API Development Jobs in England

API Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring API Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited API Development over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 469 502
Rank change year-on-year +69 +33 -46
Permanent jobs citing API Development 299 405 501
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.62% 0.47% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.55% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 254 303 331
10th Percentile £44,125 £41,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,875 £86,250 £101,185
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -14.29% +7.69%

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 45,051 73,216 87,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.07% 85.60% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 23,853 53,906 51,671
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,308
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing API Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for API Development in England

API Development
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing API Development in England.

Salary trend for API Development in England

API Development
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Development in England over the 6 months to 8 May 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 8 May 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 +92 113 £82,500 +6.45% 156
North of England +71 68 £59,900 +4.17% 50
North West -5 36 £56,250 -2.17% 31
East of England +55 33 £62,500 +38.89% 18
South East +85 31 £50,000 -21.57% 72
Yorkshire +69 30 £60,000 +4.35% 17
South West +88 26 £55,000 -4.35% 34
Midlands +10 26 £60,000 +14.29% 17
West Midlands +16 24 £52,500 - 9
East Midlands +31 2 £60,000 +14.29% 8
North East - 2 £53,750 - 2
API Development
UK

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (3.34%) CMS
2 8 (2.68%) Headless CMS
3 4 (1.34%) Confluence
4 3 (1.00%) OpenEdge
5 2 (0.67%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.33%) Apache
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.33%) IIS
6 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.33%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (1.34%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (4.68%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.34%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.34%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.33%) Shopify
3 1 (0.33%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 121 (40.47%) Azure
2 117 (39.13%) AWS
3 55 (18.39%) Serverless
4 30 (10.03%) GitHub
5 26 (8.70%) GCP
6 25 (8.36%) SaaS
7 24 (8.03%) Cloud Computing
8 21 (7.02%) Power Platform
9 19 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (5.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 17 (5.69%) AWS Step Functions
12 16 (5.35%) Amazon EventBridge
12 16 (5.35%) Boomi
13 15 (5.02%) Amazon SQS
13 15 (5.02%) AWS CodePipeline
14 14 (4.68%) AWS CodeBuild
14 14 (4.68%) AWS CodeDeploy
15 13 (4.35%) Azure Functions
15 13 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.01%) HTTP
2 1 (0.33%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.33%) RS-232
2 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (16.72%) SQL Server
2 46 (15.38%) NoSQL
3 29 (9.70%) MongoDB
4 27 (9.03%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (6.35%) Big Data
6 16 (5.35%) MySQL
6 16 (5.35%) Power BI
7 15 (5.02%) Relational Database
8 10 (3.34%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (2.34%) Tableau
11 6 (2.01%) DynamoDB
12 5 (1.67%) Data Mining
12 5 (1.67%) RDBMS
13 4 (1.34%) BigQuery
14 3 (1.00%) Data Lake
14 3 (1.00%) Data Vault
14 3 (1.00%) Metadata
15 2 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
15 2 (0.67%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 55 (18.39%) Git
2 23 (7.69%) JIRA
3 14 (4.68%) Visual Studio
4 12 (4.01%) Jenkins
5 11 (3.68%) PowerBuilder
6 10 (3.34%) Babel
6 10 (3.34%) webpack
7 8 (2.68%) GitLab
8 6 (2.01%) Gradle
8 6 (2.01%) Maven
8 6 (2.01%) Mocha
8 6 (2.01%) Postman
9 5 (1.67%) Storybook
10 4 (1.34%) JUnit
11 3 (1.00%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.00%) Mockito
11 3 (1.00%) Moq
11 3 (1.00%) Selenium
11 3 (1.00%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.67%) Artifactory
General
1 84 (28.09%) Finance
2 74 (24.75%) Social Skills
3 40 (13.38%) Banking
4 29 (9.70%) Retail
5 25 (8.36%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (8.36%) Public Sector
6 22 (7.36%) Law
7 20 (6.69%) Legal
8 15 (5.02%) Marketing
9 9 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (3.01%) Investment Banking
10 7 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.34%) Electronics
10 7 (2.34%) Games
10 7 (2.34%) Retail Banking
11 6 (2.01%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.67%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.34%) Front Office
14 3 (1.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 136 (45.48%) Developer
2 68 (22.74%) Lead
3 63 (21.07%) Senior
4 44 (14.72%) Software Engineer
5 39 (13.04%) .NET Developer
5 39 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
6 27 (9.03%) Senior Developer
7 25 (8.36%) C# Developer
8 22 (7.36%) C# .NET Developer
9 18 (6.02%) Senior Software Engineer
9 18 (6.02%) Software Developer
10 15 (5.02%) Technical Leader
11 14 (4.68%) React Developer
12 13 (4.35%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 12 (4.01%) Full-Stack C# Developer
13 12 (4.01%) Graduate
13 12 (4.01%) Lead Software Engineer
14 11 (3.68%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 11 (3.68%) Lead Developer
14 11 (3.68%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (42.81%) .NET
2 105 (35.12%) RESTful
3 92 (30.77%) React
4 62 (20.74%) REST
5 51 (17.06%) AngularJS
6 41 (13.71%) GraphQL
7 37 (12.37%) .NET Core
8 34 (11.37%) Node.js
9 32 (10.70%) CSS
9 32 (10.70%) HTML
9 32 (10.70%) OAuth
10 25 (8.36%) JWT
10 25 (8.36%) SOAP
11 24 (8.03%) Vue
12 22 (7.36%) .NET Framework
12 22 (7.36%) Kafka
13 18 (6.02%) Entity Framework
14 16 (5.35%) ASP.NET
15 15 (5.02%) ASP.NET Web API
15 15 (5.02%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.37%) Cloud Native
1 34 (11.37%) Product Ownership
2 30 (10.03%) Mobile App
3 13 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (4.01%) Hackathon
4 12 (4.01%) Learning Management System
5 11 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (3.68%) Reinsurance
6 10 (3.34%) Algorithms
6 10 (3.34%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (3.34%) Private Cloud
7 8 (2.68%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.01%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.01%) Mobile Games
9 5 (1.67%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.34%) IoT
11 2 (0.67%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (0.67%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (0.67%) Semantic Web
11 2 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.68%) Apple iOS
2 8 (2.68%) Android
2 8 (2.68%) Windows
3 3 (1.00%) Linux
4 1 (0.33%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (46.49%) CI/CD
1 139 (46.49%) DevOps
2 122 (40.80%) Agile
3 105 (35.12%) Software Engineering
4 95 (31.77%) Microservices
5 81 (27.09%) Containerisation
6 74 (24.75%) Problem-Solving
7 66 (22.07%) API Integration
8 61 (20.40%) Full-Stack Development
9 48 (16.05%) Mentoring
10 45 (15.05%) API Design
11 38 (12.71%) Coaching
12 37 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
12 37 (12.37%) E-Commerce
13 34 (11.37%) Front End Development
13 34 (11.37%) User Experience
14 33 (11.04%) Analytics
15 32 (10.70%) Computer Science
15 32 (10.70%) Roadmaps
16 31 (10.37%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 147 (49.16%) C#
2 99 (33.11%) Java
3 96 (32.11%) JavaScript
4 87 (29.10%) SQL
5 81 (27.09%) Python
6 47 (15.72%) TypeScript
7 18 (6.02%) PowerShell
8 13 (4.35%) Kotlin
9 10 (3.34%) C++
10 7 (2.34%) PHP
11 6 (2.01%) Go
12 5 (1.67%) C
12 5 (1.67%) Swift
13 4 (1.34%) Ruby
14 3 (1.00%) Apex Code
14 3 (1.00%) OpenEdge ABL
14 3 (1.00%) Progress 4GL
14 3 (1.00%) Rust
15 2 (0.67%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.67%) XAML
Qualifications
1 47 (15.72%) Degree
2 31 (10.37%) Security Cleared
3 25 (8.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (5.69%) Master's Degree
5 16 (5.35%) SC Cleared
6 12 (4.01%) PhD
7 10 (3.34%) AWS Certification
8 9 (3.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (2.01%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.36%) QA
2 15 (5.02%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.67%) GDPR
4 3 (1.00%) WCAG
5 2 (0.67%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.33%) CDISC
6 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 65 (21.74%) Docker
2 2 (0.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.33%) Squid
Systems Management
1 61 (20.40%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.68%) Prometheus
3 13 (4.35%) Grafana
4 11 (3.68%) Terraform
5 7 (2.34%) Argo
6 4 (1.34%) Ansible
6 4 (1.34%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.67%) Kibana
8 1 (0.33%) logstash
Vendors
1 72 (24.08%) Microsoft
2 31 (10.37%) Google
3 22 (7.36%) ServiceNow
4 19 (6.35%) MuleSoft
4 19 (6.35%) Salesforce
5 14 (4.68%) Databricks
5 14 (4.68%) Informatica
6 13 (4.35%) IBM
6 13 (4.35%) Oracle
7 7 (2.34%) New Relic
7 7 (2.34%) Telerik
8 6 (2.01%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.34%) Remedy
9 4 (1.34%) Splunk
10 3 (1.00%) Progress
10 3 (1.00%) SAP
11 2 (0.67%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.67%) CyberSource
11 2 (0.67%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.67%) Snow