API Development Jobs in England

API Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring API Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited API Development over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 416 476 520
Rank change year-on-year +60 +44 -64
Permanent jobs citing API Development 274 403 452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.56% 0.47% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.55% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 228 298 309
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £51,000 £48,750 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £86,625 £101,185
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +12.00%

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 45,797 73,583 84,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.20% 85.02% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 22,691 53,859 49,933
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £46,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing API Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for API Development in England

API Development
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing API Development in England.

Salary trend for API Development in England

API Development
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Development in England over the 6 months to 22 May 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 22 May 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 +95 110 £82,500 +6.45% 153
North of England +45 61 £65,000 +13.04% 61
North West -10 37 £60,500 +5.22% 40
South East +70 31 £50,000 -21.57% 39
East of England +44 29 £65,000 +44.44% 12
Yorkshire +69 23 £70,000 +21.74% 20
Midlands +17 21 £52,500 - 20
South West +63 20 £62,500 +8.70% 33
West Midlands +36 19 £52,500 - 9
East Midlands +21 2 £60,000 +14.29% 10
North East - 1 £52,500 - 1
API Development
UK

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (3.65%) CMS
2 8 (2.92%) Headless CMS
3 6 (2.19%) Confluence
4 3 (1.09%) OpenEdge
5 2 (0.73%) IIS
5 2 (0.73%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.36%) Apache
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.36%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (1.46%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (4.74%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.46%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.46%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.36%) Shopify
3 1 (0.36%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 117 (42.70%) Azure
2 112 (40.88%) AWS
3 50 (18.25%) Serverless
4 29 (10.58%) GitHub
5 26 (9.49%) GCP
6 24 (8.76%) Cloud Computing
7 22 (8.03%) SaaS
8 19 (6.93%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (6.93%) Power Platform
9 17 (6.20%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (5.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (5.84%) AWS Step Functions
11 15 (5.47%) Amazon EventBridge
11 15 (5.47%) Boomi
12 14 (5.11%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (5.11%) AWS CodeBuild
12 14 (5.11%) AWS CodeDeploy
12 14 (5.11%) AWS CodePipeline
13 12 (4.38%) Power Automate
14 11 (4.01%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.38%) HTTP
2 1 (0.36%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.36%) RS-232
2 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (17.15%) NoSQL
1 47 (17.15%) SQL Server
2 29 (10.58%) MongoDB
3 27 (9.85%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (6.57%) Big Data
5 16 (5.84%) Relational Database
6 15 (5.47%) MySQL
7 14 (5.11%) Power BI
8 11 (4.01%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (2.55%) Tableau
11 5 (1.82%) RDBMS
12 4 (1.46%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.46%) Data Vault
12 4 (1.46%) DynamoDB
13 3 (1.09%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.09%) Data Mining
13 3 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.09%) Metadata
14 2 (0.73%) Endeca
Development Applications
1 52 (18.98%) Git
2 25 (9.12%) JIRA
3 13 (4.74%) Visual Studio
4 11 (4.01%) GitLab
4 11 (4.01%) Jenkins
4 11 (4.01%) PowerBuilder
5 10 (3.65%) Babel
5 10 (3.65%) webpack
6 6 (2.19%) Mocha
6 6 (2.19%) Postman
6 6 (2.19%) Selenium
7 5 (1.82%) Gradle
7 5 (1.82%) Maven
7 5 (1.82%) Storybook
8 4 (1.46%) JUnit
9 3 (1.09%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.09%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.09%) Mockito
9 3 (1.09%) Moq
9 3 (1.09%) SpecFlow
General
1 70 (25.55%) Social Skills
2 69 (25.18%) Finance
3 30 (10.95%) Banking
4 26 (9.49%) Retail
5 25 (9.12%) Public Sector
6 24 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (8.03%) Law
8 15 (5.47%) Marketing
9 10 (3.65%) Legal
10 9 (3.28%) Investment Banking
11 8 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (2.55%) Electronics
12 7 (2.55%) Retail Banking
13 6 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (2.19%) Games
14 5 (1.82%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.82%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.46%) Front Office
15 4 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (1.09%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 132 (48.18%) Developer
2 68 (24.82%) Lead
3 58 (21.17%) Senior
4 38 (13.87%) .NET Developer
4 38 (13.87%) Full-Stack Developer
4 38 (13.87%) Software Engineer
5 25 (9.12%) Senior Developer
6 23 (8.39%) C# Developer
7 21 (7.66%) C# .NET Developer
8 17 (6.20%) Senior Software Engineer
8 17 (6.20%) Software Developer
9 15 (5.47%) Technical Leader
10 14 (5.11%) React Developer
11 12 (4.38%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 11 (4.01%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 11 (4.01%) Full-Stack C# Developer
12 11 (4.01%) Lead Developer
12 11 (4.01%) Lead Software Engineer
13 10 (3.65%) Architect
13 10 (3.65%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (43.80%) .NET
2 100 (36.50%) RESTful
3 88 (32.12%) React
4 61 (22.26%) REST
5 49 (17.88%) AngularJS
6 39 (14.23%) GraphQL
7 32 (11.68%) .NET Core
8 31 (11.31%) CSS
8 31 (11.31%) HTML
8 31 (11.31%) OAuth
9 30 (10.95%) Node.js
10 25 (9.12%) JWT
10 25 (9.12%) Vue
11 24 (8.76%) Kafka
12 23 (8.39%) SOAP
13 20 (7.30%) .NET Framework
14 18 (6.57%) ASP.NET
15 17 (6.20%) Entity Framework
16 16 (5.84%) HTML5
17 14 (5.11%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.68%) Cloud Native
2 31 (11.31%) Product Ownership
3 20 (7.30%) Mobile App
4 11 (4.01%) Algorithms
4 11 (4.01%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (4.01%) Reinsurance
5 10 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (3.65%) Private Cloud
6 8 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.92%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.19%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.82%) Mobile Games
9 4 (1.46%) IoT
10 3 (1.09%) Wiki
11 2 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.73%) Equities
11 2 (0.73%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.73%) Robotics
11 2 (0.73%) Semantic Web
11 2 (0.73%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.01%) Apple iOS
2 8 (2.92%) Windows
3 7 (2.55%) Android
4 3 (1.09%) Linux
5 1 (0.36%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (50.73%) CI/CD
2 128 (46.72%) DevOps
3 105 (38.32%) Agile
4 91 (33.21%) Microservices
5 87 (31.75%) Software Engineering
6 72 (26.28%) Containerisation
7 69 (25.18%) Problem-Solving
8 61 (22.26%) Full-Stack Development
9 51 (18.61%) API Integration
10 50 (18.25%) Mentoring
11 38 (13.87%) Coaching
12 37 (13.50%) API Design
12 37 (13.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 37 (13.50%) E-Commerce
12 37 (13.50%) User Experience
13 34 (12.41%) Front End Development
14 33 (12.04%) Analytics
14 33 (12.04%) Roadmaps
15 30 (10.95%) Computer Science
16 28 (10.22%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 127 (46.35%) C#
2 86 (31.39%) Java
3 85 (31.02%) JavaScript
4 82 (29.93%) SQL
5 68 (24.82%) Python
6 43 (15.69%) TypeScript
7 17 (6.20%) PowerShell
8 10 (3.65%) C++
9 8 (2.92%) PHP
10 6 (2.19%) Go
11 5 (1.82%) C
11 5 (1.82%) Swift
12 4 (1.46%) Ruby
13 3 (1.09%) Apex Code
13 3 (1.09%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.09%) OpenEdge ABL
13 3 (1.09%) Progress 4GL
13 3 (1.09%) Rust
14 2 (0.73%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.73%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 34 (12.41%) Degree
2 27 (9.85%) Security Cleared
3 23 (8.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (4.38%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.92%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (2.55%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.19%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.73%) PhD
10 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.85%) QA
2 16 (5.84%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.19%) GDPR
4 3 (1.09%) WCAG
5 2 (0.73%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.73%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.36%) CDISC
6 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 66 (24.09%) Docker
2 2 (0.73%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.36%) Squid
Systems Management
1 62 (22.63%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.74%) Grafana
2 13 (4.74%) Prometheus
3 9 (3.28%) Terraform
4 5 (1.82%) Argo
5 4 (1.46%) Ansible
5 4 (1.46%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.73%) Kibana
7 1 (0.36%) logstash
Vendors
1 59 (21.53%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.03%) ServiceNow
3 20 (7.30%) Google
4 19 (6.93%) Salesforce
5 18 (6.57%) MuleSoft
6 16 (5.84%) Databricks
7 14 (5.11%) Informatica
8 9 (3.28%) Oracle
9 6 (2.19%) New Relic
9 6 (2.19%) OpenAI
9 6 (2.19%) Telerik
10 4 (1.46%) Remedy
10 4 (1.46%) Splunk
11 3 (1.09%) Progress
11 3 (1.09%) SAP
12 2 (0.73%) CyberSource
12 2 (0.73%) HubSpot
12 2 (0.73%) IBM
12 2 (0.73%) Snow
13 1 (0.36%) Rollbar