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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 434 383
Rank change year-on-year -28 -51 +119
Permanent jobs citing API Development 149 275 298
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.29% 0.54% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.60% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 110 177 240
10th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,875 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £104,250 £106,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%

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 43,021 45,517 40,408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.09% 89.80% 93.54%
Number of salaries quoted 25,662 23,124 31,261
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,875 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,900 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -3.23%

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 20 December 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 20 December 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 +47 74 £75,000 -20.00% 26
North of England +2 28 £57,500 +4.55% 18
North West +28 22 £54,250 +3.33% 9
Midlands +1 22 £59,860 -0.23% 12
West Midlands +14 11 £60,000 - 9
East Midlands -5 11 £58,000 -40.51% 3
South West -9 10 £60,000 +11.63% 8
East of England +11 5 £90,000 +100.00% 3
South East -4 4 £57,500 -16.36% 21
Yorkshire -9 4 £70,000 +21.74% 4
North East +5 2 £55,200 +0.36% 5
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 9 (6.04%) Confluence
2 6 (4.03%) Appian
3 5 (3.36%) Apache
4 4 (2.68%) Camunda
4 4 (2.68%) CMS
4 4 (2.68%) SharePoint
5 3 (2.01%) Anypoint
5 3 (2.01%) Apache Solr
5 3 (2.01%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.01%) JBoss
5 3 (2.01%) Jupyter
6 2 (1.34%) Moodle
6 2 (1.34%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.67%) nginx
7 1 (0.67%) NServiceBus
Business Applications
1 4 (2.68%) NetSuite
2 3 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.67%) Magento
3 1 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 72 (48.32%) Azure
2 51 (34.23%) AWS
3 21 (14.09%) GCP
4 20 (13.42%) GitHub
5 18 (12.08%) Serverless
6 17 (11.41%) Power Platform
7 16 (10.74%) Power Automate
8 12 (8.05%) Azure AI
8 12 (8.05%) Azure Functions
9 10 (6.71%) OpenShift
10 9 (6.04%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (5.37%) PowerApps
12 7 (4.70%) Anthropic Claude
12 7 (4.70%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (4.70%) n8n
13 6 (4.03%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (3.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (3.36%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.01%) AMQP
2 1 (0.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (20.13%) NoSQL
2 24 (16.11%) SQL Server
3 12 (8.05%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (5.37%) MySQL
5 6 (4.03%) Pinecone
6 5 (3.36%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.68%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.01%) Big Data
8 3 (2.01%) Cloudera CDH
8 3 (2.01%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.01%) Tableau
9 2 (1.34%) DB2
9 2 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.67%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.67%) Looker
10 1 (0.67%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 24 (16.11%) Git
2 22 (14.77%) Jenkins
3 13 (8.72%) JIRA
4 11 (7.38%) GitLab
5 10 (6.71%) Selenium
6 8 (5.37%) JUnit
7 7 (4.70%) Bitbucket
7 7 (4.70%) Cucumber
7 7 (4.70%) MLflow
8 6 (4.03%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (3.36%) Storybook
10 4 (2.68%) SonarQube
10 4 (2.68%) TeamCity
11 3 (2.01%) JMeter
11 3 (2.01%) Postman
11 3 (2.01%) Visual Studio
11 3 (2.01%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (2.01%) webpack
12 2 (1.34%) Maven
12 2 (1.34%) NUnit
General
1 60 (40.27%) Social Skills
2 39 (26.17%) Finance
3 16 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.72%) Retail
5 9 (6.04%) Law
6 8 (5.37%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.70%) Legal
8 6 (4.03%) Banking
9 3 (2.01%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.01%) Games
9 3 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.01%) Marketing
9 3 (2.01%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 80 (53.69%) Developer
2 38 (25.50%) Senior
3 26 (17.45%) Senior Developer
4 18 (12.08%) Full-Stack Developer
5 17 (11.41%) Software Engineer
6 15 (10.07%) Architect
7 12 (8.05%) Python Developer
7 12 (8.05%) Software Developer
8 11 (7.38%) Lead
9 10 (6.71%) .NET Developer
10 9 (6.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 8 (5.37%) Java Developer
11 8 (5.37%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (4.03%) Automation Engineer
12 6 (4.03%) Azure Developer
12 6 (4.03%) Backend Developer
12 6 (4.03%) Senior .NET Developer
12 6 (4.03%) Web Developer
13 5 (3.36%) Automation Developer
13 5 (3.36%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (28.86%) RESTful
2 42 (28.19%) React
3 35 (23.49%) REST
4 31 (20.81%) Node.js
5 30 (20.13%) .NET
6 24 (16.11%) CSS
7 23 (15.44%) HTML
8 22 (14.77%) Spring
9 19 (12.75%) Spring Boot
10 18 (12.08%) .NET Core
10 18 (12.08%) AngularJS
11 16 (10.74%) Flask
11 16 (10.74%) OpenAPI
11 16 (10.74%) Swagger
12 15 (10.07%) pytest
13 14 (9.40%) ASP.NET
13 14 (9.40%) PyTorch
14 13 (8.72%) Django
15 12 (8.05%) FastAPI
15 12 (8.05%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 29 (19.46%) Cloud Native
2 18 (12.08%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (9.40%) Low-Code
4 9 (6.04%) Mobile App
5 8 (5.37%) AI Agents
6 5 (3.36%) Algorithms
6 5 (3.36%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.68%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.01%) Client/Server
8 3 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.34%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.34%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.67%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.67%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.04%) Linux
2 3 (2.01%) CentOS
2 3 (2.01%) Debian
2 3 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.01%) Ubuntu
2 3 (2.01%) Windows
2 3 (2.01%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (42.28%) Agile
2 61 (40.94%) CI/CD
3 44 (29.53%) Microservices
4 43 (28.86%) DevOps
5 37 (24.83%) AI
5 37 (24.83%) Containerisation
6 36 (24.16%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (20.81%) API Integration
7 31 (20.81%) Full-Stack Development
8 30 (20.13%) Software Engineering
9 28 (18.79%) Test Automation
10 26 (17.45%) Machine Learning
11 24 (16.11%) Mentoring
12 22 (14.77%) Clean Code
13 20 (13.42%) API Design
13 20 (13.42%) Data Pipeline
13 20 (13.42%) Infrastructure as Code
14 19 (12.75%) Continuous Improvement
15 18 (12.08%) Stakeholder Management
16 17 (11.41%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 61 (40.94%) SQL
2 57 (38.26%) Python
3 53 (35.57%) JavaScript
4 39 (26.17%) Java
5 33 (22.15%) C#
6 28 (18.79%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.37%) PHP
8 6 (4.03%) Bicep
9 5 (3.36%) Delphi
10 3 (2.01%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.34%) DataWeave
11 2 (1.34%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.34%) R
11 2 (1.34%) RPG
11 2 (1.34%) Ruby
11 2 (1.34%) Search Processing Language
11 2 (1.34%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.34%) XAML
12 1 (0.67%) Bash
12 1 (0.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 15 (10.07%) Degree
2 11 (7.38%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.37%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.36%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.34%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.67%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.72%) Accessibility
1 13 (8.72%) QA
2 7 (4.70%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.01%) WCAG
4 2 (1.34%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 42 (28.19%) Docker
2 3 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.67%) Squid
Systems Management
1 29 (19.46%) Kubernetes
2 14 (9.40%) Terraform
3 7 (4.70%) Grafana
4 5 (3.36%) Ansible
5 3 (2.01%) Puppet
6 2 (1.34%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.67%) Kibana
7 1 (0.67%) Nagios
7 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (15.44%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.72%) OpenAI
2 13 (8.72%) Oracle
3 10 (6.71%) Google
4 7 (4.70%) Atlassian
4 7 (4.70%) UiPath
5 6 (4.03%) Automation Anywhere
6 5 (3.36%) iManage
6 5 (3.36%) MuleSoft
6 5 (3.36%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.68%) Databricks
8 3 (2.01%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.01%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.01%) SaltStack
8 3 (2.01%) SAP
8 3 (2.01%) Splunk
8 3 (2.01%) Zoho
9 2 (1.34%) IBM
9 2 (1.34%) New Relic
9 2 (1.34%) SnapLogic