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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 412 417
Rank change year-on-year -23 +5 +102
Permanent jobs citing API Development 173 279 373
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.61% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.66% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 118 185 303
10th Percentile £47,500 £44,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £51,000 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £79,188 £95,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.79% +5.00% -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 45,633 42,349 57,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 80.04% 91.91% 88.36%
Number of salaries quoted 27,719 20,706 45,408
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £55,440
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +11.83% -11.30%
75th Percentile £77,250 £81,250 £75,772
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 5 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 5 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 +50 85 £76,250 -19.74% 27
Midlands +19 34 £57,460 -4.23% 10
North of England -33 24 £59,250 +7.73% 27
East Midlands -2 19 £55,200 -8.00% 4
North West -9 18 £52,500 -4.55% 16
South West -9 17 £52,500 -12.50% 13
West Midlands +13 15 £59,720 -0.47% 6
East of England +4 4 £90,000 +100.00% 8
South East -22 4 £57,500 -12.21% 11
Yorkshire -35 4 £70,000 +16.67% 7
North East -14 2 £55,200 +2.70% 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 12 (6.94%) Appian
2 8 (4.62%) Apache
3 6 (3.47%) CMS
3 6 (3.47%) Confluence
4 5 (2.89%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.31%) nginx
5 4 (2.31%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.73%) Anypoint
6 3 (1.73%) Jupyter
7 2 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.16%) Headless CMS
7 2 (1.16%) JBoss
7 2 (1.16%) Moodle
7 2 (1.16%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.58%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (2.31%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.58%) Magento
3 1 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.58%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 78 (45.09%) Azure
2 67 (38.73%) AWS
3 29 (16.76%) GCP
4 28 (16.18%) Serverless
5 19 (10.98%) AWS Lambda
5 19 (10.98%) Power Automate
6 18 (10.40%) Azure AI
6 18 (10.40%) GitHub
7 15 (8.67%) Power Platform
8 13 (7.51%) Amazon S3
8 13 (7.51%) Anthropic Claude
9 12 (6.94%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (5.78%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (5.78%) OpenShift
11 8 (4.62%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (4.62%) Azure Functions
12 7 (4.05%) n8n
13 6 (3.47%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (3.47%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (3.47%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.89%) AMQP
2 2 (1.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (18.50%) NoSQL
2 29 (16.76%) SQL Server
3 12 (6.94%) Pinecone
4 10 (5.78%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (5.78%) MySQL
4 10 (5.78%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (4.05%) MongoDB
5 7 (4.05%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.89%) Big Data
6 5 (2.89%) Cloudera CDH
6 5 (2.89%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.73%) Tableau
8 2 (1.16%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.16%) DB2
8 2 (1.16%) Power BI
9 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.58%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (15.03%) Git
2 18 (10.40%) Jenkins
3 13 (7.51%) MLflow
4 8 (4.62%) Selenium
5 7 (4.05%) Cucumber
5 7 (4.05%) GitLab
6 6 (3.47%) JIRA
6 6 (3.47%) JUnit
7 5 (2.89%) Storybook
7 5 (2.89%) Visual Studio
8 4 (2.31%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.31%) Postman
8 4 (2.31%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.73%) ESLint
9 3 (1.73%) webpack
10 2 (1.16%) Subversion
11 1 (0.58%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.58%) Mockito
11 1 (0.58%) MSTest
11 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 61 (35.26%) Social Skills
2 42 (24.28%) Finance
3 20 (11.56%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.94%) Retail
5 10 (5.78%) Law
6 9 (5.20%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.05%) Legal
8 4 (2.31%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.31%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.73%) Banking
9 3 (1.73%) Games
9 3 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.73%) Marketing
9 3 (1.73%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.16%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.16%) Front Office
11 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 89 (51.45%) Developer
2 41 (23.70%) Full-Stack Developer
2 41 (23.70%) Senior
3 28 (16.18%) Senior Developer
4 23 (13.29%) Lead
4 23 (13.29%) Software Engineer
5 18 (10.40%) Architect
6 16 (9.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 12 (6.94%) .NET Developer
7 12 (6.94%) Automation Engineer
8 11 (6.36%) Python Developer
9 10 (5.78%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (5.78%) Software Developer
10 9 (5.20%) Lead Developer
11 8 (4.62%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (4.62%) Web Developer
12 7 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
13 6 (3.47%) Cloud Developer
13 6 (3.47%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 6 (3.47%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (32.95%) React
2 51 (29.48%) Node.js
3 43 (24.86%) RESTful
4 39 (22.54%) REST
5 37 (21.39%) .NET
6 35 (20.23%) CSS
7 32 (18.50%) HTML
8 26 (15.03%) Swagger
9 23 (13.29%) OpenAPI
10 22 (12.72%) Flask
11 21 (12.14%) AngularJS
11 21 (12.14%) OAuth
11 21 (12.14%) Spring
12 20 (11.56%) pytest
12 20 (11.56%) PyTorch
13 19 (10.98%) .NET Core
13 19 (10.98%) Django
14 18 (10.40%) FastAPI
15 17 (9.83%) NumPy
15 17 (9.83%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (16.18%) Cloud Native
2 26 (15.03%) Legacy Systems
3 20 (11.56%) Low-Code
4 9 (5.20%) AI Agents
4 9 (5.20%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.89%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.89%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.31%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.73%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.16%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.58%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.58%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.58%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.78%) Linux
2 5 (2.89%) CentOS
2 5 (2.89%) Debian
2 5 (2.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.89%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (42.77%) CI/CD
2 68 (39.31%) Agile
3 49 (28.32%) Full-Stack Development
3 49 (28.32%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (26.01%) AI
4 45 (26.01%) Microservices
5 43 (24.86%) Containerisation
6 42 (24.28%) DevOps
7 39 (22.54%) API Integration
8 37 (21.39%) Test Automation
9 36 (20.81%) Software Engineering
10 35 (20.23%) Mentoring
11 34 (19.65%) Machine Learning
12 27 (15.61%) Data Pipeline
13 26 (15.03%) Infrastructure as Code
14 24 (13.87%) ETL
15 23 (13.29%) Clean Code
15 23 (13.29%) Stakeholder Management
16 22 (12.72%) Computer Science
17 21 (12.14%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 73 (42.20%) Python
2 72 (41.62%) SQL
3 66 (38.15%) JavaScript
4 41 (23.70%) C#
5 36 (20.81%) Java
6 34 (19.65%) TypeScript
7 16 (9.25%) PHP
8 9 (5.20%) Bicep
9 5 (2.89%) Delphi
10 2 (1.16%) C++
10 2 (1.16%) DataWeave
10 2 (1.16%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.16%) R
10 2 (1.16%) RPG
10 2 (1.16%) Rust
10 2 (1.16%) XAML
11 1 (0.58%) Bash
11 1 (0.58%) Go
11 1 (0.58%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.58%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 27 (15.61%) Degree
2 18 (10.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (7.51%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.78%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.47%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.31%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.73%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.51%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.94%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.62%) QA
4 2 (1.16%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.58%) GDPR
5 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 58 (33.53%) Docker
2 4 (2.31%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.58%) Squid
Systems Management
1 49 (28.32%) Kubernetes
2 23 (13.29%) Terraform
3 5 (2.89%) Ansible
3 5 (2.89%) Grafana
3 5 (2.89%) Puppet
4 3 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.16%) Nagios
6 1 (0.58%) Kibana
Vendors
1 23 (13.29%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.56%) OpenAI
3 19 (10.98%) Google
4 13 (7.51%) UiPath
5 12 (6.94%) Automation Anywhere
6 10 (5.78%) Oracle
7 9 (5.20%) Atlassian
8 7 (4.05%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.89%) iManage
9 5 (2.89%) SaltStack
10 4 (2.31%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.73%) New Relic
11 3 (1.73%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.73%) SAP
11 3 (1.73%) Zoho
12 2 (1.16%) Databricks
12 2 (1.16%) IBM
12 2 (1.16%) Ping Identity
12 2 (1.16%) Splunk
13 1 (0.58%) Intapp