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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 419 527
Rank change year-on-year -74 +108 -36
Permanent jobs citing API Development 275 300 348
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.61% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.68% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 153 247 251
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,000 £107,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% +0.87% -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 74,007 44,123 74,573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.62% 89.89% 81.72%
Number of salaries quoted 51,106 24,962 50,806
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
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 24 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 24 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 -128 211 £61,875 -11.61% 101
UK excluding London -59 187 £60,000 +3.45% 76
Work from Home -48 107 £54,000 -6.09% 51
London -58 82 £77,500 - 38
Northern Ireland -23 52 - - 1
North of England -55 48 £61,250 -9.26% 24
North West -18 29 £75,000 +22.45% 17
South West -49 26 £60,000 +14.29% 21
South East -25 24 £65,000 +30.00% 17
Midlands -28 21 £55,000 -5.17% 4
North East - 17 £47,000 - 2
West Midlands -33 13 £55,000 -4.35% 3
East Midlands -20 8 £54,500 -6.03% 1
East of England -36 8 £45,000 -47.06% 5
Scotland +19 6 £66,250 +18.83% 3
Yorkshire -55 2 £50,000 -28.57% 5
Wales -65 2 £52,500 -27.59% 1

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 10 (3.64%) Apache
1 10 (3.64%) CMS
2 8 (2.91%) nginx
3 6 (2.18%) IIS
4 5 (1.82%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.45%) Confluence
5 4 (1.45%) JBoss
6 3 (1.09%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.73%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.73%) Moodle
7 2 (0.73%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.36%) Appian
8 1 (0.36%) ColdFusion
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.73%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.73%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 103 (37.45%) Azure
2 73 (26.55%) AWS
3 42 (15.27%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (9.82%) GCP
5 26 (9.45%) Serverless
6 18 (6.55%) LangSmith
7 15 (5.45%) GitHub
8 14 (5.09%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (4.73%) Firebase
10 11 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (4.00%) Power Platform
11 10 (3.64%) Amazon S3
12 9 (3.27%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (2.91%) OpenShift
13 8 (2.91%) SaaS
14 7 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (2.55%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (2.55%) Datadog
15 6 (2.18%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (2.18%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.45%) AMQP
1 4 (1.45%) Broadband
1 4 (1.45%) SSL
2 3 (1.09%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.73%) DNS
3 2 (0.73%) HTTP
4 1 (0.36%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (13.45%) MySQL
2 34 (12.36%) SQL Server
3 19 (6.91%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (6.18%) NoSQL
5 16 (5.82%) Relational Database
6 11 (4.00%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.18%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.82%) Big Data
9 4 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.45%) Cloudera CDH
9 4 (1.45%) Geospatial Data
9 4 (1.45%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.09%) Power BI
11 2 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.73%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.73%) Qlik Sense
12 1 (0.36%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 46 (16.73%) Git
2 27 (9.82%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.73%) fastlane
4 8 (2.91%) GitLab
5 7 (2.55%) JIRA
5 7 (2.55%) Xcode
6 6 (2.18%) Android Studio
6 6 (2.18%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.18%) Crashlytics
6 6 (2.18%) Gradle
6 6 (2.18%) Postman
7 4 (1.45%) JUnit
7 4 (1.45%) Mockito
7 4 (1.45%) MSI
7 4 (1.45%) SpecFlow
8 3 (1.09%) Storybook
8 3 (1.09%) Subversion
9 2 (0.73%) JMeter
9 2 (0.73%) MLflow
10 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 61 (22.18%) Legal
2 41 (14.91%) Finance
3 37 (13.45%) Social Skills
4 36 (13.09%) Law
5 28 (10.18%) Legal Technology
6 27 (9.82%) Public Sector
7 25 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (6.91%) Banking
9 16 (5.82%) Analytical Skills
9 16 (5.82%) Financial Institution
10 12 (4.36%) Retail
11 5 (1.82%) Front Office
12 4 (1.45%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.09%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.09%) Marketing
14 2 (0.73%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.36%) Advertising
15 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 193 (70.18%) Developer
2 110 (40.00%) Senior
3 98 (35.64%) Senior Developer
4 35 (12.73%) Software Developer
5 25 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
6 24 (8.73%) Software Engineer
7 23 (8.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 22 (8.00%) Lead
9 21 (7.64%) .NET Developer
10 20 (7.27%) C# Developer
11 17 (6.18%) Senior Software Developer
12 16 (5.82%) Python Developer
13 14 (5.09%) C# Software Developer
13 14 (5.09%) Senior C# Developer
13 14 (5.09%) Senior C# Software Developer
14 12 (4.36%) Backend Developer
15 8 (2.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 8 (2.91%) Java Developer
16 7 (2.55%) Lead Developer
16 7 (2.55%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (44.36%) .NET
2 57 (20.73%) RESTful
3 47 (17.09%) REST
4 41 (14.91%) HTML
5 40 (14.55%) React
6 38 (13.82%) CSS
7 36 (13.09%) Node.js
8 29 (10.55%) AngularJS
9 27 (9.82%) ASP.NET
10 25 (9.09%) .NET Framework
11 23 (8.36%) Model Context Protocol
12 22 (8.00%) LangChain
12 22 (8.00%) LlamaIndex
13 21 (7.64%) .NET Core
14 19 (6.91%) OAuth
15 18 (6.55%) Langfuse
16 16 (5.82%) Entity Framework
16 16 (5.82%) HTML5
16 16 (5.82%) Spring
17 15 (5.45%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 63 (22.91%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.82%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (8.73%) Mobile App
4 18 (6.55%) Product Ownership
5 17 (6.18%) AI Agents
6 15 (5.45%) e-Learning
7 11 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (3.64%) Onboarding
9 9 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (2.91%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 3 (1.09%) Algorithms
13 3 (1.09%) Data Centre
13 3 (1.09%) Mobile Wallet
13 3 (1.09%) Operational Technology
13 3 (1.09%) Private Cloud
13 3 (1.09%) Social Media
14 2 (0.73%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.18%) Linux
2 9 (3.27%) Windows
3 8 (2.91%) Android
4 7 (2.55%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.45%) CentOS
6 4 (1.45%) Debian
6 4 (1.45%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (60.00%) Agile
2 149 (54.18%) CI/CD
3 115 (41.82%) Problem-Solving
4 101 (36.73%) Microservices
5 86 (31.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 85 (30.91%) Software Engineering
7 79 (28.73%) DevOps
8 76 (27.64%) Architectural Patterns
9 74 (26.91%) Full-Stack Development
10 71 (25.82%) Workflow
11 70 (25.45%) AI
12 67 (24.36%) Sprint Planning
13 62 (22.55%) Software Architecture
14 58 (21.09%) Enterprise Architecture
14 58 (21.09%) Sprint Retrospective
15 57 (20.73%) Acceptance Criteria
15 57 (20.73%) Data Governance
15 57 (20.73%) Software Testing
16 56 (20.36%) Information Security
16 56 (20.36%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 141 (51.27%) C#
2 80 (29.09%) Python
3 61 (22.18%) JavaScript
4 52 (18.91%) SQL
5 34 (12.36%) TypeScript
6 30 (10.91%) Java
7 12 (4.36%) PHP
8 7 (2.55%) Swift
9 6 (2.18%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.82%) Bash
10 5 (1.82%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.45%) Bicep
11 4 (1.45%) C++
12 3 (1.09%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.73%) DataWeave
13 2 (0.73%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.73%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.73%) VB
13 2 (0.73%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.36%) Go
Qualifications
1 33 (12.00%) Degree
2 24 (8.73%) Security Cleared
3 18 (6.55%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.55%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.09%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.73%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (23.64%) QA
2 25 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 18 (6.55%) WCAG
4 5 (1.82%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.45%) GDPR
5 4 (1.45%) NCSC
6 3 (1.09%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.09%) PSD2
7 2 (0.73%) GRC
8 1 (0.36%) NIST
8 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 60 (21.82%) Docker
2 4 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 28 (10.18%) Terraform
3 8 (2.91%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (2.18%) Grafana
5 5 (1.82%) Ansible
5 5 (1.82%) Puppet
6 4 (1.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (1.45%) Nagios
7 3 (1.09%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.73%) Kibana
9 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (8.36%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.00%) Google
3 15 (5.45%) Dynatrace
4 9 (3.27%) Splunk
5 8 (2.91%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.55%) Apple
7 6 (2.18%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.82%) Oracle
9 4 (1.45%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.45%) Databricks
9 4 (1.45%) New Relic
9 4 (1.45%) SaltStack
10 3 (1.09%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.73%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.73%) Pega
11 2 (0.73%) SAP
11 2 (0.73%) Trapeze
11 2 (0.73%) Xamarin
12 1 (0.36%) Automation Anywhere
12 1 (0.36%) WSO2