API Development Jobs in the West Midlands

API Development
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 217 243
Rank change year-on-year +44 +26 +18
Permanent jobs citing API Development 13 43 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.32% 0.49% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.62% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 13 32 10
10th Percentile £47,500 £31,250 £34,075
25th Percentile £51,250 £32,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -11.36%
75th Percentile £76,250 £60,500 £64,375
90th Percentile £77,500 £63,750 £70,375
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year +16.67% -18.64% +22.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,627 6,985 5,583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 90.22% 79.77% 96.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,647 4,820 3,161
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £78,750
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for API Development in the West Midlands

API Development
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for API Development in the West Midlands

API Development
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Development in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 21 June 2025.

Salary histogram for API Development in the West Midlands

API Development
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Development within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 June 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
Birmingham +31 7 £72,500 +16.00% 13
Warwickshire +8 3 £52,500 +61.54%
Worcestershire +20 1 £42,500 -24.78% 4
Coventry 0 1 £65,000 +11.11% 7
Staffordshire - 1 £77,500 - 8
API Development
England

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (23.08%) CMS
1 3 (23.08%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (7.69%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) AWS
3 3 (23.08%) Figma
4 2 (15.38%) Contentful
4 2 (15.38%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) Algolia
5 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.69%) npm
5 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.69%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) NoSQL
2 2 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.69%) Data Mining
3 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) Mocha
2 2 (15.38%) Storybook
3 1 (7.69%) Vite
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Automotive
2 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 3 (23.08%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (15.38%) React Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (7.69%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) .NET
2 7 (53.85%) AngularJS
2 7 (53.85%) React
3 5 (38.46%) .NET Core
4 4 (30.77%) CSS
4 4 (30.77%) HTML
4 4 (30.77%) Node.js
4 4 (30.77%) Vue
5 3 (23.08%) .NET Framework
5 3 (23.08%) Entity Framework
5 3 (23.08%) Kendo UI
5 3 (23.08%) NgRx
5 3 (23.08%) REST
5 3 (23.08%) RxJS
6 2 (15.38%) Jest
6 2 (15.38%) Material-UI
6 2 (15.38%) MERN Stack
6 2 (15.38%) NestJS
6 2 (15.38%) React Native
6 2 (15.38%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (15.38%) IoT
1 2 (15.38%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.69%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
2 7 (53.85%) DevOps
3 6 (46.15%) Agile
3 6 (46.15%) Software Engineering
4 5 (38.46%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (30.77%) Microservices
6 3 (23.08%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (23.08%) Front End Development
6 3 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (15.38%) BDD
7 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (15.38%) E-Commerce
7 2 (15.38%) OO
7 2 (15.38%) OOP
7 2 (15.38%) OWASP
7 2 (15.38%) Scrum
7 2 (15.38%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) SQL
2 6 (46.15%) C#
2 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
3 4 (30.77%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.69%) Python
4 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Telerik
2 2 (15.38%) Google
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle