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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 54 80
Rank change year-on-year -40 +26 -7
Permanent jobs citing API Development 2 5 4
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.13% 0.93% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 1.09% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - - £51,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +21.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £53,750 £75,000 £70,625
90th Percentile - - £74,750
Wales median annual salary £52,500 £72,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -27.59% +26.09% -11.54%

All Process & 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 1,105 459 904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 69.28% 85.16% 68.02%
Number of salaries quoted 819 334 723
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £28,800
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,500 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,171 £52,500 £46,604
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% +12.65% -6.79%
75th Percentile £68,885 £65,000 £62,200
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,777 £71,190
Wales median annual salary £50,000 £50,124 £45,000
% change year-on-year -0.25% +11.39% -

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

API Development job vacancy trend 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
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 21 July 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
Cardiff -33 2 £52,500 -25.00% 2
API Development
Wales

API Development
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) ColdFusion
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) n8n
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Automation Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior SQL Developer
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle