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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 486 492 450
Rank change year-on-year +6 -42 +59
Permanent jobs citing API Development 150 266 257
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.35% 0.42% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.51% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 113 150 235
10th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £99,000 £105,250 £106,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £66,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +1.50% +6.40%

All Process and 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 38,105 52,509 47,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 88.91% 82.61% 93.97%
Number of salaries quoted 21,889 28,165 35,931
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -1.32% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,250 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 15 October 2025.

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 15 October 2025. 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 +36 70 £75,000 -16.67% 45
North of England +16 35 £65,000 +20.93% 24
North West -1 24 £57,500 +9.52% 14
South West +36 13 £54,500 -9.17% 12
Yorkshire +24 10 £70,000 - 7
Midlands +14 10 £60,000 +20.00% 13
East of England +6 10 £82,500 +83.33% 5
South East -20 10 £54,400 -20.87% 36
West Midlands +30 6 £60,000 +64.38% 10
East Midlands +6 4 £60,250 -38.21% 3
North East +10 1 - - 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 13 (8.67%) Confluence
2 8 (5.33%) CMS
3 6 (4.00%) Apache Solr
4 5 (3.33%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.67%) Camunda
6 3 (2.00%) Jupyter
7 2 (1.33%) Headless CMS
7 2 (1.33%) IIS
7 2 (1.33%) JBoss
7 2 (1.33%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 73 (48.67%) Azure
2 44 (29.33%) AWS
3 21 (14.00%) Serverless
4 17 (11.33%) GCP
4 17 (11.33%) GitHub
4 17 (11.33%) Power Platform
5 16 (10.67%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (8.67%) Azure Functions
7 10 (6.67%) Power Automate
7 10 (6.67%) SaaS
8 8 (5.33%) Cloudflare
9 7 (4.67%) n8n
9 7 (4.67%) PowerApps
10 6 (4.00%) Azure AI
10 6 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (3.33%) Azure App Service
11 5 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (2.67%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (29.33%) NoSQL
2 20 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 17 (11.33%) MongoDB
3 17 (11.33%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (8.00%) MySQL
5 11 (7.33%) Relational Database
6 10 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (3.33%) Power BI
7 5 (3.33%) RDBMS
8 4 (2.67%) Tableau
9 3 (2.00%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.00%) Data Mining
9 3 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.00%) Looker
10 2 (1.33%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.33%) Redis
10 2 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.67%) Big Data
11 1 (0.67%) GIS
Development Applications
1 28 (18.67%) Git
2 21 (14.00%) JIRA
3 15 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 14 (9.33%) GitLab
5 9 (6.00%) Selenium
6 6 (4.00%) Cucumber
6 6 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (3.33%) Bitbucket
7 5 (3.33%) NUnit
8 4 (2.67%) JUnit
8 4 (2.67%) PowerBuilder
8 4 (2.67%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.67%) TeamCity
9 3 (2.00%) JMeter
9 3 (2.00%) Postman
9 3 (2.00%) Storybook
9 3 (2.00%) Visual Studio
9 3 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (1.33%) Gradle
10 2 (1.33%) Maven
General
1 50 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 36 (24.00%) Finance
3 16 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.67%) Retail
5 7 (4.67%) Legal
6 6 (4.00%) Games
7 5 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.67%) Banking
9 3 (2.00%) Law
10 2 (1.33%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.33%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.33%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.67%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.67%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 75 (50.00%) Developer
2 30 (20.00%) Senior
3 17 (11.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 16 (10.67%) Senior Developer
5 15 (10.00%) Lead
5 15 (10.00%) Python Developer
6 13 (8.67%) Architect
7 11 (7.33%) .NET Developer
7 11 (7.33%) Software Engineer
8 10 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (6.00%) Java Developer
9 9 (6.00%) Java Engineer
10 8 (5.33%) Backend Developer
11 7 (4.67%) Software Developer
11 7 (4.67%) Technical Manager
11 7 (4.67%) Web Manager
12 6 (4.00%) Azure Developer
12 6 (4.00%) Java Software Engineer
13 5 (3.33%) Automation Developer
13 5 (3.33%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (28.00%) RESTful
2 41 (27.33%) .NET
3 38 (25.33%) REST
4 34 (22.67%) React
5 22 (14.67%) AngularJS
6 19 (12.67%) Node.js
7 18 (12.00%) CSS
7 18 (12.00%) GraphQL
7 18 (12.00%) HTML
8 17 (11.33%) Spring
8 17 (11.33%) Spring Boot
8 17 (11.33%) Vue
9 15 (10.00%) .NET Core
10 14 (9.33%) ASP.NET
11 13 (8.67%) Kafka
12 12 (8.00%) LangChain
12 12 (8.00%) SOAP
13 9 (6.00%) ASP.NET Core
13 9 (6.00%) Pandas
14 8 (5.33%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.33%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 9 (6.00%) Mobile App
4 8 (5.33%) Low-Code
5 7 (4.67%) AI Agents
6 6 (4.00%) Wiki
7 5 (3.33%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.67%) IoT
8 4 (2.67%) Reinsurance
9 3 (2.00%) Data Structures
9 3 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (2.00%) YARA
10 2 (1.33%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.33%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.67%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.67%) NHS
11 1 (0.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.33%) Windows
2 8 (5.33%) Linux
3 6 (4.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (46.67%) CI/CD
2 68 (45.33%) Agile
3 65 (43.33%) DevOps
4 51 (34.00%) Microservices
5 35 (23.33%) Containerisation
5 35 (23.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 33 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (20.67%) API Integration
8 29 (19.33%) AI
9 27 (18.00%) Code Quality
10 23 (15.33%) Mentoring
11 22 (14.67%) API Design
12 21 (14.00%) Machine Learning
13 20 (13.33%) Software Engineering
14 18 (12.00%) Clean Code
14 18 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (12.00%) TDD
15 17 (11.33%) Front End Development
16 16 (10.67%) Migration
16 16 (10.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 62 (41.33%) SQL
2 58 (38.67%) Python
3 51 (34.00%) JavaScript
4 45 (30.00%) C#
5 33 (22.00%) Java
6 32 (21.33%) TypeScript
7 13 (8.67%) PHP
8 7 (4.67%) PowerShell
9 6 (4.00%) Bicep
10 3 (2.00%) R
11 2 (1.33%) Bash
11 2 (1.33%) Ruby
11 2 (1.33%) Search Processing Language
11 2 (1.33%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.33%) XAML
12 1 (0.67%) C
12 1 (0.67%) C++
12 1 (0.67%) Go
12 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (8.00%) Degree
2 7 (4.67%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.67%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.33%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.33%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.67%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.67%) QA
2 12 (8.00%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.67%) GDPR
3 4 (2.67%) WCAG
4 3 (2.00%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 40 (26.67%) Docker
2 2 (1.33%) Squid
Systems Management
1 27 (18.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.00%) Terraform
3 2 (1.33%) Ansible
3 2 (1.33%) Grafana
3 2 (1.33%) Kibana
3 2 (1.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 31 (20.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.67%) Databricks
3 6 (4.00%) OpenAI
4 5 (3.33%) Oracle
5 4 (2.67%) iManage
5 4 (2.67%) MuleSoft
5 4 (2.67%) SnapLogic
6 3 (2.00%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.00%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.33%) Google
7 2 (1.33%) New Relic
7 2 (1.33%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.33%) Rollbar
7 2 (1.33%) Splunk
8 1 (0.67%) ESRI
8 1 (0.67%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.67%) IFS
8 1 (0.67%) Samsung
8 1 (0.67%) Sybase
8 1 (0.67%) UiPath