Software Developer
7 22 (11.28%) Software Engineer
8 21 (10.77%) .NET Developer
8 21 (10.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 13 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
10 12 (6.15%) Lead Developer
10 12 (6.15%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (5.64%) Senior Software Developer
12 10 (5.13%) Architect
12 10 (5.13%) C# Developer
12 10 (5.13%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 10 (5.13%) Web Developer
13 8 (4.10%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
14 6 (3.08%) .NET Web Developer
14 6 (3.08%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (31.28%) React
2 52 (26.67%) .NET
2 52 (26.67%) Node.js
3 47 (24.10%) CSS
4 44 (22.56%) REST
5 43 (22.05%) HTML
6 40 (20.51%) RESTful
7 32 (16.41%) AngularJS
8 27 (13.85%) OpenAPI
8 27 (13.85%) Swagger
9 26 (13.33%) OAuth
10 23 (11.79%) Django
11 20 (10.26%) ASP.NET
11 20 (10.26%) Flask
11 20 (10.26%) JWT
12 19 (9.74%) Spring
13 17 (8.72%) .NET Core
13 17 (8.72%) pytest
14 16 (8.21%) Spring Boot
14 16 (8.21%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 39 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 23 (11.79%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (7.69%) Low-Code
4 12 (6.15%) Mobile App
5 8 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (3.08%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.05%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.05%) e-Learning
8 4 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.05%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.54%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.03%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.03%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.51%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.67%) Linux
2 5 (2.56%) CentOS
2 5 (2.56%) Debian
2 5 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.56%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.03%) Android
4 1 (0.51%) Windows
4 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (42.56%) CI/CD
2 82 (42.05%) Agile
3 64 (32.82%) Full-Stack Development
3 64 (32.82%) Problem-Solving
4 58 (29.74%) AI
5 52 (26.67%) Containerisation
6 49 (25.13%) Mentoring
6 49 (25.13%) Software Engineering
7 48 (24.62%) DevOps
8 45 (23.08%) Microservices
9 44 (22.56%) Test Automation
10 36 (18.46%) API Integration
11 30 (15.38%) Machine Learning
12 28 (14.36%) LLM
13 26 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
14 25 (12.82%) Computer Science
15 24 (12.31%) Clean Code
16 23 (11.79%) Data Pipeline
16 23 (11.79%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 70 (35.90%) Python
2 68 (34.87%) JavaScript
3 65 (33.33%) C#
4 64 (32.82%) SQL
5 33 (16.92%) TypeScript
6 29 (14.87%) Java
7 18 (9.23%) PHP
8 5 (2.56%) Delphi
9 4 (2.05%) Bicep
9 4 (2.05%) DataWeave
10 3 (1.54%) Bash
10 3 (1.54%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.03%) C++
11 2 (1.03%) RPG
11 2 (1.03%) Rust
12 1 (0.51%) Go
12 1 (0.51%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.51%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 29 (14.87%) Degree
2 20 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (5.13%) Security Cleared
4 8 (4.10%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.05%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.05%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.21%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.54%) QA
4 2 (1.03%) GRC
System Software
1 69 (35.38%) Docker
2 4 (2.05%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (25.64%) Kubernetes
2 28 (14.36%) Terraform
3 5 (2.56%) Ansible
3 5 (2.56%) Grafana
3 5 (2.56%) Puppet
3 5 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.03%) Nagios
Vendors
1 26 (13.33%) Google
2 18 (9.23%) OpenAI
3 14 (7.18%) Microsoft
4 12 (6.15%) Automation Anywhere
4 12 (6.15%) UiPath
5 9 (4.62%) Atlassian
6 8 (4.10%) Oracle
7 7 (3.59%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.56%) MuleSoft
8 5 (2.56%) SaltStack
9 4 (2.05%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.54%) Zoho
11 2 (1.03%) IBM
11 2 (1.03%) New Relic
11 2 (1.03%) Pega
11 2 (1.03%) Ping Identity
11 2 (1.03%) Splunk
11 2 (1.03%) Trapeze
11 2 (1.03%) Xamarin
12 1 (0.51%) SAP