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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 402 509
Rank change year-on-year -124 +107 -17
Permanent jobs citing API Development 235 308 421
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.64% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.71% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 147 251 311
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,375 £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 £96,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -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 71,870 43,651 85,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.67% 90.86% 82.18%
Number of salaries quoted 49,673 24,244 60,243
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 £54,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -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 7 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 7 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 -109 205 £60,000 -14.29% 102
UK excluding London -98 145 £57,500 -4.17% 73
London -50 81 £80,000 +3.23% 39
Work from Home -81 70 £54,000 -1.82% 45
North of England -67 43 £60,625 -10.19% 22
Midlands -8 28 £55,000 -0.45% 4
North West -16 28 £70,000 +21.74% 9
South East -37 23 £68,750 +37.50% 14
South West -65 20 £58,750 - 17
Northern Ireland -35 16 - - 2
West Midlands -20 15 £55,000 +4.76% 2
East Midlands -11 13 £55,000 -5.17% 2
North East -35 13 £47,000 -10.48% 4
East of England -40 8 £45,000 -47.06% 9
Scotland +9 5 £62,500 +12.11% 3
Yorkshire -49 2 £50,000 -28.57% 9
Wales -62 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 (4.68%) CMS
2 9 (3.83%) Apache
3 7 (2.98%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.55%) IIS
5 5 (2.13%) nginx
6 4 (1.70%) Appian
7 3 (1.28%) Confluence
7 3 (1.28%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.85%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.85%) Moodle
8 2 (0.85%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.85%) WordPress
9 1 (0.43%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.43%) JBoss
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.85%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.43%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 102 (43.40%) Azure
2 75 (31.91%) AWS
3 39 (16.60%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (13.62%) GCP
5 31 (13.19%) Serverless
6 20 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (7.23%) GitHub
8 16 (6.81%) LangSmith
9 13 (5.53%) Firebase
10 12 (5.11%) Amazon S3
11 11 (4.68%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (4.26%) Power Platform
13 9 (3.83%) Anthropic Claude
13 9 (3.83%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (3.83%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (3.40%) SaaS
15 7 (2.98%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (2.98%) Power Automate
16 6 (2.55%) Azure Logic Apps
16 6 (2.55%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.55%) AMQP
2 4 (1.70%) Broadband
3 3 (1.28%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.85%) DNS
4 2 (0.85%) HTTP
5 1 (0.43%) LTE
5 1 (0.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (14.47%) MySQL
1 34 (14.47%) SQL Server
2 17 (7.23%) NoSQL
2 17 (7.23%) Relational Database
3 15 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.83%) MongoDB
5 8 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (2.98%) Big Data
7 6 (2.55%) Cloudera CDH
7 6 (2.55%) Hadoop
8 5 (2.13%) Pinecone
9 4 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.70%) Power BI
10 3 (1.28%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.85%) Qlik Sense
12 1 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.43%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 38 (16.17%) Git
2 27 (11.49%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.53%) fastlane
4 7 (2.98%) Postman
4 7 (2.98%) Xcode
5 6 (2.55%) Android Studio
5 6 (2.55%) Crashlytics
5 6 (2.55%) Gradle
5 6 (2.55%) JIRA
6 5 (2.13%) GitLab
6 5 (2.13%) MLflow
7 4 (1.70%) JUnit
7 4 (1.70%) Mockito
7 4 (1.70%) SpecFlow
8 3 (1.28%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.28%) Storybook
8 3 (1.28%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.85%) JMeter
9 2 (0.85%) MSI
10 1 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 45 (19.15%) Finance
2 38 (16.17%) Social Skills
3 25 (10.64%) Public Sector
4 23 (9.79%) Law
5 22 (9.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (8.94%) Legal
7 20 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (7.23%) Banking
8 17 (7.23%) Legal Technology
9 15 (6.38%) Financial Institution
10 10 (4.26%) Retail
11 6 (2.55%) Front Office
12 5 (2.13%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.28%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.28%) Marketing
14 2 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.85%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.43%) Advertising
15 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 145 (61.70%) Developer
2 71 (30.21%) Senior
3 56 (23.83%) Senior Developer
4 34 (14.47%) Software Developer
5 29 (12.34%) Full-Stack Developer
6 28 (11.91%) Lead
7 25 (10.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 24 (10.21%) Software Engineer
9 20 (8.51%) .NET Developer
10 18 (7.66%) C# Developer
11 17 (7.23%) Senior Software Developer
12 13 (5.53%) C# Software Developer
12 13 (5.53%) Senior C# Developer
12 13 (5.53%) Senior C# Software Developer
13 11 (4.68%) Python Developer
14 10 (4.26%) Java Developer
15 9 (3.83%) Lead Developer
16 8 (3.40%) Backend Developer
16 8 (3.40%) Lead Software Engineer
17 7 (2.98%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (33.19%) .NET
2 54 (22.98%) RESTful
3 49 (20.85%) REST
4 42 (17.87%) React
5 41 (17.45%) HTML
5 41 (17.45%) Node.js
6 38 (16.17%) CSS
7 32 (13.62%) AngularJS
8 24 (10.21%) ASP.NET
9 21 (8.94%) .NET Core
9 21 (8.94%) LlamaIndex
9 21 (8.94%) Model Context Protocol
10 20 (8.51%) LangChain
10 20 (8.51%) OpenAPI
11 19 (8.09%) .NET Framework
11 19 (8.09%) OAuth
11 19 (8.09%) Spring
11 19 (8.09%) Swagger
12 17 (7.23%) Vue
13 16 (6.81%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 60 (25.53%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.21%) Mobile App
3 19 (8.09%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (7.66%) Product Ownership
5 16 (6.81%) AI Agents
6 13 (5.53%) e-Learning
6 13 (5.53%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (3.83%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.13%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.28%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.85%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.85%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.85%) Mobile Wallet
10 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.43%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.43%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.23%) Linux
2 8 (3.40%) Android
3 7 (2.98%) Apple iOS
4 6 (2.55%) CentOS
4 6 (2.55%) Debian
4 6 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.55%) Ubuntu
4 6 (2.55%) Windows
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (54.04%) Agile
2 112 (47.66%) CI/CD
3 80 (34.04%) Problem-Solving
4 77 (32.77%) DevOps
5 75 (31.91%) Software Engineering
6 71 (30.21%) Full-Stack Development
7 67 (28.51%) AI
8 66 (28.09%) Microservices
9 52 (22.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 48 (20.43%) API Integration
10 48 (20.43%) Containerisation
10 48 (20.43%) Test Automation
11 41 (17.45%) LLM
11 41 (17.45%) Mentoring
12 39 (16.60%) Architectural Patterns
12 39 (16.60%) Clean Code
13 36 (15.32%) Scrum
14 33 (14.04%) TDD
14 33 (14.04%) Workflow
15 32 (13.62%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 97 (41.28%) C#
2 81 (34.47%) Python
3 59 (25.11%) JavaScript
4 58 (24.68%) SQL
5 34 (14.47%) Java
6 33 (14.04%) TypeScript
7 16 (6.81%) PHP
8 7 (2.98%) Swift
9 6 (2.55%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.13%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.70%) Bash
11 4 (1.70%) Bicep
12 3 (1.28%) C++
12 3 (1.28%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.85%) DataWeave
13 2 (0.85%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.85%) Rust
13 2 (0.85%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.43%) Ruby
14 1 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 35 (14.89%) Degree
2 21 (8.94%) Security Cleared
3 19 (8.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (6.81%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.13%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.13%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.85%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.21%) QA
2 22 (9.36%) Accessibility
3 16 (6.81%) WCAG
4 8 (3.40%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.28%) GDPR
6 2 (0.85%) GRC
6 2 (0.85%) NCSC
6 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.85%) PSD2
7 1 (0.43%) NIST
7 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 64 (27.23%) Docker
2 4 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 49 (20.85%) Kubernetes
2 28 (11.91%) Terraform
3 6 (2.55%) Ansible
3 6 (2.55%) Puppet
4 5 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.70%) Grafana
6 2 (0.85%) Kibana
6 2 (0.85%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.43%) Nagios
Vendors
1 25 (10.64%) Google
2 22 (9.36%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.38%) Dynatrace
4 10 (4.26%) OpenAI
5 7 (2.98%) Apple
5 7 (2.98%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.55%) SaltStack
6 6 (2.55%) Splunk
7 5 (2.13%) Oracle
8 4 (1.70%) Automation Anywhere
8 4 (1.70%) UiPath
9 3 (1.28%) Databricks
10 2 (0.85%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.85%) Pega
10 2 (0.85%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.85%) Trapeze
10 2 (0.85%) Xamarin
11 1 (0.43%) Foundry
11 1 (0.43%) New Relic
11 1 (0.43%) WSO2