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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 368 418
Rank change year-on-year -100 +50 +87
Permanent jobs citing API Development 186 280 433
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.28% 0.71% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.76% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 126 221 342
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 51,317 36,830 64,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 77.99% 93.60% 87.18%
Number of salaries quoted 31,878 20,405 50,590
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,110 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 15 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 15 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 -11 80 £80,000 -5.88% 34
Midlands -10 39 £55,000 -8.33% 14
North of England -80 28 £56,000 -2.61% 16
East Midlands -21 21 £55,000 -8.33% 1
North West -21 21 £52,500 -4.55% 8
South West -31 20 £60,000 +9.09% 8
West Midlands -6 18 £55,100 -2.04% 13
East of England -12 7 £45,000 - 8
South East -31 6 £55,000 - 21
Yorkshire -60 5 £65,000 -7.14% 5
North East -15 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 12 (6.45%) Appian
2 9 (4.84%) CMS
3 8 (4.30%) Apache
4 5 (2.69%) Anypoint
4 5 (2.69%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.15%) Moodle
5 4 (2.15%) nginx
6 3 (1.61%) Headless CMS
6 3 (1.61%) NServiceBus
7 2 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.08%) Confluence
7 2 (1.08%) JBoss
8 1 (0.54%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (2.15%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.08%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.54%) Magento
4 1 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 77 (41.40%) Azure
2 74 (39.78%) AWS
3 33 (17.74%) GCP
4 27 (14.52%) Serverless
5 21 (11.29%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (10.75%) GitHub
7 19 (10.22%) Power Automate
8 15 (8.06%) Amazon S3
8 15 (8.06%) Anthropic Claude
9 14 (7.53%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (6.45%) Azure AI
11 11 (5.91%) Power Platform
12 10 (5.38%) OpenShift
13 9 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (4.30%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (4.30%) Figma
15 7 (3.76%) PowerApps
16 6 (3.23%) Apigee
16 6 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
16 6 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.69%) AMQP
2 4 (2.15%) Broadband
3 2 (1.08%) SSL
4 1 (0.54%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (21.51%) SQL Server
2 21 (11.29%) MySQL
3 17 (9.14%) NoSQL
4 14 (7.53%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (6.45%) Pinecone
5 12 (6.45%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.23%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.69%) Big Data
7 5 (2.69%) Cloudera CDH
7 5 (2.69%) Hadoop
8 4 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.15%) Power BI
9 2 (1.08%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.08%) DB2
9 2 (1.08%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.54%) Looker
10 1 (0.54%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 31 (16.67%) Git
2 21 (11.29%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.99%) MLflow
4 8 (4.30%) Storybook
5 7 (3.76%) Cucumber
5 7 (3.76%) JUnit
5 7 (3.76%) Selenium
6 6 (3.23%) GitLab
7 4 (2.15%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.15%) JIRA
7 4 (2.15%) Postman
7 4 (2.15%) Visual Studio
7 4 (2.15%) webpack
8 3 (1.61%) ESLint
9 2 (1.08%) Mockito
9 2 (1.08%) Subversion
9 2 (1.08%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.08%) Vite
10 1 (0.54%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.54%) PHPUnit
General
1 58 (31.18%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.82%) Finance
3 26 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.91%) Law
4 11 (5.91%) Retail
5 9 (4.84%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.69%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.15%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.15%) Front Office
7 4 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.61%) Banking
8 3 (1.61%) Games
8 3 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.61%) Legal
8 3 (1.61%) Marketing
8 3 (1.61%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.08%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 98 (52.69%) Developer
2 47 (25.27%) Full-Stack Developer
3 41 (22.04%) Senior
4 28 (15.05%) Senior Developer
5 27 (14.52%) Lead
5 27 (14.52%) Software Engineer
6 18 (9.68%) .NET Developer
6 18 (9.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 15 (8.06%) Software Developer
8 14 (7.53%) Architect
9 13 (6.99%) Automation Engineer
10 12 (6.45%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (5.38%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 10 (5.38%) Web Developer
12 9 (4.84%) Lead Developer
13 8 (4.30%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
14 7 (3.76%) Senior Software Engineer
15 6 (3.23%) Lead Software Engineer
15 6 (3.23%) Senior Software Developer
15 6 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (36.56%) React
2 49 (26.34%) .NET
3 46 (24.73%) CSS
3 46 (24.73%) Node.js
4 43 (23.12%) HTML
5 42 (22.58%) RESTful
6 40 (21.51%) REST
7 29 (15.59%) AngularJS
8 27 (14.52%) OpenAPI
8 27 (14.52%) Swagger
9 25 (13.44%) OAuth
10 23 (12.37%) Django
11 21 (11.29%) ASP.NET
11 21 (11.29%) Spring
12 20 (10.75%) Flask
13 19 (10.22%) .NET Core
14 18 (9.68%) JWT
15 17 (9.14%) pytest
15 17 (9.14%) Spring Boot
16 16 (8.60%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.05%) Legacy Systems
2 26 (13.98%) Cloud Native
3 16 (8.60%) Low-Code
4 9 (4.84%) Mobile App
5 7 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.23%) Algorithms
6 6 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.15%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.15%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.61%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.08%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
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 (7.53%) Linux
2 5 (2.69%) CentOS
2 5 (2.69%) Debian
2 5 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.69%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.54%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (42.47%) CI/CD
2 76 (40.86%) Agile
3 55 (29.57%) Full-Stack Development
3 55 (29.57%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (26.34%) Containerisation
5 47 (25.27%) AI
6 44 (23.66%) Microservices
6 44 (23.66%) Software Engineering
7 43 (23.12%) Mentoring
8 42 (22.58%) DevOps
8 42 (22.58%) Test Automation
9 40 (21.51%) API Integration
10 27 (14.52%) Data Pipeline
11 26 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (13.98%) Infrastructure as Code
12 24 (12.90%) Clean Code
12 24 (12.90%) Machine Learning
12 24 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
13 23 (12.37%) Computer Science
13 23 (12.37%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 75 (40.32%) JavaScript
2 68 (36.56%) Python
3 67 (36.02%) SQL
4 51 (27.42%) C#
5 36 (19.35%) Java
6 35 (18.82%) TypeScript
7 18 (9.68%) PHP
8 5 (2.69%) Bicep
8 5 (2.69%) Delphi
9 4 (2.15%) Bash
9 4 (2.15%) DataWeave
10 2 (1.08%) C++
10 2 (1.08%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.08%) RPG
10 2 (1.08%) Rust
11 1 (0.54%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.54%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 29 (15.59%) Degree
2 20 (10.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (6.45%) Security Cleared
4 9 (4.84%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.69%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.15%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.53%) Accessibility
2 13 (6.99%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.23%) QA
4 2 (1.08%) GRC
5 1 (0.54%) GDPR
5 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 64 (34.41%) Docker
2 4 (2.15%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.54%) Squid
Systems Management
1 48 (25.81%) Kubernetes
2 26 (13.98%) Terraform
3 5 (2.69%) Ansible
3 5 (2.69%) Grafana
3 5 (2.69%) Puppet
4 3 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.08%) Nagios
6 1 (0.54%) Kibana
Vendors
1 23 (12.37%) Google
2 17 (9.14%) Microsoft
3 16 (8.60%) OpenAI
4 13 (6.99%) UiPath
5 12 (6.45%) Automation Anywhere
6 11 (5.91%) Oracle
7 9 (4.84%) Atlassian
8 7 (3.76%) Red Hat
9 6 (3.23%) MuleSoft
10 5 (2.69%) Salesforce
10 5 (2.69%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.61%) New Relic
11 3 (1.61%) SAP
11 3 (1.61%) Zoho
12 2 (1.08%) IBM
12 2 (1.08%) Ping Identity
12 2 (1.08%) Splunk
12 2 (1.08%) Trapeze
13 1 (0.54%) Adobe
13 1 (0.54%) Pega