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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 196 264
Rank change year-on-year +22 +68 -15
Permanent jobs citing API Development 26 54 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.58% 0.75% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.90% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 25 38 8
10th Percentile £47,500 - £35,875
25th Percentile £51,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% -11.36%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,125 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £69,875 £85,000
England median annual salary £63,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.83% -14.29% +7.69%

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 4,072 6,020 6,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.16% 83.15% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,682 4,530 3,268
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
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 1 May 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 1 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
Birmingham +26 9 £63,500 +1.60% 1
Warwickshire -28 9 £52,500 +61.54% 2
Coventry -3 3 £60,000 +2.56% 3
Wolverhampton +16 1 £85,000 +61.90%
Staffordshire - 1 £77,500 - 1
Wednesbury - 1 £45,000 -
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 4 (15.38%) CMS
1 4 (15.38%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.85%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 12 (46.15%) Azure
2 8 (30.77%) AWS
3 3 (11.54%) Contentful
3 3 (11.54%) Figma
3 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
3 3 (11.54%) Serverless
4 2 (7.69%) GCP
4 2 (7.69%) SaaS
5 1 (3.85%) Algolia
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.85%) Boomi
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.85%) Datadog
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub
5 1 (3.85%) npm
5 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.85%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) HTTPS
1 1 (3.85%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) NoSQL
2 3 (11.54%) Data Mining
2 3 (11.54%) Power BI
3 2 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (38.46%) Git
2 2 (7.69%) Mocha
2 2 (7.69%) Storybook
3 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (3.85%) Vite
General
1 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Finance
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Automotive
3 2 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) French Language
4 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (53.85%) Developer
2 8 (30.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 7 (26.92%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 5 (19.23%) Applications Developer
4 5 (19.23%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (19.23%) Senior
5 4 (15.38%) Software Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (11.54%) Senior Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) UI Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Architect
7 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Integration Architect
7 2 (7.69%) JavaScript Developer
7 2 (7.69%) React Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.85%) Senior .NET Developer
8 1 (3.85%) Senior Software Developer
8 1 (3.85%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (53.85%) .NET
2 13 (50.00%) AngularJS
3 9 (34.62%) .NET Core
3 9 (34.62%) React
4 8 (30.77%) Kendo UI
5 7 (26.92%) .NET Framework
5 7 (26.92%) CSS
5 7 (26.92%) Entity Framework
5 7 (26.92%) HTML
5 7 (26.92%) NgRx
5 7 (26.92%) RxJS
6 6 (23.08%) RESTful
7 5 (19.23%) Node.js
7 5 (19.23%) REST
8 4 (15.38%) Vue
9 3 (11.54%) GraphQL
9 3 (11.54%) React Native
10 2 (7.69%) Express.js
10 2 (7.69%) hapi
10 2 (7.69%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Cloud Native
2 4 (15.38%) Low-Code
3 3 (11.54%) Mobile App
4 2 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (7.69%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Android
2 1 (3.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 12 (46.15%) Software Engineering
3 10 (38.46%) Agile
4 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
4 9 (34.62%) DevOps
5 8 (30.77%) Microservices
5 8 (30.77%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (19.23%) API Integration
6 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (19.23%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (11.54%) Continuous Delivery
8 3 (11.54%) Data Analysis
8 3 (11.54%) Data Visualisation
8 3 (11.54%) Front End Development
8 3 (11.54%) Sprint Planning
8 3 (11.54%) Sprint Retrospective
8 3 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (11.54%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 18 (69.23%) SQL
2 13 (50.00%) C#
3 9 (34.62%) JavaScript
4 6 (23.08%) TypeScript
5 2 (7.69%) Python
6 1 (3.85%) Java
6 1 (3.85%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.85%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Grafana
2 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Telerik
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle
3 2 (7.69%) Google
3 2 (7.69%) IBM
4 1 (3.85%) Databricks
4 1 (3.85%) MuleSoft