API Development Jobs in the North West

API Development
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 254 245 271
Rank change year-on-year -9 +26 -28
Permanent jobs citing API Development 35 46 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.44% 0.47% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.56% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 33 31 20
10th Percentile £48,688 £46,250 £50,875
25th Percentile £52,500 £49,000 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year - -17.20% +19.74%
75th Percentile £77,500 £66,250 £75,679
90th Percentile £106,500 £67,500 £78,443
England median annual salary £65,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +9.17% -14.29% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,669 8,165 7,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.77% 82.81% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4,125 6,197 3,919
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,500 £30,831
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing API Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for API Development in the North West

API Development
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing API Development in the North West.

Salary trend for API Development in the North West

API Development
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Development in the North West over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for API Development in the North West

API Development
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Development within the North West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Manchester +53 21 £72,500 +40.10% 35
Merseyside - 7 £57,500 -
Lancashire - 6 £50,890 - 8
Cheshire -10 1 - - 1
API Development
England

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (2.86%) CMS
1 1 (2.86%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 15 (42.86%) Azure
2 11 (31.43%) AWS
3 4 (11.43%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (11.43%) Serverless
4 3 (8.57%) Cloud Composer
4 3 (8.57%) GCP
5 2 (5.71%) AWS IoT
5 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Stack
6 1 (2.86%) ChatGPT
6 1 (2.86%) Contentful
6 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.86%) npm
6 1 (2.86%) NuGet
6 1 (2.86%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.86%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) SQL Server
2 4 (11.43%) NoSQL
3 3 (8.57%) BigQuery
4 2 (5.71%) MySQL
4 2 (5.71%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (22.86%) Babel
1 8 (22.86%) webpack
2 2 (5.71%) Git
General
1 7 (20.00%) Finance
2 4 (11.43%) Banking
3 2 (5.71%) Law
3 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
3 2 (5.71%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Legal
4 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (57.14%) Developer
2 10 (28.57%) Senior
3 9 (25.71%) Software Engineer
4 8 (22.86%) Lead
4 8 (22.86%) React Developer
5 6 (17.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 6 (17.14%) Lead Software Engineer
5 6 (17.14%) Senior Developer
6 5 (14.29%) HTML CSS Developer
6 5 (14.29%) HTML Developer
6 5 (14.29%) JavaScript Developer
7 4 (11.43%) .NET Developer
7 4 (11.43%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (11.43%) AWS Software Engineer
8 3 (8.57%) JavaScript Engineer
9 2 (5.71%) Senior Software Engineer
10 1 (2.86%) Graduate
10 1 (2.86%) Principal Software Engineer
10 1 (2.86%) Senior .NET Developer
10 1 (2.86%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (62.86%) .NET
2 15 (42.86%) React
3 10 (28.57%) RESTful
4 9 (25.71%) CSS
4 9 (25.71%) REST
5 8 (22.86%) .NET Core
5 8 (22.86%) HTML
5 8 (22.86%) HTML5
6 7 (20.00%) Node.js
7 6 (17.14%) AngularJS
7 6 (17.14%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 5 (14.29%) WinForms
9 4 (11.43%) GraphQL
10 3 (8.57%) ASP.NET Web API
11 2 (5.71%) .NET Framework
11 2 (5.71%) ASP.NET
11 2 (5.71%) NestJS
12 1 (2.86%) DOM
12 1 (2.86%) JSON
12 1 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (14.29%) Mobile App
3 3 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (8.57%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.71%) IoT
4 2 (5.71%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.86%) Hackathon
5 1 (2.86%) Learning Management System
5 1 (2.86%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (65.71%) Agile
2 17 (48.57%) CI/CD
3 16 (45.71%) DevOps
4 15 (42.86%) Software Engineering
5 11 (31.43%) Containerisation
6 9 (25.71%) Front End Development
7 8 (22.86%) Code Quality
8 6 (17.14%) Mentoring
9 5 (14.29%) B2B
9 5 (14.29%) Coaching
9 5 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (14.29%) E-Commerce
9 5 (14.29%) High Availability
9 5 (14.29%) Line Management
9 5 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
9 5 (14.29%) Software Architecture
10 4 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (11.43%) Software Testing
10 4 (11.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 12 (34.29%) TypeScript
3 11 (31.43%) C#
4 6 (17.14%) Python
5 5 (14.29%) Java
6 4 (11.43%) SQL
7 3 (8.57%) Go
8 2 (5.71%) PHP
9 1 (2.86%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) Degree
2 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.86%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.57%) Terraform
3 1 (2.86%) Grafana
3 1 (2.86%) Kibana
3 1 (2.86%) logstash
Vendors
1 11 (31.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) Google
3 1 (2.86%) Databricks
3 1 (2.86%) IBM
3 1 (2.86%) Optimizely