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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 461 407
Rank change year-on-year 0 -54 +113
Permanent jobs citing API Development 163 287 297
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.35% 0.47% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.56% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 123 176 248
10th Percentile £47,600 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,438 £50,875 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
75th Percentile £81,250 £92,819 £86,563
90th Percentile £92,500 £104,375 £106,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 39,525 51,629 43,788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.31% 84.22% 93.70%
Number of salaries quoted 24,668 27,141 33,564
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% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,000 £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 22 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 22 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 +40 72 £75,000 -16.67% 103
North of England +32 36 £57,500 +9.52% 45
North West +43 25 £56,250 +8.17% 36
Midlands +43 17 £60,000 - 24
South West +18 14 £54,500 -0.91% 20
East of England +17 11 £82,500 +83.33% 5
East Midlands +25 10 £58,000 -40.51% 7
Yorkshire +7 9 £70,000 +21.74% 6
West Midlands +37 7 £60,000 - 17
South East -6 7 £55,000 -21.43% 30
North East +15 2 £55,200 +0.36% 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 10 (6.13%) Confluence
2 6 (3.68%) Apache Solr
2 6 (3.68%) CMS
3 5 (3.07%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.45%) Camunda
5 3 (1.84%) Apache
5 3 (1.84%) Jupyter
6 2 (1.23%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.23%) Appian
6 2 (1.23%) JBoss
6 2 (1.23%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.61%) IIS
7 1 (0.61%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.45%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.23%) Shopify
4 1 (0.61%) Magento
4 1 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 78 (47.85%) Azure
2 53 (32.52%) AWS
3 21 (12.88%) GitHub
4 20 (12.27%) Serverless
5 19 (11.66%) GCP
5 19 (11.66%) Power Platform
6 16 (9.82%) Azure Functions
7 14 (8.59%) Power Automate
8 12 (7.36%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (6.13%) OpenShift
9 10 (6.13%) PowerApps
10 9 (5.52%) SaaS
11 8 (4.91%) Azure AI
12 7 (4.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (4.29%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (4.29%) Cloudflare
12 7 (4.29%) n8n
13 6 (3.68%) Azure Service Bus
14 5 (3.07%) Azure App Service
14 5 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.23%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (22.09%) NoSQL
2 22 (13.50%) SQL Server
3 18 (11.04%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (7.98%) MySQL
5 10 (6.13%) MongoDB
6 9 (5.52%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (5.52%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.45%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.45%) Looker
8 3 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.84%) Power BI
8 3 (1.84%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.84%) Tableau
9 2 (1.23%) Big Data
9 2 (1.23%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (1.23%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.23%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.23%) Redis
9 2 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (17.79%) Git
2 18 (11.04%) Jenkins
3 15 (9.20%) GitLab
3 15 (9.20%) JIRA
4 11 (6.75%) Selenium
5 8 (4.91%) Cucumber
5 8 (4.91%) JUnit
6 6 (3.68%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (2.45%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.45%) NUnit
7 4 (2.45%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.84%) JMeter
8 3 (1.84%) MLflow
8 3 (1.84%) Postman
8 3 (1.84%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.84%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.84%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.23%) Gradle
9 2 (1.23%) Maven
9 2 (1.23%) MSTest
General
1 67 (41.10%) Social Skills
2 38 (23.31%) Finance
3 20 (12.27%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.98%) Retail
5 9 (5.52%) Law
6 8 (4.91%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.29%) Legal
8 6 (3.68%) Games
9 5 (3.07%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (2.45%) Banking
11 3 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.84%) Marketing
12 2 (1.23%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.23%) Health Technology
12 2 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.23%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.61%) Electronics
13 1 (0.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 85 (52.15%) Developer
2 39 (23.93%) Senior
3 26 (15.95%) Senior Developer
4 21 (12.88%) Full-Stack Developer
5 19 (11.66%) Architect
6 14 (8.59%) Python Developer
6 14 (8.59%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (7.98%) Software Engineer
8 12 (7.36%) Software Developer
9 10 (6.13%) .NET Developer
10 8 (4.91%) Backend Developer
10 8 (4.91%) Java Engineer
10 8 (4.91%) Lead
11 7 (4.29%) Java Developer
11 7 (4.29%) Technical Manager
11 7 (4.29%) Web Manager
12 6 (3.68%) Azure Developer
13 5 (3.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 5 (3.07%) Automation Developer
13 5 (3.07%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (25.77%) RESTful
2 40 (24.54%) .NET
3 37 (22.70%) React
4 35 (21.47%) REST
5 23 (14.11%) Spring
6 21 (12.88%) Node.js
6 21 (12.88%) Spring Boot
7 20 (12.27%) AngularJS
7 20 (12.27%) CSS
7 20 (12.27%) HTML
8 19 (11.66%) .NET Core
9 17 (10.43%) ASP.NET
10 13 (7.98%) LangChain
10 13 (7.98%) pytest
11 12 (7.36%) FastAPI
11 12 (7.36%) Flask
12 11 (6.75%) Vue
13 10 (6.13%) GraphQL
13 10 (6.13%) PyTorch
14 9 (5.52%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.95%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.98%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (6.13%) Low-Code
4 8 (4.91%) AI Agents
5 7 (4.29%) Algorithms
6 6 (3.68%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.68%) Mobile App
7 5 (3.07%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.45%) IoT
8 4 (2.45%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.84%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.84%) Wiki
9 3 (1.84%) YARA
10 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.23%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.61%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.75%) Linux
2 9 (5.52%) Windows
3 6 (3.68%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.23%) CentOS
4 2 (1.23%) Debian
4 2 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.23%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (41.10%) Agile
2 66 (40.49%) CI/CD
3 57 (34.97%) DevOps
4 51 (31.29%) Microservices
5 45 (27.61%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (22.70%) Containerisation
7 36 (22.09%) API Integration
8 34 (20.86%) Full-Stack Development
9 33 (20.25%) AI
10 28 (17.18%) Software Engineering
11 26 (15.95%) Machine Learning
12 25 (15.34%) API Design
13 24 (14.72%) Test Automation
14 23 (14.11%) Mentoring
15 22 (13.50%) Code Quality
16 21 (12.88%) Clean Code
17 20 (12.27%) Continuous Improvement
18 19 (11.66%) Migration
18 19 (11.66%) Stakeholder Management
18 19 (11.66%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 71 (43.56%) Python
2 63 (38.65%) SQL
3 53 (32.52%) JavaScript
4 45 (27.61%) C#
5 40 (24.54%) Java
6 28 (17.18%) TypeScript
7 14 (8.59%) PHP
8 6 (3.68%) Bicep
8 6 (3.68%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.07%) Delphi
10 2 (1.23%) Bash
10 2 (1.23%) R
10 2 (1.23%) Ruby
10 2 (1.23%) Search Processing Language
10 2 (1.23%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.23%) XAML
11 1 (0.61%) C
11 1 (0.61%) C++
11 1 (0.61%) Go
11 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (10.43%) Degree
2 9 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (5.52%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.68%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.45%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.23%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.23%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.61%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.82%) QA
2 9 (5.52%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.84%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.84%) GDPR
3 3 (1.84%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.84%) WCAG
System Software
1 42 (25.77%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) Squid
2 2 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (17.18%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.52%) Terraform
3 7 (4.29%) Grafana
4 4 (2.45%) Ansible
5 2 (1.23%) Kibana
5 2 (1.23%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 31 (19.02%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.36%) Oracle
3 9 (5.52%) OpenAI
4 5 (3.07%) Databricks
4 5 (3.07%) iManage
5 4 (2.45%) Google
5 4 (2.45%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.45%) SnapLogic
6 3 (1.84%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.84%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.84%) SAP
6 3 (1.84%) UiPath
6 3 (1.84%) Zoho
7 2 (1.23%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.23%) Automation Anywhere
7 2 (1.23%) New Relic
7 2 (1.23%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.23%) Splunk
8 1 (0.61%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.61%) Sybase