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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 455 400
Rank change year-on-year +7 -55 +96
Permanent jobs citing API Development 161 287 301
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.34% 0.48% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.56% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 124 178 249
10th Percentile £47,650 £42,500 £42,250
25th Percentile £53,438 £50,906 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
75th Percentile £81,250 £91,875 £87,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £104,125 £106,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 39,784 51,149 42,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.80% 85.43% 93.67%
Number of salaries quoted 24,863 26,668 32,820
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 November 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 28 November 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 +33 74 £75,000 -18.92% 37
North of England +12 33 £57,500 +9.52% 22
North West +44 24 £55,500 +6.73% 16
Midlands +42 17 £60,000 - 14
South West +6 14 £54,500 -0.91% 16
East of England +25 11 £82,500 +83.33% 3
East Midlands +18 10 £58,000 -40.51% 2
West Midlands +41 7 £60,000 - 12
Yorkshire +8 7 £70,000 +19.15% 3
South East -3 6 £57,500 -17.86% 35
North East +10 2 £55,200 +0.36% 3
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 8 (4.97%) Confluence
2 7 (4.35%) CMS
3 6 (3.73%) Apache Solr
4 5 (3.11%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.48%) Camunda
6 3 (1.86%) Apache
6 3 (1.86%) Appian
6 3 (1.86%) Jupyter
7 2 (1.24%) Apache Spark
7 2 (1.24%) JBoss
7 2 (1.24%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.62%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.62%) IIS
8 1 (0.62%) Moodle
8 1 (0.62%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.48%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.24%) Shopify
4 1 (0.62%) Magento
4 1 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 80 (49.69%) Azure
2 50 (31.06%) AWS
3 20 (12.42%) Serverless
4 19 (11.80%) GitHub
4 19 (11.80%) Power Platform
5 18 (11.18%) GCP
6 16 (9.94%) Azure Functions
7 15 (9.32%) Power Automate
8 12 (7.45%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (6.21%) OpenShift
9 10 (6.21%) PowerApps
10 9 (5.59%) Azure AI
11 8 (4.97%) SaaS
12 7 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (4.35%) Cloudflare
12 7 (4.35%) n8n
13 6 (3.73%) Azure Service Bus
14 5 (3.11%) Azure App Service
14 5 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.24%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (21.12%) NoSQL
2 25 (15.53%) SQL Server
3 16 (9.94%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (8.07%) MySQL
5 8 (4.97%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (4.97%) Relational Database
6 7 (4.35%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.86%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.86%) Looker
7 3 (1.86%) Pinecone
7 3 (1.86%) Power BI
7 3 (1.86%) Tableau
8 2 (1.24%) Big Data
8 2 (1.24%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.24%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.24%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.24%) Redis
8 2 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (18.01%) Git
2 19 (11.80%) Jenkins
3 13 (8.07%) JIRA
4 11 (6.83%) GitLab
5 9 (5.59%) Selenium
6 8 (4.97%) JUnit
7 6 (3.73%) Cucumber
7 6 (3.73%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (3.11%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.48%) MLflow
9 4 (2.48%) NUnit
9 4 (2.48%) SonarQube
9 4 (2.48%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.86%) JMeter
10 3 (1.86%) Postman
10 3 (1.86%) Visual Studio
10 3 (1.86%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (1.24%) Gradle
11 2 (1.24%) Maven
11 2 (1.24%) webpack
General
1 66 (40.99%) Social Skills
2 37 (22.98%) Finance
3 19 (11.80%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.07%) Retail
5 9 (5.59%) Law
6 8 (4.97%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.35%) Legal
8 5 (3.11%) Banking
8 5 (3.11%) Games
8 5 (3.11%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.86%) Marketing
10 2 (1.24%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.24%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.24%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.62%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.62%) Electronics
11 1 (0.62%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 87 (54.04%) Developer
2 40 (24.84%) Senior
3 27 (16.77%) Senior Developer
4 23 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
5 19 (11.80%) Architect
6 14 (8.70%) Python Developer
6 14 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (7.45%) Software Developer
8 11 (6.83%) Software Engineer
9 10 (6.21%) .NET Developer
10 8 (4.97%) Backend Developer
10 8 (4.97%) Java Developer
10 8 (4.97%) Lead
11 7 (4.35%) Technical Manager
11 7 (4.35%) Web Manager
12 6 (3.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 6 (3.73%) Azure Developer
12 6 (3.73%) Senior .NET Developer
13 5 (3.11%) Automation Developer
13 5 (3.11%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (27.33%) RESTful
2 39 (24.22%) .NET
2 39 (24.22%) React
3 36 (22.36%) REST
4 22 (13.66%) CSS
4 22 (13.66%) HTML
4 22 (13.66%) Node.js
5 21 (13.04%) AngularJS
6 20 (12.42%) .NET Core
6 20 (12.42%) Spring
7 18 (11.18%) Spring Boot
8 17 (10.56%) ASP.NET
9 14 (8.70%) pytest
10 13 (8.07%) FastAPI
10 13 (8.07%) Flask
10 13 (8.07%) LangChain
11 11 (6.83%) PyTorch
11 11 (6.83%) Vue
12 10 (6.21%) GraphQL
12 10 (6.21%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.15%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (7.45%) Low-Code
4 8 (4.97%) AI Agents
5 7 (4.35%) Algorithms
6 6 (3.73%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.73%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.48%) IoT
7 4 (2.48%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.48%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.86%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.24%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.24%) YARA
10 1 (0.62%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.62%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.83%) Linux
2 8 (4.97%) Windows
3 6 (3.73%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.24%) CentOS
4 2 (1.24%) Debian
4 2 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.24%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (40.99%) Agile
1 66 (40.99%) CI/CD
2 54 (33.54%) DevOps
3 49 (30.43%) Microservices
4 44 (27.33%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (21.74%) AI
5 35 (21.74%) API Integration
5 35 (21.74%) Containerisation
5 35 (21.74%) Full-Stack Development
6 27 (16.77%) Machine Learning
7 25 (15.53%) API Design
7 25 (15.53%) Software Engineering
8 24 (14.91%) Test Automation
9 23 (14.29%) Clean Code
10 22 (13.66%) Mentoring
11 20 (12.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (11.80%) Code Quality
13 18 (11.18%) Migration
13 18 (11.18%) Secure Coding
13 18 (11.18%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 71 (44.10%) Python
2 62 (38.51%) SQL
3 57 (35.40%) JavaScript
4 43 (26.71%) C#
5 38 (23.60%) Java
6 30 (18.63%) TypeScript
7 14 (8.70%) PHP
8 6 (3.73%) Bicep
9 5 (3.11%) Delphi
9 5 (3.11%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.24%) R
10 2 (1.24%) Ruby
10 2 (1.24%) Search Processing Language
10 2 (1.24%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.24%) XAML
11 1 (0.62%) C
11 1 (0.62%) C++
11 1 (0.62%) DataWeave
11 1 (0.62%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.62%) RPG
Qualifications
1 16 (9.94%) Degree
2 9 (5.59%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.73%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.48%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.24%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.24%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.62%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.32%) QA
2 10 (6.21%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.48%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.86%) WCAG
5 2 (1.24%) GDPR
5 2 (1.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 42 (26.09%) Docker
2 2 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.62%) Squid
Systems Management
1 27 (16.77%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.59%) Terraform
3 7 (4.35%) Grafana
4 4 (2.48%) Ansible
5 2 (1.24%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.24%) Puppet
6 1 (0.62%) Kibana
Vendors
1 31 (19.25%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.45%) Oracle
3 10 (6.21%) OpenAI
4 5 (3.11%) Databricks
4 5 (3.11%) iManage
5 4 (2.48%) Google
5 4 (2.48%) MuleSoft
5 4 (2.48%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.48%) SnapLogic
5 4 (2.48%) UiPath
6 3 (1.86%) Automation Anywhere
6 3 (1.86%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.86%) SAP
6 3 (1.86%) Zoho
7 2 (1.24%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.24%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.24%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.24%) Splunk
8 1 (0.62%) Adobe
8 1 (0.62%) IBM