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 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 178 165
Rank change year-on-year +18 -13 +112
Permanent jobs citing API Development 15 27 54
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.27% 0.67% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.73% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 15 17 37
10th Percentile - £49,750 -
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,720 £60,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% +26.32% -5.00%
75th Percentile £64,750 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £88,500 £70,250
England median annual salary £63,500 £62,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.42% -0.80% -10.00%

All Process & 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 4,527 3,716 4,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 80.49% 92.74% 86.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,381 1,649 3,767
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year -11.29% +11.71% -11.20%

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 4 February 2026.

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 4 February 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
Birmingham +7 5 £59,720 +5.23% 4
Sutton Coldfield - 3 £72,500 -
Coventry -4 1 £55,200 -26.40%
Herefordshire - 1 £60,000 -
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 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (20.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (6.67%) Azure API Management
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Functions
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
3 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.67%) JUnit
1 1 (6.67%) MSTest
1 1 (6.67%) NUnit
1 1 (6.67%) Selenium
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
1 3 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
1 3 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Angular Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Lead
3 3 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Platform Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Software Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Integration Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Integration Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) .NET
1 6 (40.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (13.33%) Middleware
3 1 (6.67%) .NET Core
3 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
3 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (6.67%) Django
3 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (6.67%) Entity Framework
3 1 (6.67%) Flask
3 1 (6.67%) Node.js
3 1 (6.67%) pytest
3 1 (6.67%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) RESTful
3 1 (6.67%) Spring
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) ERP
2 6 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 6 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
3 5 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 4 (26.67%) API Design
4 4 (26.67%) API Management
4 4 (26.67%) Data Architecture
4 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
4 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
4 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (20.00%) Business Strategy
5 3 (20.00%) Business Transformation
5 3 (20.00%) DevOps
5 3 (20.00%) Due Diligence
5 3 (20.00%) Matrix Organization
5 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 3 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
5 3 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) C#
2 6 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (13.33%) Python
4 1 (6.67%) Bicep
4 1 (6.67%) Delphi
4 1 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (20.00%) SAP
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle