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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 412 407
Rank change year-on-year -42 -5 +95
Permanent jobs citing API Development 166 274 365
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.58% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.63% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 111 171 298
10th Percentile £48,750 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £80,625 £90,625 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -11.11%

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 44,287 43,288 53,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 80.30% 91.33% 88.70%
Number of salaries quoted 26,703 20,981 41,972
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,481 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,250 £96,539
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 +41 85 £77,500 -18.42% 33
Midlands +15 32 £59,720 -0.47% 15
North of England -17 24 £56,000 +1.82% 30
North West +13 18 £52,500 -4.55% 21
East Midlands -3 18 £58,850 -1.92% 6
West Midlands +17 14 £59,720 -0.47% 8
South West -19 12 £60,000 +4.35% 16
East of England 0 4 £90,000 +100.00% 13
South East -14 4 £57,500 -14.81% 30
Yorkshire -21 4 £70,000 +21.74% 7
North East -4 2 £55,200 +2.70% 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 11 (6.63%) Appian
2 8 (4.82%) Confluence
3 7 (4.22%) Apache
4 5 (3.01%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.41%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.81%) Anypoint
6 3 (1.81%) Jupyter
7 2 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.20%) CMS
7 2 (1.20%) Moodle
8 1 (0.60%) Camunda
8 1 (0.60%) JBoss
8 1 (0.60%) nginx
8 1 (0.60%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (2.41%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.60%) Magento
3 1 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.60%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 77 (46.39%) Azure
2 61 (36.75%) AWS
3 29 (17.47%) Serverless
4 28 (16.87%) GCP
5 19 (11.45%) GitHub
5 19 (11.45%) Power Automate
6 18 (10.84%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (10.24%) Azure AI
8 16 (9.64%) Power Platform
9 12 (7.23%) Amazon S3
9 12 (7.23%) Anthropic Claude
10 11 (6.63%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (6.63%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (6.02%) Azure Functions
11 10 (6.02%) OpenShift
12 8 (4.82%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (4.22%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (4.22%) n8n
13 7 (4.22%) PowerApps
14 6 (3.61%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.01%) AMQP
2 1 (0.60%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (16.87%) NoSQL
1 28 (16.87%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.63%) Pinecone
3 10 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.42%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (3.61%) MySQL
6 5 (3.01%) Big Data
6 5 (3.01%) Cloudera CDH
6 5 (3.01%) Hadoop
7 4 (2.41%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.81%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.81%) Tableau
9 2 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.20%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.20%) DB2
9 2 (1.20%) Power BI
10 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.60%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 21 (12.65%) Git
2 19 (11.45%) Jenkins
3 12 (7.23%) MLflow
4 9 (5.42%) Selenium
5 8 (4.82%) GitLab
6 7 (4.22%) Cucumber
6 7 (4.22%) JIRA
7 6 (3.61%) JUnit
7 6 (3.61%) Storybook
7 6 (3.61%) Visual Studio
8 5 (3.01%) Postman
9 4 (2.41%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.41%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.81%) ESLint
10 3 (1.81%) webpack
11 2 (1.20%) JMeter
11 2 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.60%) NUnit
12 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.60%) Subversion
General
1 60 (36.14%) Social Skills
2 42 (25.30%) Finance
3 20 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.23%) Retail
5 9 (5.42%) Law
6 8 (4.82%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.22%) Legal
8 4 (2.41%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.41%) Banking
9 3 (1.81%) Games
9 3 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.81%) Marketing
9 3 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.81%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.81%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 83 (50.00%) Developer
2 41 (24.70%) Senior
3 35 (21.08%) Full-Stack Developer
4 28 (16.87%) Senior Developer
5 23 (13.86%) Software Engineer
6 22 (13.25%) Lead
7 17 (10.24%) Architect
8 15 (9.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 12 (7.23%) .NET Developer
10 11 (6.63%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (6.63%) Python Developer
11 9 (5.42%) Lead Developer
11 9 (5.42%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (5.42%) Software Developer
12 8 (4.82%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
13 7 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
14 6 (3.61%) Java Engineer
14 6 (3.61%) Senior Software Engineer
14 6 (3.61%) Web Developer
15 5 (3.01%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (34.34%) React
2 47 (28.31%) Node.js
3 44 (26.51%) RESTful
4 38 (22.89%) REST
5 36 (21.69%) .NET
6 35 (21.08%) CSS
7 32 (19.28%) HTML
8 26 (15.66%) Swagger
9 23 (13.86%) OpenAPI
10 21 (12.65%) AngularJS
10 21 (12.65%) Flask
10 21 (12.65%) Spring
11 19 (11.45%) .NET Core
11 19 (11.45%) OAuth
11 19 (11.45%) pytest
11 19 (11.45%) PyTorch
12 18 (10.84%) Django
12 18 (10.84%) Spring Boot
13 17 (10.24%) FastAPI
14 16 (9.64%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 29 (17.47%) Cloud Native
2 24 (14.46%) Legacy Systems
3 19 (11.45%) Low-Code
4 10 (6.02%) Mobile App
5 9 (5.42%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.61%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (3.01%) Algorithms
7 5 (3.01%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.41%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.81%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.20%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.60%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.60%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.60%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.60%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.61%) Linux
2 5 (3.01%) CentOS
2 5 (3.01%) Debian
2 5 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (3.01%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (42.77%) CI/CD
2 66 (39.76%) Agile
3 46 (27.71%) Full-Stack Development
4 45 (27.11%) Microservices
5 44 (26.51%) DevOps
6 43 (25.90%) AI
6 43 (25.90%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (23.49%) Containerisation
8 35 (21.08%) Mentoring
8 35 (21.08%) Software Engineering
9 34 (20.48%) API Integration
9 34 (20.48%) Test Automation
10 32 (19.28%) Machine Learning
11 26 (15.66%) Infrastructure as Code
12 25 (15.06%) Data Pipeline
13 23 (13.86%) Clean Code
14 22 (13.25%) ETL
14 22 (13.25%) Stakeholder Management
15 21 (12.65%) Continuous Improvement
16 20 (12.05%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 71 (42.77%) SQL
2 69 (41.57%) Python
3 64 (38.55%) JavaScript
4 39 (23.49%) C#
5 37 (22.29%) Java
6 35 (21.08%) TypeScript
7 12 (7.23%) PHP
8 9 (5.42%) Bicep
9 5 (3.01%) Delphi
10 2 (1.20%) DataWeave
10 2 (1.20%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.20%) R
10 2 (1.20%) RPG
10 2 (1.20%) XAML
11 1 (0.60%) Bash
11 1 (0.60%) C++
11 1 (0.60%) Go
11 1 (0.60%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.60%) Rust
11 1 (0.60%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 24 (14.46%) Degree
2 16 (9.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (7.23%) Security Cleared
4 9 (5.42%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.61%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.41%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.81%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.60%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.83%) Accessibility
2 12 (7.23%) Data Quality
3 10 (6.02%) QA
4 2 (1.20%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.20%) WCAG
5 1 (0.60%) GDPR
System Software
1 52 (31.33%) Docker
2 3 (1.81%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.60%) Squid
Systems Management
1 47 (28.31%) Kubernetes
2 23 (13.86%) Terraform
3 5 (3.01%) Ansible
3 5 (3.01%) Grafana
3 5 (3.01%) Puppet
4 1 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.60%) Kibana
4 1 (0.60%) Nagios
4 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (13.86%) Microsoft
2 19 (11.45%) OpenAI
3 18 (10.84%) Google
4 12 (7.23%) UiPath
5 11 (6.63%) Automation Anywhere
6 10 (6.02%) Oracle
7 8 (4.82%) Atlassian
8 6 (3.61%) Red Hat
9 5 (3.01%) iManage
9 5 (3.01%) SaltStack
10 4 (2.41%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.81%) Databricks
11 3 (1.81%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.81%) SAP
11 3 (1.81%) Zoho
12 2 (1.20%) Dynatrace
12 2 (1.20%) IBM
12 2 (1.20%) New Relic
12 2 (1.20%) Ping Identity
13 1 (0.60%) Intapp