API Development Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

API Development
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 241 395 410
Rank change year-on-year +154 +15 -64
Permanent jobs citing API Development 176 201 288
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.18% 0.59% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 0.65% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 141 172 240
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% -3.70%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £81,250 £95,125
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,938 31,020 41,026
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.13% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,733 23,575 28,496
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,800 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

API Development
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing API Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

API Development trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

API Development
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing API Development.

API Development salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

API Development
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing API Development over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

API Development salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (1.70%) Confluence
1 3 (1.70%) OpenEdge
2 2 (1.14%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.57%) Apache
3 1 (0.57%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (6.25%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (2.27%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 78 (44.32%) Azure
2 68 (38.64%) AWS
3 22 (12.50%) GitHub
4 16 (9.09%) GCP
5 15 (8.52%) Serverless
6 13 (7.39%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (5.68%) Azure Logic Apps
7 10 (5.68%) Power Platform
7 10 (5.68%) SaaS
8 9 (5.11%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (4.55%) Power Automate
10 5 (2.84%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (2.84%) Azure Functions
10 5 (2.84%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.70%) Apigee
12 3 (1.70%) Cloud Composer
12 3 (1.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.57%) 3GPP
1 1 (0.57%) 4G
1 1 (0.57%) 5G
1 1 (0.57%) Diameter Protocol
1 1 (0.57%) HTTP
1 1 (0.57%) HTTPS
1 1 (0.57%) MQTT
1 1 (0.57%) SCTP
1 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 24 (13.64%) NoSQL
3 22 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (7.95%) MongoDB
4 14 (7.95%) MySQL
4 14 (7.95%) Relational Database
5 6 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (3.41%) Power BI
5 6 (3.41%) Tableau
6 5 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.84%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.70%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.14%) Big Data
8 2 (1.14%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.14%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.14%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.14%) Metadata
8 2 (1.14%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.57%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.57%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 37 (21.02%) Git
2 13 (7.39%) Visual Studio
3 6 (3.41%) Gradle
3 6 (3.41%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.41%) JIRA
3 6 (3.41%) Maven
3 6 (3.41%) Mocha
4 5 (2.84%) GitLab
4 5 (2.84%) Postman
5 3 (1.70%) Babel
5 3 (1.70%) JUnit
5 3 (1.70%) Mockito
5 3 (1.70%) Moq
5 3 (1.70%) SpecFlow
5 3 (1.70%) webpack
6 2 (1.14%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (1.14%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.57%) Robot Framework
General
1 56 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 51 (28.98%) Finance
3 32 (18.18%) Banking
4 20 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (10.80%) Legal
6 16 (9.09%) Retail
7 7 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.41%) Electronics
8 6 (3.41%) Games
8 6 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (3.41%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.27%) Marketing
10 4 (2.27%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.70%) Tech for Good
12 2 (1.14%) Advertising
12 2 (1.14%) Automotive
12 2 (1.14%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (51.14%) Developer
2 37 (21.02%) .NET Developer
3 33 (18.75%) Senior
4 27 (15.34%) Full-Stack Developer
5 26 (14.77%) Lead
6 24 (13.64%) C# Developer
7 22 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
8 20 (11.36%) Software Engineer
9 17 (9.66%) Graduate
10 15 (8.52%) Senior Developer
10 15 (8.52%) Software Developer
11 12 (6.82%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 12 (6.82%) Full-Stack C# Developer
12 11 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 10 (5.68%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 10 (5.68%) React Developer
13 10 (5.68%) Senior Software Engineer
14 8 (4.55%) Lead Developer
14 8 (4.55%) Senior Software Developer
15 7 (3.98%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (49.43%) .NET
2 56 (31.82%) RESTful
3 44 (25.00%) React
4 33 (18.75%) REST
5 31 (17.61%) .NET Core
6 24 (13.64%) AngularJS
7 17 (9.66%) .NET Framework
8 16 (9.09%) CSS
9 15 (8.52%) Entity Framework
9 15 (8.52%) HTML
10 13 (7.39%) Node.js
10 13 (7.39%) OAuth
11 12 (6.82%) ASP.NET
11 12 (6.82%) ASP.NET Web API
11 12 (6.82%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (6.82%) Vue
12 11 (6.25%) GraphQL
12 11 (6.25%) Kafka
12 11 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
12 11 (6.25%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.64%) Mobile App
2 18 (10.23%) Product Ownership
3 17 (9.66%) Hackathon
3 17 (9.66%) Learning Management System
4 12 (6.82%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (5.68%) Cloud Native
5 10 (5.68%) Private Cloud
6 7 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.98%) Educational Technology
6 7 (3.98%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (3.41%) Algorithms
7 6 (3.41%) Mobile Games
8 5 (2.84%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.14%) EPoS
9 2 (1.14%) IoT
9 2 (1.14%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.14%) Social Media
9 2 (1.14%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.11%) Apple iOS
2 8 (4.55%) Windows
3 6 (3.41%) Android
4 4 (2.27%) Linux
5 1 (0.57%) Debian
5 1 (0.57%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (46.02%) DevOps
2 78 (44.32%) Agile
3 73 (41.48%) Software Engineering
4 66 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 59 (33.52%) Containerisation
6 55 (31.25%) Microservices
7 50 (28.41%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (24.43%) Full-Stack Development
9 39 (22.16%) API Integration
10 29 (16.48%) Artificial Intelligence
10 29 (16.48%) Front End Development
11 28 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (14.77%) Mentoring
13 25 (14.20%) Continuous Integration
13 25 (14.20%) E-Commerce
14 24 (13.64%) User Experience
15 21 (11.93%) Unit Testing
16 20 (11.36%) Computer Science
16 20 (11.36%) Continuous Delivery
17 19 (10.80%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 93 (52.84%) C#
2 64 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 62 (35.23%) Java
4 56 (31.82%) SQL
5 49 (27.84%) Python
6 19 (10.80%) Kotlin
7 18 (10.23%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.55%) C++
8 8 (4.55%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.84%) Go
9 5 (2.84%) Swift
10 4 (2.27%) PHP
11 3 (1.70%) OpenEdge ABL
11 3 (1.70%) Progress 4GL
12 2 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.14%) Rust
13 1 (0.57%) Groovy
13 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.57%) SHACL
13 1 (0.57%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 38 (21.59%) Degree
2 19 (10.80%) Master's Degree
3 18 (10.23%) PhD
4 15 (8.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (5.68%) Security Cleared
6 8 (4.55%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.98%) AWS Certification
8 6 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.27%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.14%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (15.91%) QA
2 11 (6.25%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.57%) CDISC
3 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 43 (24.43%) Docker
2 2 (1.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (24.43%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.98%) Argo
2 7 (3.98%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.84%) Terraform
4 1 (0.57%) Grafana
Vendors
1 52 (29.55%) Microsoft
2 26 (14.77%) Google
3 19 (10.80%) IBM
4 9 (5.11%) Oracle
5 8 (4.55%) Telerik
6 6 (3.41%) New Relic
7 3 (1.70%) Databricks
7 3 (1.70%) Progress
8 2 (1.14%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.14%) HubSpot
8 2 (1.14%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.14%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.14%) SAP
8 2 (1.14%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.57%) OpenAI