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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 358 418
Rank change year-on-year -103 +60 +75
Permanent jobs citing API Development 185 275 430
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.27% 0.75% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.81% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 122 226 334
10th Percentile £45,125 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,688 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £94,750 £107,500 £89,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -13.60%

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 53,421 34,107 67,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 77.17% 93.42% 86.49%
Number of salaries quoted 33,389 20,285 51,851
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,590 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,040 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.27% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -17 79 £81,250 -1.52% 26
Midlands -19 39 £55,000 -8.33% 11
North of England -92 26 £56,000 -2.61% 20
East Midlands -27 21 £55,000 -8.33%
North West -39 20 £54,250 -1.36% 12
South West -47 20 £60,000 +9.09% 12
West Midlands -17 18 £55,100 -8.17% 11
East of England -43 9 £61,250 +16.67% 6
South East -55 7 £60,000 +20.00% 12
Yorkshire -78 4 £68,750 -1.79% 6
North East -26 2 £55,200 +0.36% 2
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 12 (6.49%) Appian
2 10 (5.41%) CMS
3 8 (4.32%) Apache
4 5 (2.70%) Anypoint
4 5 (2.70%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.16%) Moodle
5 4 (2.16%) nginx
6 3 (1.62%) Headless CMS
6 3 (1.62%) NServiceBus
7 2 (1.08%) Confluence
7 2 (1.08%) JBoss
8 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.54%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.62%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.08%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.54%) Magento
3 1 (0.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 74 (40.00%) Azure
2 72 (38.92%) AWS
3 32 (17.30%) GCP
4 27 (14.59%) Serverless
5 22 (11.89%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (10.81%) GitHub
7 17 (9.19%) Power Automate
8 15 (8.11%) Amazon S3
9 14 (7.57%) Anthropic Claude
9 14 (7.57%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (6.49%) Azure AI
11 10 (5.41%) OpenShift
11 10 (5.41%) Power Platform
12 9 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (4.32%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (4.32%) Figma
14 7 (3.78%) Apigee
14 7 (3.78%) SaaS
15 6 (3.24%) Azure Monitor
15 6 (3.24%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.70%) AMQP
2 4 (2.16%) Broadband
3 2 (1.08%) SSL
4 1 (0.54%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (22.16%) SQL Server
2 22 (11.89%) MySQL
3 19 (10.27%) NoSQL
4 15 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (6.49%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (6.49%) Pinecone
5 12 (6.49%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.70%) Big Data
6 5 (2.70%) Cloudera CDH
6 5 (2.70%) Hadoop
6 5 (2.70%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.16%) Power BI
8 2 (1.08%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.08%) DB2
8 2 (1.08%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.54%) Looker
9 1 (0.54%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (17.30%) Git
2 19 (10.27%) Jenkins
3 13 (7.03%) MLflow
4 8 (4.32%) Storybook
5 7 (3.78%) Cucumber
5 7 (3.78%) JUnit
5 7 (3.78%) Selenium
6 5 (2.70%) GitLab
6 5 (2.70%) Postman
7 4 (2.16%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.16%) JIRA
7 4 (2.16%) Visual Studio
7 4 (2.16%) webpack
8 3 (1.62%) ESLint
9 2 (1.08%) Mockito
9 2 (1.08%) SpecFlow
9 2 (1.08%) Subversion
9 2 (1.08%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.08%) Vite
10 1 (0.54%) PHPUnit
General
1 59 (31.89%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.92%) Finance
3 27 (14.59%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.49%) Retail
5 10 (5.41%) Law
5 10 (5.41%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.24%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.16%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.16%) Banking
7 4 (2.16%) Front Office
7 4 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.62%) Games
8 3 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.62%) Legal
8 3 (1.62%) Marketing
8 3 (1.62%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.08%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 97 (52.43%) Developer
2 47 (25.41%) Full-Stack Developer
3 39 (21.08%) Senior
4 29 (15.68%) Lead
5 28 (15.14%) Software Engineer
6 27 (14.59%) Senior Developer
7 18 (9.73%) .NET Developer
8 17 (9.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 16 (8.65%) Software Developer
10 14 (7.57%) Architect
11 13 (7.03%) Automation Engineer
12 12 (6.49%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 10 (5.41%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 10 (5.41%) Web Developer
14 9 (4.86%) Lead Developer
15 8 (4.32%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
15 8 (4.32%) Lead Software Engineer
16 7 (3.78%) Senior Software Developer
16 7 (3.78%) Senior Software Engineer
17 6 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (35.68%) React
2 48 (25.95%) .NET
3 46 (24.86%) CSS
3 46 (24.86%) Node.js
4 43 (23.24%) HTML
5 40 (21.62%) REST
5 40 (21.62%) RESTful
6 30 (16.22%) AngularJS
7 27 (14.59%) OpenAPI
7 27 (14.59%) Swagger
8 24 (12.97%) Django
8 24 (12.97%) OAuth
9 21 (11.35%) ASP.NET
9 21 (11.35%) Flask
10 20 (10.81%) Spring
11 19 (10.27%) .NET Core
12 18 (9.73%) JWT
13 17 (9.19%) pytest
14 16 (8.65%) FastAPI
14 16 (8.65%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.14%) Legacy Systems
2 27 (14.59%) Cloud Native
3 16 (8.65%) Low-Code
4 9 (4.86%) Mobile App
5 7 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.24%) Algorithms
6 6 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.16%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.62%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.62%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.08%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.08%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.08%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.57%) Linux
2 5 (2.70%) CentOS
2 5 (2.70%) Debian
2 5 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.70%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.54%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (42.70%) CI/CD
2 75 (40.54%) Agile
3 57 (30.81%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (29.73%) Full-Stack Development
5 49 (26.49%) Containerisation
6 48 (25.95%) AI
7 45 (24.32%) Mentoring
7 45 (24.32%) Software Engineering
8 44 (23.78%) Microservices
9 42 (22.70%) Test Automation
10 41 (22.16%) DevOps
11 40 (21.62%) API Integration
12 27 (14.59%) Data Pipeline
13 26 (14.05%) Infrastructure as Code
14 25 (13.51%) Computer Science
14 25 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (13.51%) Machine Learning
15 24 (12.97%) Clean Code
15 24 (12.97%) ETL
15 24 (12.97%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 69 (37.30%) Python
3 67 (36.22%) SQL
4 51 (27.57%) C#
5 34 (18.38%) Java
5 34 (18.38%) TypeScript
6 19 (10.27%) PHP
7 5 (2.70%) Bicep
7 5 (2.70%) Delphi
8 4 (2.16%) DataWeave
9 3 (1.62%) Bash
10 2 (1.08%) C++
10 2 (1.08%) RPG
10 2 (1.08%) Rust
11 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.54%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 31 (16.76%) Degree
2 22 (11.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (6.49%) Security Cleared
4 9 (4.86%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.70%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.16%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.03%) Accessibility
1 13 (7.03%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.70%) QA
3 2 (1.08%) GRC
System Software
1 64 (34.59%) Docker
2 4 (2.16%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (25.41%) Kubernetes
2 27 (14.59%) Terraform
3 5 (2.70%) Ansible
3 5 (2.70%) Grafana
3 5 (2.70%) Puppet
4 3 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.08%) Nagios
Vendors
1 24 (12.97%) Google
2 18 (9.73%) Microsoft
3 16 (8.65%) OpenAI
4 12 (6.49%) Automation Anywhere
4 12 (6.49%) UiPath
5 10 (5.41%) Oracle
6 9 (4.86%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.78%) Red Hat
8 6 (3.24%) MuleSoft
9 5 (2.70%) SaltStack
10 4 (2.16%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.62%) SAP
11 3 (1.62%) Zoho
12 2 (1.08%) IBM
12 2 (1.08%) New Relic
12 2 (1.08%) Pega
12 2 (1.08%) Ping Identity
12 2 (1.08%) Splunk
12 2 (1.08%) Trapeze
13 1 (0.54%) Databricks