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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 427 395
Rank change year-on-year -13 -32 +119
Permanent jobs citing API Development 154 268 302
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.55% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.61% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 107 173 243
10th Percentile £48,750 £42,750 £41,500
25th Percentile £53,438 £50,875 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £80,625 £91,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%

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 42,542 44,136 42,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.90% 90.32% 90.98%
Number of salaries quoted 25,391 21,842 32,852
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,195 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 78 £75,000 -23.08% 41
Midlands +8 27 £59,720 -0.47% 34
North of England -8 24 £57,500 +4.55% 48
North West +13 18 £54,250 -1.36% 22
East Midlands +3 14 £60,250 +0.42% 14
West Midlands +15 13 £59,720 -0.47% 18
South West -6 10 £60,000 +11.63% 21
East of England +9 5 £90,000 +100.00% 26
South East -16 4 £57,500 -14.81% 47
Yorkshire -16 4 £70,000 +21.74% 22
North East +5 2 £55,200 +0.36% 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 9 (5.84%) Confluence
2 8 (5.19%) Appian
3 5 (3.25%) Apache
4 4 (2.60%) Camunda
4 4 (2.60%) CMS
4 4 (2.60%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.95%) Anypoint
5 3 (1.95%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.95%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.95%) Jupyter
6 2 (1.30%) JBoss
6 2 (1.30%) Moodle
7 1 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.65%) nginx
7 1 (0.65%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.65%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (2.60%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.65%) Magento
3 1 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.65%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 74 (48.05%) Azure
2 54 (35.06%) AWS
3 24 (15.58%) Serverless
4 23 (14.94%) GCP
5 18 (11.69%) GitHub
5 18 (11.69%) Power Automate
6 17 (11.04%) Power Platform
7 14 (9.09%) Azure AI
8 12 (7.79%) Azure Functions
9 11 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (5.84%) Anthropic Claude
10 9 (5.84%) OpenShift
11 8 (5.19%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (5.19%) PowerApps
12 7 (4.55%) Amazon S3
12 7 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (4.55%) n8n
13 6 (3.90%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (3.25%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.95%) AMQP
2 1 (0.65%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (18.18%) NoSQL
2 25 (16.23%) SQL Server
3 10 (6.49%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (5.19%) MySQL
4 8 (5.19%) Pinecone
5 4 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.95%) Big Data
6 3 (1.95%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (1.95%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.95%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.95%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.95%) Tableau
7 2 (1.30%) DB2
7 2 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.65%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.65%) Looker
Development Applications
1 24 (15.58%) Git
2 20 (12.99%) Jenkins
3 11 (7.14%) GitLab
4 10 (6.49%) JIRA
4 10 (6.49%) Selenium
5 9 (5.84%) MLflow
6 7 (4.55%) Bitbucket
6 7 (4.55%) Cucumber
6 7 (4.55%) JUnit
7 6 (3.90%) Storybook
8 5 (3.25%) Postman
8 5 (3.25%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (3.25%) Visual Studio
9 4 (2.60%) SonarQube
9 4 (2.60%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.95%) ESLint
10 3 (1.95%) JMeter
10 3 (1.95%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (1.95%) webpack
11 2 (1.30%) NUnit
General
1 63 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 38 (24.68%) Finance
3 18 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.44%) Retail
5 9 (5.84%) Law
6 8 (5.19%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.55%) Legal
8 5 (3.25%) Banking
9 3 (1.95%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.95%) Games
9 3 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.95%) Marketing
9 3 (1.95%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.30%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 81 (52.60%) Developer
2 38 (24.68%) Senior
3 27 (17.53%) Full-Stack Developer
3 27 (17.53%) Senior Developer
4 18 (11.69%) Software Engineer
5 17 (11.04%) Architect
6 16 (10.39%) Lead
7 12 (7.79%) .NET Developer
7 12 (7.79%) Software Developer
8 11 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 11 (7.14%) Python Developer
9 8 (5.19%) Automation Engineer
9 8 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (4.55%) Lead Developer
11 6 (3.90%) Azure Developer
11 6 (3.90%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (3.90%) React Developer
11 6 (3.90%) Senior .NET Developer
11 6 (3.90%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (3.90%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (31.17%) React
2 44 (28.57%) RESTful
3 38 (24.68%) Node.js
4 37 (24.03%) REST
5 33 (21.43%) .NET
6 30 (19.48%) CSS
7 27 (17.53%) HTML
8 21 (13.64%) Swagger
9 20 (12.99%) Spring
10 19 (12.34%) OpenAPI
11 18 (11.69%) .NET Core
11 18 (11.69%) Flask
12 17 (11.04%) AngularJS
12 17 (11.04%) Spring Boot
13 16 (10.39%) pytest
13 16 (10.39%) PyTorch
14 15 (9.74%) Django
15 14 (9.09%) OAuth
16 13 (8.44%) ASP.NET
16 13 (8.44%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 30 (19.48%) Cloud Native
2 20 (12.99%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (10.39%) Low-Code
4 11 (7.14%) Mobile App
5 8 (5.19%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.90%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (3.25%) Algorithms
7 5 (3.25%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.60%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.95%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.30%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.65%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.65%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.19%) Linux
2 3 (1.95%) CentOS
2 3 (1.95%) Debian
2 3 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (1.95%) Ubuntu
2 3 (1.95%) Windows
2 3 (1.95%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (42.21%) CI/CD
2 57 (37.01%) Agile
3 45 (29.22%) DevOps
4 42 (27.27%) AI
5 41 (26.62%) Microservices
6 38 (24.68%) Full-Stack Development
6 38 (24.68%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (24.03%) Containerisation
8 31 (20.13%) API Integration
9 30 (19.48%) Test Automation
10 29 (18.83%) Mentoring
10 29 (18.83%) Software Engineering
11 28 (18.18%) Machine Learning
12 22 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
12 22 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
13 21 (13.64%) Clean Code
13 21 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (12.99%) Stakeholder Management
15 18 (11.69%) API Design
15 18 (11.69%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 64 (41.56%) SQL
2 60 (38.96%) Python
3 57 (37.01%) JavaScript
4 36 (23.38%) C#
4 36 (23.38%) Java
5 31 (20.13%) TypeScript
6 10 (6.49%) PHP
7 8 (5.19%) Bicep
8 5 (3.25%) Delphi
9 2 (1.30%) DataWeave
9 2 (1.30%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.30%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.30%) R
9 2 (1.30%) RPG
9 2 (1.30%) XAML
10 1 (0.65%) Bash
10 1 (0.65%) Go
10 1 (0.65%) Ruby
10 1 (0.65%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.65%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 18 (11.69%) Degree
2 10 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (6.49%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.25%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.30%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.30%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.65%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 12 (7.79%) QA
3 9 (5.84%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.95%) WCAG
5 2 (1.30%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.65%) GDPR
System Software
1 47 (30.52%) Docker
2 3 (1.95%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.65%) Squid
Systems Management
1 34 (22.08%) Kubernetes
2 17 (11.04%) Terraform
3 6 (3.90%) Grafana
4 4 (2.60%) Ansible
5 3 (1.95%) Puppet
6 1 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.65%) Kibana
6 1 (0.65%) Nagios
6 1 (0.65%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (16.23%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.74%) OpenAI
3 13 (8.44%) Google
4 11 (7.14%) Oracle
5 9 (5.84%) UiPath
6 8 (5.19%) Atlassian
6 8 (5.19%) Automation Anywhere
7 5 (3.25%) iManage
8 4 (2.60%) MuleSoft
8 4 (2.60%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.95%) Databricks
9 3 (1.95%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.95%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.95%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.95%) SAP
9 3 (1.95%) Zoho
10 2 (1.30%) IBM
10 2 (1.30%) New Relic
10 2 (1.30%) Ping Identity
10 2 (1.30%) Splunk