API Development Jobs in the UK excluding London

API Development
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 451 513 424
Rank change year-on-year +62 -89 -128
Permanent jobs citing API Development 337 250 499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.40% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.42% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 245 187 303
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £33,916
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,750 £81,400 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,230 59,150 66,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.47% 95.64% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 41,096 30,337 41,441
10th Percentile £27,234 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for API Development in the UK excluding London

API Development
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for API Development in the UK excluding London

API Development
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Development in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for API Development in the UK excluding London

API Development
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
North of England +62 73 £57,500 -17.20% 20
Midlands +54 65 £52,500 -4.55% 15
South West +5 64 £57,500 -4.17% 3
South East +50 56 £62,500 - 12
West Midlands +73 55 £52,500 +16.67% 7
North West +28 49 £57,500 -17.20% 13
Scotland -43 43 £32,500 -33.33% 8
East of England +23 27 £45,000 -29.41% 2
Yorkshire +94 24 £57,500 -17.86% 5
East Midlands -16 10 £52,500 -22.22% 8
Northern Ireland -8 5 £57,500 +15.00% 1
Wales 0 4 £55,000 -15.38% 2
API Development
UK

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 49 (14.54%) IIS
2 27 (8.01%) Apache
3 24 (7.12%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.08%) Confluence
4 7 (2.08%) nginx
5 5 (1.48%) CMS
6 2 (0.59%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.59%) JBoss
7 1 (0.30%) Drupal
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.30%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.30%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 16 (4.75%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.30%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 140 (41.54%) Azure
2 132 (39.17%) AWS
3 57 (16.91%) GCP
4 42 (12.46%) Serverless
5 36 (10.68%) AWS Lambda
6 27 (8.01%) Cloud Computing
7 26 (7.72%) OpenShift
8 24 (7.12%) Amazon EKS
8 24 (7.12%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (4.45%) SaaS
10 12 (3.56%) Azure Functions
11 11 (3.26%) Azure Service Bus
12 10 (2.97%) Power Platform
13 9 (2.67%) PaaS
14 8 (2.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 7 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (2.08%) IaaS
16 6 (1.78%) ChatGPT
16 6 (1.78%) GitHub
17 5 (1.48%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.72%) WAN
2 24 (7.12%) AMQP
3 21 (6.23%) SSL
3 21 (6.23%) TCP/IP
4 19 (5.64%) DNS
4 19 (5.64%) Firewall
5 8 (2.37%) HTTP
6 4 (1.19%) Internet
6 4 (1.19%) MQTT
7 3 (0.89%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.30%) RNC
8 1 (0.30%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (21.07%) SQL Server
2 44 (13.06%) MySQL
3 38 (11.28%) NoSQL
4 24 (7.12%) Big Data
4 24 (7.12%) Cloudera CDH
4 24 (7.12%) Hadoop
4 24 (7.12%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (4.45%) MongoDB
6 9 (2.67%) DynamoDB
7 8 (2.37%) GIS
7 8 (2.37%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.48%) Power BI
8 5 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.30%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.30%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.30%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 66 (19.58%) Git
2 25 (7.42%) Visual Studio
3 13 (3.86%) JIRA
4 6 (1.78%) Bitbucket
4 6 (1.78%) TeamCity
5 5 (1.48%) Maven
5 5 (1.48%) webpack
6 4 (1.19%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.19%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.59%) JUnit
7 2 (0.59%) Moq
7 2 (0.59%) NUnit
7 2 (0.59%) Snyk
7 2 (0.59%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.59%) Sourcetree
8 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.30%) git-flow
8 1 (0.30%) GitLab
8 1 (0.30%) Selenium
8 1 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 58 (17.21%) Finance
2 48 (14.24%) Social Skills
3 27 (8.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 26 (7.72%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (7.42%) Aerospace
5 25 (7.42%) Law
6 24 (7.12%) Retail
7 20 (5.93%) Marketing
8 18 (5.34%) Banking
9 10 (2.97%) Tech for Good
10 6 (1.78%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.48%) Digital Healthcare
11 5 (1.48%) Legal
12 3 (0.89%) Games
12 3 (0.89%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.59%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.30%) Advertising
14 1 (0.30%) Automotive
14 1 (0.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 185 (54.90%) Developer
2 83 (24.63%) Software Engineer
3 59 (17.51%) Senior
4 47 (13.95%) Lead
5 44 (13.06%) Full Stack Developer
6 41 (12.17%) C# Developer
7 34 (10.09%) Senior Developer
8 29 (8.61%) .NET Developer
9 28 (8.31%) Lead Developer
10 27 (8.01%) PHP Developer
11 26 (7.72%) Systems Engineer
12 25 (7.42%) C# .NET Developer
13 24 (7.12%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
14 23 (6.82%) Full-Stack C# Developer
15 21 (6.23%) Java Engineer
15 21 (6.23%) Java Software Engineer
15 21 (6.23%) Senior Software Engineer
16 20 (5.93%) Full Stack Engineer
17 19 (5.64%) Azure Engineer
18 18 (5.34%) Azure Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (29.67%) React
2 90 (26.71%) .NET
3 77 (22.85%) AngularJS
4 74 (21.96%) HTML
5 70 (20.77%) CSS
6 63 (18.69%) RESTful
7 57 (16.91%) REST
8 56 (16.62%) Node.js
9 48 (14.24%) Vue
10 41 (12.17%) Spring Boot
11 40 (11.87%) Spring
12 31 (9.20%) gRPC
13 29 (8.61%) Laravel
14 27 (8.01%) ASP.NET
15 26 (7.72%) ASP.NET MVC
16 25 (7.42%) jQuery
16 25 (7.42%) OpenAPI
16 25 (7.42%) Swagger
17 24 (7.12%) Material-UI
17 24 (7.12%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 44 (13.06%) Public Cloud
2 40 (11.87%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (9.50%) Cloud Native
4 26 (7.72%) Clustering
5 21 (6.23%) Greenfield Project
5 21 (6.23%) Mobile App
6 20 (5.93%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (4.45%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.67%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.48%) IoT
10 3 (0.89%) Solar Energy
11 2 (0.59%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.59%) Educational Technology
11 2 (0.59%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.59%) PropTech
12 1 (0.30%) Digital Currency
12 1 (0.30%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.30%) Legacy Code
12 1 (0.30%) NHS
12 1 (0.30%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 36 (10.68%) Linux
2 26 (7.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 24 (7.12%) CentOS
3 24 (7.12%) Debian
3 24 (7.12%) Ubuntu
4 21 (6.23%) Windows
5 10 (2.97%) Android
6 3 (0.89%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (46.59%) Agile
2 117 (34.72%) Software Engineering
3 101 (29.97%) Problem-Solving
4 75 (22.26%) Microservices
5 73 (21.66%) Full Stack Development
6 62 (18.40%) CI/CD
7 56 (16.62%) TDD
8 54 (16.02%) DevOps
9 53 (15.73%) API Design
10 45 (13.35%) Continuous Integration
10 45 (13.35%) Infrastructure as Code
11 44 (13.06%) Web Development
12 42 (12.46%) Scrum
13 40 (11.87%) Containerisation
13 40 (11.87%) Test Automation
14 39 (11.57%) Collaborative Working
15 38 (11.28%) SDLC
16 34 (10.09%) Artificial Intelligence
16 34 (10.09%) Continuous Delivery
16 34 (10.09%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 117 (34.72%) Java
2 109 (32.34%) C#
3 102 (30.27%) SQL
4 86 (25.52%) JavaScript
5 51 (15.13%) Python
6 37 (10.98%) PHP
7 31 (9.20%) TypeScript
8 20 (5.93%) XAML
9 6 (1.78%) Ada
9 6 (1.78%) Go
10 4 (1.19%) C++
10 4 (1.19%) VB.NET
10 4 (1.19%) VBA
11 3 (0.89%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.59%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.59%) Bash
12 2 (0.59%) Bicep
12 2 (0.59%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.59%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 53 (15.73%) Security Cleared
2 32 (9.50%) Degree
3 25 (7.42%) SC Cleared
4 24 (7.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (7.12%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.37%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.59%) HND
7 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.30%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.86%) GDPR
2 9 (2.67%) QA
3 7 (2.08%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.30%) SEPA
System Software
1 48 (14.24%) Docker
2 26 (7.72%) VMware NSX
3 6 (1.78%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 73 (21.66%) Kubernetes
2 47 (13.95%) Terraform
3 26 (7.72%) Ansible
3 26 (7.72%) Puppet
4 2 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.59%) Nagios
4 2 (0.59%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.30%) Kibana
Vendors
1 36 (10.68%) Google
2 34 (10.09%) Microsoft
3 26 (7.72%) Red Hat
3 26 (7.72%) VMware
4 24 (7.12%) SaltStack
5 15 (4.45%) Xamarin
6 4 (1.19%) Facebook
6 4 (1.19%) Oracle
6 4 (1.19%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.89%) Telerik
8 2 (0.59%) Adobe
8 2 (0.59%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.59%) Jitterbit
8 2 (0.59%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.59%) New Relic
8 2 (0.59%) Splunk
8 2 (0.59%) Talend
9 1 (0.30%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.30%) Ericsson
9 1 (0.30%) ServiceNow