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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 388 499
Rank change year-on-year -138 +111 -11
Permanent jobs citing API Development 216 308 440
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.68% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.73% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 144 249 328
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,125
25th Percentile £48,563 £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 £91,000 £107,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% -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 69,907 41,954 86,795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.40% 92.11% 82.23%
Number of salaries quoted 48,219 22,640 61,471
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £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 £53,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.00% - -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 27 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 27 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 -136 202 £60,000 -14.29% 77
UK excluding London -106 127 £55,000 -12.00% 54
London -57 80 £80,000 +3.23% 33
Work from Home -79 53 £54,000 -1.82% 29
North of England -51 42 £60,625 -10.19% 17
Midlands -14 30 £55,000 +4.76% 5
North West -10 27 £70,000 +14.29% 9
South East -39 23 £68,750 +37.50% 13
South West -60 18 £58,750 - 13
West Midlands -14 15 £50,000 -4.76% 2
East Midlands - 15 £55,000 - 3
North East -29 13 £47,000 -10.48% 1
East of England -39 8 £45,000 -46.27% 4
Scotland +15 4 £62,500 +12.11% 2
Yorkshire -58 2 £50,000 -28.57% 7
Wales -62 2 £52,500 -25.00%

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 (5.09%) CMS
2 8 (3.70%) Apache
3 6 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.78%) IIS
4 5 (2.31%) Appian
4 5 (2.31%) nginx
5 3 (1.39%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.93%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.93%) Confluence
6 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.93%) Moodle
6 2 (0.93%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.93%) 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 (1.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) 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 (44.44%) Azure
2 75 (34.72%) AWS
3 36 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (14.81%) Serverless
5 31 (14.35%) GCP
6 22 (10.19%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (7.87%) GitHub
8 14 (6.48%) Amazon S3
8 14 (6.48%) LangSmith
9 13 (6.02%) Firebase
10 10 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (4.17%) Anthropic Claude
11 9 (4.17%) Power Platform
12 8 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (3.70%) Power Automate
12 8 (3.70%) SaaS
13 7 (3.24%) Apigee
13 7 (3.24%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.31%) AMQP
2 4 (1.85%) Broadband
3 3 (1.39%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.93%) DNS
4 2 (0.93%) HTTP
5 1 (0.46%) LTE
5 1 (0.46%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (15.74%) SQL Server
2 33 (15.28%) MySQL
3 17 (7.87%) Relational Database
4 16 (7.41%) NoSQL
5 14 (6.48%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (4.63%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (4.17%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.78%) Big Data
8 6 (2.78%) Pinecone
9 5 (2.31%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (2.31%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.85%) Power BI
11 3 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.93%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.93%) Qlik Sense
13 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.46%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 37 (17.13%) Git
2 28 (12.96%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.02%) fastlane
4 8 (3.70%) Postman
5 7 (3.24%) Xcode
6 6 (2.78%) Android Studio
6 6 (2.78%) Crashlytics
6 6 (2.78%) Gradle
6 6 (2.78%) MLflow
7 5 (2.31%) GitLab
7 5 (2.31%) JIRA
8 4 (1.85%) JUnit
8 4 (1.85%) Mockito
8 4 (1.85%) SpecFlow
9 3 (1.39%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.39%) Storybook
9 3 (1.39%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.93%) JMeter
11 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.46%) Subversion
General
1 43 (19.91%) Finance
2 38 (17.59%) Social Skills
3 23 (10.65%) Public Sector
4 22 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (9.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (6.94%) Banking
7 13 (6.02%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.70%) Retail
9 6 (2.78%) Front Office
9 6 (2.78%) Law
10 4 (1.85%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.85%) Legal
11 3 (1.39%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.39%) Marketing
12 2 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.93%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.46%) Advertising
13 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 127 (58.80%) Developer
2 53 (24.54%) Senior
3 37 (17.13%) Senior Developer
4 34 (15.74%) Software Developer
5 33 (15.28%) Full-Stack Developer
6 31 (14.35%) Lead
7 24 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 23 (10.65%) Software Engineer
9 20 (9.26%) .NET Developer
10 18 (8.33%) C# Developer
11 17 (7.87%) Senior Software Developer
12 13 (6.02%) C# Software Developer
12 13 (6.02%) Senior C# Developer
12 13 (6.02%) Senior C# Software Developer
13 11 (5.09%) Java Developer
13 11 (5.09%) Lead Developer
14 9 (4.17%) Python Developer
15 8 (3.70%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 8 (3.70%) Lead Software Engineer
15 8 (3.70%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (27.31%) .NET
2 52 (24.07%) RESTful
3 48 (22.22%) REST
4 44 (20.37%) React
5 41 (18.98%) HTML
5 41 (18.98%) Node.js
6 39 (18.06%) CSS
7 31 (14.35%) AngularJS
8 23 (10.65%) ASP.NET
9 21 (9.72%) .NET Core
9 21 (9.72%) OAuth
10 20 (9.26%) OpenAPI
10 20 (9.26%) Spring
10 20 (9.26%) Swagger
11 19 (8.80%) LlamaIndex
11 19 (8.80%) Model Context Protocol
12 18 (8.33%) .NET Framework
12 18 (8.33%) LangChain
13 17 (7.87%) JWT
13 17 (7.87%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 55 (25.46%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.11%) Mobile App
3 18 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 17 (7.87%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (6.48%) AI Agents
6 13 (6.02%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (5.09%) e-Learning
8 9 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (4.17%) Low-Code
9 5 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.39%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.39%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.93%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.46%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.46%) IoT
12 1 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.41%) Linux
2 8 (3.70%) Android
3 7 (3.24%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.31%) CentOS
4 5 (2.31%) Debian
4 5 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.31%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.31%) Windows
5 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (49.07%) Agile
2 97 (44.91%) CI/CD
3 74 (34.26%) DevOps
4 72 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 64 (29.63%) AI
5 64 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (26.39%) Software Engineering
7 49 (22.69%) Containerisation
8 48 (22.22%) Test Automation
9 46 (21.30%) API Integration
10 45 (20.83%) Microservices
11 44 (20.37%) Mentoring
12 41 (18.98%) Clean Code
13 38 (17.59%) LLM
14 35 (16.20%) Continuous Improvement
15 34 (15.74%) Scrum
16 33 (15.28%) TDD
17 32 (14.81%) Computer Science
18 28 (12.96%) Machine Learning
19 25 (11.57%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 78 (36.11%) Python
2 76 (35.19%) C#
3 58 (26.85%) JavaScript
3 58 (26.85%) SQL
4 33 (15.28%) Java
4 33 (15.28%) TypeScript
5 17 (7.87%) PHP
6 7 (3.24%) Swift
7 6 (2.78%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.31%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.85%) Bash
9 4 (1.85%) Bicep
10 3 (1.39%) C++
10 3 (1.39%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.93%) DataWeave
11 2 (0.93%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.93%) Rust
11 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.46%) VB
12 1 (0.46%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 35 (16.20%) Degree
2 21 (9.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (9.26%) Security Cleared
4 15 (6.94%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.78%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.85%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.93%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.72%) Accessibility
2 14 (6.48%) WCAG
3 9 (4.17%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.78%) QA
5 2 (0.93%) 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 67 (31.02%) Docker
2 4 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 51 (23.61%) Kubernetes
2 27 (12.50%) Terraform
3 5 (2.31%) Ansible
3 5 (2.31%) Puppet
3 5 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.93%) Grafana
4 2 (0.93%) Kibana
5 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.46%) Nagios
Vendors
1 25 (11.57%) Google
2 20 (9.26%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.94%) Dynatrace
4 11 (5.09%) OpenAI
5 7 (3.24%) Apple
6 6 (2.78%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.78%) Splunk
7 5 (2.31%) Automation Anywhere
7 5 (2.31%) Oracle
7 5 (2.31%) SaltStack
7 5 (2.31%) UiPath
8 2 (0.93%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.93%) Pega
8 2 (0.93%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.93%) Trapeze
8 2 (0.93%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.46%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.46%) Foundry
9 1 (0.46%) New Relic
9 1 (0.46%) WSO2