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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 195 177
Rank change year-on-year +30 -18 +88
Permanent jobs citing API Development 7 23 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.21% 0.38% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.48% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 7 15 16
10th Percentile £50,250 - -
25th Percentile £56,875 £32,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £63,750 £54,063
90th Percentile £79,000 - £68,125
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +12.00%

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 2,808 4,819 3,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 86.21% 79.61% 94.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,784 2,521 2,732
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,375 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,400
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.85% +4.00%

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

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +18 4 £67,500 +8.00% 5
Coventry +10 1 £65,000 +30.00% 1
Staffordshire - 1 £77,500 - 1
Worcestershire - 1 £42,500 - 1
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 2 (28.57%) CMS
1 2 (28.57%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Serverless
3 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
4 2 (28.57%) Azure API Management
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Functions
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (28.57%) Contentful
4 2 (28.57%) Figma
4 2 (28.57%) GCP
4 2 (28.57%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
2 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (14.29%) Data Mining
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MSTest
1 2 (28.57%) NUnit
1 2 (28.57%) Storybook
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior C# .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Integration Developer
3 1 (14.29%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) REST
2 4 (57.14%) AngularJS
3 3 (42.86%) .NET
3 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET
3 3 (42.86%) CSS
3 3 (42.86%) HTML
4 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
4 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (28.57%) Entity Framework
4 2 (28.57%) Express.js
4 2 (28.57%) GraphQL
4 2 (28.57%) hapi
4 2 (28.57%) HTML5
4 2 (28.57%) MEAN Stack
4 2 (28.57%) Node.js
4 2 (28.57%) React
4 2 (28.57%) React Native
4 2 (28.57%) RESTful
4 2 (28.57%) Vue
4 2 (28.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Mobile App
3 1 (14.29%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Code Quality
2 4 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) API Design
4 2 (28.57%) API Management
4 2 (28.57%) BDD
4 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) Mobile Application Development
4 2 (28.57%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (28.57%) Sprint Retrospective
4 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) C#
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
3 2 (28.57%) Bicep
4 1 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google