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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 365 467
Rank change year-on-year -130 +102 +41
Permanent jobs citing API Development 192 287 396
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.73% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.78% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 124 241 303
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £41,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.67% +15.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,750 £111,250 £86,250
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 60,234 36,782 71,786
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.77% 93.38% 84.92%
Number of salaries quoted 39,612 20,312 53,799
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £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 £73,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,684 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.53% +8.52% -9.84%

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 17 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 17 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 -61 83 £77,500 -7.46% 26
Midlands -20 35 £55,000 -8.33% 1
North of England -69 32 £62,500 +4.17% 19
North West -4 26 £65,000 +7.44% 12
South East -30 19 £65,000 +30.00% 16
West Midlands -32 19 £55,000 +4.76% 1
East Midlands -19 16 £55,000 -8.33%
South West -53 15 £55,000 -6.38% 8
East of England -45 8 £45,000 -30.77% 1
North East -36 4 £47,000 -12.56% 2
Yorkshire -72 2 £50,000 -23.08% 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 (6.25%) CMS
2 11 (5.73%) Appian
3 8 (4.17%) Apache
4 5 (2.60%) Anypoint
4 5 (2.60%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.08%) Moodle
5 4 (2.08%) nginx
6 3 (1.56%) Headless CMS
6 3 (1.56%) IIS
7 2 (1.04%) Confluence
7 2 (1.04%) JBoss
7 2 (1.04%) NServiceBus
7 2 (1.04%) WordPress
8 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 76 (39.58%) Azure
2 64 (33.33%) AWS
3 30 (15.63%) GCP
3 30 (15.63%) Serverless
4 24 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (8.85%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (7.81%) Amazon S3
6 15 (7.81%) Anthropic Claude
7 13 (6.77%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (6.77%) GitHub
7 13 (6.77%) Power Automate
8 11 (5.73%) Azure AI
9 8 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (4.17%) Figma
9 8 (4.17%) SaaS
10 7 (3.65%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (3.65%) Apigee
11 6 (3.13%) LangSmith
11 6 (3.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.60%) AMQP
2 4 (2.08%) Broadband
3 2 (1.04%) DNS
3 2 (1.04%) HTTP
3 2 (1.04%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.04%) SSL
4 1 (0.52%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (20.31%) SQL Server
2 24 (12.50%) MySQL
3 15 (7.81%) Relational Database
4 13 (6.77%) NoSQL
5 12 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (5.73%) Pinecone
7 5 (2.60%) Big Data
7 5 (2.60%) Cloudera CDH
7 5 (2.60%) Hadoop
7 5 (2.60%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.56%) Power BI
9 2 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.04%) DB2
9 2 (1.04%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 30 (15.63%) Git
2 20 (10.42%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.73%) MLflow
4 8 (4.17%) Storybook
5 7 (3.65%) Postman
6 5 (2.60%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.08%) fastlane
7 4 (2.08%) JIRA
7 4 (2.08%) JUnit
7 4 (2.08%) Mockito
7 4 (2.08%) SpecFlow
7 4 (2.08%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.56%) ESLint
8 3 (1.56%) webpack
9 2 (1.04%) Android Studio
9 2 (1.04%) Crashlytics
9 2 (1.04%) GitLab
9 2 (1.04%) Gradle
9 2 (1.04%) JMeter
9 2 (1.04%) Xcode
General
1 40 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 31 (16.15%) Finance
3 23 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.77%) Banking
5 11 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.21%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.17%) Financial Institution
7 8 (4.17%) Retail
8 4 (2.08%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.08%) Front Office
9 3 (1.56%) Law
9 3 (1.56%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.56%) Marketing
9 3 (1.56%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.52%) Advertising
11 1 (0.52%) Legal
11 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 110 (57.29%) Developer
2 41 (21.35%) Full-Stack Developer
2 41 (21.35%) Senior
3 33 (17.19%) Lead
4 30 (15.63%) Senior Developer
5 27 (14.06%) Software Developer
6 23 (11.98%) Software Engineer
7 22 (11.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 20 (10.42%) .NET Developer
9 16 (8.33%) C# Developer
10 13 (6.77%) Lead Developer
10 13 (6.77%) Senior Software Developer
11 12 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
12 11 (5.73%) C# Software Developer
12 11 (5.73%) Senior C# Developer
12 11 (5.73%) Senior C# Software Developer
13 10 (5.21%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 9 (4.69%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 8 (4.17%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
15 8 (4.17%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (28.13%) React
2 51 (26.56%) .NET
2 51 (26.56%) Node.js
3 46 (23.96%) REST
4 45 (23.44%) CSS
4 45 (23.44%) RESTful
5 43 (22.40%) HTML
6 30 (15.63%) AngularJS
7 28 (14.58%) OpenAPI
7 28 (14.58%) Swagger
8 27 (14.06%) OAuth
9 21 (10.94%) JWT
10 19 (9.90%) .NET Core
10 19 (9.90%) ASP.NET
11 17 (8.85%) Django
12 16 (8.33%) Vue
13 15 (7.81%) Spring
14 14 (7.29%) ASP.NET Web API
14 14 (7.29%) Flask
15 13 (6.77%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 40 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 18 (9.38%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (8.33%) Mobile App
4 14 (7.29%) Low-Code
5 11 (5.73%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.65%) AI Agents
6 7 (3.65%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.13%) e-Learning
7 6 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.56%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.04%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.04%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.52%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.77%) Linux
2 5 (2.60%) CentOS
2 5 (2.60%) Debian
2 5 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.60%) Ubuntu
3 4 (2.08%) Android
4 2 (1.04%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.52%) Windows
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (43.75%) Agile
2 83 (43.23%) CI/CD
3 63 (32.81%) Full-Stack Development
4 59 (30.73%) AI
5 54 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (26.04%) DevOps
7 48 (25.00%) Containerisation
8 46 (23.96%) Mentoring
9 43 (22.40%) Software Engineering
10 41 (21.35%) Test Automation
11 38 (19.79%) Microservices
12 34 (17.71%) API Integration
13 29 (15.10%) Clean Code
13 29 (15.10%) LLM
14 27 (14.06%) Machine Learning
15 26 (13.54%) Infrastructure as Code
16 25 (13.02%) Computer Science
17 24 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
18 23 (11.98%) Generative AI
18 23 (11.98%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 68 (35.42%) C#
2 66 (34.38%) Python
3 62 (32.29%) JavaScript
4 57 (29.69%) SQL
5 33 (17.19%) TypeScript
6 25 (13.02%) Java
7 16 (8.33%) PHP
8 4 (2.08%) Bicep
8 4 (2.08%) DataWeave
9 3 (1.56%) Bash
9 3 (1.56%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.04%) C++
10 2 (1.04%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.04%) RPG
10 2 (1.04%) Rust
10 2 (1.04%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.04%) Swift
11 1 (0.52%) Go
11 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.52%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 28 (14.58%) Degree
2 19 (9.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (4.69%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.69%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.60%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.08%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 14 (7.29%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.08%) QA
3 4 (2.08%) WCAG
4 2 (1.04%) GRC
System Software
1 68 (35.42%) Docker
2 4 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 48 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 29 (15.10%) Terraform
3 5 (2.60%) Ansible
3 5 (2.60%) Puppet
3 5 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.04%) Kibana
4 2 (1.04%) Nagios
Vendors
1 27 (14.06%) Google
2 16 (8.33%) OpenAI
3 11 (5.73%) Automation Anywhere
3 11 (5.73%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.73%) UiPath
4 7 (3.65%) Atlassian
4 7 (3.65%) Red Hat
5 6 (3.13%) Dynatrace
5 6 (3.13%) Splunk
6 5 (2.60%) MuleSoft
6 5 (2.60%) SaltStack
7 4 (2.08%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.56%) Oracle
9 2 (1.04%) Apple
9 2 (1.04%) IBM
9 2 (1.04%) New Relic
9 2 (1.04%) Pega
9 2 (1.04%) Ping Identity
9 2 (1.04%) Trapeze
9 2 (1.04%) Xamarin