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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 444 406
Rank change year-on-year -27 -38 +91
Permanent jobs citing API Development 182 323 345
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.48% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.57% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 137 195 285
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,000 £39,850
25th Percentile £52,400 £50,438 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £79,750 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £104,500 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £59,125 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.75% +7.50% -6.38%

All Process and 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 45,329 56,886 48,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.95% 84.65% 93.78%
Number of salaries quoted 27,632 29,709 37,183
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,439 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.75% +3.69% -

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025. 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 -6 160 £65,000 - 103
UK excluding London -23 95 £57,500 -2.75% 91
Work from Home +27 76 £60,000 - 64
London +39 72 £75,000 -16.67% 37
North of England +29 33 £57,500 +9.52% 18
North West +46 22 £56,250 +8.17% 14
Midlands +34 17 £60,000 - 14
South West +23 14 £54,500 -0.91% 15
East of England +14 11 £82,500 +83.33% 3
East Midlands +26 10 £58,000 -40.51% 2
Yorkshire +14 9 £70,000 +21.74% 2
Wales +12 9 £50,500 -32.67% 4
West Midlands +35 7 £60,000 - 12
South East -3 7 £55,000 -21.43% 33
Scotland -5 3 £82,500 +32.00% 3
North East +16 2 £55,200 +0.36% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

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 (6.04%) CMS
2 7 (3.85%) Confluence
3 6 (3.30%) Apache Solr
4 5 (2.75%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.20%) Camunda
6 3 (1.65%) Apache
6 3 (1.65%) Jupyter
7 2 (1.10%) Apache Spark
7 2 (1.10%) Appian
7 2 (1.10%) ColdFusion
7 2 (1.10%) JBoss
7 2 (1.10%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.55%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.55%) IIS
8 1 (0.55%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 4 (2.20%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.20%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.10%) Shopify
4 1 (0.55%) Magento
4 1 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 89 (48.90%) Azure
2 57 (31.32%) AWS
3 23 (12.64%) Serverless
4 20 (10.99%) GCP
5 19 (10.44%) GitHub
5 19 (10.44%) Power Platform
6 16 (8.79%) Azure Functions
7 14 (7.69%) Power Automate
8 12 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (6.04%) OpenShift
10 10 (5.49%) PowerApps
10 10 (5.49%) SaaS
11 8 (4.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (4.40%) Azure AI
12 7 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (3.85%) Cloudflare
12 7 (3.85%) n8n
13 6 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (3.30%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.30%) Modbus
1 6 (3.30%) MQTT
1 6 (3.30%) Network Security
1 6 (3.30%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.10%) AMQP
3 1 (0.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (18.68%) NoSQL
2 23 (12.64%) SQL Server
3 17 (9.34%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (7.14%) MySQL
5 10 (5.49%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (4.95%) Relational Database
7 8 (4.40%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.20%) BigQuery
8 4 (2.20%) Looker
9 3 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.65%) Power BI
9 3 (1.65%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.65%) Tableau
10 2 (1.10%) Big Data
10 2 (1.10%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.10%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.10%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.10%) Redis
10 2 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 32 (17.58%) Git
2 20 (10.99%) Jenkins
3 13 (7.14%) GitLab
4 12 (6.59%) JIRA
5 9 (4.95%) JUnit
5 9 (4.95%) Selenium
6 6 (3.30%) Cucumber
6 6 (3.30%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (2.20%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.20%) NUnit
7 4 (2.20%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.20%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.65%) Gradle
8 3 (1.65%) JMeter
8 3 (1.65%) Maven
8 3 (1.65%) MLflow
8 3 (1.65%) Postman
8 3 (1.65%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.65%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.10%) MSTest
General
1 69 (37.91%) Social Skills
2 39 (21.43%) Finance
3 20 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.79%) Retail
5 9 (4.95%) Law
6 8 (4.40%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.85%) Games
7 7 (3.85%) Legal
8 5 (2.75%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.20%) Banking
9 4 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.20%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.65%) Marketing
11 2 (1.10%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.10%) Health Technology
11 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.55%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.55%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 97 (53.30%) Developer
2 45 (24.73%) Senior
3 30 (16.48%) Senior Developer
4 26 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
5 19 (10.44%) Architect
6 14 (7.69%) Python Developer
6 14 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (7.14%) Software Developer
8 12 (6.59%) Software Engineer
9 10 (5.49%) .NET Developer
10 9 (4.95%) Lead
11 8 (4.40%) Automation Developer
11 8 (4.40%) Backend Developer
11 8 (4.40%) Java Developer
12 7 (3.85%) Digital Developer
12 7 (3.85%) Java Engineer
12 7 (3.85%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (3.85%) Technical Manager
12 7 (3.85%) Web Manager
13 6 (3.30%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (25.27%) RESTful
2 41 (22.53%) .NET
2 41 (22.53%) React
3 37 (20.33%) REST
4 27 (14.84%) CSS
5 26 (14.29%) HTML
6 25 (13.74%) Node.js
7 23 (12.64%) Spring
8 21 (11.54%) AngularJS
8 21 (11.54%) Spring Boot
9 19 (10.44%) .NET Core
10 17 (9.34%) ASP.NET
11 14 (7.69%) pytest
12 13 (7.14%) Flask
12 13 (7.14%) LangChain
12 13 (7.14%) Vue
13 12 (6.59%) FastAPI
14 11 (6.04%) GraphQL
15 10 (5.49%) Pandas
15 10 (5.49%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.48%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.79%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (7.69%) Low-Code
4 10 (5.49%) IoT
4 10 (5.49%) Mobile App
5 8 (4.40%) AI Agents
6 7 (3.85%) Algorithms
7 6 (3.30%) Data Structures
7 6 (3.30%) Device Driver
8 5 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.75%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.20%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.65%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.65%) YARA
11 2 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.10%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.34%) Linux
2 15 (8.24%) Windows
3 8 (4.40%) Unix
4 6 (3.30%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.10%) CentOS
5 2 (1.10%) Debian
5 2 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (40.66%) Agile
1 74 (40.66%) CI/CD
2 57 (31.32%) DevOps
3 53 (29.12%) Microservices
4 50 (27.47%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (22.53%) API Integration
6 38 (20.88%) Full-Stack Development
7 37 (20.33%) AI
7 37 (20.33%) Containerisation
8 35 (19.23%) Software Engineering
9 26 (14.29%) Machine Learning
10 25 (13.74%) API Design
10 25 (13.74%) Mentoring
10 25 (13.74%) Test Automation
11 24 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (12.09%) Migration
13 21 (11.54%) Clean Code
14 20 (10.99%) Code Quality
14 20 (10.99%) Secure Coding
15 18 (9.89%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 76 (41.76%) Python
2 64 (35.16%) SQL
3 62 (34.07%) JavaScript
4 46 (25.27%) C#
5 41 (22.53%) Java
6 33 (18.13%) TypeScript
7 15 (8.24%) PHP
8 7 (3.85%) C
8 7 (3.85%) C++
9 6 (3.30%) Bicep
9 6 (3.30%) Delphi
9 6 (3.30%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.65%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.65%) Ruby
11 2 (1.10%) Bash
11 2 (1.10%) R
11 2 (1.10%) Search Processing Language
11 2 (1.10%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.10%) XAML
12 1 (0.55%) Go
Qualifications
1 17 (9.34%) Degree
2 11 (6.04%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.30%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.75%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.10%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.10%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.55%) ACCA
7 1 (0.55%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.89%) QA
2 16 (8.79%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.75%) GDPR
3 5 (2.75%) WCAG
4 3 (1.65%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 42 (23.08%) Docker
2 6 (3.30%) Firmware
3 2 (1.10%) Squid
3 2 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.95%) Terraform
3 8 (4.40%) Grafana
4 4 (2.20%) Ansible
5 2 (1.10%) Kibana
5 2 (1.10%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.10%) Puppet
Vendors
1 31 (17.03%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.24%) Oracle
3 9 (4.95%) OpenAI
4 5 (2.75%) Databricks
4 5 (2.75%) iManage
5 4 (2.20%) Google
5 4 (2.20%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.20%) SnapLogic
6 3 (1.65%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.65%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.65%) SAP
6 3 (1.65%) UiPath
6 3 (1.65%) Zoho
7 2 (1.10%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.10%) Automation Anywhere
7 2 (1.10%) New Relic
7 2 (1.10%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.10%) Splunk
8 1 (0.55%) Intapp
8 1 (0.55%) Ping Identity