FastAPI Job Trends

FastAPI
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring FastAPI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 609 632
Rank change year-on-year +105 +23 +366
Permanent jobs citing FastAPI 141 108 69
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.19% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.00% 0.91% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 103 88 56
10th Percentile £63,000 £56,250 £63,750
25th Percentile £71,875 £65,000 £67,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -15.15% +17.86%
75th Percentile £104,375 £78,750 £110,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £87,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +19.23% +13.04% -28.13%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

FastAPI falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,033 11,914 12,964
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.89% 21.48% 25.36%
Number of salaries quoted 5,239 7,105 10,562
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,806 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

FastAPI
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing FastAPI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

FastAPI job vacancy trend in the UK

FastAPI
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FastAPI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FastAPI

FastAPI
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing FastAPI over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for FastAPI in the UK

FastAPI
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FastAPI within the UK over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. 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 +101 135 £80,000 +14.29% 811
London +84 94 £90,000 +28.57% 170
Work from Home +34 36 £85,000 +21.86% 605
UK excluding London +52 35 £77,500 +19.23% 701
North of England +36 28 £80,000 +28.00% 144
Yorkshire - 22 £80,000 - 67
North West +27 6 £81,250 +30.00% 68
South East +28 3 £65,000 +14.04% 189
West Midlands +19 2 £100,000 +53.85% 67
Midlands +16 2 £100,000 +53.85% 133
East of England +17 1 - - 112
South West +3 1 £77,500 +19.23% 73

FastAPI
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 (7.80%) Appian
2 7 (4.96%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.13%) Jupyter
3 3 (2.13%) nginx
4 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.13%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 75 (53.19%) AWS
2 46 (32.62%) Azure
3 33 (23.40%) GCP
4 30 (21.28%) GitHub
5 26 (18.44%) Serverless
6 8 (5.67%) Azure AI
7 7 (4.96%) Anthropic Claude
7 7 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (4.96%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (4.96%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (4.96%) Power Automate
8 4 (2.84%) Cloud Run
8 4 (2.84%) Datadog
8 4 (2.84%) Prefect
8 4 (2.84%) SaaS
9 3 (2.13%) Amazon Bedrock
9 3 (2.13%) Vercel
10 2 (1.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (1.42%) Dagster
10 2 (1.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.42%) BGP
1 2 (1.42%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (1.42%) Firewall
1 2 (1.42%) MQTT
1 2 (1.42%) OSPF
1 2 (1.42%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (1.42%) RTMP
1 2 (1.42%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.42%) VLAN
1 2 (1.42%) VPN
1 2 (1.42%) WAN
1 2 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (1.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (40.43%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (29.08%) NoSQL
3 36 (25.53%) MongoDB
4 17 (12.06%) Pinecone
5 12 (8.51%) Relational Database
6 11 (7.80%) SQL Server
7 6 (4.26%) RDBMS
8 5 (3.55%) Weaviate
9 3 (2.13%) Metadata
9 3 (2.13%) MySQL
10 2 (1.42%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.71%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.71%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.71%) Looker
11 1 (0.71%) PostHog
11 1 (0.71%) Power BI
11 1 (0.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (19.86%) Git
2 17 (12.06%) Jenkins
3 14 (9.93%) GitLab
4 10 (7.09%) MLflow
5 6 (4.26%) Vite
6 2 (1.42%) Jaeger
6 2 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.71%) JIRA
General
1 34 (24.11%) Social Skills
2 30 (21.28%) Finance
3 15 (10.64%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.38%) Electronics
4 9 (6.38%) Manufacturing
4 9 (6.38%) Marketing
4 9 (6.38%) Telecoms
5 7 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.13%) Retail
7 2 (1.42%) Agriculture
7 2 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.42%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.71%) Automotive
8 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.71%) Legal
8 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (46.10%) Developer
2 41 (29.08%) Python Developer
3 40 (28.37%) Senior
4 29 (20.57%) Backend Developer
5 26 (18.44%) Lead
6 24 (17.02%) Software Engineer
7 22 (15.60%) Senior Developer
8 20 (14.18%) Python Engineer
9 18 (12.77%) Lead Developer
10 14 (9.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 14 (9.93%) Senior Python Developer
11 13 (9.22%) Lead Python Developer
12 12 (8.51%) Python Software Engineer
12 12 (8.51%) Senior Software Engineer
13 11 (7.80%) Full-Stack Developer
14 9 (6.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 8 (5.67%) Principal Engineer
15 8 (5.67%) Senior Backend Developer
15 8 (5.67%) Software Developer
16 7 (4.96%) Full-Stack Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (61.70%) Django
2 84 (59.57%) Flask
3 47 (33.33%) React
4 34 (24.11%) REST
5 22 (15.60%) RESTful
6 19 (13.48%) Vue
7 17 (12.06%) CSS
7 17 (12.06%) Node.js
8 16 (11.35%) HTML
9 15 (10.64%) scikit-learn
9 15 (10.64%) TensorFlow
10 14 (9.93%) PyTorch
11 12 (8.51%) pytest
12 11 (7.80%) Pandas
13 10 (7.09%) Next.js
13 10 (7.09%) NumPy
14 9 (6.38%) CrewAI
14 9 (6.38%) LangChain
15 8 (5.67%) Celery
15 8 (5.67%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 32 (22.70%) Cloud Native
2 25 (17.73%) Data Structures
3 18 (12.77%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (7.80%) Algorithms
5 8 (5.67%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (4.96%) Low-Code
7 5 (3.55%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.84%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.84%) Hackathon
8 4 (2.84%) Reinsurance
9 2 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.42%) Genomics
9 2 (1.42%) IoT
9 2 (1.42%) MPEG
9 2 (1.42%) Robotics
10 1 (0.71%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.71%) Linked Data
10 1 (0.71%) Semantic Web
10 1 (0.71%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (60.99%) CI/CD
2 80 (56.74%) AI
3 64 (45.39%) Containerisation
4 60 (42.55%) Agile
5 48 (34.04%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (30.50%) Software Engineering
7 41 (29.08%) Machine Learning
8 37 (26.24%) Microservices
9 35 (24.82%) Mentoring
10 32 (22.70%) Full-Stack Development
10 32 (22.70%) OOP
11 31 (21.99%) Clean Code
11 31 (21.99%) DevOps
12 30 (21.28%) Infrastructure as Code
13 29 (20.57%) Test Automation
14 28 (19.86%) OO
15 27 (19.15%) LLM
16 25 (17.73%) Technical Leadership
17 22 (15.60%) Front End Development
17 22 (15.60%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 140 (99.29%) Python
2 55 (39.01%) SQL
3 30 (21.28%) JavaScript
3 30 (21.28%) TypeScript
4 16 (11.35%) Java
5 9 (6.38%) Rust
6 7 (4.96%) Go
7 4 (2.84%) C#
8 3 (2.13%) Bicep
9 1 (0.71%) C
9 1 (0.71%) C++
9 1 (0.71%) PHP
9 1 (0.71%) SHACL
9 1 (0.71%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 20 (14.18%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.51%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.09%) Degree
4 8 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (5.67%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.42%) MCP
6 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.67%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.26%) QA
3 4 (2.84%) SLA
System Software
1 73 (51.77%) Docker
2 2 (1.42%) NFS
Systems Management
1 54 (38.30%) Kubernetes
2 43 (30.50%) Terraform
3 6 (4.26%) Ansible
4 4 (2.84%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.13%) Grafana
6 2 (1.42%) Argo
Vendors
1 19 (13.48%) OpenAI
2 11 (7.80%) Google
3 9 (6.38%) SAP
4 8 (5.67%) Atlassian
4 8 (5.67%) Oracle
5 7 (4.96%) Automation Anywhere
5 7 (4.96%) UiPath
6 2 (1.42%) Cisco
6 2 (1.42%) Databricks
6 2 (1.42%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.42%) MikroTik
6 2 (1.42%) NETGEAR
6 2 (1.42%) Sonatype
6 2 (1.42%) Starlink
6 2 (1.42%) Ubiquiti