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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 472 478
Rank change year-on-year -41 +6 -14
Permanent jobs citing API Development 302 200 309
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.40% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.45% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 148 155 164
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,300 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,000 £52,500 £50,969
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - +3.05%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,125 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +6.54%

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 86,399 44,171 61,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 89.11% 81.89%
Number of salaries quoted 59,417 24,443 33,150
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.30% -2.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -62 233 £65,000 -7.14% 313
UK excluding London -46 199 £65,000 +13.04% 184
Work from Home -1 116 £68,750 +17.02% 161
London -56 91 £77,500 +3.33% 168
Northern Ireland -33 58 - - 6
North of England -44 58 £62,500 +6.56% 55
North West -25 35 £75,000 +30.43% 31
South East -31 32 £74,000 +40.95% 37
South West -59 30 £70,000 +33.33% 22
North East - 21 £47,000 - 4
Midlands -45 13 £55,000 -10.20% 21
West Midlands -37 9 £55,000 -12.00% 16
East of England -47 6 £38,750 -54.41% 16
East Midlands -38 4 £54,000 -10.37% 5
Scotland +4 3 £70,000 -30.00% 20
Yorkshire -52 2 - - 20

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 13 (4.30%) Apache
2 11 (3.64%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.32%) nginx
4 6 (1.99%) Confluence
4 6 (1.99%) IIS
5 5 (1.66%) JBoss
6 4 (1.32%) CMS
7 2 (0.66%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.99%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.33%) Endur
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 125 (41.39%) Azure
2 78 (25.83%) AWS
3 52 (17.22%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (11.92%) GCP
5 33 (10.93%) Serverless
6 28 (9.27%) LangSmith
7 14 (4.64%) GitHub
7 14 (4.64%) OpenShift
8 13 (4.30%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (3.97%) Power Platform
10 11 (3.64%) Firebase
10 11 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (3.31%) Azure Functions
11 10 (3.31%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (2.98%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (2.65%) Datadog
14 7 (2.32%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (2.32%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.32%) AMQP
2 5 (1.66%) SSL
3 3 (0.99%) HTTP
3 3 (0.99%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.33%) DNS
4 1 (0.33%) TETRA
4 1 (0.33%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.28%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (7.95%) SQL Server
3 23 (7.62%) MySQL
4 18 (5.96%) Relational Database
5 16 (5.30%) NoSQL
6 11 (3.64%) Big Data
7 9 (2.98%) MongoDB
8 8 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (2.32%) Cloudera CDH
9 7 (2.32%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.99%) DynamoDB
11 5 (1.66%) Geospatial Data
11 5 (1.66%) Power BI
12 4 (1.32%) Metadata
12 4 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (1.32%) Tableau
13 3 (0.99%) Delta Lake
13 3 (0.99%) Redis
13 3 (0.99%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 46 (15.23%) Git
2 26 (8.61%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.64%) fastlane
4 9 (2.98%) GitLab
4 9 (2.98%) JIRA
5 6 (1.99%) Bitbucket
5 6 (1.99%) Xcode
6 5 (1.66%) Android Studio
6 5 (1.66%) Crashlytics
6 5 (1.66%) Gradle
6 5 (1.66%) MSI
7 4 (1.32%) Postman
7 4 (1.32%) Subversion
8 3 (0.99%) CMake
8 3 (0.99%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.99%) JUnit
8 3 (0.99%) Mockito
9 2 (0.66%) JMeter
9 2 (0.66%) Mocha
9 2 (0.66%) NUnit
General
1 67 (22.19%) Legal
2 58 (19.21%) Finance
3 49 (16.23%) Social Skills
4 37 (12.25%) Law
5 30 (9.93%) Public Sector
6 28 (9.27%) Legal Technology
7 25 (8.28%) Financial Institution
8 24 (7.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (7.28%) Banking
10 21 (6.95%) Analytical Skills
11 10 (3.31%) Retail
12 8 (2.65%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.99%) Electronics
14 3 (0.99%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.99%) Marketing
15 2 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.66%) Front Office
15 2 (0.66%) iGaming
15 2 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 191 (63.25%) Developer
2 128 (42.38%) Senior
3 105 (34.77%) Senior Developer
4 41 (13.58%) Software Engineer
5 34 (11.26%) Software Developer
6 28 (9.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 24 (7.95%) C# Developer
8 18 (5.96%) Lead
9 17 (5.63%) .NET Developer
10 16 (5.30%) Python Developer
10 16 (5.30%) Senior C# Developer
10 16 (5.30%) Senior Software Developer
11 15 (4.97%) Backend Developer
11 15 (4.97%) C# Software Developer
11 15 (4.97%) Senior C# Software Developer
12 14 (4.64%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (3.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 10 (3.31%) Applications Developer
15 8 (2.65%) Architect
15 8 (2.65%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (43.71%) .NET
2 58 (19.21%) RESTful
3 55 (18.21%) REST
4 43 (14.24%) React
5 35 (11.59%) Terraform
6 33 (10.93%) Node.js
7 31 (10.26%) LangChain
7 31 (10.26%) LlamaIndex
8 29 (9.60%) .NET Framework
8 29 (9.60%) Model Context Protocol
9 28 (9.27%) Langfuse
10 25 (8.28%) AngularJS
10 25 (8.28%) ASP.NET
11 24 (7.95%) HTML
12 23 (7.62%) Spring
13 22 (7.28%) .NET Core
13 22 (7.28%) CSS
14 20 (6.62%) Swagger
15 19 (6.29%) Entity Framework
16 17 (5.63%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 83 (27.48%) Cloud Native
2 35 (11.59%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (10.93%) AI Agents
4 28 (9.27%) Mobile App
5 25 (8.28%) e-Learning
6 22 (7.28%) Product Ownership
7 13 (4.30%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (4.30%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.66%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.66%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.66%) Social Media
11 4 (1.32%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.32%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.99%) Blog
12 3 (0.99%) Mobile Wallet
12 3 (0.99%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.30%) Linux
2 11 (3.64%) Windows
3 8 (2.65%) Android
3 8 (2.65%) Apple iOS
3 8 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (2.65%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.32%) CentOS
4 7 (2.32%) Debian
5 3 (0.99%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (62.58%) Agile
2 168 (55.63%) CI/CD
3 132 (43.71%) Problem-Solving
4 124 (41.06%) Microservices
5 113 (37.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 108 (35.76%) Software Engineering
7 94 (31.13%) DevOps
8 85 (28.15%) AI
9 80 (26.49%) Full-Stack Development
9 80 (26.49%) Software Architecture
10 79 (26.16%) Architectural Patterns
11 73 (24.17%) Software Testing
11 73 (24.17%) Sprint Planning
12 72 (23.84%) Workflow
13 68 (22.52%) Enterprise Architecture
14 67 (22.19%) Data Governance
15 66 (21.85%) Acceptance Criteria
15 66 (21.85%) Sprint Retrospective
16 63 (20.86%) Information Security
16 63 (20.86%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 149 (49.34%) C#
2 97 (32.12%) Python
3 55 (18.21%) JavaScript
4 53 (17.55%) SQL
5 40 (13.25%) Java
6 32 (10.60%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.65%) Bicep
8 6 (1.99%) C++
8 6 (1.99%) Swift
9 5 (1.66%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.66%) PHP
9 5 (1.66%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.66%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.32%) Bash
10 4 (1.32%) Scala
11 3 (0.99%) Embedded C++
11 3 (0.99%) R
11 3 (0.99%) VB
11 3 (0.99%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (16.23%) Security Cleared
2 43 (14.24%) Degree
3 38 (12.58%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.64%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.99%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.66%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (25.50%) QA
2 19 (6.29%) Accessibility
3 17 (5.63%) WCAG
4 7 (2.32%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.32%) GDPR
5 5 (1.66%) NCSC
6 3 (0.99%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.99%) PSD2
7 1 (0.33%) NIST
7 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 69 (22.85%) Docker
2 5 (1.66%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.66%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 60 (19.87%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.31%) Ansible
3 8 (2.65%) Puppet
4 7 (2.32%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (1.66%) Grafana
5 5 (1.66%) Nagios
6 3 (0.99%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.66%) Kibana
8 1 (0.33%) Consul
8 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 33 (10.93%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.28%) Google
3 13 (4.30%) Dynatrace
4 12 (3.97%) Red Hat
5 10 (3.31%) Databricks
5 10 (3.31%) Splunk
6 7 (2.32%) SaltStack
7 6 (1.99%) Apple
8 5 (1.66%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.66%) New Relic
8 5 (1.66%) Oracle
9 4 (1.32%) YouTube
10 3 (0.99%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.99%) SAP
11 2 (0.66%) WSO2
12 1 (0.33%) Foundry
12 1 (0.33%) IFS
12 1 (0.33%) MarketAxess
12 1 (0.33%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.33%) Xamarin