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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 385 510
Rank change year-on-year -135 +125 -21
Permanent jobs citing API Development 213 306 446
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.69% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.74% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 136 247 330
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,875 £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 £75,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £107,750 £95,000
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 68,162 41,264 88,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.90% 92.57% 81.89%
Number of salaries quoted 46,887 22,044 62,842
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,607
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £91,991
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 17 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 17 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 -128 201 £60,000 -14.29% 173
UK excluding London -123 124 £55,000 -15.38% 161
London -60 82 £81,250 +1.56% 54
Work from Home -74 51 £53,250 -3.18% 147
North of England -53 41 £60,625 -13.39% 36
Midlands -5 31 £55,000 -2.22% 19
North West -10 28 £70,000 +7.69% 19
South East -29 21 £68,750 +37.50% 39
South West -59 18 £58,750 - 17
West Midlands -16 16 £50,000 -4.76% 6
East Midlands -15 15 £55,000 -8.33% 13
North East -37 11 £47,000 -10.48% 4
East of England -36 8 £45,000 -46.27% 19
Scotland +9 3 £62,500 +12.11% 13
Wales -54 2 £52,500 -27.59% 7
Yorkshire -64 2 £50,000 -28.57% 13

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 (5.16%) CMS
2 10 (4.69%) Apache
3 7 (3.29%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.29%) Appian
4 6 (2.82%) nginx
5 4 (1.88%) IIS
6 3 (1.41%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.94%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.94%) Confluence
7 2 (0.94%) JBoss
7 2 (0.94%) Moodle
7 2 (0.94%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.94%) WordPress
8 1 (0.47%) ColdFusion
8 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.47%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 92 (43.19%) Azure
2 73 (34.27%) AWS
3 34 (15.96%) GCP
3 34 (15.96%) Serverless
4 31 (14.55%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (11.74%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (7.04%) Amazon S3
6 15 (7.04%) GitHub
7 13 (6.10%) Firebase
7 13 (6.10%) LangSmith
8 11 (5.16%) Anthropic Claude
9 10 (4.69%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (4.23%) Power Automate
11 8 (3.76%) Apigee
11 8 (3.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (3.76%) Azure AI
11 8 (3.76%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (3.76%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (3.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.82%) AMQP
2 4 (1.88%) Broadband
3 3 (1.41%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.94%) DNS
4 2 (0.94%) HTTP
4 2 (0.94%) SSL
5 1 (0.47%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (15.96%) SQL Server
2 30 (14.08%) MySQL
3 17 (7.98%) Relational Database
4 15 (7.04%) NoSQL
5 12 (5.63%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (3.76%) Pinecone
8 7 (3.29%) Big Data
9 6 (2.82%) Cloudera CDH
9 6 (2.82%) Hadoop
9 6 (2.82%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.88%) Power BI
11 3 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.94%) Qlik Sense
13 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
13 1 (0.47%) Metadata
13 1 (0.47%) Tableau
13 1 (0.47%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 35 (16.43%) Git
2 27 (12.68%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.10%) fastlane
4 8 (3.76%) MLflow
5 7 (3.29%) Postman
5 7 (3.29%) Xcode
6 6 (2.82%) Android Studio
6 6 (2.82%) Crashlytics
6 6 (2.82%) Gradle
7 5 (2.35%) GitLab
7 5 (2.35%) Storybook
8 4 (1.88%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.88%) JIRA
8 4 (1.88%) JUnit
8 4 (1.88%) Mockito
8 4 (1.88%) SpecFlow
8 4 (1.88%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.94%) ESLint
9 2 (0.94%) JMeter
9 2 (0.94%) Subversion
General
1 42 (19.72%) Finance
2 38 (17.84%) Social Skills
3 22 (10.33%) Public Sector
4 21 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (9.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (7.04%) Banking
6 12 (5.63%) Financial Institution
7 8 (3.76%) Retail
8 5 (2.35%) Aerospace
8 5 (2.35%) Front Office
9 4 (1.88%) Law
10 3 (1.41%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.41%) Marketing
10 3 (1.41%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.94%) Legal
11 2 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.47%) Advertising
12 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 123 (57.75%) Developer
2 52 (24.41%) Senior
3 37 (17.37%) Full-Stack Developer
3 37 (17.37%) Senior Developer
4 31 (14.55%) Lead
4 31 (14.55%) Software Developer
5 25 (11.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 24 (11.27%) Software Engineer
7 19 (8.92%) .NET Developer
8 18 (8.45%) C# Developer
9 17 (7.98%) Senior Software Developer
10 13 (6.10%) C# Software Developer
10 13 (6.10%) Senior C# Developer
10 13 (6.10%) Senior C# Software Developer
11 12 (5.63%) Lead Developer
12 10 (4.69%) Java Developer
13 9 (4.23%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 9 (4.23%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (3.76%) Automation Engineer
14 8 (3.76%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (25.82%) .NET
2 54 (25.35%) RESTful
3 50 (23.47%) React
4 47 (22.07%) REST
5 44 (20.66%) Node.js
6 41 (19.25%) CSS
6 41 (19.25%) HTML
7 30 (14.08%) AngularJS
8 25 (11.74%) Swagger
9 24 (11.27%) OAuth
9 24 (11.27%) OpenAPI
10 21 (9.86%) Spring
11 19 (8.92%) .NET Core
11 19 (8.92%) JWT
12 18 (8.45%) ASP.NET
12 18 (8.45%) LlamaIndex
12 18 (8.45%) Model Context Protocol
12 18 (8.45%) Spring Boot
13 17 (7.98%) LangChain
13 17 (7.98%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 54 (25.35%) Cloud Native
2 25 (11.74%) Mobile App
3 18 (8.45%) Product Ownership
4 15 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (7.04%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (6.10%) AI Agents
6 10 (4.69%) e-Learning
6 10 (4.69%) Low-Code
7 7 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.41%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.94%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.94%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.94%) 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 17 (7.98%) Linux
2 8 (3.76%) Android
3 7 (3.29%) Apple iOS
4 6 (2.82%) CentOS
4 6 (2.82%) Debian
4 6 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.82%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.41%) Windows
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (48.36%) Agile
2 96 (45.07%) CI/CD
3 71 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 68 (31.92%) DevOps
5 66 (30.99%) AI
6 63 (29.58%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (25.35%) Software Engineering
8 51 (23.94%) Containerisation
9 48 (22.54%) Test Automation
10 46 (21.60%) API Integration
10 46 (21.60%) Mentoring
11 42 (19.72%) Microservices
12 40 (18.78%) Clean Code
13 38 (17.84%) LLM
14 34 (15.96%) Scrum
15 33 (15.49%) Computer Science
15 33 (15.49%) TDD
16 30 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
17 29 (13.62%) Machine Learning
18 26 (12.21%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 82 (38.50%) Python
2 72 (33.80%) C#
3 60 (28.17%) JavaScript
3 60 (28.17%) SQL
4 34 (15.96%) Java
5 31 (14.55%) TypeScript
6 18 (8.45%) PHP
7 7 (3.29%) Swift
8 6 (2.82%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.35%) Bicep
10 4 (1.88%) Bash
11 3 (1.41%) C++
11 3 (1.41%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.94%) DataWeave
12 2 (0.94%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.94%) Rust
12 2 (0.94%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.94%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.47%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (16.90%) Degree
2 23 (10.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (7.98%) Security Cleared
4 13 (6.10%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.29%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.35%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.94%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.80%) Accessibility
2 14 (6.57%) WCAG
3 11 (5.16%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.88%) QA
5 2 (0.94%) GRC
6 1 (0.47%) GDPR
6 1 (0.47%) NCSC
6 1 (0.47%) NIST
6 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 70 (32.86%) Docker
2 4 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 54 (25.35%) Kubernetes
2 29 (13.62%) Terraform
3 6 (2.82%) Ansible
3 6 (2.82%) Puppet
3 6 (2.82%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.94%) Kibana
4 2 (0.94%) Nagios
5 1 (0.47%) Grafana
Vendors
1 29 (13.62%) Google
2 15 (7.04%) Dynatrace
2 15 (7.04%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.10%) OpenAI
4 8 (3.76%) Red Hat
5 7 (3.29%) Apple
5 7 (3.29%) Automation Anywhere
5 7 (3.29%) Splunk
5 7 (3.29%) UiPath
6 6 (2.82%) SaltStack
7 5 (2.35%) Oracle
8 4 (1.88%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.94%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.94%) New Relic
9 2 (0.94%) Pega
9 2 (0.94%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.94%) Trapeze
9 2 (0.94%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.47%) Databricks
10 1 (0.47%) SAP