API Development Job Trends in Wales

API Development
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring API Development 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 68 70 91
Rank change year-on-year +2 +21 +20
Permanent jobs citing API Development 7 10 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.66% 1.13% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.35% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile £50,150 £67,500 -
25th Percentile £50,250 £69,375 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £75,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -32.67% - -
75th Percentile £52,250 £78,750 -
90th Percentile £55,450 £79,500 -
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 808 739 824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 76.37% 83.22% 91.25%
Number of salaries quoted 553 362 610
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,313 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,122 £49,104 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +3.38% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,433
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

API Development job vacancy trend in Wales

API Development
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing API Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing API Development

API Development
Job Locations in 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 Wales 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
South Wales -6 6 £50,500 -29.12% 5
West Wales - 1 £55,200 -
API Development
UK

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 2 (28.57%) ColdFusion
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Modbus
1 4 (57.14%) MQTT
1 4 (57.14%) Network Security
1 4 (57.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JUnit
1 1 (14.29%) Selenium
General
1 2 (28.57%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Firmware Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior SQL Developer
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Developer
4 1 (14.29%) ColdFusion Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior ColdFusion Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) CSS3
2 1 (14.29%) Django
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) Flask
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) HTML5
2 1 (14.29%) pytest
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Device Driver
1 4 (57.14%) IoT
2 3 (42.86%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
1 4 (57.14%) Unix
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Computer Architecture
2 4 (57.14%) Product Strategy
2 4 (57.14%) Technical Debt
3 3 (42.86%) API Integration
4 2 (28.57%) ERP
4 2 (28.57%) Front End Development
4 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (28.57%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) BDD
5 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 1 (14.29%) Microservices
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) SEO
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (14.29%) TDD
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) C
1 4 (57.14%) C++
2 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Delphi
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Python
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Firmware
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle