API Integration Job Trends in the UK excluding London

API Integration
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring API Integration skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 284 444
Rank change year-on-year -48 +160 +187
Permanent jobs citing API Integration 181 336 109
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.91% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 1.03% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 129 221 100
10th Percentile £40,900 £38,750 £39,875
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £77,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +42.59% -13.60%
75th Percentile £73,000 £83,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

API Integration 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,255 32,619 28,416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.29% 88.31% 90.65%
Number of salaries quoted 19,005 14,900 21,194
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,000 £41,250 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,070
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

API Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing API Integration relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

API Integration job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

API Integration
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing API Integration.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing API Integration

API Integration
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Integration in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for API Integration in the UK excluding London

API Integration
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Integration within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 January 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
Scotland +33 47 £70,000 +55.56% 4
North of England -7 43 £70,000 +21.74% 34
South East -54 33 £52,500 -36.36% 25
Midlands -14 30 £49,500 -15.74% 15
North West +9 22 £57,500 +4.55% 22
Yorkshire -5 20 £95,000 +23.38% 10
West Midlands +9 17 £47,500 - 9
South West +10 13 £50,000 +11.11% 4
East Midlands -21 13 £57,500 -25.32% 6
East of England -11 10 £48,750 -36.69% 6
Wales +3 5 £55,200 +5.14%
North East +4 1 £55,200 +10.40% 2
API Integration
UK

API Integration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 17 (9.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 15 (8.29%) CMS
3 4 (2.21%) Apache
3 4 (2.21%) Headless CMS
3 4 (2.21%) Umbraco
4 3 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.66%) JBoss
4 3 (1.66%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.10%) ColdFusion
5 2 (1.10%) govService
5 2 (1.10%) Mendix
5 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.10%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.55%) Confluence
6 1 (0.55%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (2.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 37 (20.44%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (5.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (3.31%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (3.31%) Magento
3 6 (3.31%) Shopify
4 5 (2.76%) NetSuite
5 3 (1.66%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 79 (43.65%) Azure
2 56 (30.94%) AWS
3 51 (28.18%) GitHub
4 49 (27.07%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (20.44%) OCI
6 32 (17.68%) Power Platform
7 21 (11.60%) Entra ID
8 17 (9.39%) GitHub Copilot
9 12 (6.63%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (6.63%) SaaS
10 9 (4.97%) GCP
11 7 (3.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (3.31%) PowerApps
12 6 (3.31%) Serverless
13 5 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (2.76%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (2.76%) Power Automate
14 4 (2.21%) Amazon S3
14 4 (2.21%) OpenShift
14 4 (2.21%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.66%) Intranet
2 1 (0.55%) DNS
2 1 (0.55%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.55%) MQTT
2 1 (0.55%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (16.02%) SQL Server
2 26 (14.36%) Power BI
3 17 (9.39%) Tableau
4 15 (8.29%) Relational Database
5 8 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.31%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.76%) Big Data
7 5 (2.76%) Hadoop
7 5 (2.76%) Neo4j
7 5 (2.76%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.66%) MySQL
8 3 (1.66%) Redis
8 3 (1.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.10%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.10%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.55%) ClickHouse
10 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.55%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 42 (23.20%) Jenkins
2 41 (22.65%) Git
3 37 (20.44%) Oracle Forms
4 27 (14.92%) JIRA
5 5 (2.76%) GitLab
5 5 (2.76%) Postman
6 4 (2.21%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.21%) JUnit
6 4 (2.21%) Selenium
6 4 (2.21%) Storybook
7 2 (1.10%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.55%) gulp
8 1 (0.55%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.55%) Subversion
8 1 (0.55%) webpack
8 1 (0.55%) XCUITest
General
1 68 (37.57%) Finance
2 45 (24.86%) Social Skills
3 28 (15.47%) Retail
4 20 (11.05%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.73%) Marketing
6 11 (6.08%) Games
7 6 (3.31%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.76%) Back Office
8 5 (2.76%) Electronics
8 5 (2.76%) Law
9 4 (2.21%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.10%) Local Government
11 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (39.23%) Developer
2 46 (25.41%) Senior
3 40 (22.10%) Applications Engineer
3 40 (22.10%) Cloud Engineer
4 20 (11.05%) Lead
4 20 (11.05%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 14 (7.73%) Applications Developer
6 13 (7.18%) Senior Developer
7 10 (5.52%) Software Engineer
8 9 (4.97%) .NET Developer
8 9 (4.97%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (4.97%) Software Developer
9 8 (4.42%) Data Engineer
9 8 (4.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 7 (3.87%) Analyst
10 7 (3.87%) Senior Software Developer
11 6 (3.31%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 5 (2.76%) Head of CRM
12 5 (2.76%) Head of Development
12 5 (2.76%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (33.70%) RESTful
2 52 (28.73%) React
3 45 (24.86%) REST
4 36 (19.89%) SOAP
5 35 (19.34%) JSON
6 33 (18.23%) CSS
7 31 (17.13%) .NET
8 28 (15.47%) HTML
9 23 (12.71%) XML
10 22 (12.15%) AngularJS
11 20 (11.05%) OAuth
11 20 (11.05%) OAuth2
12 17 (9.39%) SAML
13 14 (7.73%) Next.js
14 12 (6.63%) Middleware
14 12 (6.63%) React Native
14 12 (6.63%) Vue
15 11 (6.08%) GraphQL
16 10 (5.52%) Razor View Engine
17 9 (4.97%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 45 (24.86%) Enterprise Software
2 43 (23.76%) Cloud Native
3 14 (7.73%) Mobile App
4 12 (6.63%) Onboarding
5 11 (6.08%) Operational Technology
6 8 (4.42%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.87%) Data Structures
7 7 (3.87%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.66%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.66%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.10%) DataPower
9 2 (1.10%) e-Learning
9 2 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.10%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.55%) IoT
10 1 (0.55%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.21%) Linux
2 3 (1.66%) Unix
2 3 (1.66%) Windows
2 3 (1.66%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.10%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.55%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (50.28%) Agile
2 78 (43.09%) CI/CD
3 61 (33.70%) DevOps
4 49 (27.07%) Mentoring
5 48 (26.52%) Test Automation
6 46 (25.41%) ERP
7 43 (23.76%) Coaching
8 40 (22.10%) AI
9 38 (20.99%) Asset Management
10 35 (19.34%) Clean Code
11 34 (18.78%) Root Cause Analysis
12 33 (18.23%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (17.13%) Migration
13 31 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
14 29 (16.02%) Analytics
15 28 (15.47%) Business Intelligence
15 28 (15.47%) Data Governance
15 28 (15.47%) E-Commerce
16 27 (14.92%) Microservices
17 26 (14.36%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 89 (49.17%) SQL
2 72 (39.78%) Python
3 57 (31.49%) Java
4 40 (22.10%) PL/SQL
4 40 (22.10%) Shell Script
5 38 (20.99%) JavaScript
6 26 (14.36%) C#
7 17 (9.39%) TypeScript
8 13 (7.18%) PowerShell
9 9 (4.97%) PHP
10 6 (3.31%) T-SQL
11 4 (2.21%) Delphi
12 2 (1.10%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.55%) ActionScript
13 1 (0.55%) ActionScript 2.0
13 1 (0.55%) C++
13 1 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.55%) Go
13 1 (0.55%) Swift
Qualifications
1 8 (4.42%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.31%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.10%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.10%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.55%) Degree
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.97%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.31%) QA
2 6 (3.31%) SLA
3 4 (2.21%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.10%) GDPR
4 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.10%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (11.05%) Active Directory
2 12 (6.63%) Docker
3 3 (1.66%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (20.99%) Single Sign-On
2 37 (20.44%) Terraform
3 9 (4.97%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.21%) Grafana
5 3 (1.66%) Control-M
6 1 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.55%) Nagios
Vendors
1 54 (29.83%) Oracle
2 34 (18.78%) Microsoft
3 20 (11.05%) Okta
4 9 (4.97%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.31%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.76%) ConnectWise
6 5 (2.76%) HubSpot
6 5 (2.76%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.76%) WooCommerce
6 5 (2.76%) Zoho
7 4 (2.21%) SAP
8 3 (1.66%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.66%) Informatica
9 2 (1.10%) Google
9 2 (1.10%) Granicus
9 2 (1.10%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.10%) OutSystems
9 2 (1.10%) Talend
9 2 (1.10%) Zend
10 1 (0.55%) Databricks