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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 420 513
Rank change year-on-year -78 +93 -50
Permanent jobs citing API Development 290 280 329
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.56% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.63% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 156 226 222
10th Percentile £45,625 £44,375 £45,000
25th Percentile £49,688 £51,250 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% - -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 78,019 44,452 67,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.52% 89.29% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 53,759 25,267 43,796
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -107 223 £62,500 -10.71% 147
UK excluding London -49 196 £62,500 +8.70% 83
Work from Home -47 104 £60,000 +4.35% 62
London -52 87 £77,500 -3.13% 77
Northern Ireland -22 55 - - 3
North of England -54 48 £61,250 -5.77% 23
South East -38 30 £65,000 +30.00% 20
North West -26 29 £75,000 +30.43% 18
South West -57 28 £70,000 +40.00% 18
North East - 17 £47,000 - 1
Midlands -45 16 £55,000 -5.17% 6
East of England -48 12 £45,000 -47.06% 7
West Midlands -36 11 £55,000 -15.38% 2
Scotland +13 6 £66,250 +18.83% 5
East Midlands -21 5 £54,000 -6.90% 4
Yorkshire -47 2 £50,000 -28.57% 4
Wales -67 1 - - 3

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 (3.79%) Apache
2 7 (2.41%) nginx
3 6 (2.07%) IIS
4 5 (1.72%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.72%) CMS
4 5 (1.72%) Confluence
4 5 (1.72%) JBoss
5 2 (0.69%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.69%) Moodle
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.34%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.34%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.03%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.69%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 111 (38.28%) Azure
2 75 (25.86%) AWS
3 48 (16.55%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (11.03%) GCP
5 29 (10.00%) Serverless
6 21 (7.24%) LangSmith
7 16 (5.52%) GitHub
8 13 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (4.48%) Firebase
8 13 (4.48%) Power Platform
9 11 (3.79%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
10 10 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (3.10%) Amazon S3
11 9 (3.10%) OpenShift
12 8 (2.76%) Azure Functions
12 8 (2.76%) Datadog
12 8 (2.76%) SaaS
13 7 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (2.41%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.72%) SSL
2 4 (1.38%) AMQP
2 4 (1.38%) Broadband
2 4 (1.38%) HTTP
3 3 (1.03%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.69%) DNS
5 1 (0.34%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (12.07%) MySQL
1 35 (12.07%) SQL Server
2 24 (8.28%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (6.21%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.14%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.41%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (2.07%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.72%) Big Data
7 5 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.72%) Geospatial Data
8 4 (1.38%) Cloudera CDH
8 4 (1.38%) Hadoop
8 4 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (1.03%) Power BI
9 3 (1.03%) SQLite
10 2 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.69%) Qlik Sense
11 1 (0.34%) Metadata
11 1 (0.34%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 48 (16.55%) Git
2 30 (10.34%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.48%) fastlane
4 9 (3.10%) GitLab
5 8 (2.76%) JIRA
6 7 (2.41%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.41%) Xcode
7 6 (2.07%) Android Studio
7 6 (2.07%) Crashlytics
7 6 (2.07%) Gradle
7 6 (2.07%) Postman
8 5 (1.72%) JUnit
8 5 (1.72%) Mockito
8 5 (1.72%) MSI
9 4 (1.38%) SpecFlow
9 4 (1.38%) Subversion
10 3 (1.03%) CMake
10 3 (1.03%) Storybook
11 2 (0.69%) JMeter
11 2 (0.69%) NUnit
General
1 64 (22.07%) Legal
2 46 (15.86%) Finance
3 40 (13.79%) Social Skills
4 38 (13.10%) Law
5 30 (10.34%) Public Sector
6 28 (9.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (9.66%) Legal Technology
7 20 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (6.90%) Banking
8 18 (6.21%) Financial Institution
9 12 (4.14%) Retail
10 5 (1.72%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.38%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.38%) Front Office
12 3 (1.03%) Electronics
12 3 (1.03%) Marketing
13 2 (0.69%) Aviation
13 2 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 193 (66.55%) Developer
2 118 (40.69%) Senior
3 102 (35.17%) Senior Developer
4 35 (12.07%) Software Developer
5 32 (11.03%) Software Engineer
6 25 (8.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 23 (7.93%) C# Developer
7 23 (7.93%) Lead
8 20 (6.90%) .NET Developer
9 18 (6.21%) Senior Software Developer
10 17 (5.86%) Python Developer
11 15 (5.17%) C# Software Developer
11 15 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
11 15 (5.17%) Senior C# Developer
11 15 (5.17%) Senior C# Software Developer
12 14 (4.83%) Backend Developer
13 10 (3.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 9 (3.10%) Java Developer
14 9 (3.10%) Lead Software Engineer
15 8 (2.76%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (45.17%) .NET
2 57 (19.66%) RESTful
3 50 (17.24%) REST
4 39 (13.45%) React
5 36 (12.41%) HTML
6 33 (11.38%) CSS
7 31 (10.69%) ASP.NET
7 31 (10.69%) Node.js
8 30 (10.34%) .NET Framework
9 26 (8.97%) AngularJS
9 26 (8.97%) Model Context Protocol
10 25 (8.62%) LangChain
10 25 (8.62%) LlamaIndex
11 24 (8.28%) .NET Core
12 21 (7.24%) Langfuse
12 21 (7.24%) OAuth
13 20 (6.90%) Entity Framework
13 20 (6.90%) Spring
14 18 (6.21%) OAuth2
15 17 (5.86%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 73 (25.17%) Cloud Native
2 33 (11.38%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (8.28%) Mobile App
4 23 (7.93%) AI Agents
5 18 (6.21%) e-Learning
5 18 (6.21%) Product Ownership
6 13 (4.48%) Onboarding
7 11 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.41%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.72%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.72%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.72%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.72%) Social Media
11 4 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.38%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (1.03%) Mobile Wallet
12 3 (1.03%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.17%) Linux
2 11 (3.79%) Windows
3 8 (2.76%) Android
4 7 (2.41%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.38%) CentOS
6 4 (1.38%) Debian
6 4 (1.38%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.03%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (60.69%) Agile
2 161 (55.52%) CI/CD
3 119 (41.03%) Problem-Solving
4 109 (37.59%) Microservices
5 98 (33.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 97 (33.45%) Software Engineering
7 87 (30.00%) DevOps
8 81 (27.93%) Architectural Patterns
9 79 (27.24%) AI
10 74 (25.52%) Workflow
11 71 (24.48%) Full-Stack Development
11 71 (24.48%) Sprint Planning
12 70 (24.14%) Software Architecture
13 64 (22.07%) Enterprise Architecture
14 62 (21.38%) Software Testing
14 62 (21.38%) Sprint Retrospective
15 60 (20.69%) Acceptance Criteria
15 60 (20.69%) Data Governance
16 59 (20.34%) Information Security
16 59 (20.34%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 150 (51.72%) C#
2 89 (30.69%) Python
3 57 (19.66%) JavaScript
4 56 (19.31%) SQL
5 36 (12.41%) Java
6 32 (11.03%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.41%) PHP
7 7 (2.41%) Swift
8 6 (2.07%) C++
8 6 (2.07%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.72%) Bash
9 5 (1.72%) Bicep
9 5 (1.72%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.03%) Embedded C++
10 3 (1.03%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.03%) VB
10 3 (1.03%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.69%) DataWeave
11 2 (0.69%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 41 (14.14%) Degree
2 31 (10.69%) Security Cleared
3 23 (7.93%) SC Cleared
4 14 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.76%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.03%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.69%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.69%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (24.48%) QA
2 28 (9.66%) Accessibility
3 19 (6.55%) WCAG
4 7 (2.41%) GDPR
5 5 (1.72%) NCSC
6 4 (1.38%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.03%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.03%) PSD2
8 2 (0.69%) GRC
9 1 (0.34%) NIST
9 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 64 (22.07%) Docker
2 5 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 47 (16.21%) Kubernetes
2 29 (10.00%) Terraform
3 8 (2.76%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (2.07%) Grafana
5 5 (1.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (1.72%) Ansible
5 5 (1.72%) Nagios
5 5 (1.72%) Puppet
6 3 (1.03%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.69%) Kibana
8 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 27 (9.31%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.62%) Google
3 15 (5.17%) Dynatrace
4 10 (3.45%) Splunk
5 9 (3.10%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.41%) Apple
7 5 (1.72%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.72%) New Relic
7 5 (1.72%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.72%) Oracle
8 4 (1.38%) Databricks
8 4 (1.38%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.03%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.03%) SAP
10 2 (0.69%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.69%) Pega
10 2 (0.69%) Trapeze
10 2 (0.69%) Xamarin
11 1 (0.34%) IFS
11 1 (0.34%) Refinitiv