API Development Job Trends in Preston

API Development
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Preston requiring API Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing API Development 9 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Preston 2.70% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% - -
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median annual salary £75,000 £50,890 -
% change year-on-year +47.38% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 189 67 199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Preston 56.76% 90.54% 93.87%
Number of salaries quoted 116 44 155
10th Percentile £31,746 £44,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £39,250 £48,572 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,882 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.63% +9.22% +7.90%
75th Percentile £64,063 £59,311 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £63,855 £63,750
Lancashire median annual salary £46,000 £50,055 £46,457
% change year-on-year -8.10% +7.74% -4.37%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing API Development relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Preston.

API Development job vacancy trend in Preston

API Development
Salary Trend in Preston

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing API Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing API Development

API Development
Salary Histogram in Preston

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Development in Preston over the 6 months to 20 June 2026.

Salary histogram for API Development in Preston

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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 3 (33.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
1 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) MySQL
1 3 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
1 3 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 9 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 9 (100.00%) C# Software Developer
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
1 9 (100.00%) Senior
1 9 (100.00%) Senior C# Developer
1 9 (100.00%) Senior C# Software Developer
1 9 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 9 (100.00%) Senior Software Developer
1 9 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) .NET
1 3 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 3 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 3 (33.33%) ADO.NET
1 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
1 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web API
1 3 (33.33%) CSS
1 3 (33.33%) CSS3
1 3 (33.33%) Entity Framework
1 3 (33.33%) HTML
1 3 (33.33%) HTML5
1 3 (33.33%) JSON
1 3 (33.33%) JWT
1 3 (33.33%) LINQ
1 3 (33.33%) Middleware
1 3 (33.33%) OAuth
1 3 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 3 (33.33%) OpenAPI
1 3 (33.33%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) API Integration
1 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 3 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
1 3 (33.33%) DevOps
1 3 (33.33%) Fintech
1 3 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
1 3 (33.33%) MVC
1 3 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (33.33%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Splunk