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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 463 515 523
Rank change year-on-year +52 +8 +202
Permanent jobs citing API Management 189 214 193
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.37% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.42% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 120 133 162
10th Percentile £46,700 £47,500 £48,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,225 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.13% -0.41% -10.00%
75th Percentile £80,313 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year - -0.54% +0.54%

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 48,869 51,114 45,586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.21% 89.15% 93.71%
Number of salaries quoted 28,622 26,047 34,927
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,000
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% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,952 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.00% +4.76% -2.78%

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 17 December 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 17 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
England +47 165 £72,500 +3.57% 122
UK excluding London +12 94 £65,000 - 115
London +81 84 £75,000 -16.67% 18
Work from Home +52 71 £65,000 - 81
Midlands +44 32 £72,500 +31.82% 36
West Midlands +43 27 £72,500 +31.82% 26
North of England +11 19 £65,383 +4.61% 19
North West +41 15 £65,000 +6.12% 6
Scotland +14 15 £57,250 -21.03% 2
South East -13 15 £65,000 - 26
East of England +24 6 £55,000 -18.52% 19
South West +12 5 £42,500 -29.17% 10
East Midlands +4 5 £77,500 +96.20% 8
Yorkshire -14 4 £82,500 +29.92% 12
Wales - 2 £51,250 - 1

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 10 (5.29%) Apache Solr
2 9 (4.76%) Appian
3 8 (4.23%) SharePoint
4 6 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.65%) Apache
6 4 (2.12%) Anypoint
6 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.59%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (1.59%) CMS
7 3 (1.59%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (1.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.53%) Confluence
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 2 (1.06%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.06%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 139 (73.54%) Azure
2 61 (32.28%) Azure Logic Apps
3 48 (25.40%) Power Platform
4 47 (24.87%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (17.99%) Azure Service Bus
6 33 (17.46%) AWS
7 32 (16.93%) PaaS
8 31 (16.40%) Power Automate
9 29 (15.34%) Dynamics 365
10 28 (14.81%) GitHub
11 27 (14.29%) PowerApps
12 25 (13.23%) GitHub Actions
12 25 (13.23%) Serverless
13 23 (12.17%) Azure Event Grid
14 22 (11.64%) Azure Monitor
15 20 (10.58%) IaaS
15 20 (10.58%) SaaS
16 19 (10.05%) Azure Data Factory
17 17 (8.99%) Azure AKS
18 16 (8.47%) 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 10 (5.29%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (5.29%) MySQL
4 9 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (4.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (3.70%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.65%) Airbyte
8 3 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.59%) Metadata
9 2 (1.06%) SAP Data Services
10 1 (0.53%) Big Data
10 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.53%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (16.40%) 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%) SonarQube
General
1 54 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 50 (26.46%) Finance
3 33 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.82%) Law
5 10 (5.29%) Banking
5 10 (5.29%) Retail
6 7 (3.70%) Health Technology
6 7 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.70%) Legal
7 6 (3.17%) Back Office
7 6 (3.17%) Marketing
8 5 (2.65%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.59%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.53%) Advertising
11 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (29.10%) Architect
2 45 (23.81%) Developer
3 35 (18.52%) Lead
4 22 (11.64%) Solutions Architect
5 20 (10.58%) Integration Developer
6 13 (6.88%) Integration Manager
7 12 (6.35%) Azure Architect
8 11 (5.82%) SAP Developer
8 11 (5.82%) Technical Architect
9 10 (5.29%) Senior
10 9 (4.76%) Integration Engineer
10 9 (4.76%) Support Engineer
11 8 (4.23%) Applications Architect
11 8 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (4.23%) Development Engineer
11 8 (4.23%) Development Support Engineer
11 8 (4.23%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.23%) Lead Architect
12 7 (3.70%) Backend Developer
12 7 (3.70%) Lead Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (25.40%) REST
2 35 (18.52%) SOAP
3 26 (13.76%) OAuth
4 25 (13.23%) RESTful
5 20 (10.58%) Middleware
6 19 (10.05%) Web Services
7 16 (8.47%) JSON
8 14 (7.41%) OAuth2
9 11 (5.82%) .NET
9 11 (5.82%) BAPI
9 11 (5.82%) IBM Integration Bus
9 11 (5.82%) JMS
9 11 (5.82%) Node.js
9 11 (5.82%) SAML
10 9 (4.76%) AngularJS
10 9 (4.76%) React
11 7 (3.70%) FHIR
11 7 (3.70%) Vue
12 6 (3.17%) Apache NiFi
12 6 (3.17%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 36 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 28 (14.81%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (8.99%) Low-Code
3 17 (8.99%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.29%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.70%) NHS
7 6 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.17%) IoT
8 5 (2.65%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.06%) Blog
10 2 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
11 1 (0.53%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.53%) AS400
11 1 (0.53%) Clustering
11 1 (0.53%) iSeries
11 1 (0.53%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.99%) Windows
2 16 (8.47%) Linux
3 11 (5.82%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.53%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (51.85%) CI/CD
2 86 (45.50%) Agile
3 85 (44.97%) DevOps
4 42 (22.22%) AI
5 40 (21.16%) Migration
6 39 (20.63%) Test Automation
7 37 (19.58%) Infrastructure as Code
8 36 (19.05%) Scrum
8 36 (19.05%) Technical Leadership
9 35 (18.52%) CRM
10 34 (17.99%) Enterprise Architecture
11 33 (17.46%) Roadmaps
12 32 (16.93%) Integration Patterns
13 31 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (15.87%) Architectural Patterns
14 30 (15.87%) Event-Driven
14 30 (15.87%) Microservices
15 28 (14.81%) Data Pipeline
15 28 (14.81%) Observability
16 27 (14.29%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 35 (18.52%) Python
2 31 (16.40%) SQL
3 23 (12.17%) JavaScript
4 22 (11.64%) Bicep
5 17 (8.99%) C#
6 12 (6.35%) Java
7 10 (5.29%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.70%) ABAP
8 7 (3.70%) PHP
9 6 (3.17%) Bash
10 3 (1.59%) Go
10 3 (1.59%) Groovy
10 3 (1.59%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.06%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.53%) DataWeave
12 1 (0.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (7.41%) Degree
2 13 (6.88%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.82%) Azure Certification
3 11 (5.82%) TOGAF Certification
4 7 (3.70%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.59%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.59%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.53%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.94%) GDPR
1 15 (7.94%) QA
2 9 (4.76%) SLA
3 7 (3.70%) HL7
4 5 (2.65%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.65%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.06%) IFRS
7 1 (0.53%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.53%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (11.11%) Docker
2 6 (3.17%) 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 39 (20.63%) Terraform
2 15 (7.94%) Ansible
3 8 (4.23%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.12%) logstash
5 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.06%) Grafana
7 1 (0.53%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.53%) Kibana
7 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 66 (34.92%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.05%) Oracle
3 17 (8.99%) SAP
4 13 (6.88%) Ab Initio
4 13 (6.88%) IBM
5 12 (6.35%) Informatica
6 9 (4.76%) Databricks
7 8 (4.23%) VMware
8 7 (3.70%) MuleSoft
9 6 (3.17%) BiZZdesign
9 6 (3.17%) Black Duck
9 6 (3.17%) Blue Prism
9 6 (3.17%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (3.17%) Fortinet
9 6 (3.17%) Palo Alto
9 6 (3.17%) UiPath
10 5 (2.65%) Coverity
10 5 (2.65%) webMethods
11 4 (2.12%) HubSpot
12 3 (1.59%) Salesforce