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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 453 425
Rank change year-on-year +5 -28 +91
Permanent jobs citing API Development 169 277 291
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.46% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.55% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 125 165 245
10th Percentile £46,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,438 £51,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
75th Percentile £81,250 £92,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £103,250 £106,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% 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 39,655 50,810 44,387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 86.21% 83.46% 93.70%
Number of salaries quoted 24,334 26,537 33,959
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,905 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 15 November 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 November 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 +31 73 £75,000 -16.67% 113
North of England +40 40 £57,500 +9.52% 47
North West +42 28 £56,250 +8.17% 35
Midlands +33 17 £58,000 -3.33% 25
South West +19 15 £52,500 -8.70% 19
East of England +24 11 £82,500 +83.33% 6
Yorkshire +11 10 £70,000 +21.74% 9
East Midlands +19 9 £58,000 -40.51% 4
West Midlands +27 8 £60,000 +6.67% 21
South East -16 7 £55,000 -20.00% 32
North East +6 2 £55,200 +2.70% 3
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 13 (7.69%) Confluence
2 6 (3.55%) Apache Solr
2 6 (3.55%) CMS
3 5 (2.96%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.37%) Camunda
5 3 (1.78%) Apache
5 3 (1.78%) Jupyter
6 2 (1.18%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.18%) JBoss
6 2 (1.18%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.59%) Appian
7 1 (0.59%) IIS
7 1 (0.59%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.37%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.18%) Shopify
4 1 (0.59%) Magento
4 1 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 82 (48.52%) Azure
2 55 (32.54%) AWS
3 24 (14.20%) GitHub
4 20 (11.83%) GCP
4 20 (11.83%) Serverless
5 19 (11.24%) Power Platform
6 16 (9.47%) Azure Functions
7 14 (8.28%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (7.69%) Power Automate
9 10 (5.92%) OpenShift
9 10 (5.92%) PowerApps
9 10 (5.92%) SaaS
10 7 (4.14%) Azure AI
10 7 (4.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (4.14%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (4.14%) Cloudflare
10 7 (4.14%) n8n
11 6 (3.55%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (2.96%) Azure App Service
12 5 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.18%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (24.26%) NoSQL
2 22 (13.02%) SQL Server
3 21 (12.43%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (7.69%) MongoDB
4 13 (7.69%) MySQL
5 10 (5.92%) Relational Database
6 9 (5.33%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.37%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.37%) Looker
7 4 (2.37%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.78%) Power BI
8 3 (1.78%) Tableau
9 2 (1.18%) Big Data
9 2 (1.18%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (1.18%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.18%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.18%) Redis
9 2 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 32 (18.93%) Git
2 18 (10.65%) GitLab
2 18 (10.65%) Jenkins
2 18 (10.65%) JIRA
3 14 (8.28%) Selenium
4 11 (6.51%) Cucumber
5 8 (4.73%) JUnit
6 6 (3.55%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (2.37%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.37%) NUnit
7 4 (2.37%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.78%) JMeter
8 3 (1.78%) Postman
8 3 (1.78%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.78%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.78%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.18%) Gradle
9 2 (1.18%) Maven
9 2 (1.18%) MLflow
9 2 (1.18%) MSTest
General
1 68 (40.24%) Social Skills
2 39 (23.08%) Finance
3 20 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.69%) Retail
5 9 (5.33%) Law
6 8 (4.73%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.14%) Legal
8 6 (3.55%) Games
9 5 (2.96%) Banking
9 5 (2.96%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.78%) Marketing
11 2 (1.18%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.18%) Health Technology
11 2 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.18%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.59%) Electronics
12 1 (0.59%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 88 (52.07%) Developer
2 38 (22.49%) Senior
3 25 (14.79%) Senior Developer
4 21 (12.43%) Full-Stack Developer
5 19 (11.24%) Architect
6 16 (9.47%) Python Developer
7 15 (8.88%) Software Engineer
8 14 (8.28%) Solutions Architect
9 12 (7.10%) .NET Developer
9 12 (7.10%) Software Developer
10 11 (6.51%) Java Engineer
11 9 (5.33%) Lead
12 8 (4.73%) Backend Developer
13 7 (4.14%) Java Developer
13 7 (4.14%) Java Software Engineer
13 7 (4.14%) Technical Manager
13 7 (4.14%) Web Manager
14 6 (3.55%) Azure Developer
15 5 (2.96%) Automation Developer
15 5 (2.96%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (24.85%) .NET
1 42 (24.85%) RESTful
2 38 (22.49%) React
3 34 (20.12%) REST
4 26 (15.38%) Spring
5 24 (14.20%) Spring Boot
6 22 (13.02%) AngularJS
7 20 (11.83%) CSS
7 20 (11.83%) HTML
8 19 (11.24%) .NET Core
8 19 (11.24%) ASP.NET
8 19 (11.24%) Node.js
9 14 (8.28%) pytest
10 13 (7.69%) Flask
10 13 (7.69%) LangChain
10 13 (7.69%) Vue
11 11 (6.51%) FastAPI
11 11 (6.51%) Kafka
12 10 (5.92%) GraphQL
12 10 (5.92%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.98%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.10%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (5.33%) Low-Code
4 8 (4.73%) AI Agents
4 8 (4.73%) Algorithms
5 6 (3.55%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.55%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.55%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.55%) Wiki
6 4 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.37%) IoT
6 4 (2.37%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.78%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.78%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.78%) YARA
8 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.59%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.51%) Linux
2 10 (5.92%) Windows
3 6 (3.55%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.18%) CentOS
4 2 (1.18%) Debian
4 2 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.18%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (41.42%) Agile
2 69 (40.83%) CI/CD
3 62 (36.69%) DevOps
4 55 (32.54%) Microservices
5 46 (27.22%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (24.26%) Containerisation
7 37 (21.89%) API Integration
7 37 (21.89%) Full-Stack Development
8 32 (18.93%) AI
8 32 (18.93%) Software Engineering
9 27 (15.98%) Code Quality
10 26 (15.38%) Machine Learning
11 25 (14.79%) API Design
11 25 (14.79%) Test Automation
12 24 (14.20%) Mentoring
13 23 (13.61%) TDD
14 21 (12.43%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (11.83%) Clean Code
15 20 (11.83%) Migration
15 20 (11.83%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (42.60%) Python
2 67 (39.64%) SQL
3 54 (31.95%) JavaScript
4 47 (27.81%) C#
5 43 (25.44%) Java
6 28 (16.57%) TypeScript
7 15 (8.88%) PHP
8 6 (3.55%) Bicep
8 6 (3.55%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.96%) Delphi
10 2 (1.18%) Bash
10 2 (1.18%) R
10 2 (1.18%) Ruby
10 2 (1.18%) Search Processing Language
10 2 (1.18%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.18%) XAML
11 1 (0.59%) C
11 1 (0.59%) C++
11 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (10.06%) Degree
2 9 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (5.33%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.55%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.37%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.18%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.18%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.59%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.06%) QA
2 9 (5.33%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.78%) GDPR
3 3 (1.78%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.78%) WCAG
4 2 (1.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 46 (27.22%) Docker
2 2 (1.18%) Squid
2 2 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (18.93%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.73%) Terraform
3 7 (4.14%) Grafana
4 4 (2.37%) Ansible
5 2 (1.18%) Kibana
5 2 (1.18%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 31 (18.34%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.10%) Oracle
3 8 (4.73%) OpenAI
4 7 (4.14%) Databricks
5 5 (2.96%) iManage
6 4 (2.37%) Google
6 4 (2.37%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.37%) SnapLogic
7 3 (1.78%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.78%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.78%) SAP
7 3 (1.78%) Zoho
8 2 (1.18%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.18%) New Relic
8 2 (1.18%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.18%) Splunk
8 2 (1.18%) UiPath
9 1 (0.59%) Adobe
9 1 (0.59%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.59%) Sybase