API Management Job Trends in the UK excluding London

API Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring API Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 427 434 464
Rank change year-on-year +7 +30 +142
Permanent jobs citing API Management 88 134 77
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.36% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.41% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 59 76 71
10th Percentile £41,850 £44,375 £46,050
25th Percentile £52,500 £49,375 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,750
UK median annual salary £72,500 £67,225 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.85% -0.41% -10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,444 33,009 27,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.71% 88.20% 90.56%
Number of salaries quoted 19,110 15,194 20,646
10th Percentile £27,707 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,760 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.34%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,435
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

API Management job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

API Management
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing API Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing API Management

API Management
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for API Management in the UK excluding London

API Management
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. 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
Midlands +44 32 £72,500 -3.33% 9
West Midlands +44 28 £72,500 +11.54% 9
Scotland +19 16 £57,250 -21.03% 7
North of England -3 16 £70,383 +17.31% 3
North West +30 12 £65,383 +6.75% 1
South East -25 11 £65,000 - 9
East of England +21 6 £55,000 -18.52% 3
South West +19 5 £42,500 -29.17% 6
East Midlands -4 4 £77,500 -
Yorkshire -10 4 £82,500 +32.00% 2
Wales - 2 £51,250 - 2
API Management
UK

API Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (7.95%) SharePoint
2 6 (6.82%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (6.82%) Apache Solr
2 6 (6.82%) Appian
3 5 (5.68%) Apache
4 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (3.41%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (3.41%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (2.27%) CMS
7 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 15 (17.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.27%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 66 (75.00%) Azure
2 32 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (32.95%) Azure Logic Apps
4 21 (23.86%) Azure Service Bus
4 21 (23.86%) GitHub
5 20 (22.73%) GitHub Actions
5 20 (22.73%) Power Platform
6 17 (19.32%) Azure Data Factory
6 17 (19.32%) Azure Monitor
7 15 (17.05%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (15.91%) Azure Event Grid
9 12 (13.64%) PaaS
10 11 (12.50%) AWS
10 11 (12.50%) IaaS
11 8 (9.09%) Entra ID
11 8 (9.09%) Serverless
12 6 (6.82%) Azure Functions
12 6 (6.82%) Boomi
12 6 (6.82%) MinIO
12 6 (6.82%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.27%) Firewall
2 1 (1.14%) DHCP
2 1 (1.14%) DNS
2 1 (1.14%) IPv4
2 1 (1.14%) IPv6
2 1 (1.14%) LAN
2 1 (1.14%) MPLS
2 1 (1.14%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.14%) VPN
2 1 (1.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.82%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (6.82%) MySQL
2 5 (5.68%) Airbyte
2 5 (5.68%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (5.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (4.55%) Power BI
4 3 (3.41%) Metadata
4 3 (3.41%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.27%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (6.82%) Git
1 6 (6.82%) Robot Framework
1 6 (6.82%) Selenium
1 6 (6.82%) Snyk
2 2 (2.27%) MSTest
2 2 (2.27%) NUnit
3 1 (1.14%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 21 (23.86%) Finance
3 19 (21.59%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.95%) Legal
5 4 (4.55%) Law
6 2 (2.27%) Banking
6 2 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.27%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.14%) Marketing
7 1 (1.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 29 (32.95%) Developer
2 24 (27.27%) Architect
3 17 (19.32%) Integration Developer
4 13 (14.77%) SAP Developer
5 12 (13.64%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (11.36%) Integration Engineer
7 8 (9.09%) Integration Specialist
8 7 (7.95%) Lead
9 6 (6.82%) Applications Architect
10 5 (5.68%) ABAP Developer
11 4 (4.55%) Backend Developer
11 4 (4.55%) Integration Manager
12 3 (3.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 3 (3.41%) Data Engineer
12 3 (3.41%) Data Integration Developer
12 3 (3.41%) IT Architect
12 3 (3.41%) Lead Data Engineer
12 3 (3.41%) Senior
13 2 (2.27%) Azure Developer
13 2 (2.27%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (30.68%) OAuth
2 21 (23.86%) RESTful
3 19 (21.59%) Middleware
4 17 (19.32%) REST
5 14 (15.91%) JSON
5 14 (15.91%) OAuth2
6 13 (14.77%) BAPI
6 13 (14.77%) IBM Integration Bus
6 13 (14.77%) JMS
6 13 (14.77%) SAML
6 13 (14.77%) SOAP
7 7 (7.95%) Node.js
8 6 (6.82%) Apache NiFi
8 6 (6.82%) Kafka
9 5 (5.68%) .NET
10 3 (3.41%) PySpark
11 2 (2.27%) .NET Core
11 2 (2.27%) ARM Templates
11 2 (2.27%) ASP.NET
11 2 (2.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (26.14%) Cloud Native
2 21 (23.86%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (7.95%) Low-Code
4 5 (5.68%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.55%) IoT
6 3 (3.41%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.27%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.14%) Clustering
8 1 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.50%) Windows
2 7 (7.95%) Linux
2 7 (7.95%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (48.86%) DevOps
2 41 (46.59%) CI/CD
3 31 (35.23%) Event-Driven
4 30 (34.09%) Test Automation
5 29 (32.95%) Integration Patterns
6 25 (28.41%) Data Integration
7 24 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (26.14%) Data Pipeline
9 22 (25.00%) Agile
10 21 (23.86%) Analytics
11 19 (21.59%) Migration
12 17 (19.32%) AI
12 17 (19.32%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 17 (19.32%) Incident Response
12 17 (19.32%) Technical Leadership
13 16 (18.18%) ETL
13 16 (18.18%) Log Analytics
14 15 (17.05%) Observability
14 15 (17.05%) Root Cause Analysis
15 14 (15.91%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (19.32%) Bicep
1 17 (19.32%) Python
2 11 (12.50%) C#
2 11 (12.50%) SQL
3 8 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 7 (7.95%) ABAP
5 4 (4.55%) PHP
6 3 (3.41%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.27%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (10.23%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.95%) Azure Certification
3 5 (5.68%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.41%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.41%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.14%) Degree
6 1 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.14%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (18.18%) GDPR
2 7 (7.95%) QA
3 1 (1.14%) EU AI Act
3 1 (1.14%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (9.09%) Docker
2 6 (6.82%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.14%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (23.86%) Terraform
2 10 (11.36%) Ansible
3 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.27%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.14%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 37 (42.05%) Microsoft
2 15 (17.05%) SAP
3 14 (15.91%) Ab Initio
4 13 (14.77%) IBM
5 7 (7.95%) VMware
6 6 (6.82%) BiZZdesign
6 6 (6.82%) Black Duck
6 6 (6.82%) Oracle
6 6 (6.82%) UiPath
7 5 (5.68%) Blue Prism
7 5 (5.68%) Coverity
7 5 (5.68%) Databricks
8 3 (3.41%) MuleSoft
8 3 (3.41%) Software AG
8 3 (3.41%) webMethods
9 2 (2.27%) Google
9 2 (2.27%) Workday
10 1 (1.14%) Foundry
10 1 (1.14%) Qualys
10 1 (1.14%) Veeam