API Development Job Trends in Gloucestershire

API Development
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring API Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 67 114
Rank change year-on-year +9 +47 -2
Permanent jobs citing API Development 6 5 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.81% 0.91% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 0.98% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 7
10th Percentile £42,875 £57,500 -
25th Percentile £43,438 £61,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,750 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.79% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £51,563 £72,500 -
90th Percentile £52,125 - -
South West median annual salary £54,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.22% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 in Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 574 510 1,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 77.78% 92.56% 90.22%
Number of salaries quoted 391 226 837
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £29,375
25th Percentile £37,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,375 £78,750
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -2.91%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

API Development job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

API Development
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing API Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing API Development

API Development
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Development within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 8 February 2026. 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
Stroud - 3 £47,500 - 4
Gloucester - 1 - -
API Development
South West

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) CMS
2 2 (33.33%) Headless CMS
2 2 (33.33%) nginx
3 1 (16.67%) Apache
3 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) DigitalOcean
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) MongoDB
1 4 (66.67%) MySQL
2 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (16.67%) Big Data
3 1 (16.67%) Cloudera CDH
3 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
1 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Web Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Web Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (16.67%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Linux Developer
3 1 (16.67%) PHP Developer
3 1 (16.67%) PHP Laravel Developer
3 1 (16.67%) PHP Web Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Node.js
2 4 (66.67%) Laravel
2 4 (66.67%) Vue
3 3 (50.00%) LoopBack
4 2 (33.33%) LEMP Stack
4 2 (33.33%) Nuxt
4 2 (33.33%) React
5 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
5 1 (16.67%) gRPC
5 1 (16.67%) Material-UI
5 1 (16.67%) OpenAPI
5 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (16.67%) REST
5 1 (16.67%) RESTful
5 1 (16.67%) Spring
5 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
5 1 (16.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) CentOS
2 1 (16.67%) Debian
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) API Integration
1 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) CRM
2 3 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) API Design
3 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Web Development
4 1 (16.67%) Asynchronous Programming
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PHP
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Puppet
1 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Atlassian
1 1 (16.67%) Google
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
1 1 (16.67%) SaltStack