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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 326 439
Rank change year-on-year -162 +113 +56
Permanent jobs citing API Development 191 305 424
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.82% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.88% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 123 256 317
10th Percentile £45,250 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £94,500 £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 57,594 34,512 70,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 75.67% 93.12% 85.97%
Number of salaries quoted 36,194 20,484 53,623
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,867
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 £103,450 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.54%

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 16 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 16 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 -33 81 £82,500 -1.49% 35
Midlands -28 41 £55,000 -8.33% 9
North of England -102 24 £58,625 +1.96% 16
East Midlands -32 21 £55,000 -8.33% 1
West Midlands -19 20 £55,000 -8.33% 8
North West -47 19 £58,625 +6.59% 10
South West -67 18 £60,000 +14.29% 2
South East -59 12 £62,500 +25.00% 11
East of England -55 9 £61,250 -2.00% 1
Yorkshire -75 4 £62,500 +4.17% 5
North East -35 1 £55,200 +0.36% 1
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 9 (4.71%) Apache
4 6 (3.14%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.62%) Anypoint
6 4 (2.09%) Moodle
6 4 (2.09%) nginx
7 3 (1.57%) Headless CMS
7 3 (1.57%) NServiceBus
8 2 (1.05%) Confluence
8 2 (1.05%) JBoss
9 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.57%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.05%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.52%) Magento
3 1 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 80 (41.88%) Azure
2 74 (38.74%) AWS
3 34 (17.80%) GCP
4 32 (16.75%) Serverless
5 25 (13.09%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (9.95%) 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%) OpenShift
12 11 (5.76%) Power Platform
13 10 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (4.71%) SaaS
15 8 (4.19%) Figma
16 7 (3.66%) Apigee
16 7 (3.66%) Azure Logic Apps
17 6 (3.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.14%) AMQP
2 4 (2.09%) Broadband
3 2 (1.05%) SSL
4 1 (0.52%) DNS
4 1 (0.52%) HTTP
4 1 (0.52%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (21.99%) SQL Server
2 24 (12.57%) MySQL
3 15 (7.85%) NoSQL
3 15 (7.85%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (6.81%) Relational Database
5 12 (6.28%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (6.28%) Pinecone
6 6 (3.14%) Big Data
6 6 (3.14%) Cloudera CDH
6 6 (3.14%) 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 54 (28.27%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.80%) Finance
3 27 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.24%) Retail
5 9 (4.71%) Law
5 9 (4.71%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.14%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.62%) Aerospace
8 5 (2.62%) Banking
9 4 (2.09%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.09%) Front Office
9 4 (2.09%) Marketing
9 4 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.57%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.05%) Legal
12 1 (0.52%) Advertising
12 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 104 (54.45%) Developer
2 46 (24.08%) Full-Stack Developer
3 38 (19.90%) Senior
4 33 (17.28%) Lead
5 29 (15.18%) Senior Developer
6 24 (12.57%) Software Engineer
7 20 (10.47%) .NET Developer
7 20 (10.47%) Software Developer
8 19 (9.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 14 (7.33%) Architect
10 13 (6.81%) Automation Engineer
11 12 (6.28%) Lead Developer
11 12 (6.28%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 11 (5.76%) Web Developer
13 10 (5.24%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 8 (4.19%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (4.19%) Senior Software Developer
15 7 (3.66%) C# Developer
15 7 (3.66%) Lead Software Engineer
16 6 (3.14%) .NET Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (32.98%) React
2 51 (26.70%) .NET
3 50 (26.18%) Node.js
4 46 (24.08%) CSS
5 43 (22.51%) HTML
5 43 (22.51%) REST
6 38 (19.90%) RESTful
7 33 (17.28%) AngularJS
8 28 (14.66%) OpenAPI
8 28 (14.66%) Swagger
9 25 (13.09%) OAuth
10 24 (12.57%) Django
11 21 (10.99%) Flask
11 21 (10.99%) Spring
12 20 (10.47%) ASP.NET
13 19 (9.95%) JWT
14 17 (8.90%) .NET Core
14 17 (8.90%) pytest
14 17 (8.90%) Spring Boot
14 17 (8.90%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 35 (18.32%) Cloud Native
2 26 (13.61%) 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%) 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%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.05%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.85%) Linux
2 6 (3.14%) CentOS
2 6 (3.14%) Debian
2 6 (3.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (3.14%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.05%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (41.36%) CI/CD
2 78 (40.84%) Agile
3 58 (30.37%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (29.84%) Full-Stack Development
5 54 (28.27%) AI
6 53 (27.75%) Containerisation
7 48 (25.13%) Mentoring
8 46 (24.08%) Microservices
8 46 (24.08%) Software Engineering
9 44 (23.04%) DevOps
9 44 (23.04%) 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%) Data Pipeline
13 24 (12.57%) Computer Science
13 24 (12.57%) LLM
14 22 (11.52%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 71 (37.17%) JavaScript
2 70 (36.65%) Python
3 65 (34.03%) SQL
4 60 (31.41%) C#
5 32 (16.75%) Java
5 32 (16.75%) TypeScript
6 19 (9.95%) PHP
7 5 (2.62%) Delphi
8 4 (2.09%) Bicep
8 4 (2.09%) DataWeave
9 3 (1.57%) Bash
10 2 (1.05%) C++
10 2 (1.05%) RPG
10 2 (1.05%) Rust
10 2 (1.05%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.52%) Go
11 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.52%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 29 (15.18%) Degree
2 21 (10.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (6.28%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.24%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.62%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.09%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.85%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.81%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.05%) GRC
3 2 (1.05%) QA
System Software
1 67 (35.08%) Docker
2 4 (2.09%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (25.65%) Kubernetes
2 29 (15.18%) Terraform
3 6 (3.14%) Ansible
3 6 (3.14%) Puppet
4 5 (2.62%) Grafana
5 4 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.05%) Nagios
Vendors
1 26 (13.61%) Google
2 18 (9.42%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.42%) OpenAI
3 12 (6.28%) Automation Anywhere
3 12 (6.28%) UiPath
4 9 (4.71%) Atlassian
5 8 (4.19%) Oracle
5 8 (4.19%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.14%) SaltStack
7 5 (2.62%) MuleSoft
8 4 (2.09%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.57%) SAP
9 3 (1.57%) Zoho
10 2 (1.05%) IBM
10 2 (1.05%) New Relic
10 2 (1.05%) Pega
10 2 (1.05%) Ping Identity
10 2 (1.05%) Splunk
10 2 (1.05%) Trapeze
10 2 (1.05%) Xamarin