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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 411 491
Rank change year-on-year -103 +80 -15
Permanent jobs citing API Development 224 257 288
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.59% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.66% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 149 209 196
10th Percentile £46,000 £43,750 £44,375
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -11.97%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -10.71%

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 69,000 39,152 58,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.88% 89.43% 81.36%
Number of salaries quoted 48,669 22,708 38,960
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 9 August 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 9 August 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 -72 86 £77,500 -3.13% 67
North of England -50 48 £61,250 -5.77% 21
South East -41 30 £65,000 +30.00% 19
North West -19 29 £75,000 +30.43% 17
South West -48 27 £70,000 +40.00% 18
Midlands -22 19 £55,000 -5.17% 6
North East - 17 £47,000 - 1
West Midlands -28 12 £55,000 -15.38% 2
East of England -48 12 £45,000 -47.06% 6
East Midlands -20 7 £54,000 -6.90% 4
Yorkshire -53 2 £50,000 -28.57% 3
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 10 (4.46%) Apache
2 7 (3.13%) nginx
3 6 (2.68%) CMS
3 6 (2.68%) IIS
4 5 (2.23%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.23%) Confluence
4 5 (2.23%) JBoss
5 2 (0.89%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.89%) Moodle
6 1 (0.45%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.45%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.34%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.89%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 103 (45.98%) Azure
2 71 (31.70%) AWS
3 46 (20.54%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (13.39%) GCP
5 26 (11.61%) Serverless
6 20 (8.93%) LangSmith
7 13 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (5.80%) GitHub
8 11 (4.91%) Firebase
9 10 (4.46%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (4.46%) Power Platform
10 9 (4.02%) Amazon S3
10 9 (4.02%) OpenShift
11 8 (3.57%) Datadog
11 8 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (3.57%) SaaS
12 7 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (2.68%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (2.68%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.68%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.23%) SSL
2 4 (1.79%) AMQP
2 4 (1.79%) Broadband
2 4 (1.79%) HTTP
3 3 (1.34%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.89%) DNS
5 1 (0.45%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (15.63%) MySQL
1 35 (15.63%) SQL Server
2 22 (9.82%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (7.59%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.91%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (2.68%) DynamoDB
5 6 (2.68%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.23%) Big Data
6 5 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.23%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (1.79%) Cloudera CDH
7 4 (1.79%) Hadoop
7 4 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.34%) Power BI
8 3 (1.34%) SQLite
9 2 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.89%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (0.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 47 (20.98%) Git
2 26 (11.61%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.91%) fastlane
4 8 (3.57%) GitLab
4 8 (3.57%) JIRA
5 6 (2.68%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.68%) Postman
5 6 (2.68%) Xcode
6 5 (2.23%) Android Studio
6 5 (2.23%) Crashlytics
6 5 (2.23%) Gradle
6 5 (2.23%) MSI
7 4 (1.79%) JUnit
7 4 (1.79%) Mockito
7 4 (1.79%) SpecFlow
7 4 (1.79%) Subversion
8 3 (1.34%) CMake
8 3 (1.34%) Storybook
9 2 (0.89%) JMeter
9 2 (0.89%) NUnit
General
1 42 (18.75%) Finance
2 41 (18.30%) Social Skills
3 26 (11.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 26 (11.61%) Public Sector
4 20 (8.93%) Banking
5 19 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (7.59%) Financial Institution
7 12 (5.36%) Retail
8 11 (4.91%) Law
9 9 (4.02%) Legal
10 5 (2.23%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.79%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.79%) Front Office
12 3 (1.34%) Electronics
12 3 (1.34%) Marketing
13 2 (0.89%) Aviation
13 2 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.89%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 130 (58.04%) Developer
2 57 (25.45%) Senior
3 42 (18.75%) Senior Developer
4 34 (15.18%) Software Developer
5 30 (13.39%) Software Engineer
6 24 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 23 (10.27%) C# Developer
7 23 (10.27%) Lead
8 21 (9.38%) .NET Developer
9 17 (7.59%) Full-Stack Developer
9 17 (7.59%) Senior Software Developer
10 15 (6.70%) C# Software Developer
10 15 (6.70%) Python Developer
10 15 (6.70%) Senior C# Developer
10 15 (6.70%) Senior C# Software Developer
11 13 (5.80%) Backend Developer
12 10 (4.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 9 (4.02%) Lead Software Engineer
14 8 (3.57%) Architect
15 7 (3.13%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (33.04%) .NET
2 50 (22.32%) RESTful
3 49 (21.88%) REST
4 38 (16.96%) React
5 37 (16.52%) HTML
6 34 (15.18%) CSS
7 31 (13.84%) ASP.NET
7 31 (13.84%) Node.js
8 30 (13.39%) .NET Framework
9 27 (12.05%) AngularJS
10 25 (11.16%) Model Context Protocol
11 24 (10.71%) .NET Core
11 24 (10.71%) LangChain
11 24 (10.71%) LlamaIndex
12 20 (8.93%) Entity Framework
12 20 (8.93%) Langfuse
12 20 (8.93%) OAuth
13 17 (7.59%) ASP.NET Web API
13 17 (7.59%) OAuth2
14 16 (7.14%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 66 (29.46%) Cloud Native
2 30 (13.39%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (9.82%) Mobile App
4 21 (9.38%) AI Agents
5 17 (7.59%) e-Learning
6 16 (7.14%) Product Ownership
7 13 (5.80%) Onboarding
8 9 (4.02%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (4.02%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.68%) Low-Code
10 5 (2.23%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.23%) Data Centre
10 5 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (2.23%) Private Cloud
10 5 (2.23%) Social Media
11 4 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (1.34%) Mobile Wallet
12 3 (1.34%) Operational Technology
13 2 (0.89%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.70%) Linux
2 11 (4.91%) Windows
3 7 (3.13%) Android
4 6 (2.68%) Apple iOS
5 5 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.79%) CentOS
6 4 (1.79%) Debian
6 4 (1.79%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.34%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (50.89%) Agile
2 98 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 80 (35.71%) DevOps
4 75 (33.48%) AI
5 68 (30.36%) Full-Stack Development
6 65 (29.02%) Software Engineering
7 63 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
8 49 (21.88%) API Integration
8 49 (21.88%) Microservices
8 49 (21.88%) Test Automation
9 47 (20.98%) Observability
10 46 (20.54%) Containerisation
11 39 (17.41%) LLM
12 38 (16.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 38 (16.96%) Mentoring
13 35 (15.63%) Computer Science
14 34 (15.18%) Clean Code
15 31 (13.84%) Generative AI
16 29 (12.95%) Collaborative Culture
16 29 (12.95%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 93 (41.52%) C#
2 85 (37.95%) Python
3 54 (24.11%) JavaScript
4 53 (23.66%) SQL
5 30 (13.39%) Java
6 29 (12.95%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.57%) PHP
8 6 (2.68%) Swift
9 5 (2.23%) Bash
9 5 (2.23%) Bicep
9 5 (2.23%) C++
9 5 (2.23%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.23%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.34%) Embedded C++
10 3 (1.34%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.34%) VB
10 3 (1.34%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.89%) DataWeave
11 2 (0.89%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.45%) Go
Qualifications
1 41 (18.30%) Degree
2 26 (11.61%) Security Cleared
3 21 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.57%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.34%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.89%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.89%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.27%) Accessibility
2 17 (7.59%) WCAG
3 16 (7.14%) QA
4 7 (3.13%) GDPR
5 5 (2.23%) NCSC
6 4 (1.79%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.34%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.34%) PSD2
8 2 (0.89%) GRC
9 1 (0.45%) NIST
9 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 59 (26.34%) Docker
2 5 (2.23%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (19.20%) Kubernetes
2 28 (12.50%) Terraform
3 8 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (2.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (2.23%) Ansible
4 5 (2.23%) Grafana
4 5 (2.23%) Nagios
4 5 (2.23%) Puppet
5 3 (1.34%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.89%) Kibana
7 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 27 (12.05%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.71%) Google
3 13 (5.80%) Dynatrace
4 10 (4.46%) Splunk
5 9 (4.02%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.68%) Apple
7 5 (2.23%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.23%) New Relic
7 5 (2.23%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.79%) Databricks
8 4 (1.79%) Oracle
8 4 (1.79%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.34%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.34%) SAP
10 2 (0.89%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.89%) Pega
10 2 (0.89%) Trapeze
10 2 (0.89%) Xamarin
11 1 (0.45%) IFS
11 1 (0.45%) Refinitiv