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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 382 474
Rank change year-on-year -144 +92 +20
Permanent jobs citing API Development 210 318 462
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.72% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.78% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 133 258 339
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,625 £41,100
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £77,500 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £94,500 £110,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% -5.00%

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 67,989 40,970 82,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 93.29% 84.80%
Number of salaries quoted 43,964 22,120 59,644
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,033 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.39% +5.51% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,887 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.18% +3.77% -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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -118 195 £60,000 -14.29% 73
UK excluding London -119 116 £55,000 -8.33% 43
London -56 84 £78,750 -4.55% 35
Work from Home -60 55 £52,500 -4.55% 43
North of England -60 35 £61,875 -2.56% 17
Midlands -16 34 £55,000 -2.22%
North West -4 27 £65,000 +7.44% 13
South East -34 19 £65,000 +30.00% 17
West Midlands -42 19 £55,000 +4.76%
East Midlands -9 15 £55,000 -8.33%
South West -62 15 £55,000 -12.00% 7
East of England -34 8 £45,000 -33.33%
North East -34 6 £47,000 -10.48%
Scotland -4 3 £62,500 +38.89%
Wales -42 2 £52,500 -30.00%
Yorkshire -61 2 £50,000 -28.57% 4

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 14 (6.67%) CMS
2 10 (4.76%) Appian
3 9 (4.29%) Apache
4 6 (2.86%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.38%) Anypoint
6 4 (1.90%) IIS
6 4 (1.90%) Moodle
6 4 (1.90%) nginx
7 3 (1.43%) Confluence
7 3 (1.43%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.95%) JBoss
8 2 (0.95%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.95%) WordPress
9 1 (0.48%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (2.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 89 (42.38%) Azure
2 72 (34.29%) AWS
3 35 (16.67%) GCP
4 31 (14.76%) Serverless
5 25 (11.90%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (10.95%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (7.62%) Amazon S3
7 16 (7.62%) GitHub
8 14 (6.67%) Anthropic Claude
9 13 (6.19%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (5.71%) Power Automate
11 11 (5.24%) Azure AI
12 9 (4.29%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (3.81%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (3.81%) Figma
13 8 (3.81%) Firebase
13 8 (3.81%) SaaS
14 7 (3.33%) Apigee
14 7 (3.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.38%) AMQP
2 4 (1.90%) Broadband
3 3 (1.43%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.95%) DNS
4 2 (0.95%) HTTP
4 2 (0.95%) SSL
5 1 (0.48%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (18.57%) SQL Server
2 26 (12.38%) MySQL
3 17 (8.10%) Relational Database
4 15 (7.14%) NoSQL
5 13 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (4.76%) Pinecone
8 6 (2.86%) Big Data
8 6 (2.86%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.38%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (2.38%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.90%) Power BI
11 3 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.95%) DB2
12 2 (0.95%) Qlik Sense
13 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.48%) Metadata
13 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (16.19%) Git
2 26 (12.38%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.24%) MLflow
4 8 (3.81%) fastlane
4 8 (3.81%) Storybook
5 7 (3.33%) Postman
6 6 (2.86%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.38%) JIRA
8 4 (1.90%) Android Studio
8 4 (1.90%) Crashlytics
8 4 (1.90%) GitLab
8 4 (1.90%) Gradle
8 4 (1.90%) JUnit
8 4 (1.90%) Mockito
8 4 (1.90%) SpecFlow
8 4 (1.90%) Visual Studio
8 4 (1.90%) Xcode
9 3 (1.43%) ESLint
9 3 (1.43%) webpack
10 2 (0.95%) JMeter
General
1 42 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 37 (17.62%) Finance
3 25 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.10%) Public Sector
5 15 (7.14%) Banking
5 15 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (4.29%) Financial Institution
6 9 (4.29%) Retail
7 4 (1.90%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.90%) Front Office
7 4 (1.90%) Law
8 3 (1.43%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.43%) Marketing
8 3 (1.43%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Advertising
10 1 (0.48%) Legal
10 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 124 (59.05%) Developer
2 49 (23.33%) Senior
3 41 (19.52%) Full-Stack Developer
4 37 (17.62%) Senior Developer
5 33 (15.71%) Lead
6 30 (14.29%) Software Developer
7 24 (11.43%) Software Engineer
8 22 (10.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 20 (9.52%) .NET Developer
10 17 (8.10%) C# Developer
11 16 (7.62%) Senior Software Developer
12 13 (6.19%) Lead Developer
13 12 (5.71%) C# Software Developer
13 12 (5.71%) Senior C# Developer
13 12 (5.71%) Senior C# Software Developer
14 11 (5.24%) Automation Engineer
15 10 (4.76%) Java Developer
15 10 (4.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 9 (4.29%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
17 8 (3.81%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (26.67%) React
1 56 (26.67%) RESTful
2 54 (25.71%) .NET
3 51 (24.29%) Node.js
4 49 (23.33%) CSS
5 47 (22.38%) HTML
6 45 (21.43%) REST
7 32 (15.24%) AngularJS
8 28 (13.33%) OAuth
8 28 (13.33%) OpenAPI
8 28 (13.33%) Swagger
9 22 (10.48%) JWT
10 21 (10.00%) Spring
11 20 (9.52%) .NET Core
11 20 (9.52%) ASP.NET
12 18 (8.57%) Spring Boot
12 18 (8.57%) Vue
13 17 (8.10%) Django
14 15 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web API
15 14 (6.67%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 46 (21.90%) Cloud Native
2 20 (9.52%) Mobile App
3 18 (8.57%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (7.62%) Low-Code
5 12 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (5.24%) Product Ownership
7 9 (4.29%) AI Agents
7 9 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (3.33%) e-Learning
9 5 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.43%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.95%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.95%) Management Information System
13 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
13 1 (0.48%) Distributed Architecture
13 1 (0.48%) Hybrid Cloud
13 1 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.19%) Linux
2 6 (2.86%) Android
3 5 (2.38%) CentOS
3 5 (2.38%) Debian
3 5 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.38%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.90%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.48%) Windows
5 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (46.19%) Agile
2 96 (45.71%) CI/CD
3 68 (32.38%) Full-Stack Development
4 64 (30.48%) AI
5 61 (29.05%) DevOps
6 57 (27.14%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (26.67%) Containerisation
8 50 (23.81%) Software Engineering
9 48 (22.86%) Mentoring
10 45 (21.43%) Test Automation
11 44 (20.95%) API Integration
11 44 (20.95%) Microservices
12 35 (16.67%) Clean Code
13 31 (14.76%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (14.76%) LLM
14 29 (13.81%) Scrum
15 28 (13.33%) Machine Learning
16 27 (12.86%) TDD
17 26 (12.38%) Computer Science
17 26 (12.38%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 74 (35.24%) Python
2 69 (32.86%) C#
3 66 (31.43%) JavaScript
4 61 (29.05%) SQL
5 35 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 34 (16.19%) Java
7 16 (7.62%) PHP
8 4 (1.90%) Bicep
8 4 (1.90%) DataWeave
8 4 (1.90%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.90%) Swift
9 3 (1.43%) Bash
9 3 (1.43%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.95%) C++
10 2 (0.95%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.95%) RPG
10 2 (0.95%) Rust
10 2 (0.95%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.48%) Go
11 1 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (13.81%) Degree
2 19 (9.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (8.10%) Security Cleared
4 12 (5.71%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.86%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.90%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.95%) Accessibility
2 14 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.81%) WCAG
4 5 (2.38%) QA
5 2 (0.95%) GRC
System Software
1 78 (37.14%) Docker
2 4 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 56 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 29 (13.81%) Terraform
3 5 (2.38%) Ansible
3 5 (2.38%) Puppet
3 5 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.95%) Kibana
4 2 (0.95%) Nagios
5 1 (0.48%) Grafana
Vendors
1 29 (13.81%) Google
2 15 (7.14%) OpenAI
3 11 (5.24%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.76%) Automation Anywhere
4 10 (4.76%) Dynatrace
4 10 (4.76%) UiPath
5 7 (3.33%) Atlassian
5 7 (3.33%) Red Hat
5 7 (3.33%) Splunk
6 5 (2.38%) MuleSoft
6 5 (2.38%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.90%) Apple
7 4 (1.90%) Oracle
7 4 (1.90%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.95%) IBM
8 2 (0.95%) New Relic
8 2 (0.95%) Pega
8 2 (0.95%) Trapeze
8 2 (0.95%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.48%) Databricks