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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 387 512
Rank change year-on-year -145 +125 -21
Permanent jobs citing API Development 215 307 438
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.68% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.73% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 142 249 326
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
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 £75,750
90th Percentile £92,000 £107,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +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 69,702 41,872 87,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.38% 92.19% 82.13%
Number of salaries quoted 48,070 22,602 61,776
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,681 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.36% - -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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -114 201 £60,000 -14.29% 69
UK excluding London -108 126 £55,000 -12.00% 48
London -59 80 £78,750 +1.61% 33
Work from Home -79 53 £54,000 -1.82% 29
North of England -59 41 £60,000 -11.11% 15
Midlands -2 30 £55,000 +4.76% 4
North West -9 27 £70,000 +14.29% 8
South East -47 23 £68,750 +37.50% 13
South West -66 18 £58,750 - 8
West Midlands -16 15 £50,000 -4.76% 1
East Midlands - 15 £55,000 - 3
North East -32 12 £47,000 -10.48% 1
East of England -39 8 £45,000 -46.27% 4
Scotland +9 4 £62,500 +12.11% 3
Yorkshire -61 2 £50,000 -28.57% 6
Wales -61 2 £52,500 -25.00%

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 (5.12%) CMS
2 8 (3.72%) Apache
3 6 (2.79%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.79%) Appian
3 6 (2.79%) IIS
4 5 (2.33%) nginx
5 3 (1.40%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.93%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.93%) Confluence
6 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.93%) Moodle
6 2 (0.93%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.93%) WordPress
7 1 (0.47%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.47%) JBoss
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.86%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.47%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 96 (44.65%) Azure
2 74 (34.42%) AWS
3 35 (16.28%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (14.88%) Serverless
5 31 (14.42%) GCP
6 22 (10.23%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (7.91%) GitHub
8 14 (6.51%) LangSmith
9 13 (6.05%) Amazon S3
9 13 (6.05%) Firebase
10 10 (4.65%) Anthropic Claude
10 10 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (4.19%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (4.19%) Power Automate
11 9 (4.19%) Power Platform
12 8 (3.72%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (3.72%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (3.72%) SaaS
13 7 (3.26%) Apigee
13 7 (3.26%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.33%) AMQP
2 4 (1.86%) Broadband
3 3 (1.40%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.93%) DNS
4 2 (0.93%) HTTP
5 1 (0.47%) LTE
5 1 (0.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (16.28%) SQL Server
2 32 (14.88%) MySQL
3 17 (7.91%) Relational Database
4 15 (6.98%) NoSQL
5 13 (6.05%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (4.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (4.19%) MongoDB
8 7 (3.26%) Pinecone
9 6 (2.79%) Big Data
10 5 (2.33%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (2.33%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.86%) Power BI
12 3 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.93%) Qlik Sense
14 1 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
14 1 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
14 1 (0.47%) Metadata
14 1 (0.47%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 37 (17.21%) Git
2 28 (13.02%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.05%) fastlane
4 8 (3.72%) Postman
5 7 (3.26%) MLflow
5 7 (3.26%) Xcode
6 6 (2.79%) Android Studio
6 6 (2.79%) Crashlytics
6 6 (2.79%) Gradle
7 5 (2.33%) GitLab
7 5 (2.33%) JIRA
8 4 (1.86%) JUnit
8 4 (1.86%) Mockito
8 4 (1.86%) SpecFlow
9 3 (1.40%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.40%) Storybook
9 3 (1.40%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.93%) JMeter
11 1 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.47%) Subversion
General
1 44 (20.47%) Finance
2 38 (17.67%) Social Skills
3 23 (10.70%) Public Sector
4 21 (9.77%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (9.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (6.98%) Banking
6 13 (6.05%) Financial Institution
7 8 (3.72%) Retail
8 6 (2.79%) Front Office
8 6 (2.79%) Law
9 4 (1.86%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.86%) Legal
10 3 (1.40%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.40%) Marketing
11 2 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.93%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.47%) Advertising
12 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 125 (58.14%) Developer
2 53 (24.65%) Senior
3 37 (17.21%) Senior Developer
4 33 (15.35%) Full-Stack Developer
4 33 (15.35%) Software Developer
5 31 (14.42%) Lead
6 25 (11.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 23 (10.70%) Software Engineer
8 20 (9.30%) .NET Developer
9 18 (8.37%) C# Developer
10 17 (7.91%) Senior Software Developer
11 13 (6.05%) C# Software Developer
11 13 (6.05%) Senior C# Developer
11 13 (6.05%) Senior C# Software Developer
12 11 (5.12%) Java Developer
12 11 (5.12%) Lead Developer
13 8 (3.72%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 8 (3.72%) Lead Software Engineer
13 8 (3.72%) Python Developer
13 8 (3.72%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (27.44%) .NET
2 52 (24.19%) RESTful
3 49 (22.79%) REST
4 44 (20.47%) React
5 41 (19.07%) HTML
5 41 (19.07%) Node.js
6 39 (18.14%) CSS
7 31 (14.42%) AngularJS
8 23 (10.70%) ASP.NET
9 22 (10.23%) OAuth
10 21 (9.77%) .NET Core
10 21 (9.77%) OpenAPI
10 21 (9.77%) Swagger
11 20 (9.30%) Spring
12 19 (8.84%) LlamaIndex
12 19 (8.84%) Model Context Protocol
13 18 (8.37%) .NET Framework
13 18 (8.37%) JWT
13 18 (8.37%) LangChain
14 17 (7.91%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 55 (25.58%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.16%) Mobile App
3 18 (8.37%) Product Ownership
4 16 (7.44%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (6.51%) AI Agents
5 14 (6.51%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (5.12%) e-Learning
7 9 (4.19%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (4.19%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.40%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.93%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.93%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.47%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.47%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.44%) Linux
2 8 (3.72%) Android
3 7 (3.26%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.33%) CentOS
4 5 (2.33%) Debian
4 5 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.33%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.33%) Windows
5 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (48.84%) Agile
2 97 (45.12%) CI/CD
3 72 (33.49%) DevOps
3 72 (33.49%) Full-Stack Development
4 64 (29.77%) AI
5 63 (29.30%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (26.05%) Software Engineering
7 50 (23.26%) Containerisation
8 49 (22.79%) Test Automation
9 46 (21.40%) API Integration
10 44 (20.47%) Mentoring
10 44 (20.47%) Microservices
11 42 (19.53%) Clean Code
12 38 (17.67%) LLM
13 34 (15.81%) Continuous Improvement
13 34 (15.81%) Scrum
14 33 (15.35%) TDD
15 32 (14.88%) Computer Science
16 29 (13.49%) Machine Learning
17 25 (11.63%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 78 (36.28%) Python
2 76 (35.35%) C#
3 58 (26.98%) JavaScript
3 58 (26.98%) SQL
4 33 (15.35%) Java
4 33 (15.35%) TypeScript
5 17 (7.91%) PHP
6 7 (3.26%) Swift
7 6 (2.79%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.33%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.86%) Bash
9 4 (1.86%) Bicep
10 3 (1.40%) C++
10 3 (1.40%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.93%) DataWeave
11 2 (0.93%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.93%) Rust
11 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.47%) Go
12 1 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (16.28%) Degree
2 21 (9.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (8.84%) Security Cleared
4 14 (6.51%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.79%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.86%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.93%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.77%) Accessibility
2 14 (6.51%) WCAG
3 10 (4.65%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.79%) QA
5 2 (0.93%) GRC
6 1 (0.47%) GDPR
6 1 (0.47%) NCSC
6 1 (0.47%) NIST
6 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 68 (31.63%) Docker
2 4 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 52 (24.19%) Kubernetes
2 26 (12.09%) Terraform
3 5 (2.33%) Ansible
3 5 (2.33%) Puppet
3 5 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.93%) Grafana
4 2 (0.93%) Kibana
5 1 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.47%) Nagios
Vendors
1 25 (11.63%) Google
2 20 (9.30%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.98%) Dynatrace
4 12 (5.58%) OpenAI
5 7 (3.26%) Apple
6 6 (2.79%) Automation Anywhere
6 6 (2.79%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.79%) Splunk
6 6 (2.79%) UiPath
7 5 (2.33%) Oracle
7 5 (2.33%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.93%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.93%) Pega
8 2 (0.93%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.93%) Trapeze
8 2 (0.93%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.47%) Databricks
9 1 (0.47%) Foundry
9 1 (0.47%) New Relic
9 1 (0.47%) WSO2