API Design Job Trends in Cardiff

API Design
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring API Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing API Design 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 0.19% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - -
75th Percentile £62,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median annual salary £52,500 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cardiff

API Design 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 in Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 364 150 527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 68.42% 89.29% 79.73%
Number of salaries quoted 245 110 473
10th Percentile £28,100 £31,250 £30,524
25th Percentile £41,856 £37,500 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £50,685
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +8.51% -1.10%
75th Percentile £69,576 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,400 £78,000 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £50,000 £52,592 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.93% +10.72% +4.41%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing API Design relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

API Design job vacancy trend in Cardiff

API Design
Salary Trend in Cardiff

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing API Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing API Design

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared