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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 387 490
Rank change year-on-year -129 +103 +18
Permanent jobs citing API Development 204 279 385
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.68% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.74% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 137 226 286
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,406 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,000 £50,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,653
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +15.41% -19.13%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £75,563
90th Percentile £93,500 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -14.29%

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 62,507 37,531 76,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.63% 91.72% 82.36%
Number of salaries quoted 44,078 20,827 55,158
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,822 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.12%

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 June 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 28 June 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 -53 80 £80,000 +3.23% 33
North of England -74 43 £60,625 -10.19% 16
Midlands -16 30 £55,000 -0.45% 4
North West -13 28 £70,000 +21.74% 9
South East -32 23 £68,750 +37.50% 12
South West -71 18 £58,750 - 13
East Midlands -4 15 £55,000 -5.17% 3
West Midlands -18 15 £50,000 -4.76% 1
North East -34 13 £47,000 -10.48% 1
East of England -33 8 £45,000 -46.27% 4
Yorkshire -59 2 £50,000 -28.57% 6
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 11 (5.39%) CMS
2 8 (3.92%) Apache
3 7 (3.43%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.94%) IIS
5 5 (2.45%) Appian
5 5 (2.45%) nginx
6 3 (1.47%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.98%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.98%) Moodle
7 2 (0.98%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.98%) WordPress
8 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.49%) Confluence
8 1 (0.49%) JBoss
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.96%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.49%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 90 (44.12%) Azure
2 68 (33.33%) AWS
3 35 (17.16%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (15.20%) Serverless
5 28 (13.73%) GCP
6 22 (10.78%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (7.35%) GitHub
8 14 (6.86%) LangSmith
9 13 (6.37%) Amazon S3
10 11 (5.39%) Firebase
11 9 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (4.41%) Anthropic Claude
11 9 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (3.92%) Power Automate
12 8 (3.92%) Power Platform
12 8 (3.92%) SaaS
13 7 (3.43%) Apigee
13 7 (3.43%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.94%) AMQP
2 4 (1.96%) Broadband
3 3 (1.47%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.98%) DNS
4 2 (0.98%) HTTP
5 1 (0.49%) LTE
5 1 (0.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (17.16%) SQL Server
2 32 (15.69%) MySQL
3 17 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 15 (7.35%) NoSQL
5 13 (6.37%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (4.90%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (3.92%) MongoDB
8 7 (3.43%) Big Data
9 6 (2.94%) Cloudera CDH
9 6 (2.94%) Hadoop
9 6 (2.94%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.96%) Power BI
11 3 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.98%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.98%) Qlik Sense
13 1 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
13 1 (0.49%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.49%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 35 (17.16%) Git
2 25 (12.25%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.39%) fastlane
4 8 (3.92%) Postman
5 6 (2.94%) Xcode
6 5 (2.45%) Android Studio
6 5 (2.45%) Crashlytics
6 5 (2.45%) Gradle
6 5 (2.45%) MLflow
7 4 (1.96%) GitLab
7 4 (1.96%) JIRA
7 4 (1.96%) JUnit
7 4 (1.96%) Mockito
7 4 (1.96%) SpecFlow
8 3 (1.47%) Storybook
8 3 (1.47%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.98%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.98%) JMeter
10 1 (0.49%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 38 (18.63%) Finance
2 37 (18.14%) Social Skills
3 19 (9.31%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (9.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 19 (9.31%) Public Sector
4 15 (7.35%) Banking
5 13 (6.37%) Financial Institution
6 7 (3.43%) Retail
7 6 (2.94%) Front Office
7 6 (2.94%) Law
8 5 (2.45%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.96%) Legal
10 3 (1.47%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.47%) Marketing
11 2 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.98%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.49%) Advertising
12 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 116 (56.86%) Developer
2 45 (22.06%) Senior
3 32 (15.69%) Full-Stack Developer
3 32 (15.69%) Software Developer
4 31 (15.20%) Lead
5 30 (14.71%) Senior Developer
6 24 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 23 (11.27%) Software Engineer
8 21 (10.29%) .NET Developer
9 18 (8.82%) C# Developer
10 15 (7.35%) Senior Software Developer
11 13 (6.37%) C# Software Developer
11 13 (6.37%) Senior C# Developer
11 13 (6.37%) Senior C# Software Developer
12 11 (5.39%) Lead Developer
13 8 (3.92%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 8 (3.92%) Lead Software Engineer
14 7 (3.43%) Python Developer
14 7 (3.43%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 6 (2.94%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (28.92%) .NET
2 50 (24.51%) REST
3 44 (21.57%) React
4 42 (20.59%) Node.js
5 41 (20.10%) RESTful
6 39 (19.12%) HTML
7 37 (18.14%) CSS
8 32 (15.69%) AngularJS
9 23 (11.27%) ASP.NET
10 21 (10.29%) .NET Core
10 21 (10.29%) OpenAPI
10 21 (10.29%) Swagger
11 20 (9.80%) OAuth
12 19 (9.31%) LlamaIndex
12 19 (9.31%) Model Context Protocol
13 18 (8.82%) .NET Framework
13 18 (8.82%) LangChain
14 17 (8.33%) Vue
15 16 (7.84%) JWT
16 15 (7.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 51 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.78%) Mobile App
3 16 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (7.84%) Product Ownership
4 13 (6.37%) AI Agents
5 12 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (5.39%) e-Learning
7 8 (3.92%) Low-Code
8 6 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.47%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.47%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.98%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.98%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.49%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.49%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.33%) Linux
2 7 (3.43%) Android
3 6 (2.94%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.94%) CentOS
3 6 (2.94%) Debian
3 6 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.94%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.45%) Windows
5 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (48.53%) Agile
2 88 (43.14%) CI/CD
3 68 (33.33%) DevOps
3 68 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 62 (30.39%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (29.90%) AI
6 51 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 45 (22.06%) Test Automation
8 42 (20.59%) Containerisation
8 42 (20.59%) Mentoring
9 40 (19.61%) API Integration
9 40 (19.61%) Microservices
10 36 (17.65%) Clean Code
10 36 (17.65%) LLM
11 32 (15.69%) Computer Science
12 31 (15.20%) TDD
13 29 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 29 (14.22%) Scrum
14 27 (13.24%) Machine Learning
15 26 (12.75%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 76 (37.25%) C#
2 75 (36.76%) Python
3 56 (27.45%) JavaScript
4 55 (26.96%) SQL
5 32 (15.69%) TypeScript
6 26 (12.75%) Java
7 17 (8.33%) PHP
8 6 (2.94%) Swift
9 5 (2.45%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.45%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.96%) Bash
10 4 (1.96%) Bicep
11 3 (1.47%) C++
11 3 (1.47%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.98%) DataWeave
12 2 (0.98%) Rust
12 2 (0.98%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.49%) Go
13 1 (0.49%) Ruby
13 1 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 35 (17.16%) Degree
2 21 (10.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (6.86%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.86%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.94%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.45%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.98%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.82%) Accessibility
2 12 (5.88%) WCAG
3 9 (4.41%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.94%) QA
5 2 (0.98%) GRC
6 1 (0.49%) GDPR
6 1 (0.49%) NCSC
6 1 (0.49%) NIST
6 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 59 (28.92%) Docker
2 4 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 45 (22.06%) Kubernetes
2 27 (13.24%) Terraform
3 6 (2.94%) Ansible
3 6 (2.94%) Puppet
4 5 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.98%) Kibana
6 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.49%) Grafana
6 1 (0.49%) Nagios
Vendors
1 25 (12.25%) Google
2 21 (10.29%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.37%) Dynatrace
4 11 (5.39%) OpenAI
5 7 (3.43%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.94%) Apple
6 6 (2.94%) SaltStack
6 6 (2.94%) Splunk
7 5 (2.45%) Automation Anywhere
7 5 (2.45%) UiPath
8 4 (1.96%) Oracle
9 2 (0.98%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.98%) Pega
9 2 (0.98%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.98%) Trapeze
9 2 (0.98%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.49%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.49%) Databricks
10 1 (0.49%) New Relic
10 1 (0.49%) SAP