API Development Job Trends in the South East

API Development
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring API Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 258 259
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 +90
Permanent jobs citing API Development 4 43 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.038% 0.48% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.048% 0.54% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4 20 22
10th Percentile £48,250 £49,500 £49,250
25th Percentile £49,375 £53,688 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,563 £71,563
90th Percentile £74,500 £97,750 £84,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -3.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,361 7,965 7,576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.34% 88.06% 88.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,967 3,827 5,239
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,000 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +10.37% -4.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
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 South East

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

API Development job vacancy trend in the South East

API Development
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing API Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing API Development

API Development
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Development in the South East over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Salary histogram for API Development in the South East

API Development
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Development within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 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
Surrey -3 2 £57,500 -17.86% 4
Hampshire +31 1 £50,000 -9.09% 5
Buckinghamshire +5 1 £75,000 +14.50% 2
Thames Valley -1 1 £75,000 +14.50% 15
API Development
England

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (25.00%) Law
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (25.00%) Hugging Face
2 1 (25.00%) LangChain
2 1 (25.00%) NumPy
2 1 (25.00%) Pandas
2 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring MVC
2 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) AI
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (50.00%) Feature Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (50.00%) LLM
1 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 2 (50.00%) Open Source
1 2 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (25.00%) Community of Practice
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) SOLID
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) R
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Samsung