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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 376 488
Rank change year-on-year -111 +112 +32
Permanent jobs citing API Development 203 275 391
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.70% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.76% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 128 225 296
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,250 £113,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +19.66% -16.43%

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 61,595 36,399 73,671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.07% 93.30% 83.66%
Number of salaries quoted 41,041 19,603 54,687
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -50 86 £77,500 -6.06% 21
North of England -65 38 £61,875 -8.33% 13
Midlands -22 33 £55,000 -2.22% 1
North West -14 28 £65,000 +1.17% 8
South East -20 21 £69,500 +39.00% 14
West Midlands -30 19 £55,000 +4.76%
South West -57 17 £58,750 - 3
East Midlands -15 14 £55,000 -8.33% 1
East of England -37 8 £45,000 -47.06% 1
North East -39 8 £47,000 -10.48% 3
Yorkshire -62 2 £50,000 -28.57% 2
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 (5.42%) CMS
2 9 (4.43%) Appian
3 8 (3.94%) Apache
4 6 (2.96%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.46%) nginx
6 4 (1.97%) Anypoint
6 4 (1.97%) IIS
7 3 (1.48%) Headless CMS
7 3 (1.48%) Moodle
8 2 (0.99%) JBoss
8 2 (0.99%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.99%) WordPress
9 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.49%) Confluence
9 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.97%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 86 (42.36%) Azure
2 67 (33.00%) AWS
3 35 (17.24%) GCP
4 32 (15.76%) Serverless
5 24 (11.82%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (11.33%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (7.39%) Amazon S3
8 14 (6.90%) GitHub
9 13 (6.40%) Anthropic Claude
10 12 (5.91%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (5.42%) Power Automate
12 9 (4.43%) Azure AI
12 9 (4.43%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (3.94%) Apigee
13 8 (3.94%) Figma
13 8 (3.94%) Firebase
13 8 (3.94%) LangSmith
13 8 (3.94%) SaaS
14 7 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (3.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.46%) AMQP
2 4 (1.97%) Broadband
3 3 (1.48%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.99%) DNS
4 2 (0.99%) HTTP
4 2 (0.99%) SSL
5 1 (0.49%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (17.73%) SQL Server
2 27 (13.30%) MySQL
3 17 (8.37%) Relational Database
4 15 (7.39%) NoSQL
5 12 (5.91%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (5.42%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (4.93%) Pinecone
8 6 (2.96%) Big Data
9 5 (2.46%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (2.46%) Hadoop
9 5 (2.46%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.97%) Power BI
11 3 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.99%) Qlik Sense
13 1 (0.49%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.49%) DB2
13 1 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
13 1 (0.49%) Tableau
13 1 (0.49%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 33 (16.26%) Git
2 24 (11.82%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.43%) MLflow
4 8 (3.94%) fastlane
4 8 (3.94%) Storybook
5 7 (3.45%) Postman
6 4 (1.97%) Android Studio
6 4 (1.97%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.97%) Crashlytics
6 4 (1.97%) GitLab
6 4 (1.97%) Gradle
6 4 (1.97%) JUnit
6 4 (1.97%) Mockito
6 4 (1.97%) SpecFlow
6 4 (1.97%) Visual Studio
6 4 (1.97%) Xcode
7 3 (1.48%) ESLint
7 3 (1.48%) JIRA
8 2 (0.99%) JMeter
8 2 (0.99%) Subversion
General
1 42 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 35 (17.24%) Finance
3 20 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.88%) Banking
4 16 (7.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (7.39%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.93%) Financial Institution
7 7 (3.45%) Retail
8 5 (2.46%) Front Office
9 4 (1.97%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.97%) Law
10 3 (1.48%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.48%) Marketing
10 3 (1.48%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.49%) Advertising
12 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.49%) Legal
12 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 113 (55.67%) Developer
2 42 (20.69%) Senior
3 38 (18.72%) Full-Stack Developer
4 34 (16.75%) Lead
5 30 (14.78%) Senior Developer
6 29 (14.29%) Software Developer
7 25 (12.32%) Software Engineer
8 22 (10.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 19 (9.36%) .NET Developer
10 18 (8.87%) C# Developer
11 15 (7.39%) Senior Software Developer
12 14 (6.90%) Lead Developer
13 13 (6.40%) C# Software Developer
13 13 (6.40%) Senior C# Developer
13 13 (6.40%) Senior C# Software Developer
14 10 (4.93%) Automation Engineer
15 9 (4.43%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
16 8 (3.94%) Architect
16 8 (3.94%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
16 8 (3.94%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (26.11%) .NET
1 53 (26.11%) React
2 48 (23.65%) Node.js
3 46 (22.66%) REST
4 45 (22.17%) RESTful
5 41 (20.20%) CSS
6 39 (19.21%) HTML
7 29 (14.29%) AngularJS
8 28 (13.79%) OpenAPI
8 28 (13.79%) Swagger
9 26 (12.81%) OAuth
10 20 (9.85%) .NET Core
10 20 (9.85%) JWT
11 19 (9.36%) ASP.NET
12 17 (8.37%) Vue
13 16 (7.88%) Django
13 16 (7.88%) Spring
14 15 (7.39%) ASP.NET Web API
15 13 (6.40%) Flask
15 13 (6.40%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 46 (22.66%) Cloud Native
2 21 (10.34%) Mobile App
3 16 (7.88%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (6.40%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (5.91%) Product Ownership
6 11 (5.42%) Low-Code
7 9 (4.43%) AI Agents
8 8 (3.94%) e-Learning
9 5 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.48%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.99%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.99%) Management Information System
13 1 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
13 1 (0.49%) Hybrid Cloud
13 1 (0.49%) IoT
13 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.39%) Linux
2 6 (2.96%) Android
3 5 (2.46%) CentOS
3 5 (2.46%) Debian
3 5 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.46%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.97%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.49%) Windows
5 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (45.81%) Agile
2 89 (43.84%) CI/CD
3 64 (31.53%) Full-Stack Development
4 63 (31.03%) AI
5 59 (29.06%) DevOps
6 57 (28.08%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (23.65%) Containerisation
7 48 (23.65%) Mentoring
8 46 (22.66%) Software Engineering
9 44 (21.67%) Test Automation
10 38 (18.72%) API Integration
10 38 (18.72%) Microservices
11 33 (16.26%) Clean Code
12 32 (15.76%) LLM
13 28 (13.79%) Computer Science
13 28 (13.79%) Machine Learning
13 28 (13.79%) TDD
14 27 (13.30%) Infrastructure as Code
14 27 (13.30%) Scrum
15 26 (12.81%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 73 (35.96%) Python
2 70 (34.48%) C#
3 60 (29.56%) JavaScript
3 60 (29.56%) SQL
4 32 (15.76%) TypeScript
5 27 (13.30%) Java
6 17 (8.37%) PHP
7 4 (1.97%) Bash
7 4 (1.97%) Bicep
7 4 (1.97%) Kotlin
7 4 (1.97%) Swift
8 3 (1.48%) C++
8 3 (1.48%) DataWeave
8 3 (1.48%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.99%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.99%) Rust
9 2 (0.99%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.49%) Go
10 1 (0.49%) RPG
10 1 (0.49%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 32 (15.76%) Degree
2 20 (9.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.93%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.93%) Security Cleared
4 7 (3.45%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.97%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.99%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.36%) Accessibility
2 13 (6.40%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.94%) WCAG
4 5 (2.46%) QA
5 2 (0.99%) GRC
6 1 (0.49%) GDPR
6 1 (0.49%) NIST
6 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 71 (34.98%) Docker
2 4 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 51 (25.12%) Kubernetes
2 30 (14.78%) Terraform
3 6 (2.96%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (2.46%) Ansible
4 5 (2.46%) Puppet
5 2 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.99%) Kibana
5 2 (0.99%) Nagios
Vendors
1 30 (14.78%) Google
2 15 (7.39%) OpenAI
3 13 (6.40%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.93%) Dynatrace
5 9 (4.43%) Automation Anywhere
5 9 (4.43%) UiPath
6 7 (3.45%) Atlassian
6 7 (3.45%) Red Hat
6 7 (3.45%) Splunk
7 5 (2.46%) Oracle
7 5 (2.46%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.97%) Apple
8 4 (1.97%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.48%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.99%) New Relic
10 2 (0.99%) Pega
10 2 (0.99%) Trapeze
10 2 (0.99%) Xamarin
11 1 (0.49%) Databricks
11 1 (0.49%) Ping Identity