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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 400 421
Rank change year-on-year -69 +21 +97
Permanent jobs citing API Development 178 276 381
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.29% 0.65% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.70% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 124 195 304
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,625
Median % change year-on-year - -1.03% -13.39%
75th Percentile £77,500 £93,139 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -11.11%

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 48,558 39,642 58,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 78.92% 93.04% 88.20%
Number of salaries quoted 29,771 20,090 46,517
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,075 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,001 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 +20 80 £77,500 -13.89% 27
Midlands 0 40 £55,000 -8.33% 10
North of England -45 26 £56,000 +1.82% 24
East Midlands -11 22 £55,000 -8.33% 2
North West -13 19 £52,500 -4.55% 15
South West -14 19 £60,000 +9.09% 6
West Midlands +1 18 £55,100 -2.04% 8
South East -37 5 £50,000 -9.09% 19
Yorkshire -52 5 £65,000 - 6
East of England -8 3 £90,000 +100.00% 7
North East -10 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 12 (6.74%) Appian
2 8 (4.49%) Apache
2 8 (4.49%) CMS
3 5 (2.81%) Anypoint
3 5 (2.81%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.25%) Moodle
4 4 (2.25%) nginx
5 3 (1.69%) NServiceBus
6 2 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.12%) Confluence
6 2 (1.12%) Headless CMS
6 2 (1.12%) JBoss
6 2 (1.12%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (2.25%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.12%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.56%) Magento
4 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 76 (42.70%) Azure
2 71 (39.89%) AWS
3 30 (16.85%) GCP
4 26 (14.61%) Serverless
5 20 (11.24%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (10.67%) GitHub
6 19 (10.67%) Power Automate
7 15 (8.43%) Amazon S3
7 15 (8.43%) Anthropic Claude
8 14 (7.87%) Azure AI
8 14 (7.87%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (6.18%) Power Platform
10 10 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (5.62%) OpenShift
11 8 (4.49%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (3.93%) Figma
12 7 (3.93%) PowerApps
13 6 (3.37%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (3.37%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (2.81%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.81%) AMQP
2 2 (1.12%) SSL
3 1 (0.56%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (19.10%) SQL Server
2 21 (11.80%) NoSQL
3 16 (8.99%) MySQL
4 12 (6.74%) Amazon Redshift
4 12 (6.74%) Pinecone
5 11 (6.18%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (5.06%) Relational Database
7 6 (3.37%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.81%) Big Data
8 5 (2.81%) Cloudera CDH
8 5 (2.81%) Hadoop
9 4 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.25%) Power BI
10 2 (1.12%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.12%) DB2
10 2 (1.12%) Qlik Sense
10 2 (1.12%) Tableau
11 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.56%) Looker
11 1 (0.56%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 28 (15.73%) Git
2 17 (9.55%) Jenkins
3 13 (7.30%) MLflow
4 7 (3.93%) Cucumber
4 7 (3.93%) Selenium
4 7 (3.93%) Storybook
5 6 (3.37%) GitLab
6 5 (2.81%) JUnit
7 4 (2.25%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.25%) Visual Studio
7 4 (2.25%) webpack
8 3 (1.69%) ESLint
8 3 (1.69%) JIRA
8 3 (1.69%) Postman
9 2 (1.12%) Subversion
9 2 (1.12%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.12%) Vite
10 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.56%) PHPUnit
General
1 58 (32.58%) Social Skills
2 39 (21.91%) Finance
3 25 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.18%) Law
4 11 (6.18%) Retail
5 9 (5.06%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.81%) Legal
7 4 (2.25%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.25%) Front Office
7 4 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.25%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.69%) Banking
8 3 (1.69%) Games
8 3 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.69%) Marketing
8 3 (1.69%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.12%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 94 (52.81%) Developer
2 47 (26.40%) Full-Stack Developer
3 39 (21.91%) Senior
4 26 (14.61%) Senior Developer
5 25 (14.04%) Lead
6 23 (12.92%) Software Engineer
7 18 (10.11%) .NET Developer
8 17 (9.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 14 (7.87%) Architect
10 12 (6.74%) Automation Engineer
10 12 (6.74%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (6.18%) Software Developer
12 10 (5.62%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 10 (5.62%) Web Developer
13 9 (5.06%) Lead Developer
14 8 (4.49%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
15 6 (3.37%) Cloud Developer
15 6 (3.37%) Full-Stack Web Developer
15 6 (3.37%) Senior Software Engineer
15 6 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (33.15%) React
2 45 (25.28%) .NET
3 44 (24.72%) Node.js
4 42 (23.60%) CSS
5 40 (22.47%) RESTful
6 39 (21.91%) HTML
6 39 (21.91%) REST
7 27 (15.17%) AngularJS
8 25 (14.04%) Swagger
9 24 (13.48%) OpenAPI
10 23 (12.92%) OAuth
11 20 (11.24%) Spring
12 19 (10.67%) ASP.NET
12 19 (10.67%) Django
12 19 (10.67%) Flask
13 18 (10.11%) .NET Core
14 17 (9.55%) pytest
15 16 (8.99%) FastAPI
15 16 (8.99%) JWT
15 16 (8.99%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.61%) Cloud Native
1 26 (14.61%) Legacy Systems
2 18 (10.11%) Low-Code
3 8 (4.49%) Mobile App
4 6 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.81%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.81%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.81%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.25%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.69%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.69%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.62%) Linux
2 5 (2.81%) CentOS
2 5 (2.81%) Debian
2 5 (2.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.81%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (39.89%) Agile
2 70 (39.33%) CI/CD
3 55 (30.90%) Full-Stack Development
4 53 (29.78%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (26.40%) Containerisation
6 45 (25.28%) Microservices
7 43 (24.16%) AI
8 39 (21.91%) Software Engineering
9 38 (21.35%) DevOps
10 37 (20.79%) API Integration
10 37 (20.79%) Mentoring
11 33 (18.54%) Test Automation
12 28 (15.73%) Data Pipeline
13 26 (14.61%) Machine Learning
14 24 (13.48%) Infrastructure as Code
14 24 (13.48%) Stakeholder Management
15 23 (12.92%) ETL
16 22 (12.36%) Computer Science
16 22 (12.36%) Continuous Improvement
17 21 (11.80%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 70 (39.33%) JavaScript
2 67 (37.64%) Python
2 67 (37.64%) SQL
3 47 (26.40%) C#
4 35 (19.66%) Java
5 32 (17.98%) TypeScript
6 18 (10.11%) PHP
7 5 (2.81%) Bicep
7 5 (2.81%) Delphi
8 4 (2.25%) DataWeave
9 2 (1.12%) Bash
9 2 (1.12%) C++
9 2 (1.12%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.12%) RPG
9 2 (1.12%) Rust
10 1 (0.56%) Go
10 1 (0.56%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.56%) R
10 1 (0.56%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 28 (15.73%) Degree
2 19 (10.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (7.30%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.62%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.37%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.25%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.30%) Accessibility
1 13 (7.30%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.37%) QA
3 2 (1.12%) GRC
4 1 (0.56%) GDPR
4 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 62 (34.83%) Docker
2 4 (2.25%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.56%) Squid
Systems Management
1 48 (26.97%) Kubernetes
2 23 (12.92%) Terraform
3 5 (2.81%) Ansible
3 5 (2.81%) Grafana
3 5 (2.81%) Puppet
4 3 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.12%) Nagios
6 1 (0.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 21 (11.80%) Google
2 19 (10.67%) Microsoft
3 18 (10.11%) OpenAI
4 13 (7.30%) UiPath
5 12 (6.74%) Automation Anywhere
6 11 (6.18%) Oracle
7 9 (5.06%) Atlassian
8 7 (3.93%) Red Hat
9 6 (3.37%) MuleSoft
10 5 (2.81%) Salesforce
10 5 (2.81%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.69%) iManage
11 3 (1.69%) New Relic
11 3 (1.69%) SAP
11 3 (1.69%) Zoho
12 2 (1.12%) IBM
12 2 (1.12%) Ping Identity
12 2 (1.12%) Splunk
12 2 (1.12%) Trapeze
13 1 (0.56%) Adobe