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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 371 493
Rank change year-on-year -154 +122 +11
Permanent jobs citing API Development 216 306 456
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.71% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.77% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 136 245 337
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,688 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +19.66% -16.43%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £86,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -5.35%

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 68,838 39,983 83,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.88% 93.25% 83.85%
Number of salaries quoted 44,890 21,039 60,407
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,903 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -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 29 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 29 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 -122 203 £60,000 -14.29% 44
UK excluding London -117 122 £57,500 -8.00% 31
London -45 86 £77,500 -6.06% 19
Work from Home -59 54 £52,500 -4.55% 23
North of England -72 38 £61,875 -8.33% 14
Midlands -16 34 £55,000 -2.22% 1
North West -14 28 £65,000 - 8
West Midlands -32 20 £55,000 +4.76%
South East -43 20 £69,500 +39.00% 14
South West -59 17 £58,750 -6.00% 2
East Midlands -22 14 £55,000 -8.33% 1
North East -29 8 £47,000 -10.48% 4
East of England -38 8 £45,000 -47.06%
Scotland -3 3 £62,500 +38.89%
Wales -46 2 £52,500 -30.00%
Yorkshire -76 2 £50,000 -28.57% 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 (5.09%) CMS
2 9 (4.17%) Apache
2 9 (4.17%) Appian
3 6 (2.78%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.31%) nginx
5 4 (1.85%) Anypoint
5 4 (1.85%) IIS
6 3 (1.39%) Headless CMS
6 3 (1.39%) Moodle
7 2 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.93%) Confluence
7 2 (0.93%) JBoss
7 2 (0.93%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.93%) WordPress
8 1 (0.46%) ColdFusion
8 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 92 (42.59%) Azure
2 74 (34.26%) AWS
3 39 (18.06%) GCP
4 33 (15.28%) Serverless
5 25 (11.57%) AWS Lambda
5 25 (11.57%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (7.41%) Amazon S3
6 16 (7.41%) GitHub
7 13 (6.02%) Anthropic Claude
8 12 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (5.09%) Power Automate
10 10 (4.63%) Azure AI
10 10 (4.63%) Firebase
11 9 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (3.70%) Figma
12 8 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (3.70%) LangSmith
12 8 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.31%) AMQP
2 4 (1.85%) Broadband
3 3 (1.39%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.93%) DNS
4 2 (0.93%) HTTP
4 2 (0.93%) SSL
5 1 (0.46%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 28 (12.96%) MySQL
3 17 (7.87%) Relational Database
4 15 (6.94%) NoSQL
5 12 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (4.63%) Pinecone
7 6 (2.78%) Big Data
7 6 (2.78%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.31%) Cloudera CDH
8 5 (2.31%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.85%) Power BI
10 3 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.93%) Qlik Sense
12 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.46%) Metadata
12 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.46%) Tableau
12 1 (0.46%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 35 (16.20%) Git
2 27 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 10 (4.63%) fastlane
3 10 (4.63%) MLflow
4 8 (3.70%) Storybook
5 7 (3.24%) Postman
6 5 (2.31%) Android Studio
6 5 (2.31%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.31%) Crashlytics
6 5 (2.31%) GitLab
6 5 (2.31%) Gradle
6 5 (2.31%) Xcode
7 4 (1.85%) JIRA
7 4 (1.85%) JUnit
7 4 (1.85%) Mockito
7 4 (1.85%) SpecFlow
7 4 (1.85%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.39%) ESLint
9 2 (0.93%) Subversion
9 2 (0.93%) webpack
General
1 43 (19.91%) Social Skills
2 39 (18.06%) Finance
3 23 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (9.26%) Public Sector
5 18 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (7.41%) Banking
7 10 (4.63%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.70%) Retail
9 5 (2.31%) Front Office
10 4 (1.85%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.85%) Law
11 3 (1.39%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.39%) Marketing
11 3 (1.39%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.46%) Advertising
13 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.46%) Legal
13 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 124 (57.41%) Developer
2 49 (22.69%) Senior
3 39 (18.06%) Full-Stack Developer
4 36 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 34 (15.74%) Lead
6 32 (14.81%) Software Developer
7 25 (11.57%) Software Engineer
8 22 (10.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 19 (8.80%) .NET Developer
10 18 (8.33%) C# Developer
11 17 (7.87%) Senior Software Developer
12 14 (6.48%) Lead Developer
13 13 (6.02%) C# Software Developer
13 13 (6.02%) Senior C# Developer
13 13 (6.02%) Senior C# Software Developer
14 10 (4.63%) Automation Engineer
14 10 (4.63%) Java Developer
15 9 (4.17%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 9 (4.17%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 8 (3.70%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (25.93%) RESTful
2 53 (24.54%) React
3 52 (24.07%) .NET
4 49 (22.69%) Node.js
5 45 (20.83%) REST
6 43 (19.91%) CSS
7 41 (18.98%) HTML
8 29 (13.43%) AngularJS
9 28 (12.96%) OpenAPI
9 28 (12.96%) Swagger
10 27 (12.50%) OAuth
11 22 (10.19%) Spring
12 21 (9.72%) JWT
13 19 (8.80%) .NET Core
13 19 (8.80%) ASP.NET
14 18 (8.33%) Spring Boot
15 17 (7.87%) Vue
16 16 (7.41%) Django
17 14 (6.48%) ASP.NET Web API
18 13 (6.02%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 51 (23.61%) Cloud Native
2 23 (10.65%) Mobile App
3 17 (7.87%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (6.48%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (6.48%) Product Ownership
5 12 (5.56%) Low-Code
6 10 (4.63%) AI Agents
7 9 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (3.70%) e-Learning
9 5 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.39%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.93%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
13 1 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
13 1 (0.46%) Hybrid Cloud
13 1 (0.46%) IoT
13 1 (0.46%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.94%) Linux
2 7 (3.24%) Android
3 5 (2.31%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.31%) CentOS
3 5 (2.31%) Debian
3 5 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.31%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.46%) Windows
4 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (46.30%) Agile
2 97 (44.91%) CI/CD
3 66 (30.56%) AI
3 66 (30.56%) Full-Stack Development
4 65 (30.09%) DevOps
5 59 (27.31%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (25.93%) Containerisation
7 53 (24.54%) Software Engineering
8 50 (23.15%) Mentoring
9 47 (21.76%) Test Automation
10 43 (19.91%) API Integration
10 43 (19.91%) Microservices
11 38 (17.59%) Clean Code
12 34 (15.74%) LLM
13 32 (14.81%) Scrum
14 31 (14.35%) Continuous Improvement
15 29 (13.43%) Machine Learning
15 29 (13.43%) TDD
16 28 (12.96%) Infrastructure as Code
17 27 (12.50%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 77 (35.65%) Python
2 70 (32.41%) C#
3 63 (29.17%) SQL
4 62 (28.70%) JavaScript
5 35 (16.20%) Java
6 31 (14.35%) TypeScript
7 17 (7.87%) PHP
8 5 (2.31%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.31%) Swift
9 4 (1.85%) Bash
9 4 (1.85%) Bicep
10 3 (1.39%) C++
10 3 (1.39%) DataWeave
10 3 (1.39%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.39%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.93%) Rust
11 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.46%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.46%) Ruby
12 1 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 31 (14.35%) Degree
2 19 (8.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (7.87%) Security Cleared
4 12 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.78%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.85%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.46%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.19%) Accessibility
2 13 (6.02%) Data Quality
3 10 (4.63%) WCAG
4 5 (2.31%) QA
5 2 (0.93%) GRC
6 1 (0.46%) GDPR
6 1 (0.46%) NIST
6 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 78 (36.11%) Docker
2 4 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 57 (26.39%) Kubernetes
2 31 (14.35%) Terraform
3 6 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (2.31%) Ansible
4 5 (2.31%) Puppet
5 2 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.93%) Kibana
5 2 (0.93%) Nagios
6 1 (0.46%) Grafana
Vendors
1 31 (14.35%) Google
2 15 (6.94%) OpenAI
3 13 (6.02%) Microsoft
4 12 (5.56%) Dynatrace
5 9 (4.17%) Automation Anywhere
5 9 (4.17%) UiPath
6 7 (3.24%) Atlassian
6 7 (3.24%) Red Hat
6 7 (3.24%) Splunk
7 6 (2.78%) Oracle
8 5 (2.31%) Apple
8 5 (2.31%) SaltStack
9 4 (1.85%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.39%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.93%) New Relic
11 2 (0.93%) Pega
11 2 (0.93%) Trapeze
11 2 (0.93%) Xamarin
12 1 (0.46%) Databricks
12 1 (0.46%) IBM