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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 467 371 402
Rank change year-on-year -96 +31 +106
Permanent jobs citing API Development 185 275 434
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.28% 0.72% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.77% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 125 220 341
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,734 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £94,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 51,545 35,897 65,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 77.85% 93.55% 87.04%
Number of salaries quoted 31,924 20,241 50,770
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £29,007
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £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% -11.29%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 79 £78,750 -5.97% 34
Midlands -9 39 £55,000 -8.33% 11
North of England -80 28 £56,000 -2.61% 19
East Midlands -17 21 £55,000 -8.33%
North West -33 21 £52,500 -4.55% 9
South West -35 20 £60,000 +9.09% 9
West Midlands -9 18 £55,100 -2.04% 11
South East -29 7 £60,000 +9.09% 19
East of England -30 7 £45,000 - 9
Yorkshire -61 5 £65,000 -7.14% 8
North East -22 2 £55,200 +0.36% 2
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 (6.49%) Appian
2 9 (4.86%) CMS
3 8 (4.32%) Apache
4 5 (2.70%) Anypoint
4 5 (2.70%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.16%) Moodle
5 4 (2.16%) nginx
6 3 (1.62%) Headless CMS
6 3 (1.62%) NServiceBus
7 2 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.08%) Confluence
7 2 (1.08%) JBoss
8 1 (0.54%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (2.16%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.08%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.54%) Magento
4 1 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 76 (41.08%) Azure
2 75 (40.54%) AWS
3 33 (17.84%) GCP
4 27 (14.59%) Serverless
5 22 (11.89%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (10.81%) GitHub
7 17 (9.19%) Power Automate
8 15 (8.11%) Amazon S3
9 14 (7.57%) Anthropic Claude
9 14 (7.57%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (6.49%) Azure AI
11 10 (5.41%) OpenShift
11 10 (5.41%) Power Platform
12 9 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (4.32%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (4.32%) Figma
14 7 (3.78%) SaaS
15 6 (3.24%) Apigee
15 6 (3.24%) Azure Monitor
15 6 (3.24%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.70%) AMQP
2 4 (2.16%) Broadband
3 2 (1.08%) SSL
4 1 (0.54%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (22.16%) SQL Server
2 21 (11.35%) MySQL
3 17 (9.19%) NoSQL
4 14 (7.57%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (6.49%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (6.49%) Pinecone
5 12 (6.49%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.24%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.70%) Big Data
7 5 (2.70%) Cloudera CDH
7 5 (2.70%) Hadoop
8 4 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.16%) Power BI
9 2 (1.08%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.08%) DB2
9 2 (1.08%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.54%) Looker
10 1 (0.54%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 31 (16.76%) Git
2 21 (11.35%) Jenkins
3 13 (7.03%) MLflow
4 8 (4.32%) Storybook
5 7 (3.78%) Cucumber
5 7 (3.78%) JUnit
5 7 (3.78%) Selenium
6 6 (3.24%) GitLab
7 5 (2.70%) Postman
8 4 (2.16%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.16%) JIRA
8 4 (2.16%) Visual Studio
8 4 (2.16%) webpack
9 3 (1.62%) ESLint
10 2 (1.08%) Mockito
10 2 (1.08%) SpecFlow
10 2 (1.08%) Subversion
10 2 (1.08%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.08%) Vite
11 1 (0.54%) Cypress.io
General
1 57 (30.81%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.92%) Finance
3 26 (14.05%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.95%) Retail
5 10 (5.41%) Law
6 9 (4.86%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.70%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.16%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.16%) Front Office
8 4 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.62%) Banking
9 3 (1.62%) Games
9 3 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.62%) Legal
9 3 (1.62%) Marketing
9 3 (1.62%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.08%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 97 (52.43%) Developer
2 47 (25.41%) Full-Stack Developer
3 40 (21.62%) Senior
4 28 (15.14%) Lead
4 28 (15.14%) Software Engineer
5 27 (14.59%) Senior Developer
6 18 (9.73%) .NET Developer
7 17 (9.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 15 (8.11%) Software Developer
9 14 (7.57%) Architect
10 13 (7.03%) Automation Engineer
11 12 (6.49%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (5.41%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 10 (5.41%) Web Developer
13 9 (4.86%) Lead Developer
14 8 (4.32%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
15 7 (3.78%) Lead Software Engineer
15 7 (3.78%) Senior Software Engineer
16 6 (3.24%) Senior Software Developer
16 6 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (36.76%) React
2 49 (26.49%) .NET
3 46 (24.86%) CSS
3 46 (24.86%) Node.js
4 43 (23.24%) HTML
5 42 (22.70%) RESTful
6 41 (22.16%) REST
7 30 (16.22%) AngularJS
8 27 (14.59%) OpenAPI
8 27 (14.59%) Swagger
9 25 (13.51%) OAuth
10 23 (12.43%) Django
11 21 (11.35%) ASP.NET
11 21 (11.35%) Spring
12 20 (10.81%) Flask
13 19 (10.27%) .NET Core
14 18 (9.73%) JWT
15 17 (9.19%) pytest
15 17 (9.19%) Spring Boot
16 16 (8.65%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.14%) Legacy Systems
2 26 (14.05%) Cloud Native
3 16 (8.65%) Low-Code
4 9 (4.86%) Mobile App
5 7 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.24%) Algorithms
6 6 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.16%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.62%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.62%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.08%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.08%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.08%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.57%) Linux
2 5 (2.70%) CentOS
2 5 (2.70%) Debian
2 5 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.70%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.54%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (43.24%) CI/CD
2 76 (41.08%) Agile
3 55 (29.73%) Full-Stack Development
3 55 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
4 50 (27.03%) Containerisation
5 47 (25.41%) AI
6 45 (24.32%) Software Engineering
7 44 (23.78%) Mentoring
7 44 (23.78%) Microservices
8 43 (23.24%) Test Automation
9 42 (22.70%) DevOps
10 40 (21.62%) API Integration
11 27 (14.59%) Data Pipeline
12 26 (14.05%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (14.05%) Infrastructure as Code
13 24 (12.97%) Clean Code
13 24 (12.97%) Machine Learning
13 24 (12.97%) Stakeholder Management
14 23 (12.43%) Computer Science
14 23 (12.43%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 73 (39.46%) JavaScript
2 67 (36.22%) Python
2 67 (36.22%) SQL
3 51 (27.57%) C#
4 36 (19.46%) Java
5 35 (18.92%) TypeScript
6 18 (9.73%) PHP
7 5 (2.70%) Bicep
7 5 (2.70%) Delphi
8 4 (2.16%) Bash
8 4 (2.16%) DataWeave
9 2 (1.08%) C++
9 2 (1.08%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.08%) RPG
9 2 (1.08%) Rust
10 1 (0.54%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.54%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 29 (15.68%) Degree
2 20 (10.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (6.49%) Security Cleared
4 9 (4.86%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.70%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.16%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.57%) Accessibility
2 13 (7.03%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.24%) QA
4 2 (1.08%) GRC
5 1 (0.54%) GDPR
5 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 65 (35.14%) Docker
2 4 (2.16%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.54%) Squid
Systems Management
1 48 (25.95%) Kubernetes
2 26 (14.05%) Terraform
3 5 (2.70%) Ansible
3 5 (2.70%) Grafana
3 5 (2.70%) Puppet
4 3 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.08%) Nagios
6 1 (0.54%) Kibana
Vendors
1 23 (12.43%) Google
2 17 (9.19%) Microsoft
3 16 (8.65%) OpenAI
4 12 (6.49%) Automation Anywhere
4 12 (6.49%) UiPath
5 11 (5.95%) Oracle
6 9 (4.86%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.78%) Red Hat
8 6 (3.24%) MuleSoft
9 5 (2.70%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.70%) SaltStack
10 3 (1.62%) New Relic
10 3 (1.62%) SAP
10 3 (1.62%) Zoho
11 2 (1.08%) IBM
11 2 (1.08%) Ping Identity
11 2 (1.08%) Splunk
11 2 (1.08%) Trapeze
12 1 (0.54%) Adobe
12 1 (0.54%) Pega