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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 458 454 411
Rank change year-on-year -4 -43 +107
Permanent jobs citing API Development 160 266 289
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.44% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.53% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 120 156 243
10th Percentile £47,375 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,438 £51,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £81,563 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £92,750 £105,000 £106,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -

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 38,350 50,346 44,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 86.62% 83.04% 93.77%
Number of salaries quoted 23,795 26,459 34,381
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

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 8 November 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 8 November 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 +42 71 £75,000 -16.67% 188
North of England +19 38 £57,500 +6.98% 91
North West +16 26 £56,250 +7.65% 72
Midlands +43 15 £58,000 -3.33% 21
South West +20 12 £52,500 -12.50% 18
East of England +25 11 £82,500 +83.33% 11
Yorkshire +13 10 £70,000 - 13
West Midlands +29 8 £60,000 +20.00% 16
South East -8 8 £55,000 -20.00% 146
East Midlands +14 7 £58,000 -40.51% 5
North East +12 2 £55,200 +2.70% 6
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 (8.13%) Confluence
2 6 (3.75%) Apache Solr
2 6 (3.75%) CMS
3 5 (3.13%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.50%) Camunda
5 3 (1.88%) Jupyter
6 2 (1.25%) Apache
6 2 (1.25%) IIS
6 2 (1.25%) JBoss
6 2 (1.25%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.50%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.25%) Shopify
4 1 (0.63%) Magento
4 1 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 76 (47.50%) Azure
2 51 (31.88%) AWS
3 23 (14.38%) GitHub
4 19 (11.88%) GCP
5 18 (11.25%) Serverless
6 17 (10.63%) Power Platform
7 15 (9.38%) Azure Functions
8 14 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (6.88%) Power Automate
10 9 (5.63%) OpenShift
10 9 (5.63%) PowerApps
11 8 (5.00%) Cloudflare
11 8 (5.00%) SaaS
12 7 (4.38%) n8n
13 6 (3.75%) Azure AI
13 6 (3.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (3.75%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (3.75%) Azure Service Bus
14 5 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (3.13%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.63%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (25.63%) NoSQL
2 21 (13.13%) SQL Server
3 20 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (8.13%) MongoDB
5 12 (7.50%) MySQL
6 11 (6.88%) Relational Database
7 10 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.50%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.88%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.88%) Looker
10 2 (1.25%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.25%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.25%) Power BI
10 2 (1.25%) Redis
10 2 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.25%) Tableau
11 1 (0.63%) Big Data
11 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 33 (20.63%) Git
2 19 (11.88%) JIRA
3 18 (11.25%) GitLab
3 18 (11.25%) Jenkins
4 14 (8.75%) Selenium
5 11 (6.88%) Cucumber
6 8 (5.00%) JUnit
7 6 (3.75%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (3.13%) NUnit
9 4 (2.50%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.50%) SonarQube
9 4 (2.50%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.88%) JMeter
10 3 (1.88%) Postman
10 3 (1.88%) Visual Studio
10 3 (1.88%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (1.25%) Gradle
11 2 (1.25%) Jasmine
11 2 (1.25%) Maven
11 2 (1.25%) MSTest
General
1 64 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 36 (22.50%) Finance
3 18 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.50%) Retail
5 8 (5.00%) Law
6 7 (4.38%) Legal
6 7 (4.38%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.75%) Games
8 5 (3.13%) Banking
8 5 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.25%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.25%) Marketing
10 2 (1.25%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.63%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Electronics
11 1 (0.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 82 (51.25%) Developer
2 36 (22.50%) Senior
3 23 (14.38%) Senior Developer
4 20 (12.50%) Architect
5 17 (10.63%) Full-Stack Developer
6 16 (10.00%) Python Developer
7 15 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (8.75%) Software Engineer
9 12 (7.50%) Software Developer
10 11 (6.88%) .NET Developer
10 11 (6.88%) Java Engineer
11 9 (5.63%) Lead
12 8 (5.00%) Backend Developer
13 7 (4.38%) Java Developer
13 7 (4.38%) Java Software Engineer
13 7 (4.38%) Technical Manager
13 7 (4.38%) Web Manager
14 6 (3.75%) Azure Developer
15 5 (3.13%) Automation Developer
15 5 (3.13%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (26.25%) RESTful
2 41 (25.63%) .NET
3 33 (20.63%) React
4 31 (19.38%) REST
5 25 (15.63%) Spring
6 23 (14.38%) Spring Boot
7 21 (13.13%) AngularJS
8 19 (11.88%) .NET Core
8 19 (11.88%) ASP.NET
9 18 (11.25%) CSS
9 18 (11.25%) HTML
10 17 (10.63%) Node.js
11 14 (8.75%) Vue
12 13 (8.13%) LangChain
12 13 (8.13%) pytest
13 11 (6.88%) Flask
13 11 (6.88%) Kafka
14 10 (6.25%) ASP.NET Core
14 10 (6.25%) GraphQL
15 9 (5.63%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.63%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.88%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (5.00%) AI Agents
3 8 (5.00%) Low-Code
4 7 (4.38%) Algorithms
5 6 (3.75%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.75%) Wiki
6 5 (3.13%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.13%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.50%) IoT
8 3 (1.88%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.88%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.88%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.88%) YARA
9 2 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.63%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.25%) Linux
1 10 (6.25%) Windows
2 6 (3.75%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.25%) Unix
4 1 (0.63%) CentOS
4 1 (0.63%) Debian
4 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (41.88%) CI/CD
2 65 (40.63%) Agile
3 62 (38.75%) DevOps
4 52 (32.50%) Microservices
5 42 (26.25%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (24.38%) Containerisation
7 34 (21.25%) API Integration
8 33 (20.63%) Full-Stack Development
9 31 (19.38%) AI
10 30 (18.75%) Software Engineering
11 26 (16.25%) Code Quality
12 25 (15.63%) API Design
12 25 (15.63%) Mentoring
13 24 (15.00%) Machine Learning
13 24 (15.00%) Test Automation
14 23 (14.38%) TDD
15 20 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (12.50%) Migration
16 19 (11.88%) Secure Coding
16 19 (11.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (41.25%) Python
2 61 (38.13%) SQL
3 47 (29.38%) JavaScript
4 46 (28.75%) C#
5 40 (25.00%) Java
6 28 (17.50%) TypeScript
7 14 (8.75%) PHP
8 6 (3.75%) Bicep
8 6 (3.75%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.13%) Delphi
10 2 (1.25%) Bash
10 2 (1.25%) R
10 2 (1.25%) Ruby
10 2 (1.25%) Search Processing Language
10 2 (1.25%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.25%) XAML
11 1 (0.63%) C
11 1 (0.63%) C++
11 1 (0.63%) Go
11 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (10.00%) Degree
2 8 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.75%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.13%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.88%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.25%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.25%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.63%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.63%) QA
2 9 (5.63%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.50%) GDPR
4 3 (1.88%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (26.88%) Docker
2 2 (1.25%) Squid
Systems Management
1 30 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.00%) Terraform
3 7 (4.38%) Grafana
4 3 (1.88%) Ansible
5 2 (1.25%) Kibana
5 2 (1.25%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 31 (19.38%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.50%) Oracle
3 7 (4.38%) Databricks
3 7 (4.38%) OpenAI
4 5 (3.13%) iManage
5 4 (2.50%) SnapLogic
6 3 (1.88%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.88%) Google
6 3 (1.88%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.88%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.88%) SAP
7 2 (1.25%) New Relic
7 2 (1.25%) Rollbar
7 2 (1.25%) Splunk
7 2 (1.25%) Zoho
8 1 (0.63%) IFS
8 1 (0.63%) Intapp
8 1 (0.63%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.63%) Samsung
8 1 (0.63%) UiPath