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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 383 503
Rank change year-on-year -153 +120 -20
Permanent jobs citing API Development 218 305 441
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.67% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.73% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 142 246 329
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,188 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £75,750
90th Percentile £92,000 £108,125 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -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 69,604 41,717 88,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 92.25% 81.84%
Number of salaries quoted 48,009 22,461 62,520
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,800 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 24 June 2026.

Salary histogram for API Development in the UK

API Development
Top 16 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 24 June 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 -126 204 £60,000 -14.29% 77
UK excluding London -102 126 £55,000 -15.38% 51
London -47 83 £78,750 +1.61% 39
Work from Home -69 55 £54,000 -1.82% 37
North of England -59 41 £60,000 -11.11% 17
Midlands -5 30 £55,000 +4.76% 3
North West -13 27 £70,000 +5.66% 10
South East -34 23 £68,750 +37.50% 12
South West -69 18 £58,750 - 9
West Midlands -9 16 £50,000 -4.76%
East Midlands - 14 £55,000 - 3
North East -31 12 £47,000 -10.48% 1
East of England -42 8 £45,000 -46.27% 4
Scotland +12 4 £62,500 +12.11% 3
Wales -59 2 £52,500 -25.00% 1
Yorkshire -66 2 £50,000 -28.57% 6

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 11 (5.05%) CMS
2 8 (3.67%) Apache
3 6 (2.75%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.75%) Appian
3 6 (2.75%) IIS
4 5 (2.29%) nginx
5 3 (1.38%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.92%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.92%) Confluence
6 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.92%) Moodle
6 2 (0.92%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.92%) WordPress
7 1 (0.46%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.46%) JBoss
7 1 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.46%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 96 (44.04%) Azure
2 73 (33.49%) AWS
3 35 (16.06%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (15.14%) GCP
5 32 (14.68%) Serverless
6 22 (10.09%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (7.80%) GitHub
8 14 (6.42%) LangSmith
9 13 (5.96%) Amazon S3
9 13 (5.96%) Firebase
10 10 (4.59%) Anthropic Claude
10 10 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (4.13%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (4.13%) Power Automate
11 9 (4.13%) Power Platform
12 8 (3.67%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (3.67%) Apigee
12 8 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (3.67%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (3.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.29%) AMQP
2 4 (1.83%) Broadband
3 3 (1.38%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.92%) DNS
4 2 (0.92%) HTTP
5 1 (0.46%) LTE
5 1 (0.46%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (16.06%) SQL Server
2 31 (14.22%) MySQL
3 17 (7.80%) Relational Database
4 15 (6.88%) NoSQL
5 13 (5.96%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (4.59%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (4.13%) MongoDB
8 7 (3.21%) Pinecone
9 6 (2.75%) Big Data
10 5 (2.29%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (2.29%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.83%) Power BI
12 3 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.92%) Qlik Sense
14 1 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
14 1 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
14 1 (0.46%) Metadata
14 1 (0.46%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 37 (16.97%) Git
2 28 (12.84%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.96%) fastlane
4 9 (4.13%) Postman
5 7 (3.21%) MLflow
5 7 (3.21%) Xcode
6 6 (2.75%) Android Studio
6 6 (2.75%) Crashlytics
6 6 (2.75%) Gradle
7 5 (2.29%) GitLab
7 5 (2.29%) JIRA
8 4 (1.83%) JUnit
8 4 (1.83%) Mockito
8 4 (1.83%) SpecFlow
8 4 (1.83%) Storybook
8 4 (1.83%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.38%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.92%) JMeter
11 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.46%) PHPUnit
General
1 45 (20.64%) Finance
2 38 (17.43%) Social Skills
3 23 (10.55%) Public Sector
4 21 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (9.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (6.88%) Banking
6 13 (5.96%) Financial Institution
7 8 (3.67%) Retail
8 6 (2.75%) Front Office
8 6 (2.75%) Law
9 4 (1.83%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.83%) Legal
10 3 (1.38%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.38%) Marketing
10 3 (1.38%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.46%) Advertising
12 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 126 (57.80%) Developer
2 53 (24.31%) Senior
3 37 (16.97%) Senior Developer
4 34 (15.60%) Full-Stack Developer
5 33 (15.14%) Software Developer
6 31 (14.22%) Lead
7 25 (11.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 23 (10.55%) Software Engineer
9 21 (9.63%) .NET Developer
10 18 (8.26%) C# Developer
11 17 (7.80%) Senior Software Developer
12 13 (5.96%) C# Software Developer
12 13 (5.96%) Senior C# Developer
12 13 (5.96%) Senior C# Software Developer
13 11 (5.05%) Java Developer
13 11 (5.05%) Lead Developer
14 9 (4.13%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 8 (3.67%) Python Developer
15 8 (3.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 7 (3.21%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (27.52%) .NET
2 52 (23.85%) RESTful
3 49 (22.48%) REST
4 45 (20.64%) React
5 42 (19.27%) Node.js
6 41 (18.81%) HTML
7 39 (17.89%) CSS
8 32 (14.68%) AngularJS
9 23 (10.55%) OAuth
9 23 (10.55%) Swagger
10 22 (10.09%) .NET Core
10 22 (10.09%) ASP.NET
10 22 (10.09%) OpenAPI
11 21 (9.63%) Spring
12 19 (8.72%) JWT
12 19 (8.72%) LlamaIndex
12 19 (8.72%) Model Context Protocol
13 18 (8.26%) LangChain
13 18 (8.26%) Spring Boot
14 17 (7.80%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 55 (25.23%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.01%) Mobile App
3 18 (8.26%) Product Ownership
4 16 (7.34%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (6.42%) AI Agents
5 14 (6.42%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (5.05%) e-Learning
7 9 (4.13%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (4.13%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.38%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.92%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.92%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.92%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.46%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.46%) IoT
12 1 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.34%) Linux
2 8 (3.67%) Android
3 7 (3.21%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.29%) CentOS
4 5 (2.29%) Debian
4 5 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.29%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.29%) Windows
5 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (48.62%) Agile
2 98 (44.95%) CI/CD
3 73 (33.49%) DevOps
4 72 (33.03%) Full-Stack Development
5 65 (29.82%) AI
6 63 (28.90%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (25.69%) Software Engineering
8 51 (23.39%) Containerisation
9 49 (22.48%) Test Automation
10 46 (21.10%) API Integration
10 46 (21.10%) Mentoring
10 46 (21.10%) Microservices
11 41 (18.81%) Clean Code
12 38 (17.43%) LLM
13 35 (16.06%) Continuous Improvement
14 34 (15.60%) Scrum
15 33 (15.14%) TDD
16 32 (14.68%) Computer Science
17 29 (13.30%) Machine Learning
18 26 (11.93%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 78 (35.78%) Python
2 77 (35.32%) C#
3 59 (27.06%) JavaScript
4 58 (26.61%) SQL
5 34 (15.60%) Java
5 34 (15.60%) TypeScript
6 18 (8.26%) PHP
7 7 (3.21%) Swift
8 6 (2.75%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.29%) Bicep
9 5 (2.29%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.83%) Bash
11 3 (1.38%) C++
11 3 (1.38%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.92%) DataWeave
12 2 (0.92%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.92%) Rust
12 2 (0.92%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.46%) Ruby
13 1 (0.46%) VB
Qualifications
1 35 (16.06%) Degree
2 21 (9.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (8.72%) Security Cleared
4 14 (6.42%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.21%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.83%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.92%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.09%) Accessibility
2 14 (6.42%) WCAG
3 10 (4.59%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.75%) QA
5 2 (0.92%) GRC
6 1 (0.46%) GDPR
6 1 (0.46%) NCSC
6 1 (0.46%) NIST
6 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 71 (32.57%) Docker
2 4 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 54 (24.77%) Kubernetes
2 28 (12.84%) Terraform
3 5 (2.29%) Ansible
3 5 (2.29%) Puppet
3 5 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.92%) Grafana
4 2 (0.92%) Kibana
5 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.46%) Nagios
Vendors
1 27 (12.39%) Google
2 20 (9.17%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.88%) Dynatrace
4 12 (5.50%) OpenAI
5 7 (3.21%) Apple
6 6 (2.75%) Automation Anywhere
6 6 (2.75%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.75%) Splunk
6 6 (2.75%) UiPath
7 5 (2.29%) Oracle
7 5 (2.29%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.92%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.92%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.92%) Pega
8 2 (0.92%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.92%) Trapeze
8 2 (0.92%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.46%) Databricks
9 1 (0.46%) Foundry
9 1 (0.46%) SAP