API Development Job Trends in Leicestershire

API Development
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicestershire 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 53 54 56
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 -
Permanent jobs citing API Development 1 4 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicestershire 0.18% 0.86% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.93% 0.83%
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
East Midlands median annual salary £58,000 £97,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -40.51% +95.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 445 431 362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 79.04% 92.49% 92.11%
Number of salaries quoted 304 187 242
10th Percentile £24,075 £27,300 £26,300
25th Percentile £33,500 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +7.82%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,200 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% -6.86% -2.86%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

API Development job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

API Development
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing API Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing API Development

API Development
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Development within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
Leicester -3 1 £55,200 -43.38% 1
API Development
East Midlands

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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