API Management Job Trends

API Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring API Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 445 528 514
Rank change year-on-year +83 -14 +266
Permanent jobs citing API Management 189 220 204
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.34% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.39% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 118 133 172
10th Percentile £46,600 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £69,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -6.47% -0.71%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £84,063
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year - -0.54% +8.92%

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 45,531 55,918 47,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.16% 85.44% 93.76%
Number of salaries quoted 27,749 29,151 36,831
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £99,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -0.94%

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

API Management job vacancy trend in the UK

API Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing API Management

API Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Management over the 6 months to 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 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 +71 168 £72,500 +7.85% 48
UK excluding London +39 92 £65,000 - 42
London +95 85 £75,000 -16.67% 24
Work from Home +54 66 £65,383 +0.59% 30
Midlands +61 26 £72,500 +74.70% 9
North of England +39 22 £65,000 +4.00% 6
West Midlands +63 21 £72,500 +11.54% 7
North West +59 19 £65,000 +6.12% 2
South East -5 17 £65,000 - 21
Scotland +18 13 £57,250 -4.58% 1
East of England +30 7 £55,000 -16.98% 4
South West +36 6 £53,750 -10.42% 1
East Midlands +24 5 £77,500 +96.20% 2
Yorkshire +5 3 £80,000 +25.98% 3
Wales - 1 £50,000 -

API Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 13 (6.88%) Apache Solr
2 9 (4.76%) Appian
3 7 (3.70%) SharePoint
4 6 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (3.17%) CMS
5 5 (2.65%) Apache
6 3 (1.59%) Anypoint
6 3 (1.59%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.59%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.53%) Confluence
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 23 (12.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (8.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.12%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 135 (71.43%) Azure
2 58 (30.69%) Azure Logic Apps
3 47 (24.87%) Power Platform
4 41 (21.69%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (20.63%) AWS
6 34 (17.99%) Azure Service Bus
7 31 (16.40%) Power Automate
8 30 (15.87%) Dynamics 365
8 30 (15.87%) PaaS
9 27 (14.29%) PowerApps
10 24 (12.70%) Serverless
11 23 (12.17%) GitHub
12 20 (10.58%) Azure Event Grid
12 20 (10.58%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (9.52%) Azure Monitor
13 18 (9.52%) IaaS
14 17 (8.99%) Azure Data Factory
15 16 (8.47%) SaaS
16 15 (7.94%) Azure AKS
17 13 (6.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.65%) VPN
2 3 (1.59%) BGP
2 3 (1.59%) Firewall
2 3 (1.59%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.59%) VLAN
3 2 (1.06%) DNS
4 1 (0.53%) DHCP
4 1 (0.53%) IPv4
4 1 (0.53%) IPv6
4 1 (0.53%) LAN
4 1 (0.53%) MPLS
4 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (14.81%) Power BI
2 16 (8.47%) SQL Server
3 13 (6.88%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (6.88%) MySQL
4 8 (4.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (4.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (3.70%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.65%) Airbyte
7 3 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.06%) Metadata
8 2 (1.06%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.53%) Big Data
9 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.53%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 34 (17.99%) Git
2 21 (11.11%) Visual Studio
3 6 (3.17%) Robot Framework
3 6 (3.17%) Selenium
3 6 (3.17%) Snyk
4 5 (2.65%) JIRA
5 2 (1.06%) MSTest
5 2 (1.06%) NUnit
6 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.53%) Postman
6 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
General
1 56 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 50 (26.46%) Finance
3 35 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.94%) Law
5 14 (7.41%) Banking
6 12 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.23%) Retail
8 7 (3.70%) Health Technology
8 7 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (3.17%) Marketing
10 5 (2.65%) Legal
11 4 (2.12%) Back Office
11 4 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.59%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.59%) Public Sector
13 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.53%) Advertising
14 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (29.10%) Architect
2 47 (24.87%) Developer
3 34 (17.99%) Lead
4 23 (12.17%) Solutions Architect
5 21 (11.11%) Integration Developer
6 15 (7.94%) Senior
7 14 (7.41%) Azure Architect
8 12 (6.35%) Integration Manager
9 11 (5.82%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (5.82%) SAP Developer
9 11 (5.82%) Technical Architect
10 8 (4.23%) Applications Architect
10 8 (4.23%) Development Engineer
10 8 (4.23%) Development Support Engineer
10 8 (4.23%) Lead Architect
10 8 (4.23%) Software Engineer
10 8 (4.23%) Support Engineer
11 7 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
11 7 (3.70%) Lead Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.70%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (25.40%) REST
2 36 (19.05%) SOAP
3 30 (15.87%) RESTful
4 24 (12.70%) OAuth
5 19 (10.05%) Middleware
5 19 (10.05%) Web Services
6 14 (7.41%) .NET
6 14 (7.41%) JSON
7 12 (6.35%) Node.js
7 12 (6.35%) OAuth2
8 11 (5.82%) BAPI
8 11 (5.82%) IBM Integration Bus
8 11 (5.82%) JMS
8 11 (5.82%) SAML
9 9 (4.76%) AngularJS
9 9 (4.76%) React
9 9 (4.76%) Swagger
10 8 (4.23%) OpenAPI
11 7 (3.70%) FHIR
11 7 (3.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 35 (18.52%) Cloud Native
2 26 (13.76%) Enterprise Software
3 24 (12.70%) Management Information System
4 18 (9.52%) Low-Code
5 10 (5.29%) Product Ownership
6 8 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (3.70%) NHS
8 6 (3.17%) IoT
9 4 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.59%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
12 1 (0.53%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.53%) AS400
12 1 (0.53%) Clustering
12 1 (0.53%) iSeries
12 1 (0.53%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.99%) Linux
1 17 (8.99%) Windows
2 14 (7.41%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.53%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (55.03%) CI/CD
2 89 (47.09%) Agile
3 83 (43.92%) DevOps
4 48 (25.40%) AI
5 37 (19.58%) Migration
6 35 (18.52%) Scrum
7 34 (17.99%) Test Automation
8 33 (17.46%) CRM
9 32 (16.93%) Enterprise Architecture
9 32 (16.93%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (16.40%) Infrastructure as Code
10 31 (16.40%) SDLC
10 31 (16.40%) Technical Leadership
11 30 (15.87%) Architectural Patterns
11 30 (15.87%) Roadmaps
11 30 (15.87%) Software Engineering
12 29 (15.34%) Machine Learning
12 29 (15.34%) Microservices
13 26 (13.76%) Event-Driven
13 26 (13.76%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 37 (19.58%) Python
2 30 (15.87%) SQL
3 27 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 20 (10.58%) C#
5 18 (9.52%) Bicep
6 12 (6.35%) Java
7 9 (4.76%) Go
8 8 (4.23%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.70%) ABAP
9 7 (3.70%) PHP
10 6 (3.17%) Lua
11 4 (2.12%) Bash
12 3 (1.59%) Groovy
13 2 (1.06%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.53%) DataWeave
14 1 (0.53%) Perl
14 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (6.88%) Security Cleared
1 13 (6.88%) TOGAF Certification
2 12 (6.35%) Degree
3 9 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 7 (3.70%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.59%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.53%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.88%) GDPR
2 12 (6.35%) QA
3 9 (4.76%) SLA
4 7 (3.70%) HL7
5 3 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.59%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.59%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.53%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.53%) IFRS
6 1 (0.53%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (12.70%) Docker
2 4 (2.12%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.06%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.53%) vCloud
5 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (17.46%) Terraform
2 15 (7.94%) Ansible
3 6 (3.17%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.06%) logstash
4 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.53%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.53%) Grafana
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 68 (35.98%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.99%) Oracle
2 17 (8.99%) SAP
3 13 (6.88%) IBM
4 12 (6.35%) Informatica
4 12 (6.35%) MuleSoft
5 11 (5.82%) Ab Initio
6 10 (5.29%) Databricks
7 8 (4.23%) VMware
8 6 (3.17%) BiZZdesign
8 6 (3.17%) Black Duck
8 6 (3.17%) Blue Prism
8 6 (3.17%) CrowdStrike
8 6 (3.17%) Fortinet
8 6 (3.17%) MKS
8 6 (3.17%) Palo Alto
8 6 (3.17%) UiPath
9 5 (2.65%) Coverity
9 5 (2.65%) Google
9 5 (2.65%) webMethods