API Development Jobs in the City of London

API Development
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring API Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited API Development over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 169 162
Rank change year-on-year +54 -7 +101
Permanent jobs citing API Development 23 11 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.20% 0.33% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 0.36% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 21 3 60
10th Percentile £66,250 £45,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £50,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £60,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +54.17% -25.00% +7.38%
75th Percentile £110,000 £74,375 £86,250
90th Percentile £140,000 £81,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £92,500 £53,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year +72.09% -32.81% +8.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,845 3,067 4,311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 96.24% 91.69% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,387 2,389 3,587
10th Percentile £42,300 £41,315 £42,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing API Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for API Development in the City of London

API Development
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing API Development in the City of London.

Salary trend for API Development in the City of London

API Development
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Development in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for API Development in the City of London

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (4.35%) Apache
1 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.35%) CMS
1 1 (4.35%) Confluence
1 1 (4.35%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 16 (69.57%) Azure
2 10 (43.48%) AWS
3 7 (30.43%) GitHub
4 6 (26.09%) Serverless
5 4 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (17.39%) Power Platform
6 3 (13.04%) GCP
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
7 2 (8.70%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (8.70%) Azure App Service
7 2 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (8.70%) Azure Functions
7 2 (8.70%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (8.70%) Power Automate
7 2 (8.70%) PowerApps
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (4.35%) Contentful
8 1 (4.35%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) SQL Server
2 4 (17.39%) Power BI
2 4 (17.39%) Tableau
3 3 (13.04%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (13.04%) Data Lake
3 3 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
4 2 (8.70%) Data Mining
4 2 (8.70%) Metadata
4 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
4 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.35%) Big Data
5 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
5 1 (4.35%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) JIRA
2 3 (13.04%) Git
3 2 (8.70%) Artifactory
3 2 (8.70%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (4.35%) Storybook
General
1 11 (47.83%) Finance
2 8 (34.78%) Banking
3 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
4 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (17.39%) Front Office
4 4 (17.39%) Investment Banking
5 2 (8.70%) Back Office
5 2 (8.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Lead
3 6 (26.09%) Senior
3 6 (26.09%) Software Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) Lead Developer
5 4 (17.39%) .NET Developer
5 4 (17.39%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (17.39%) Lead .NET Developer
6 3 (13.04%) Azure Developer
6 3 (13.04%) Data Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) Python Developer
7 2 (8.70%) AWS Developer
7 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Principal Software Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Python Software Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (8.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (43.48%) React
2 6 (26.09%) .NET
3 4 (17.39%) REST
3 4 (17.39%) RESTful
4 3 (13.04%) AngularJS
4 3 (13.04%) GraphQL
5 2 (8.70%) Django
5 2 (8.70%) FastAPI
5 2 (8.70%) Flask
5 2 (8.70%) Pandas
5 2 (8.70%) Vue
5 2 (8.70%) YAML
6 1 (4.35%) CSS
6 1 (4.35%) CSS3
6 1 (4.35%) HTML
6 1 (4.35%) JSON
6 1 (4.35%) MEAN Stack
6 1 (4.35%) OAuth
6 1 (4.35%) OpenCV
6 1 (4.35%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Cloud Native
2 4 (17.39%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.70%) Equities
3 2 (8.70%) Fixed Income
3 2 (8.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.35%) PKI
4 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) DevOps
2 12 (52.17%) Microservices
3 11 (47.83%) CI/CD
4 10 (43.48%) Software Engineering
5 8 (34.78%) Agile
5 8 (34.78%) Containerisation
5 8 (34.78%) Mentoring
5 8 (34.78%) Migration
6 7 (30.43%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (26.09%) Strategic Thinking
8 5 (21.74%) Business Strategy
8 5 (21.74%) Data Engineering
9 4 (17.39%) Asset Management
9 4 (17.39%) Data Migration
9 4 (17.39%) Data Modelling
9 4 (17.39%) Data Science
9 4 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (17.39%) Enterprise Architecture
9 4 (17.39%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) Python
2 10 (43.48%) C#
2 10 (43.48%) JavaScript
3 9 (39.13%) Java
4 8 (34.78%) SQL
5 5 (21.74%) TypeScript
6 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
7 2 (8.70%) Go
7 2 (8.70%) MATLAB
7 2 (8.70%) PL/SQL
7 2 (8.70%) Ruby
7 2 (8.70%) Rust
7 2 (8.70%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Ansible
2 2 (8.70%) Grafana
2 2 (8.70%) Progress Chef
2 2 (8.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) Databricks
3 2 (8.70%) Google
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle
3 2 (8.70%) Splunk