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 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 382 502
Rank change year-on-year -112 +120 +10
Permanent jobs citing API Development 201 274 388
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.69% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.75% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 127 222 292
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -17.24%
75th Percentile £76,250 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,500 £110,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £59,250
% change year-on-year -14.29% +18.14% -15.36%

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 60,519 36,661 75,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.25% 92.99% 82.97%
Number of salaries quoted 41,500 19,807 55,411
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,250 £29,175
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £93,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 -40 83 £80,000 -3.03% 52
North of England -58 39 £61,250 -12.50% 16
Midlands -21 33 £55,000 -2.22% 4
North West -28 27 £70,000 +7.69% 8
South East -35 21 £69,500 +39.00% 20
West Midlands -20 19 £55,000 +4.76%
South West -58 17 £58,750 +6.82% 7
East Midlands -14 14 £55,000 -8.33% 4
North East -33 10 £47,000 -10.48% 4
East of England -39 8 £45,000 -47.06% 4
Yorkshire -66 2 £50,000 -28.57% 4
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 (5.47%) CMS
2 8 (3.98%) Apache
2 8 (3.98%) Appian
3 6 (2.99%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.49%) nginx
5 4 (1.99%) IIS
6 3 (1.49%) Anypoint
6 3 (1.49%) Headless CMS
7 2 (1.00%) JBoss
7 2 (1.00%) Moodle
7 2 (1.00%) NServiceBus
7 2 (1.00%) WordPress
8 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.50%) Confluence
8 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.99%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 85 (42.29%) Azure
2 66 (32.84%) AWS
3 34 (16.92%) GCP
4 32 (15.92%) Serverless
5 24 (11.94%) AWS Lambda
5 24 (11.94%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (7.46%) Amazon S3
7 14 (6.97%) GitHub
8 12 (5.97%) Anthropic Claude
9 11 (5.47%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (4.98%) Firebase
10 10 (4.98%) Power Automate
11 9 (4.48%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (4.48%) LangSmith
12 8 (3.98%) Apigee
12 8 (3.98%) Azure AI
12 8 (3.98%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (3.98%) SaaS
13 7 (3.48%) Figma
13 7 (3.48%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.49%) AMQP
2 4 (1.99%) Broadband
3 3 (1.49%) HTTPS
4 2 (1.00%) DNS
4 2 (1.00%) HTTP
4 2 (1.00%) SSL
5 1 (0.50%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (16.92%) SQL Server
2 27 (13.43%) MySQL
3 17 (8.46%) Relational Database
4 14 (6.97%) NoSQL
5 12 (5.97%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (5.47%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (4.48%) Pinecone
8 6 (2.99%) Big Data
9 5 (2.49%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (2.49%) Hadoop
9 5 (2.49%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.99%) Power BI
11 3 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.00%) Qlik Sense
13 1 (0.50%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.50%) Db2
13 1 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
13 1 (0.50%) Tableau
13 1 (0.50%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 32 (15.92%) Git
2 25 (12.44%) Jenkins
3 10 (4.98%) fastlane
4 8 (3.98%) MLflow
5 7 (3.48%) Postman
5 7 (3.48%) Storybook
6 5 (2.49%) Android Studio
6 5 (2.49%) Crashlytics
6 5 (2.49%) Gradle
6 5 (2.49%) Xcode
7 4 (1.99%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.99%) GitLab
7 4 (1.99%) JUnit
7 4 (1.99%) Mockito
7 4 (1.99%) SpecFlow
7 4 (1.99%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.49%) ESLint
8 3 (1.49%) JIRA
9 2 (1.00%) JMeter
9 2 (1.00%) Subversion
General
1 41 (20.40%) Social Skills
2 34 (16.92%) Finance
3 20 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (8.46%) Public Sector
6 16 (7.96%) Banking
7 11 (5.47%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.48%) Retail
9 5 (2.49%) Front Office
10 4 (1.99%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.99%) Law
11 3 (1.49%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.49%) Marketing
11 3 (1.49%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.50%) Advertising
13 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.50%) Legal
13 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 112 (55.72%) Developer
2 41 (20.40%) Senior
3 38 (18.91%) Full-Stack Developer
4 34 (16.92%) Lead
5 29 (14.43%) Senior Developer
5 29 (14.43%) Software Developer
6 24 (11.94%) Software Engineer
7 22 (10.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 18 (8.96%) .NET Developer
8 18 (8.96%) C# Developer
9 15 (7.46%) Senior Software Developer
10 14 (6.97%) Lead Developer
11 13 (6.47%) C# Software Developer
11 13 (6.47%) Senior C# Developer
11 13 (6.47%) Senior C# Software Developer
12 9 (4.48%) Automation Engineer
12 9 (4.48%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 8 (3.98%) Architect
13 8 (3.98%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (3.98%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (25.87%) .NET
1 52 (25.87%) React
2 46 (22.89%) Node.js
3 44 (21.89%) RESTful
4 43 (21.39%) REST
5 40 (19.90%) CSS
6 38 (18.91%) HTML
7 29 (14.43%) AngularJS
8 26 (12.94%) OpenAPI
8 26 (12.94%) Swagger
9 24 (11.94%) OAuth
10 19 (9.45%) .NET Core
10 19 (9.45%) JWT
11 18 (8.96%) ASP.NET
12 17 (8.46%) Vue
13 16 (7.96%) Spring
14 15 (7.46%) Django
15 14 (6.97%) ASP.NET Web API
15 14 (6.97%) LlamaIndex
15 14 (6.97%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 47 (23.38%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.95%) Mobile App
3 15 (7.46%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (6.97%) Product Ownership
5 13 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (4.98%) AI Agents
6 10 (4.98%) Low-Code
7 9 (4.48%) e-Learning
8 5 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.49%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.00%) Algorithms
11 2 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.00%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.50%) IoT
12 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.46%) Linux
2 7 (3.48%) Android
3 5 (2.49%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.49%) CentOS
3 5 (2.49%) Debian
3 5 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.49%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.50%) Windows
4 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (46.77%) Agile
2 87 (43.28%) CI/CD
3 64 (31.84%) Full-Stack Development
4 62 (30.85%) AI
5 59 (29.35%) DevOps
6 58 (28.86%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (23.38%) Mentoring
8 46 (22.89%) Containerisation
9 45 (22.39%) Software Engineering
9 45 (22.39%) Test Automation
10 39 (19.40%) API Integration
11 36 (17.91%) Microservices
12 34 (16.92%) Clean Code
13 32 (15.92%) LLM
14 30 (14.93%) TDD
15 29 (14.43%) Computer Science
15 29 (14.43%) Scrum
16 28 (13.93%) Machine Learning
17 26 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
18 25 (12.44%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 73 (36.32%) Python
2 69 (34.33%) C#
3 59 (29.35%) SQL
4 58 (28.86%) JavaScript
5 32 (15.92%) TypeScript
6 27 (13.43%) Java
7 17 (8.46%) PHP
8 5 (2.49%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.49%) Swift
9 4 (1.99%) Bash
9 4 (1.99%) Bicep
10 3 (1.49%) C++
10 3 (1.49%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.00%) DataWeave
11 2 (1.00%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.00%) Rust
11 2 (1.00%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.50%) Go
12 1 (0.50%) RPG
12 1 (0.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 33 (16.42%) Degree
2 20 (9.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.98%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.98%) Security Cleared
4 7 (3.48%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.99%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.00%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.95%) Accessibility
2 12 (5.97%) Data Quality
3 10 (4.98%) WCAG
4 5 (2.49%) QA
5 2 (1.00%) GRC
6 1 (0.50%) GDPR
6 1 (0.50%) NIST
6 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 68 (33.83%) Docker
2 4 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 50 (24.88%) Kubernetes
2 28 (13.93%) Terraform
3 6 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (2.49%) Ansible
4 5 (2.49%) Puppet
5 2 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.00%) Kibana
5 2 (1.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 30 (14.93%) Google
2 14 (6.97%) OpenAI
3 13 (6.47%) Microsoft
4 12 (5.97%) Dynatrace
5 8 (3.98%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (3.98%) UiPath
6 7 (3.48%) Red Hat
6 7 (3.48%) Splunk
7 6 (2.99%) Atlassian
8 5 (2.49%) Apple
8 5 (2.49%) Oracle
8 5 (2.49%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.49%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.00%) New Relic
10 2 (1.00%) Pega
10 2 (1.00%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.00%) Trapeze
10 2 (1.00%) Xamarin
11 1 (0.50%) Databricks
11 1 (0.50%) IBM