API Development Jobs in London

API Development
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 373 333
Rank change year-on-year +82 -40 +66
Permanent jobs citing API Development 114 128 330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.88% 0.54% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.59% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 86 92 212
10th Percentile £52,500 £54,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £63,438 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% -3.13% +14.29%
75th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £91,563
90th Percentile £116,250 £97,500 £112,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,449 21,594 33,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.10% 91.31% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 7,453 16,091 24,053
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £43,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,555 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.30% -5.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £123,750 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for API Development in London

API Development
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for API Development in London

API Development
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Development in London over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for API Development in London

API Development
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Development within the London region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
Central London +53 29 £81,250 +4.84% 21
South London - 3 £90,000 - 1
East London -3 2 £100,000 +25.00% 4
West London +39 1 £62,000 -17.33% 3
North London - 1 £42,500 - 1
API Development
England

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 4 (3.51%) Confluence
2 3 (2.63%) CMS
2 3 (2.63%) Headless CMS
2 3 (2.63%) OpenEdge
3 1 (0.88%) Apache
3 1 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.51%) Chatbot
2 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.51%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.75%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (53.51%) Azure
2 45 (39.47%) AWS
3 28 (24.56%) Serverless
4 22 (19.30%) GitHub
5 17 (14.91%) GCP
6 13 (11.40%) Cloud Computing
7 12 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (10.53%) Power Platform
8 11 (9.65%) Azure Functions
8 11 (9.65%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (7.89%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (7.89%) Power Automate
10 8 (7.02%) PowerApps
11 4 (3.51%) Amazon Bedrock
11 4 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (2.63%) Apigee
12 3 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (2.63%) Contentful
12 3 (2.63%) Figma
12 3 (2.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.65%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (25.44%) SQL Server
2 22 (19.30%) NoSQL
3 16 (14.04%) MongoDB
4 15 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (9.65%) Power BI
6 9 (7.89%) MySQL
7 7 (6.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (6.14%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (6.14%) Relational Database
7 7 (6.14%) Tableau
8 3 (2.63%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.63%) Data Vault
8 3 (2.63%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.63%) Metadata
9 2 (1.75%) Big Data
9 2 (1.75%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.88%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.88%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.88%) Parquet
10 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (22.81%) Git
2 19 (16.67%) JIRA
3 11 (9.65%) PowerBuilder
4 6 (5.26%) Gradle
4 6 (5.26%) Maven
5 5 (4.39%) Postman
6 4 (3.51%) Jenkins
7 3 (2.63%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.63%) Storybook
8 2 (1.75%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.75%) Mocha
8 2 (1.75%) Moq
8 2 (1.75%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.75%) SpecFlow
8 2 (1.75%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.88%) Crucible
9 1 (0.88%) NUnit
General
1 45 (39.47%) Finance
2 38 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 11 (9.65%) Retail
4 10 (8.77%) Banking
5 9 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.89%) Marketing
6 7 (6.14%) Games
6 7 (6.14%) Legal
7 6 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (5.26%) Law
8 4 (3.51%) Front Office
8 4 (3.51%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.63%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.75%) Back Office
10 2 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.88%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (43.86%) Developer
2 32 (28.07%) Senior
3 25 (21.93%) Lead
4 18 (15.79%) Software Engineer
5 16 (14.04%) Full-Stack Developer
6 12 (10.53%) Technical Leader
7 11 (9.65%) Senior Developer
8 10 (8.77%) Lead Developer
9 9 (7.89%) Software Developer
10 8 (7.02%) Python Developer
10 8 (7.02%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (7.02%) Software Manager
11 6 (5.26%) .NET Developer
11 6 (5.26%) Architect
11 6 (5.26%) Senior Software Developer
12 5 (4.39%) IT Engineer
12 5 (4.39%) IT Manager
12 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Developer
12 5 (4.39%) Senior IT Manager
12 5 (4.39%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (42.11%) React
2 41 (35.96%) .NET
3 34 (29.82%) REST
4 33 (28.95%) RESTful
5 24 (21.05%) GraphQL
6 17 (14.91%) SOAP
7 15 (13.16%) AngularJS
8 12 (10.53%) .NET Core
9 10 (8.77%) CSS
9 10 (8.77%) Kafka
9 10 (8.77%) Node.js
9 10 (8.77%) OAuth
9 10 (8.77%) Vue
10 9 (7.89%) HTML
11 8 (7.02%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (7.02%) OAuth2
12 7 (6.14%) JSON
12 7 (6.14%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (6.14%) Spring
13 6 (5.26%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 24 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 19 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 11 (9.65%) Reinsurance
4 9 (7.89%) Mobile App
5 8 (7.02%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (7.02%) Management Information System
6 6 (5.26%) Mobile Games
7 5 (4.39%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.75%) EPoS
9 2 (1.75%) Equities
9 2 (1.75%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.75%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.75%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.88%) Linked Data
10 1 (0.88%) NHS
10 1 (0.88%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.88%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.39%) Android
1 5 (4.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (62.28%) CI/CD
2 62 (54.39%) DevOps
3 49 (42.98%) Microservices
4 42 (36.84%) Agile
5 38 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 36 (31.58%) Containerisation
7 34 (29.82%) API Integration
8 32 (28.07%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (19.30%) Full-Stack Development
10 20 (17.54%) Computer Science
10 20 (17.54%) Mentoring
11 19 (16.67%) API Design
12 18 (15.79%) Roadmaps
13 17 (14.91%) Requirements Gathering
13 17 (14.91%) SDLC
14 16 (14.04%) Front End Development
14 16 (14.04%) Migration
15 15 (13.16%) Architectural Design
15 15 (13.16%) Data Governance
15 15 (13.16%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 43 (37.72%) Python
2 42 (36.84%) JavaScript
3 41 (35.96%) C#
4 37 (32.46%) SQL
5 31 (27.19%) Java
6 19 (16.67%) TypeScript
7 16 (14.04%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.51%) C
8 4 (3.51%) C++
8 4 (3.51%) Ruby
9 3 (2.63%) Apex Code
9 3 (2.63%) OpenEdge ABL
9 3 (2.63%) Progress 4GL
9 3 (2.63%) Swift
10 2 (1.75%) Go
10 2 (1.75%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.75%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.75%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.75%) Rust
10 2 (1.75%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 23 (20.18%) Degree
2 17 (14.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.26%) AWS Certification
3 6 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (4.39%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.39%) Security Cleared
5 4 (3.51%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.63%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.53%) QA
2 9 (7.89%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.63%) GDPR
3 3 (2.63%) WCAG
4 1 (0.88%) CDISC
4 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 35 (30.70%) Docker
2 2 (1.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.14%) Prometheus
3 6 (5.26%) Argo
3 6 (5.26%) Terraform
4 5 (4.39%) Grafana
5 4 (3.51%) Ansible
5 4 (3.51%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 36 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.65%) Google
3 7 (6.14%) Databricks
4 6 (5.26%) New Relic
4 6 (5.26%) ServiceNow
5 5 (4.39%) OpenAI
6 4 (3.51%) Oracle
6 4 (3.51%) Remedy
6 4 (3.51%) Splunk
7 3 (2.63%) MuleSoft
7 3 (2.63%) Progress
7 3 (2.63%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.75%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.75%) Snow
9 1 (0.88%) Trayport