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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 376 503
Rank change year-on-year -125 +127 +5
Permanent jobs citing API Development 204 279 391
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.70% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.76% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 135 224 294
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -18.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £75,750
90th Percentile £94,000 £110,000 £92,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -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 61,488 36,863 78,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.28% 92.45% 81.75%
Number of salaries quoted 43,312 20,255 56,794
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,939 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -44 82 £78,750 -1.56% 35
North of England -53 41 £60,000 -11.11% 15
Midlands 0 32 £55,000 +4.76% 6
North West -8 27 £70,000 +7.69% 10
South East -36 23 £68,750 +37.50% 17
South West -65 18 £58,750 - 7
West Midlands -19 16 £50,000 -4.76%
East Midlands - 16 £55,000 - 6
North East -36 12 £47,000 -10.48% 1
East of England -37 8 £45,000 -46.27% 3
Yorkshire -59 2 £50,000 -28.57% 4
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 (5.39%) CMS
2 7 (3.43%) Apache
3 6 (2.94%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.94%) Appian
4 5 (2.45%) IIS
4 5 (2.45%) nginx
5 3 (1.47%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.98%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.98%) Moodle
6 2 (0.98%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.98%) WordPress
7 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.49%) Confluence
7 1 (0.49%) JBoss
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.96%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.49%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 87 (42.65%) Azure
2 66 (32.35%) AWS
3 32 (15.69%) Serverless
4 31 (15.20%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (14.22%) GCP
6 23 (11.27%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (6.86%) Amazon S3
8 13 (6.37%) GitHub
8 13 (6.37%) LangSmith
9 11 (5.39%) Firebase
10 10 (4.90%) Anthropic Claude
11 9 (4.41%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (4.41%) Power Automate
12 8 (3.92%) Apigee
12 8 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (3.92%) Power Platform
12 8 (3.92%) SaaS
13 7 (3.43%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (3.43%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.45%) AMQP
2 4 (1.96%) Broadband
3 3 (1.47%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.98%) DNS
4 2 (0.98%) HTTP
5 1 (0.49%) LTE
5 1 (0.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (17.16%) SQL Server
2 30 (14.71%) MySQL
3 17 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 14 (6.86%) NoSQL
5 12 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (3.43%) Pinecone
8 6 (2.94%) Big Data
8 6 (2.94%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.45%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (2.45%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.96%) Power BI
11 3 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.98%) Qlik Sense
12 2 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.49%) Geospatial Data
13 1 (0.49%) Metadata
13 1 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
13 1 (0.49%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 33 (16.18%) Git
2 24 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.39%) fastlane
4 8 (3.92%) Postman
5 6 (2.94%) MLflow
5 6 (2.94%) Xcode
6 5 (2.45%) Android Studio
6 5 (2.45%) Crashlytics
6 5 (2.45%) Gradle
7 4 (1.96%) GitLab
7 4 (1.96%) JUnit
7 4 (1.96%) Mockito
7 4 (1.96%) SpecFlow
7 4 (1.96%) Storybook
7 4 (1.96%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.47%) JIRA
9 2 (0.98%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.98%) ESLint
9 2 (0.98%) JMeter
10 1 (0.49%) Vite
General
1 38 (18.63%) Finance
2 37 (18.14%) Social Skills
3 20 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (8.82%) Public Sector
6 15 (7.35%) Banking
7 12 (5.88%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.43%) Retail
9 6 (2.94%) Front Office
9 6 (2.94%) Law
10 4 (1.96%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.96%) Legal
11 3 (1.47%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.47%) Marketing
11 3 (1.47%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.49%) Advertising
13 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 115 (56.37%) Developer
2 46 (22.55%) Senior
3 36 (17.65%) Full-Stack Developer
4 32 (15.69%) Lead
5 31 (15.20%) Senior Developer
6 30 (14.71%) Software Developer
7 24 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 22 (10.78%) Software Engineer
9 20 (9.80%) .NET Developer
10 18 (8.82%) C# Developer
11 15 (7.35%) Senior Software Developer
12 13 (6.37%) C# Software Developer
12 13 (6.37%) Senior C# Developer
12 13 (6.37%) Senior C# Software Developer
13 12 (5.88%) Lead Developer
14 9 (4.41%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 8 (3.92%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 7 (3.43%) Automation Engineer
16 7 (3.43%) Lead Software Engineer
17 6 (2.94%) Angular Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (28.92%) .NET
2 47 (23.04%) React
2 47 (23.04%) REST
3 43 (21.08%) Node.js
3 43 (21.08%) RESTful
4 40 (19.61%) HTML
5 39 (19.12%) CSS
6 31 (15.20%) AngularJS
7 22 (10.78%) Swagger
8 21 (10.29%) .NET Core
8 21 (10.29%) ASP.NET
8 21 (10.29%) OAuth
8 21 (10.29%) OpenAPI
9 18 (8.82%) LlamaIndex
9 18 (8.82%) Model Context Protocol
10 17 (8.33%) JWT
10 17 (8.33%) LangChain
10 17 (8.33%) Vue
11 16 (7.84%) .NET Framework
12 15 (7.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 50 (24.51%) Cloud Native
2 23 (11.27%) Mobile App
3 16 (7.84%) Product Ownership
4 15 (7.35%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (6.37%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (5.88%) AI Agents
7 10 (4.90%) e-Learning
8 8 (3.92%) Low-Code
9 6 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (2.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.47%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.98%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.98%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
13 1 (0.49%) Hybrid Cloud
13 1 (0.49%) IoT
13 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.84%) Linux
2 7 (3.43%) Android
3 6 (2.94%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.45%) CentOS
4 5 (2.45%) Debian
4 5 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.45%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.96%) Windows
6 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (47.55%) Agile
2 88 (43.14%) CI/CD
3 70 (34.31%) Full-Stack Development
4 65 (31.86%) DevOps
5 62 (30.39%) AI
5 62 (30.39%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (24.02%) Software Engineering
7 44 (21.57%) Mentoring
7 44 (21.57%) Test Automation
8 41 (20.10%) Containerisation
9 40 (19.61%) API Integration
10 38 (18.63%) Microservices
11 35 (17.16%) Clean Code
11 35 (17.16%) LLM
12 33 (16.18%) Computer Science
13 31 (15.20%) TDD
14 29 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
15 28 (13.73%) Scrum
16 27 (13.24%) Machine Learning
17 24 (11.76%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 76 (37.25%) C#
2 75 (36.76%) Python
3 57 (27.94%) JavaScript
4 56 (27.45%) SQL
5 33 (16.18%) TypeScript
6 26 (12.75%) Java
7 18 (8.82%) PHP
8 6 (2.94%) Swift
9 5 (2.45%) Bicep
9 5 (2.45%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.96%) Bash
10 4 (1.96%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.47%) C++
12 2 (0.98%) DataWeave
12 2 (0.98%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.98%) Rust
12 2 (0.98%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.98%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.49%) Ruby
13 1 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (17.65%) Degree
2 23 (11.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (5.39%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.39%) Security Cleared
4 7 (3.43%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.96%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.98%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.31%) Accessibility
2 12 (5.88%) WCAG
3 10 (4.90%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.45%) QA
5 2 (0.98%) GRC
6 1 (0.49%) GDPR
6 1 (0.49%) NCSC
6 1 (0.49%) NIST
6 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 61 (29.90%) Docker
2 4 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 46 (22.55%) Kubernetes
2 26 (12.75%) Terraform
3 5 (2.45%) Ansible
3 5 (2.45%) Puppet
3 5 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.98%) Kibana
5 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.49%) Nagios
Vendors
1 26 (12.75%) Google
2 19 (9.31%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.37%) Dynatrace
4 12 (5.88%) OpenAI
5 6 (2.94%) Apple
5 6 (2.94%) Automation Anywhere
5 6 (2.94%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.94%) Splunk
5 6 (2.94%) UiPath
6 5 (2.45%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.96%) Oracle
8 2 (0.98%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.98%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.98%) Pega
8 2 (0.98%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.98%) Trapeze
8 2 (0.98%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.49%) Databricks
9 1 (0.49%) New Relic
9 1 (0.49%) SAP