API Development Job Trends in the South West

API Development
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South 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 166 159 181
Rank change year-on-year -7 +22 +69
Permanent jobs citing API Development 11 30 37
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.22% 0.72% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.85% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 10 18 32
10th Percentile £48,625 £45,000 £46,375
25th Percentile £50,500 £45,625 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -9.43%
75th Percentile £72,813 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,000 £87,875 £80,375
England median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,639 3,549 4,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.62% 85.58% 89.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,498 1,776 3,216
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,454 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,627
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 West

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

API Development job vacancy trend in the South West

API Development
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

API Development
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for API Development in the South West

API Development
Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Bristol -3 4 £52,500 +5.00% 2
Devon - 2 £60,000 - 1
Wiltshire - 2 £77,500 -
Gloucestershire +18 1 - - 1
API Development
England

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 2 (18.18%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) Apache
2 1 (9.09%) NServiceBus
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 7 (63.64%) Azure
3 3 (27.27%) SaaS
4 2 (18.18%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (18.18%) Pulumi
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Boomi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) NoSQL
2 2 (18.18%) MySQL
3 1 (9.09%) MariaDB
3 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 3 (27.27%) JIRA
3 2 (18.18%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) C# Developer
3 2 (18.18%) C# Software Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Lead
3 2 (18.18%) Lead Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Software Developer
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Digital Product Owner
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Integration Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Product Owner
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) React
2 5 (45.45%) .NET
3 4 (36.36%) .NET Core
3 4 (36.36%) REST
4 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
5 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
5 2 (18.18%) Avalonia
5 2 (18.18%) Blazor
5 2 (18.18%) Entity Framework
5 2 (18.18%) Node.js
5 2 (18.18%) Symfony
5 2 (18.18%) Vue
5 2 (18.18%) WPF
6 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET
6 1 (9.09%) CSS
6 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
6 1 (9.09%) HTML
6 1 (9.09%) LAMP
6 1 (9.09%) Qt
6 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
1 3 (27.27%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
3 1 (9.09%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (45.45%) User Experience
3 4 (36.36%) UX Design
4 3 (27.27%) Design Patterns
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (27.27%) Microservices
4 3 (27.27%) Secure Coding
4 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (18.18%) Clean Code
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 2 (18.18%) OWASP
5 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (18.18%) Web Development
6 1 (9.09%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) JavaScript
2 7 (63.64%) SQL
3 5 (45.45%) C#
4 4 (36.36%) TypeScript
5 3 (27.27%) PHP
5 3 (27.27%) Python
6 2 (18.18%) XAML
7 1 (9.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Atlassian
1 1 (9.09%) MuleSoft
1 1 (9.09%) SnapLogic