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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 339 470
Rank change year-on-year -180 +131 +6
Permanent jobs citing API Development 214 350 469
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.83% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.89% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 134 292 345
10th Percentile £45,375 £45,000 £39,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,720 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,750 £109,500 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,100 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -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 67,035 39,288 81,690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.86% 92.85% 85.64%
Number of salaries quoted 41,557 22,685 59,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.93%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -145 195 £60,000 -5.51% 71
UK excluding London -163 112 £55,100 -4.17% 51
London -36 85 £85,000 +3.03% 29
Work from Home -115 63 £55,100 +0.18% 39
Midlands -23 41 £55,000 -8.33% 8
North of England -99 24 £60,000 +4.35% 17
East Midlands -25 21 £55,000 -8.33% 3
West Midlands -26 20 £55,000 -8.33% 5
North West -45 20 £60,625 +10.23% 14
South West -61 17 £55,000 - 3
South East -59 13 £65,000 +30.00% 18
East of England -49 9 £61,250 -2.00% 1
Scotland -26 4 £62,500 +38.89% 2
Wales -39 4 £52,500 -30.00%
Yorkshire -86 3 £56,250 -6.25% 2
North East -42 1 £55,200 +2.70% 1

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 (6.07%) CMS
2 12 (5.61%) Appian
3 8 (3.74%) Apache
4 5 (2.34%) Anypoint
4 5 (2.34%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.87%) Moodle
5 4 (1.87%) nginx
6 3 (1.40%) Confluence
6 3 (1.40%) Headless CMS
6 3 (1.40%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.93%) ColdFusion
7 2 (0.93%) JBoss
8 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.34%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.47%) Magento
2 1 (0.47%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 90 (42.06%) Azure
2 83 (38.79%) AWS
3 39 (18.22%) GCP
4 33 (15.42%) Serverless
5 26 (12.15%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (9.81%) GitHub
7 17 (7.94%) Amazon S3
7 17 (7.94%) Power Automate
8 16 (7.48%) Anthropic Claude
9 14 (6.54%) Azure Data Factory
9 14 (6.54%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (6.07%) Azure AI
11 11 (5.14%) OpenShift
11 11 (5.14%) Power Platform
12 10 (4.67%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (4.21%) SaaS
14 8 (3.74%) Azure Logic Apps
14 8 (3.74%) Figma
15 7 (3.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (3.27%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.34%) AMQP
2 4 (1.87%) Broadband
3 2 (0.93%) DNS
3 2 (0.93%) HTTP
3 2 (0.93%) SSL
4 1 (0.47%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (21.03%) SQL Server
2 25 (11.68%) MySQL
3 19 (8.88%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (7.01%) NoSQL
5 13 (6.07%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (5.61%) Pinecone
6 12 (5.61%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.80%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.34%) Big Data
8 5 (2.34%) Cloudera CDH
8 5 (2.34%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.87%) Power BI
10 2 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.93%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.93%) DB2
10 2 (0.93%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.93%) Qlik Sense
11 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 36 (16.82%) Git
2 23 (10.75%) Jenkins
3 14 (6.54%) MLflow
4 8 (3.74%) Cucumber
4 8 (3.74%) JUnit
4 8 (3.74%) Selenium
4 8 (3.74%) Storybook
5 7 (3.27%) GitLab
5 7 (3.27%) Postman
6 5 (2.34%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.34%) JIRA
7 4 (1.87%) SpecFlow
7 4 (1.87%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.40%) ESLint
8 3 (1.40%) webpack
9 2 (0.93%) fastlane
9 2 (0.93%) Mockito
9 2 (0.93%) Subversion
9 2 (0.93%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
General
1 56 (26.17%) Social Skills
2 38 (17.76%) Finance
3 31 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.61%) Retail
5 11 (5.14%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.74%) Law
8 6 (2.80%) Banking
8 6 (2.80%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.80%) Marketing
9 5 (2.34%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.87%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.87%) Front Office
10 4 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.40%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.93%) Legal
13 1 (0.47%) Advertising
13 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 123 (57.48%) Developer
2 51 (23.83%) Senior
3 48 (22.43%) Full-Stack Developer
4 39 (18.22%) Senior Developer
5 34 (15.89%) Lead
6 27 (12.62%) Software Developer
7 24 (11.21%) Software Engineer
8 21 (9.81%) .NET Developer
9 20 (9.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 14 (6.54%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 13 (6.07%) Automation Engineer
11 13 (6.07%) Lead Developer
11 13 (6.07%) Senior Software Developer
12 11 (5.14%) Architect
13 10 (4.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 10 (4.67%) Web Developer
14 9 (4.21%) C# Developer
15 8 (3.74%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
16 7 (3.27%) Java Developer
16 7 (3.27%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (30.84%) React
2 56 (26.17%) .NET
3 55 (25.70%) Node.js
4 53 (24.77%) RESTful
5 51 (23.83%) CSS
6 47 (21.96%) HTML
7 44 (20.56%) REST
8 34 (15.89%) AngularJS
9 27 (12.62%) OAuth
9 27 (12.62%) OpenAPI
9 27 (12.62%) Spring
9 27 (12.62%) Swagger
10 24 (11.21%) Django
10 24 (11.21%) Spring Boot
11 21 (9.81%) Flask
11 21 (9.81%) JWT
12 20 (9.35%) ASP.NET
13 19 (8.88%) pytest
14 18 (8.41%) Vue
15 17 (7.94%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 44 (20.56%) Cloud Native
2 26 (12.15%) Legacy Systems
3 19 (8.88%) Low-Code
4 14 (6.54%) Mobile App
5 11 (5.14%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (3.27%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (2.80%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.80%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.87%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.40%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.40%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.40%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.93%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.07%) Linux
2 5 (2.34%) CentOS
2 5 (2.34%) Debian
2 5 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.34%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.40%) Android
4 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (44.86%) CI/CD
2 91 (42.52%) Agile
3 68 (31.78%) Full-Stack Development
4 66 (30.84%) Problem-Solving
5 63 (29.44%) Containerisation
6 61 (28.50%) AI
7 59 (27.57%) Software Engineering
8 56 (26.17%) DevOps
9 55 (25.70%) Microservices
10 52 (24.30%) Mentoring
11 49 (22.90%) Test Automation
12 47 (21.96%) API Integration
13 34 (15.89%) Continuous Improvement
14 30 (14.02%) Machine Learning
15 29 (13.55%) Clean Code
15 29 (13.55%) LLM
16 27 (12.62%) Infrastructure as Code
17 24 (11.21%) Computer Science
17 24 (11.21%) Data Pipeline
17 24 (11.21%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 76 (35.51%) Python
2 74 (34.58%) JavaScript
3 70 (32.71%) SQL
4 67 (31.31%) C#
5 40 (18.69%) Java
6 36 (16.82%) TypeScript
7 18 (8.41%) PHP
8 6 (2.80%) Delphi
9 4 (1.87%) Bicep
9 4 (1.87%) DataWeave
10 3 (1.40%) Bash
10 3 (1.40%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.40%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.93%) C++
11 2 (0.93%) RPG
11 2 (0.93%) Rust
12 1 (0.47%) Go
12 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.47%) Swift
12 1 (0.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 28 (13.08%) Degree
2 20 (9.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (8.41%) Security Cleared
4 10 (4.67%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.87%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.87%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.41%) Accessibility
2 16 (7.48%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.40%) QA
4 2 (0.93%) GRC
4 2 (0.93%) WCAG
System Software
1 78 (36.45%) Docker
2 4 (1.87%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 59 (27.57%) Kubernetes
2 29 (13.55%) Terraform
3 7 (3.27%) Grafana
4 5 (2.34%) Ansible
4 5 (2.34%) Puppet
4 5 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.93%) Nagios
Vendors
1 27 (12.62%) Google
2 18 (8.41%) OpenAI
3 16 (7.48%) Microsoft
4 12 (5.61%) Automation Anywhere
4 12 (5.61%) UiPath
5 11 (5.14%) Oracle
6 9 (4.21%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.27%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.34%) MuleSoft
8 5 (2.34%) SaltStack
9 4 (1.87%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.40%) Zoho
11 2 (0.93%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.93%) IBM
11 2 (0.93%) New Relic
11 2 (0.93%) Pega
11 2 (0.93%) Ping Identity
11 2 (0.93%) Splunk
11 2 (0.93%) Trapeze
11 2 (0.93%) Xamarin