API Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for API Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited API Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 587 652 751
Rank change year-on-year +65 +99 -77
Permanent jobs citing API Management 323 336 520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.32% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.34% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 157 237 272
10th Percentile £45,630 £42,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,856 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% - +19.23%
75th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £117,236 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +41.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

API Management 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 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
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 Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for API Management in the UK

API Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for API Management in the UK

API Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for API Management in the UK

API Management
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Management within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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 +92 281 £75,000 -6.25% 64
UK excluding London +40 183 £62,500 -16.67% 26
London +96 93 £82,500 -8.33% 36
South East +90 86 £68,250 -9.00% 9
North of England +48 65 £56,250 -36.43% 4
Work from Home -50 64 £75,000 - 30
North West +53 57 £55,000 -26.67% 1
Midlands +8 9 £81,750 +42.17% 5
Yorkshire +52 8 £57,500 -35.01% 3
Scotland -74 7 £100,000 +16.45% 2
Wales +15 6 £52,101 -34.87% 2
South West -10 6 £42,500 -58.23% 4
East Midlands -10 5 £73,500 +40.00% 1
West Midlands +22 4 £90,000 +56.52% 4
East of England +1 4 £60,000 +60.00% 3

API Management
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 10 (3.10%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.24%) Confluence
2 4 (1.24%) NServiceBus
3 3 (0.93%) CMS
3 3 (0.93%) Drupal
4 1 (0.31%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.31%) Mule
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.24%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 273 (84.52%) Azure
2 219 (67.80%) Azure DevOps
3 199 (61.61%) Azure Service Bus
4 187 (57.89%) Serverless
5 173 (53.56%) Azure Logic Apps
6 172 (53.25%) Azure API Management
7 149 (46.13%) Azure Functions
8 117 (36.22%) IBM Cloud
9 40 (12.38%) AWS
9 40 (12.38%) PaaS
10 38 (11.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 38 (11.76%) Power Platform
11 35 (10.84%) Dynamics 365
12 31 (9.60%) Azure Monitor
13 30 (9.29%) IaaS
14 22 (6.81%) Azure AKS
14 22 (6.81%) Entra ID
15 21 (6.50%) SaaS
16 20 (6.19%) Azure Data Factory
17 17 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.95%) Firewall
2 10 (3.10%) VPN
3 9 (2.79%) Network Security
4 7 (2.17%) IPv4
5 3 (0.93%) HTTP
5 3 (0.93%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.31%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (40.25%) NoSQL
1 130 (40.25%) PostgreSQL
2 123 (38.08%) MongoDB
3 122 (37.77%) Relational Database
4 117 (36.22%) DB2
5 49 (15.17%) SQL Server
6 16 (4.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 12 (3.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (2.48%) Power BI
9 6 (1.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.55%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.24%) MySQL
11 4 (1.24%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.93%) EDRMS
12 3 (0.93%) GIS
12 3 (0.93%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.93%) Redis
13 2 (0.62%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 22 (6.81%) Postman
2 15 (4.64%) Git
3 11 (3.41%) JIRA
4 10 (3.10%) GitLab
4 10 (3.10%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.48%) Octopus Deploy
5 8 (2.48%) TeamCity
6 5 (1.55%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.24%) Jasmine
7 4 (1.24%) Mocha
8 3 (0.93%) Gradle
9 2 (0.62%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.31%) Gatling
10 1 (0.31%) IBM UrbanCode
10 1 (0.31%) Maven
10 1 (0.31%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 128 (39.63%) Public Sector
2 75 (23.22%) Social Skills
3 39 (12.07%) Finance
4 20 (6.19%) Presentation Skills
5 18 (5.57%) Retail
6 17 (5.26%) Back Office
7 16 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (4.95%) Local Government
8 12 (3.72%) Banking
9 9 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.86%) Marketing
11 5 (1.55%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.24%) Law
12 4 (1.24%) Legal
12 4 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.24%) Police
12 4 (1.24%) Publishing
12 4 (1.24%) Welsh Language
13 2 (0.62%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 194 (60.06%) Developer
2 132 (40.87%) Azure Developer
3 117 (36.22%) Full Stack Developer
4 48 (14.86%) Lead
5 32 (9.91%) Architect
5 32 (9.91%) Senior
6 23 (7.12%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 23 (7.12%) Power Platform Developer
7 21 (6.50%) Azure Engineer
8 20 (6.19%) Senior Developer
9 16 (4.95%) Integration Developer
10 14 (4.33%) C# Developer
11 12 (3.72%) .NET Developer
11 12 (3.72%) Senior Integration Developer
12 11 (3.41%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (3.10%) Cloud Architect
13 10 (3.10%) Cloud Engineer
14 9 (2.79%) Azure Architect
15 8 (2.48%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (60.06%) .NET
2 136 (42.11%) REST
3 126 (39.01%) Web Services
4 125 (38.70%) React
5 124 (38.39%) CSS
5 124 (38.39%) HTML
6 123 (38.08%) Node.js
7 121 (37.46%) Vue
8 120 (37.15%) AngularJS
8 120 (37.15%) ASP.NET
9 117 (36.22%) ASP.NET Core
9 117 (36.22%) Backbone.js
9 117 (36.22%) Ember.js
9 117 (36.22%) jQuery
9 117 (36.22%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 23 (7.12%) .NET Core
11 18 (5.57%) OpenAPI
11 18 (5.57%) RESTful
11 18 (5.57%) Swagger
12 16 (4.95%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 124 (38.39%) Hybrid Cloud
2 118 (36.53%) Algorithms
2 118 (36.53%) Data Structures
3 117 (36.22%) Blockchain
4 17 (5.26%) Cloud Native
5 12 (3.72%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.79%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.48%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.48%) NHS
8 7 (2.17%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.55%) Clustering
10 4 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.24%) Housing Association
10 4 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.93%) Client/Server
11 3 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.93%) Kindle
11 3 (0.93%) Life Science
11 3 (0.93%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 136 (42.11%) Windows
2 127 (39.32%) Linux
3 117 (36.22%) Android
3 117 (36.22%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.48%) VMS
5 3 (0.93%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (74.92%) DevOps
2 156 (48.30%) SOLID
3 149 (46.13%) OO
4 126 (39.01%) Design Patterns
5 124 (38.39%) Artificial Intelligence
5 124 (38.39%) Web Development
6 120 (37.15%) OOP
7 118 (36.53%) Full Stack Development
8 117 (36.22%) Co-Creation
8 117 (36.22%) Design Thinking
8 117 (36.22%) Generative AI
8 117 (36.22%) MVC
8 117 (36.22%) MVVM
8 117 (36.22%) Responsive Web Design
8 117 (36.22%) User Experience
9 88 (27.24%) Agile
10 81 (25.08%) CI/CD
11 65 (20.12%) Software Engineering
12 45 (13.93%) TDD
13 40 (12.38%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 200 (61.92%) C#
2 189 (58.51%) SQL
3 156 (48.30%) JavaScript
4 137 (42.41%) Java
4 137 (42.41%) Python
5 34 (10.53%) Bicep
6 33 (10.22%) PowerShell
7 24 (7.43%) TypeScript
8 14 (4.33%) Bash
9 7 (2.17%) PHP
10 6 (1.86%) Go
11 4 (1.24%) Ruby
11 4 (1.24%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.62%) Groovy
13 2 (0.62%) Scala
13 2 (0.62%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.31%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 28 (8.67%) Degree
2 16 (4.95%) Security Cleared
3 14 (4.33%) Azure Certification
3 14 (4.33%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.31%) OCP
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.31%) PMP
6 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.48%) HL7
2 5 (1.55%) SLA
3 4 (1.24%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.93%) ISO 9000
4 3 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.93%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.62%) QA
6 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
System Software
1 44 (13.62%) Active Directory
2 23 (7.12%) Docker
3 12 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.31%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 45 (13.93%) Kubernetes
2 35 (10.84%) Terraform
3 7 (2.17%) Istio
4 5 (1.55%) Ansible
4 5 (1.55%) Failover Clustering
4 5 (1.55%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (0.62%) Grafana
5 2 (0.62%) Kibana
6 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.31%) Puppet
Vendors
1 118 (36.53%) Red Hat
2 117 (36.22%) IBM
3 103 (31.89%) Microsoft
4 12 (3.72%) MuleSoft
5 8 (2.48%) Oracle
6 6 (1.86%) SAP
7 5 (1.55%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.24%) Databricks
8 4 (1.24%) Okta
8 4 (1.24%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.93%) CheckPoint
9 3 (0.93%) Citrix
9 3 (0.93%) Google
10 2 (0.62%) Concur
10 2 (0.62%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.62%) WSO2
11 1 (0.31%) Adobe
11 1 (0.31%) Genesys
11 1 (0.31%) Informatica
11 1 (0.31%) SnapLogic