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

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 545 517
Rank change year-on-year +62 -28 +288
Permanent jobs citing API Management 183 214 220
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.32% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.38% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 113 130 186
10th Percentile £46,650 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £80,375
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,050 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £64,750 £63,750
% change year-on-year +0.39% +1.57% +6.25%

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 44,153 55,778 50,322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.67% 82.84% 93.88%
Number of salaries quoted 26,474 29,039 38,573
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £43,867
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.96% +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 9 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 9 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 +47 163 £72,000 +9.92% 219
UK excluding London +38 92 £65,000 +0.39% 163
London +81 78 £75,000 -16.67% 114
Work from Home +33 67 £65,383 +0.59% 101
North of England +23 23 £65,000 +8.33% 20
South East -8 23 £65,000 - 92
Midlands +62 22 £72,500 +74.70% 21
North West +34 21 £65,000 -13.33% 15
West Midlands +52 19 £72,500 -3.33% 11
Scotland +10 10 £65,000 +8.33% 15
East of England +24 7 £57,500 -4.17% 9
South West +37 6 £53,750 -10.42% 4
East Midlands +15 3 £77,500 +96.20% 10
Yorkshire +10 2 £67,500 +8.00% 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 14 (7.65%) Appian
2 13 (7.10%) Apache Solr
3 11 (6.01%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (3.83%) CMS
5 6 (3.28%) Apache
6 5 (2.73%) Apache Spark
7 3 (1.64%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (1.64%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (1.64%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.55%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.55%) Confluence
8 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 21 (11.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (10.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.64%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 125 (68.31%) Azure
2 51 (27.87%) Azure Logic Apps
3 50 (27.32%) AWS
4 45 (24.59%) Power Platform
5 42 (22.95%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (15.85%) Azure Service Bus
7 28 (15.30%) Dynamics 365
7 28 (15.30%) Power Automate
8 23 (12.57%) PowerApps
8 23 (12.57%) Serverless
9 18 (9.84%) PaaS
10 16 (8.74%) GitHub
11 15 (8.20%) Amazon S3
11 15 (8.20%) Azure Event Grid
11 15 (8.20%) SaaS
12 14 (7.65%) GCP
13 13 (7.10%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (7.10%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (7.10%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (6.56%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.64%) BGP
1 3 (1.64%) TCP/IP
1 3 (1.64%) VLAN
1 3 (1.64%) VPN
2 1 (0.55%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.66%) Power BI
2 14 (7.65%) SQL Server
3 13 (7.10%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (7.10%) MySQL
4 8 (4.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (3.83%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.28%) Airbyte
7 3 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.09%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.55%) Big Data
9 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.55%) Metadata
9 1 (0.55%) Parquet
9 1 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.55%) Redis
9 1 (0.55%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 33 (18.03%) Git
2 20 (10.93%) Visual Studio
3 12 (6.56%) Snyk
4 11 (6.01%) Robot Framework
4 11 (6.01%) Selenium
5 5 (2.73%) JIRA
6 2 (1.09%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.09%) MSTest
6 2 (1.09%) NUnit
7 1 (0.55%) Postman
7 1 (0.55%) SonarQube
General
1 64 (34.97%) Social Skills
2 51 (27.87%) Finance
3 40 (21.86%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.29%) Banking
4 17 (9.29%) Law
5 14 (7.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (4.92%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (4.37%) Retail
8 7 (3.83%) Health Technology
9 6 (3.28%) Marketing
10 4 (2.19%) Back Office
10 4 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.64%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.64%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.09%) Legal
12 2 (1.09%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.55%) Advertising
13 1 (0.55%) Games
13 1 (0.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (29.51%) Architect
2 46 (25.14%) Developer
3 33 (18.03%) Lead
4 25 (13.66%) Integration Developer
5 22 (12.02%) Solutions Architect
6 18 (9.84%) Senior
7 14 (7.65%) Azure Architect
7 14 (7.65%) SAP Developer
8 13 (7.10%) Applications Architect
9 12 (6.56%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (6.56%) Integration Manager
10 11 (6.01%) Software Engineer
11 10 (5.46%) Technical Architect
12 8 (4.37%) Cloud Architect
12 8 (4.37%) Data Engineer
12 8 (4.37%) Development Engineer
12 8 (4.37%) Development Support Engineer
12 8 (4.37%) Lead Architect
12 8 (4.37%) Support Engineer
13 7 (3.83%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (26.78%) REST
2 38 (20.77%) SOAP
3 30 (16.39%) RESTful
4 25 (13.66%) Middleware
5 23 (12.57%) OAuth
6 20 (10.93%) Web Services
7 18 (9.84%) .NET
8 14 (7.65%) BAPI
8 14 (7.65%) IBM Integration Bus
8 14 (7.65%) JMS
8 14 (7.65%) SAML
9 12 (6.56%) Kafka
9 12 (6.56%) Node.js
9 12 (6.56%) Swagger
10 11 (6.01%) Apache NiFi
10 11 (6.01%) OpenAPI
11 9 (4.92%) AngularJS
11 9 (4.92%) JSON
12 8 (4.37%) OAuth2
12 8 (4.37%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 36 (19.67%) Cloud Native
2 29 (15.85%) Management Information System
3 27 (14.75%) Enterprise Software
4 23 (12.57%) Low-Code
5 11 (6.01%) Product Ownership
6 8 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (3.83%) NHS
8 5 (2.73%) IoT
9 4 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.64%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
12 1 (0.55%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.55%) Cyber Warfare
12 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Cloud
12 1 (0.55%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.55%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.55%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.10%) Linux
1 13 (7.10%) Windows
1 13 (7.10%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.55%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (56.83%) CI/CD
2 96 (52.46%) Agile
3 84 (45.90%) DevOps
4 45 (24.59%) AI
5 41 (22.40%) Migration
6 38 (20.77%) Software Engineering
7 37 (20.22%) SDLC
8 35 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (18.58%) Scrum
10 33 (18.03%) Test Automation
11 32 (17.49%) Architectural Patterns
11 32 (17.49%) Machine Learning
11 32 (17.49%) Microservices
12 31 (16.94%) Technical Leadership
13 28 (15.30%) Infrastructure as Code
14 27 (14.75%) CRM
14 27 (14.75%) Enterprise Architecture
15 25 (13.66%) Data Integration
15 25 (13.66%) Roadmaps
16 24 (13.11%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 43 (23.50%) Python
2 29 (15.85%) SQL
3 27 (14.75%) JavaScript
4 23 (12.57%) C#
5 15 (8.20%) Java
6 12 (6.56%) Bicep
6 12 (6.56%) Go
7 9 (4.92%) Lua
8 8 (4.37%) PHP
9 7 (3.83%) ABAP
10 3 (1.64%) Groovy
11 2 (1.09%) Bash
11 2 (1.09%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.09%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.55%) DataWeave
12 1 (0.55%) Perl
12 1 (0.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (8.74%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.65%) Degree
2 14 (7.65%) TOGAF Certification
3 9 (4.92%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.83%) Azure Certification
4 7 (3.83%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.64%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.09%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.55%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.55%) MCP
9 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.92%) GDPR
1 9 (4.92%) SLA
2 8 (4.37%) QA
3 7 (3.83%) HL7
4 3 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.64%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.64%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.55%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.55%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (13.66%) Docker
2 6 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (15.30%) Terraform
2 19 (10.38%) Ansible
3 3 (1.64%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.55%) Grafana
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 59 (32.24%) Microsoft
2 22 (12.02%) SAP
3 15 (8.20%) IBM
4 14 (7.65%) Oracle
5 13 (7.10%) MuleSoft
6 12 (6.56%) VMware
7 11 (6.01%) BiZZdesign
7 11 (6.01%) Black Duck
7 11 (6.01%) Databricks
7 11 (6.01%) UiPath
8 10 (5.46%) Informatica
9 9 (4.92%) MKS
10 7 (3.83%) Ab Initio
10 7 (3.83%) Blue Prism
10 7 (3.83%) Google
11 6 (3.28%) Coverity
11 6 (3.28%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (3.28%) Fortinet
11 6 (3.28%) Palo Alto
12 5 (2.73%) webMethods