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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 399 515
Rank change year-on-year -124 +116 -23
Permanent jobs citing API Development 218 308 437
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.67% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.73% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 145 250 324
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £41,625
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 £75,188
90th Percentile £90,500 £106,625 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,900 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.18% +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 70,129 42,382 86,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.45% 91.66% 82.23%
Number of salaries quoted 48,378 23,044 61,478
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.12%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.00% - -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 June 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 June 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 -129 204 £60,000 -14.29% 75
UK excluding London -124 128 £55,000 -8.18% 52
London -53 80 £80,000 +3.23% 33
Work from Home -74 54 £54,000 -1.82% 28
North of England -74 43 £60,625 -10.19% 16
Midlands -16 30 £55,000 -0.45% 4
North West -13 28 £70,000 +21.74% 9
South East -32 23 £68,750 +37.50% 13
South West -71 18 £58,750 - 13
East Midlands -4 15 £55,000 -5.17% 3
West Midlands -18 15 £50,000 -4.76% 1
North East -34 13 £47,000 -10.48% 1
East of England -33 8 £45,000 -46.27% 4
Scotland +21 4 £62,500 +12.11% 2
Wales -52 2 £52,500 -25.00%
Yorkshire -59 2 £50,000 -28.57% 6

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 (5.05%) CMS
2 9 (4.13%) Apache
3 7 (3.21%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.75%) IIS
5 5 (2.29%) Appian
5 5 (2.29%) nginx
6 3 (1.38%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.92%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.92%) Confluence
7 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.92%) Moodle
7 2 (0.92%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.92%) WordPress
8 1 (0.46%) ColdFusion
8 1 (0.46%) JBoss
8 1 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.46%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 98 (44.95%) Azure
2 76 (34.86%) AWS
3 37 (16.97%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (15.14%) Serverless
5 32 (14.68%) GCP
6 23 (10.55%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (7.80%) GitHub
8 14 (6.42%) Amazon S3
8 14 (6.42%) LangSmith
9 13 (5.96%) Firebase
10 10 (4.59%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (4.13%) Anthropic Claude
11 9 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (4.13%) Power Platform
12 8 (3.67%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (3.67%) Power Automate
12 8 (3.67%) SaaS
13 7 (3.21%) Apigee
13 7 (3.21%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.75%) AMQP
2 4 (1.83%) Broadband
3 3 (1.38%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.92%) DNS
4 2 (0.92%) HTTP
5 1 (0.46%) LTE
5 1 (0.46%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (16.06%) SQL Server
2 33 (15.14%) MySQL
3 17 (7.80%) Relational Database
4 16 (7.34%) NoSQL
5 14 (6.42%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (4.59%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (4.13%) MongoDB
8 7 (3.21%) Big Data
9 6 (2.75%) Cloudera CDH
9 6 (2.75%) Hadoop
9 6 (2.75%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.83%) Power BI
11 3 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.92%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.92%) Qlik Sense
13 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.46%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 37 (16.97%) Git
2 28 (12.84%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.96%) fastlane
4 8 (3.67%) Postman
5 7 (3.21%) Xcode
6 6 (2.75%) Android Studio
6 6 (2.75%) Crashlytics
6 6 (2.75%) Gradle
6 6 (2.75%) MLflow
7 5 (2.29%) GitLab
7 5 (2.29%) JIRA
8 4 (1.83%) JUnit
8 4 (1.83%) Mockito
8 4 (1.83%) SpecFlow
9 3 (1.38%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.38%) Storybook
9 3 (1.38%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.92%) JMeter
11 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.46%) Subversion
General
1 43 (19.72%) Finance
2 39 (17.89%) Social Skills
3 24 (11.01%) Public Sector
4 22 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (9.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (6.88%) Banking
7 13 (5.96%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.67%) Retail
9 6 (2.75%) Front Office
9 6 (2.75%) Law
10 5 (2.29%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.83%) Legal
12 3 (1.38%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.38%) Marketing
13 2 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.92%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.46%) Advertising
14 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 128 (58.72%) Developer
2 53 (24.31%) Senior
3 37 (16.97%) Senior Developer
4 34 (15.60%) Software Developer
5 33 (15.14%) Full-Stack Developer
6 31 (14.22%) Lead
7 24 (11.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 24 (11.01%) Software Engineer
8 21 (9.63%) .NET Developer
9 18 (8.26%) C# Developer
10 17 (7.80%) Senior Software Developer
11 13 (5.96%) C# Software Developer
11 13 (5.96%) Senior C# Developer
11 13 (5.96%) Senior C# Software Developer
12 11 (5.05%) Java Developer
12 11 (5.05%) Lead Developer
13 9 (4.13%) Python Developer
14 8 (3.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 8 (3.67%) Lead Software Engineer
14 8 (3.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (27.52%) .NET
2 52 (23.85%) RESTful
3 50 (22.94%) REST
4 45 (20.64%) React
5 42 (19.27%) Node.js
6 41 (18.81%) HTML
7 39 (17.89%) CSS
8 32 (14.68%) AngularJS
9 23 (10.55%) ASP.NET
10 21 (9.63%) .NET Core
10 21 (9.63%) OAuth
10 21 (9.63%) OpenAPI
10 21 (9.63%) Spring
10 21 (9.63%) Swagger
11 19 (8.72%) LlamaIndex
11 19 (8.72%) Model Context Protocol
12 18 (8.26%) .NET Framework
12 18 (8.26%) LangChain
12 18 (8.26%) Spring Boot
13 17 (7.80%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 56 (25.69%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.01%) Mobile App
3 18 (8.26%) Product Ownership
4 17 (7.80%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (6.42%) AI Agents
6 13 (5.96%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (5.05%) e-Learning
8 9 (4.13%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (4.13%) Low-Code
9 5 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.38%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.38%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.92%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.92%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.46%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.46%) IoT
12 1 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.80%) Linux
2 8 (3.67%) Android
3 7 (3.21%) Apple iOS
4 6 (2.75%) CentOS
4 6 (2.75%) Debian
4 6 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.75%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.29%) Windows
6 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (49.08%) Agile
2 97 (44.50%) CI/CD
3 75 (34.40%) DevOps
4 72 (33.03%) Full-Stack Development
5 64 (29.36%) AI
5 64 (29.36%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (26.61%) Software Engineering
7 50 (22.94%) Containerisation
8 48 (22.02%) Test Automation
9 46 (21.10%) API Integration
9 46 (21.10%) Microservices
10 44 (20.18%) Mentoring
11 41 (18.81%) Clean Code
12 38 (17.43%) LLM
13 35 (16.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (16.06%) Scrum
14 33 (15.14%) TDD
15 32 (14.68%) Computer Science
16 28 (12.84%) Machine Learning
17 27 (12.39%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 79 (36.24%) Python
2 77 (35.32%) C#
3 59 (27.06%) JavaScript
3 59 (27.06%) SQL
4 34 (15.60%) Java
5 33 (15.14%) TypeScript
6 17 (7.80%) PHP
7 7 (3.21%) Swift
8 6 (2.75%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.29%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.83%) Bash
10 4 (1.83%) Bicep
11 3 (1.38%) C++
11 3 (1.38%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.92%) DataWeave
12 2 (0.92%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.92%) Rust
12 2 (0.92%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.46%) VB
13 1 (0.46%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 35 (16.06%) Degree
2 21 (9.63%) Computer Science Degree
2 21 (9.63%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.34%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.75%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.29%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.92%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.63%) Accessibility
2 14 (6.42%) WCAG
3 9 (4.13%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.75%) QA
5 2 (0.92%) GRC
6 1 (0.46%) GDPR
6 1 (0.46%) NCSC
6 1 (0.46%) NIST
6 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 67 (30.73%) Docker
2 4 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 52 (23.85%) Kubernetes
2 28 (12.84%) Terraform
3 6 (2.75%) Ansible
3 6 (2.75%) Puppet
4 5 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.92%) Grafana
5 2 (0.92%) Kibana
6 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.46%) Nagios
Vendors
1 26 (11.93%) Google
2 21 (9.63%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.88%) Dynatrace
4 11 (5.05%) OpenAI
5 7 (3.21%) Apple
5 7 (3.21%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.75%) SaltStack
6 6 (2.75%) Splunk
7 5 (2.29%) Automation Anywhere
7 5 (2.29%) Oracle
7 5 (2.29%) UiPath
8 2 (0.92%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.92%) Pega
8 2 (0.92%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.92%) Trapeze
8 2 (0.92%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.46%) Foundry
9 1 (0.46%) New Relic
9 1 (0.46%) SAP
9 1 (0.46%) WSO2