API Development Job Trends in South Wales

API Development
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring API Development skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 63 72
Rank change year-on-year +13 +9 +29
Permanent jobs citing API Development 9 11 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 1.36% 1.00% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 1.55% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 9 3 5
10th Percentile - £54,250 -
25th Percentile £50,250 £58,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% -3.57% +57.30%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,125 £75,000
90th Percentile - £75,750 -
Wales median annual salary £52,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -22.22% -3.57% +57.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 549 709 652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 83.18% 64.75% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 415 473 504
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,500 £31,255
25th Percentile £32,750 £35,700 £38,710
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £73,750
Wales median annual salary £48,500 £47,014 £45,017
% change year-on-year +3.16% +4.44% -9.97%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing API Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for API Development in South Wales

API Development
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing API Development

API Development
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Development in South Wales over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for API Development in South Wales

API Development
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 Development within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Torfaen - 6 £50,500 - 1
Cardiff +26 3 £70,000 +12.00%
API Development
Wales

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 3 (33.33%) CMS
1 3 (33.33%) Confluence
1 3 (33.33%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Contentful
2 3 (33.33%) GCP
2 3 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Modbus
1 6 (66.67%) MQTT
1 6 (66.67%) Network Security
1 6 (66.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 3 (33.33%) Git
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Firmware Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 3 (33.33%) Bootstrap
1 3 (33.33%) CSS
1 3 (33.33%) Express.js
1 3 (33.33%) GraphQL
1 3 (33.33%) hapi
1 3 (33.33%) HTML
1 3 (33.33%) NestJS
1 3 (33.33%) Node.js
1 3 (33.33%) OpenLayers
1 3 (33.33%) React
1 3 (33.33%) React Native
1 3 (33.33%) REST
1 3 (33.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Device Driver
1 6 (66.67%) IoT
2 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (33.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
1 6 (66.67%) Unix
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Computer Architecture
1 6 (66.67%) Product Strategy
1 6 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 6 (66.67%) Technical Debt
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 3 (33.33%) Microservices
2 3 (33.33%) Mobile Application Development
2 3 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 3 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
2 3 (33.33%) TDD
2 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 2 (22.22%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) C
1 6 (66.67%) C++
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (33.33%) TypeScript
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Atlassian
1 3 (33.33%) Google