API Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 479 515 444
Rank change year-on-year +36 -71 -103
Permanent jobs citing API Development 474 548 1,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.55% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.58% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 339 393 569
10th Percentile £41,100 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £100,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

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 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for API Development in the UK

API Development
Top 16 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 20 May 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 +57 407 £60,000 -14.29% 139
UK excluding London +46 316 £57,000 -5.00% 86
Work from Home +20 196 £57,500 -11.54% 75
London -9 136 £77,500 -3.13% 71
North of England +52 68 £57,500 -17.86% 24
Midlands +38 62 £52,500 -4.55% 10
South West +2 60 £57,500 -8.73% 4
South East +34 53 £63,750 +2.00% 30
West Midlands +58 52 £52,500 +7.69% 6
North West +22 47 £57,500 -17.20% 15
Scotland -52 39 £32,500 -33.33% 12
East of England +4 25 £45,000 -28.00% 5
Yorkshire +75 21 £57,500 -17.86% 4
East Midlands -18 10 £52,500 -22.22% 4
Northern Ireland -4 5 £57,500 +15.00%
Wales -2 4 £55,000 -15.38% 2

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 43 (9.07%) IIS
2 33 (6.96%) Apache
3 29 (6.12%) Apache Spark
4 24 (5.06%) CMS
5 8 (1.69%) nginx
6 7 (1.48%) JBoss
7 4 (0.84%) Confluence
8 3 (0.63%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.42%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.42%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.42%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.21%) Drupal
10 1 (0.21%) Mule
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.21%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (3.38%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (3.38%) SDL Web 8
2 15 (3.16%) Payment Gateway
3 13 (2.74%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.05%) Temenos T24
5 4 (0.84%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.21%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 198 (41.77%) Azure
2 161 (33.97%) AWS
3 72 (15.19%) GCP
4 53 (11.18%) Serverless
5 44 (9.28%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (6.75%) OpenShift
7 30 (6.33%) Cloud Computing
8 27 (5.70%) Amazon EKS
8 27 (5.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (5.70%) SaaS
9 18 (3.80%) Power Platform
10 16 (3.38%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 16 (3.38%) NuGet
11 15 (3.16%) Boomi
12 13 (2.74%) Azure Functions
12 13 (2.74%) Azure Service Bus
12 13 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (2.53%) PaaS
14 11 (2.32%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.70%) AMQP
2 22 (4.64%) SSL
3 21 (4.43%) TCP/IP
4 20 (4.22%) WAN
5 19 (4.01%) DNS
5 19 (4.01%) Firewall
6 9 (1.90%) HTTP
7 6 (1.27%) MQTT
8 4 (0.84%) 5G
9 3 (0.63%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.63%) Internet
10 1 (0.21%) RNC
10 1 (0.21%) SGSN
10 1 (0.21%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (24.68%) SQL Server
2 42 (8.86%) MySQL
3 40 (8.44%) NoSQL
4 29 (6.12%) Big Data
5 27 (5.70%) Cloudera CDH
5 27 (5.70%) Hadoop
6 26 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (3.38%) Relational Database
8 13 (2.74%) MongoDB
9 9 (1.90%) DynamoDB
10 8 (1.69%) GIS
11 6 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.05%) Power BI
13 4 (0.84%) Text Mining
14 3 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.63%) Data Mining
15 2 (0.42%) Neo4j
15 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 79 (16.67%) Git
2 43 (9.07%) Visual Studio
3 33 (6.96%) JIRA
4 21 (4.43%) TeamCity
5 17 (3.59%) GitLab
5 17 (3.59%) Moq
5 17 (3.59%) NUnit
5 17 (3.59%) Sourcetree
6 16 (3.38%) git-flow
6 16 (3.38%) Jenkins
6 16 (3.38%) Octopus Deploy
6 16 (3.38%) SpecFlow
7 6 (1.27%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.27%) Maven
7 6 (1.27%) webpack
8 4 (0.84%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.63%) JUnit
10 2 (0.42%) Snyk
10 2 (0.42%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 86 (18.14%) Social Skills
2 78 (16.46%) Finance
3 45 (9.49%) Law
4 43 (9.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 40 (8.44%) Marketing
6 29 (6.12%) Retail
7 28 (5.91%) Aerospace
8 21 (4.43%) Legal
9 19 (4.01%) Public Sector
10 14 (2.95%) Analytical Skills
11 12 (2.53%) Banking
11 12 (2.53%) Manufacturing
12 10 (2.11%) Tech for Good
13 9 (1.90%) Police
14 7 (1.48%) Games
14 7 (1.48%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.05%) Digital Healthcare
16 3 (0.63%) Electronics
17 2 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
18 1 (0.21%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 256 (54.01%) Developer
2 120 (25.32%) Senior
3 96 (20.25%) Software Engineer
4 74 (15.61%) Full Stack Developer
5 71 (14.98%) Senior Developer
6 69 (14.56%) C# Developer
7 58 (12.24%) Lead
8 49 (10.34%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 39 (8.23%) .NET Developer
9 39 (8.23%) Senior Full Stack Developer
10 33 (6.96%) Senior C# Developer
11 28 (5.91%) Java Engineer
12 27 (5.70%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
12 27 (5.70%) Lead Developer
12 27 (5.70%) PHP Developer
13 26 (5.49%) Azure Developer
13 26 (5.49%) C# .NET Developer
14 25 (5.27%) Azure Engineer
14 25 (5.27%) Senior Software Engineer
15 24 (5.06%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (31.01%) .NET
2 126 (26.58%) React
3 109 (23.00%) CSS
4 105 (22.15%) HTML
5 93 (19.62%) RESTful
6 84 (17.72%) AngularJS
7 79 (16.67%) REST
8 60 (12.66%) Spring
9 55 (11.60%) ASP.NET
10 50 (10.55%) jQuery
10 50 (10.55%) Node.js
11 49 (10.34%) Vue
12 46 (9.70%) Spring Boot
13 43 (9.07%) .NET Framework
13 43 (9.07%) ASP.NET MVC
13 43 (9.07%) Swagger
14 42 (8.86%) Web Services
15 41 (8.65%) RabbitMQ
16 39 (8.23%) XML
17 34 (7.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 53 (11.18%) Cloud Native
2 39 (8.23%) Public Cloud
3 38 (8.02%) Greenfield Project
4 35 (7.38%) Distributed Systems
5 31 (6.54%) Product Ownership
6 21 (4.43%) Mobile App
7 20 (4.22%) Clustering
7 20 (4.22%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (3.38%) Legacy Code
9 13 (2.74%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.69%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.05%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.05%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.05%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.05%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.84%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.63%) Cyberattack
13 3 (0.63%) Hackathon
13 3 (0.63%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 49 (10.34%) Linux
2 29 (6.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 29 (6.12%) Windows
3 27 (5.70%) CentOS
3 27 (5.70%) Debian
3 27 (5.70%) Ubuntu
4 14 (2.95%) Android
5 8 (1.69%) Unix
6 7 (1.48%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.05%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (41.98%) Agile
2 152 (32.07%) Software Engineering
3 129 (27.22%) Microservices
4 125 (26.37%) DevOps
5 113 (23.84%) Problem-Solving
6 103 (21.73%) Full Stack Development
7 102 (21.52%) CI/CD
8 73 (15.40%) API Design
9 71 (14.98%) Architectural Patterns
9 71 (14.98%) Scrum
10 68 (14.35%) MVC
11 64 (13.50%) Computer Science
11 64 (13.50%) Infrastructure as Code
12 61 (12.87%) Artificial Intelligence
12 61 (12.87%) TDD
13 55 (11.60%) Containerisation
14 54 (11.39%) Design Patterns
15 52 (10.97%) Test Automation
16 48 (10.13%) OO
17 47 (9.92%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 176 (37.13%) C#
2 162 (34.18%) SQL
3 147 (31.01%) JavaScript
4 142 (29.96%) Java
5 106 (22.36%) Python
6 57 (12.03%) TypeScript
7 39 (8.23%) PHP
8 26 (5.49%) T-SQL
9 20 (4.22%) XAML
10 18 (3.80%) XPath
11 15 (3.16%) C
12 8 (1.69%) Go
13 6 (1.27%) Ada
13 6 (1.27%) Apex Code
14 5 (1.05%) Bash
14 5 (1.05%) C++
14 5 (1.05%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.05%) VB.NET
15 4 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 69 (14.56%) Degree
2 68 (14.35%) Security Cleared
3 42 (8.86%) SC Cleared
4 36 (7.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (6.54%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.74%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.05%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.42%) ACCA
8 2 (0.42%) HND
8 2 (0.42%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.21%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.95%) GDPR
2 12 (2.53%) QA
3 7 (1.48%) HIPAA
4 5 (1.05%) SLA
5 2 (0.42%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.42%) SEPA
6 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
System Software
1 75 (15.82%) Docker
2 20 (4.22%) VMware NSX
3 6 (1.27%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 98 (20.68%) Kubernetes
2 54 (11.39%) Terraform
3 30 (6.33%) Ansible
4 29 (6.12%) Puppet
5 4 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.63%) logstash
6 3 (0.63%) Nagios
7 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.21%) Grafana
8 1 (0.21%) Kibana
8 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 46 (9.70%) Google
2 42 (8.86%) Microsoft
3 29 (6.12%) Red Hat
4 27 (5.70%) SaltStack
5 22 (4.64%) VMware
6 18 (3.80%) Adobe
7 16 (3.38%) Cognizant
8 15 (3.16%) Xamarin
9 12 (2.53%) OpenAI
9 12 (2.53%) Oracle
10 11 (2.32%) Talend
11 10 (2.11%) MuleSoft
12 9 (1.90%) Jitterbit
13 8 (1.69%) Salesforce
14 7 (1.48%) webMethods
15 5 (1.05%) Temenos
16 4 (0.84%) Facebook
17 3 (0.63%) CrowdStrike
17 3 (0.63%) SAP
17 3 (0.63%) Telerik