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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 419 530
Rank change year-on-year -86 +111 -53
Permanent jobs citing API Development 286 296 318
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.60% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.67% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 156 241 221
10th Percentile £45,625 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £61,305
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +14.18% -12.42%
75th Percentile £75,625 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +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 76,271 44,428 67,881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 89.49% 81.01%
Number of salaries quoted 52,568 25,332 44,788
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,199
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -115 219 £62,500 -10.71% 107
UK excluding London -50 195 £62,500 +8.70% 78
Work from Home -45 105 £58,565 +1.85% 53
London -64 84 £77,500 -3.13% 49
Northern Ireland -25 55 - - 2
North of England -53 48 £61,250 -9.26% 21
North West -17 29 £75,000 +30.43% 11
South East -27 29 £65,000 +30.00% 17
South West -54 27 £70,000 +33.33% 18
Midlands -24 20 £55,000 -5.17% 5
North East - 17 £47,000 - 2
West Midlands -38 12 £55,000 -4.35% 4
East of England -46 9 £45,000 -47.06% 7
East Midlands -23 8 £54,500 -6.03% 1
Scotland +10 6 £66,250 +18.83% 5
Yorkshire -54 2 £50,000 -28.57% 8
Wales -73 1 - - 4

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 (3.85%) Apache
2 7 (2.45%) CMS
2 7 (2.45%) nginx
3 6 (2.10%) IIS
4 5 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.75%) Confluence
4 5 (1.75%) JBoss
5 2 (0.70%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.70%) Moodle
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.35%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.35%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.40%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.05%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.70%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 108 (37.76%) Azure
2 75 (26.22%) AWS
3 46 (16.08%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (10.49%) GCP
5 29 (10.14%) Serverless
6 19 (6.64%) LangSmith
7 16 (5.59%) GitHub
8 15 (5.24%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (4.55%) Firebase
9 13 (4.55%) Power Platform
10 11 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (3.85%) Amazon S3
11 10 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (3.15%) OpenShift
13 8 (2.80%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (2.80%) Datadog
13 8 (2.80%) SaaS
14 7 (2.45%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (2.45%) Azure Logic Apps
15 6 (2.10%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.75%) SSL
2 4 (1.40%) AMQP
2 4 (1.40%) Broadband
2 4 (1.40%) HTTP
3 3 (1.05%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.70%) DNS
5 1 (0.35%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (12.59%) MySQL
2 35 (12.24%) SQL Server
3 23 (8.04%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (5.94%) Relational Database
5 13 (4.55%) NoSQL
6 8 (2.80%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.10%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.75%) Big Data
8 5 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.75%) Geospatial Data
9 4 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.40%) Cloudera CDH
9 4 (1.40%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.05%) Power BI
11 2 (0.70%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.70%) Qlik Sense
11 2 (0.70%) SQLite
12 1 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 47 (16.43%) Git
2 30 (10.49%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.55%) fastlane
4 9 (3.15%) GitLab
5 8 (2.80%) JIRA
6 7 (2.45%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.45%) Xcode
7 6 (2.10%) Android Studio
7 6 (2.10%) Crashlytics
7 6 (2.10%) Gradle
7 6 (2.10%) Postman
8 5 (1.75%) JUnit
8 5 (1.75%) Mockito
8 5 (1.75%) MSI
9 4 (1.40%) SpecFlow
9 4 (1.40%) Subversion
10 3 (1.05%) CMake
10 3 (1.05%) Storybook
11 2 (0.70%) JMeter
11 2 (0.70%) NUnit
General
1 64 (22.38%) Legal
2 42 (14.69%) Finance
3 38 (13.29%) Social Skills
4 37 (12.94%) Law
5 29 (10.14%) Public Sector
6 28 (9.79%) Legal Technology
7 27 (9.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (6.99%) Banking
9 18 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
10 16 (5.59%) Financial Institution
11 12 (4.20%) Retail
12 5 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.40%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.40%) Front Office
14 3 (1.05%) Electronics
14 3 (1.05%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.05%) Marketing
15 2 (0.70%) Aviation
15 2 (0.70%) Retail Banking
16 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 196 (68.53%) Developer
2 119 (41.61%) Senior
3 104 (36.36%) Senior Developer
4 34 (11.89%) Software Developer
5 30 (10.49%) Software Engineer
6 23 (8.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 23 (8.04%) Lead
7 22 (7.69%) C# Developer
8 21 (7.34%) .NET Developer
9 19 (6.64%) Full-Stack Developer
10 18 (6.29%) Senior Software Developer
11 17 (5.94%) Python Developer
12 15 (5.24%) C# Software Developer
12 15 (5.24%) Senior C# Developer
12 15 (5.24%) Senior C# Software Developer
13 14 (4.90%) Backend Developer
14 10 (3.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 9 (3.15%) Java Developer
15 9 (3.15%) Lead Software Engineer
16 7 (2.45%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (45.10%) .NET
2 59 (20.63%) RESTful
3 50 (17.48%) REST
4 40 (13.99%) HTML
4 40 (13.99%) React
5 37 (12.94%) CSS
6 33 (11.54%) Node.js
7 30 (10.49%) ASP.NET
8 29 (10.14%) .NET Framework
9 28 (9.79%) AngularJS
10 24 (8.39%) Model Context Protocol
11 23 (8.04%) .NET Core
11 23 (8.04%) LangChain
11 23 (8.04%) LlamaIndex
12 21 (7.34%) OAuth
13 19 (6.64%) Entity Framework
13 19 (6.64%) Langfuse
14 18 (6.29%) OAuth2
14 18 (6.29%) Spring
15 17 (5.94%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 69 (24.13%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.84%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (8.39%) Mobile App
4 19 (6.64%) AI Agents
5 18 (6.29%) Product Ownership
6 16 (5.59%) e-Learning
7 13 (4.55%) Onboarding
8 10 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.45%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.75%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.75%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.75%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.75%) Social Media
11 4 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (1.05%) Mobile Wallet
12 3 (1.05%) Operational Technology
13 2 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.59%) Linux
2 11 (3.85%) Windows
3 8 (2.80%) Android
4 7 (2.45%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.40%) CentOS
6 4 (1.40%) Debian
6 4 (1.40%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.05%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (60.14%) Agile
2 158 (55.24%) CI/CD
3 116 (40.56%) Problem-Solving
4 107 (37.41%) Microservices
5 92 (32.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 92 (32.17%) Software Engineering
6 84 (29.37%) DevOps
7 80 (27.97%) Architectural Patterns
8 74 (25.87%) Workflow
9 73 (25.52%) AI
10 72 (25.17%) Full-Stack Development
11 70 (24.48%) Sprint Planning
12 69 (24.13%) Software Architecture
13 62 (21.68%) Enterprise Architecture
13 62 (21.68%) Software Testing
14 61 (21.33%) Sprint Retrospective
15 60 (20.98%) Acceptance Criteria
15 60 (20.98%) Data Governance
16 59 (20.63%) Information Security
16 59 (20.63%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 148 (51.75%) C#
2 87 (30.42%) Python
3 61 (21.33%) JavaScript
4 55 (19.23%) SQL
5 33 (11.54%) Java
5 33 (11.54%) TypeScript
6 9 (3.15%) PHP
7 7 (2.45%) Swift
8 6 (2.10%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.75%) Bash
9 5 (1.75%) Bicep
9 5 (1.75%) C++
9 5 (1.75%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.05%) Embedded C++
10 3 (1.05%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.05%) VB
10 3 (1.05%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.70%) DataWeave
11 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 37 (12.94%) Degree
2 29 (10.14%) Security Cleared
3 22 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 14 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.80%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.05%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.70%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.70%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (24.13%) QA
2 27 (9.44%) Accessibility
3 19 (6.64%) WCAG
4 5 (1.75%) GDPR
4 5 (1.75%) NCSC
5 4 (1.40%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.05%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.05%) PSD2
7 2 (0.70%) GRC
8 1 (0.35%) NIST
8 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 61 (21.33%) Docker
2 5 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (16.08%) Kubernetes
2 29 (10.14%) Terraform
3 9 (3.15%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (2.10%) Grafana
5 5 (1.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (1.75%) Ansible
5 5 (1.75%) Nagios
5 5 (1.75%) Puppet
6 3 (1.05%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.70%) Kibana
8 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (8.74%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.04%) Google
3 15 (5.24%) Dynatrace
4 10 (3.50%) Splunk
5 9 (3.15%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.45%) Apple
7 5 (1.75%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.75%) New Relic
7 5 (1.75%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.75%) Oracle
8 4 (1.40%) Databricks
8 4 (1.40%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.05%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.05%) SAP
10 2 (0.70%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.70%) Pega
10 2 (0.70%) Trapeze
10 2 (0.70%) Xamarin
11 1 (0.35%) Refinitiv
11 1 (0.35%) WSO2