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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 538 401 516
Rank change year-on-year -137 +115 -28
Permanent jobs citing API Development 218 307 435
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.66% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.72% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 145 249 322
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £41,375
25th Percentile £48,000 £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 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,500 £107,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £61,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.16% +6.52% -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 70,838 42,616 86,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.43% 91.47% 82.17%
Number of salaries quoted 48,971 23,341 61,278
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £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% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.34% - -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 1 July 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 1 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 -110 203 £60,000 -14.29% 125
UK excluding London -122 128 £56,250 -8.16% 82
London -64 80 £80,000 +3.23% 63
Work from Home -85 53 £54,000 -1.82% 66
North of England -62 43 £60,625 -10.19% 27
North West -16 28 £70,000 +14.29% 15
Midlands -24 28 £55,000 -0.45% 7
South East -38 23 £68,750 +37.50% 12
South West -62 19 £60,000 +2.13% 16
West Midlands -28 15 £50,000 -4.76% 4
East Midlands -13 13 £55,000 -5.17% 3
North East -40 13 £47,000 -10.48% 3
East of England -36 8 £45,000 -47.06% 5
Scotland +21 5 £62,500 +12.11% 4
Yorkshire -57 2 £50,000 -28.57% 9
Wales -61 2 £52,500 -25.00% 7

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 9 (4.13%) Apache
3 7 (3.21%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.75%) IIS
5 5 (2.29%) Appian
5 5 (2.29%) nginx
6 3 (1.38%) Confluence
6 3 (1.38%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.92%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.92%) Moodle
7 2 (0.92%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.92%) WordPress
8 1 (0.46%) ColdFusion
8 1 (0.46%) JBoss
8 1 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.92%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.46%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 100 (45.87%) Azure
2 73 (33.49%) AWS
3 38 (17.43%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (14.68%) GCP
5 31 (14.22%) Serverless
6 20 (9.17%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (7.80%) GitHub
8 15 (6.88%) LangSmith
9 13 (5.96%) Firebase
10 11 (5.05%) Amazon S3
11 10 (4.59%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (4.59%) Power Platform
12 9 (4.13%) Anthropic Claude
12 9 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (3.67%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (3.67%) Power Automate
13 8 (3.67%) SaaS
14 7 (3.21%) Apigee
14 7 (3.21%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.75%) 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 33 (15.14%) MySQL
3 17 (7.80%) Relational Database
4 16 (7.34%) NoSQL
5 14 (6.42%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (4.13%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (3.21%) Big Data
9 6 (2.75%) Cloudera CDH
9 6 (2.75%) Hadoop
9 6 (2.75%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.83%) Power BI
11 3 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.92%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.92%) Qlik Sense
13 1 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
13 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 37 (16.97%) Git
2 28 (12.84%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.96%) fastlane
4 8 (3.67%) Postman
5 7 (3.21%) Xcode
6 6 (2.75%) Android Studio
6 6 (2.75%) Crashlytics
6 6 (2.75%) Gradle
6 6 (2.75%) JIRA
6 6 (2.75%) MLflow
7 5 (2.29%) GitLab
8 4 (1.83%) JUnit
8 4 (1.83%) Mockito
8 4 (1.83%) SpecFlow
9 3 (1.38%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.38%) Storybook
9 3 (1.38%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.92%) JMeter
10 2 (0.92%) MSI
11 1 (0.46%) Subversion
General
1 44 (20.18%) Finance
2 38 (17.43%) Social Skills
3 25 (11.47%) Public Sector
4 22 (10.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (6.88%) Banking
7 14 (6.42%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.67%) Retail
9 6 (2.75%) Front Office
9 6 (2.75%) Law
10 5 (2.29%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.83%) Legal
12 3 (1.38%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.38%) Marketing
13 2 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.92%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.46%) Advertising
14 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 127 (58.26%) Developer
2 54 (24.77%) Senior
3 38 (17.43%) Senior Developer
4 34 (15.60%) Software Developer
5 30 (13.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 29 (13.30%) Lead
7 25 (11.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 24 (11.01%) 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
14 9 (4.13%) Lead Developer
14 9 (4.13%) Python Developer
15 8 (3.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 8 (3.67%) Lead Software Engineer
16 7 (3.21%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (28.44%) .NET
2 52 (23.85%) RESTful
3 51 (23.39%) REST
4 42 (19.27%) React
5 40 (18.35%) HTML
6 39 (17.89%) Node.js
7 37 (16.97%) CSS
8 32 (14.68%) AngularJS
9 23 (10.55%) ASP.NET
10 22 (10.09%) .NET Core
11 21 (9.63%) OAuth
11 21 (9.63%) OpenAPI
11 21 (9.63%) Spring
11 21 (9.63%) Swagger
12 20 (9.17%) LlamaIndex
12 20 (9.17%) Model Context Protocol
13 19 (8.72%) .NET Framework
13 19 (8.72%) LangChain
14 18 (8.26%) Spring Boot
15 17 (7.80%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 57 (26.15%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.01%) Mobile App
3 18 (8.26%) Product Ownership
4 17 (7.80%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (6.88%) AI Agents
6 14 (6.42%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (5.50%) e-Learning
8 9 (4.13%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (4.13%) Low-Code
9 5 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.83%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.38%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.92%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.92%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.46%) Hybrid Cloud
13 1 (0.46%) IoT
13 1 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.80%) Linux
2 8 (3.67%) Android
3 7 (3.21%) Apple iOS
4 6 (2.75%) CentOS
4 6 (2.75%) Debian
4 6 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.75%) Ubuntu
4 6 (2.75%) Windows
5 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (50.00%) Agile
2 97 (44.50%) CI/CD
3 75 (34.40%) DevOps
4 71 (32.57%) Full-Stack Development
5 64 (29.36%) AI
6 63 (28.90%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (26.61%) Software Engineering
8 51 (23.39%) Containerisation
9 49 (22.48%) Test Automation
10 47 (21.56%) Microservices
11 46 (21.10%) API Integration
12 43 (19.72%) Mentoring
13 41 (18.81%) Clean Code
14 39 (17.89%) LLM
15 36 (16.51%) Continuous Improvement
16 35 (16.06%) Scrum
17 33 (15.14%) TDD
18 31 (14.22%) Computer Science
19 29 (13.30%) Machine Learning
20 28 (12.84%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 79 (36.24%) C#
1 79 (36.24%) Python
2 59 (27.06%) JavaScript
3 56 (25.69%) SQL
4 34 (15.60%) Java
4 34 (15.60%) TypeScript
5 17 (7.80%) PHP
6 7 (3.21%) Swift
7 6 (2.75%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.29%) Bicep
8 5 (2.29%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.83%) Bash
10 3 (1.38%) C++
10 3 (1.38%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.92%) DataWeave
11 2 (0.92%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.92%) Rust
11 2 (0.92%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.46%) Go
12 1 (0.46%) VB
Qualifications
1 34 (15.60%) Degree
2 22 (10.09%) Security Cleared
3 19 (8.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (7.80%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.75%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.29%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
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 15 (6.88%) WCAG
3 9 (4.13%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.75%) QA
5 2 (0.92%) GRC
5 2 (0.92%) NCSC
6 1 (0.46%) GDPR
6 1 (0.46%) NIST
6 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 68 (31.19%) Docker
2 4 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 53 (24.31%) Kubernetes
2 29 (13.30%) Terraform
3 6 (2.75%) Ansible
3 6 (2.75%) Puppet
4 5 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.92%) Grafana
5 2 (0.92%) Kibana
6 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.46%) Nagios
Vendors
1 26 (11.93%) Google
2 22 (10.09%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.88%) Dynatrace
4 11 (5.05%) OpenAI
5 7 (3.21%) Apple
5 7 (3.21%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.75%) SaltStack
6 6 (2.75%) Splunk
7 5 (2.29%) Automation Anywhere
7 5 (2.29%) Oracle
7 5 (2.29%) UiPath
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%) New Relic
9 1 (0.46%) WSO2