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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 392 504
Rank change year-on-year -128 +112 -14
Permanent jobs citing API Development 215 307 444
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.69% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.75% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 136 248 332
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,625 £41,375
25th Percentile £47,875 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £59,250
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +18.14% -15.36%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £75,188
90th Percentile £93,750 £110,000 £94,250
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 67,552 41,143 88,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.85% 92.63% 82.27%
Number of salaries quoted 46,362 21,911 62,510
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,556
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
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 13 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 13 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 -120 203 £60,000 -14.29% 62
UK excluding London -123 123 £55,000 -15.38% 46
London -33 85 £81,250 -1.52% 31
Work from Home -78 53 £53,250 -3.18% 35
North of England -60 41 £60,625 -13.39% 11
Midlands -3 31 £55,000 -2.22% 3
North West -4 28 £70,000 +7.69% 7
South East -27 21 £68,750 +37.50% 17
South West -62 17 £58,750 - 6
West Midlands -21 16 £50,000 -4.76%
East Midlands -7 15 £55,000 -8.33% 3
North East -29 11 £47,000 -10.48% 1
East of England -37 8 £45,000 -47.06% 3
Scotland +17 3 £62,500 +12.11% 4
Wales -57 2 £52,500 -27.59% 2
Yorkshire -61 2 £50,000 -28.57% 3

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 (5.12%) CMS
2 9 (4.19%) Apache
3 7 (3.26%) Appian
4 6 (2.79%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.79%) nginx
5 4 (1.86%) IIS
6 3 (1.40%) Anypoint
6 3 (1.40%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.93%) JBoss
7 2 (0.93%) Moodle
7 2 (0.93%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.93%) WordPress
8 1 (0.47%) ColdFusion
8 1 (0.47%) Confluence
8 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.86%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.47%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 91 (42.33%) Azure
2 74 (34.42%) AWS
3 35 (16.28%) GCP
4 34 (15.81%) Serverless
5 30 (13.95%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (11.63%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (7.44%) Amazon S3
7 16 (7.44%) GitHub
8 13 (6.05%) Firebase
8 13 (6.05%) LangSmith
9 11 (5.12%) Anthropic Claude
10 10 (4.65%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (4.19%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (4.19%) Power Automate
12 8 (3.72%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (3.72%) Apigee
12 8 (3.72%) Azure AI
12 8 (3.72%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (3.72%) SaaS
13 7 (3.26%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.33%) AMQP
2 4 (1.86%) Broadband
3 3 (1.40%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.93%) DNS
4 2 (0.93%) HTTP
4 2 (0.93%) SSL
5 1 (0.47%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (15.81%) SQL Server
2 30 (13.95%) MySQL
3 17 (7.91%) Relational Database
4 16 (7.44%) NoSQL
5 12 (5.58%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (5.12%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (3.72%) Pinecone
8 6 (2.79%) Big Data
8 6 (2.79%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.33%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (2.33%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.86%) Power BI
11 3 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.93%) Qlik Sense
13 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.47%) Metadata
13 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.47%) Tableau
13 1 (0.47%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 35 (16.28%) Git
2 28 (13.02%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.05%) fastlane
4 8 (3.72%) MLflow
5 7 (3.26%) Postman
5 7 (3.26%) Xcode
6 6 (2.79%) Android Studio
6 6 (2.79%) Crashlytics
6 6 (2.79%) Gradle
6 6 (2.79%) Storybook
7 5 (2.33%) GitLab
8 4 (1.86%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.86%) JUnit
8 4 (1.86%) Mockito
8 4 (1.86%) SpecFlow
8 4 (1.86%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.40%) ESLint
9 3 (1.40%) JIRA
10 2 (0.93%) JMeter
10 2 (0.93%) Subversion
General
1 42 (19.53%) Finance
2 41 (19.07%) Social Skills
3 21 (9.77%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (9.77%) Public Sector
4 20 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (6.98%) Banking
6 12 (5.58%) Financial Institution
7 8 (3.72%) Retail
8 5 (2.33%) Front Office
9 4 (1.86%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.86%) Law
10 3 (1.40%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.40%) Marketing
10 3 (1.40%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.93%) Legal
11 2 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.47%) Advertising
12 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 123 (57.21%) Developer
2 51 (23.72%) Senior
3 38 (17.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 36 (16.74%) Senior Developer
5 33 (15.35%) Lead
6 31 (14.42%) Software Developer
7 25 (11.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 25 (11.63%) Software Engineer
8 19 (8.84%) .NET Developer
9 18 (8.37%) C# Developer
10 17 (7.91%) Senior Software Developer
11 13 (6.05%) C# Software Developer
11 13 (6.05%) Lead Developer
11 13 (6.05%) Senior C# Developer
11 13 (6.05%) Senior C# Software Developer
12 10 (4.65%) Java Developer
13 9 (4.19%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 9 (4.19%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (3.72%) Automation Engineer
14 8 (3.72%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (25.58%) .NET
2 54 (25.12%) RESTful
3 52 (24.19%) React
4 46 (21.40%) Node.js
5 45 (20.93%) REST
6 41 (19.07%) CSS
7 40 (18.60%) HTML
8 30 (13.95%) AngularJS
9 25 (11.63%) Swagger
10 24 (11.16%) OAuth
10 24 (11.16%) OpenAPI
11 20 (9.30%) Spring
12 19 (8.84%) .NET Core
12 19 (8.84%) JWT
13 18 (8.37%) ASP.NET
13 18 (8.37%) LlamaIndex
13 18 (8.37%) Model Context Protocol
13 18 (8.37%) Vue
14 17 (7.91%) LangChain
14 17 (7.91%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 54 (25.12%) Cloud Native
2 26 (12.09%) Mobile App
3 18 (8.37%) Product Ownership
4 15 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (6.98%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (6.05%) AI Agents
6 10 (4.65%) e-Learning
6 10 (4.65%) Low-Code
7 7 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.40%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.93%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.47%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.47%) IoT
11 1 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.44%) Linux
2 8 (3.72%) Android
3 7 (3.26%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.33%) CentOS
4 5 (2.33%) Debian
4 5 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.33%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.93%) Windows
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (47.91%) Agile
2 97 (45.12%) CI/CD
3 71 (33.02%) Full-Stack Development
4 69 (32.09%) DevOps
5 68 (31.63%) AI
6 64 (29.77%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (25.58%) Software Engineering
8 50 (23.26%) Containerisation
9 49 (22.79%) Mentoring
10 48 (22.33%) Test Automation
11 46 (21.40%) API Integration
12 41 (19.07%) Microservices
13 40 (18.60%) Clean Code
14 38 (17.67%) LLM
15 34 (15.81%) Scrum
16 33 (15.35%) Computer Science
16 33 (15.35%) TDD
17 30 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
18 29 (13.49%) Machine Learning
19 26 (12.09%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 81 (37.67%) Python
2 72 (33.49%) C#
3 63 (29.30%) SQL
4 59 (27.44%) JavaScript
5 33 (15.35%) Java
6 32 (14.88%) TypeScript
7 18 (8.37%) PHP
8 7 (3.26%) Swift
9 6 (2.79%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.86%) Bash
10 4 (1.86%) Bicep
11 3 (1.40%) C++
11 3 (1.40%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.40%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.93%) DataWeave
12 2 (0.93%) Rust
12 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.93%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.47%) Go
13 1 (0.47%) VB
Qualifications
1 36 (16.74%) Degree
2 23 (10.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (6.98%) Security Cleared
4 11 (5.12%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.26%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.86%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.93%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.70%) Accessibility
2 13 (6.05%) WCAG
3 11 (5.12%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.33%) QA
5 2 (0.93%) GRC
6 1 (0.47%) GDPR
6 1 (0.47%) NIST
6 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 71 (33.02%) Docker
2 4 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 53 (24.65%) Kubernetes
2 28 (13.02%) Terraform
3 6 (2.79%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (2.33%) Ansible
4 5 (2.33%) Puppet
5 2 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.93%) Kibana
5 2 (0.93%) Nagios
6 1 (0.47%) Grafana
Vendors
1 29 (13.49%) Google
2 15 (6.98%) Dynatrace
3 14 (6.51%) Microsoft
4 13 (6.05%) OpenAI
5 7 (3.26%) Apple
5 7 (3.26%) Automation Anywhere
5 7 (3.26%) Red Hat
5 7 (3.26%) Splunk
5 7 (3.26%) UiPath
6 5 (2.33%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.33%) Oracle
6 5 (2.33%) SaltStack
7 3 (1.40%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.93%) New Relic
8 2 (0.93%) Pega
8 2 (0.93%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.93%) Trapeze
8 2 (0.93%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.47%) Foundry
9 1 (0.47%) SAP