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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 383 486
Rank change year-on-year -106 +103 +19
Permanent jobs citing API Development 203 278 389
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.70% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.76% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 129 224 291
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,000 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -17.24%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £75,750
90th Percentile £95,500 £110,000 £87,500
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 60,371 36,609 77,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 72.97% 92.71% 82.23%
Number of salaries quoted 42,401 19,964 56,209
10th Percentile £30,625 £29,000 £29,286
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,560 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% +4.65% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,350 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -44 85 £81,250 - 29
North of England -64 41 £60,625 -13.39% 11
Midlands -5 31 £55,000 -2.22% 3
North West -21 28 £70,000 +7.69% 6
South East -38 21 £68,750 +37.50% 19
South West -57 17 £58,750 - 5
West Midlands -18 16 £50,000 -4.76%
East Midlands -10 15 £55,000 -8.33% 3
North East -33 11 £47,000 -10.48% 1
East of England -43 8 £45,000 -47.06% 3
Yorkshire -67 2 £50,000 -28.57% 4
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 (5.42%) CMS
2 8 (3.94%) Apache
3 7 (3.45%) Appian
4 6 (2.96%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.96%) nginx
5 4 (1.97%) IIS
6 3 (1.48%) Anypoint
6 3 (1.48%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.99%) JBoss
7 2 (0.99%) Moodle
7 2 (0.99%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.99%) WordPress
8 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.97%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.49%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 85 (41.87%) Azure
2 67 (33.00%) AWS
3 33 (16.26%) Serverless
4 32 (15.76%) GCP
5 28 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (11.82%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (7.39%) Amazon S3
8 14 (6.90%) GitHub
9 13 (6.40%) LangSmith
10 11 (5.42%) Anthropic Claude
10 11 (5.42%) Firebase
11 10 (4.93%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (4.43%) Power Automate
13 8 (3.94%) Apigee
13 8 (3.94%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (3.94%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (3.94%) SaaS
14 7 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (3.45%) Azure AI
14 7 (3.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.46%) AMQP
2 4 (1.97%) Broadband
3 3 (1.48%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.99%) DNS
4 2 (0.99%) HTTP
4 2 (0.99%) SSL
5 1 (0.49%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (16.75%) SQL Server
2 29 (14.29%) MySQL
3 17 (8.37%) Relational Database
4 15 (7.39%) NoSQL
5 12 (5.91%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (4.93%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (3.94%) Pinecone
8 6 (2.96%) Big Data
9 5 (2.46%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (2.46%) Hadoop
9 5 (2.46%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.97%) Power BI
11 3 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.99%) Qlik Sense
13 1 (0.49%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.49%) Metadata
13 1 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
13 1 (0.49%) Tableau
13 1 (0.49%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 33 (16.26%) Git
2 25 (12.32%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.42%) fastlane
4 7 (3.45%) MLflow
4 7 (3.45%) Postman
5 6 (2.96%) Storybook
5 6 (2.96%) Xcode
6 5 (2.46%) Android Studio
6 5 (2.46%) Crashlytics
6 5 (2.46%) Gradle
7 4 (1.97%) GitLab
7 4 (1.97%) JUnit
7 4 (1.97%) Mockito
7 4 (1.97%) SpecFlow
7 4 (1.97%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.48%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.48%) ESLint
9 2 (0.99%) JIRA
9 2 (0.99%) JMeter
9 2 (0.99%) Subversion
General
1 39 (19.21%) Social Skills
2 38 (18.72%) Finance
3 19 (9.36%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (8.37%) Public Sector
6 15 (7.39%) Banking
7 12 (5.91%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.45%) Retail
9 5 (2.46%) Front Office
10 4 (1.97%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.97%) Law
11 3 (1.48%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.48%) Marketing
11 3 (1.48%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.99%) Legal
12 2 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.49%) Advertising
13 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 113 (55.67%) Developer
2 44 (21.67%) Senior
3 37 (18.23%) Full-Stack Developer
4 33 (16.26%) Lead
5 30 (14.78%) Senior Developer
6 29 (14.29%) Software Developer
7 25 (12.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 24 (11.82%) Software Engineer
9 19 (9.36%) .NET Developer
10 18 (8.87%) C# Developer
11 15 (7.39%) Senior Software Developer
12 13 (6.40%) C# Software Developer
12 13 (6.40%) Lead Developer
12 13 (6.40%) Senior C# Developer
12 13 (6.40%) Senior C# Software Developer
13 9 (4.43%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 8 (3.94%) Automation Engineer
14 8 (3.94%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 7 (3.45%) Architect
15 7 (3.45%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (27.09%) .NET
2 51 (25.12%) React
3 46 (22.66%) Node.js
4 45 (22.17%) REST
5 44 (21.67%) RESTful
6 39 (19.21%) CSS
7 38 (18.72%) HTML
8 30 (14.78%) AngularJS
9 25 (12.32%) Swagger
10 24 (11.82%) OpenAPI
11 23 (11.33%) OAuth
12 19 (9.36%) .NET Core
13 18 (8.87%) ASP.NET
13 18 (8.87%) JWT
13 18 (8.87%) LlamaIndex
13 18 (8.87%) Model Context Protocol
13 18 (8.87%) Vue
14 17 (8.37%) LangChain
15 15 (7.39%) Spring
16 14 (6.90%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 50 (24.63%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.82%) Mobile App
3 16 (7.88%) Product Ownership
4 14 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (5.91%) AI Agents
6 10 (4.93%) e-Learning
7 9 (4.43%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.48%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.99%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.99%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.49%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.49%) IoT
12 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.88%) Linux
2 7 (3.45%) Android
3 6 (2.96%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.46%) CentOS
4 5 (2.46%) Debian
4 5 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.46%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.99%) Windows
6 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (47.29%) Agile
2 89 (43.84%) CI/CD
3 68 (33.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 65 (32.02%) AI
5 63 (31.03%) DevOps
6 62 (30.54%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (24.14%) Software Engineering
8 47 (23.15%) Mentoring
9 45 (22.17%) Test Automation
10 43 (21.18%) Containerisation
11 40 (19.70%) API Integration
12 36 (17.73%) LLM
12 36 (17.73%) Microservices
13 35 (17.24%) Clean Code
14 33 (16.26%) Computer Science
15 31 (15.27%) TDD
16 29 (14.29%) Scrum
17 28 (13.79%) Machine Learning
18 26 (12.81%) Continuous Improvement
18 26 (12.81%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 77 (37.93%) Python
2 72 (35.47%) C#
3 59 (29.06%) SQL
4 57 (28.08%) JavaScript
5 32 (15.76%) TypeScript
6 26 (12.81%) Java
7 18 (8.87%) PHP
8 6 (2.96%) Swift
9 5 (2.46%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.97%) Bash
10 4 (1.97%) Bicep
11 3 (1.48%) C++
11 3 (1.48%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.99%) DataWeave
12 2 (0.99%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.99%) Rust
12 2 (0.99%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.99%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.49%) Go
13 1 (0.49%) VB
Qualifications
1 36 (17.73%) Degree
2 23 (11.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (4.43%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.43%) Security Cleared
4 7 (3.45%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.97%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.99%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.85%) Accessibility
2 11 (5.42%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.42%) WCAG
3 5 (2.46%) QA
4 2 (0.99%) GRC
5 1 (0.49%) GDPR
5 1 (0.49%) NIST
5 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 64 (31.53%) Docker
2 4 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 47 (23.15%) Kubernetes
2 27 (13.30%) Terraform
3 6 (2.96%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (2.46%) Ansible
4 5 (2.46%) Puppet
5 2 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.99%) Kibana
5 2 (0.99%) Nagios
Vendors
1 28 (13.79%) Google
2 14 (6.90%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.40%) Dynatrace
3 13 (6.40%) OpenAI
4 7 (3.45%) Automation Anywhere
4 7 (3.45%) Red Hat
4 7 (3.45%) Splunk
4 7 (3.45%) UiPath
5 6 (2.96%) Apple
6 5 (2.46%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.46%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.97%) Oracle
8 3 (1.48%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.99%) New Relic
9 2 (0.99%) Pega
9 2 (0.99%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.99%) Trapeze
9 2 (0.99%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.49%) Databricks
10 1 (0.49%) SAP