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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 539 500
Rank change year-on-year +73 -39 +294
Permanent jobs citing API Management 185 223 214
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.32% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.39% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 116 136 180
10th Percentile £50,063 £47,500 £46,050
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £66,113 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.77% -2.06% -3.57%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,813
90th Percentile £93,750 £96,875 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,175
% change year-on-year - -0.27% +8.63%

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 45,242 57,727 48,781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.14% 83.98% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,567 30,431 37,438
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £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 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.04% +2.86% -

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 23 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 23 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 +71 165 £72,500 +7.41% 120
UK excluding London +63 92 £65,000 - 81
London +82 81 £75,000 -16.67% 58
Work from Home +50 67 £69,133 +6.36% 66
Midlands +71 26 £72,500 +74.70% 16
North of England +28 23 £65,000 +6.12% 17
West Midlands +68 21 £72,500 -3.33% 12
North West +61 20 £65,000 +6.12% 12
South East 0 18 £65,000 - 29
Scotland +29 12 £65,000 +8.33% 5
South West +36 6 £53,750 -10.42% 7
East of England +27 6 £56,250 -11.76% 5
East Midlands +29 5 £77,500 +96.20% 4
Yorkshire +8 3 £80,000 +25.98% 5
Wales - 1 £50,000 - 2

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 (7.03%) Apache Solr
2 9 (4.86%) Appian
3 6 (3.24%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.24%) CMS
4 5 (2.70%) Apache
5 4 (2.16%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.62%) Anypoint
6 3 (1.62%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (1.62%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.54%) Confluence
7 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 22 (11.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (10.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.16%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 127 (68.65%) Azure
2 53 (28.65%) Azure Logic Apps
3 44 (23.78%) Power Platform
4 41 (22.16%) AWS
5 38 (20.54%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (16.22%) Azure Service Bus
6 30 (16.22%) Dynamics 365
6 30 (16.22%) Power Automate
7 26 (14.05%) PowerApps
8 25 (13.51%) PaaS
9 23 (12.43%) Serverless
10 20 (10.81%) GitHub
11 17 (9.19%) Azure Event Grid
11 17 (9.19%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (8.11%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (8.11%) Azure Monitor
12 15 (8.11%) IaaS
12 15 (8.11%) SaaS
13 13 (7.03%) Azure AKS
14 12 (6.49%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.16%) VPN
2 3 (1.62%) BGP
2 3 (1.62%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.62%) VLAN
3 2 (1.08%) Firewall
4 1 (0.54%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (14.59%) Power BI
2 15 (8.11%) SQL Server
3 13 (7.03%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (7.03%) MySQL
4 8 (4.32%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (4.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (3.78%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.70%) Airbyte
7 3 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.08%) Metadata
8 2 (1.08%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.54%) Big Data
9 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.54%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 34 (18.38%) Git
2 21 (11.35%) Visual Studio
3 7 (3.78%) Snyk
4 6 (3.24%) Robot Framework
4 6 (3.24%) Selenium
5 5 (2.70%) JIRA
6 2 (1.08%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.08%) MSTest
6 2 (1.08%) NUnit
7 1 (0.54%) Postman
7 1 (0.54%) SonarQube
General
1 59 (31.89%) Social Skills
2 50 (27.03%) Finance
3 38 (20.54%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.65%) Law
5 15 (8.11%) Banking
6 12 (6.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.32%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (4.32%) Retail
8 7 (3.78%) Health Technology
9 6 (3.24%) Marketing
10 4 (2.16%) Back Office
10 4 (2.16%) Legal
10 4 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.62%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.62%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.08%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.54%) Advertising
13 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (28.11%) Architect
2 48 (25.95%) Developer
3 35 (18.92%) Lead
4 24 (12.97%) Integration Developer
5 22 (11.89%) Solutions Architect
6 16 (8.65%) Senior
7 14 (7.57%) Azure Architect
7 14 (7.57%) SAP Developer
8 12 (6.49%) Integration Manager
9 11 (5.95%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (5.41%) Technical Architect
11 9 (4.86%) Software Engineer
12 8 (4.32%) Applications Architect
12 8 (4.32%) Data Engineer
12 8 (4.32%) Development Engineer
12 8 (4.32%) Development Support Engineer
12 8 (4.32%) Integration Specialist
12 8 (4.32%) Lead Architect
12 8 (4.32%) Support Engineer
13 7 (3.78%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (27.57%) REST
2 39 (21.08%) SOAP
3 30 (16.22%) RESTful
4 25 (13.51%) OAuth
5 24 (12.97%) Middleware
6 19 (10.27%) Web Services
7 15 (8.11%) .NET
8 14 (7.57%) BAPI
8 14 (7.57%) IBM Integration Bus
8 14 (7.57%) JMS
8 14 (7.57%) SAML
9 12 (6.49%) Node.js
10 11 (5.95%) JSON
11 10 (5.41%) OAuth2
11 10 (5.41%) Swagger
12 9 (4.86%) AngularJS
12 9 (4.86%) OpenAPI
13 8 (4.32%) React
13 8 (4.32%) Vue
14 7 (3.78%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 33 (17.84%) Cloud Native
2 27 (14.59%) Enterprise Software
3 26 (14.05%) Management Information System
4 18 (9.73%) Low-Code
5 10 (5.41%) Product Ownership
6 8 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (3.78%) NHS
8 6 (3.24%) IoT
9 4 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.62%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.08%) Marketing Technology
12 1 (0.54%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.54%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.11%) Linux
1 15 (8.11%) Windows
2 13 (7.03%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.54%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (55.14%) CI/CD
2 88 (47.57%) Agile
3 80 (43.24%) DevOps
4 47 (25.41%) AI
5 40 (21.62%) Migration
6 35 (18.92%) Scrum
7 33 (17.84%) SDLC
8 32 (17.30%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (17.30%) Software Engineering
9 31 (16.76%) CRM
9 31 (16.76%) Test Automation
10 30 (16.22%) Machine Learning
11 29 (15.68%) Enterprise Architecture
11 29 (15.68%) Technical Leadership
12 28 (15.14%) Architectural Patterns
12 28 (15.14%) Infrastructure as Code
12 28 (15.14%) Microservices
12 28 (15.14%) Roadmaps
13 26 (14.05%) Event-Driven
14 23 (12.43%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 37 (20.00%) Python
2 31 (16.76%) SQL
3 27 (14.59%) JavaScript
4 20 (10.81%) C#
5 15 (8.11%) Bicep
6 13 (7.03%) Java
7 10 (5.41%) Go
8 8 (4.32%) PHP
9 7 (3.78%) ABAP
9 7 (3.78%) Lua
10 5 (2.70%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.62%) Bash
11 3 (1.62%) Groovy
12 2 (1.08%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.54%) DataWeave
13 1 (0.54%) Perl
13 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (7.57%) TOGAF Certification
2 12 (6.49%) Degree
2 12 (6.49%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.32%) Azure Certification
4 7 (3.78%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.62%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.08%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.54%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.54%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.95%) GDPR
1 11 (5.95%) QA
2 9 (4.86%) SLA
3 7 (3.78%) HL7
4 3 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.62%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.62%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.54%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.54%) IFRS
5 1 (0.54%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (12.97%) Docker
2 3 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.08%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.54%) vCloud
4 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (15.68%) Terraform
2 15 (8.11%) Ansible
3 5 (2.70%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.54%) Grafana
4 1 (0.54%) logstash
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 64 (34.59%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.81%) SAP
3 17 (9.19%) Oracle
4 15 (8.11%) IBM
5 13 (7.03%) MuleSoft
6 11 (5.95%) Databricks
6 11 (5.95%) Informatica
7 9 (4.86%) Ab Initio
8 8 (4.32%) VMware
9 7 (3.78%) MKS
10 6 (3.24%) BiZZdesign
10 6 (3.24%) Black Duck
10 6 (3.24%) Blue Prism
10 6 (3.24%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (3.24%) Fortinet
10 6 (3.24%) Google
10 6 (3.24%) Palo Alto
10 6 (3.24%) UiPath
11 5 (2.70%) Coverity
11 5 (2.70%) webMethods