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 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 446 419 395
Rank change year-on-year -27 -24 +121
Permanent jobs citing API Development 167 269 336
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.31% 0.56% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.62% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 111 171 272
10th Percentile £48,750 £43,750 £41,375
25th Percentile £52,969 £50,938 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £80,625 £90,625 £79,063
90th Percentile £92,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £64,750 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.60% +4.17% -9.47%

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 43,328 43,506 47,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 80.78% 91.02% 89.36%
Number of salaries quoted 26,008 21,252 36,787
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.75% -4.71%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £78,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.51% -7.26%

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 19 January 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 19 January 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 +53 85 £76,250 -20.78% 27
Midlands +21 32 £59,720 -0.47% 14
North of England -14 25 £59,250 +7.73% 25
North West +1 19 £52,500 -4.55% 15
East Midlands +2 18 £60,250 +0.42% 7
West Midlands +18 14 £59,720 -0.47% 6
South West -14 12 £60,000 +9.09% 12
South East -8 4 £57,500 -14.81% 32
Yorkshire -28 4 £70,000 +21.74% 9
East of England +11 3 £90,000 +100.00% 15
North East +3 2 £55,200 +2.70% 1
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 10 (5.99%) Appian
2 9 (5.39%) Confluence
3 7 (4.19%) Apache
4 5 (2.99%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.40%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.80%) Anypoint
6 3 (1.80%) Camunda
6 3 (1.80%) Jupyter
7 2 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.20%) JBoss
7 2 (1.20%) Moodle
8 1 (0.60%) CMS
8 1 (0.60%) nginx
8 1 (0.60%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (2.40%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.60%) Magento
3 1 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.60%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 78 (46.71%) Azure
2 62 (37.13%) AWS
3 30 (17.96%) Serverless
4 28 (16.77%) GCP
5 22 (13.17%) GitHub
6 20 (11.98%) Power Automate
7 18 (10.78%) Power Platform
8 17 (10.18%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (9.58%) Azure AI
10 13 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (7.19%) Azure Functions
12 11 (6.59%) Amazon S3
12 11 (6.59%) Anthropic Claude
12 11 (6.59%) OpenShift
13 10 (5.99%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (4.79%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (4.79%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (4.79%) PowerApps
15 7 (4.19%) Azure App Service
15 7 (4.19%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.99%) AMQP
2 1 (0.60%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (16.77%) NoSQL
2 27 (16.17%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.99%) Pinecone
3 10 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.79%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (2.99%) Big Data
5 5 (2.99%) Cloudera CDH
5 5 (2.99%) Hadoop
5 5 (2.99%) MySQL
6 4 (2.40%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.80%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.80%) Tableau
8 2 (1.20%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.20%) DB2
8 2 (1.20%) Power BI
8 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.60%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 22 (13.17%) Git
1 22 (13.17%) Jenkins
2 11 (6.59%) MLflow
3 10 (5.99%) GitLab
3 10 (5.99%) JIRA
3 10 (5.99%) Selenium
4 7 (4.19%) Cucumber
4 7 (4.19%) JUnit
4 7 (4.19%) Visual Studio
5 6 (3.59%) Bitbucket
5 6 (3.59%) Postman
5 6 (3.59%) Storybook
6 4 (2.40%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (2.40%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.80%) ESLint
7 3 (1.80%) JMeter
7 3 (1.80%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.80%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (1.80%) webpack
8 2 (1.20%) NUnit
General
1 61 (36.53%) Social Skills
2 42 (25.15%) Finance
3 21 (12.57%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.78%) Retail
5 9 (5.39%) Law
6 8 (4.79%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.19%) Legal
8 5 (2.99%) Banking
9 4 (2.40%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.80%) Games
10 3 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.80%) Marketing
10 3 (1.80%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.80%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 85 (50.90%) Developer
2 43 (25.75%) Senior
3 32 (19.16%) Full-Stack Developer
4 29 (17.37%) Senior Developer
5 23 (13.77%) Software Engineer
6 21 (12.57%) Lead
7 17 (10.18%) Architect
8 14 (8.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 13 (7.78%) .NET Developer
10 11 (6.59%) Python Developer
10 11 (6.59%) Software Developer
11 10 (5.99%) Automation Engineer
12 9 (5.39%) Lead Developer
13 8 (4.79%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (4.79%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 7 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
15 6 (3.59%) Java Engineer
15 6 (3.59%) Senior .NET Developer
15 6 (3.59%) Senior Software Engineer
15 6 (3.59%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (32.93%) React
2 46 (27.54%) Node.js
2 46 (27.54%) RESTful
3 41 (24.55%) REST
4 37 (22.16%) .NET
5 34 (20.36%) CSS
6 31 (18.56%) HTML
7 26 (15.57%) Swagger
8 23 (13.77%) OpenAPI
9 22 (13.17%) Spring
10 21 (12.57%) .NET Core
10 21 (12.57%) AngularJS
11 20 (11.98%) Flask
12 19 (11.38%) Spring Boot
13 18 (10.78%) OAuth
13 18 (10.78%) pytest
13 18 (10.78%) PyTorch
14 17 (10.18%) Django
15 16 (9.58%) FastAPI
16 15 (8.98%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 32 (19.16%) Cloud Native
2 23 (13.77%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (10.78%) Low-Code
4 11 (6.59%) Mobile App
5 9 (5.39%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.59%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.99%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.99%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.40%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.80%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.20%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.60%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.60%) IoT
11 1 (0.60%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.60%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.19%) Linux
2 5 (2.99%) CentOS
2 5 (2.99%) Debian
2 5 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.99%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (42.51%) CI/CD
2 66 (39.52%) Agile
3 49 (29.34%) DevOps
4 47 (28.14%) Microservices
5 44 (26.35%) Full-Stack Development
6 43 (25.75%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (25.15%) AI
8 39 (23.35%) Containerisation
9 35 (20.96%) Mentoring
9 35 (20.96%) Software Engineering
10 33 (19.76%) API Integration
11 32 (19.16%) Test Automation
12 31 (18.56%) Machine Learning
13 29 (17.37%) Infrastructure as Code
14 25 (14.97%) Clean Code
15 24 (14.37%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (14.37%) Data Pipeline
16 21 (12.57%) ETL
16 21 (12.57%) Stakeholder Management
17 19 (11.38%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 71 (42.51%) SQL
2 68 (40.72%) Python
3 62 (37.13%) JavaScript
4 39 (23.35%) C#
4 39 (23.35%) Java
5 34 (20.36%) TypeScript
6 11 (6.59%) PHP
7 10 (5.99%) Bicep
8 5 (2.99%) Delphi
9 2 (1.20%) DataWeave
9 2 (1.20%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.20%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.20%) R
9 2 (1.20%) RPG
9 2 (1.20%) XAML
10 1 (0.60%) Bash
10 1 (0.60%) Go
10 1 (0.60%) Ruby
10 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.60%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 23 (13.77%) Degree
2 15 (8.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (7.19%) Security Cleared
4 9 (5.39%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.59%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.40%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.80%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.60%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.38%) Accessibility
2 12 (7.19%) QA
3 11 (6.59%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.80%) WCAG
5 2 (1.20%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.60%) GDPR
System Software
1 52 (31.14%) Docker
2 3 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.60%) Squid
Systems Management
1 46 (27.54%) Kubernetes
2 24 (14.37%) Terraform
3 6 (3.59%) Ansible
3 6 (3.59%) Grafana
4 5 (2.99%) Puppet
5 1 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.60%) Kibana
5 1 (0.60%) Nagios
5 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (14.37%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.78%) Google
2 18 (10.78%) OpenAI
3 11 (6.59%) Oracle
3 11 (6.59%) UiPath
4 10 (5.99%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (4.79%) Atlassian
6 6 (3.59%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.99%) iManage
7 5 (2.99%) SaltStack
8 4 (2.40%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.80%) Databricks
9 3 (1.80%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.80%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.80%) SAP
9 3 (1.80%) Zoho
10 2 (1.20%) IBM
10 2 (1.20%) New Relic
10 2 (1.20%) Ping Identity
10 2 (1.20%) Splunk