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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 549 436 508
Rank change year-on-year -113 +72 -27
Permanent jobs citing API Development 209 218 260
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.50% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.57% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 128 174 157
10th Percentile £46,750 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,125 £52,963 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -10.03%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -7.14%

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 72,264 38,362 56,538
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.27% 88.56% 81.03%
Number of salaries quoted 51,467 22,133 34,126
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.39%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £76,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 6 September 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 6 September 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 -85 82 £77,500 -1.59% 124
North of England -57 50 £62,500 +4.52% 26
North West -19 31 £75,000 +30.43% 16
South East -32 28 £72,500 +45.00% 16
South West -59 26 £70,000 +33.33% 25
North East - 18 £47,000 - 5
Midlands -32 11 £55,000 -12.00% 15
East of England -48 9 £50,000 -41.18% 6
West Midlands -31 8 £55,000 -15.38% 9
East Midlands -30 3 £54,000 -10.37% 6
Yorkshire -59 1 - - 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 11 (5.26%) Apache
2 7 (3.35%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.35%) nginx
3 6 (2.87%) IIS
4 5 (2.39%) Confluence
4 5 (2.39%) JBoss
5 4 (1.91%) CMS
6 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.48%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.91%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.44%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 97 (46.41%) Azure
2 67 (32.06%) AWS
3 45 (21.53%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (14.83%) GCP
5 24 (11.48%) LangSmith
6 23 (11.00%) Serverless
7 12 (5.74%) OpenShift
8 11 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (5.26%) Firebase
8 11 (5.26%) GitHub
9 8 (3.83%) Datadog
9 8 (3.83%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (3.35%) Amazon S3
10 7 (3.35%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (3.35%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (3.35%) Power Platform
11 6 (2.87%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (2.87%) Kong
11 6 (2.87%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.39%) AMQP
1 5 (2.39%) SSL
2 4 (1.91%) Broadband
2 4 (1.91%) HTTP
3 3 (1.44%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.96%) DNS
5 1 (0.48%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.96%) MySQL
2 24 (11.48%) SQL Server
3 23 (11.00%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (8.13%) Relational Database
5 12 (5.74%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (3.35%) Big Data
7 6 (2.87%) DynamoDB
7 6 (2.87%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.39%) Cloudera CDH
8 5 (2.39%) Geospatial Data
8 5 (2.39%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.44%) SQLite
11 2 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.96%) Metadata
11 2 (0.96%) Power BI
11 2 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (20.10%) Git
2 25 (11.96%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.26%) fastlane
4 9 (4.31%) GitLab
5 6 (2.87%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.87%) JIRA
5 6 (2.87%) Xcode
6 5 (2.39%) Android Studio
6 5 (2.39%) Crashlytics
6 5 (2.39%) Gradle
6 5 (2.39%) MSI
6 5 (2.39%) Postman
7 4 (1.91%) JUnit
7 4 (1.91%) Mockito
7 4 (1.91%) Subversion
8 3 (1.44%) CMake
8 3 (1.44%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.44%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.96%) JMeter
9 2 (0.96%) Mocha
General
1 46 (22.01%) Finance
2 41 (19.62%) Social Skills
3 27 (12.92%) Public Sector
4 26 (12.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (10.05%) Financial Institution
6 20 (9.57%) Banking
7 12 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (5.74%) Retail
8 10 (4.78%) Law
9 9 (4.31%) Legal
10 6 (2.87%) Aerospace
11 5 (2.39%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.44%) Electronics
12 3 (1.44%) Marketing
13 2 (0.96%) Aviation
13 2 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.96%) Front Office
13 2 (0.96%) iGaming
13 2 (0.96%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 111 (53.11%) Developer
2 57 (27.27%) Senior
3 40 (19.14%) Senior Developer
4 37 (17.70%) Software Engineer
5 29 (13.88%) Software Developer
6 24 (11.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 21 (10.05%) C# Developer
8 20 (9.57%) Lead
9 17 (8.13%) Senior Software Developer
10 15 (7.18%) C# Software Developer
10 15 (7.18%) Python Developer
10 15 (7.18%) Senior C# Developer
10 15 (7.18%) Senior C# Software Developer
11 14 (6.70%) .NET Developer
12 13 (6.22%) Backend Developer
13 12 (5.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 11 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
15 9 (4.31%) Lead Software Engineer
16 8 (3.83%) Architect
16 8 (3.83%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (29.67%) .NET
2 49 (23.44%) RESTful
3 46 (22.01%) REST
4 35 (16.75%) React
5 29 (13.88%) Model Context Protocol
5 29 (13.88%) Terraform
6 28 (13.40%) .NET Framework
7 27 (12.92%) LangChain
7 27 (12.92%) LlamaIndex
8 26 (12.44%) Node.js
9 25 (11.96%) ASP.NET
10 24 (11.48%) HTML
10 24 (11.48%) Langfuse
11 22 (10.53%) CSS
12 21 (10.05%) .NET Core
13 19 (9.09%) Entity Framework
14 18 (8.61%) AngularJS
14 18 (8.61%) OAuth
15 17 (8.13%) Spring
15 17 (8.13%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 70 (33.49%) Cloud Native
2 33 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (11.96%) AI Agents
4 21 (10.05%) e-Learning
4 21 (10.05%) Mobile App
5 15 (7.18%) Product Ownership
6 13 (6.22%) Onboarding
7 9 (4.31%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.39%) Data Centre
9 5 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (2.39%) Private Cloud
9 5 (2.39%) Social Media
10 4 (1.91%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.91%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.44%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.44%) Mobile Wallet
11 3 (1.44%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.96%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.66%) Linux
2 11 (5.26%) Windows
3 8 (3.83%) Android
4 7 (3.35%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.39%) CentOS
6 5 (2.39%) Debian
6 5 (2.39%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.44%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (54.07%) Agile
2 97 (46.41%) CI/CD
3 78 (37.32%) DevOps
4 73 (34.93%) AI
5 69 (33.01%) Full-Stack Development
6 68 (32.54%) Software Engineering
7 61 (29.19%) Problem-Solving
8 53 (25.36%) Observability
9 51 (24.40%) Microservices
10 50 (23.92%) Test Automation
11 46 (22.01%) Containerisation
12 44 (21.05%) API Integration
13 42 (20.10%) Continuous Improvement
13 42 (20.10%) LLM
14 35 (16.75%) Computer Science
15 34 (16.27%) Collaborative Culture
15 34 (16.27%) Mentoring
16 33 (15.79%) Clean Code
17 32 (15.31%) Generative AI
18 30 (14.35%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 90 (43.06%) Python
2 82 (39.23%) C#
3 46 (22.01%) JavaScript
3 46 (22.01%) SQL
4 33 (15.79%) Java
5 23 (11.00%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.87%) C++
6 6 (2.87%) Swift
7 5 (2.39%) Bicep
7 5 (2.39%) Kotlin
7 5 (2.39%) PHP
7 5 (2.39%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.44%) Embedded C++
8 3 (1.44%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.44%) VB
8 3 (1.44%) VB.NET
9 2 (0.96%) Bash
9 2 (0.96%) Go
9 2 (0.96%) Scala
9 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (19.14%) Degree
2 33 (15.79%) Security Cleared
3 26 (12.44%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.31%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.91%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.96%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.96%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 17 (8.13%) QA
2 17 (8.13%) WCAG
3 7 (3.35%) GDPR
4 5 (2.39%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.39%) NCSC
5 3 (1.44%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.44%) PSD2
6 1 (0.48%) NIST
6 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 57 (27.27%) Docker
2 5 (2.39%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 47 (22.49%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.83%) Ansible
2 8 (3.83%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (2.87%) Puppet
4 5 (2.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (2.39%) Grafana
4 5 (2.39%) Nagios
5 3 (1.44%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.96%) Kibana
7 1 (0.48%) Consul
7 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (11.96%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.53%) Google
3 13 (6.22%) Dynatrace
4 10 (4.78%) Red Hat
4 10 (4.78%) Splunk
5 6 (2.87%) Apple
6 5 (2.39%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.39%) Databricks
6 5 (2.39%) New Relic
6 5 (2.39%) SaltStack
7 3 (1.44%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.44%) Oracle
7 3 (1.44%) SAP
8 2 (0.96%) Pega
8 2 (0.96%) Xamarin
8 2 (0.96%) YouTube
9 1 (0.48%) MarketAxess
9 1 (0.48%) Mistral
9 1 (0.48%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.48%) Salesforce