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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 541 684 518
Rank change year-on-year +143 -166 +5
Permanent jobs citing API Integration 391 309 1,010
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.31% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.32% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 341 226 463
10th Percentile £31,750 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -13.33% +37.61%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year - -39.39% +74.60%

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 84,921 96,445 150,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.59% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 59,902 56,808 82,456
10th Percentile £29,010 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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% +10.53%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 +166 359 £55,000 -15.38% 104
UK excluding London +110 249 £50,000 - 57
Work from Home +120 169 £62,500 -4.32% 61
London +102 119 £72,500 -3.33% 43
North of England +103 76 £45,000 -10.00% 21
South East +31 58 £55,000 +37.50% 9
North West +44 48 £58,750 +12.98% 14
Midlands +16 42 £50,000 -9.09% 14
East of England +32 33 £35,500 -35.45% 3
West Midlands +34 31 £52,500 -12.50% 7
Yorkshire +104 23 £40,000 -20.00% 7
South West -28 20 £52,500 -2.33% 6
Scotland -54 16 £63,750 +8.77% 1
East Midlands -18 11 £45,000 -10.00% 7
North East -1 5 £32,500 -31.58%
Wales +9 3 £55,000 +23.14% 4
Northern Ireland +13 1 £42,500 -15.00%

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 35 (8.95%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.09%) WordPress
3 11 (2.81%) CMS
3 11 (2.81%) Confluence
3 11 (2.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (2.05%) nginx
5 6 (1.53%) Umbraco
6 4 (1.02%) Drupal
7 3 (0.77%) Apache
7 3 (0.77%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.51%) JBoss
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.51%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.51%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (4.35%) Shopify
2 10 (2.56%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (1.79%) NetSuite
4 6 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (1.53%) Magento
5 5 (1.28%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.26%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 105 (26.85%) Azure
2 85 (21.74%) AWS
3 61 (15.60%) Power Platform
4 29 (7.42%) SaaS
5 27 (6.91%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (6.91%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (5.63%) PowerApps
7 16 (4.09%) Azure Logic Apps
8 15 (3.84%) GCP
9 14 (3.58%) PaaS
9 14 (3.58%) Power Automate
10 13 (3.32%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 13 (3.32%) Azure Monitor
10 13 (3.32%) Dynamics 365
10 13 (3.32%) Microsoft Purview
10 13 (3.32%) Serverless
11 12 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (3.07%) Stripe
12 11 (2.81%) Cloud Computing
12 11 (2.81%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.02%) Intranet
2 3 (0.77%) Internet
3 2 (0.51%) Extranet
3 2 (0.51%) SSL
4 1 (0.26%) ATM
4 1 (0.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (11.25%) SQL Server
2 37 (9.46%) MySQL
3 29 (7.42%) Power BI
4 19 (4.86%) MS Access
5 8 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.28%) Crystal Reports
6 5 (1.28%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.28%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.28%) Redis
7 3 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (0.77%) Big Data
7 3 (0.77%) MariaDB
7 3 (0.77%) Tableau
8 2 (0.51%) GIS
8 2 (0.51%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.51%) Looker
8 2 (0.51%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.51%) phpMyAdmin
8 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 60 (15.35%) Git
2 30 (7.67%) Visual Studio
3 24 (6.14%) JIRA
4 17 (4.35%) Jenkins
5 11 (2.81%) GitLab
6 10 (2.56%) Appium
7 9 (2.30%) webpack
8 6 (1.53%) Crashlytics
8 6 (1.53%) Oracle APEX
9 4 (1.02%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.77%) Babel
10 3 (0.77%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.51%) gulp
11 2 (0.51%) Postman
11 2 (0.51%) Selenium
11 2 (0.51%) Subversion
12 1 (0.26%) JUnit
12 1 (0.26%) PHPUnit
12 1 (0.26%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 135 (34.53%) Social Skills
2 70 (17.90%) Finance
3 44 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.14%) Advertising
5 20 (5.12%) Marketing
6 19 (4.86%) Public Sector
7 18 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (4.35%) Mandarin Language
8 17 (4.35%) Retail
9 15 (3.84%) Legal
9 15 (3.84%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (3.58%) Law
11 13 (3.32%) Banking
12 7 (1.79%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.53%) Police
14 5 (1.28%) Games
15 4 (1.02%) Back Office
15 4 (1.02%) Investment Banking
15 4 (1.02%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 224 (57.29%) Developer
2 45 (11.51%) Senior
3 40 (10.23%) Lead
4 35 (8.95%) Senior Developer
5 32 (8.18%) Software Engineer
6 30 (7.67%) Architect
7 29 (7.42%) PHP Developer
8 25 (6.39%) Full Stack Developer
8 25 (6.39%) Solutions Architect
9 20 (5.12%) .NET Developer
10 19 (4.86%) C# Developer
11 18 (4.60%) Lead Developer
11 18 (4.60%) Software Developer
12 17 (4.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 15 (3.84%) Mobile Developer
14 14 (3.58%) Applications Developer
15 13 (3.32%) Azure Engineer
16 12 (3.07%) Lead Mobile Developer
16 12 (3.07%) Salesforce Developer
17 11 (2.81%) Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (21.99%) .NET
2 65 (16.62%) HTML
3 58 (14.83%) REST
4 57 (14.58%) RESTful
5 56 (14.32%) JSON
6 54 (13.81%) CSS
7 49 (12.53%) React
7 49 (12.53%) XML
8 38 (9.72%) SOAP
9 37 (9.46%) Web Services
10 32 (8.18%) Laravel
11 31 (7.93%) ASP.NET
11 31 (7.93%) Node.js
12 27 (6.91%) Vue
13 25 (6.39%) AngularJS
14 23 (5.88%) .NET Core
15 18 (4.60%) GraphQL
16 17 (4.35%) HTML5
16 17 (4.35%) Sass
17 15 (3.84%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 49 (12.53%) Mobile App
2 26 (6.65%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.35%) Data Structures
4 16 (4.09%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (3.58%) Virtual Team
6 13 (3.32%) Client/Server
7 11 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (2.81%) Low-Code
7 11 (2.81%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.30%) EPoS
8 9 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.05%) BYOD
9 8 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (1.53%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.53%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.02%) Clustering
13 3 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.77%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 41 (10.49%) Android
2 22 (5.63%) Apple iOS
3 11 (2.81%) Linux
4 4 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.02%) Windows
4 4 (1.02%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.77%) Mac OS X
5 3 (0.77%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.51%) CentOS
6 2 (0.51%) Debian
6 2 (0.51%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.26%) VMS
7 1 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (29.16%) Agile
2 103 (26.34%) Problem-Solving
3 87 (22.25%) DevOps
4 54 (13.81%) User Experience
5 51 (13.04%) Software Engineering
6 50 (12.79%) E-Commerce
7 46 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 42 (10.74%) Full Stack Development
9 41 (10.49%) Test Automation
10 39 (9.97%) CI/CD
10 39 (9.97%) Clean Code
11 36 (9.21%) Analytics
11 36 (9.21%) API Development
12 35 (8.95%) Web Development
13 34 (8.70%) Computer Science
13 34 (8.70%) Data Protection
14 33 (8.44%) Business Intelligence
14 33 (8.44%) SDLC
15 31 (7.93%) Coaching
15 31 (7.93%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 125 (31.97%) JavaScript
2 81 (20.72%) SQL
3 67 (17.14%) C#
4 49 (12.53%) PHP
5 46 (11.76%) Python
6 38 (9.72%) Java
7 32 (8.18%) Kotlin
8 25 (6.39%) PowerShell
9 24 (6.14%) TypeScript
10 21 (5.37%) T-SQL
10 21 (5.37%) VB.NET
11 18 (4.60%) Swift
12 12 (3.07%) Apex Code
13 9 (2.30%) VB
13 9 (2.30%) VBA
14 8 (2.05%) Bash
15 7 (1.79%) Scala
16 6 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (1.53%) SOQL
17 4 (1.02%) Go
Qualifications
1 64 (16.37%) Degree
2 31 (7.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (5.37%) Security Cleared
4 14 (3.58%) SC Cleared
5 11 (2.81%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.28%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.77%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.51%) CSPO
10 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.26%) CCNA
10 1 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (10.74%) QA
2 10 (2.56%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.28%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.51%) WAI
5 1 (0.26%) GDPR
5 1 (0.26%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (4.35%) Docker
2 8 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.77%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.26%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.26%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 12 (3.07%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.56%) Terraform
3 8 (2.05%) Ansible
3 8 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.28%) Progress Chef
5 4 (1.02%) Puppet
6 3 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.51%) cPanel
7 2 (0.51%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.51%) Nagios
Vendors
1 77 (19.69%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.63%) Salesforce
3 21 (5.37%) Google
4 12 (3.07%) MuleSoft
5 11 (2.81%) Automation Anywhere
5 11 (2.81%) Blue Prism
5 11 (2.81%) UiPath
6 10 (2.56%) OpenAI
7 9 (2.30%) Apple
7 9 (2.30%) GoCardless
7 9 (2.30%) PayPal
7 9 (2.30%) Sage
8 8 (2.05%) Oracle
8 8 (2.05%) SAP
8 8 (2.05%) Xamarin
9 6 (1.53%) Actuate
9 6 (1.53%) Apttus
9 6 (1.53%) Freshdesk
9 6 (1.53%) webMethods
9 6 (1.53%) WorldPay