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 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 433 486
Rank change year-on-year -107 +53 -11
Permanent jobs citing API Development 210 239 278
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.22% 0.55% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.61% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 133 188 178
10th Percentile £46,350 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,000 £52,500 £50,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.80% -12.07%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £75,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -7.14%

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 71,357 38,940 57,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.40% 88.80% 81.14%
Number of salaries quoted 50,719 22,637 35,999
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -3.51% -8.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,465
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.84% -7.56%

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 30 August 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 30 August 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 -73 81 £77,500 - 85
North of England -53 49 £62,500 -7.41% 27
North West -15 30 £75,000 +11.11% 12
South East -40 29 £72,500 +45.00% 17
South West -61 26 £70,000 +33.33% 26
North East - 18 £47,000 - 6
East of England -35 11 £47,500 -44.12% 8
Midlands -37 11 £55,000 -10.20% 8
West Midlands -29 8 £55,000 -15.38% 3
East Midlands -28 3 £54,000 -6.90% 5
Yorkshire -51 1 - - 9
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 (5.24%) Apache
2 7 (3.33%) nginx
3 6 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.86%) IIS
4 5 (2.38%) Confluence
4 5 (2.38%) JBoss
5 4 (1.90%) CMS
6 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.48%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.43%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 97 (46.19%) Azure
2 69 (32.86%) AWS
3 44 (20.95%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (14.76%) GCP
5 24 (11.43%) Serverless
6 23 (10.95%) LangSmith
7 12 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (5.71%) OpenShift
8 11 (5.24%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (5.24%) Firebase
8 11 (5.24%) GitHub
9 8 (3.81%) Datadog
9 8 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (3.81%) Power Platform
10 7 (3.33%) Amazon S3
10 7 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (3.33%) SaaS
11 6 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.86%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.38%) AMQP
1 5 (2.38%) SSL
2 4 (1.90%) Broadband
2 4 (1.90%) HTTP
3 3 (1.43%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.95%) DNS
5 1 (0.48%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.86%) MySQL
1 27 (12.86%) SQL Server
2 23 (10.95%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (7.62%) Relational Database
4 11 (5.24%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (2.86%) Big Data
5 6 (2.86%) DynamoDB
5 6 (2.86%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.38%) Cloudera CDH
6 5 (2.38%) Geospatial Data
6 5 (2.38%) Hadoop
7 4 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.43%) SQLite
9 2 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.48%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.48%) Redis
10 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 43 (20.48%) Git
2 24 (11.43%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.24%) fastlane
4 9 (4.29%) GitLab
5 8 (3.81%) JIRA
6 6 (2.86%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.86%) Postman
6 6 (2.86%) Xcode
7 5 (2.38%) Android Studio
7 5 (2.38%) Crashlytics
7 5 (2.38%) Gradle
7 5 (2.38%) MSI
8 4 (1.90%) JUnit
8 4 (1.90%) Mockito
8 4 (1.90%) SpecFlow
8 4 (1.90%) Subversion
9 3 (1.43%) CMake
9 3 (1.43%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.95%) Mocha
10 2 (0.95%) NUnit
General
1 44 (20.95%) Finance
2 39 (18.57%) Social Skills
3 26 (12.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 26 (12.38%) Public Sector
4 20 (9.52%) Banking
4 20 (9.52%) Financial Institution
5 14 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (5.71%) Retail
7 10 (4.76%) Law
8 9 (4.29%) Legal
9 6 (2.86%) Aerospace
10 5 (2.38%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.43%) Electronics
11 3 (1.43%) Marketing
12 2 (0.95%) Aviation
12 2 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.95%) Front Office
12 2 (0.95%) iGaming
12 2 (0.95%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 112 (53.33%) Developer
2 56 (26.67%) Senior
3 40 (19.05%) Senior Developer
4 37 (17.62%) Software Engineer
5 31 (14.76%) Software Developer
6 25 (11.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 21 (10.00%) C# Developer
8 20 (9.52%) Lead
9 17 (8.10%) Senior Software Developer
10 15 (7.14%) C# Software Developer
10 15 (7.14%) Python Developer
10 15 (7.14%) Senior C# Developer
10 15 (7.14%) Senior C# Software Developer
11 14 (6.67%) .NET Developer
12 13 (6.19%) Backend Developer
13 12 (5.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 11 (5.24%) Full-Stack Developer
15 9 (4.29%) Lead Software Engineer
16 8 (3.81%) Architect
16 8 (3.81%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (30.00%) .NET
2 48 (22.86%) RESTful
3 46 (21.90%) REST
4 38 (18.10%) React
5 30 (14.29%) Terraform
6 29 (13.81%) .NET Framework
6 29 (13.81%) Node.js
7 28 (13.33%) Model Context Protocol
8 26 (12.38%) HTML
8 26 (12.38%) LangChain
8 26 (12.38%) LlamaIndex
9 25 (11.90%) ASP.NET
10 24 (11.43%) CSS
11 23 (10.95%) Langfuse
12 21 (10.00%) .NET Core
13 19 (9.05%) AngularJS
13 19 (9.05%) Entity Framework
14 18 (8.57%) OAuth
15 17 (8.10%) ASP.NET Web API
15 17 (8.10%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 69 (32.86%) Cloud Native
2 33 (15.71%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (11.43%) AI Agents
4 21 (10.00%) Mobile App
5 20 (9.52%) e-Learning
6 15 (7.14%) Product Ownership
7 13 (6.19%) Onboarding
8 9 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.38%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.38%) Data Centre
9 5 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (2.38%) Private Cloud
9 5 (2.38%) Social Media
10 4 (1.90%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.90%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.43%) Mobile Wallet
11 3 (1.43%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.95%) IoT
12 2 (0.95%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.62%) Linux
2 11 (5.24%) Windows
3 8 (3.81%) Android
4 7 (3.33%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.38%) CentOS
6 5 (2.38%) Debian
6 5 (2.38%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.43%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (52.86%) Agile
2 99 (47.14%) CI/CD
3 79 (37.62%) DevOps
4 74 (35.24%) AI
5 69 (32.86%) Software Engineering
6 68 (32.38%) Full-Stack Development
7 61 (29.05%) Problem-Solving
8 53 (25.24%) Test Automation
9 52 (24.76%) Observability
10 51 (24.29%) Microservices
11 48 (22.86%) Containerisation
12 46 (21.90%) API Integration
13 41 (19.52%) LLM
14 39 (18.57%) Continuous Improvement
15 36 (17.14%) Computer Science
16 34 (16.19%) Clean Code
16 34 (16.19%) Mentoring
17 33 (15.71%) Collaborative Culture
17 33 (15.71%) Generative AI
18 30 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 89 (42.38%) Python
2 83 (39.52%) C#
3 47 (22.38%) JavaScript
3 47 (22.38%) SQL
4 33 (15.71%) Java
5 25 (11.90%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.86%) C++
6 6 (2.86%) Swift
7 5 (2.38%) Bicep
7 5 (2.38%) Kotlin
7 5 (2.38%) PHP
7 5 (2.38%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.90%) Bash
9 3 (1.43%) Embedded C++
9 3 (1.43%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.43%) VB
9 3 (1.43%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.95%) Go
10 2 (0.95%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (19.52%) Degree
2 31 (14.76%) Security Cleared
3 24 (11.43%) SC Cleared
4 13 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.29%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.43%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.95%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.95%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.52%) Accessibility
2 17 (8.10%) QA
2 17 (8.10%) WCAG
3 7 (3.33%) GDPR
4 5 (2.38%) NCSC
5 4 (1.90%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.43%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.43%) PSD2
7 1 (0.48%) NIST
7 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 58 (27.62%) Docker
2 5 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.95%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (21.90%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.81%) Ansible
2 8 (3.81%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (2.86%) Puppet
4 5 (2.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (2.38%) Grafana
4 5 (2.38%) Nagios
5 3 (1.43%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.95%) Kibana
7 1 (0.48%) Consul
7 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.95%) Google
3 13 (6.19%) Dynatrace
4 10 (4.76%) Red Hat
4 10 (4.76%) Splunk
5 6 (2.86%) Apple
6 5 (2.38%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.38%) New Relic
6 5 (2.38%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.90%) Databricks
8 3 (1.43%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.43%) Oracle
8 3 (1.43%) SAP
9 2 (0.95%) Pega
9 2 (0.95%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.48%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.48%) IFS
10 1 (0.48%) MarketAxess
10 1 (0.48%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.48%) Salesforce