API Management Job Trends in England

API Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring API Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 485 492
Rank change year-on-year +47 +7 +196
Permanent jobs citing API Management 162 195 174
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.31% 0.39% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.44% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 108 119 142
10th Percentile £46,600 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £61,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.36% +3.70% -8.47%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £84,688
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,279 £97,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £67,225 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.85% -0.41% -10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

API Management 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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,728 44,744 41,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.15% 90.24% 91.27%
Number of salaries quoted 25,461 22,347 32,089
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

API Management job vacancy trend in England

API Management
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing API Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing API Management

API Management
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Management in England over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for API Management in England

API Management
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Management within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +61 88 £75,000 -16.67% 24
Midlands +38 32 £72,500 -3.33% 8
West Midlands +32 28 £72,500 +11.54% 8
North of England +9 16 £70,383 +17.31% 6
North West +30 12 £65,383 +6.75% 2
South East -29 11 £65,000 - 12
East of England +21 6 £55,000 -18.52% 3
South West +11 5 £42,500 -29.17% 5
East Midlands -4 4 £77,500 -
Yorkshire -11 4 £82,500 +32.00% 4
API Management
UK

API Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 10 (6.17%) Apache Solr
2 9 (5.56%) Appian
3 8 (4.94%) SharePoint
4 6 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (3.09%) Apache
6 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.85%) Anypoint
7 3 (1.85%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (1.85%) CMS
7 3 (1.85%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (1.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.62%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.62%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 23 (14.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (10.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.85%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.23%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.23%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.23%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 119 (73.46%) Azure
2 48 (29.63%) Azure Logic Apps
3 45 (27.78%) Power Platform
4 31 (19.14%) AWS
4 31 (19.14%) PaaS
5 30 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (17.90%) Power Automate
7 27 (16.67%) Serverless
8 26 (16.05%) Dynamics 365
8 26 (16.05%) PowerApps
9 20 (12.35%) Azure Service Bus
10 19 (11.73%) IaaS
11 18 (11.11%) SaaS
12 16 (9.88%) Azure AKS
13 15 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
14 13 (8.02%) GitHub
15 12 (7.41%) Azure Event Grid
16 11 (6.79%) Azure Functions
17 10 (6.17%) Azure Monitor
17 10 (6.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.09%) VPN
2 3 (1.85%) BGP
2 3 (1.85%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.85%) VLAN
3 2 (1.23%) DNS
3 2 (1.23%) Firewall
4 1 (0.62%) DHCP
4 1 (0.62%) IPv4
4 1 (0.62%) IPv6
4 1 (0.62%) LAN
4 1 (0.62%) MPLS
4 1 (0.62%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.62%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (16.05%) Power BI
2 16 (9.88%) SQL Server
3 10 (6.17%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (6.17%) MySQL
4 8 (4.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (4.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (4.32%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.09%) Airbyte
7 3 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.85%) Metadata
8 2 (1.23%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.62%) Big Data
9 1 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.62%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.62%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (19.14%) Git
2 22 (13.58%) Visual Studio
3 6 (3.70%) Robot Framework
3 6 (3.70%) Selenium
3 6 (3.70%) Snyk
4 2 (1.23%) JIRA
4 2 (1.23%) MSTest
4 2 (1.23%) NUnit
5 1 (0.62%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.62%) Postman
General
1 53 (32.72%) Social Skills
2 38 (23.46%) Finance
3 33 (20.37%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.17%) Law
5 9 (5.56%) Banking
5 9 (5.56%) Retail
6 7 (4.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.32%) Legal
7 5 (3.09%) Back Office
7 5 (3.09%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.09%) Marketing
7 5 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.62%) Advertising
10 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.62%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (32.72%) Architect
2 45 (27.78%) Developer
3 34 (20.99%) Lead
4 21 (12.96%) Integration Developer
5 20 (12.35%) Solutions Architect
6 13 (8.02%) SAP Developer
7 11 (6.79%) Azure Architect
7 11 (6.79%) Support Engineer
7 11 (6.79%) Technical Architect
8 8 (4.94%) Applications Architect
8 8 (4.94%) Development Engineer
8 8 (4.94%) Development Support Engineer
8 8 (4.94%) Integration Specialist
8 8 (4.94%) Lead Architect
9 7 (4.32%) Backend Developer
9 7 (4.32%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 7 (4.32%) Senior
10 6 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
10 6 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (31.48%) REST
2 36 (22.22%) SOAP
3 21 (12.96%) Middleware
4 19 (11.73%) Web Services
5 15 (9.26%) OAuth
6 14 (8.64%) SAML
7 13 (8.02%) BAPI
7 13 (8.02%) IBM Integration Bus
7 13 (8.02%) JMS
8 11 (6.79%) .NET
9 10 (6.17%) Node.js
9 10 (6.17%) RESTful
10 9 (5.56%) AngularJS
10 9 (5.56%) React
11 7 (4.32%) Vue
12 6 (3.70%) Apache NiFi
12 6 (3.70%) Kafka
13 5 (3.09%) .NET Core
14 4 (2.47%) JSON
14 4 (2.47%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 36 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 30 (18.52%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (10.49%) Low-Code
4 16 (9.88%) Management Information System
5 10 (6.17%) Product Ownership
6 8 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (3.09%) Data Centre
9 4 (2.47%) IoT
10 3 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (1.23%) Blog
11 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.62%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.62%) AS400
12 1 (0.62%) Clustering
12 1 (0.62%) iSeries
12 1 (0.62%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.62%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (11.73%) Windows
2 16 (9.88%) Linux
3 11 (6.79%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.62%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (50.62%) CI/CD
2 78 (48.15%) Agile
3 68 (41.98%) DevOps
4 42 (25.93%) AI
5 41 (25.31%) Migration
6 35 (21.60%) CRM
6 35 (21.60%) Scrum
6 35 (21.60%) Technical Leadership
7 33 (20.37%) Enterprise Architecture
7 33 (20.37%) Microservices
8 32 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (19.75%) Roadmaps
9 31 (19.14%) Architectural Patterns
10 24 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
10 24 (14.81%) Machine Learning
10 24 (14.81%) Test Automation
11 22 (13.58%) ITIL
12 21 (12.96%) Data Migration
12 21 (12.96%) OWASP
13 19 (11.73%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 30 (18.52%) Python
2 29 (17.90%) SQL
3 23 (14.20%) JavaScript
4 16 (9.88%) C#
5 11 (6.79%) Java
6 9 (5.56%) Bicep
7 8 (4.94%) PHP
7 8 (4.94%) PowerShell
8 7 (4.32%) ABAP
9 4 (2.47%) Bash
10 3 (1.85%) Go
10 3 (1.85%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.23%) Groovy
11 2 (1.23%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.62%) Korn
12 1 (0.62%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (7.41%) Azure Certification
1 12 (7.41%) Degree
1 12 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 10 (6.17%) TOGAF Certification
3 7 (4.32%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.85%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.85%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.62%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.02%) QA
2 9 (5.56%) SLA
3 5 (3.09%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.09%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.23%) GDPR
5 2 (1.23%) IFRS
6 1 (0.62%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.62%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.62%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (12.96%) Docker
2 6 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.23%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.62%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 27 (16.67%) Terraform
2 15 (9.26%) Ansible
3 10 (6.17%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.47%) Grafana
4 4 (2.47%) logstash
5 3 (1.85%) Kibana
5 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.62%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (0.62%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 62 (38.27%) Microsoft
2 18 (11.11%) Oracle
2 18 (11.11%) SAP
3 15 (9.26%) IBM
4 10 (6.17%) Informatica
5 7 (4.32%) VMware
6 6 (3.70%) BiZZdesign
6 6 (3.70%) Black Duck
6 6 (3.70%) CrowdStrike
6 6 (3.70%) Databricks
6 6 (3.70%) Fortinet
6 6 (3.70%) MuleSoft
6 6 (3.70%) Palo Alto
6 6 (3.70%) UiPath
7 5 (3.09%) Blue Prism
7 5 (3.09%) Coverity
7 5 (3.09%) webMethods
8 4 (2.47%) HubSpot
9 3 (1.85%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.85%) Software AG