API Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for API Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited API Development over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 485 496 432
Rank change year-on-year +11 -64 -92
Permanent jobs citing API Development 473 580 1,297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.57% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.60% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 344 406 567
10th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,125 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.83% - +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

API Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing API Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for API Development in the UK

API Development
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing API Development.

Salary trend for API Development in the UK

API Development
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Development over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

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 9 May 2024. 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 +47 405 £60,000 -14.29% 112
UK excluding London +61 321 £56,500 -5.83% 65
Work from Home 0 196 £57,500 -11.54% 82
London -45 129 £77,500 -3.13% 52
North of England +69 67 £57,500 -17.86% 23
Midlands +38 64 £52,500 -4.55% 11
South West +3 60 £57,500 -4.17% 4
West Midlands +59 54 £52,500 +7.69% 6
South East +20 53 £63,750 - 13
North West +35 46 £57,500 -17.20% 17
Scotland -49 41 £32,500 -31.58% 9
East of England +19 27 £45,000 -28.00% 3
Yorkshire +84 21 £57,500 -17.86% 5
East Midlands -15 10 £52,500 -22.22% 5
Northern Ireland -9 5 £57,500 +15.00%
Wales -4 4 £55,000 -15.38% 2

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 49 (10.36%) IIS
2 32 (6.77%) Apache
3 28 (5.92%) Apache Spark
4 22 (4.65%) CMS
5 8 (1.69%) nginx
6 7 (1.48%) JBoss
7 5 (1.06%) Confluence
8 3 (0.63%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.42%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.42%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.42%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.21%) Drupal
10 1 (0.21%) Mule
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.21%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (2.96%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (3.38%) Payment Gateway
2 14 (2.96%) SDL Web 8
3 13 (2.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.06%) Temenos T24
5 4 (0.85%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.21%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 200 (42.28%) Azure
2 169 (35.73%) AWS
3 71 (15.01%) GCP
4 52 (10.99%) Serverless
5 43 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
6 36 (7.61%) Cloud Computing
7 31 (6.55%) OpenShift
8 26 (5.50%) Amazon EKS
8 26 (5.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (5.50%) SaaS
9 18 (3.81%) Power Platform
10 15 (3.17%) Boomi
11 14 (2.96%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 14 (2.96%) NuGet
12 13 (2.75%) Azure Functions
12 13 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (2.54%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (2.54%) GitHub
14 11 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (2.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.50%) AMQP
1 26 (5.50%) WAN
2 22 (4.65%) SSL
3 21 (4.44%) TCP/IP
4 19 (4.02%) DNS
4 19 (4.02%) Firewall
5 9 (1.90%) HTTP
6 6 (1.27%) MQTT
7 4 (0.85%) 5G
8 3 (0.63%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.63%) Internet
9 1 (0.21%) RNC
9 1 (0.21%) SGSN
9 1 (0.21%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (24.95%) SQL Server
2 45 (9.51%) NoSQL
3 43 (9.09%) MySQL
4 28 (5.92%) Big Data
5 27 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (5.50%) Cloudera CDH
6 26 (5.50%) Hadoop
7 16 (3.38%) MongoDB
7 16 (3.38%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.90%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.69%) GIS
10 6 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.06%) Power BI
12 4 (0.85%) Text Mining
13 3 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.63%) Data Mining
14 2 (0.42%) DocumentDB
14 2 (0.42%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 77 (16.28%) Git
2 42 (8.88%) Visual Studio
3 32 (6.77%) JIRA
4 19 (4.02%) TeamCity
5 17 (3.59%) GitLab
6 16 (3.38%) Jenkins
7 15 (3.17%) Moq
7 15 (3.17%) NUnit
7 15 (3.17%) Sourcetree
8 14 (2.96%) git-flow
8 14 (2.96%) Octopus Deploy
8 14 (2.96%) SpecFlow
9 6 (1.27%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.27%) webpack
10 5 (1.06%) Maven
11 4 (0.85%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.63%) JUnit
13 2 (0.42%) Snyk
13 2 (0.42%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 85 (17.97%) Social Skills
2 80 (16.91%) Finance
3 46 (9.73%) Law
4 44 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (8.25%) Marketing
6 30 (6.34%) Retail
7 27 (5.71%) Aerospace
8 20 (4.23%) Public Sector
9 17 (3.59%) Legal
10 16 (3.38%) Analytical Skills
11 14 (2.96%) Banking
12 13 (2.75%) Manufacturing
13 10 (2.11%) Tech for Good
14 9 (1.90%) Police
15 7 (1.48%) Games
15 7 (1.48%) Telecoms
16 5 (1.06%) Digital Healthcare
17 4 (0.85%) Electronics
18 2 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
19 1 (0.21%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 252 (53.28%) Developer
2 118 (24.95%) Senior
3 95 (20.08%) Software Engineer
4 71 (15.01%) Full Stack Developer
5 69 (14.59%) Senior Developer
6 67 (14.16%) C# Developer
7 58 (12.26%) Lead
8 46 (9.73%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 40 (8.46%) .NET Developer
10 35 (7.40%) Senior Full Stack Developer
11 30 (6.34%) Senior C# Developer
12 29 (6.13%) PHP Developer
13 28 (5.92%) Java Engineer
13 28 (5.92%) Lead Developer
14 27 (5.71%) Azure Developer
14 27 (5.71%) C# .NET Developer
15 26 (5.50%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
15 26 (5.50%) Systems Engineer
16 25 (5.29%) Senior Software Engineer
17 24 (5.07%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (30.44%) .NET
2 123 (26.00%) React
3 106 (22.41%) CSS
4 102 (21.56%) HTML
5 95 (20.08%) RESTful
6 83 (17.55%) AngularJS
7 78 (16.49%) REST
8 59 (12.47%) Spring
9 52 (10.99%) ASP.NET
10 50 (10.57%) Vue
11 48 (10.15%) Spring Boot
12 47 (9.94%) Node.js
13 46 (9.73%) jQuery
14 41 (8.67%) .NET Framework
14 41 (8.67%) ASP.NET MVC
15 39 (8.25%) RabbitMQ
15 39 (8.25%) Swagger
15 39 (8.25%) Web Services
16 37 (7.82%) XML
17 33 (6.98%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 49 (10.36%) Cloud Native
2 45 (9.51%) Public Cloud
3 40 (8.46%) Distributed Systems
4 37 (7.82%) Greenfield Project
5 27 (5.71%) Product Ownership
6 26 (5.50%) Clustering
7 21 (4.44%) Mobile App
8 20 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (2.96%) Legacy Code
10 13 (2.75%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.69%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.06%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.06%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.85%) Client/Server
13 4 (0.85%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.85%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.63%) Cyberattack
14 3 (0.63%) IoT
14 3 (0.63%) PropTech
14 3 (0.63%) Solar Energy
Operating Systems
1 48 (10.15%) Linux
2 29 (6.13%) Windows
3 28 (5.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (5.50%) CentOS
4 26 (5.50%) Debian
4 26 (5.50%) Ubuntu
5 14 (2.96%) Android
6 8 (1.69%) Unix
7 7 (1.48%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.06%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (40.38%) Agile
2 149 (31.50%) Software Engineering
3 130 (27.48%) Microservices
4 118 (24.95%) DevOps
5 115 (24.31%) Problem-Solving
6 103 (21.78%) CI/CD
7 100 (21.14%) Full Stack Development
8 78 (16.49%) API Design
9 69 (14.59%) Scrum
10 67 (14.16%) Architectural Patterns
10 67 (14.16%) TDD
11 66 (13.95%) MVC
12 64 (13.53%) Computer Science
13 61 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
14 59 (12.47%) Artificial Intelligence
15 53 (11.21%) Containerisation
15 53 (11.21%) Test Automation
16 52 (10.99%) Design Patterns
17 48 (10.15%) Continuous Integration
18 46 (9.73%) OO
Programming Languages
1 173 (36.58%) C#
2 167 (35.31%) SQL
3 147 (31.08%) Java
4 142 (30.02%) JavaScript
5 101 (21.35%) Python
6 54 (11.42%) TypeScript
7 41 (8.67%) PHP
8 24 (5.07%) T-SQL
9 20 (4.23%) XAML
10 16 (3.38%) XPath
11 15 (3.17%) C
12 9 (1.90%) Go
13 7 (1.48%) PowerShell
14 6 (1.27%) Ada
14 6 (1.27%) Apex Code
14 6 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (1.06%) Bash
15 5 (1.06%) C++
15 5 (1.06%) VB.NET
16 4 (0.85%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 73 (15.43%) Security Cleared
2 67 (14.16%) Degree
3 41 (8.67%) SC Cleared
4 38 (8.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (6.34%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.75%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.48%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.42%) HND
9 1 (0.21%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.96%) GDPR
2 9 (1.90%) QA
3 7 (1.48%) HIPAA
4 5 (1.06%) SLA
5 2 (0.42%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.42%) SEPA
6 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
System Software
1 77 (16.28%) Docker
2 26 (5.50%) VMware NSX
3 6 (1.27%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.21%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 98 (20.72%) Kubernetes
2 53 (11.21%) Terraform
3 29 (6.13%) Ansible
4 28 (5.92%) Puppet
5 4 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.63%) logstash
6 3 (0.63%) Nagios
7 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.21%) Grafana
8 1 (0.21%) Kibana
8 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 48 (10.15%) Microsoft
2 45 (9.51%) Google
3 28 (5.92%) Red Hat
3 28 (5.92%) VMware
4 26 (5.50%) SaltStack
5 16 (3.38%) Adobe
6 15 (3.17%) Xamarin
7 14 (2.96%) Cognizant
8 12 (2.54%) Oracle
9 11 (2.33%) Talend
10 9 (1.90%) Jitterbit
10 9 (1.90%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.69%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.69%) Salesforce
12 6 (1.27%) webMethods
13 5 (1.06%) Temenos
14 4 (0.85%) Facebook
14 4 (0.85%) SAP
15 3 (0.63%) CrowdStrike
15 3 (0.63%) Telerik