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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 339 441
Rank change year-on-year -149 +102 +43
Permanent jobs citing API Development 191 312 417
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.84% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.90% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 124 262 315
10th Percentile £45,375 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% +7.08% -14.29%
75th Percentile £77,813 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £102,750 £110,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -13.60%

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 58,708 34,771 70,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 75.38% 93.06% 85.79%
Number of salaries quoted 36,937 20,617 53,431
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.86%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -45 83 £85,000 +3.03% 35
Midlands -21 40 £55,000 -8.33% 8
North of England -106 23 £58,625 +1.96% 16
East Midlands -37 21 £55,000 -8.33% 2
West Midlands -34 19 £55,000 -8.33% 6
North West -52 18 £58,625 +6.59% 9
South West -64 18 £60,000 +11.63% 5
South East -63 12 £62,500 +25.00% 18
East of England -60 9 £61,250 -2.00% 1
Yorkshire -81 4 £62,500 +4.17% 4
North East -39 1 £55,200 +2.70% 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 (6.28%) Appian
2 11 (5.76%) CMS
3 8 (4.19%) Apache
4 5 (2.62%) Anypoint
4 5 (2.62%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.09%) Moodle
5 4 (2.09%) nginx
6 3 (1.57%) Headless CMS
6 3 (1.57%) NServiceBus
7 2 (1.05%) Confluence
7 2 (1.05%) JBoss
8 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.05%) NetSuite
1 2 (1.05%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.52%) Magento
2 1 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 79 (41.36%) Azure
2 74 (38.74%) AWS
3 34 (17.80%) GCP
4 32 (16.75%) Serverless
5 24 (12.57%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (9.42%) GitHub
7 17 (8.90%) Power Automate
8 16 (8.38%) Anthropic Claude
9 15 (7.85%) Amazon S3
10 14 (7.33%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (6.28%) Azure AI
12 11 (5.76%) Power Platform
13 10 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (5.24%) OpenShift
14 9 (4.71%) SaaS
15 8 (4.19%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (4.19%) Azure Logic Apps
15 8 (4.19%) Figma
16 7 (3.66%) Apigee
17 6 (3.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.62%) AMQP
2 4 (2.09%) Broadband
3 2 (1.05%) DNS
3 2 (1.05%) HTTP
3 2 (1.05%) SSL
4 1 (0.52%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (22.51%) SQL Server
2 24 (12.57%) MySQL
3 15 (7.85%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (7.33%) NoSQL
5 13 (6.81%) Relational Database
6 12 (6.28%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (6.28%) Pinecone
7 5 (2.62%) Big Data
7 5 (2.62%) Cloudera CDH
7 5 (2.62%) Hadoop
7 5 (2.62%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.09%) Power BI
9 2 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.05%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.05%) DB2
9 2 (1.05%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (0.52%) Looker
10 1 (0.52%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (17.28%) Git
2 19 (9.95%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.81%) MLflow
4 8 (4.19%) Storybook
5 7 (3.66%) Cucumber
5 7 (3.66%) JUnit
5 7 (3.66%) Postman
5 7 (3.66%) Selenium
6 5 (2.62%) GitLab
7 4 (2.09%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.09%) JIRA
7 4 (2.09%) SpecFlow
7 4 (2.09%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.57%) ESLint
8 3 (1.57%) webpack
9 2 (1.05%) Mockito
9 2 (1.05%) Subversion
9 2 (1.05%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.52%) PHPUnit
General
1 53 (27.75%) Social Skills
2 33 (17.28%) Finance
3 27 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.24%) Retail
5 9 (4.71%) Law
6 8 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.66%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.14%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.62%) Banking
9 5 (2.62%) Marketing
10 4 (2.09%) Aerospace
10 4 (2.09%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.09%) Front Office
10 4 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.57%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.05%) Legal
13 1 (0.52%) Advertising
13 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 105 (54.97%) Developer
2 46 (24.08%) Full-Stack Developer
3 39 (20.42%) Senior
4 34 (17.80%) Lead
5 29 (15.18%) Senior Developer
6 23 (12.04%) Software Engineer
7 20 (10.47%) .NET Developer
7 20 (10.47%) Software Developer
8 19 (9.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 13 (6.81%) Architect
9 13 (6.81%) Automation Engineer
9 13 (6.81%) Lead Developer
10 12 (6.28%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (5.24%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 10 (5.24%) Web Developer
12 8 (4.19%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (4.19%) Senior Software Developer
13 7 (3.66%) C# Developer
13 7 (3.66%) Lead Software Engineer
14 6 (3.14%) .NET Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (32.46%) React
2 52 (27.23%) .NET
3 49 (25.65%) Node.js
4 46 (24.08%) CSS
5 43 (22.51%) HTML
5 43 (22.51%) REST
6 39 (20.42%) RESTful
7 32 (16.75%) AngularJS
8 27 (14.14%) OpenAPI
8 27 (14.14%) Swagger
9 26 (13.61%) OAuth
10 24 (12.57%) Django
11 21 (10.99%) Flask
12 20 (10.47%) ASP.NET
12 20 (10.47%) JWT
12 20 (10.47%) Spring
13 17 (8.90%) .NET Core
13 17 (8.90%) pytest
13 17 (8.90%) Vue
14 16 (8.38%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 37 (19.37%) Cloud Native
2 25 (13.09%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (8.38%) Low-Code
4 12 (6.28%) Mobile App
5 8 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.09%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.09%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.57%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.57%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.05%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.05%) e-Learning
9 2 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.05%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.05%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.33%) Linux
2 5 (2.62%) CentOS
2 5 (2.62%) Debian
2 5 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.62%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.05%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (42.41%) CI/CD
2 78 (40.84%) Agile
3 59 (30.89%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (29.84%) Full-Stack Development
5 54 (28.27%) AI
5 54 (28.27%) Containerisation
6 49 (25.65%) Mentoring
7 47 (24.61%) Microservices
7 47 (24.61%) Software Engineering
8 46 (24.08%) DevOps
9 45 (23.56%) Test Automation
10 37 (19.37%) API Integration
11 27 (14.14%) Infrastructure as Code
11 27 (14.14%) Machine Learning
12 25 (13.09%) Clean Code
12 25 (13.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (13.09%) LLM
13 24 (12.57%) Data Pipeline
14 23 (12.04%) Computer Science
15 22 (11.52%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 70 (36.65%) JavaScript
2 68 (35.60%) Python
3 65 (34.03%) SQL
4 62 (32.46%) C#
5 33 (17.28%) TypeScript
6 31 (16.23%) Java
7 19 (9.95%) PHP
8 5 (2.62%) Delphi
9 4 (2.09%) Bicep
9 4 (2.09%) DataWeave
10 3 (1.57%) Bash
10 3 (1.57%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.05%) C++
11 2 (1.05%) RPG
11 2 (1.05%) Rust
12 1 (0.52%) Go
12 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.52%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 28 (14.66%) Degree
2 20 (10.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (5.76%) Security Cleared
4 9 (4.71%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.09%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.09%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.38%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.81%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.05%) GRC
3 2 (1.05%) QA
System Software
1 70 (36.65%) Docker
2 4 (2.09%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (26.18%) Kubernetes
2 29 (15.18%) Terraform
3 5 (2.62%) Ansible
3 5 (2.62%) Grafana
3 5 (2.62%) Puppet
3 5 (2.62%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.05%) Nagios
Vendors
1 26 (13.61%) Google
2 18 (9.42%) OpenAI
3 16 (8.38%) Microsoft
4 12 (6.28%) Automation Anywhere
4 12 (6.28%) UiPath
5 9 (4.71%) Atlassian
6 8 (4.19%) Oracle
7 7 (3.66%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.62%) MuleSoft
8 5 (2.62%) SaltStack
9 4 (2.09%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.57%) Zoho
11 2 (1.05%) IBM
11 2 (1.05%) New Relic
11 2 (1.05%) Pega
11 2 (1.05%) Ping Identity
11 2 (1.05%) SAP
11 2 (1.05%) Splunk
11 2 (1.05%) Trapeze
11 2 (1.05%) Xamarin