API Development Job Trends in Leicester

API Development
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring API Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 31 43
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 -
Permanent jobs citing API Development 1 4 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 0.31% 1.89% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 2.00% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,400 £96,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £97,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -43.38% +95.00% -
75th Percentile £58,000 £98,750 £55,625
90th Percentile - - £56,000
Leicestershire median annual salary £55,200 £97,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -43.38% +95.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 262 200 231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 81.37% 94.34% 91.67%
Number of salaries quoted 190 113 186
10th Percentile £27,800 £28,800 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,750 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £84,500 £67,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +7.82%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing API Development relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Leicester.

API Development job vacancy trend in Leicester

API Development
Salary Trend in Leicester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing API Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing API Development

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Software Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Delphi
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle