API Management Job Trends

API Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring API Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 524 555
Rank change year-on-year +39 +31 +314
Permanent jobs citing API Management 196 282 227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.36% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.44% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 104 124 173
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £55,582
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £75,625 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £94,250 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £53,499 £65,351
% change year-on-year +21.50% -18.14% +6.69%

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 43,869 63,416 56,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.70% 81.19% 94.35%
Number of salaries quoted 24,728 36,039 42,828
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing API Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for API Management 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +22 176 £65,000 - 66
UK excluding London +43 114 £65,000 +21.50% 44
Work from Home +58 84 £67,500 +3.85% 43
London +59 64 £72,500 -19.44% 36
Midlands +83 42 £72,500 +83.54% 8
South East -22 31 £65,000 - 14
West Midlands +69 26 £72,500 - 5
North of England -6 24 £65,000 +26.22% 10
North West +2 22 £65,000 +44.44% 7
East Midlands +42 16 £77,500 +96.20% 3
East of England -13 7 £58,000 -3.33% 6
Scotland +44 5 £65,000 -15.93% 2
South West +73 4 £65,000 +52.94% 2
Yorkshire +21 2 - -
Wales +18 1 £50,000 -

API Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (6.63%) CMS
2 12 (6.12%) Apache Solr
3 9 (4.59%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (4.59%) Appian
4 5 (2.55%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.55%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.04%) Apache
6 2 (1.02%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.51%) Mule
Business Applications
1 21 (10.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (8.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (2.55%) NetSuite
4 3 (1.53%) Elite 3E
5 2 (1.02%) Carpe Diem
Cloud Services
1 130 (66.33%) Azure
2 61 (31.12%) Power Platform
3 59 (30.10%) AWS
4 52 (26.53%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (22.45%) Azure Service Bus
6 40 (20.41%) Power Automate
7 39 (19.90%) Azure Logic Apps
8 26 (13.27%) Dynamics 365
9 25 (12.76%) SaaS
10 24 (12.24%) Serverless
11 23 (11.73%) Azure Monitor
12 22 (11.22%) PaaS
13 20 (10.20%) IaaS
14 19 (9.69%) Azure API Management
14 19 (9.69%) PowerApps
15 18 (9.18%) Azure Key Vault
15 18 (9.18%) Entra ID
16 16 (8.16%) Azure AI
16 16 (8.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 14 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.67%) Firewall
2 16 (8.16%) DNS
2 16 (8.16%) SD-WAN
2 16 (8.16%) VPN
2 16 (8.16%) WAN
3 2 (1.02%) HTTP
4 1 (0.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (18.88%) Power BI
2 28 (14.29%) MySQL
3 21 (10.71%) Data Lake
4 12 (6.12%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (4.08%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (3.06%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.04%) Airbyte
9 3 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.02%) Big Data
11 1 (0.51%) Parquet
11 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.51%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 41 (20.92%) Git
2 11 (5.61%) Visual Studio
3 10 (5.10%) Snyk
4 9 (4.59%) Robot Framework
4 9 (4.59%) Selenium
5 4 (2.04%) JIRA
6 2 (1.02%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.02%) MSTest
6 2 (1.02%) NUnit
6 2 (1.02%) Postman
7 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
General
1 60 (30.61%) Social Skills
2 38 (19.39%) Finance
3 30 (15.31%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (13.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (10.20%) Public Sector
6 16 (8.16%) Law
7 15 (7.65%) Banking
8 7 (3.57%) Health Technology
8 7 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.55%) Retail
10 4 (2.04%) Legal
11 2 (1.02%) Marketing
12 1 (0.51%) Back Office
12 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.51%) Electronics
12 1 (0.51%) Games
12 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.51%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.51%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 62 (31.63%) Architect
2 43 (21.94%) Developer
3 24 (12.24%) Integration Developer
4 22 (11.22%) Lead
4 22 (11.22%) Solutions Architect
5 21 (10.71%) Cloud Architect
5 21 (10.71%) Senior
6 18 (9.18%) Consultant
7 17 (8.67%) Software Engineer
8 16 (8.16%) Integration Consultant
9 15 (7.65%) Oracle Consultant
9 15 (7.65%) Oracle Technical Consultant
9 15 (7.65%) Technical Consultant
10 13 (6.63%) SAP Developer
11 10 (5.10%) Applications Architect
11 10 (5.10%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (5.10%) Web Manager
12 9 (4.59%) Integration Manager
13 8 (4.08%) Azure Architect
14 7 (3.57%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (22.45%) REST
2 35 (17.86%) .NET
3 33 (16.84%) SOAP
4 28 (14.29%) Middleware
5 24 (12.24%) RESTful
6 19 (9.69%) OAuth
7 18 (9.18%) Web Services
8 14 (7.14%) SAML
9 13 (6.63%) BAPI
9 13 (6.63%) IBM Integration Bus
9 13 (6.63%) JMS
10 12 (6.12%) Swagger
11 10 (5.10%) Kafka
11 10 (5.10%) OpenAPI
12 9 (4.59%) Apache NiFi
13 8 (4.08%) .NET Core
13 8 (4.08%) AngularJS
13 8 (4.08%) JSON
14 7 (3.57%) FHIR
14 7 (3.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.78%) Management Information System
2 26 (13.27%) Cloud Native
3 23 (11.73%) NHS
4 22 (11.22%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (9.18%) Low-Code
6 16 (8.16%) Data Centre
6 16 (8.16%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (7.65%) e-Learning
8 10 (5.10%) Product Ownership
9 7 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (2.55%) IoT
11 4 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
13 1 (0.51%) Cyber Warfare
13 1 (0.51%) FMCG
13 1 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
13 1 (0.51%) PMI
13 1 (0.51%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.12%) Linux
1 12 (6.12%) Windows
1 12 (6.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (51.53%) CI/CD
2 100 (51.02%) Agile
3 75 (38.27%) DevOps
4 65 (33.16%) Artificial Intelligence
5 52 (26.53%) Migration
6 39 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (18.37%) Software Engineering
8 34 (17.35%) Data Integration
9 33 (16.84%) Infrastructure as Code
10 32 (16.33%) SDLC
11 31 (15.82%) TOGAF
12 30 (15.31%) Roadmaps
13 29 (14.80%) Mentoring
14 27 (13.78%) Microservices
15 26 (13.27%) ITIL
15 26 (13.27%) Project Management
16 25 (12.76%) B2B
16 25 (12.76%) Scrum
17 23 (11.73%) Analytics
18 22 (11.22%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 53 (27.04%) SQL
2 39 (19.90%) Python
3 36 (18.37%) C#
4 24 (12.24%) JavaScript
5 23 (11.73%) Bicep
5 23 (11.73%) PowerShell
6 14 (7.14%) Java
7 10 (5.10%) Go
8 9 (4.59%) Lua
9 5 (2.55%) ABAP
10 4 (2.04%) PHP
11 3 (1.53%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.02%) Bash
12 2 (1.02%) Groovy
13 1 (0.51%) DataWeave
13 1 (0.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (11.73%) Azure Certification
2 20 (10.20%) Degree
3 17 (8.67%) DBS Check
4 15 (7.65%) TOGAF Certification
5 14 (7.14%) Security Cleared
6 9 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.57%) Master's Degree
7 7 (3.57%) SC Cleared
8 5 (2.55%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.55%) SAP Certification
9 2 (1.02%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.51%) PhD
10 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.10%) QA
2 7 (3.57%) HL7
3 6 (3.06%) SLA
4 4 (2.04%) GDPR
5 2 (1.02%) NIST
5 2 (1.02%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (8.67%) Docker
1 17 (8.67%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.02%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (8.16%) Single Sign-On
2 12 (6.12%) Ansible
2 12 (6.12%) Terraform
3 1 (0.51%) Grafana
3 1 (0.51%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 63 (32.14%) Microsoft
2 30 (15.31%) Databricks
3 29 (14.80%) IBM
4 26 (13.27%) SAP
5 21 (10.71%) Oracle
6 16 (8.16%) Meraki
7 15 (7.65%) Red Hat
8 11 (5.61%) MuleSoft
9 10 (5.10%) VMware
10 9 (4.59%) BiZZdesign
10 9 (4.59%) Black Duck
10 9 (4.59%) Google
10 9 (4.59%) MKS
10 9 (4.59%) UiPath
11 5 (2.55%) Blue Prism
12 4 (2.04%) Coverity
12 4 (2.04%) Informatica
12 4 (2.04%) Workday
13 3 (1.53%) Intapp
14 2 (1.02%) Ab Initio