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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 501 476
Rank change year-on-year -16 -25 -10
Permanent jobs citing API Development 312 173 305
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.35% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.40% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 152 129 167
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,600 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,125 £52,950 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £75,625 £83,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £103,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £57,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.55% -3.75% +4.35%

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 86,468 43,703 59,228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.32% 88.90% 82.25%
Number of salaries quoted 59,116 24,458 31,674
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £78,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.95% -2.78%

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 October 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 12 October 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 -53 242 £70,000 - 233
UK excluding London -26 205 £65,000 +12.55% 109
Work from Home +13 129 £75,000 +25.00% 111
London -46 94 £77,500 +3.33% 133
Northern Ireland -24 58 - - 5
North of England -34 56 £62,500 -3.85% 33
South East -21 38 £75,000 +40.32% 20
North West -18 34 £75,000 +30.43% 20
South West -53 31 £70,000 +33.33% 14
North East - 21 £47,000 - 1
Midlands -41 13 £54,500 -11.02% 16
West Midlands -37 9 £58,750 -6.00% 14
East of England -41 7 £38,750 -53.03% 7
East Midlands -30 4 £54,000 -10.37% 2
Scotland +4 3 £70,000 -23.29% 11
Yorkshire -50 1 - - 12

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 (4.17%) Apache
2 11 (3.53%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.24%) Confluence
3 7 (2.24%) nginx
4 6 (1.92%) IIS
5 5 (1.60%) JBoss
6 4 (1.28%) CMS
7 3 (0.96%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.96%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.96%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.32%) Endur
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 135 (43.27%) Azure
2 81 (25.96%) AWS
3 51 (16.35%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (11.86%) GCP
5 33 (10.58%) Serverless
6 29 (9.29%) LangSmith
7 14 (4.49%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (4.49%) BigCommerce
7 14 (4.49%) GitHub
7 14 (4.49%) OpenShift
8 12 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (3.85%) Power Platform
9 11 (3.53%) Azure Functions
9 11 (3.53%) Firebase
9 11 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (2.88%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (2.56%) Datadog
12 7 (2.24%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.24%) AMQP
2 5 (1.60%) SSL
3 3 (0.96%) HTTP
3 3 (0.96%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.32%) DNS
4 1 (0.32%) TETRA
4 1 (0.32%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (7.05%) SQL Server
3 21 (6.73%) MySQL
4 19 (6.09%) Relational Database
5 16 (5.13%) NoSQL
6 11 (3.53%) Big Data
7 9 (2.88%) MongoDB
8 8 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (2.24%) Cloudera CDH
9 7 (2.24%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.92%) DynamoDB
11 5 (1.60%) Geospatial Data
11 5 (1.60%) Power BI
12 4 (1.28%) Metadata
12 4 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (1.28%) Tableau
13 3 (0.96%) Redis
13 3 (0.96%) Spark SQL
13 3 (0.96%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 47 (15.06%) Git
2 26 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.53%) fastlane
4 10 (3.21%) JIRA
5 9 (2.88%) GitLab
6 6 (1.92%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.92%) Xcode
7 5 (1.60%) Android Studio
7 5 (1.60%) Crashlytics
7 5 (1.60%) Gradle
7 5 (1.60%) MSI
8 4 (1.28%) Postman
8 4 (1.28%) Subversion
9 3 (0.96%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.96%) CMake
9 3 (0.96%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.96%) JUnit
9 3 (0.96%) Mockito
9 3 (0.96%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.64%) Mocha
General
1 67 (21.47%) Legal
2 60 (19.23%) Finance
3 51 (16.35%) Social Skills
4 37 (11.86%) Law
5 32 (10.26%) Public Sector
6 28 (8.97%) Legal Technology
7 25 (8.01%) Financial Institution
8 23 (7.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
10 21 (6.73%) Banking
11 9 (2.88%) Retail
12 8 (2.56%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.96%) Electronics
14 3 (0.96%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.64%) Front Office
15 2 (0.64%) iGaming
15 2 (0.64%) Marketing
15 2 (0.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 192 (61.54%) Developer
2 127 (40.71%) Senior
3 105 (33.65%) Senior Developer
4 44 (14.10%) Software Engineer
5 31 (9.94%) Software Developer
6 30 (9.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 22 (7.05%) C# Developer
8 17 (5.45%) Lead
9 16 (5.13%) Applications Developer
9 16 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
9 16 (5.13%) Python Developer
10 15 (4.81%) .NET Developer
10 15 (4.81%) Backend Developer
10 15 (4.81%) Senior C# Developer
10 15 (4.81%) Senior Software Developer
11 14 (4.49%) Applications Support
11 14 (4.49%) Applications Support Analyst
11 14 (4.49%) C# Software Developer
11 14 (4.49%) Senior C# Software Developer
11 14 (4.49%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (41.99%) .NET
2 61 (19.55%) RESTful
3 58 (18.59%) REST
4 48 (15.38%) React
5 36 (11.54%) Terraform
6 33 (10.58%) Node.js
7 32 (10.26%) LangChain
8 31 (9.94%) LlamaIndex
9 30 (9.62%) Model Context Protocol
10 29 (9.29%) .NET Framework
10 29 (9.29%) Langfuse
11 25 (8.01%) AngularJS
11 25 (8.01%) HTML
11 25 (8.01%) Spring
12 23 (7.37%) .NET Core
12 23 (7.37%) ASP.NET
12 23 (7.37%) CSS
13 20 (6.41%) Swagger
14 19 (6.09%) Entity Framework
14 19 (6.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 86 (27.56%) Cloud Native
2 36 (11.54%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (10.90%) AI Agents
3 34 (10.90%) Mobile App
4 25 (8.01%) e-Learning
5 24 (7.69%) Product Ownership
6 13 (4.17%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.60%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.60%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.60%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.60%) Social Media
11 4 (1.28%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.28%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.96%) Blog
12 3 (0.96%) IoT
12 3 (0.96%) Mobile Wallet
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.45%) Linux
2 11 (3.53%) Windows
3 8 (2.56%) Android
3 8 (2.56%) Apple iOS
3 8 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (2.56%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.24%) CentOS
4 7 (2.24%) Debian
5 3 (0.96%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (62.18%) Agile
2 173 (55.45%) CI/CD
3 134 (42.95%) Problem-Solving
4 127 (40.71%) Microservices
5 115 (36.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 110 (35.26%) Software Engineering
7 95 (30.45%) DevOps
8 88 (28.21%) AI
9 84 (26.92%) Full-Stack Development
10 80 (25.64%) Software Architecture
11 79 (25.32%) Architectural Patterns
12 75 (24.04%) Software Testing
13 74 (23.72%) Sprint Planning
14 72 (23.08%) Workflow
15 68 (21.79%) Enterprise Architecture
16 67 (21.47%) Data Governance
17 66 (21.15%) Acceptance Criteria
17 66 (21.15%) Sprint Retrospective
18 63 (20.19%) Information Security
18 63 (20.19%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 145 (46.47%) C#
2 101 (32.37%) Python
3 56 (17.95%) JavaScript
4 52 (16.67%) SQL
5 43 (13.78%) Java
6 35 (11.22%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.56%) Bicep
8 6 (1.92%) C++
8 6 (1.92%) Swift
9 5 (1.60%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.60%) PHP
9 5 (1.60%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.28%) Bash
10 4 (1.28%) Scala
10 4 (1.28%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.96%) Embedded C++
11 3 (0.96%) R
11 3 (0.96%) VB
11 3 (0.96%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 50 (16.03%) Security Cleared
2 45 (14.42%) Degree
3 39 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (3.53%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.92%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.64%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (25.32%) QA
2 20 (6.41%) Accessibility
3 17 (5.45%) WCAG
4 7 (2.24%) GDPR
5 6 (1.92%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.60%) NCSC
7 3 (0.96%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.96%) PSD2
8 1 (0.32%) NIST
8 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 72 (23.08%) Docker
2 5 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 60 (19.23%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.21%) Ansible
3 8 (2.56%) Puppet
4 7 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (1.60%) Grafana
5 5 (1.60%) Nagios
6 3 (0.96%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.64%) Kibana
8 1 (0.32%) Consul
8 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 35 (11.22%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.05%) Google
3 13 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 12 (3.85%) Red Hat
5 10 (3.21%) Databricks
5 10 (3.21%) Splunk
6 7 (2.24%) SaltStack
7 6 (1.92%) Apple
8 5 (1.60%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.60%) New Relic
8 5 (1.60%) Oracle
9 4 (1.28%) YouTube
10 3 (0.96%) SAP
11 2 (0.64%) Foundry
11 2 (0.64%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.64%) WSO2
12 1 (0.32%) IFS
12 1 (0.32%) Mistral
12 1 (0.32%) Refinitiv
12 1 (0.32%) Xamarin