API Integration
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for API Integration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited API Integration over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 532 667 497
Rank change year-on-year +135 -170 +25
Permanent jobs citing API Integration 393 333 1,023
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.32% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.33% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 343 247 472
10th Percentile £31,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -8.77% +29.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -38.24% +78.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

API Integration is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,343 100,922 147,129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.11% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,769 59,097 83,311
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,488
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

API Integration
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing API Integration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for API Integration in the UK

API Integration
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing API Integration.

Salary trend for API Integration in the UK

API Integration
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Integration over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for API Integration in the UK

API Integration
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
England +191 360 £57,500 -14.81% 90
UK excluding London +120 243 £50,000 -4.76% 55
Work from Home +114 170 £63,750 -5.56% 58
London +135 129 £72,500 -3.33% 33
North of England +105 73 £45,000 -10.00% 20
South East +49 57 £55,000 -8.33% 6
North West +39 45 £52,500 - 12
Midlands +26 41 £50,000 -9.09% 15
East of England +44 32 £35,500 -29.00% 3
West Midlands +54 31 £51,750 -5.91% 11
Yorkshire +112 23 £40,000 -20.00% 6
South West -17 19 £52,500 +0.96% 6
Scotland -54 16 £63,750 +8.77% 3
East Midlands -17 10 £45,000 -10.00% 4
North East +7 5 £32,500 -31.58% 2
Wales +11 3 £55,000 +23.14% 1
Northern Ireland +10 2 £43,750 -12.50% 2

API Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 38 (9.67%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.07%) WordPress
3 12 (3.05%) CMS
4 11 (2.80%) Confluence
4 11 (2.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.78%) nginx
6 5 (1.27%) Umbraco
7 4 (1.02%) Drupal
8 3 (0.76%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.51%) Apache
9 2 (0.51%) JBoss
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.51%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.51%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (4.33%) Shopify
2 7 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.78%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.78%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (1.53%) Magento
4 5 (1.27%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.25%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 104 (26.46%) Azure
2 85 (21.63%) AWS
3 66 (16.79%) Power Platform
4 30 (7.63%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (6.62%) SaaS
6 25 (6.36%) PowerApps
7 24 (6.11%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (4.58%) Azure Logic Apps
9 17 (4.33%) Power Automate
10 16 (4.07%) Dynamics 365
10 16 (4.07%) PaaS
11 15 (3.82%) GCP
12 13 (3.31%) Azure Monitor
12 13 (3.31%) Microsoft Purview
12 13 (3.31%) Serverless
13 12 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (3.05%) Azure Cognitive Services
13 12 (3.05%) Stripe
14 11 (2.80%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (2.80%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.02%) Intranet
2 2 (0.51%) Extranet
2 2 (0.51%) Internet
2 2 (0.51%) SSL
3 1 (0.25%) ATM
3 1 (0.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (11.45%) SQL Server
2 36 (9.16%) MySQL
3 33 (8.40%) Power BI
4 19 (4.83%) MS Access
5 10 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.27%) Crystal Reports
7 5 (1.27%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.27%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.27%) Redis
8 4 (1.02%) Tableau
9 2 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.51%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.51%) Big Data
9 2 (0.51%) GIS
9 2 (0.51%) Looker
9 2 (0.51%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.51%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.51%) phpMyAdmin
9 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 61 (15.52%) Git
2 30 (7.63%) Visual Studio
3 23 (5.85%) JIRA
4 17 (4.33%) Jenkins
5 10 (2.54%) Appium
5 10 (2.54%) GitLab
6 9 (2.29%) webpack
7 6 (1.53%) Crashlytics
7 6 (1.53%) Oracle APEX
8 5 (1.27%) TeamCity
9 4 (1.02%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.76%) Babel
11 2 (0.51%) gulp
11 2 (0.51%) Postman
11 2 (0.51%) Selenium
11 2 (0.51%) Subversion
12 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.25%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.25%) PHPUnit
12 1 (0.25%) Robot Framework
General
1 135 (34.35%) Social Skills
2 70 (17.81%) Finance
3 45 (11.45%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.11%) Advertising
5 22 (5.60%) Marketing
6 18 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (4.58%) Public Sector
7 17 (4.33%) Legal
7 17 (4.33%) Mandarin Language
8 16 (4.07%) Retail
9 15 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (3.56%) Banking
10 14 (3.56%) Law
11 7 (1.78%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.53%) Police
13 5 (1.27%) Games
14 4 (1.02%) Investment Banking
14 4 (1.02%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 226 (57.51%) Developer
2 52 (13.23%) Senior
3 40 (10.18%) Senior Developer
4 39 (9.92%) Lead
5 32 (8.14%) Software Engineer
6 30 (7.63%) Architect
7 28 (7.12%) PHP Developer
8 25 (6.36%) Solutions Architect
9 23 (5.85%) Full Stack Developer
10 20 (5.09%) .NET Developer
11 19 (4.83%) C# Developer
12 18 (4.58%) Lead Developer
13 17 (4.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 15 (3.82%) Mobile Developer
15 14 (3.56%) Applications Developer
15 14 (3.56%) Software Developer
16 13 (3.31%) Salesforce Developer
17 12 (3.05%) Lead Mobile Developer
18 11 (2.80%) Azure Engineer
18 11 (2.80%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (21.12%) .NET
2 64 (16.28%) HTML
3 57 (14.50%) JSON
4 56 (14.25%) REST
5 54 (13.74%) RESTful
6 53 (13.49%) CSS
7 50 (12.72%) XML
8 48 (12.21%) React
9 38 (9.67%) Web Services
10 36 (9.16%) SOAP
11 31 (7.89%) ASP.NET
11 31 (7.89%) Node.js
12 29 (7.38%) Laravel
13 26 (6.62%) AngularJS
13 26 (6.62%) Vue
14 20 (5.09%) .NET Core
15 18 (4.58%) HTML5
16 16 (4.07%) GraphQL
16 16 (4.07%) Sass
17 15 (3.82%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 51 (12.98%) Mobile App
2 27 (6.87%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.33%) Data Structures
4 16 (4.07%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (3.56%) Virtual Team
6 13 (3.31%) Client/Server
7 11 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (2.80%) Low-Code
7 11 (2.80%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.29%) EPoS
8 9 (2.29%) Legacy Applications
8 9 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.04%) BYOD
10 7 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.53%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.53%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.02%) Clustering
13 3 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.76%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 41 (10.43%) Android
2 23 (5.85%) Apple iOS
3 10 (2.54%) Linux
4 6 (1.53%) Windows
4 6 (1.53%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.27%) Mac OS X
5 5 (1.27%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.25%) CentOS
7 1 (0.25%) Debian
7 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (29.01%) Agile
2 104 (26.46%) Problem-Solving
3 83 (21.12%) DevOps
4 58 (14.76%) User Experience
5 52 (13.23%) Software Engineering
6 49 (12.47%) E-Commerce
7 48 (12.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 40 (10.18%) Clean Code
8 40 (10.18%) Test Automation
9 39 (9.92%) Full Stack Development
10 38 (9.67%) CI/CD
11 37 (9.41%) Business Intelligence
12 36 (9.16%) Analytics
12 36 (9.16%) API Development
12 36 (9.16%) Computer Science
13 35 (8.91%) Web Development
14 34 (8.65%) SDLC
15 33 (8.40%) Data Protection
16 32 (8.14%) Microservices
16 32 (8.14%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 122 (31.04%) JavaScript
2 84 (21.37%) SQL
3 66 (16.79%) C#
4 47 (11.96%) Python
5 46 (11.70%) PHP
6 40 (10.18%) Java
7 31 (7.89%) Kotlin
8 28 (7.12%) PowerShell
9 22 (5.60%) T-SQL
9 22 (5.60%) TypeScript
10 21 (5.34%) VB.NET
11 18 (4.58%) Swift
12 13 (3.31%) Apex Code
13 9 (2.29%) Bash
13 9 (2.29%) VB
13 9 (2.29%) VBA
14 7 (1.78%) Scala
15 6 (1.53%) SOQL
16 5 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
17 4 (1.02%) Go
Qualifications
1 67 (17.05%) Degree
2 33 (8.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (5.34%) Security Cleared
4 14 (3.56%) SC Cleared
5 10 (2.54%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.27%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.76%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.51%) CSPO
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.25%) CCNA
10 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (10.94%) QA
2 10 (2.54%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.27%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.51%) WAI
5 1 (0.25%) GDPR
5 1 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (4.58%) Docker
2 8 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.27%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.25%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 12 (3.05%) Kubernetes
1 12 (3.05%) Terraform
2 8 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (1.53%) Ansible
4 4 (1.02%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.76%) Puppet
5 3 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.51%) cPanel
6 2 (0.51%) Nagios
7 1 (0.25%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 82 (20.87%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.85%) Salesforce
3 21 (5.34%) Google
4 12 (3.05%) MuleSoft
5 11 (2.80%) Automation Anywhere
5 11 (2.80%) Blue Prism
5 11 (2.80%) UiPath
6 10 (2.54%) OpenAI
7 9 (2.29%) Apple
7 9 (2.29%) GoCardless
7 9 (2.29%) PayPal
7 9 (2.29%) Sage
8 8 (2.04%) Oracle
8 8 (2.04%) SAP
8 8 (2.04%) Xamarin
9 7 (1.78%) Okta
10 6 (1.53%) Amplitude
10 6 (1.53%) DocuSign
10 6 (1.53%) Freshdesk
10 6 (1.53%) WorldPay