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 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 406 511
Rank change year-on-year -113 +105 -14
Permanent jobs citing API Development 202 275 337
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.63% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.70% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 142 224 246
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £41,875
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,653
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +15.41% -16.34%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,875 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -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 65,293 39,112 69,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.85% 90.12% 82.22%
Number of salaries quoted 46,254 22,446 49,410
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -8.72%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 -78 76 £80,000 +3.23% 28
North of England -52 46 £61,250 -9.26% 16
North West -22 28 £75,000 +22.45% 7
South East -39 24 £65,000 +30.00% 12
Midlands -20 23 £55,000 -0.45% 3
South West -59 22 £60,000 +14.29% 12
North East - 16 £47,000 - 2
West Midlands -16 14 £55,000 +4.76% 2
East Midlands -7 9 £55,000 -5.17% 1
East of England -40 9 £45,000 -47.06% 4
Yorkshire -56 2 £50,000 -28.57% 7
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 11 (5.45%) CMS
2 6 (2.97%) Apache
2 6 (2.97%) IIS
3 5 (2.48%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.48%) nginx
4 3 (1.49%) Confluence
4 3 (1.49%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.99%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.99%) Appian
5 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.99%) Moodle
5 2 (0.99%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.50%) JBoss
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.50%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.98%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.50%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 88 (43.56%) Azure
2 62 (30.69%) AWS
3 38 (18.81%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (11.39%) GCP
5 22 (10.89%) Serverless
6 17 (8.42%) LangSmith
7 13 (6.44%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (5.94%) GitHub
9 11 (5.45%) Firebase
10 10 (4.95%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (4.46%) Amazon S3
12 8 (3.96%) SaaS
13 7 (3.47%) Anthropic Claude
13 7 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (3.47%) OpenShift
13 7 (3.47%) Power Platform
14 6 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (2.48%) Amazon SQS
15 5 (2.48%) Kong
15 5 (2.48%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.98%) AMQP
1 4 (1.98%) Broadband
2 3 (1.49%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.99%) DNS
3 2 (0.99%) HTTP
4 1 (0.50%) LTE
4 1 (0.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (17.82%) MySQL
2 33 (16.34%) SQL Server
3 17 (8.42%) NoSQL
3 17 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (7.92%) Relational Database
5 9 (4.46%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.48%) Big Data
6 5 (2.48%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.98%) Cloudera CDH
7 4 (1.98%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.49%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (1.49%) Pinecone
8 3 (1.49%) Power BI
8 3 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.99%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (0.50%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.50%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 37 (18.32%) Git
2 23 (11.39%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.45%) fastlane
4 7 (3.47%) GitLab
5 6 (2.97%) JIRA
5 6 (2.97%) Postman
5 6 (2.97%) Xcode
6 5 (2.48%) Android Studio
6 5 (2.48%) Crashlytics
6 5 (2.48%) Gradle
7 4 (1.98%) JUnit
7 4 (1.98%) Mockito
7 4 (1.98%) SpecFlow
8 3 (1.49%) MSI
8 3 (1.49%) Storybook
9 2 (0.99%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.99%) JMeter
9 2 (0.99%) MLflow
10 1 (0.50%) Subversion
10 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (17.82%) Finance
2 34 (16.83%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (10.40%) Public Sector
4 18 (8.91%) Banking
5 16 (7.92%) Financial Institution
6 15 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (4.46%) Retail
8 7 (3.47%) Law
8 7 (3.47%) Legal
9 6 (2.97%) Front Office
10 4 (1.98%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.49%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.49%) Marketing
12 2 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.99%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.50%) Advertising
13 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.50%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 123 (60.89%) Developer
2 46 (22.77%) Senior
3 35 (17.33%) Senior Developer
4 34 (16.83%) Software Developer
5 24 (11.88%) Full-Stack Developer
6 23 (11.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 23 (11.39%) Lead
7 22 (10.89%) Software Engineer
8 20 (9.90%) .NET Developer
8 20 (9.90%) C# Developer
9 16 (7.92%) Senior Software Developer
10 14 (6.93%) C# Software Developer
10 14 (6.93%) Senior C# Developer
10 14 (6.93%) Senior C# Software Developer
11 13 (6.44%) Python Developer
12 9 (4.46%) Backend Developer
13 8 (3.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 7 (3.47%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 7 (3.47%) Lead Developer
14 7 (3.47%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (30.20%) .NET
2 47 (23.27%) RESTful
3 45 (22.28%) REST
4 36 (17.82%) HTML
5 35 (17.33%) React
6 34 (16.83%) Node.js
7 33 (16.34%) CSS
8 28 (13.86%) AngularJS
9 25 (12.38%) ASP.NET
10 22 (10.89%) .NET Framework
10 22 (10.89%) Model Context Protocol
11 21 (10.40%) LangChain
11 21 (10.40%) LlamaIndex
12 19 (9.41%) .NET Core
13 17 (8.42%) Langfuse
14 16 (7.92%) OpenAPI
14 16 (7.92%) Vue
15 15 (7.43%) OAuth
16 14 (6.93%) Entity Framework
16 14 (6.93%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 56 (27.72%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.88%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (10.89%) Mobile App
4 16 (7.92%) Product Ownership
5 15 (7.43%) AI Agents
6 14 (6.93%) e-Learning
7 10 (4.95%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (3.96%) Low-Code
8 8 (3.96%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (2.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.49%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.49%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.99%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.99%) Mobile Wallet
13 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
13 1 (0.50%) IoT
13 1 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.92%) Linux
2 7 (3.47%) Android
2 7 (3.47%) Windows
3 6 (2.97%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.98%) CentOS
4 4 (1.98%) Debian
4 4 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.98%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (49.01%) Agile
2 87 (43.07%) CI/CD
3 70 (34.65%) DevOps
4 67 (33.17%) Full-Stack Development
5 66 (32.67%) AI
6 62 (30.69%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (26.24%) Software Engineering
8 45 (22.28%) Test Automation
9 44 (21.78%) API Integration
10 41 (20.30%) Microservices
11 39 (19.31%) LLM
12 38 (18.81%) Containerisation
13 37 (18.32%) Observability
14 33 (16.34%) Mentoring
15 32 (15.84%) Clean Code
16 29 (14.36%) Computer Science
16 29 (14.36%) Continuous Improvement
16 29 (14.36%) TDD
17 28 (13.86%) Scrum
18 27 (13.37%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 81 (40.10%) C#
2 73 (36.14%) Python
3 52 (25.74%) JavaScript
4 49 (24.26%) SQL
5 29 (14.36%) TypeScript
6 25 (12.38%) Java
7 14 (6.93%) PHP
8 6 (2.97%) Swift
9 5 (2.48%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.48%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.98%) Bash
10 4 (1.98%) C++
11 3 (1.49%) Bicep
11 3 (1.49%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.99%) DataWeave
12 2 (0.99%) Rust
12 2 (0.99%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.50%) Embedded C++
13 1 (0.50%) Ruby
13 1 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 32 (15.84%) Degree
2 18 (8.91%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.43%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.47%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.49%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.99%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.90%) Accessibility
2 15 (7.43%) WCAG
3 11 (5.45%) QA
4 6 (2.97%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.49%) GDPR
5 3 (1.49%) NCSC
6 2 (0.99%) GRC
6 2 (0.99%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.99%) PSD2
7 1 (0.50%) NIST
7 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 52 (25.74%) Docker
2 4 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 37 (18.32%) Kubernetes
2 24 (11.88%) Terraform
3 5 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.98%) Ansible
4 4 (1.98%) Puppet
5 3 (1.49%) Grafana
6 2 (0.99%) Kibana
6 2 (0.99%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.50%) Nagios
Vendors
1 21 (10.40%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.90%) Google
3 13 (6.44%) Dynatrace
4 7 (3.47%) OpenAI
5 6 (2.97%) Apple
5 6 (2.97%) Splunk
6 5 (2.48%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.98%) Oracle
7 4 (1.98%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.49%) Databricks
9 2 (0.99%) Automation Anywhere
9 2 (0.99%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.99%) Pega
9 2 (0.99%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.99%) Trapeze
9 2 (0.99%) UiPath
9 2 (0.99%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.50%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.50%) New Relic
10 1 (0.50%) SAP