API Management Jobs

API Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring API Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited API Management over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 536 600 658
Rank change year-on-year +64 +58 +129
Permanent jobs citing API Management 178 327 318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.32% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.38% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 105 154 223
10th Percentile £47,250 £45,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% +7.14% -11.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £117,236
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% -10.71% -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%

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 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for API Management in the UK

API Management
Top 14 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 30 May 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
England +47 165 £71,991 -4.01% 733
UK excluding London +126 119 £67,500 +8.00% 736
Work from Home +141 89 £71,991 -4.01% 594
London +67 48 £90,000 +5.88% 80
Midlands +118 41 £75,000 -8.26% 146
South East +31 32 £65,000 -13.33% 199
West Midlands +80 26 £75,000 -16.67% 78
North of England +10 22 £65,000 +18.18% 167
East Midlands +56 15 - - 58
South West +113 14 £71,991 +69.39% 83
North West -32 13 £65,000 +18.18% 78
Yorkshire +61 9 £46,500 -19.13% 71
Scotland +116 5 £75,000 -25.00% 31
East of England +46 5 £69,500 +15.83% 109

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 8 (4.49%) CMS
2 7 (3.93%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.93%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.81%) Appian
4 4 (2.25%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.25%) SAS
5 3 (1.69%) Apache
5 3 (1.69%) Apache Solr
6 2 (1.12%) Confluence
7 1 (0.56%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.56%) Mule
Business Applications
1 13 (7.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (5.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (2.81%) NetSuite
4 3 (1.69%) Elite 3E
5 2 (1.12%) Carpe Diem
Cloud Services
1 128 (71.91%) Azure
2 53 (29.78%) Power Platform
3 52 (29.21%) Azure DevOps
4 51 (28.65%) Azure Service Bus
5 41 (23.03%) AWS
6 32 (17.98%) Azure Logic Apps
7 30 (16.85%) Azure API Management
8 28 (15.73%) Power Automate
9 27 (15.17%) PaaS
10 25 (14.04%) Azure Monitor
10 25 (14.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 19 (10.67%) Azure Key Vault
11 19 (10.67%) Entra ID
11 19 (10.67%) Serverless
12 18 (10.11%) IaaS
13 17 (9.55%) SaaS
14 16 (8.99%) Azure AI
14 16 (8.99%) Azure Data Factory
14 16 (8.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 14 (7.87%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.99%) DNS
1 16 (8.99%) Firewall
1 16 (8.99%) SD-WAN
1 16 (8.99%) VPN
1 16 (8.99%) WAN
2 2 (1.12%) HTTP
3 1 (0.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (18.54%) Power BI
2 22 (12.36%) Data Lake
3 19 (10.67%) MySQL
4 13 (7.30%) SQL Server
5 9 (5.06%) NoSQL
6 8 (4.49%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (3.37%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (3.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (2.81%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.12%) Apache Iceberg
10 2 (1.12%) Big Data
10 2 (1.12%) Dremio
11 1 (0.56%) Airbyte
11 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.56%) Parquet
11 1 (0.56%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 27 (15.17%) Git
2 10 (5.62%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.49%) Visual Studio
4 6 (3.37%) GitLab
4 6 (3.37%) Postman
4 6 (3.37%) Selenium
4 6 (3.37%) Snyk
5 5 (2.81%) Fiddler
5 5 (2.81%) Robot Framework
5 5 (2.81%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
General
1 47 (26.40%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 28 (15.73%) Finance
4 25 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (10.67%) Banking
5 19 (10.67%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.62%) Law
7 4 (2.25%) Legal
7 4 (2.25%) Retail
8 3 (1.69%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.12%) Electronics
9 2 (1.12%) Front Office
9 2 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Back Office
10 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Games
10 1 (0.56%) Marketing
10 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 67 (37.64%) Architect
2 35 (19.66%) Developer
3 24 (13.48%) Solutions Architect
4 20 (11.24%) Cloud Architect
5 19 (10.67%) Lead
5 19 (10.67%) Software Engineer
6 18 (10.11%) Consultant
6 18 (10.11%) Senior
7 16 (8.99%) Integration Consultant
7 16 (8.99%) Integration Developer
8 15 (8.43%) Oracle Consultant
8 15 (8.43%) Oracle Technical Consultant
8 15 (8.43%) Technical Consultant
9 12 (6.74%) Lead Architect
10 10 (5.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 10 (5.62%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 7 (3.93%) Azure Developer
12 6 (3.37%) C# Developer
12 6 (3.37%) SAP Developer
12 6 (3.37%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (25.84%) .NET
2 41 (23.03%) REST
3 33 (18.54%) Middleware
4 25 (14.04%) SOAP
5 23 (12.92%) Web Services
6 17 (9.55%) React
7 16 (8.99%) JSON
7 16 (8.99%) RESTful
8 13 (7.30%) .NET Core
9 11 (6.18%) CSS
9 11 (6.18%) OAuth
9 11 (6.18%) React Native
10 10 (5.62%) ADO
10 10 (5.62%) HTML
11 9 (5.06%) SAML
11 9 (5.06%) Swagger
12 8 (4.49%) ASP.NET
12 8 (4.49%) MERN Stack
12 8 (4.49%) WebSockets
12 8 (4.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.99%) Cloud Native
1 16 (8.99%) Data Centre
1 16 (8.99%) NHS
1 16 (8.99%) Product Ownership
2 15 (8.43%) e-Learning
2 15 (8.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (7.87%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (7.30%) Management Information System
5 12 (6.74%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.93%) Low-Code
7 6 (3.37%) DataPower
8 4 (2.25%) Credit Risk
8 4 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.25%) IoT
8 4 (2.25%) Market Risk
9 3 (1.69%) AS400
9 3 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.49%) Android
1 8 (4.49%) Apple iOS
2 6 (3.37%) Windows
3 4 (2.25%) Linux
4 3 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (52.25%) Agile
2 77 (43.26%) CI/CD
3 73 (41.01%) DevOps
4 49 (27.53%) Artificial Intelligence
5 39 (21.91%) Migration
5 39 (21.91%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (21.35%) Data Integration
7 37 (20.79%) Software Engineering
8 36 (20.22%) Microservices
9 34 (19.10%) Analytics
10 32 (17.98%) Roadmaps
11 29 (16.29%) Containerisation
12 28 (15.73%) B2B
13 27 (15.17%) Infrastructure as Code
14 24 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (11.80%) Mentoring
16 20 (11.24%) TOGAF
17 19 (10.67%) Coaching
17 19 (10.67%) Event-Driven
17 19 (10.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 69 (38.76%) SQL
2 48 (26.97%) C#
3 35 (19.66%) Python
4 23 (12.92%) JavaScript
5 22 (12.36%) PowerShell
6 21 (11.80%) Java
7 19 (10.67%) Bicep
8 9 (5.06%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.25%) Go
9 4 (2.25%) R
10 3 (1.69%) Lua
11 2 (1.12%) PHP
12 1 (0.56%) Bash
12 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (11.24%) Azure Certification
2 16 (8.99%) DBS Check
2 16 (8.99%) Degree
3 9 (5.06%) Security Cleared
4 7 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (3.93%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.81%) SAP Certification
6 4 (2.25%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.25%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.69%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.12%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.56%) PhD
9 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.49%) QA
2 6 (3.37%) GDPR
3 4 (2.25%) Basel II
3 4 (2.25%) Basel III
3 4 (2.25%) Dodd-Frank
3 4 (2.25%) IFRS
3 4 (2.25%) IFRS 9
3 4 (2.25%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.12%) NIST
4 2 (1.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (9.55%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (7.87%) Docker
3 4 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (8.99%) Single Sign-On
2 10 (5.62%) Kubernetes
3 9 (5.06%) Terraform
4 5 (2.81%) Ansible
5 1 (0.56%) Grafana
5 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 65 (36.52%) Microsoft
2 42 (23.60%) Databricks
3 29 (16.29%) IBM
4 21 (11.80%) Oracle
5 18 (10.11%) SAP
6 16 (8.99%) Meraki
7 15 (8.43%) Red Hat
8 8 (4.49%) Apple
9 6 (3.37%) Google
10 5 (2.81%) BiZZdesign
10 5 (2.81%) Black Duck
10 5 (2.81%) MuleSoft
10 5 (2.81%) UiPath
10 5 (2.81%) VMware
11 4 (2.25%) Workday
12 3 (1.69%) Atlassian
12 3 (1.69%) Intapp
12 3 (1.69%) MKS
13 2 (1.12%) Cribl.io
14 1 (0.56%) Coverity