API Design Job Trends in South Wales

API Design
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring API Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 64 67
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 +35
Permanent jobs citing API Design 1 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.12% 0.13% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.17% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51,750 £37,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.75% -20.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £55,250 £42,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median annual salary £53,500 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +33.75% -20.00% -16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 689 578 533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 79.56% 76.96% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 498 327 416
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,650 £32,560
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £41,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £65,192
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £73,500
Wales median annual salary £48,122 £49,104 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% +3.38% -4.90%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

API Design job vacancy trend in South Wales

API Design
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing API Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing API Design

API Design
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Design within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 11 December 2025. 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
Newport -11 1 £53,500 +33.75%
API Design
Wales

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft