API Integration
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for API Integration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited API Integration over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 542 687 525
Rank change year-on-year +145 -162 +1
Permanent jobs citing API Integration 395 315 1,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.31% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.32% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 345 231 473
10th Percentile £31,750 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -13.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £73,750 £81,875 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,250 £85,000
% change year-on-year -2.44% -39.71% +88.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

API Integration 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 84,403 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,565 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
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 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

API Integration
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for API Integration in the UK

API Integration
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for API Integration in the UK

API Integration
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Integration over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for API Integration in the UK

API Integration
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Integration within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +170 362 £55,000 -15.38% 113
UK excluding London +98 251 £50,000 -2.44% 63
Work from Home +113 173 £62,500 -4.32% 64
London +98 122 £72,500 -3.33% 46
North of England +108 76 £45,000 -10.00% 23
South East +46 58 £55,000 +37.50% 9
North West +53 48 £58,750 +12.98% 15
Midlands +26 44 £50,000 -9.09% 19
West Midlands +42 33 £52,500 -12.50% 10
East of England +28 32 £35,500 -35.45% 2
Yorkshire +103 23 £40,000 -20.00% 8
South West -31 20 £52,500 - 7
Scotland -58 16 £63,750 +8.77%
East Midlands -16 11 £45,000 -10.00% 9
North East 0 5 £32,500 -31.58%
Wales +14 3 £55,000 +23.14% 3
Northern Ireland +16 2 £43,750 -12.50%

API Integration
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 36 (9.11%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.05%) WordPress
3 12 (3.04%) CMS
4 11 (2.78%) Confluence
4 11 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (2.03%) nginx
6 7 (1.77%) Umbraco
7 4 (1.01%) Drupal
8 3 (0.76%) Apache
8 3 (0.76%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.51%) JBoss
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.51%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.51%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (4.30%) Shopify
2 9 (2.28%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (1.77%) NetSuite
4 6 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (1.52%) Magento
5 5 (1.27%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.25%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 107 (27.09%) Azure
2 84 (21.27%) AWS
3 64 (16.20%) Power Platform
4 28 (7.09%) SaaS
5 27 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (6.84%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (5.82%) PowerApps
7 17 (4.30%) Azure Logic Apps
8 16 (4.05%) PaaS
9 15 (3.80%) Power Automate
10 14 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (3.54%) GCP
11 13 (3.29%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 13 (3.29%) Azure Monitor
11 13 (3.29%) Microsoft Purview
11 13 (3.29%) Serverless
12 12 (3.04%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (3.04%) Stripe
13 11 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
13 11 (2.78%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.01%) Intranet
2 3 (0.76%) Internet
3 2 (0.51%) Extranet
3 2 (0.51%) SSL
4 1 (0.25%) ATM
4 1 (0.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (11.39%) SQL Server
2 37 (9.37%) MySQL
3 31 (7.85%) Power BI
4 19 (4.81%) MS Access
5 9 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.27%) Crystal Reports
7 5 (1.27%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.27%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.27%) Redis
8 4 (1.01%) Tableau
9 3 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (0.76%) Big Data
9 3 (0.76%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.51%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.51%) GIS
10 2 (0.51%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.51%) Looker
10 2 (0.51%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.51%) phpMyAdmin
Development Applications
1 61 (15.44%) Git
2 30 (7.59%) Visual Studio
3 24 (6.08%) JIRA
4 17 (4.30%) Jenkins
5 10 (2.53%) Appium
5 10 (2.53%) GitLab
6 9 (2.28%) webpack
7 6 (1.52%) Crashlytics
7 6 (1.52%) Oracle APEX
8 5 (1.27%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.76%) Babel
9 3 (0.76%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.51%) gulp
10 2 (0.51%) Postman
10 2 (0.51%) Selenium
10 2 (0.51%) Subversion
11 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.25%) JUnit
11 1 (0.25%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 135 (34.18%) Social Skills
2 71 (17.97%) Finance
3 44 (11.14%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.08%) Advertising
5 20 (5.06%) Marketing
6 19 (4.81%) Public Sector
7 18 (4.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (4.30%) Mandarin Language
8 17 (4.30%) Retail
9 16 (4.05%) Legal
10 15 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
11 14 (3.54%) Banking
11 14 (3.54%) Law
12 7 (1.77%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.52%) Police
14 5 (1.27%) Games
15 4 (1.01%) Back Office
15 4 (1.01%) Investment Banking
15 4 (1.01%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 228 (57.72%) Developer
2 47 (11.90%) Senior
3 40 (10.13%) Lead
4 37 (9.37%) Senior Developer
5 32 (8.10%) Software Engineer
6 30 (7.59%) Architect
7 29 (7.34%) PHP Developer
8 25 (6.33%) Solutions Architect
9 24 (6.08%) Full Stack Developer
10 21 (5.32%) .NET Developer
11 20 (5.06%) C# Developer
12 18 (4.56%) Lead Developer
12 18 (4.56%) Software Developer
13 17 (4.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 15 (3.80%) Mobile Developer
15 14 (3.54%) Applications Developer
16 12 (3.04%) Azure Engineer
16 12 (3.04%) Lead Mobile Developer
16 12 (3.04%) Salesforce Developer
17 11 (2.78%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (22.28%) .NET
2 66 (16.71%) HTML
3 58 (14.68%) REST
3 58 (14.68%) RESTful
4 56 (14.18%) JSON
5 55 (13.92%) CSS
6 49 (12.41%) React
6 49 (12.41%) XML
7 38 (9.62%) SOAP
7 38 (9.62%) Web Services
8 31 (7.85%) ASP.NET
8 31 (7.85%) Laravel
8 31 (7.85%) Node.js
9 26 (6.58%) Vue
10 25 (6.33%) AngularJS
11 24 (6.08%) .NET Core
12 19 (4.81%) GraphQL
13 17 (4.30%) HTML5
13 17 (4.30%) Sass
14 15 (3.80%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 49 (12.41%) Mobile App
2 27 (6.84%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.30%) Data Structures
4 16 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (3.54%) Virtual Team
6 13 (3.29%) Client/Server
7 11 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (2.78%) Low-Code
7 11 (2.78%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.28%) EPoS
8 9 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.03%) BYOD
9 8 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (2.03%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (1.52%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.52%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.01%) Clustering
12 3 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.76%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 41 (10.38%) Android
2 22 (5.57%) Apple iOS
3 11 (2.78%) Linux
4 4 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.01%) Windows
4 4 (1.01%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.76%) Mac OS X
5 3 (0.76%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.51%) CentOS
6 2 (0.51%) Debian
6 2 (0.51%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.25%) VMS
7 1 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (29.37%) Agile
2 102 (25.82%) Problem-Solving
3 87 (22.03%) DevOps
4 55 (13.92%) User Experience
5 51 (12.91%) Software Engineering
6 50 (12.66%) E-Commerce
7 47 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 41 (10.38%) Full Stack Development
8 41 (10.38%) Test Automation
9 39 (9.87%) Clean Code
10 38 (9.62%) CI/CD
11 36 (9.11%) Analytics
11 36 (9.11%) API Development
11 36 (9.11%) Web Development
12 35 (8.86%) Business Intelligence
13 34 (8.61%) Data Protection
13 34 (8.61%) SDLC
14 33 (8.35%) Computer Science
15 32 (8.10%) Microservices
15 32 (8.10%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 126 (31.90%) JavaScript
2 82 (20.76%) SQL
3 70 (17.72%) C#
4 49 (12.41%) PHP
5 46 (11.65%) Python
6 40 (10.13%) Java
7 32 (8.10%) Kotlin
8 26 (6.58%) PowerShell
9 24 (6.08%) TypeScript
10 21 (5.32%) T-SQL
10 21 (5.32%) VB.NET
11 18 (4.56%) Swift
12 12 (3.04%) Apex Code
13 9 (2.28%) VB
13 9 (2.28%) VBA
14 7 (1.77%) Bash
14 7 (1.77%) Scala
15 6 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (1.52%) SOQL
16 4 (1.01%) Go
Qualifications
1 63 (15.95%) Degree
2 30 (7.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (5.32%) Security Cleared
4 14 (3.54%) SC Cleared
5 11 (2.78%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.27%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.76%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.51%) CSPO
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.25%) CCNA
10 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (10.63%) QA
2 10 (2.53%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.27%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.51%) WAI
5 1 (0.25%) GDPR
5 1 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (4.30%) Docker
2 8 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.76%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.25%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.25%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 12 (3.04%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.53%) Terraform
3 8 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.77%) Ansible
5 4 (1.01%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.76%) Puppet
6 3 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.51%) cPanel
7 2 (0.51%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.51%) Nagios
Vendors
1 78 (19.75%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.57%) Salesforce
3 21 (5.32%) Google
4 12 (3.04%) MuleSoft
5 11 (2.78%) Automation Anywhere
5 11 (2.78%) Blue Prism
5 11 (2.78%) UiPath
6 10 (2.53%) OpenAI
7 9 (2.28%) Apple
7 9 (2.28%) GoCardless
7 9 (2.28%) PayPal
7 9 (2.28%) Sage
8 8 (2.03%) Oracle
8 8 (2.03%) SAP
8 8 (2.03%) Xamarin
9 6 (1.52%) Actuate
9 6 (1.52%) Apttus
9 6 (1.52%) Freshdesk
9 6 (1.52%) webMethods
9 6 (1.52%) WorldPay