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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 389 503
Rank change year-on-year -141 +114 -14
Permanent jobs citing API Development 217 309 446
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.69% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.74% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 142 249 331
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 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -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 68,493 41,477 89,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 92.48% 81.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,109 22,216 63,180
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 19 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 19 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 -134 205 £60,000 -14.29% 65
UK excluding London -114 127 £55,000 -15.38% 44
London -58 83 £78,750 -1.56% 35
Work from Home -75 55 £54,000 -1.82% 38
North of England -52 41 £60,000 -11.11% 11
Midlands -1 32 £55,000 +4.76% 4
North West -9 27 £70,000 +7.69% 8
South East -36 23 £68,750 +37.50% 14
South West -61 18 £58,750 - 7
West Midlands -11 16 £50,000 -4.76%
East Midlands - 16 £55,000 - 4
North East -31 12 £47,000 -10.48%
East of England -41 8 £45,000 -46.27% 3
Scotland +12 3 £62,500 +12.11% 1
Wales -58 2 £52,500 -27.59% 1
Yorkshire -63 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 (5.07%) CMS
2 8 (3.69%) Apache
3 7 (3.23%) Appian
4 6 (2.76%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.30%) IIS
5 5 (2.30%) nginx
6 3 (1.38%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.92%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.92%) Confluence
7 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.92%) Moodle
7 2 (0.92%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.92%) WordPress
8 1 (0.46%) ColdFusion
8 1 (0.46%) JBoss
8 1 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.84%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.46%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 94 (43.32%) Azure
2 73 (33.64%) AWS
3 33 (15.21%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (15.21%) Serverless
4 32 (14.75%) GCP
5 24 (11.06%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (6.91%) Amazon S3
6 15 (6.91%) GitHub
7 13 (5.99%) Firebase
7 13 (5.99%) LangSmith
8 11 (5.07%) Anthropic Claude
9 10 (4.61%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (4.61%) Power Automate
10 8 (3.69%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (3.69%) Apigee
10 8 (3.69%) Azure AI
10 8 (3.69%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (3.69%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (3.69%) Power Platform
10 8 (3.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.30%) AMQP
2 4 (1.84%) Broadband
3 3 (1.38%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.92%) DNS
4 2 (0.92%) HTTP
5 1 (0.46%) LTE
5 1 (0.46%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (16.59%) SQL Server
2 31 (14.29%) MySQL
3 17 (7.83%) Relational Database
4 15 (6.91%) NoSQL
5 12 (5.53%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (5.07%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (3.69%) Pinecone
8 7 (3.23%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.76%) Big Data
10 5 (2.30%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (2.30%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.84%) Power BI
12 3 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.92%) Qlik Sense
13 2 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 1 (0.46%) BigQuery
14 1 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
14 1 (0.46%) Metadata
14 1 (0.46%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 35 (16.13%) Git
2 27 (12.44%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.99%) fastlane
4 8 (3.69%) MLflow
4 8 (3.69%) Postman
5 7 (3.23%) Xcode
6 6 (2.76%) Android Studio
6 6 (2.76%) Crashlytics
6 6 (2.76%) Gradle
7 5 (2.30%) GitLab
8 4 (1.84%) JIRA
8 4 (1.84%) JUnit
8 4 (1.84%) Mockito
8 4 (1.84%) SpecFlow
8 4 (1.84%) Storybook
8 4 (1.84%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.38%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.92%) ESLint
10 2 (0.92%) JMeter
11 1 (0.46%) Vite
General
1 43 (19.82%) Finance
2 40 (18.43%) Social Skills
3 22 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (10.14%) Public Sector
4 21 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (6.91%) Banking
6 12 (5.53%) Financial Institution
7 8 (3.69%) Retail
8 6 (2.76%) Front Office
8 6 (2.76%) Law
9 4 (1.84%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.84%) Legal
10 3 (1.38%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.38%) Marketing
10 3 (1.38%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.46%) Advertising
12 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 125 (57.60%) Developer
2 53 (24.42%) Senior
3 37 (17.05%) Full-Stack Developer
3 37 (17.05%) Senior Developer
4 32 (14.75%) Lead
4 32 (14.75%) Software Developer
5 25 (11.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 23 (10.60%) Software Engineer
7 20 (9.22%) .NET Developer
8 18 (8.29%) C# Developer
9 17 (7.83%) Senior Software Developer
10 13 (5.99%) C# Software Developer
10 13 (5.99%) Senior C# Developer
10 13 (5.99%) Senior C# Software Developer
11 12 (5.53%) Lead Developer
12 10 (4.61%) Java Developer
13 9 (4.15%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 9 (4.15%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (3.69%) Automation Engineer
14 8 (3.69%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (27.19%) .NET
2 54 (24.88%) RESTful
3 48 (22.12%) React
3 48 (22.12%) REST
4 43 (19.82%) Node.js
5 42 (19.35%) HTML
6 41 (18.89%) CSS
7 31 (14.29%) AngularJS
8 23 (10.60%) OAuth
8 23 (10.60%) Swagger
9 22 (10.14%) OpenAPI
10 21 (9.68%) .NET Core
10 21 (9.68%) ASP.NET
11 20 (9.22%) Spring
12 19 (8.76%) JWT
13 18 (8.29%) LlamaIndex
13 18 (8.29%) Model Context Protocol
14 17 (7.83%) LangChain
14 17 (7.83%) Spring Boot
14 17 (7.83%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 54 (24.88%) Cloud Native
2 25 (11.52%) Mobile App
3 18 (8.29%) Product Ownership
4 16 (7.37%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (6.91%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (5.99%) AI Agents
7 10 (4.61%) e-Learning
7 10 (4.61%) Low-Code
8 8 (3.69%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.38%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.92%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.92%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
13 1 (0.46%) Hybrid Cloud
13 1 (0.46%) IoT
13 1 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.37%) Linux
2 8 (3.69%) Android
3 7 (3.23%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.30%) CentOS
4 5 (2.30%) Debian
4 5 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.30%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.84%) Windows
6 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (47.93%) Agile
2 97 (44.70%) CI/CD
3 73 (33.64%) Full-Stack Development
4 71 (32.72%) DevOps
5 66 (30.41%) AI
6 64 (29.49%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (25.35%) Software Engineering
8 49 (22.58%) Containerisation
9 48 (22.12%) Test Automation
10 47 (21.66%) API Integration
11 46 (21.20%) Mentoring
12 43 (19.82%) Microservices
13 41 (18.89%) Clean Code
14 38 (17.51%) LLM
15 33 (15.21%) Computer Science
15 33 (15.21%) Continuous Improvement
15 33 (15.21%) Scrum
15 33 (15.21%) TDD
16 29 (13.36%) Machine Learning
17 25 (11.52%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 80 (36.87%) Python
2 76 (35.02%) C#
3 61 (28.11%) SQL
4 59 (27.19%) JavaScript
5 33 (15.21%) Java
5 33 (15.21%) TypeScript
6 18 (8.29%) PHP
7 7 (3.23%) Swift
8 6 (2.76%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.30%) Bicep
10 4 (1.84%) Bash
10 4 (1.84%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.38%) C++
12 2 (0.92%) DataWeave
12 2 (0.92%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.92%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.92%) Rust
12 2 (0.92%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.92%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.46%) VB
Qualifications
1 36 (16.59%) Degree
2 23 (10.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (7.83%) Security Cleared
4 13 (5.99%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.23%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.84%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.92%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.14%) Accessibility
2 14 (6.45%) WCAG
3 11 (5.07%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.30%) QA
5 2 (0.92%) 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 69 (31.80%) Docker
2 4 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 53 (24.42%) Kubernetes
2 27 (12.44%) Terraform
3 5 (2.30%) Ansible
3 5 (2.30%) Puppet
3 5 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.92%) Kibana
5 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.46%) Grafana
5 1 (0.46%) Nagios
Vendors
1 27 (12.44%) Google
2 19 (8.76%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.91%) Dynatrace
4 13 (5.99%) OpenAI
5 7 (3.23%) Apple
5 7 (3.23%) Automation Anywhere
5 7 (3.23%) UiPath
6 6 (2.76%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.76%) Splunk
7 5 (2.30%) Oracle
7 5 (2.30%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.92%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.92%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.92%) Pega
8 2 (0.92%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.92%) Trapeze
8 2 (0.92%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.46%) Foundry
9 1 (0.46%) New Relic
9 1 (0.46%) SAP