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 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 276 437
Rank change year-on-year -67 +161 +180
Permanent jobs citing API Integration 183 336 112
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.92% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 1.04% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 131 221 103
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £77,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +40.00% -12.00%
75th Percentile £74,000 £83,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £74,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +14.75% -12.86%

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 33,256 32,348 28,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.02% 88.54% 89.67%
Number of salaries quoted 19,033 14,675 21,473
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,250 £41,250 £38,000
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 £66,778
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 6 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 6 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 +27 47 £70,000 +55.56% 6
North of England -11 44 £72,500 +26.09% 45
South East -50 34 £52,500 -36.36% 45
Midlands -15 30 £49,500 -15.74% 26
North West -2 23 £60,000 +9.09% 27
Yorkshire -12 20 £95,000 +23.38% 15
West Midlands +2 17 £47,500 - 12
South West +7 13 £50,000 +11.11% 13
East Midlands -10 13 £57,500 -25.32% 13
East of England -3 10 £48,750 -36.69% 17
Wales +6 5 £55,200 +5.14% 4
North East 0 1 £55,200 +10.40% 3
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 (9.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 15 (8.20%) CMS
3 4 (2.19%) Apache
3 4 (2.19%) Headless CMS
3 4 (2.19%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.19%) Umbraco
4 3 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.64%) govService
4 3 (1.64%) JBoss
4 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.09%) ColdFusion
5 2 (1.09%) Mendix
5 2 (1.09%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.55%) Confluence
6 1 (0.55%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (2.19%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 37 (20.22%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (5.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (3.28%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (3.28%) Magento
3 6 (3.28%) Shopify
4 5 (2.73%) NetSuite
5 3 (1.64%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 79 (43.17%) Azure
2 57 (31.15%) AWS
3 51 (27.87%) GitHub
4 49 (26.78%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (20.22%) OCI
6 32 (17.49%) Power Platform
7 21 (11.48%) Entra ID
8 17 (9.29%) GitHub Copilot
9 13 (7.10%) SaaS
10 12 (6.56%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (4.92%) GCP
12 7 (3.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (3.28%) PowerApps
13 6 (3.28%) Serverless
14 5 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (2.73%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (2.73%) Power Automate
15 4 (2.19%) OpenShift
15 4 (2.19%) Slack
15 4 (2.19%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.64%) 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 (15.85%) SQL Server
2 26 (14.21%) Power BI
3 17 (9.29%) Tableau
4 15 (8.20%) Relational Database
5 8 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.28%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.73%) Big Data
7 5 (2.73%) Hadoop
7 5 (2.73%) Neo4j
7 5 (2.73%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.64%) MySQL
8 3 (1.64%) Redis
8 3 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.09%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.09%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.55%) ClickHouse
10 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.55%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 42 (22.95%) Jenkins
2 41 (22.40%) Git
3 37 (20.22%) Oracle Forms
4 27 (14.75%) JIRA
5 5 (2.73%) GitLab
5 5 (2.73%) Postman
6 4 (2.19%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.19%) JUnit
6 4 (2.19%) Selenium
6 4 (2.19%) Storybook
7 2 (1.09%) 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 69 (37.70%) Finance
2 46 (25.14%) Social Skills
3 28 (15.30%) Retail
4 21 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.65%) Marketing
6 11 (6.01%) Games
7 6 (3.28%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.73%) Back Office
8 5 (2.73%) Electronics
8 5 (2.73%) Law
9 4 (2.19%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.64%) Local Government
11 2 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (38.80%) Developer
2 47 (25.68%) Senior
3 40 (21.86%) Applications Engineer
3 40 (21.86%) Cloud Engineer
4 21 (11.48%) Lead
5 20 (10.93%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 14 (7.65%) Applications Developer
7 13 (7.10%) Senior Developer
8 10 (5.46%) Software Engineer
9 9 (4.92%) .NET Developer
9 9 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (4.92%) Software Developer
10 8 (4.37%) Data Engineer
10 8 (4.37%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 7 (3.83%) Analyst
11 7 (3.83%) Senior Software Developer
12 6 (3.28%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 5 (2.73%) 1st Line Support
13 5 (2.73%) Head of CRM
13 5 (2.73%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (33.33%) RESTful
2 52 (28.42%) React
3 45 (24.59%) REST
4 36 (19.67%) SOAP
5 35 (19.13%) JSON
6 34 (18.58%) CSS
7 31 (16.94%) .NET
8 29 (15.85%) HTML
9 23 (12.57%) XML
10 22 (12.02%) AngularJS
11 20 (10.93%) OAuth
11 20 (10.93%) OAuth2
12 17 (9.29%) SAML
13 14 (7.65%) Next.js
14 12 (6.56%) Middleware
14 12 (6.56%) React Native
14 12 (6.56%) Vue
15 11 (6.01%) GraphQL
16 10 (5.46%) Razor View Engine
17 9 (4.92%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 45 (24.59%) Enterprise Software
2 43 (23.50%) Cloud Native
3 14 (7.65%) Mobile App
4 12 (6.56%) Onboarding
5 11 (6.01%) Operational Technology
6 8 (4.37%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (4.37%) Low-Code
7 7 (3.83%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.64%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.64%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.64%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.09%) DataPower
10 2 (1.09%) e-Learning
10 2 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.55%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.55%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.19%) Linux
2 3 (1.64%) Unix
2 3 (1.64%) Windows
2 3 (1.64%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.09%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.55%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (50.82%) Agile
2 78 (42.62%) CI/CD
3 61 (33.33%) DevOps
4 49 (26.78%) Mentoring
5 48 (26.23%) Test Automation
6 46 (25.14%) ERP
7 43 (23.50%) Coaching
8 40 (21.86%) AI
9 38 (20.77%) Asset Management
10 35 (19.13%) Clean Code
11 34 (18.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (18.58%) Root Cause Analysis
12 32 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (16.94%) Migration
14 29 (15.85%) Analytics
15 28 (15.30%) Business Intelligence
15 28 (15.30%) Data Governance
15 28 (15.30%) E-Commerce
16 27 (14.75%) Microservices
17 26 (14.21%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 90 (49.18%) SQL
2 72 (39.34%) Python
3 58 (31.69%) Java
4 40 (21.86%) PL/SQL
4 40 (21.86%) Shell Script
5 38 (20.77%) JavaScript
6 26 (14.21%) C#
7 17 (9.29%) TypeScript
8 13 (7.10%) PowerShell
9 9 (4.92%) PHP
10 6 (3.28%) T-SQL
11 4 (2.19%) Delphi
12 2 (1.09%) 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 9 (4.92%) Security Cleared
2 7 (3.83%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.09%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.09%) 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 (4.92%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.28%) QA
2 6 (3.28%) SLA
3 5 (2.73%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.09%) GDPR
4 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.09%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.09%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (10.93%) Active Directory
2 12 (6.56%) Docker
3 3 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (20.77%) Single Sign-On
2 37 (20.22%) Terraform
3 9 (4.92%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.19%) Grafana
5 3 (1.64%) Control-M
6 1 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.55%) Nagios
Vendors
1 54 (29.51%) Oracle
2 35 (19.13%) Microsoft
3 20 (10.93%) Okta
4 9 (4.92%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.28%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.73%) ConnectWise
6 5 (2.73%) HubSpot
6 5 (2.73%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.73%) WooCommerce
6 5 (2.73%) Zoho
7 4 (2.19%) SAP
8 3 (1.64%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.64%) Granicus
8 3 (1.64%) Informatica
9 2 (1.09%) Google
9 2 (1.09%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.09%) OutSystems
9 2 (1.09%) Talend
9 2 (1.09%) Zend
10 1 (0.55%) Netezza