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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 464 507 503
Rank change year-on-year +43 -4 +228
Permanent jobs citing API Management 186 211 195
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.36% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.41% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 119 131 162
10th Percentile £46,650 £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 £80,000 £83,750 £83,438
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £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 48,535 51,647 46,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.52% 88.55% 93.77%
Number of salaries quoted 28,396 26,504 35,505
10th Percentile £28,432 £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% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £99,899
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £54,793 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.49% +4.37% -2.51%

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 14 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 14 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 +53 162 £72,500 +3.57% 46
UK excluding London +24 94 £65,000 - 40
London +93 81 £75,000 -16.67% 18
Work from Home +53 70 £65,000 - 32
Midlands +47 32 £72,500 +50.26% 13
West Midlands +47 27 £72,500 +11.54% 13
North of England +15 19 £65,383 +4.61% 8
North West +42 15 £65,000 +6.12% 2
Scotland +24 15 £57,250 -21.03%
South East -12 15 £65,000 - 11
East of England +22 6 £55,000 -18.52% 4
South West +15 5 £42,500 -29.17% 1
East Midlands +1 5 £77,500 +96.20%
Yorkshire -6 4 £82,500 +29.92% 5
Wales - 2 £51,250 - 4

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 (5.38%) Apache Solr
2 9 (4.84%) Appian
3 8 (4.30%) SharePoint
4 6 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.69%) Apache
6 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.61%) Anypoint
7 3 (1.61%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (1.61%) CMS
7 3 (1.61%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (1.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 23 (12.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (8.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.15%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.08%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.08%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 138 (74.19%) Azure
2 61 (32.80%) Azure Logic Apps
3 48 (25.81%) Power Platform
4 46 (24.73%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (18.28%) Azure Service Bus
6 32 (17.20%) AWS
6 32 (17.20%) PaaS
7 31 (16.67%) Power Automate
8 29 (15.59%) Dynamics 365
9 28 (15.05%) GitHub
10 27 (14.52%) PowerApps
11 25 (13.44%) GitHub Actions
12 24 (12.90%) Serverless
13 22 (11.83%) Azure Event Grid
14 21 (11.29%) Azure Monitor
15 20 (10.75%) IaaS
16 19 (10.22%) Azure Data Factory
16 19 (10.22%) SaaS
17 17 (9.14%) Azure AKS
18 16 (8.60%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.69%) VPN
2 3 (1.61%) BGP
2 3 (1.61%) Firewall
2 3 (1.61%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.61%) VLAN
3 2 (1.08%) DNS
4 1 (0.54%) DHCP
4 1 (0.54%) IPv4
4 1 (0.54%) IPv6
4 1 (0.54%) LAN
4 1 (0.54%) MPLS
4 1 (0.54%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (15.05%) Power BI
2 16 (8.60%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.38%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (5.38%) MySQL
4 8 (4.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (4.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (3.76%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.69%) Airbyte
7 3 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.61%) 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%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (16.67%) Git
2 21 (11.29%) Visual Studio
3 6 (3.23%) Robot Framework
3 6 (3.23%) Selenium
3 6 (3.23%) Snyk
4 5 (2.69%) JIRA
5 2 (1.08%) MSTest
5 2 (1.08%) NUnit
6 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.54%) SonarQube
General
1 53 (28.49%) Social Skills
2 48 (25.81%) Finance
3 33 (17.74%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.38%) Law
5 9 (4.84%) Banking
5 9 (4.84%) Retail
6 7 (3.76%) Health Technology
6 7 (3.76%) Legal
7 6 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.23%) Marketing
8 5 (2.69%) Back Office
8 5 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.15%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.61%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.08%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.54%) Advertising
12 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (29.03%) Architect
2 45 (24.19%) Developer
3 35 (18.82%) Lead
4 22 (11.83%) Solutions Architect
5 20 (10.75%) Integration Developer
6 13 (6.99%) Integration Manager
7 12 (6.45%) Azure Architect
8 11 (5.91%) SAP Developer
8 11 (5.91%) Technical Architect
9 10 (5.38%) Senior
10 9 (4.84%) Integration Engineer
11 8 (4.30%) Applications Architect
11 8 (4.30%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (4.30%) Development Engineer
11 8 (4.30%) Development Support Engineer
11 8 (4.30%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.30%) Lead Architect
11 8 (4.30%) Support Engineer
12 7 (3.76%) Delivery Manager
12 7 (3.76%) Lead Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (25.81%) REST
2 35 (18.82%) SOAP
3 26 (13.98%) OAuth
4 25 (13.44%) RESTful
5 20 (10.75%) Middleware
6 19 (10.22%) Web Services
7 16 (8.60%) JSON
8 14 (7.53%) OAuth2
9 11 (5.91%) BAPI
9 11 (5.91%) IBM Integration Bus
9 11 (5.91%) JMS
9 11 (5.91%) Node.js
9 11 (5.91%) SAML
10 10 (5.38%) .NET
11 9 (4.84%) AngularJS
11 9 (4.84%) React
12 7 (3.76%) FHIR
12 7 (3.76%) Vue
13 6 (3.23%) Apache NiFi
13 6 (3.23%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 35 (18.82%) Cloud Native
2 28 (15.05%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (9.14%) Low-Code
3 17 (9.14%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.38%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.76%) NHS
7 6 (3.23%) IoT
8 5 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.15%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.08%) Marketing Technology
12 1 (0.54%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.54%) AS400
12 1 (0.54%) Blog
12 1 (0.54%) Clustering
12 1 (0.54%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.60%) Linux
1 16 (8.60%) Windows
2 11 (5.91%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.54%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (52.15%) CI/CD
2 85 (45.70%) Agile
3 84 (45.16%) DevOps
4 42 (22.58%) AI
5 39 (20.97%) Migration
6 38 (20.43%) Test Automation
7 36 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
7 36 (19.35%) Technical Leadership
8 35 (18.82%) CRM
8 35 (18.82%) Scrum
9 34 (18.28%) Enterprise Architecture
10 33 (17.74%) Roadmaps
11 32 (17.20%) Integration Patterns
12 30 (16.13%) Architectural Patterns
12 30 (16.13%) Event-Driven
12 30 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (15.05%) Microservices
14 27 (14.52%) Data Integration
14 27 (14.52%) Data Pipeline
15 26 (13.98%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 35 (18.82%) Python
2 29 (15.59%) SQL
3 23 (12.37%) JavaScript
4 22 (11.83%) Bicep
5 16 (8.60%) C#
6 11 (5.91%) Java
7 10 (5.38%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.76%) ABAP
8 7 (3.76%) PHP
9 6 (3.23%) Bash
10 3 (1.61%) Go
10 3 (1.61%) Groovy
11 2 (1.08%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.08%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.54%) DataWeave
12 1 (0.54%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (7.53%) Degree
2 13 (6.99%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.91%) Azure Certification
3 11 (5.91%) TOGAF Certification
4 7 (3.76%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.61%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.61%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.54%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.54%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.06%) GDPR
2 14 (7.53%) QA
3 9 (4.84%) SLA
4 7 (3.76%) HL7
5 4 (2.15%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.15%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.08%) IFRS
8 1 (0.54%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.54%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (11.29%) Docker
2 6 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.08%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.54%) vCloud
5 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (20.43%) Terraform
2 15 (8.06%) Ansible
3 8 (4.30%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.15%) logstash
5 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.54%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.54%) Grafana
6 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (0.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 66 (35.48%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.22%) Oracle
3 17 (9.14%) SAP
4 13 (6.99%) Ab Initio
4 13 (6.99%) IBM
5 12 (6.45%) Informatica
6 9 (4.84%) Databricks
7 8 (4.30%) VMware
8 6 (3.23%) BiZZdesign
8 6 (3.23%) Black Duck
8 6 (3.23%) Blue Prism
8 6 (3.23%) CrowdStrike
8 6 (3.23%) Fortinet
8 6 (3.23%) MuleSoft
8 6 (3.23%) Palo Alto
8 6 (3.23%) UiPath
9 5 (2.69%) Coverity
9 5 (2.69%) webMethods
10 4 (2.15%) HubSpot
11 3 (1.61%) Salesforce