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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 448 397 423
Rank change year-on-year -51 +26 +101
Permanent jobs citing API Development 174 277 373
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.62% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.67% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 119 184 303
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £51,188 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £96,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £110,875 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.57% +5.83% -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 46,773 41,385 57,807
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.76% 92.14% 88.11%
Number of salaries quoted 28,477 20,477 45,736
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £40,702
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 £82,100 £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 12 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 12 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 +20 83 £75,000 -18.92% 28
Midlands -6 37 £55,200 -8.00% 12
North of England -40 24 £59,250 +7.73% 28
East Midlands -3 21 £55,100 -8.17% 2
North West +3 18 £52,500 -4.55% 18
South West -23 17 £56,500 +2.73% 12
West Midlands +3 16 £57,460 -4.23% 10
East of England -2 4 £90,000 +100.00% 7
South East -18 4 £57,500 -2.75% 12
Yorkshire -52 4 £70,000 +16.67% 5
North East -8 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 (6.90%) Appian
2 8 (4.60%) Apache
3 7 (4.02%) CMS
4 5 (2.87%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.30%) Confluence
5 4 (2.30%) nginx
5 4 (2.30%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.72%) Anypoint
7 2 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.15%) Headless CMS
7 2 (1.15%) JBoss
7 2 (1.15%) Jupyter
7 2 (1.15%) Moodle
7 2 (1.15%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.57%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (2.30%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.57%) Magento
3 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 76 (43.68%) Azure
2 67 (38.51%) AWS
3 29 (16.67%) GCP
4 28 (16.09%) Serverless
5 20 (11.49%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (10.92%) Power Automate
7 18 (10.34%) Azure AI
7 18 (10.34%) GitHub
8 15 (8.62%) Power Platform
9 14 (8.05%) Amazon S3
10 13 (7.47%) Anthropic Claude
11 12 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (5.75%) OpenShift
13 8 (4.60%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (4.02%) Azure Functions
14 7 (4.02%) n8n
15 6 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
15 6 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
15 6 (3.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.87%) AMQP
2 2 (1.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (17.24%) NoSQL
1 30 (17.24%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.90%) Pinecone
3 11 (6.32%) Amazon Redshift
3 11 (6.32%) MySQL
4 10 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (4.02%) MongoDB
5 7 (4.02%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.87%) Big Data
6 5 (2.87%) Cloudera CDH
6 5 (2.87%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.72%) Tableau
8 2 (1.15%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.15%) DB2
8 2 (1.15%) Power BI
9 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.57%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (15.52%) Git
2 17 (9.77%) Jenkins
3 13 (7.47%) MLflow
4 8 (4.60%) Selenium
5 7 (4.02%) Cucumber
5 7 (4.02%) GitLab
6 6 (3.45%) JUnit
7 5 (2.87%) JIRA
7 5 (2.87%) Storybook
7 5 (2.87%) Visual Studio
8 4 (2.30%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.30%) Postman
9 3 (1.72%) ESLint
9 3 (1.72%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.72%) webpack
10 2 (1.15%) Subversion
11 1 (0.57%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.57%) JMeter
11 1 (0.57%) NUnit
11 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 61 (35.06%) Social Skills
2 41 (23.56%) Finance
3 21 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.90%) Retail
5 10 (5.75%) Law
6 9 (5.17%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.02%) Legal
8 4 (2.30%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.30%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.72%) Banking
9 3 (1.72%) Games
9 3 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.72%) Marketing
9 3 (1.72%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.15%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.15%) Front Office
11 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 91 (52.30%) Developer
2 43 (24.71%) Full-Stack Developer
3 41 (23.56%) Senior
4 28 (16.09%) Senior Developer
5 23 (13.22%) Lead
5 23 (13.22%) Software Engineer
6 18 (10.34%) Architect
7 16 (9.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 13 (7.47%) .NET Developer
9 12 (6.90%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (6.32%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (5.75%) Python Developer
11 10 (5.75%) Software Developer
12 9 (5.17%) Lead Developer
13 8 (4.60%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (4.60%) Web Developer
14 7 (4.02%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 7 (4.02%) Solutions Architect
15 6 (3.45%) Cloud Developer
15 6 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (33.33%) React
2 52 (29.89%) Node.js
3 44 (25.29%) RESTful
4 38 (21.84%) .NET
4 38 (21.84%) CSS
4 38 (21.84%) REST
5 35 (20.11%) HTML
6 26 (14.94%) Swagger
7 23 (13.22%) AngularJS
7 23 (13.22%) OpenAPI
8 21 (12.07%) Flask
8 21 (12.07%) OAuth
8 21 (12.07%) Spring
9 20 (11.49%) PyTorch
10 19 (10.92%) Django
10 19 (10.92%) pytest
11 18 (10.34%) .NET Core
12 17 (9.77%) FastAPI
12 17 (9.77%) Spring Boot
13 16 (9.20%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.52%) Cloud Native
2 26 (14.94%) Legacy Systems
3 20 (11.49%) Low-Code
4 9 (5.17%) AI Agents
4 9 (5.17%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.87%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.87%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.30%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.72%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.15%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.57%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.75%) Linux
2 5 (2.87%) CentOS
2 5 (2.87%) Debian
2 5 (2.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.87%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (41.95%) CI/CD
2 68 (39.08%) Agile
3 51 (29.31%) Full-Stack Development
4 50 (28.74%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (25.86%) Microservices
6 44 (25.29%) AI
7 43 (24.71%) Containerisation
8 41 (23.56%) DevOps
9 39 (22.41%) API Integration
10 36 (20.69%) Software Engineering
11 35 (20.11%) Test Automation
12 34 (19.54%) Mentoring
13 33 (18.97%) Machine Learning
14 27 (15.52%) Data Pipeline
15 25 (14.37%) Infrastructure as Code
16 23 (13.22%) Computer Science
16 23 (13.22%) ETL
16 23 (13.22%) Stakeholder Management
17 22 (12.64%) Clean Code
18 21 (12.07%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 72 (41.38%) Python
2 71 (40.80%) SQL
3 68 (39.08%) JavaScript
4 42 (24.14%) C#
5 36 (20.69%) Java
5 36 (20.69%) TypeScript
6 17 (9.77%) PHP
7 8 (4.60%) Bicep
8 5 (2.87%) Delphi
9 2 (1.15%) C++
9 2 (1.15%) DataWeave
9 2 (1.15%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.15%) R
9 2 (1.15%) RPG
9 2 (1.15%) Rust
10 1 (0.57%) Bash
10 1 (0.57%) Go
10 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.57%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.57%) XAML
Qualifications
1 28 (16.09%) Degree
2 19 (10.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (7.47%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.75%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.45%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.30%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.72%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.47%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.32%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.60%) QA
4 2 (1.15%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.57%) GDPR
5 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 58 (33.33%) Docker
2 4 (2.30%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.57%) Squid
Systems Management
1 49 (28.16%) Kubernetes
2 22 (12.64%) Terraform
3 5 (2.87%) Ansible
3 5 (2.87%) Grafana
3 5 (2.87%) Puppet
4 3 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.15%) Nagios
6 1 (0.57%) Kibana
Vendors
1 23 (13.22%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.49%) OpenAI
3 19 (10.92%) Google
4 13 (7.47%) UiPath
5 12 (6.90%) Automation Anywhere
6 10 (5.75%) Oracle
7 9 (5.17%) Atlassian
8 7 (4.02%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.87%) iManage
9 5 (2.87%) SaltStack
10 4 (2.30%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.72%) New Relic
11 3 (1.72%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.72%) SAP
11 3 (1.72%) Zoho
12 2 (1.15%) IBM
12 2 (1.15%) Ping Identity
12 2 (1.15%) Splunk
13 1 (0.57%) Adobe
13 1 (0.57%) SnapLogic