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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 360 460
Rank change year-on-year -117 +100 +46
Permanent jobs citing API Development 191 297 394
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.76% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.81% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 122 252 302
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,748 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £110,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -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 60,165 36,570 71,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.33% 93.39% 85.20%
Number of salaries quoted 38,947 20,678 53,805
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,338 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £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 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

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 10 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 10 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 -32 82 £80,000 -3.03% 35
Midlands -5 37 £55,000 -8.33% 4
North of England -87 29 £60,000 +2.30% 17
North West -10 23 £63,750 +13.33% 11
West Midlands -32 19 £55,000 +4.76% 3
East Midlands -12 18 £55,000 -8.33% 1
South West -62 17 £55,000 - 6
South East -43 15 £65,000 +30.00% 17
East of England -31 8 £45,000 -28.00% 1
North East -40 4 £47,000 -12.56% 2
Yorkshire -86 2 £50,000 -16.67% 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 (6.28%) Appian
1 12 (6.28%) CMS
2 7 (3.66%) Apache
3 5 (2.62%) Anypoint
4 4 (2.09%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.09%) Moodle
4 4 (2.09%) nginx
5 3 (1.57%) Headless CMS
5 3 (1.57%) NServiceBus
6 2 (1.05%) Confluence
6 2 (1.05%) IIS
6 2 (1.05%) JBoss
6 2 (1.05%) WordPress
7 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 78 (40.84%) Azure
2 64 (33.51%) AWS
3 30 (15.71%) GCP
4 28 (14.66%) Serverless
5 23 (12.04%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (8.38%) Anthropic Claude
6 16 (8.38%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (7.85%) Amazon S3
7 15 (7.85%) Power Automate
8 14 (7.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (7.33%) GitHub
9 12 (6.28%) Azure AI
10 10 (5.24%) SaaS
11 8 (4.19%) Figma
11 8 (4.19%) Power Platform
12 7 (3.66%) Apigee
12 7 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (3.66%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (3.14%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (2.62%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.09%) AMQP
1 4 (2.09%) Broadband
2 2 (1.05%) DNS
2 2 (1.05%) HTTP
2 2 (1.05%) SSL
3 1 (0.52%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.52%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (20.94%) SQL Server
2 25 (13.09%) MySQL
3 13 (6.81%) NoSQL
4 12 (6.28%) Amazon Redshift
4 12 (6.28%) Pinecone
4 12 (6.28%) Relational Database
5 11 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.62%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.09%) Big Data
7 4 (2.09%) Cloudera CDH
7 4 (2.09%) Hadoop
7 4 (2.09%) Power BI
8 3 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.05%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.05%) DB2
9 2 (1.05%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (0.52%) Looker
10 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (15.18%) Git
2 18 (9.42%) Jenkins
3 12 (6.28%) MLflow
4 8 (4.19%) Storybook
5 7 (3.66%) Postman
6 5 (2.62%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.09%) fastlane
7 4 (2.09%) JIRA
7 4 (2.09%) SpecFlow
7 4 (2.09%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.57%) ESLint
8 3 (1.57%) webpack
9 2 (1.05%) Android Studio
9 2 (1.05%) Crashlytics
9 2 (1.05%) Gradle
9 2 (1.05%) JUnit
9 2 (1.05%) Selenium
9 2 (1.05%) Subversion
9 2 (1.05%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.05%) Xcode
General
1 41 (21.47%) Social Skills
2 32 (16.75%) Finance
3 25 (13.09%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (4.71%) Banking
5 9 (4.71%) Retail
6 8 (4.19%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.66%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.09%) Front Office
8 4 (2.09%) Law
8 4 (2.09%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.09%) Marketing
8 4 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.57%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.57%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.52%) Advertising
10 1 (0.52%) Legal
10 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 109 (57.07%) Developer
2 44 (23.04%) Full-Stack Developer
3 40 (20.94%) Senior
4 32 (16.75%) Lead
5 29 (15.18%) Senior Developer
6 23 (12.04%) Software Developer
7 22 (11.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 21 (10.99%) .NET Developer
8 21 (10.99%) Software Engineer
9 13 (6.81%) Automation Engineer
10 12 (6.28%) C# Developer
10 12 (6.28%) Lead Developer
10 12 (6.28%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (5.24%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 9 (4.71%) Senior Software Developer
12 9 (4.71%) Web Developer
13 8 (4.19%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
14 7 (3.66%) Architect
14 7 (3.66%) C# Software Developer
14 7 (3.66%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (29.84%) React
2 51 (26.70%) .NET
2 51 (26.70%) Node.js
3 47 (24.61%) CSS
4 45 (23.56%) REST
5 44 (23.04%) RESTful
6 43 (22.51%) HTML
7 30 (15.71%) AngularJS
8 27 (14.14%) OAuth
8 27 (14.14%) OpenAPI
8 27 (14.14%) Swagger
9 21 (10.99%) JWT
10 19 (9.95%) ASP.NET
11 18 (9.42%) Django
12 17 (8.90%) .NET Core
13 16 (8.38%) Flask
13 16 (8.38%) Vue
14 15 (7.85%) FastAPI
15 13 (6.81%) Pandas
15 13 (6.81%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 38 (19.90%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.90%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (8.38%) Mobile App
4 15 (7.85%) Low-Code
5 10 (5.24%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (4.19%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.14%) AI Agents
7 6 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.62%) e-Learning
9 4 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.57%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.57%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.05%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.28%) Linux
2 4 (2.09%) Android
2 4 (2.09%) CentOS
2 4 (2.09%) Debian
2 4 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (2.09%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.05%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.52%) Windows
4 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (43.98%) Agile
2 81 (42.41%) CI/CD
3 63 (32.98%) Full-Stack Development
4 59 (30.89%) AI
5 57 (29.84%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (24.08%) Containerisation
7 45 (23.56%) DevOps
8 44 (23.04%) Mentoring
9 42 (21.99%) Software Engineering
9 42 (21.99%) Test Automation
10 36 (18.85%) Microservices
11 35 (18.32%) API Integration
12 29 (15.18%) Clean Code
12 29 (15.18%) LLM
12 29 (15.18%) Machine Learning
13 26 (13.61%) Infrastructure as Code
14 25 (13.09%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (12.57%) Computer Science
16 23 (12.04%) Generative AI
17 22 (11.52%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 66 (34.55%) Python
2 65 (34.03%) C#
2 65 (34.03%) JavaScript
3 60 (31.41%) SQL
4 33 (17.28%) TypeScript
5 23 (12.04%) Java
6 17 (8.90%) PHP
7 4 (2.09%) Bicep
7 4 (2.09%) DataWeave
8 3 (1.57%) Bash
8 3 (1.57%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.05%) C++
9 2 (1.05%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.05%) RPG
9 2 (1.05%) Rust
9 2 (1.05%) Swift
10 1 (0.52%) Go
10 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.52%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 27 (14.14%) Degree
2 19 (9.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (4.19%) Security Cleared
4 6 (3.14%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.09%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.57%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.90%) Accessibility
2 16 (8.38%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.09%) WCAG
4 3 (1.57%) QA
5 2 (1.05%) GRC
System Software
1 66 (34.55%) Docker
2 4 (2.09%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (23.04%) Kubernetes
2 28 (14.66%) Terraform
3 5 (2.62%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (2.09%) Ansible
4 4 (2.09%) Puppet
5 2 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.05%) Nagios
Vendors
1 26 (13.61%) Google
2 17 (8.90%) OpenAI
3 12 (6.28%) Automation Anywhere
3 12 (6.28%) Microsoft
3 12 (6.28%) UiPath
4 9 (4.71%) Atlassian
5 6 (3.14%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.62%) MuleSoft
7 4 (2.09%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.09%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.09%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.57%) Splunk
9 2 (1.05%) Apple
9 2 (1.05%) IBM
9 2 (1.05%) New Relic
9 2 (1.05%) Oracle
9 2 (1.05%) Pega
9 2 (1.05%) Ping Identity
9 2 (1.05%) Trapeze
9 2 (1.05%) Xamarin