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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 395 522
Rank change year-on-year -133 +127 -28
Permanent jobs citing API Development 216 309 446
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.69% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.74% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 142 249 332
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,750 £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 £63,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -13.73% +10.87% -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 68,746 41,496 89,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.03% 92.46% 81.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47,319 22,262 63,244
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £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 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 20 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 20 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 -133 204 £60,000 -14.29% 68
UK excluding London -100 127 £55,000 -13.73% 48
London -53 82 £78,750 -1.56% 34
Work from Home -76 55 £54,000 -1.82% 36
North of England -49 41 £60,000 -11.11% 13
Midlands -8 32 £55,000 +4.76% 4
North West -8 27 £70,000 +7.69% 9
South East -34 23 £68,750 +37.50% 15
South West -67 18 £58,750 - 8
West Midlands -16 16 £50,000 -4.76%
East Midlands - 16 £55,000 - 4
North East -38 12 £47,000 -10.48% 1
East of England -35 8 £45,000 -46.27% 3
Scotland +12 3 £62,500 +12.11% 3
Wales -58 2 £52,500 -25.00% 1
Yorkshire -62 2 £50,000 -28.57% 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 (5.09%) CMS
2 8 (3.70%) Apache
3 6 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.78%) Appian
4 5 (2.31%) IIS
4 5 (2.31%) nginx
5 3 (1.39%) 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 (0.46%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.46%) JBoss
7 1 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.46%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 93 (43.06%) Azure
2 73 (33.80%) AWS
3 33 (15.28%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (15.28%) Serverless
4 32 (14.81%) GCP
5 24 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (6.94%) Amazon S3
6 15 (6.94%) GitHub
7 13 (6.02%) Firebase
7 13 (6.02%) LangSmith
8 10 (4.63%) Anthropic Claude
9 9 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (4.17%) Power Automate
10 8 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (3.70%) Apigee
10 8 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (3.70%) Power Platform
10 8 (3.70%) SaaS
11 7 (3.24%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.31%) AMQP
2 4 (1.85%) Broadband
3 3 (1.39%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.93%) DNS
4 2 (0.93%) HTTP
5 1 (0.46%) LTE
5 1 (0.46%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (16.20%) SQL Server
2 31 (14.35%) MySQL
3 17 (7.87%) Relational Database
4 15 (6.94%) NoSQL
5 12 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (5.09%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (3.24%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.24%) Pinecone
8 6 (2.78%) Big Data
9 5 (2.31%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (2.31%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.85%) Power BI
11 3 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.93%) Qlik Sense
12 2 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.46%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
13 1 (0.46%) Metadata
13 1 (0.46%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 35 (16.20%) Git
2 27 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.02%) fastlane
4 8 (3.70%) Postman
5 7 (3.24%) MLflow
5 7 (3.24%) Xcode
6 6 (2.78%) Android Studio
6 6 (2.78%) Crashlytics
6 6 (2.78%) Gradle
7 5 (2.31%) GitLab
8 4 (1.85%) JIRA
8 4 (1.85%) JUnit
8 4 (1.85%) Mockito
8 4 (1.85%) SpecFlow
8 4 (1.85%) Storybook
8 4 (1.85%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.39%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.93%) ESLint
10 2 (0.93%) JMeter
11 1 (0.46%) Vite
General
1 42 (19.44%) Finance
2 39 (18.06%) Social Skills
3 22 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (10.19%) Public Sector
4 21 (9.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (6.94%) Banking
6 12 (5.56%) Financial Institution
7 8 (3.70%) Retail
8 6 (2.78%) Front Office
8 6 (2.78%) Law
9 4 (1.85%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.85%) Legal
10 3 (1.39%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.39%) Marketing
10 3 (1.39%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.46%) Advertising
12 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 125 (57.87%) Developer
2 53 (24.54%) Senior
3 37 (17.13%) Full-Stack Developer
3 37 (17.13%) Senior Developer
4 32 (14.81%) Lead
4 32 (14.81%) Software Developer
5 24 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 23 (10.65%) Software Engineer
7 20 (9.26%) .NET Developer
8 18 (8.33%) C# Developer
9 17 (7.87%) Senior Software Developer
10 13 (6.02%) C# Software Developer
10 13 (6.02%) Senior C# Developer
10 13 (6.02%) Senior C# Software Developer
11 12 (5.56%) Lead Developer
12 10 (4.63%) Java Developer
13 9 (4.17%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 9 (4.17%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (3.70%) Python Developer
15 7 (3.24%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (27.31%) .NET
2 53 (24.54%) RESTful
3 48 (22.22%) React
4 47 (21.76%) REST
5 43 (19.91%) Node.js
6 42 (19.44%) HTML
7 41 (18.98%) CSS
8 31 (14.35%) AngularJS
9 22 (10.19%) OAuth
9 22 (10.19%) Swagger
10 21 (9.72%) .NET Core
10 21 (9.72%) ASP.NET
10 21 (9.72%) OpenAPI
11 20 (9.26%) Spring
12 18 (8.33%) JWT
12 18 (8.33%) LlamaIndex
12 18 (8.33%) Model Context Protocol
13 17 (7.87%) LangChain
13 17 (7.87%) Spring Boot
13 17 (7.87%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 54 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 25 (11.57%) Mobile App
3 18 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 16 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (6.48%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (6.02%) AI Agents
7 10 (4.63%) e-Learning
8 9 (4.17%) Low-Code
9 8 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (2.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.39%) Operational Technology
13 2 (0.93%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
14 1 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
14 1 (0.46%) Hybrid Cloud
14 1 (0.46%) IoT
14 1 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.41%) Linux
2 8 (3.70%) Android
3 7 (3.24%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.31%) CentOS
4 5 (2.31%) Debian
4 5 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.31%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.85%) Windows
6 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (48.15%) Agile
2 96 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 73 (33.80%) Full-Stack Development
4 71 (32.87%) DevOps
5 65 (30.09%) AI
6 64 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (25.46%) Software Engineering
8 48 (22.22%) Containerisation
9 47 (21.76%) Test Automation
10 46 (21.30%) API Integration
10 46 (21.30%) Mentoring
11 43 (19.91%) Microservices
12 40 (18.52%) Clean Code
13 37 (17.13%) LLM
14 33 (15.28%) Computer Science
14 33 (15.28%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (15.28%) Scrum
14 33 (15.28%) TDD
15 28 (12.96%) Machine Learning
16 25 (11.57%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 79 (36.57%) Python
2 76 (35.19%) C#
3 60 (27.78%) SQL
4 59 (27.31%) JavaScript
5 33 (15.28%) Java
5 33 (15.28%) TypeScript
6 18 (8.33%) PHP
7 7 (3.24%) Swift
8 6 (2.78%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.31%) Bicep
10 4 (1.85%) Bash
10 4 (1.85%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.39%) C++
12 2 (0.93%) DataWeave
12 2 (0.93%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.93%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.93%) Rust
12 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.93%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.46%) VB
Qualifications
1 36 (16.67%) Degree
2 23 (10.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (7.87%) Security Cleared
4 13 (6.02%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.24%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.85%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.93%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.19%) Accessibility
2 14 (6.48%) WCAG
3 10 (4.63%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.31%) QA
5 2 (0.93%) GRC
6 1 (0.46%) GDPR
6 1 (0.46%) NCSC
6 1 (0.46%) NIST
6 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 68 (31.48%) Docker
2 4 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 52 (24.07%) Kubernetes
2 27 (12.50%) Terraform
3 5 (2.31%) Ansible
3 5 (2.31%) Puppet
3 5 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.93%) Kibana
5 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.46%) Grafana
5 1 (0.46%) Nagios
Vendors
1 27 (12.50%) Google
2 19 (8.80%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.94%) Dynatrace
4 12 (5.56%) OpenAI
5 7 (3.24%) Apple
6 6 (2.78%) Automation Anywhere
6 6 (2.78%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.78%) Splunk
6 6 (2.78%) UiPath
7 5 (2.31%) Oracle
7 5 (2.31%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.93%) Atlassian
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 (0.46%) Foundry
9 1 (0.46%) New Relic
9 1 (0.46%) SAP