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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 452 482
Rank change year-on-year -74 +30 -5
Permanent jobs citing API Development 230 194 268
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.22% 0.45% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.50% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 142 155 145
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,375 £56,000 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +3.05%

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 76,043 38,474 55,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.46% 88.78% 82.23%
Number of salaries quoted 53,667 22,007 30,452
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,664
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.82% -4.27%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £78,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%

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 27 September 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 27 September 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 -53 90 £77,500 - 97
North of England -39 57 £62,500 +4.52% 47
North West -20 35 £75,000 +30.43% 32
South East -35 31 £74,000 +48.00% 21
South West -68 28 £70,000 +33.33% 21
North East - 21 £47,000 - 1
Midlands -49 13 £55,000 -10.20% 14
West Midlands -38 9 £55,000 -12.00% 12
East of England -47 6 £38,750 -54.41% 7
East Midlands -37 4 £54,000 -10.37% 2
Yorkshire -46 1 - - 14
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 13 (5.65%) Apache
2 11 (4.78%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.04%) nginx
4 6 (2.61%) Confluence
4 6 (2.61%) IIS
5 5 (2.17%) JBoss
6 4 (1.74%) CMS
7 2 (0.87%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.74%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.30%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.43%) Endur
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 114 (49.57%) Azure
2 74 (32.17%) AWS
3 50 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (14.35%) GCP
5 29 (12.61%) Serverless
6 27 (11.74%) LangSmith
7 14 (6.09%) OpenShift
8 13 (5.65%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (5.65%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (5.22%) GitHub
10 11 (4.78%) Firebase
11 10 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (4.35%) Power Platform
12 9 (3.91%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (3.48%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (3.48%) Datadog
14 7 (3.04%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (3.04%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (3.04%) Amazon S3
14 7 (3.04%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.04%) AMQP
2 5 (2.17%) SSL
3 4 (1.74%) HTTP
4 3 (1.30%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.87%) DNS
6 1 (0.43%) TETRA
6 1 (0.43%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.43%) SQL Server
2 23 (10.00%) MySQL
2 23 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (7.39%) Relational Database
4 14 (6.09%) NoSQL
5 11 (4.78%) Big Data
6 8 (3.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (3.48%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.04%) Cloudera CDH
7 7 (3.04%) Hadoop
8 6 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.61%) DynamoDB
9 5 (2.17%) Geospatial Data
9 5 (2.17%) Power BI
10 4 (1.74%) Metadata
10 4 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (1.74%) Tableau
11 3 (1.30%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.30%) Redis
11 3 (1.30%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 44 (19.13%) Git
2 25 (10.87%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.78%) fastlane
4 9 (3.91%) GitLab
4 9 (3.91%) JIRA
5 6 (2.61%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.61%) Xcode
6 5 (2.17%) Android Studio
6 5 (2.17%) Crashlytics
6 5 (2.17%) Gradle
6 5 (2.17%) MSI
6 5 (2.17%) Postman
7 4 (1.74%) Subversion
8 3 (1.30%) CMake
8 3 (1.30%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.87%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.87%) Mocha
9 2 (0.87%) Mockito
9 2 (0.87%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.87%) SpecFlow
General
1 53 (23.04%) Finance
2 47 (20.43%) Social Skills
3 26 (11.30%) Public Sector
4 24 (10.43%) Financial Institution
4 24 (10.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (9.57%) Banking
6 17 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (4.35%) Law
7 10 (4.35%) Retail
8 9 (3.91%) Legal
9 8 (3.48%) Aerospace
10 5 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.30%) Electronics
11 3 (1.30%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.30%) Marketing
12 2 (0.87%) Aviation
12 2 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.87%) Front Office
12 2 (0.87%) iGaming
12 2 (0.87%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 124 (53.91%) Developer
2 62 (26.96%) Senior
3 42 (18.26%) Senior Developer
4 40 (17.39%) Software Engineer
5 34 (14.78%) Software Developer
6 27 (11.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 24 (10.43%) C# Developer
8 19 (8.26%) Lead
9 17 (7.39%) .NET Developer
10 16 (6.96%) Senior C# Developer
10 16 (6.96%) Senior Software Developer
11 15 (6.52%) C# Software Developer
11 15 (6.52%) Full-Stack Developer
11 15 (6.52%) Python Developer
11 15 (6.52%) Senior C# Software Developer
12 13 (5.65%) Backend Developer
13 11 (4.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 9 (3.91%) Applications Developer
14 9 (3.91%) Lead Developer
15 8 (3.48%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (30.00%) .NET
2 54 (23.48%) REST
3 51 (22.17%) RESTful
4 42 (18.26%) React
5 32 (13.91%) Node.js
6 31 (13.48%) Terraform
7 30 (13.04%) LangChain
7 30 (13.04%) LlamaIndex
8 28 (12.17%) .NET Framework
8 28 (12.17%) Model Context Protocol
9 27 (11.74%) Langfuse
10 25 (10.87%) ASP.NET
11 24 (10.43%) AngularJS
11 24 (10.43%) HTML
12 22 (9.57%) .NET Core
12 22 (9.57%) CSS
13 20 (8.70%) Swagger
14 19 (8.26%) Spring
15 18 (7.83%) Entity Framework
16 16 (6.96%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 78 (33.91%) Cloud Native
2 32 (13.91%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (13.04%) AI Agents
4 27 (11.74%) Mobile App
5 24 (10.43%) e-Learning
6 20 (8.70%) Product Ownership
7 13 (5.65%) Onboarding
8 11 (4.78%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (2.17%) Data Centre
11 5 (2.17%) Private Cloud
11 5 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (2.17%) Social Media
12 4 (1.74%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.74%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (1.74%) Low-Code
13 3 (1.30%) Blog
13 3 (1.30%) IoT
13 3 (1.30%) Mobile Wallet
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.52%) Linux
2 11 (4.78%) Windows
3 8 (3.48%) Android
3 8 (3.48%) Apple iOS
3 8 (3.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (3.48%) Ubuntu
4 7 (3.04%) CentOS
4 7 (3.04%) Debian
5 3 (1.30%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (53.48%) Agile
2 101 (43.91%) CI/CD
3 87 (37.83%) DevOps
4 79 (34.35%) AI
5 78 (33.91%) Software Engineering
6 77 (33.48%) Full-Stack Development
7 68 (29.57%) Problem-Solving
8 60 (26.09%) Microservices
9 53 (23.04%) Observability
10 51 (22.17%) Test Automation
11 47 (20.43%) Containerisation
11 47 (20.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 44 (19.13%) API Integration
13 39 (16.96%) Collaborative Culture
13 39 (16.96%) LLM
14 37 (16.09%) Computer Science
14 37 (16.09%) Front End Development
14 37 (16.09%) Generative AI
15 35 (15.22%) Clean Code
15 35 (15.22%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 91 (39.57%) Python
2 88 (38.26%) C#
3 51 (22.17%) JavaScript
4 49 (21.30%) SQL
5 35 (15.22%) Java
6 27 (11.74%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.61%) Bicep
7 6 (2.61%) C++
7 6 (2.61%) Swift
8 5 (2.17%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.17%) PHP
8 5 (2.17%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.74%) Scala
10 3 (1.30%) Embedded C++
10 3 (1.30%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.30%) R
10 3 (1.30%) VB
10 3 (1.30%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.87%) Go
11 2 (0.87%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (18.26%) Degree
1 42 (18.26%) Security Cleared
2 35 (15.22%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.78%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.61%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.87%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.87%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.26%) Accessibility
2 17 (7.39%) QA
2 17 (7.39%) WCAG
3 7 (3.04%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.04%) GDPR
4 5 (2.17%) NCSC
5 3 (1.30%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.30%) PSD2
6 1 (0.43%) NIST
6 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 64 (27.83%) Docker
2 5 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.87%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 55 (23.91%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.35%) Ansible
3 8 (3.48%) Puppet
3 8 (3.48%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (2.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (2.17%) Grafana
4 5 (2.17%) Nagios
5 3 (1.30%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.87%) Kibana
7 1 (0.43%) Consul
7 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 29 (12.61%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.57%) Google
3 13 (5.65%) Dynatrace
4 12 (5.22%) Red Hat
5 10 (4.35%) Splunk
6 8 (3.48%) Databricks
7 7 (3.04%) SaltStack
8 6 (2.61%) Apple
9 5 (2.17%) Atlassian
9 5 (2.17%) New Relic
10 4 (1.74%) Oracle
10 4 (1.74%) YouTube
11 3 (1.30%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.30%) SAP
12 1 (0.43%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.43%) IFS
12 1 (0.43%) MarketAxess
12 1 (0.43%) Mistral
12 1 (0.43%) Refinitiv
12 1 (0.43%) Salesforce