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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 481 477
Rank change year-on-year -51 -4 +2
Permanent jobs citing API Development 232 170 271
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.22% 0.39% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.44% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 140 131 147
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,000 £56,250 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +6.87% -2.96%
75th Percentile £77,813 £83,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £104,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,250 £66,500
% change year-on-year -1.89% -0.38% +2.31%

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 76,425 38,582 54,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.55% 89.09% 82.44%
Number of salaries quoted 53,653 21,807 29,545
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,875 £36,250 £42,881
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,246 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,430
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.45% -0.95%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -63 91 £77,500 +3.33% 155
North of England -35 57 £62,500 +8.70% 49
North West -23 35 £75,000 +30.43% 30
South East -31 32 £74,500 +41.90% 35
South West -55 30 £70,000 +33.33% 24
North East - 21 £47,000 - 2
Midlands -48 13 £55,000 -10.20% 24
West Midlands -33 9 £55,000 -12.00% 18
East of England -39 6 £38,750 -53.03% 11
East Midlands -40 4 £54,000 -10.37% 6
Yorkshire -55 1 - - 17
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 13 (5.60%) Apache
2 11 (4.74%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.02%) nginx
4 6 (2.59%) Confluence
4 6 (2.59%) IIS
5 5 (2.16%) JBoss
6 4 (1.72%) CMS
7 3 (1.29%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.72%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.29%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.43%) Endur
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 118 (50.86%) Azure
2 74 (31.90%) AWS
3 50 (21.55%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (15.09%) GCP
5 30 (12.93%) Serverless
6 28 (12.07%) LangSmith
7 14 (6.03%) OpenShift
8 13 (5.60%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (5.17%) GitHub
10 11 (4.74%) Firebase
11 10 (4.31%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (3.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (3.88%) Power Platform
13 8 (3.45%) Azure Functions
13 8 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (3.45%) Datadog
14 7 (3.02%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (3.02%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (3.02%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.02%) AMQP
2 5 (2.16%) SSL
3 3 (1.29%) HTTP
3 3 (1.29%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.43%) DNS
4 1 (0.43%) TETRA
4 1 (0.43%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.91%) PostgreSQL
1 23 (9.91%) SQL Server
2 21 (9.05%) MySQL
3 17 (7.33%) Relational Database
4 16 (6.90%) NoSQL
5 11 (4.74%) Big Data
6 8 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (3.45%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.02%) Cloudera CDH
7 7 (3.02%) Hadoop
8 6 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.59%) DynamoDB
9 5 (2.16%) Geospatial Data
9 5 (2.16%) Power BI
10 4 (1.72%) Metadata
10 4 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (1.72%) Tableau
11 3 (1.29%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.29%) Redis
11 3 (1.29%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 43 (18.53%) Git
2 25 (10.78%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.74%) fastlane
4 9 (3.88%) GitLab
4 9 (3.88%) JIRA
5 6 (2.59%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.59%) Xcode
6 5 (2.16%) Android Studio
6 5 (2.16%) Crashlytics
6 5 (2.16%) Gradle
6 5 (2.16%) MSI
7 4 (1.72%) Postman
7 4 (1.72%) Subversion
8 3 (1.29%) CMake
8 3 (1.29%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.29%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.86%) JUnit
9 2 (0.86%) Mocha
9 2 (0.86%) Mockito
9 2 (0.86%) NUnit
General
1 54 (23.28%) Finance
2 46 (19.83%) Social Skills
3 26 (11.21%) Public Sector
4 25 (10.78%) Financial Institution
5 24 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (9.05%) Banking
7 19 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (4.31%) Law
9 9 (3.88%) Legal
9 9 (3.88%) Retail
10 8 (3.45%) Aerospace
11 5 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.29%) Electronics
12 3 (1.29%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.29%) Marketing
13 2 (0.86%) Aviation
13 2 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.86%) Front Office
13 2 (0.86%) iGaming
13 2 (0.86%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 122 (52.59%) Developer
2 66 (28.45%) Senior
3 43 (18.53%) Senior Developer
4 42 (18.10%) Software Engineer
5 33 (14.22%) Software Developer
6 28 (12.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 22 (9.48%) C# Developer
8 17 (7.33%) Lead
9 16 (6.90%) .NET Developer
10 15 (6.47%) Full-Stack Developer
10 15 (6.47%) Python Developer
10 15 (6.47%) Senior C# Developer
10 15 (6.47%) Senior Software Developer
11 14 (6.03%) Backend Developer
11 14 (6.03%) C# Software Developer
11 14 (6.03%) Senior C# Software Developer
12 11 (4.74%) Applications Developer
12 11 (4.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 8 (3.45%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 8 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (30.17%) .NET
2 55 (23.71%) REST
3 53 (22.84%) RESTful
4 45 (19.40%) React
5 33 (14.22%) Node.js
5 33 (14.22%) Terraform
6 31 (13.36%) LangChain
6 31 (13.36%) LlamaIndex
7 29 (12.50%) .NET Framework
7 29 (12.50%) Model Context Protocol
8 28 (12.07%) Langfuse
9 25 (10.78%) AngularJS
10 24 (10.34%) ASP.NET
11 23 (9.91%) .NET Core
11 23 (9.91%) HTML
12 21 (9.05%) CSS
13 20 (8.62%) Spring
13 20 (8.62%) Swagger
14 19 (8.19%) Entity Framework
15 16 (6.90%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 80 (34.48%) Cloud Native
2 33 (14.22%) AI Agents
2 33 (14.22%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (12.07%) Mobile App
4 25 (10.78%) e-Learning
5 23 (9.91%) Product Ownership
6 13 (5.60%) Onboarding
7 12 (5.17%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (2.16%) Data Centre
10 5 (2.16%) Private Cloud
10 5 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (2.16%) Social Media
11 4 (1.72%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.72%) Low-Code
12 3 (1.29%) Blog
12 3 (1.29%) IoT
12 3 (1.29%) Mobile Wallet
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.47%) Linux
2 11 (4.74%) Windows
3 8 (3.45%) Android
3 8 (3.45%) Apple iOS
3 8 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (3.45%) Ubuntu
4 7 (3.02%) CentOS
4 7 (3.02%) Debian
5 3 (1.29%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (53.45%) Agile
2 104 (44.83%) CI/CD
3 88 (37.93%) DevOps
4 81 (34.91%) AI
5 80 (34.48%) Full-Stack Development
5 80 (34.48%) Software Engineering
6 70 (30.17%) Problem-Solving
7 64 (27.59%) Microservices
8 57 (24.57%) Observability
9 55 (23.71%) Test Automation
10 49 (21.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 45 (19.40%) Containerisation
12 44 (18.97%) API Integration
13 41 (17.67%) Collaborative Culture
13 41 (17.67%) Front End Development
14 40 (17.24%) LLM
15 39 (16.81%) Generative AI
16 38 (16.38%) Computer Science
16 38 (16.38%) Infrastructure as Code
17 37 (15.95%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 93 (40.09%) Python
2 86 (37.07%) C#
3 50 (21.55%) JavaScript
4 49 (21.12%) SQL
5 37 (15.95%) Java
6 29 (12.50%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.59%) Bicep
7 6 (2.59%) C++
7 6 (2.59%) Swift
8 5 (2.16%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.72%) PHP
9 4 (1.72%) Scala
9 4 (1.72%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.29%) Embedded C++
10 3 (1.29%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.29%) R
10 3 (1.29%) VB
10 3 (1.29%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.86%) Bash
11 2 (0.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (18.53%) Degree
1 43 (18.53%) Security Cleared
2 36 (15.52%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.74%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.59%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.86%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.86%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.76%) Accessibility
2 17 (7.33%) QA
2 17 (7.33%) WCAG
3 7 (3.02%) GDPR
4 6 (2.59%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.16%) NCSC
6 3 (1.29%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.29%) PSD2
7 1 (0.43%) NIST
7 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 65 (28.02%) Docker
2 5 (2.16%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 57 (24.57%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.31%) Ansible
3 8 (3.45%) Puppet
4 7 (3.02%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (2.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (2.16%) Grafana
5 5 (2.16%) Nagios
6 3 (1.29%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.86%) Kibana
8 1 (0.43%) Consul
8 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 32 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.48%) Google
3 13 (5.60%) Dynatrace
4 12 (5.17%) Red Hat
5 10 (4.31%) Splunk
6 8 (3.45%) Databricks
7 7 (3.02%) SaltStack
8 6 (2.59%) Apple
9 5 (2.16%) Atlassian
9 5 (2.16%) New Relic
10 4 (1.72%) Oracle
10 4 (1.72%) YouTube
11 3 (1.29%) SAP
12 2 (0.86%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.43%) Bloomberg
13 1 (0.43%) MarketAxess
13 1 (0.43%) Mistral
13 1 (0.43%) Refinitiv
13 1 (0.43%) Salesforce
13 1 (0.43%) Xamarin