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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 393 517
Rank change year-on-year -126 +124 -27
Permanent jobs citing API Development 215 306 447
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.68% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.74% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 139 247 332
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,375 £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 £93,000 £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 68,264 41,362 89,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.88% 92.48% 81.88%
Number of salaries quoted 46,974 22,138 63,125
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
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 18 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 18 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 -117 203 £60,000 -14.29% 99
UK excluding London -118 125 £55,000 -15.38% 63
London -48 83 £80,000 - 54
Work from Home -80 53 £54,000 -1.82% 48
North of England -59 40 £60,625 -13.39% 16
Midlands -10 32 £55,000 -2.22% 6
North West 0 27 £70,000 +7.69% 10
South East -29 22 £72,500 +45.00% 19
South West -66 18 £58,750 - 8
East Midlands -9 16 £55,000 -8.33% 6
West Midlands -17 16 £50,000 -4.76%
North East -37 11 £47,000 -10.48% 1
East of England -39 8 £45,000 -46.27% 6
Scotland +14 3 £62,500 +12.11% 1
Wales -57 2 £52,500 -27.59% 1
Yorkshire -58 2 £50,000 -28.57% 5

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%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.93%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.93%) Confluence
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%) 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 93 (43.26%) Azure
2 74 (34.42%) AWS
3 33 (15.35%) GCP
3 33 (15.35%) Serverless
4 32 (14.88%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (11.16%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (6.98%) Amazon S3
6 15 (6.98%) GitHub
7 13 (6.05%) Firebase
7 13 (6.05%) LangSmith
8 11 (5.12%) Anthropic Claude
9 10 (4.65%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (4.19%) Power Automate
11 8 (3.72%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (3.72%) Apigee
11 8 (3.72%) Azure AI
11 8 (3.72%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (3.72%) SaaS
12 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 35 (16.28%) SQL Server
2 31 (14.42%) MySQL
3 17 (7.91%) Relational Database
4 15 (6.98%) 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%) Geospatial Data
13 1 (0.47%) Metadata
13 1 (0.47%) Tableau
13 1 (0.47%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 35 (16.28%) Git
2 27 (12.56%) 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
7 5 (2.33%) GitLab
7 5 (2.33%) Storybook
8 4 (1.86%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.86%) JIRA
8 4 (1.86%) JUnit
8 4 (1.86%) Mockito
8 4 (1.86%) SpecFlow
8 4 (1.86%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.93%) ESLint
9 2 (0.93%) JMeter
9 2 (0.93%) Subversion
General
1 43 (20.00%) Finance
2 39 (18.14%) Social Skills
3 22 (10.23%) Public Sector
4 21 (9.77%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (9.77%) 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
8 5 (2.33%) Law
9 4 (1.86%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.40%) Legal
10 3 (1.40%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.40%) Marketing
10 3 (1.40%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.47%) Advertising
12 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 123 (57.21%) Developer
2 53 (24.65%) Senior
3 37 (17.21%) Full-Stack Developer
3 37 (17.21%) Senior Developer
4 32 (14.88%) Lead
5 31 (14.42%) Software Developer
6 25 (11.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 24 (11.16%) 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%) Senior C# Developer
11 13 (6.05%) Senior C# Software Developer
12 12 (5.58%) Lead Developer
13 10 (4.65%) Java Developer
14 9 (4.19%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 9 (4.19%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 8 (3.72%) Automation Engineer
15 8 (3.72%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (26.51%) .NET
2 54 (25.12%) RESTful
3 49 (22.79%) React
4 48 (22.33%) REST
5 44 (20.47%) Node.js
6 42 (19.53%) HTML
7 41 (19.07%) CSS
8 30 (13.95%) AngularJS
9 24 (11.16%) OAuth
9 24 (11.16%) Swagger
10 23 (10.70%) OpenAPI
11 20 (9.30%) .NET Core
11 20 (9.30%) Spring
12 19 (8.84%) ASP.NET
12 19 (8.84%) JWT
13 18 (8.37%) LlamaIndex
13 18 (8.37%) Model Context Protocol
14 17 (7.91%) LangChain
14 17 (7.91%) Spring Boot
14 17 (7.91%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 54 (25.12%) Cloud Native
2 26 (12.09%) Mobile App
3 18 (8.37%) Product Ownership
4 16 (7.44%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (6.98%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (6.05%) AI Agents
7 10 (4.65%) e-Learning
7 10 (4.65%) Low-Code
8 7 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.40%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.93%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
13 1 (0.47%) Hybrid Cloud
13 1 (0.47%) IoT
13 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 3 (1.40%) Windows
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (47.91%) Agile
2 97 (45.12%) CI/CD
3 73 (33.95%) Full-Stack Development
4 69 (32.09%) DevOps
5 67 (31.16%) AI
6 63 (29.30%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (25.58%) Software Engineering
8 50 (23.26%) Containerisation
9 48 (22.33%) Test Automation
10 47 (21.86%) API Integration
10 47 (21.86%) Mentoring
11 43 (20.00%) Microservices
12 41 (19.07%) Clean Code
13 38 (17.67%) LLM
14 33 (15.35%) Computer Science
14 33 (15.35%) Scrum
14 33 (15.35%) TDD
15 32 (14.88%) Continuous Improvement
16 29 (13.49%) Machine Learning
17 26 (12.09%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 81 (37.67%) Python
2 74 (34.42%) C#
3 60 (27.91%) SQL
4 59 (27.44%) JavaScript
5 33 (15.35%) Java
5 33 (15.35%) TypeScript
6 18 (8.37%) PHP
7 7 (3.26%) Swift
8 6 (2.79%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.33%) Bicep
10 4 (1.86%) Bash
11 3 (1.40%) C++
11 3 (1.40%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.93%) DataWeave
12 2 (0.93%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.93%) Rust
12 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.93%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.47%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (16.74%) Degree
2 23 (10.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (7.44%) Security Cleared
4 12 (5.58%) 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 14 (6.51%) WCAG
3 11 (5.12%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.86%) QA
5 2 (0.93%) 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 (32.56%) 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 28 (13.02%) Google
2 16 (7.44%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.98%) Dynatrace
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%) Oracle
6 5 (2.33%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.86%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.93%) 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%) Databricks
9 1 (0.47%) SAP