API Development Job Trends

API Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring API Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 403 518
Rank change year-on-year -108 +115 -38
Permanent jobs citing API Development 279 297 333
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.60% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.67% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 154 243 236
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,625 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,750 £109,250 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% +0.87% -4.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 74,833 44,225 71,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 89.70% 81.44%
Number of salaries quoted 51,638 25,059 48,434
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.66%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend

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

API Development job vacancy trend in the UK

API Development
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing API Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing API Development

API Development
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Development over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Salary histogram for API Development in the UK

API Development
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Development within the UK over the 6 months to 28 July 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
England -103 216 £62,500 -10.71% 74
UK excluding London -62 190 £60,000 +3.45% 61
Work from Home -52 108 £54,000 -6.09% 35
London -69 83 £77,500 -1.59% 29
Northern Ireland -23 52 - - 1
North of England -51 49 £61,875 -8.33% 13
North West -8 30 £75,000 +22.45% 9
South West -47 27 £60,000 +14.29% 17
South East -16 26 £65,000 +30.00% 13
Midlands -29 21 £55,000 -5.17% 5
North East - 17 £47,000 - 2
West Midlands -15 13 £55,000 -4.35% 3
East Midlands -17 8 £54,500 -6.03% 2
East of England -39 8 £45,000 -47.06% 7
Scotland +19 6 £66,250 +18.83% 4
Yorkshire -60 2 £50,000 -28.57% 2
Wales -70 1 - - 2

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (4.30%) Apache
2 10 (3.58%) CMS
2 10 (3.58%) nginx
3 6 (2.15%) IIS
3 6 (2.15%) JBoss
4 5 (1.79%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.43%) Confluence
6 3 (1.08%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.72%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.72%) Moodle
7 2 (0.72%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.36%) Appian
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.72%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.72%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 106 (37.99%) Azure
2 76 (27.24%) AWS
3 43 (15.41%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (10.04%) GCP
5 27 (9.68%) Serverless
6 19 (6.81%) LangSmith
7 15 (5.38%) GitHub
8 14 (5.02%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (4.66%) Firebase
10 12 (4.30%) Power Platform
11 11 (3.94%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (3.58%) Amazon S3
13 9 (3.23%) Datadog
13 9 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (2.87%) OpenShift
14 8 (2.87%) SaaS
15 7 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (2.51%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (2.51%) Azure Service Bus
16 6 (2.15%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.15%) SSL
2 4 (1.43%) AMQP
2 4 (1.43%) Broadband
3 3 (1.08%) HTTP
3 3 (1.08%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.72%) DNS
5 1 (0.36%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (13.62%) MySQL
2 35 (12.54%) SQL Server
3 21 (7.53%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (6.09%) Relational Database
5 15 (5.38%) NoSQL
6 11 (3.94%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.15%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.79%) Big Data
9 4 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.43%) Cloudera CDH
9 4 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.43%) Geospatial Data
9 4 (1.43%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.08%) Power BI
11 2 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.72%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.72%) Qlik Sense
11 2 (0.72%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 47 (16.85%) Git
2 28 (10.04%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.66%) fastlane
4 8 (2.87%) Bitbucket
4 8 (2.87%) GitLab
5 7 (2.51%) JIRA
5 7 (2.51%) Xcode
6 6 (2.15%) Android Studio
6 6 (2.15%) Crashlytics
6 6 (2.15%) Gradle
6 6 (2.15%) Postman
7 5 (1.79%) Subversion
8 4 (1.43%) JUnit
8 4 (1.43%) Mockito
8 4 (1.43%) MSI
8 4 (1.43%) SpecFlow
9 3 (1.08%) Storybook
10 2 (0.72%) CMake
10 2 (0.72%) JMeter
10 2 (0.72%) MLflow
General
1 61 (21.86%) Legal
2 41 (14.70%) Finance
3 38 (13.62%) Social Skills
4 36 (12.90%) Law
5 28 (10.04%) Legal Technology
6 27 (9.68%) Public Sector
7 25 (8.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (7.17%) Banking
9 17 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
10 16 (5.73%) Financial Institution
11 10 (3.58%) Retail
12 5 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.43%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.43%) Front Office
14 3 (1.08%) Marketing
15 2 (0.72%) Electronics
15 2 (0.72%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.72%) Retail Banking
16 1 (0.36%) Advertising
16 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 196 (70.25%) Developer
2 111 (39.78%) Senior
3 99 (35.48%) Senior Developer
4 36 (12.90%) Software Developer
5 26 (9.32%) Software Engineer
6 24 (8.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 23 (8.24%) Full-Stack Developer
8 22 (7.89%) C# Developer
8 22 (7.89%) Lead
9 21 (7.53%) .NET Developer
10 18 (6.45%) Senior Software Developer
11 17 (6.09%) Python Developer
12 15 (5.38%) C# Software Developer
12 15 (5.38%) Senior C# Developer
12 15 (5.38%) Senior C# Software Developer
13 13 (4.66%) Backend Developer
14 8 (2.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 8 (2.87%) Java Developer
14 8 (2.87%) Lead Software Engineer
15 7 (2.51%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (44.44%) .NET
2 56 (20.07%) RESTful
3 48 (17.20%) REST
4 41 (14.70%) HTML
4 41 (14.70%) React
5 38 (13.62%) CSS
6 36 (12.90%) Node.js
7 29 (10.39%) AngularJS
7 29 (10.39%) ASP.NET
8 27 (9.68%) .NET Framework
9 24 (8.60%) Model Context Protocol
10 23 (8.24%) LangChain
10 23 (8.24%) LlamaIndex
11 22 (7.89%) OAuth
12 21 (7.53%) .NET Core
13 19 (6.81%) Langfuse
14 18 (6.45%) OAuth2
15 17 (6.09%) Entity Framework
15 17 (6.09%) HTML5
16 16 (5.73%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 64 (22.94%) Cloud Native
2 28 (10.04%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (8.60%) Mobile App
4 18 (6.45%) AI Agents
4 18 (6.45%) Product Ownership
5 16 (5.73%) e-Learning
6 11 (3.94%) Onboarding
7 10 (3.58%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.87%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.79%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.79%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.79%) Social Media
11 4 (1.43%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (1.08%) Mobile Wallet
12 3 (1.08%) Operational Technology
13 2 (0.72%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.45%) Linux
2 9 (3.23%) Windows
3 8 (2.87%) Android
4 7 (2.51%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.43%) CentOS
6 4 (1.43%) Debian
6 4 (1.43%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (59.50%) Agile
2 150 (53.76%) CI/CD
3 115 (41.22%) Problem-Solving
4 101 (36.20%) Microservices
5 88 (31.54%) Software Engineering
6 87 (31.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 80 (28.67%) DevOps
8 76 (27.24%) Architectural Patterns
9 73 (26.16%) Full-Stack Development
10 72 (25.81%) AI
10 72 (25.81%) Workflow
11 67 (24.01%) Sprint Planning
12 63 (22.58%) Software Architecture
13 58 (20.79%) Enterprise Architecture
13 58 (20.79%) Software Testing
13 58 (20.79%) Sprint Retrospective
14 57 (20.43%) Acceptance Criteria
14 57 (20.43%) Data Governance
15 56 (20.07%) Information Security
15 56 (20.07%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 143 (51.25%) C#
2 84 (30.11%) Python
3 61 (21.86%) JavaScript
4 51 (18.28%) SQL
5 33 (11.83%) TypeScript
6 29 (10.39%) Java
7 12 (4.30%) PHP
8 7 (2.51%) Swift
9 6 (2.15%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.79%) Bash
10 5 (1.79%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.43%) Bicep
11 4 (1.43%) C++
12 3 (1.08%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.72%) DataWeave
13 2 (0.72%) Embedded C++
13 2 (0.72%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.72%) VB
13 2 (0.72%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (12.54%) Degree
2 24 (8.60%) Security Cleared
3 18 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.51%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.08%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.72%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (23.66%) QA
2 25 (8.96%) Accessibility
3 18 (6.45%) WCAG
4 5 (1.79%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.43%) GDPR
5 4 (1.43%) NCSC
6 3 (1.08%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.08%) PSD2
7 2 (0.72%) GRC
8 1 (0.36%) NIST
8 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 62 (22.22%) Docker
2 6 (2.15%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (15.77%) Kubernetes
2 28 (10.04%) Terraform
3 10 (3.58%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (2.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 6 (2.15%) Grafana
4 6 (2.15%) Nagios
5 5 (1.79%) Ansible
5 5 (1.79%) Puppet
6 3 (1.08%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.72%) Kibana
8 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (8.24%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.89%) Google
3 15 (5.38%) Dynatrace
4 11 (3.94%) Splunk
5 10 (3.58%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.51%) Apple
7 6 (2.15%) Atlassian
7 6 (2.15%) New Relic
7 6 (2.15%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.43%) Databricks
8 4 (1.43%) Oracle
8 4 (1.43%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.08%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.72%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.72%) Pega
10 2 (0.72%) SAP
10 2 (0.72%) Trapeze
10 2 (0.72%) Xamarin
11 1 (0.36%) Automation Anywhere
11 1 (0.36%) WSO2