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

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 454 522 517
Rank change year-on-year +68 -5 +243
Permanent jobs citing API Management 188 219 197
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.35% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.40% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 117 133 165
10th Percentile £46,550 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -5.80% -4.83%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

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 45,786 54,654 47,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.83% 86.14% 93.75%
Number of salaries quoted 27,991 28,426 36,268
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £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 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £99,700
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,793 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.31% +4.37% -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 3 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 3 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 +86 167 £72,500 +7.85% 65
UK excluding London +27 93 £65,000 - 55
London +81 83 £75,000 -16.67% 25
Work from Home +45 66 £65,383 +0.59% 43
Midlands +65 27 £72,500 +74.70% 17
West Midlands +55 22 £72,500 +11.54% 15
North of England +20 22 £65,000 +4.00% 13
North West +53 19 £65,000 +6.12% 4
South East -2 17 £65,000 - 20
Scotland +25 13 £57,250 -4.58% 1
East of England +36 7 £55,000 -16.98% 4
South West +26 6 £53,750 -10.42% 1
East Midlands +17 5 £77,500 +96.20% 2
Yorkshire -4 3 £80,000 +25.98% 6
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 (6.91%) Apache Solr
2 9 (4.79%) Appian
3 7 (3.72%) SharePoint
4 6 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (3.19%) CMS
5 5 (2.66%) Apache
6 3 (1.60%) Anypoint
6 3 (1.60%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.60%) 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 (12.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (8.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.13%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 135 (71.81%) Azure
2 57 (30.32%) Azure Logic Apps
3 47 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 41 (21.81%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (20.21%) AWS
6 33 (17.55%) Azure Service Bus
7 31 (16.49%) PaaS
7 31 (16.49%) Power Automate
8 29 (15.43%) Dynamics 365
9 27 (14.36%) PowerApps
10 23 (12.23%) GitHub
10 23 (12.23%) Serverless
11 20 (10.64%) Azure Event Grid
11 20 (10.64%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (10.11%) IaaS
13 18 (9.57%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (9.04%) Azure Data Factory
15 16 (8.51%) SaaS
16 15 (7.98%) Azure AKS
17 14 (7.45%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.66%) VPN
2 3 (1.60%) BGP
2 3 (1.60%) Firewall
2 3 (1.60%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.60%) 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 (14.89%) Power BI
2 16 (8.51%) SQL Server
3 13 (6.91%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (6.91%) MySQL
4 8 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (3.72%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.66%) Airbyte
7 3 (1.60%) 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 (18.09%) Git
2 21 (11.17%) Visual Studio
3 6 (3.19%) Robot Framework
3 6 (3.19%) Selenium
3 6 (3.19%) Snyk
4 5 (2.66%) 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 (29.79%) Social Skills
2 50 (26.60%) Finance
3 35 (18.62%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.45%) Law
5 13 (6.91%) Banking
6 11 (5.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.26%) Retail
8 7 (3.72%) Health Technology
8 7 (3.72%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (3.19%) Legal
9 6 (3.19%) Marketing
10 4 (2.13%) Back Office
10 4 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.60%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.60%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.53%) Advertising
13 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (29.79%) Architect
2 46 (24.47%) Developer
3 33 (17.55%) Lead
4 24 (12.77%) Solutions Architect
5 21 (11.17%) Integration Developer
6 14 (7.45%) Azure Architect
6 14 (7.45%) Senior
7 12 (6.38%) Integration Manager
8 11 (5.85%) SAP Developer
8 11 (5.85%) Technical Architect
9 10 (5.32%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.26%) Applications Architect
10 8 (4.26%) Development Engineer
10 8 (4.26%) Development Support Engineer
10 8 (4.26%) Lead Architect
10 8 (4.26%) Support Engineer
11 7 (3.72%) Delivery Manager
11 7 (3.72%) Integration Engineer
11 7 (3.72%) Software Engineer
11 7 (3.72%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (25.53%) REST
2 36 (19.15%) SOAP
3 29 (15.43%) RESTful
4 24 (12.77%) OAuth
5 19 (10.11%) Middleware
5 19 (10.11%) Web Services
6 14 (7.45%) JSON
7 13 (6.91%) .NET
8 12 (6.38%) Node.js
8 12 (6.38%) OAuth2
9 11 (5.85%) BAPI
9 11 (5.85%) IBM Integration Bus
9 11 (5.85%) JMS
9 11 (5.85%) SAML
10 9 (4.79%) AngularJS
10 9 (4.79%) React
11 8 (4.26%) Swagger
12 7 (3.72%) Kafka
12 7 (3.72%) OpenAPI
12 7 (3.72%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 35 (18.62%) Cloud Native
2 27 (14.36%) Enterprise Software
3 23 (12.23%) Management Information System
4 18 (9.57%) Low-Code
5 10 (5.32%) Product Ownership
6 8 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (3.72%) NHS
8 6 (3.19%) IoT
9 4 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.60%) 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 18 (9.57%) Windows
2 17 (9.04%) Linux
3 14 (7.45%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.53%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (54.26%) CI/CD
2 89 (47.34%) Agile
3 82 (43.62%) DevOps
4 48 (25.53%) AI
5 37 (19.68%) Migration
6 35 (18.62%) Scrum
7 34 (18.09%) CRM
7 34 (18.09%) Test Automation
8 33 (17.55%) Enterprise Architecture
9 32 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
9 32 (17.02%) Technical Leadership
10 31 (16.49%) Infrastructure as Code
10 31 (16.49%) Roadmaps
11 30 (15.96%) Architectural Patterns
11 30 (15.96%) SDLC
12 29 (15.43%) Microservices
12 29 (15.43%) Software Engineering
13 28 (14.89%) Machine Learning
14 27 (14.36%) Integration Patterns
15 26 (13.83%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 37 (19.68%) Python
2 30 (15.96%) SQL
3 27 (14.36%) JavaScript
4 19 (10.11%) C#
5 18 (9.57%) Bicep
6 12 (6.38%) Java
7 8 (4.26%) Go
7 8 (4.26%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.72%) ABAP
8 7 (3.72%) PHP
9 5 (2.66%) Lua
10 4 (2.13%) Bash
11 3 (1.60%) Groovy
12 2 (1.06%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.53%) DataWeave
13 1 (0.53%) Perl
13 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (6.91%) Security Cleared
1 13 (6.91%) TOGAF Certification
2 12 (6.38%) Degree
3 9 (4.79%) Azure Certification
4 7 (3.72%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.60%) 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 (6.91%) GDPR
1 13 (6.91%) QA
2 9 (4.79%) SLA
3 7 (3.72%) HL7
4 3 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.60%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.60%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.53%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.53%) IFRS
5 1 (0.53%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (12.77%) Docker
2 5 (2.66%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.06%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.53%) vCloud
5 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (17.55%) Terraform
2 15 (7.98%) Ansible
3 6 (3.19%) 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 (36.17%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.04%) Oracle
2 17 (9.04%) SAP
3 13 (6.91%) IBM
4 12 (6.38%) Informatica
5 11 (5.85%) Ab Initio
5 11 (5.85%) MuleSoft
6 10 (5.32%) Databricks
7 8 (4.26%) VMware
8 6 (3.19%) BiZZdesign
8 6 (3.19%) Black Duck
8 6 (3.19%) Blue Prism
8 6 (3.19%) CrowdStrike
8 6 (3.19%) Fortinet
8 6 (3.19%) Palo Alto
8 6 (3.19%) UiPath
9 5 (2.66%) Coverity
9 5 (2.66%) Google
9 5 (2.66%) MKS
9 5 (2.66%) webMethods