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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 400 513
Rank change year-on-year -121 +113 -34
Permanent jobs citing API Development 245 312 406
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.63% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.70% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 150 254 301
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,125 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,188 £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 £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,565 £59,900 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.23% +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 72,826 44,439 83,222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.81% 90.30% 82.24%
Number of salaries quoted 50,337 24,847 58,274
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £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 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 12 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 12 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 -112 204 £60,000 -14.29% 100
UK excluding London -92 158 £58,565 -2.23% 70
Work from Home -67 80 £54,000 -4.00% 41
London -50 78 £80,000 +3.23% 46
North of England -38 45 £60,625 -10.19% 21
North West -24 28 £70,000 +21.74% 12
Northern Ireland -33 27 - - 1
Midlands -18 26 £55,000 -0.45% 4
South East -39 23 £68,750 +37.50% 12
South West -58 22 £60,000 +2.13% 23
West Midlands -15 15 £55,000 +4.76% 2
North East -41 15 £47,000 -10.48% 2
East Midlands -18 11 £55,000 -5.17% 2
East of England -40 8 £45,000 -46.27% 4
Scotland +13 5 £62,500 +12.11% 3
Yorkshire -53 2 £50,000 -28.57% 7
Wales -59 2 £52,500 -25.00% 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 11 (4.49%) CMS
2 9 (3.67%) Apache
3 7 (2.86%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.45%) IIS
5 5 (2.04%) nginx
6 4 (1.63%) Confluence
7 3 (1.22%) Appian
7 3 (1.22%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.82%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.82%) Moodle
8 2 (0.82%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.82%) WordPress
9 1 (0.41%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.41%) JBoss
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.63%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.82%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.41%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 100 (40.82%) Azure
2 74 (30.20%) AWS
3 39 (15.92%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (12.24%) GCP
5 29 (11.84%) Serverless
6 18 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (6.53%) GitHub
7 16 (6.53%) LangSmith
8 13 (5.31%) Firebase
9 12 (4.90%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (4.49%) Amazon S3
11 10 (4.08%) Power Platform
12 9 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (3.27%) Anthropic Claude
13 8 (3.27%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (3.27%) OpenShift
13 8 (3.27%) SaaS
14 6 (2.45%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (2.45%) Google Play
14 6 (2.45%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.45%) AMQP
2 4 (1.63%) Broadband
3 3 (1.22%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.82%) DNS
4 2 (0.82%) HTTP
5 1 (0.41%) LTE
5 1 (0.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.29%) MySQL
2 33 (13.47%) SQL Server
3 17 (6.94%) NoSQL
3 17 (6.94%) Relational Database
4 16 (6.53%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (4.08%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.86%) Big Data
7 6 (2.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (2.45%) Cloudera CDH
7 6 (2.45%) Hadoop
8 4 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.63%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.63%) Pinecone
8 4 (1.63%) Power BI
9 3 (1.22%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.82%) Qlik Sense
11 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 40 (16.33%) Git
2 26 (10.61%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.31%) fastlane
4 7 (2.86%) GitLab
4 7 (2.86%) JIRA
4 7 (2.86%) Xcode
5 6 (2.45%) Android Studio
5 6 (2.45%) Crashlytics
5 6 (2.45%) Gradle
5 6 (2.45%) Postman
6 4 (1.63%) JUnit
6 4 (1.63%) MLflow
6 4 (1.63%) Mockito
6 4 (1.63%) SpecFlow
7 3 (1.22%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.22%) MSI
7 3 (1.22%) Storybook
8 2 (0.82%) JMeter
9 1 (0.41%) Subversion
9 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (17.14%) Finance
2 37 (15.10%) Social Skills
3 34 (13.88%) Law
4 32 (13.06%) Legal
5 28 (11.43%) Legal Technology
6 26 (10.61%) Public Sector
7 23 (9.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (6.94%) Banking
10 15 (6.12%) Financial Institution
11 10 (4.08%) Retail
12 6 (2.45%) Front Office
13 5 (2.04%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.22%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.22%) Marketing
15 2 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.82%) Retail Banking
16 1 (0.41%) Advertising
16 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 158 (64.49%) Developer
2 82 (33.47%) Senior
3 67 (27.35%) Senior Developer
4 35 (14.29%) Software Developer
5 28 (11.43%) Full-Stack Developer
6 25 (10.20%) Software Engineer
7 24 (9.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 24 (9.80%) Lead
8 21 (8.57%) .NET Developer
9 18 (7.35%) C# Developer
10 17 (6.94%) Senior Software Developer
11 13 (5.31%) C# Software Developer
11 13 (5.31%) Senior C# Developer
11 13 (5.31%) Senior C# Software Developer
12 12 (4.90%) Python Developer
13 10 (4.08%) Java Developer
14 8 (3.27%) Backend Developer
14 8 (3.27%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 8 (3.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 8 (3.27%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (35.92%) .NET
2 57 (23.27%) RESTful
3 49 (20.00%) REST
4 40 (16.33%) HTML
4 40 (16.33%) React
5 38 (15.51%) Node.js
6 37 (15.10%) CSS
7 31 (12.65%) AngularJS
8 24 (9.80%) ASP.NET
9 21 (8.57%) .NET Framework
9 21 (8.57%) LlamaIndex
9 21 (8.57%) Model Context Protocol
10 20 (8.16%) LangChain
11 19 (7.76%) .NET Core
11 19 (7.76%) OpenAPI
12 18 (7.35%) Spring
13 17 (6.94%) OAuth
13 17 (6.94%) Swagger
14 16 (6.53%) Langfuse
14 16 (6.53%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 62 (25.31%) Cloud Native
2 24 (9.80%) Mobile App
3 22 (8.98%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (7.35%) Product Ownership
5 16 (6.53%) AI Agents
6 13 (5.31%) e-Learning
7 12 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (3.67%) Low-Code
9 7 (2.86%) Onboarding
10 5 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.22%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.82%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.82%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.82%) Mobile Wallet
12 2 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.41%) Hybrid Cloud
13 1 (0.41%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.94%) Linux
2 8 (3.27%) Android
3 7 (2.86%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.86%) Windows
4 6 (2.45%) CentOS
4 6 (2.45%) Debian
4 6 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.45%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (56.73%) Agile
2 122 (49.80%) CI/CD
3 89 (36.33%) Problem-Solving
4 88 (35.92%) Software Engineering
5 76 (31.02%) DevOps
5 76 (31.02%) Microservices
6 73 (29.80%) Full-Stack Development
7 67 (27.35%) AI
8 61 (24.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 50 (20.41%) API Integration
10 48 (19.59%) Containerisation
10 48 (19.59%) Test Automation
11 47 (19.18%) Architectural Patterns
12 43 (17.55%) Workflow
13 41 (16.73%) LLM
14 39 (15.92%) Clean Code
15 38 (15.51%) Sprint Planning
16 37 (15.10%) Mentoring
17 36 (14.69%) Scrum
18 34 (13.88%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 107 (43.67%) C#
2 79 (32.24%) Python
3 59 (24.08%) JavaScript
4 55 (22.45%) SQL
5 35 (14.29%) Java
6 33 (13.47%) TypeScript
7 15 (6.12%) PHP
8 7 (2.86%) Swift
9 6 (2.45%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.04%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.63%) Bash
12 3 (1.22%) Bicep
12 3 (1.22%) C++
12 3 (1.22%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.82%) DataWeave
13 2 (0.82%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.82%) Rust
13 2 (0.82%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.41%) Go
14 1 (0.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 33 (13.47%) Degree
2 25 (10.20%) Security Cleared
3 18 (7.35%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.22%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.82%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (14.29%) QA
2 23 (9.39%) Accessibility
3 17 (6.94%) WCAG
4 7 (2.86%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.22%) GDPR
5 3 (1.22%) NCSC
6 2 (0.82%) GRC
6 2 (0.82%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.82%) PSD2
7 1 (0.41%) NIST
7 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 60 (24.49%) Docker
2 4 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 48 (19.59%) Kubernetes
2 28 (11.43%) Terraform
3 6 (2.45%) Ansible
3 6 (2.45%) Puppet
4 5 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.63%) Grafana
6 2 (0.82%) Kibana
6 2 (0.82%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.41%) Nagios
Vendors
1 24 (9.80%) Google
2 21 (8.57%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.12%) Dynatrace
4 9 (3.67%) OpenAI
5 7 (2.86%) Apple
5 7 (2.86%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.45%) SaltStack
6 6 (2.45%) Splunk
7 5 (2.04%) Oracle
8 3 (1.22%) Automation Anywhere
8 3 (1.22%) Databricks
8 3 (1.22%) UiPath
9 2 (0.82%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.82%) Pega
9 2 (0.82%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.82%) Trapeze
9 2 (0.82%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.41%) Foundry
10 1 (0.41%) New Relic
10 1 (0.41%) WSO2