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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 475 462 413
Rank change year-on-year -13 -49 +83
Permanent jobs citing API Development 186 308 331
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.46% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.55% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 135 175 276
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £50,438 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £80,625 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £105,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -

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 45,538 56,050 49,147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.49% 82.93% 93.84%
Number of salaries quoted 27,129 29,188 37,634
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,536 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,537 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.11% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.04% +2.86% -

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 13 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 13 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 +5 167 £65,000 -3.70% 246
UK excluding London -25 100 £57,500 -4.17% 142
Work from Home +29 76 £60,000 -7.69% 163
London +31 73 £75,000 -16.67% 122
North of England +36 40 £57,500 +9.52% 57
North West +47 28 £56,250 +8.17% 42
Midlands +44 17 £58,000 -3.33% 23
South West +24 13 £52,500 -12.50% 18
East of England +10 11 £82,500 +83.33% 5
Yorkshire +11 10 £70,000 +19.15% 13
East Midlands +18 9 £58,000 -40.51% 4
West Midlands +30 8 £60,000 +20.00% 19
Wales +9 8 £50,500 -29.12% 4
South East -14 8 £55,000 -20.00% 31
North East +10 2 £55,200 +2.70% 2
Scotland -18 2 £82,500 +6.45% 3
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 13 (6.99%) Confluence
2 10 (5.38%) CMS
3 6 (3.23%) Apache Solr
4 5 (2.69%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.15%) Camunda
6 3 (1.61%) Apache
6 3 (1.61%) Jupyter
7 2 (1.08%) Apache Spark
7 2 (1.08%) IIS
7 2 (1.08%) JBoss
7 2 (1.08%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.54%) Appian
8 1 (0.54%) ColdFusion
8 1 (0.54%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.61%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.15%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.08%) Shopify
4 1 (0.54%) Magento
4 1 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 90 (48.39%) Azure
2 61 (32.80%) AWS
3 25 (13.44%) GitHub
4 21 (11.29%) GCP
4 21 (11.29%) Serverless
5 18 (9.68%) Power Platform
6 15 (8.06%) Azure Functions
7 14 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (6.45%) Power Automate
9 11 (5.91%) OpenShift
10 9 (4.84%) PowerApps
10 9 (4.84%) SaaS
11 8 (4.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (4.30%) Cloudflare
12 7 (3.76%) Azure AI
12 7 (3.76%) n8n
13 6 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
14 5 (2.69%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.23%) Modbus
1 6 (3.23%) MQTT
1 6 (3.23%) Network Security
1 6 (3.23%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.08%) AMQP
3 1 (0.54%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (22.58%) NoSQL
2 23 (12.37%) SQL Server
3 22 (11.83%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (7.53%) MongoDB
5 13 (6.99%) MySQL
6 10 (5.38%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (5.38%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.15%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.15%) Looker
7 4 (2.15%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.61%) Power BI
8 3 (1.61%) Tableau
9 2 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.08%) Big Data
9 2 (1.08%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (1.08%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.08%) Redis
9 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 36 (19.35%) Git
2 20 (10.75%) Jenkins
3 19 (10.22%) GitLab
3 19 (10.22%) JIRA
4 15 (8.06%) Selenium
5 12 (6.45%) Cucumber
6 9 (4.84%) JUnit
7 6 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (2.69%) NUnit
8 5 (2.69%) TeamCity
9 4 (2.15%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.15%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.61%) Gradle
10 3 (1.61%) JMeter
10 3 (1.61%) Maven
10 3 (1.61%) Postman
10 3 (1.61%) Visual Studio
10 3 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (1.08%) MLflow
11 2 (1.08%) MSTest
General
1 71 (38.17%) Social Skills
2 42 (22.58%) Finance
3 21 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.06%) Retail
5 8 (4.30%) Law
5 8 (4.30%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.76%) Games
6 7 (3.76%) Legal
7 5 (2.69%) Banking
7 5 (2.69%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.15%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.61%) Marketing
10 2 (1.08%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.08%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.54%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.54%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 96 (51.61%) Developer
2 42 (22.58%) Senior
3 27 (14.52%) Senior Developer
4 24 (12.90%) Full-Stack Developer
5 19 (10.22%) Architect
6 16 (8.60%) Python Developer
6 16 (8.60%) Software Engineer
7 14 (7.53%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (6.99%) Java Engineer
8 13 (6.99%) Software Developer
9 11 (5.91%) .NET Developer
10 10 (5.38%) Lead
11 8 (4.30%) Automation Developer
11 8 (4.30%) Backend Developer
11 8 (4.30%) Java Developer
11 8 (4.30%) Java Software Engineer
12 7 (3.76%) Technical Manager
12 7 (3.76%) Web Manager
13 6 (3.23%) Firmware Engineer
13 6 (3.23%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (24.73%) RESTful
2 41 (22.04%) .NET
3 40 (21.51%) React
4 35 (18.82%) REST
5 29 (15.59%) Spring
6 27 (14.52%) Spring Boot
7 26 (13.98%) CSS
8 25 (13.44%) HTML
9 22 (11.83%) AngularJS
10 21 (11.29%) Node.js
11 19 (10.22%) .NET Core
11 19 (10.22%) ASP.NET
12 15 (8.06%) pytest
12 15 (8.06%) Vue
13 14 (7.53%) Flask
14 13 (6.99%) LangChain
15 12 (6.45%) Kafka
16 11 (5.91%) FastAPI
16 11 (5.91%) GraphQL
16 11 (5.91%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.13%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.53%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (6.45%) Low-Code
4 10 (5.38%) IoT
4 10 (5.38%) Mobile App
5 8 (4.30%) AI Agents
5 8 (4.30%) Algorithms
6 6 (3.23%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.23%) Device Driver
6 6 (3.23%) Wiki
7 5 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.69%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.61%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.61%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.61%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.61%) YARA
10 2 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.14%) Linux
2 16 (8.60%) Windows
3 8 (4.30%) Unix
4 6 (3.23%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.08%) CentOS
5 2 (1.08%) Debian
5 2 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.08%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (42.47%) CI/CD
2 77 (41.40%) Agile
3 65 (34.95%) DevOps
4 57 (30.65%) Microservices
5 50 (26.88%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (23.66%) Containerisation
7 41 (22.04%) Software Engineering
8 40 (21.51%) API Integration
8 40 (21.51%) Full-Stack Development
9 35 (18.82%) AI
10 28 (15.05%) Mentoring
11 27 (14.52%) Code Quality
11 27 (14.52%) Test Automation
12 26 (13.98%) Machine Learning
13 25 (13.44%) API Design
14 24 (12.90%) TDD
15 23 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
16 21 (11.29%) Migration
17 20 (10.75%) Secure Coding
17 20 (10.75%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 75 (40.32%) Python
2 67 (36.02%) SQL
3 60 (32.26%) JavaScript
4 47 (25.27%) Java
5 46 (24.73%) C#
6 31 (16.67%) TypeScript
7 15 (8.06%) PHP
8 7 (3.76%) C
8 7 (3.76%) C++
9 6 (3.23%) Bicep
9 6 (3.23%) Delphi
9 6 (3.23%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.61%) Ruby
11 2 (1.08%) Bash
11 2 (1.08%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.08%) R
11 2 (1.08%) Search Processing Language
11 2 (1.08%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.08%) XAML
12 1 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (9.14%) Degree
2 11 (5.91%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.23%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.69%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.08%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.08%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.54%) ACCA
7 1 (0.54%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.22%) QA
2 14 (7.53%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.69%) GDPR
3 5 (2.69%) WCAG
4 3 (1.61%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 47 (25.27%) Docker
2 6 (3.23%) Firmware
3 2 (1.08%) Squid
3 2 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 34 (18.28%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.84%) Terraform
3 8 (4.30%) Grafana
4 4 (2.15%) Ansible
5 2 (1.08%) Kibana
5 2 (1.08%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.08%) Puppet
Vendors
1 32 (17.20%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.53%) Oracle
3 8 (4.30%) OpenAI
4 7 (3.76%) Databricks
5 5 (2.69%) iManage
6 4 (2.15%) Google
6 4 (2.15%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.15%) SnapLogic
7 3 (1.61%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.61%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.61%) SAP
7 3 (1.61%) Zoho
8 2 (1.08%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.08%) New Relic
8 2 (1.08%) Rollbar
8 2 (1.08%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.08%) Splunk
8 2 (1.08%) UiPath
9 1 (0.54%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.54%) Intapp