API Development Jobs

API Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 523 511 480
Rank change year-on-year -12 -31 -111
Permanent jobs citing API Development 346 423 1,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.52% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.55% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 236 347 569
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,200 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,185 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for API Development in the UK

API Development
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for API Development in the UK

API Development
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Development over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for API Development in the UK

API Development
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 July 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
England +5 311 £60,000 -17.24% 49
UK excluding London -7 229 £57,500 -4.17% 42
Work from Home -31 131 £57,410 -15.26% 28
London -6 99 £75,000 -9.09% 18
North of England +25 54 £52,500 -14.63% 16
South East +26 46 £65,000 +8.33% 6
South West +11 46 £55,000 -21.43% 4
Midlands +3 46 £52,500 +10.53% 7
North West +11 42 £51,750 -5.91% 10
West Midlands +15 32 £50,000 +17.65% 2
Scotland -46 17 £85,000 +78.95% 2
East of England -13 16 £45,000 -25.00% 1
East Midlands -22 14 £67,500 +35.00% 5
Yorkshire +55 12 £57,500 -17.86% 6
Wales +22 4 £57,500 -11.54% 5

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 34 (9.83%) Apache
2 30 (8.67%) Apache Spark
3 28 (8.09%) IIS
4 23 (6.65%) CMS
5 8 (2.31%) nginx
6 7 (2.02%) JBoss
7 3 (0.87%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.58%) Confluence
9 1 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.29%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (5.20%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 18 (5.20%) SDL Web 8
2 7 (2.02%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.45%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.58%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 134 (38.73%) Azure
2 91 (26.30%) AWS
3 51 (14.74%) Serverless
4 47 (13.58%) GCP
5 38 (10.98%) AWS Lambda
6 35 (10.12%) OpenShift
7 30 (8.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 29 (8.38%) Amazon EKS
9 18 (5.20%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 18 (5.20%) NuGet
10 16 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (4.05%) Azure Functions
12 13 (3.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 13 (3.76%) Boomi
12 13 (3.76%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (3.76%) PaaS
12 13 (3.76%) SaaS
13 12 (3.47%) Power Platform
14 8 (2.31%) Apigee
14 8 (2.31%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.67%) AMQP
2 22 (6.36%) SSL
3 19 (5.49%) DNS
3 19 (5.49%) Firewall
3 19 (5.49%) TCP/IP
4 10 (2.89%) HTTP
5 4 (1.16%) 5G
5 4 (1.16%) MQTT
5 4 (1.16%) WAN
6 1 (0.29%) Internet
6 1 (0.29%) RNC
6 1 (0.29%) SGSN
6 1 (0.29%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (28.03%) SQL Server
2 35 (10.12%) MySQL
3 30 (8.67%) Big Data
3 30 (8.67%) Hadoop
3 30 (8.67%) NoSQL
4 29 (8.38%) Cloudera CDH
5 19 (5.49%) Relational Database
6 12 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (2.89%) DynamoDB
7 10 (2.89%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.16%) DocumentDB
9 4 (1.16%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.16%) Power BI
10 3 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.87%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.58%) GIS
Development Applications
1 64 (18.50%) Git
2 40 (11.56%) Visual Studio
3 26 (7.51%) JIRA
4 23 (6.65%) TeamCity
5 19 (5.49%) Moq
5 19 (5.49%) NUnit
5 19 (5.49%) Sourcetree
6 18 (5.20%) git-flow
6 18 (5.20%) Octopus Deploy
6 18 (5.20%) SpecFlow
7 10 (2.89%) Jenkins
8 9 (2.60%) Postman
9 7 (2.02%) GitLab
10 6 (1.73%) webpack
11 4 (1.16%) Maven
12 3 (0.87%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.87%) Subversion
13 2 (0.58%) Oracle APEX
13 2 (0.58%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 68 (19.65%) Social Skills
2 40 (11.56%) Finance
3 30 (8.67%) Aerospace
4 29 (8.38%) Marketing
5 23 (6.65%) Legal
6 16 (4.62%) Law
7 15 (4.34%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (4.05%) Retail
9 13 (3.76%) Public Sector
10 11 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.60%) Manufacturing
12 7 (2.02%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.73%) Banking
13 6 (1.73%) Games
14 5 (1.45%) Digital Healthcare
14 5 (1.45%) Police
15 4 (1.16%) Local Government
15 4 (1.16%) Tech for Good
16 3 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
17 2 (0.58%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 212 (61.27%) Developer
2 87 (25.14%) Senior
3 69 (19.94%) Senior Developer
4 67 (19.36%) Full Stack Developer
5 65 (18.79%) Software Engineer
6 63 (18.21%) C# Developer
7 43 (12.43%) Full-Stack C# Developer
7 43 (12.43%) Lead
8 42 (12.14%) Senior Full Stack Developer
9 40 (11.56%) .NET Developer
10 38 (10.98%) Senior C# Developer
11 29 (8.38%) Azure Developer
11 29 (8.38%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
12 28 (8.09%) C# .NET Developer
13 25 (7.23%) Lead Developer
14 20 (5.78%) Integration Developer
15 19 (5.49%) Senior .NET Developer
16 18 (5.20%) JavaScript Developer
17 17 (4.91%) PHP Developer
18 14 (4.05%) Full Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (36.13%) .NET
2 120 (34.68%) React
3 94 (27.17%) HTML
4 91 (26.30%) CSS
5 73 (21.10%) REST
6 67 (19.36%) AngularJS
6 67 (19.36%) RESTful
7 64 (18.50%) ASP.NET
8 59 (17.05%) Node.js
9 54 (15.61%) Spring
9 54 (15.61%) Swagger
10 50 (14.45%) jQuery
11 44 (12.72%) Spring Boot
12 43 (12.43%) Vue
13 42 (12.14%) ASP.NET MVC
13 42 (12.14%) SOAP
14 39 (11.27%) Web Services
15 38 (10.98%) .NET Framework
16 36 (10.40%) gRPC
17 33 (9.54%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 56 (16.18%) Cloud Native
2 33 (9.54%) Greenfield Project
3 23 (6.65%) Product Ownership
4 21 (6.07%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (5.49%) Legacy Code
6 17 (4.91%) Mobile App
7 15 (4.34%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (2.60%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.02%) IoT
10 5 (1.45%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.45%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.45%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.16%) Clustering
11 4 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.87%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.87%) Hackathon
12 3 (0.87%) Video\Live Streaming
12 3 (0.87%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.58%) Hedge funds
13 2 (0.58%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 45 (13.01%) Linux
2 31 (8.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 29 (8.38%) CentOS
3 29 (8.38%) Debian
3 29 (8.38%) Ubuntu
4 27 (7.80%) Windows
5 11 (3.18%) Android
6 7 (2.02%) Unix
7 5 (1.45%) AIX
8 4 (1.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (43.06%) Agile
2 110 (31.79%) DevOps
3 94 (27.17%) Software Engineering
4 89 (25.72%) Problem-Solving
5 84 (24.28%) Full Stack Development
6 82 (23.70%) Microservices
7 74 (21.39%) CI/CD
8 68 (19.65%) Scrum
9 56 (16.18%) Computer Science
10 54 (15.61%) MVC
11 53 (15.32%) Infrastructure as Code
12 51 (14.74%) Architectural Patterns
12 51 (14.74%) Containerisation
13 45 (13.01%) OO
14 42 (12.14%) Artificial Intelligence
14 42 (12.14%) Web Development
15 37 (10.69%) SOLID
15 37 (10.69%) Unit Testing
16 36 (10.40%) Mentoring
17 35 (10.12%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 147 (42.49%) JavaScript
2 133 (38.44%) C#
3 114 (32.95%) SQL
4 103 (29.77%) Python
5 87 (25.14%) Java
6 50 (14.45%) TypeScript
7 37 (10.69%) PHP
8 20 (5.78%) XAML
9 19 (5.49%) T-SQL
10 18 (5.20%) XPath
11 11 (3.18%) Go
12 10 (2.89%) C++
13 7 (2.02%) Bash
13 7 (2.02%) C
14 5 (1.45%) PL/SQL
14 5 (1.45%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.45%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.58%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.58%) Swift
15 2 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 62 (17.92%) Degree
2 49 (14.16%) Security Cleared
3 38 (10.98%) SC Cleared
4 34 (9.83%) DV Cleared
5 31 (8.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.47%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.87%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.58%) ACCA
8 2 (0.58%) OCP
8 2 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.58%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.29%) PhD
9 1 (0.29%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.91%) QA
2 16 (4.62%) GDPR
3 7 (2.02%) HIPAA
4 5 (1.45%) SLA
5 2 (0.58%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 53 (15.32%) Docker
2 4 (1.16%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.16%) VMware NSX
3 3 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 69 (19.94%) Kubernetes
2 38 (10.98%) Terraform
3 32 (9.25%) Ansible
4 31 (8.96%) Puppet
5 4 (1.16%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.87%) Nagios
7 2 (0.58%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.29%) Grafana
8 1 (0.29%) Kibana
8 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 40 (11.56%) Google
2 31 (8.96%) Red Hat
3 29 (8.38%) SaltStack
4 19 (5.49%) Adobe
4 19 (5.49%) Oracle
5 18 (5.20%) Cognizant
6 14 (4.05%) OpenAI
7 13 (3.76%) Microsoft
8 8 (2.31%) Xamarin
9 7 (2.02%) webMethods
10 6 (1.73%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.45%) Temenos
12 4 (1.16%) Databricks
12 4 (1.16%) Facebook
12 4 (1.16%) Jitterbit
12 4 (1.16%) Talend
12 4 (1.16%) VMware
13 3 (0.87%) SAP
14 2 (0.58%) Atlassian
14 2 (0.58%) Splunk