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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 442 489
Rank change year-on-year -102 +47 -14
Permanent jobs citing API Development 225 200 263
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.22% 0.46% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.52% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 137 158 143
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,000 £53,109 £50,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £102,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -

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 75,204 38,242 56,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.41% 88.75% 81.74%
Number of salaries quoted 53,160 22,012 31,934
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,215 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -69 89 £77,500 -1.59% 148
North of England -55 56 £62,500 +6.56% 40
North West -16 35 £75,000 +30.43% 23
South East -38 28 £72,500 +45.00% 23
South West -57 28 £70,000 +33.33% 25
North East - 20 £47,000 - 3
Midlands -46 13 £55,000 -12.00% 18
West Midlands -45 9 £55,000 -15.38% 13
East of England -52 7 £38,750 -54.41% 7
East Midlands -35 4 £54,000 -10.37% 5
Yorkshire -50 1 - - 14
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 (5.78%) Apache
2 11 (4.89%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.11%) nginx
4 6 (2.67%) Confluence
4 6 (2.67%) IIS
5 5 (2.22%) JBoss
6 4 (1.78%) CMS
7 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.44%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.78%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.33%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.44%) Endur
2 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 108 (48.00%) Azure
2 72 (32.00%) AWS
3 49 (21.78%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (14.22%) GCP
5 28 (12.44%) Serverless
6 26 (11.56%) LangSmith
7 14 (6.22%) OpenShift
8 13 (5.78%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (5.78%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (4.89%) Firebase
9 11 (4.89%) GitHub
10 9 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (4.00%) Power Platform
11 8 (3.56%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (3.56%) Datadog
12 7 (3.11%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (3.11%) Amazon S3
12 7 (3.11%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.11%) AMQP
2 5 (2.22%) SSL
3 4 (1.78%) HTTP
4 3 (1.33%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.89%) DNS
6 1 (0.44%) TETRA
6 1 (0.44%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.67%) MySQL
1 24 (10.67%) SQL Server
2 22 (9.78%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (7.56%) Relational Database
4 16 (7.11%) NoSQL
5 11 (4.89%) Big Data
6 8 (3.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (3.11%) Cloudera CDH
7 7 (3.11%) Hadoop
7 7 (3.11%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.67%) DynamoDB
9 5 (2.22%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (1.78%) Metadata
10 4 (1.78%) Power BI
10 4 (1.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (1.78%) Tableau
11 3 (1.33%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.33%) Spark SQL
11 3 (1.33%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 44 (19.56%) Git
2 24 (10.67%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.89%) fastlane
4 9 (4.00%) GitLab
5 8 (3.56%) JIRA
6 6 (2.67%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.67%) Xcode
7 5 (2.22%) Android Studio
7 5 (2.22%) Crashlytics
7 5 (2.22%) Gradle
7 5 (2.22%) MSI
7 5 (2.22%) Postman
8 4 (1.78%) Subversion
9 3 (1.33%) CMake
9 3 (1.33%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.89%) JUnit
10 2 (0.89%) Mocha
10 2 (0.89%) Mockito
10 2 (0.89%) NUnit
10 2 (0.89%) SpecFlow
General
1 51 (22.67%) Finance
2 49 (21.78%) Social Skills
3 26 (11.56%) Public Sector
4 24 (10.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (10.22%) Financial Institution
6 22 (9.78%) Banking
7 17 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (5.33%) Retail
9 10 (4.44%) Law
10 9 (4.00%) Legal
11 8 (3.56%) Aerospace
12 5 (2.22%) Manufacturing
12 5 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.33%) Electronics
13 3 (1.33%) Marketing
14 2 (0.89%) Aviation
14 2 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.89%) Front Office
14 2 (0.89%) iGaming
14 2 (0.89%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 121 (53.78%) Developer
2 62 (27.56%) Senior
3 42 (18.67%) Senior Developer
4 39 (17.33%) Software Engineer
5 33 (14.67%) Software Developer
6 26 (11.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 25 (11.11%) C# Developer
8 18 (8.00%) Lead
9 17 (7.56%) .NET Developer
9 17 (7.56%) Senior C# Developer
9 17 (7.56%) Senior Software Developer
10 16 (7.11%) C# Software Developer
10 16 (7.11%) Senior C# Software Developer
11 15 (6.67%) Python Developer
12 13 (5.78%) Backend Developer
12 13 (5.78%) Full-Stack Developer
13 12 (5.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 8 (3.56%) Applications Developer
14 8 (3.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 8 (3.56%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (30.22%) .NET
2 51 (22.67%) REST
2 51 (22.67%) RESTful
3 40 (17.78%) React
4 31 (13.78%) Terraform
5 30 (13.33%) Node.js
6 29 (12.89%) LangChain
6 29 (12.89%) LlamaIndex
7 28 (12.44%) .NET Framework
8 27 (12.00%) Model Context Protocol
9 26 (11.56%) Langfuse
10 25 (11.11%) ASP.NET
10 25 (11.11%) HTML
11 23 (10.22%) AngularJS
11 23 (10.22%) CSS
12 21 (9.33%) .NET Core
13 19 (8.44%) Swagger
14 18 (8.00%) Entity Framework
14 18 (8.00%) Spring
15 16 (7.11%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 75 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 32 (14.22%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (12.89%) AI Agents
4 24 (10.67%) Mobile App
5 23 (10.22%) e-Learning
6 19 (8.44%) Product Ownership
7 13 (5.78%) Onboarding
8 10 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (2.22%) Data Centre
11 5 (2.22%) Private Cloud
11 5 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (2.22%) Social Media
12 4 (1.78%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.78%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (1.78%) Low-Code
13 3 (1.33%) IoT
13 3 (1.33%) Mobile Wallet
13 3 (1.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.67%) Linux
2 11 (4.89%) Windows
3 8 (3.56%) Android
3 8 (3.56%) Apple iOS
3 8 (3.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (3.56%) Ubuntu
4 7 (3.11%) CentOS
4 7 (3.11%) Debian
5 3 (1.33%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (53.78%) Agile
2 98 (43.56%) CI/CD
3 85 (37.78%) DevOps
4 79 (35.11%) AI
5 75 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 75 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 68 (30.22%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (25.33%) Microservices
8 52 (23.11%) Observability
9 49 (21.78%) Test Automation
10 46 (20.44%) Containerisation
11 45 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 43 (19.11%) API Integration
13 40 (17.78%) LLM
14 38 (16.89%) Computer Science
15 37 (16.44%) Collaborative Culture
16 35 (15.56%) Generative AI
17 34 (15.11%) Front End Development
17 34 (15.11%) Infrastructure as Code
18 33 (14.67%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 91 (40.44%) Python
2 88 (39.11%) C#
3 52 (23.11%) JavaScript
4 51 (22.67%) SQL
5 34 (15.11%) Java
6 26 (11.56%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.67%) Bicep
7 6 (2.67%) C++
7 6 (2.67%) PHP
7 6 (2.67%) Swift
8 5 (2.22%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.22%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.78%) Scala
10 3 (1.33%) Embedded C++
10 3 (1.33%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.33%) R
10 3 (1.33%) VB
10 3 (1.33%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.89%) Go
11 2 (0.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (19.11%) Degree
2 40 (17.78%) Security Cleared
3 33 (14.67%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.89%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.67%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.89%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.89%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.44%) Accessibility
2 17 (7.56%) QA
2 17 (7.56%) WCAG
3 7 (3.11%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.11%) GDPR
4 5 (2.22%) NCSC
5 3 (1.33%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.33%) PSD2
6 1 (0.44%) NIST
6 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 61 (27.11%) Docker
2 5 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 53 (23.56%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.44%) Ansible
3 8 (3.56%) Puppet
3 8 (3.56%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (2.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (2.22%) Grafana
4 5 (2.22%) Nagios
5 3 (1.33%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.89%) Kibana
7 1 (0.44%) Consul
7 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 30 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.78%) Google
3 13 (5.78%) Dynatrace
4 12 (5.33%) Red Hat
5 10 (4.44%) Splunk
6 7 (3.11%) Databricks
6 7 (3.11%) SaltStack
7 6 (2.67%) Apple
8 5 (2.22%) Atlassian
8 5 (2.22%) New Relic
9 4 (1.78%) Oracle
9 4 (1.78%) YouTube
10 3 (1.33%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.33%) SAP
11 1 (0.44%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.44%) IFS
11 1 (0.44%) MarketAxess
11 1 (0.44%) Refinitiv
11 1 (0.44%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.44%) Xamarin