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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 407 511
Rank change year-on-year -113 +104 -26
Permanent jobs citing API Development 245 310 418
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.64% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.71% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 146 253 308
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £42,125
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 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,033 £59,900 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.12% +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 71,935 43,736 84,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.79% 90.86% 82.47%
Number of salaries quoted 49,710 24,302 59,641
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 £54,068 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.14% - -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 8 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 8 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 -129 204 £60,000 -14.29% 96
UK excluding London -87 155 £58,033 -3.12% 66
Work from Home -59 81 £54,000 -1.82% 53
London -59 81 £80,000 +3.23% 43
North of England -65 43 £60,625 -10.19% 19
North West -21 28 £70,000 +21.74% 9
Northern Ireland -33 27 - - 3
Midlands -12 26 £55,000 -0.45% 4
South East -38 23 £68,750 +37.50% 13
South West -57 21 £60,000 +2.13% 15
West Midlands -13 15 £55,000 +4.76% 2
North East -33 13 £47,000 -10.48% 3
East Midlands -15 11 £55,000 -5.17% 2
East of England -46 8 £45,000 -46.27% 7
Scotland +14 5 £62,500 +12.11% 3
Yorkshire -51 2 £50,000 -28.57% 7
Wales -65 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%) Appian
7 3 (1.22%) Confluence
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
1 102 (41.63%) Azure
2 73 (29.80%) AWS
3 39 (15.92%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (13.06%) GCP
5 29 (11.84%) Serverless
6 18 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (6.94%) GitHub
8 16 (6.53%) LangSmith
9 13 (5.31%) Firebase
10 11 (4.49%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (4.08%) Amazon S3
11 10 (4.08%) Power Platform
12 9 (3.67%) Anthropic Claude
12 9 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (3.27%) SaaS
14 7 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (2.86%) OpenShift
14 7 (2.86%) Power Automate
15 6 (2.45%) Azure Logic Apps
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 34 (13.88%) MySQL
1 34 (13.88%) SQL Server
2 17 (6.94%) NoSQL
2 17 (6.94%) Relational Database
3 15 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.67%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.86%) Big Data
6 6 (2.45%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (2.45%) Cloudera CDH
6 6 (2.45%) Hadoop
7 5 (2.04%) Pinecone
8 4 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.63%) Power BI
9 3 (1.22%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.82%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.82%) Qlik Sense
11 1 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.41%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 38 (15.51%) Git
2 27 (11.02%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.31%) fastlane
4 7 (2.86%) Postman
4 7 (2.86%) Xcode
5 6 (2.45%) Android Studio
5 6 (2.45%) Crashlytics
5 6 (2.45%) GitLab
5 6 (2.45%) Gradle
5 6 (2.45%) JIRA
6 5 (2.04%) MLflow
7 4 (1.63%) JUnit
7 4 (1.63%) Mockito
7 4 (1.63%) SpecFlow
8 3 (1.22%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.22%) Storybook
8 3 (1.22%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.82%) JMeter
9 2 (0.82%) MSI
10 1 (0.41%) Subversion
General
1 45 (18.37%) Finance
2 38 (15.51%) Social Skills
3 34 (13.88%) Law
4 32 (13.06%) Legal
5 28 (11.43%) Legal Technology
6 25 (10.20%) Public Sector
7 22 (8.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (7.35%) 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
1 154 (62.86%) Developer
2 81 (33.06%) Senior
3 66 (26.94%) Senior Developer
4 34 (13.88%) Software Developer
5 27 (11.02%) Full-Stack Developer
5 27 (11.02%) Lead
6 25 (10.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 25 (10.20%) Software Engineer
7 20 (8.16%) .NET Developer
8 18 (7.35%) C# Developer
9 17 (6.94%) Senior Software Developer
10 13 (5.31%) C# Software Developer
10 13 (5.31%) Senior C# Developer
10 13 (5.31%) Senior C# Software Developer
11 11 (4.49%) Python Developer
12 10 (4.08%) Java Developer
13 8 (3.27%) Backend Developer
13 8 (3.27%) Lead Developer
13 8 (3.27%) Lead Software Engineer
14 7 (2.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (36.33%) .NET
2 55 (22.45%) RESTful
3 49 (20.00%) REST
4 40 (16.33%) React
5 39 (15.92%) HTML
5 39 (15.92%) Node.js
6 36 (14.69%) CSS
7 32 (13.06%) AngularJS
8 24 (9.80%) ASP.NET
9 21 (8.57%) .NET Core
9 21 (8.57%) LlamaIndex
9 21 (8.57%) Model Context Protocol
10 20 (8.16%) LangChain
10 20 (8.16%) OpenAPI
11 19 (7.76%) .NET Framework
11 19 (7.76%) OAuth
11 19 (7.76%) Spring
11 19 (7.76%) Swagger
12 17 (6.94%) Vue
13 16 (6.53%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 61 (24.90%) Cloud Native
2 24 (9.80%) Mobile App
3 20 (8.16%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (7.35%) Product Ownership
5 16 (6.53%) AI Agents
6 13 (5.31%) e-Learning
6 13 (5.31%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (3.67%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.04%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.22%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.82%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.82%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.82%) Mobile Wallet
10 2 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.41%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.41%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.94%) Linux
2 8 (3.27%) Android
3 7 (2.86%) Apple iOS
4 6 (2.45%) CentOS
4 6 (2.45%) Debian
4 6 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.45%) Ubuntu
4 6 (2.45%) Windows
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (56.33%) Agile
2 124 (50.61%) CI/CD
3 89 (36.33%) Problem-Solving
4 87 (35.51%) Software Engineering
5 77 (31.43%) DevOps
5 77 (31.43%) Microservices
6 70 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
7 67 (27.35%) AI
8 63 (25.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 50 (20.41%) Architectural Patterns
10 49 (20.00%) API Integration
11 48 (19.59%) Containerisation
11 48 (19.59%) Test Automation
12 44 (17.96%) Workflow
13 41 (16.73%) LLM
13 41 (16.73%) Mentoring
14 39 (15.92%) Clean Code
15 38 (15.51%) Sprint Planning
16 36 (14.69%) Scrum
17 33 (13.47%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 108 (44.08%) C#
2 79 (32.24%) Python
3 58 (23.67%) JavaScript
4 56 (22.86%) SQL
5 35 (14.29%) Java
6 33 (13.47%) TypeScript
7 16 (6.53%) PHP
8 7 (2.86%) Swift
9 6 (2.45%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.04%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.63%) Bash
11 4 (1.63%) 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%) Ruby
14 1 (0.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 33 (13.47%) Degree
2 22 (8.98%) Security Cleared
3 17 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (6.53%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.45%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.04%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.82%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (14.29%) QA
2 22 (8.98%) Accessibility
3 16 (6.53%) WCAG
4 8 (3.27%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.22%) GDPR
6 2 (0.82%) GRC
6 2 (0.82%) NCSC
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 64 (26.12%) Docker
2 4 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 50 (20.41%) 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 25 (10.20%) Google
2 22 (8.98%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.12%) Dynatrace
4 10 (4.08%) 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 4 (1.63%) Automation Anywhere
8 4 (1.63%) UiPath
9 3 (1.22%) Databricks
10 2 (0.82%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.82%) Pega
10 2 (0.82%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.82%) Trapeze
10 2 (0.82%) Xamarin
11 1 (0.41%) Foundry
11 1 (0.41%) New Relic
11 1 (0.41%) WSO2