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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 444 507
Rank change year-on-year -92 +63 -23
Permanent jobs citing API Development 214 212 259
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.49% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.55% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 130 168 147
10th Percentile £46,750 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,813 £52,988 £50,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% +7.69% -10.03%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -7.14%

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 73,237 38,492 56,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.14% 88.72% 81.33%
Number of salaries quoted 52,109 22,148 32,740
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,863
25th Percentile £42,215 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -56 85 £78,750 +1.61% 117
North of England -44 52 £62,500 +6.56% 33
North West -10 32 £75,000 +30.43% 17
South East -33 28 £72,500 +45.00% 22
South West -56 26 £70,000 +33.33% 16
North East - 19 £47,000 - 3
Midlands -56 11 £55,000 -12.00% 13
West Midlands -38 8 £55,000 -15.38% 7
East of England -49 8 £50,000 -41.18% 6
East Midlands -34 3 £54,000 -10.37% 6
Yorkshire -56 1 - - 13
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 (5.61%) Apache
2 9 (4.21%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.27%) nginx
4 6 (2.80%) IIS
5 5 (2.34%) Confluence
5 5 (2.34%) JBoss
6 3 (1.40%) CMS
7 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.87%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.40%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.47%) Endur
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 98 (45.79%) Azure
2 66 (30.84%) AWS
3 47 (21.96%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (13.55%) GCP
5 25 (11.68%) LangSmith
6 24 (11.21%) Serverless
7 13 (6.07%) OpenShift
8 12 (5.61%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (5.61%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (5.14%) Firebase
9 11 (5.14%) GitHub
10 8 (3.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (3.74%) Datadog
10 8 (3.74%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (3.74%) Power Platform
11 7 (3.27%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.27%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (3.27%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (3.27%) SaaS
12 6 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.80%) AMQP
2 5 (2.34%) SSL
3 4 (1.87%) Broadband
3 4 (1.87%) HTTP
4 3 (1.40%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.93%) DNS
6 1 (0.47%) TETRA
6 1 (0.47%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (11.21%) SQL Server
2 23 (10.75%) MySQL
3 21 (9.81%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (7.01%) Relational Database
5 13 (6.07%) NoSQL
6 9 (4.21%) Big Data
7 7 (3.27%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (2.80%) Cloudera CDH
8 6 (2.80%) DynamoDB
8 6 (2.80%) Hadoop
8 6 (2.80%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.34%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (1.40%) Metadata
11 3 (1.40%) Power BI
11 3 (1.40%) SQLite
11 3 (1.40%) Tableau
12 2 (0.93%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 42 (19.63%) Git
2 26 (12.15%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.14%) fastlane
4 9 (4.21%) GitLab
5 6 (2.80%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.80%) JIRA
5 6 (2.80%) Xcode
6 5 (2.34%) Android Studio
6 5 (2.34%) Crashlytics
6 5 (2.34%) Gradle
6 5 (2.34%) MSI
6 5 (2.34%) Postman
7 4 (1.87%) Subversion
8 3 (1.40%) CMake
8 3 (1.40%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.40%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.93%) JUnit
9 2 (0.93%) Mocha
9 2 (0.93%) Mockito
9 2 (0.93%) NUnit
General
1 48 (22.43%) Finance
2 45 (21.03%) Social Skills
3 27 (12.62%) Public Sector
4 25 (11.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (10.28%) Financial Institution
6 20 (9.35%) Banking
7 13 (6.07%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (5.61%) Retail
9 10 (4.67%) Law
10 9 (4.21%) Legal
11 7 (3.27%) Aerospace
12 5 (2.34%) Manufacturing
12 5 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.40%) Electronics
13 3 (1.40%) Marketing
14 2 (0.93%) Aviation
14 2 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.93%) Front Office
14 2 (0.93%) iGaming
14 2 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 114 (53.27%) Developer
2 59 (27.57%) Senior
3 41 (19.16%) Senior Developer
4 37 (17.29%) Software Engineer
5 30 (14.02%) Software Developer
6 25 (11.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 23 (10.75%) C# Developer
8 19 (8.88%) Lead
9 16 (7.48%) .NET Developer
9 16 (7.48%) Senior C# Developer
9 16 (7.48%) Senior Software Developer
10 15 (7.01%) C# Software Developer
10 15 (7.01%) Python Developer
10 15 (7.01%) Senior C# Software Developer
11 13 (6.07%) Backend Developer
12 12 (5.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 11 (5.14%) Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (3.74%) Architect
14 8 (3.74%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 8 (3.74%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (29.44%) .NET
2 47 (21.96%) REST
3 46 (21.50%) RESTful
4 37 (17.29%) React
5 30 (14.02%) Model Context Protocol
6 28 (13.08%) LangChain
6 28 (13.08%) LlamaIndex
6 28 (13.08%) Terraform
7 27 (12.62%) .NET Framework
7 27 (12.62%) Node.js
8 25 (11.68%) ASP.NET
8 25 (11.68%) Langfuse
9 24 (11.21%) HTML
10 22 (10.28%) CSS
11 20 (9.35%) .NET Core
11 20 (9.35%) AngularJS
12 18 (8.41%) Entity Framework
13 16 (7.48%) ASP.NET Web API
13 16 (7.48%) Spring
13 16 (7.48%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 70 (32.71%) Cloud Native
2 34 (15.89%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (12.15%) AI Agents
4 22 (10.28%) e-Learning
4 22 (10.28%) Mobile App
5 15 (7.01%) Product Ownership
6 13 (6.07%) Onboarding
7 9 (4.21%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (2.34%) Data Centre
10 5 (2.34%) Private Cloud
10 5 (2.34%) Social Media
11 4 (1.87%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.87%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.87%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.40%) IoT
12 3 (1.40%) Mobile Wallet
12 3 (1.40%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.41%) Linux
2 11 (5.14%) Windows
3 7 (3.27%) Android
3 7 (3.27%) Apple iOS
3 7 (3.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (3.27%) Ubuntu
4 6 (2.80%) CentOS
4 6 (2.80%) Debian
5 3 (1.40%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (54.67%) Agile
2 96 (44.86%) CI/CD
3 78 (36.45%) DevOps
4 76 (35.51%) AI
5 71 (33.18%) Software Engineering
6 70 (32.71%) Full-Stack Development
7 65 (30.37%) Problem-Solving
8 53 (24.77%) Observability
9 50 (23.36%) Microservices
10 49 (22.90%) Test Automation
11 45 (21.03%) Containerisation
12 43 (20.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 43 (20.09%) LLM
13 42 (19.63%) API Integration
14 37 (17.29%) Computer Science
15 36 (16.82%) Mentoring
16 35 (16.36%) Collaborative Culture
17 33 (15.42%) Clean Code
17 33 (15.42%) Generative AI
18 31 (14.49%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 92 (42.99%) Python
2 83 (38.79%) C#
3 49 (22.90%) SQL
4 48 (22.43%) JavaScript
5 32 (14.95%) Java
6 22 (10.28%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.80%) Bicep
7 6 (2.80%) C++
7 6 (2.80%) PHP
7 6 (2.80%) Swift
8 5 (2.34%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.34%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.40%) Embedded C++
9 3 (1.40%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.40%) Scala
9 3 (1.40%) VB
9 3 (1.40%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.93%) Bash
10 2 (0.93%) Go
10 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (19.63%) Degree
2 36 (16.82%) Security Cleared
3 29 (13.55%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.67%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.34%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.93%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.88%) Accessibility
2 17 (7.94%) QA
2 17 (7.94%) WCAG
3 7 (3.27%) GDPR
4 6 (2.80%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.34%) NCSC
6 3 (1.40%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.40%) PSD2
7 1 (0.47%) NIST
7 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 56 (26.17%) Docker
2 5 (2.34%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 47 (21.96%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.21%) Ansible
3 8 (3.74%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (3.27%) Puppet
5 5 (2.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (2.34%) Grafana
5 5 (2.34%) Nagios
6 3 (1.40%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.93%) Kibana
8 1 (0.47%) Consul
8 1 (0.47%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (12.15%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.28%) Google
3 13 (6.07%) Dynatrace
4 11 (5.14%) Red Hat
5 10 (4.67%) Splunk
6 6 (2.80%) Apple
6 6 (2.80%) Databricks
6 6 (2.80%) SaltStack
7 5 (2.34%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.34%) New Relic
8 4 (1.87%) Oracle
9 3 (1.40%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.40%) SAP
9 3 (1.40%) YouTube
10 1 (0.47%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.47%) MarketAxess
10 1 (0.47%) Mistral
10 1 (0.47%) Pega
10 1 (0.47%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.47%) Salesforce