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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 396 508
Rank change year-on-year -122 +112 -21
Permanent jobs citing API Development 241 311 414
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.64% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.70% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 145 254 307
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,125 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,000 £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 £75,000 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £59,900 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.01% +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 72,315 44,278 84,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.86% 90.47% 82.35%
Number of salaries quoted 49,904 24,657 59,064
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,772 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.54% - -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 10 July 2026.

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 10 July 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 -130 200 £60,000 -14.29% 81
UK excluding London -98 154 £57,500 -4.01% 60
Work from Home -55 80 £54,000 -4.00% 37
London -58 78 £80,000 +3.23% 36
North of England -60 43 £60,625 -10.19% 19
North West -14 28 £70,000 +21.74% 10
Northern Ireland -35 27 - - 2
Midlands -18 26 £55,000 -0.45% 4
South East -51 23 £68,750 +37.50% 11
South West -59 20 £58,750 - 13
West Midlands -12 15 £55,000 +4.76% 2
North East -34 13 £47,000 -10.48% 2
East Midlands -12 11 £55,000 -5.17% 2
East of England -33 8 £45,000 -46.27% 5
Scotland +18 5 £62,500 +12.11% 3
Yorkshire -54 2 £50,000 -28.57% 7
Wales -60 2 £52,500 -25.00% 3

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 (4.56%) CMS
2 9 (3.73%) Apache
3 7 (2.90%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.49%) IIS
5 5 (2.07%) nginx
6 3 (1.24%) Appian
6 3 (1.24%) Confluence
6 3 (1.24%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.83%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.83%) Moodle
7 2 (0.83%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.83%) WordPress
8 1 (0.41%) ColdFusion
8 1 (0.41%) JBoss
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.66%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.83%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.41%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 99 (41.08%) Azure
2 72 (29.88%) AWS
3 38 (15.77%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (12.45%) GCP
5 29 (12.03%) Serverless
6 18 (7.47%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (6.64%) GitHub
7 16 (6.64%) LangSmith
8 13 (5.39%) Firebase
9 11 (4.56%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (4.15%) Amazon S3
10 10 (4.15%) Power Platform
11 9 (3.73%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (3.32%) Anthropic Claude
12 8 (3.32%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (3.32%) SaaS
13 7 (2.90%) OpenShift
14 6 (2.49%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (2.49%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (2.49%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.49%) AMQP
2 4 (1.66%) Broadband
3 3 (1.24%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.83%) DNS
4 2 (0.83%) HTTP
5 1 (0.41%) LTE
5 1 (0.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (14.11%) MySQL
2 33 (13.69%) SQL Server
3 17 (7.05%) Relational Database
4 16 (6.64%) NoSQL
5 15 (6.22%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (3.73%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.90%) Big Data
8 6 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.49%) Cloudera CDH
8 6 (2.49%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.66%) Pinecone
9 4 (1.66%) Power BI
10 3 (1.24%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.83%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.83%) Qlik Sense
12 1 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 38 (15.77%) Git
2 26 (10.79%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.39%) fastlane
4 7 (2.90%) Xcode
5 6 (2.49%) Android Studio
5 6 (2.49%) Crashlytics
5 6 (2.49%) GitLab
5 6 (2.49%) Gradle
5 6 (2.49%) JIRA
5 6 (2.49%) Postman
6 4 (1.66%) JUnit
6 4 (1.66%) MLflow
6 4 (1.66%) Mockito
6 4 (1.66%) SpecFlow
7 3 (1.24%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.24%) Storybook
8 2 (0.83%) JMeter
8 2 (0.83%) MSI
8 2 (0.83%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.41%) Subversion
General
1 43 (17.84%) Finance
2 36 (14.94%) Social Skills
3 34 (14.11%) Law
4 32 (13.28%) Legal
5 28 (11.62%) Legal Technology
6 25 (10.37%) Public Sector
7 22 (9.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (7.05%) Banking
10 15 (6.22%) Financial Institution
11 10 (4.15%) Retail
12 6 (2.49%) Front Office
13 5 (2.07%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.24%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.24%) Marketing
15 2 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.83%) Retail Banking
16 1 (0.41%) Advertising
16 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 154 (63.90%) Developer
2 81 (33.61%) Senior
3 66 (27.39%) Senior Developer
4 34 (14.11%) Software Developer
5 27 (11.20%) Full-Stack Developer
6 25 (10.37%) Lead
7 24 (9.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 24 (9.96%) Software Engineer
8 20 (8.30%) .NET Developer
9 18 (7.47%) C# Developer
10 17 (7.05%) Senior Software Developer
11 13 (5.39%) C# Software Developer
11 13 (5.39%) Senior C# Developer
11 13 (5.39%) Senior C# Software Developer
12 11 (4.56%) Python Developer
13 10 (4.15%) Java Developer
14 8 (3.32%) Backend Developer
14 8 (3.32%) Lead Developer
15 7 (2.90%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 7 (2.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (36.10%) .NET
2 54 (22.41%) RESTful
3 47 (19.50%) REST
4 39 (16.18%) HTML
4 39 (16.18%) React
5 38 (15.77%) Node.js
6 36 (14.94%) CSS
7 31 (12.86%) AngularJS
8 24 (9.96%) ASP.NET
9 21 (8.71%) LlamaIndex
9 21 (8.71%) Model Context Protocol
10 20 (8.30%) LangChain
11 19 (7.88%) .NET Core
11 19 (7.88%) .NET Framework
11 19 (7.88%) OpenAPI
12 18 (7.47%) Spring
13 17 (7.05%) OAuth
13 17 (7.05%) Swagger
14 16 (6.64%) Vue
15 15 (6.22%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 60 (24.90%) Cloud Native
2 24 (9.96%) Mobile App
3 20 (8.30%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (7.47%) Product Ownership
5 16 (6.64%) AI Agents
6 13 (5.39%) e-Learning
7 11 (4.56%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (3.73%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (3.32%) Low-Code
10 5 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (2.07%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.24%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.83%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.83%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.83%) Mobile Wallet
12 2 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.41%) IoT
13 1 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.05%) Linux
2 8 (3.32%) Android
3 7 (2.90%) Apple iOS
4 6 (2.49%) CentOS
4 6 (2.49%) Debian
4 6 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.49%) Ubuntu
4 6 (2.49%) Windows
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (56.85%) Agile
2 120 (49.79%) CI/CD
3 88 (36.51%) Problem-Solving
4 86 (35.68%) Software Engineering
5 75 (31.12%) Microservices
6 74 (30.71%) DevOps
7 70 (29.05%) Full-Stack Development
8 66 (27.39%) AI
9 61 (25.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 48 (19.92%) API Integration
10 48 (19.92%) Architectural Patterns
11 47 (19.50%) Containerisation
11 47 (19.50%) Test Automation
12 43 (17.84%) Workflow
13 40 (16.60%) LLM
14 38 (15.77%) Clean Code
14 38 (15.77%) Mentoring
14 38 (15.77%) Sprint Planning
15 36 (14.94%) Scrum
16 33 (13.69%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 106 (43.98%) C#
2 77 (31.95%) Python
3 56 (23.24%) JavaScript
4 54 (22.41%) SQL
5 34 (14.11%) Java
6 32 (13.28%) TypeScript
7 15 (6.22%) PHP
8 7 (2.90%) Swift
9 6 (2.49%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.07%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.66%) Bash
12 3 (1.24%) Bicep
12 3 (1.24%) C++
12 3 (1.24%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.83%) DataWeave
13 2 (0.83%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.83%) Rust
13 2 (0.83%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.41%) Go
14 1 (0.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 33 (13.69%) Degree
2 22 (9.13%) Security Cleared
3 17 (7.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (6.64%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.49%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.66%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.83%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (14.52%) QA
2 22 (9.13%) Accessibility
3 16 (6.64%) WCAG
4 7 (2.90%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.24%) GDPR
6 2 (0.83%) GRC
6 2 (0.83%) NCSC
6 2 (0.83%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.83%) PSD2
7 1 (0.41%) NIST
7 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 60 (24.90%) Docker
2 4 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 46 (19.09%) Kubernetes
2 27 (11.20%) Terraform
3 6 (2.49%) Ansible
3 6 (2.49%) Puppet
4 5 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.66%) Grafana
6 2 (0.83%) Kibana
6 2 (0.83%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.41%) Nagios
Vendors
1 24 (9.96%) Google
2 21 (8.71%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.22%) Dynatrace
4 9 (3.73%) OpenAI
5 7 (2.90%) Apple
5 7 (2.90%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.49%) SaltStack
6 6 (2.49%) Splunk
7 5 (2.07%) Oracle
8 3 (1.24%) Automation Anywhere
8 3 (1.24%) Databricks
8 3 (1.24%) UiPath
9 2 (0.83%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.83%) Pega
9 2 (0.83%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.83%) Trapeze
9 2 (0.83%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.41%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.41%) Foundry
10 1 (0.41%) SAP