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 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 337 437
Rank change year-on-year -153 +100 +67
Permanent jobs citing API Development 193 300 427
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.82% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.88% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 125 252 322
10th Percentile £45,500 £43,750 £41,375
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,500 £111,125 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -14.29%

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 56,888 34,178 69,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 75.94% 93.12% 85.95%
Number of salaries quoted 35,854 20,456 53,153
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 12 April 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 12 April 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 -43 81 £85,000 - 26
Midlands -28 41 £55,000 -8.33% 11
North of England -105 27 £55,600 -3.30% 20
East Midlands -27 21 £55,000 -8.33%
North West -50 21 £54,250 -1.36% 12
West Midlands -19 20 £55,000 -2.22% 11
South West -50 19 £60,000 +14.29% 12
South East -52 10 £55,000 +10.00% 12
East of England -52 9 £61,250 -2.00% 6
Yorkshire -77 4 £62,500 +4.17% 6
North East -32 2 £55,200 +0.36% 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 12 (6.22%) Appian
2 11 (5.70%) CMS
3 9 (4.66%) Apache
4 6 (3.11%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.59%) Anypoint
6 4 (2.07%) Moodle
6 4 (2.07%) nginx
7 3 (1.55%) Headless CMS
7 3 (1.55%) NServiceBus
8 2 (1.04%) Confluence
8 2 (1.04%) JBoss
9 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.55%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.04%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.52%) Magento
3 1 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 79 (40.93%) Azure
2 75 (38.86%) AWS
3 35 (18.13%) GCP
4 31 (16.06%) Serverless
5 24 (12.44%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (9.84%) GitHub
7 17 (8.81%) Power Automate
8 16 (8.29%) Anthropic Claude
9 15 (7.77%) Amazon S3
10 14 (7.25%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (6.22%) Azure AI
12 11 (5.70%) OpenShift
12 11 (5.70%) Power Platform
13 10 (5.18%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (4.66%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (4.66%) SaaS
15 8 (4.15%) Figma
16 7 (3.63%) Apigee
16 7 (3.63%) Azure Logic Apps
17 6 (3.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.11%) AMQP
2 4 (2.07%) Broadband
3 2 (1.04%) SSL
4 1 (0.52%) DNS
4 1 (0.52%) HTTP
4 1 (0.52%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (22.28%) SQL Server
2 25 (12.95%) MySQL
3 17 (8.81%) NoSQL
4 15 (7.77%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (6.74%) Relational Database
6 12 (6.22%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (6.22%) Pinecone
7 6 (3.11%) Big Data
7 6 (3.11%) Cloudera CDH
7 6 (3.11%) Hadoop
8 5 (2.59%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.07%) Power BI
10 2 (1.04%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.04%) DB2
10 2 (1.04%) Qlik Sense
11 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.52%) Looker
11 1 (0.52%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (16.58%) Git
2 19 (9.84%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.74%) MLflow
4 8 (4.15%) Storybook
5 7 (3.63%) Cucumber
5 7 (3.63%) JUnit
5 7 (3.63%) Selenium
6 6 (3.11%) Postman
7 5 (2.59%) GitLab
8 4 (2.07%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.07%) JIRA
8 4 (2.07%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.55%) ESLint
9 3 (1.55%) SpecFlow
9 3 (1.55%) webpack
10 2 (1.04%) Mockito
10 2 (1.04%) Subversion
10 2 (1.04%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.52%) PHPUnit
General
1 57 (29.53%) Social Skills
2 33 (17.10%) Finance
3 27 (13.99%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.18%) Retail
5 9 (4.66%) Law
5 9 (4.66%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.11%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.59%) Aerospace
8 5 (2.59%) Banking
9 4 (2.07%) Front Office
9 4 (2.07%) Marketing
9 4 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.55%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.55%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.04%) Legal
12 1 (0.52%) Advertising
12 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 106 (54.92%) Developer
2 47 (24.35%) Full-Stack Developer
3 37 (19.17%) Senior
4 32 (16.58%) Lead
5 28 (14.51%) Senior Developer
6 25 (12.95%) Software Engineer
7 22 (11.40%) .NET Developer
8 19 (9.84%) Software Developer
9 18 (9.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 14 (7.25%) Architect
11 13 (6.74%) Automation Engineer
12 12 (6.22%) Lead Developer
12 12 (6.22%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (5.70%) Web Developer
14 10 (5.18%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 8 (4.15%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
15 8 (4.15%) Senior Software Developer
16 7 (3.63%) C# Developer
16 7 (3.63%) Lead Software Engineer
17 6 (3.11%) .NET Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (33.68%) React
2 53 (27.46%) .NET
3 49 (25.39%) Node.js
4 46 (23.83%) CSS
5 43 (22.28%) HTML
6 42 (21.76%) REST
7 40 (20.73%) RESTful
8 32 (16.58%) AngularJS
9 28 (14.51%) OpenAPI
9 28 (14.51%) Swagger
10 25 (12.95%) OAuth
11 24 (12.44%) Django
12 22 (11.40%) ASP.NET
13 21 (10.88%) Flask
13 21 (10.88%) Spring
14 19 (9.84%) .NET Core
14 19 (9.84%) JWT
15 17 (8.81%) pytest
15 17 (8.81%) Spring Boot
15 17 (8.81%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 34 (17.62%) Cloud Native
2 28 (14.51%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (8.29%) Low-Code
4 11 (5.70%) Mobile App
5 8 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.59%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.55%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.55%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.55%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.04%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.04%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.04%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.04%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.77%) Linux
2 6 (3.11%) CentOS
2 6 (3.11%) Debian
2 6 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (3.11%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.52%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (41.97%) CI/CD
2 76 (39.38%) Agile
3 60 (31.09%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (29.53%) Full-Stack Development
5 54 (27.98%) Containerisation
6 52 (26.94%) AI
7 47 (24.35%) Microservices
8 46 (23.83%) Mentoring
8 46 (23.83%) Software Engineering
9 45 (23.32%) DevOps
10 42 (21.76%) Test Automation
11 37 (19.17%) API Integration
12 28 (14.51%) Infrastructure as Code
13 26 (13.47%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (13.47%) Data Pipeline
13 26 (13.47%) Machine Learning
14 25 (12.95%) Clean Code
15 24 (12.44%) Computer Science
16 23 (11.92%) ETL
16 23 (11.92%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (38.34%) JavaScript
2 70 (36.27%) Python
3 68 (35.23%) SQL
4 61 (31.61%) C#
5 33 (17.10%) TypeScript
6 32 (16.58%) Java
7 20 (10.36%) PHP
8 5 (2.59%) Bicep
8 5 (2.59%) Delphi
9 4 (2.07%) DataWeave
10 3 (1.55%) Bash
11 2 (1.04%) C++
11 2 (1.04%) RPG
11 2 (1.04%) Rust
11 2 (1.04%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.52%) Go
12 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.52%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 29 (15.03%) Degree
2 21 (10.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (6.74%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.18%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.11%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.07%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.77%) Data Quality
2 14 (7.25%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.04%) GRC
3 2 (1.04%) QA
System Software
1 69 (35.75%) Docker
2 4 (2.07%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (26.42%) Kubernetes
2 30 (15.54%) Terraform
3 6 (3.11%) Ansible
3 6 (3.11%) Puppet
4 5 (2.59%) Grafana
5 4 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.04%) Nagios
Vendors
1 26 (13.47%) Google
2 18 (9.33%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.33%) OpenAI
3 12 (6.22%) Automation Anywhere
3 12 (6.22%) UiPath
4 9 (4.66%) Atlassian
4 9 (4.66%) Oracle
5 8 (4.15%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.11%) SaltStack
7 5 (2.59%) MuleSoft
8 4 (2.07%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.55%) SAP
9 3 (1.55%) Zoho
10 2 (1.04%) IBM
10 2 (1.04%) New Relic
10 2 (1.04%) Pega
10 2 (1.04%) Ping Identity
10 2 (1.04%) Splunk
10 2 (1.04%) Trapeze
11 1 (0.52%) Adobe