API Development Job Trends in the North West

API Development
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring API Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 170 174
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 +104
Permanent jobs citing API Development 18 35 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.28% 0.69% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.76% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 9 30 13
10th Percentile £45,750 £44,875 £38,675
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,906 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% -20.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £58,750 £63,125
90th Percentile £76,750 £69,250 £67,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% -7.41%

All Process & 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 5,173 4,612 3,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 81.20% 91.25% 87.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,546 2,263 3,047
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,114 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,084 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -0.79% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,445 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

API Development job vacancy trend in the North West

API Development
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing API Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing API Development

API Development
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Development in the North West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 14 January 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
Manchester +11 11 £54,250 +4.33% 10
Cheshire - 5 £70,000 - 1
Lancashire +9 2 £47,500 -29.63% 6
API Development
England

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (22.22%) Apache
1 4 (22.22%) Camunda
2 3 (16.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.56%) CMS
3 1 (5.56%) JBoss
3 1 (5.56%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) NetSuite
1 1 (5.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) Azure
2 8 (44.44%) AWS
3 6 (33.33%) GCP
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (16.67%) OpenShift
4 3 (16.67%) Serverless
5 2 (11.11%) GitHub
5 2 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.56%) Apigee
6 1 (5.56%) BigCommerce
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (5.56%) Datadog
6 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (5.56%) Kontent
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) AMQP
2 1 (5.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 3 (16.67%) Big Data
2 3 (16.67%) Cloudera CDH
2 3 (16.67%) Hadoop
3 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (27.78%) Bitbucket
3 4 (22.22%) GitLab
3 4 (22.22%) SonarQube
3 4 (22.22%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (16.67%) Git
5 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
5 1 (5.56%) Subversion
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Aerospace
4 2 (11.11%) Finance
4 2 (11.11%) Retail
5 1 (5.56%) Games
5 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Senior
3 4 (22.22%) .NET Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Backend Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Software Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Software Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 2 (11.11%) .NET Web Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Applications Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Cloud Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior .NET Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior .NET Web Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Web Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Web Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Java Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) React
1 7 (38.89%) REST
1 7 (38.89%) RESTful
2 5 (27.78%) .NET
2 5 (27.78%) CSS
2 5 (27.78%) HTML
3 4 (22.22%) .NET Core
3 4 (22.22%) AngularJS
3 4 (22.22%) ASP.NET
3 4 (22.22%) Node.js
3 4 (22.22%) Spring
3 4 (22.22%) Spring Boot
4 3 (16.67%) gRPC
4 3 (16.67%) Material-UI
4 3 (16.67%) OAuth
4 3 (16.67%) OpenAPI
4 3 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (16.67%) Swagger
5 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web Forms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) CentOS
1 3 (16.67%) Debian
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
1 3 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (16.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Agile
2 8 (44.44%) DevOps
3 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (27.78%) Containerisation
4 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (27.78%) Kanban
4 5 (27.78%) Microservices
5 4 (22.22%) API Integration
5 4 (22.22%) Business Strategy
5 4 (22.22%) Code Quality
5 4 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (22.22%) Decision-Making
5 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (22.22%) Migration
5 4 (22.22%) Scrum
5 4 (22.22%) Secure Coding
5 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 4 (22.22%) Strategic Thinking
5 4 (22.22%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Java
2 9 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (38.89%) Python
4 5 (27.78%) SQL
5 4 (22.22%) C#
6 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
6 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 4 (22.22%) Terraform
3 3 (16.67%) Ansible
3 3 (16.67%) Puppet
4 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (5.56%) Nagios
4 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Google
1 4 (22.22%) Red Hat
2 3 (16.67%) SaltStack
3 2 (11.11%) Atlassian
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.56%) New Relic
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.56%) Splunk