API Development Jobs in England

API Development
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 476 505 455
Rank change year-on-year +29 -50 -116
Permanent jobs citing API Development 405 479 1,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.47% 0.53% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.56% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 302 320 479
10th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £41,600
25th Percentile £48,750 £58,750 £49,375
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 £86,563 £79,375
90th Percentile £86,250 £101,185 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £69,724 £62,500
% change year-on-year -13.95% +11.56% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,438 86,230 127,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.46% 95.62% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 53,979 51,187 72,943
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for API Development in England

API Development
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for API Development in England

API Development
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Development in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for API Development in England

API Development
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Development within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London -17 130 £77,500 -3.13% 57
North of England +67 67 £57,500 -17.53% 23
Midlands +43 64 £52,500 -4.55% 9
South West +1 59 £57,500 -4.17% 4
West Midlands +71 54 £52,500 +7.69% 4
South East +29 53 £63,750 -1.92% 12
North West +26 46 £57,500 -17.20% 17
East of England +14 27 £45,000 -28.00% 3
Yorkshire +75 21 £57,500 -17.86% 5
East Midlands -10 10 £52,500 -22.22% 5
API Development
UK

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 36 (8.89%) IIS
2 31 (7.65%) Apache
3 28 (6.91%) Apache Spark
4 22 (5.43%) CMS
5 8 (1.98%) nginx
6 7 (1.73%) JBoss
7 4 (0.99%) Confluence
8 3 (0.74%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.49%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.49%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.49%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.25%) Drupal
10 1 (0.25%) Mule
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.25%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (3.46%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (3.95%) Payment Gateway
2 14 (3.46%) SDL Web 8
3 13 (3.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.23%) Temenos T24
5 4 (0.99%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.25%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 158 (39.01%) Azure
2 129 (31.85%) AWS
3 54 (13.33%) GCP
4 52 (12.84%) Serverless
5 43 (10.62%) AWS Lambda
6 31 (7.65%) OpenShift
7 26 (6.42%) Amazon EKS
7 26 (6.42%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (6.42%) SaaS
8 21 (5.19%) Cloud Computing
9 18 (4.44%) Power Platform
10 14 (3.46%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 14 (3.46%) NuGet
11 13 (3.21%) Azure Functions
11 13 (3.21%) Boomi
11 13 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
12 12 (2.96%) Azure Service Bus
13 11 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (2.47%) PaaS
15 9 (2.22%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.42%) AMQP
2 22 (5.43%) SSL
3 21 (5.19%) TCP/IP
4 19 (4.69%) DNS
4 19 (4.69%) Firewall
5 13 (3.21%) WAN
6 8 (1.98%) HTTP
7 6 (1.48%) MQTT
8 4 (0.99%) 5G
9 3 (0.74%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.74%) Internet
10 1 (0.25%) RNC
10 1 (0.25%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (24.94%) SQL Server
2 41 (10.12%) MySQL
3 30 (7.41%) NoSQL
4 28 (6.91%) Big Data
5 26 (6.42%) Cloudera CDH
5 26 (6.42%) Hadoop
6 24 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (3.46%) MongoDB
8 13 (3.21%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.22%) DynamoDB
10 7 (1.73%) GIS
11 6 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.23%) Power BI
13 4 (0.99%) Text Mining
14 3 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.74%) Data Mining
15 2 (0.49%) DocumentDB
15 2 (0.49%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 74 (18.27%) Git
2 42 (10.37%) Visual Studio
3 31 (7.65%) JIRA
4 19 (4.69%) TeamCity
5 16 (3.95%) GitLab
6 15 (3.70%) Moq
6 15 (3.70%) NUnit
6 15 (3.70%) Sourcetree
7 14 (3.46%) git-flow
7 14 (3.46%) Jenkins
7 14 (3.46%) Octopus Deploy
7 14 (3.46%) SpecFlow
8 6 (1.48%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.23%) Maven
9 5 (1.23%) webpack
10 3 (0.74%) JUnit
11 2 (0.49%) Snyk
11 2 (0.49%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.25%) Robot Framework
General
1 79 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 50 (12.35%) Finance
3 30 (7.41%) Retail
4 28 (6.91%) Law
5 27 (6.67%) Aerospace
6 25 (6.17%) Marketing
7 18 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (4.20%) Legal
9 15 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
10 13 (3.21%) Banking
10 13 (3.21%) Manufacturing
10 13 (3.21%) Public Sector
11 9 (2.22%) Tech for Good
12 7 (1.73%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.23%) Digital Healthcare
14 4 (0.99%) Electronics
14 4 (0.99%) Games
15 2 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.25%) Advertising
16 1 (0.25%) Police
Job Titles
1 230 (56.79%) Developer
2 97 (23.95%) Senior
3 74 (18.27%) Software Engineer
4 69 (17.04%) Full Stack Developer
5 66 (16.30%) C# Developer
6 64 (15.80%) Senior Developer
7 46 (11.36%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 42 (10.37%) Lead
9 37 (9.14%) .NET Developer
10 33 (8.15%) Senior Full Stack Developer
11 30 (7.41%) Senior C# Developer
12 28 (6.91%) PHP Developer
13 27 (6.67%) Lead Developer
14 26 (6.42%) C# .NET Developer
14 26 (6.42%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
15 25 (6.17%) Azure Developer
16 21 (5.19%) Integration Developer
17 19 (4.69%) Full Stack .NET Developer
18 18 (4.44%) .NET Software Engineer
18 18 (4.44%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (34.07%) .NET
2 117 (28.89%) React
3 96 (23.70%) CSS
4 92 (22.72%) HTML
5 90 (22.22%) RESTful
6 76 (18.77%) AngularJS
7 74 (18.27%) REST
8 58 (14.32%) Spring
9 51 (12.59%) ASP.NET
10 49 (12.10%) Vue
11 46 (11.36%) jQuery
12 44 (10.86%) Node.js
13 42 (10.37%) Spring Boot
14 41 (10.12%) ASP.NET MVC
15 40 (9.88%) .NET Framework
16 39 (9.63%) RabbitMQ
17 38 (9.38%) Swagger
18 36 (8.89%) Web Services
19 34 (8.40%) XML
20 33 (8.15%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 46 (11.36%) Cloud Native
2 34 (8.40%) Greenfield Project
3 27 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (6.17%) Product Ownership
5 20 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (4.44%) Mobile App
7 14 (3.46%) Legacy Code
8 13 (3.21%) Clustering
8 13 (3.21%) Public Cloud
9 12 (2.96%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.98%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.23%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.99%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.99%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.99%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.74%) IoT
13 3 (0.74%) PropTech
13 3 (0.74%) Solar Energy
14 2 (0.49%) Educational Technology
14 2 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 46 (11.36%) Linux
2 28 (6.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 26 (6.42%) CentOS
3 26 (6.42%) Debian
3 26 (6.42%) Ubuntu
4 25 (6.17%) Windows
5 8 (1.98%) Android
5 8 (1.98%) Unix
6 5 (1.23%) AIX
7 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (41.73%) Agile
2 120 (29.63%) Microservices
3 115 (28.40%) DevOps
4 114 (28.15%) Software Engineering
5 96 (23.70%) Full Stack Development
6 84 (20.74%) CI/CD
7 80 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
8 66 (16.30%) Scrum
9 64 (15.80%) MVC
10 59 (14.57%) API Design
11 57 (14.07%) Computer Science
12 53 (13.09%) TDD
13 51 (12.59%) Architectural Patterns
14 50 (12.35%) Containerisation
14 50 (12.35%) Design Patterns
15 48 (11.85%) Test Automation
16 45 (11.11%) OO
17 44 (10.86%) Web Development
18 43 (10.62%) Infrastructure as Code
19 42 (10.37%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 167 (41.23%) C#
2 142 (35.06%) SQL
3 131 (32.35%) JavaScript
4 100 (24.69%) Java
5 98 (24.20%) Python
6 51 (12.59%) TypeScript
7 39 (9.63%) PHP
8 24 (5.93%) T-SQL
9 20 (4.94%) XAML
10 16 (3.95%) XPath
11 15 (3.70%) C
12 8 (1.98%) Go
13 7 (1.73%) PowerShell
14 6 (1.48%) Ada
14 6 (1.48%) Apex Code
14 6 (1.48%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (1.23%) Bash
15 5 (1.23%) VB.NET
16 4 (0.99%) Bicep
17 3 (0.74%) C++
Qualifications
1 60 (14.81%) Degree
2 51 (12.59%) Security Cleared
3 34 (8.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 33 (8.15%) SC Cleared
5 30 (7.41%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.96%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.48%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.49%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.21%) GDPR
2 9 (2.22%) QA
3 7 (1.73%) HIPAA
4 5 (1.23%) SLA
5 2 (0.49%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.49%) SEPA
6 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 74 (18.27%) Docker
2 13 (3.21%) VMware NSX
3 6 (1.48%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.25%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 91 (22.47%) Kubernetes
2 35 (8.64%) Terraform
3 29 (7.16%) Ansible
4 28 (6.91%) Puppet
5 4 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.74%) logstash
6 3 (0.74%) Nagios
7 2 (0.49%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.25%) Grafana
8 1 (0.25%) Kibana
8 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 45 (11.11%) Google
2 35 (8.64%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.91%) Red Hat
4 26 (6.42%) SaltStack
5 16 (3.95%) Adobe
6 15 (3.70%) VMware
7 14 (3.46%) Cognizant
8 12 (2.96%) Xamarin
9 11 (2.72%) Talend
10 10 (2.47%) Oracle
11 9 (2.22%) Jitterbit
11 9 (2.22%) OpenAI
12 8 (1.98%) MuleSoft
12 8 (1.98%) Salesforce
13 5 (1.23%) Temenos
14 4 (0.99%) Facebook
14 4 (0.99%) SAP
15 3 (0.74%) Telerik
16 2 (0.49%) Atlassian
16 2 (0.49%) Dell