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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 435 504 478
Rank change year-on-year +69 -26 +22
Permanent jobs citing API Development 206 258 273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.38% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.46% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 163 142 240
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,975 £50,875 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -8.45% +13.60%
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,125 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £106,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +12.00%

All Process and 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 38,123 55,583 52,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 88.74% 81.32% 94.35%
Number of salaries quoted 21,792 32,261 39,094
10th Percentile £28,571 £32,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £62,004
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -7.26% +3.34%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing API Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for API Development 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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 2025. 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 +77 91 £80,000 -11.11% 56
North of England +28 41 £58,650 +12.79% 26
North West +10 28 £57,500 +10.58% 13
East of England +10 27 £85,000 +88.89% 8
South East +16 21 £50,000 -31.03% 35
South West +59 13 £52,500 -12.50% 7
Yorkshire +26 13 £65,000 +8.33% 11
Midlands +28 11 £62,500 - 11
West Midlands +40 7 £65,000 +30.00% 6
East Midlands +17 4 £60,250 -38.21% 5
API Development
UK

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (6.80%) Confluence
2 11 (5.34%) CMS
3 6 (2.91%) Apache Solr
4 5 (2.43%) Headless CMS
4 5 (2.43%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.94%) Camunda
6 3 (1.46%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.97%) IIS
7 2 (0.97%) JBoss
7 2 (0.97%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.97%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.49%) Apache
8 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.46%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.91%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.46%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 89 (43.20%) Azure
2 75 (36.41%) AWS
3 46 (22.33%) Serverless
4 24 (11.65%) SaaS
5 23 (11.17%) GCP
6 20 (9.71%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (9.71%) GitHub
7 18 (8.74%) Power Platform
8 16 (7.77%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (7.77%) AWS Step Functions
9 15 (7.28%) Boomi
10 14 (6.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (6.80%) Amazon EventBridge
10 14 (6.80%) Amazon SQS
10 14 (6.80%) AWS CodeBuild
10 14 (6.80%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 14 (6.80%) AWS CodePipeline
11 13 (6.31%) Azure Functions
12 12 (5.83%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (4.37%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.40%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (23.79%) NoSQL
2 34 (16.50%) SQL Server
3 24 (11.65%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (10.19%) MongoDB
5 17 (8.25%) Big Data
6 14 (6.80%) Relational Database
7 11 (5.34%) MySQL
8 10 (4.85%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (3.88%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (3.40%) Power BI
10 7 (3.40%) Tableau
11 5 (2.43%) BigQuery
11 5 (2.43%) RDBMS
12 4 (1.94%) Data Mining
12 4 (1.94%) Data Vault
13 3 (1.46%) Looker
13 3 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.97%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.97%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (15.05%) Git
2 24 (11.65%) JIRA
3 19 (9.22%) GitLab
3 19 (9.22%) Jenkins
4 12 (5.83%) Selenium
5 7 (3.40%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.40%) JUnit
5 7 (3.40%) PowerBuilder
6 6 (2.91%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.91%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (2.91%) Storybook
6 6 (2.91%) Visual Studio
7 5 (2.43%) NUnit
7 5 (2.43%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.94%) JMeter
8 4 (1.94%) Mockito
8 4 (1.94%) Postman
8 4 (1.94%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.46%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.97%) Gradle
General
1 53 (25.73%) Social Skills
2 51 (24.76%) Finance
3 21 (10.19%) Public Sector
4 19 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.22%) Law
5 10 (4.85%) Legal
5 10 (4.85%) Retail
6 9 (4.37%) Banking
7 7 (3.40%) Marketing
8 6 (2.91%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.94%) Front Office
9 4 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.94%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.46%) Games
10 3 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.97%) Electronics
11 2 (0.97%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.97%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.49%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.49%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 99 (48.06%) Developer
2 42 (20.39%) Lead
3 34 (16.50%) Senior
4 25 (12.14%) Full-Stack Developer
5 21 (10.19%) .NET Developer
6 18 (8.74%) Python Developer
7 17 (8.25%) Architect
8 16 (7.77%) Senior Developer
9 15 (7.28%) Software Engineer
10 13 (6.31%) Java Developer
11 12 (5.83%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (5.34%) C# Developer
13 10 (4.85%) Software Developer
14 9 (4.37%) Technical Leader
15 8 (3.88%) Azure Developer
15 8 (3.88%) Backend Developer
15 8 (3.88%) C# .NET Developer
16 7 (3.40%) Java Engineer
16 7 (3.40%) Technical Manager
16 7 (3.40%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (31.55%) RESTful
2 60 (29.13%) .NET
3 51 (24.76%) REST
4 46 (22.33%) React
5 29 (14.08%) AngularJS
6 26 (12.62%) GraphQL
7 24 (11.65%) Node.js
8 23 (11.17%) CSS
8 23 (11.17%) HTML
8 23 (11.17%) OAuth
9 22 (10.68%) Vue
10 20 (9.71%) JWT
11 19 (9.22%) SOAP
12 18 (8.74%) ASP.NET
12 18 (8.74%) Spring
12 18 (8.74%) Spring Boot
13 17 (8.25%) .NET Core
14 15 (7.28%) Kafka
15 14 (6.80%) LangChain
16 10 (4.85%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 34 (16.50%) Cloud Native
2 18 (8.74%) Mobile App
2 18 (8.74%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.88%) Algorithms
3 8 (3.88%) Low-Code
4 7 (3.40%) AI Agents
4 7 (3.40%) Reinsurance
5 6 (2.91%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.91%) Wiki
6 4 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.94%) IoT
7 3 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.46%) YARA
8 2 (0.97%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.97%) Equities
8 2 (0.97%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.97%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.34%) Windows
2 8 (3.88%) Linux
3 6 (2.91%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.46%) Android
4 3 (1.46%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.97%) Unix
6 1 (0.49%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (52.91%) CI/CD
2 103 (50.00%) DevOps
3 83 (40.29%) Agile
4 74 (35.92%) Microservices
5 44 (21.36%) Containerisation
6 42 (20.39%) Full-Stack Development
7 41 (19.90%) API Design
8 40 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (16.50%) Software Engineering
10 33 (16.02%) API Integration
10 33 (16.02%) Mentoring
11 32 (15.53%) Artificial Intelligence
12 31 (15.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 30 (14.56%) Event-Driven
14 29 (14.08%) Code Quality
15 24 (11.65%) Machine Learning
16 23 (11.17%) Analytics
16 23 (11.17%) Collaborative Culture
16 23 (11.17%) SDLC
17 22 (10.68%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 77 (37.38%) C#
2 72 (34.95%) Python
3 68 (33.01%) SQL
4 64 (31.07%) JavaScript
5 61 (29.61%) Java
6 39 (18.93%) TypeScript
7 13 (6.31%) PHP
8 8 (3.88%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.43%) Bicep
9 5 (2.43%) C++
9 5 (2.43%) Go
10 4 (1.94%) C
11 3 (1.46%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.46%) R
11 3 (1.46%) Swift
12 2 (0.97%) Bash
12 2 (0.97%) Ruby
12 2 (0.97%) Rust
12 2 (0.97%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.97%) XAML
Qualifications
1 25 (12.14%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.68%) Degree
3 13 (6.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (5.34%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.91%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.97%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.49%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.22%) QA
2 17 (8.25%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.40%) GDPR
4 6 (2.91%) WCAG
5 4 (1.94%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.49%) CDISC
6 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 43 (20.87%) Docker
2 2 (0.97%) Squid
Systems Management
1 33 (16.02%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.91%) Terraform
3 2 (0.97%) Ansible
3 2 (0.97%) Grafana
3 2 (0.97%) Kibana
3 2 (0.97%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 38 (18.45%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.71%) MuleSoft
3 18 (8.74%) Salesforce
4 17 (8.25%) ServiceNow
5 14 (6.80%) Informatica
6 9 (4.37%) Databricks
6 9 (4.37%) OpenAI
7 7 (3.40%) Google
8 5 (2.43%) Oracle
9 4 (1.94%) iManage
10 3 (1.46%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.46%) Remedy
10 3 (1.46%) SnapLogic
11 2 (0.97%) CyberSource
11 2 (0.97%) New Relic
11 2 (0.97%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.97%) Rollbar
11 2 (0.97%) Splunk
12 1 (0.49%) IFS
12 1 (0.49%) Samsung