API Development Job Trends in the West Midlands

API Development
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring API Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 198 155
Rank change year-on-year +41 -43 +116
Permanent jobs citing API Development 8 21 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.24% 0.39% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.47% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 8 12 20
10th Percentile £49,055 - -
25th Percentile £54,350 £32,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £43,250 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.73% +8.13% -27.27%
75th Percentile £76,250 £66,250 £53,750
90th Percentile - £88,750 £67,625
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -

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 2,900 4,436 3,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.27% 82.18% 93.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,854 2,067 2,518
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,884
90th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

API Development job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

API Development
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

API Development
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Development in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 6 November 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 6 November 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
Sutton Coldfield - 3 £72,500 - 1
Birmingham +23 2 £58,750 -6.00% 11
Coventry +3 1 £55,200 -38.67% 1
Herefordshire - 1 £60,000 -
Worcestershire - 1 £42,500 -
API Development
England

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (37.50%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure API Management
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (25.00%) Power Automate
3 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MSTest
1 2 (25.00%) NUnit
2 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) JUnit
2 1 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Influencing Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
1 3 (37.50%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Integration Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) .NET
1 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (25.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (25.00%) Entity Framework
2 2 (25.00%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) RESTful
2 2 (25.00%) YAML
3 1 (12.50%) Django
3 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (12.50%) Flask
3 1 (12.50%) pytest
3 1 (12.50%) Spring
3 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) API Design
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
1 5 (62.50%) Integration Patterns
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 4 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (37.50%) Business Strategy
3 3 (37.50%) Business Transformation
3 3 (37.50%) CRM
3 3 (37.50%) Data Migration
3 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) ERP
3 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 3 (37.50%) Project Delivery
3 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (37.50%) Strategic Roadmap
3 3 (37.50%) Technical Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) Bicep
2 2 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Delphi
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (37.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle