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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 589 493 587
Rank change year-on-year -96 +94 +50
Permanent jobs citing API Management 152 176 316
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.40% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.43% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 94 107 150
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,250 £59,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £71,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.15% -4.67% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £94,250 £105,000 £105,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.44% +8.00% -16.67%

All Process & 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 67,959 41,142 82,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.66% 93.29% 84.82%
Number of salaries quoted 43,928 22,326 59,700
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,269 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% +5.94% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -9.09%

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 20 May 2026.

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 20 May 2026. 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 -78 140 £75,000 +4.18% 66
UK excluding London -85 85 £64,500 -4.44% 40
Work from Home +3 65 £65,000 -9.71% 28
London +1 61 £82,500 -8.33% 34
Midlands -38 32 £75,000 - 5
South East -18 30 £57,500 -11.54% 21
West Midlands -27 29 £75,000 - 3
North of England -47 10 £82,500 +26.92% 6
Scotland +6 8 £67,500 -20.59%
North West 0 8 £78,000 +20.00% 2
East Midlands -42 3 £83,750 - 2
East of England -21 2 £43,000 -36.30% 6
Yorkshire -54 2 £83,750 +80.11% 3
South West -73 2 £65,000 -9.71% 2
Wales - 1 £52,500 -

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 7 (4.61%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.63%) Confluence
4 2 (1.32%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (1.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.66%) Anypoint
Applications
1 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.32%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.95%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.32%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.32%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.32%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 117 (76.97%) Azure
2 48 (31.58%) Azure DevOps
3 37 (24.34%) Azure Logic Apps
4 33 (21.71%) Serverless
5 32 (21.05%) Azure Monitor
6 28 (18.42%) Azure Service Bus
6 28 (18.42%) PaaS
7 27 (17.76%) AWS
8 26 (17.11%) Azure Functions
9 25 (16.45%) Power Platform
10 24 (15.79%) Azure Event Grid
11 23 (15.13%) Entra ID
12 22 (14.47%) Microsoft 365
13 20 (13.16%) SaaS
14 18 (11.84%) Apigee
15 16 (10.53%) GitHub
16 15 (9.87%) Azure API Management
16 15 (9.87%) GitHub Actions
17 14 (9.21%) GCP
17 14 (9.21%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.87%) Firewall
2 6 (3.95%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (3.29%) WAN
4 4 (2.63%) VPN
5 3 (1.97%) BGP
5 3 (1.97%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.97%) VLAN
6 2 (1.32%) DNS
6 2 (1.32%) Network Security
7 1 (0.66%) DHCP
7 1 (0.66%) IPv4
7 1 (0.66%) IPv6
7 1 (0.66%) LAN
7 1 (0.66%) MPLS
7 1 (0.66%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.84%) Azure SQL Database
2 17 (11.18%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (10.53%) SQL Server
4 10 (6.58%) Power BI
5 7 (4.61%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.29%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.97%) Metadata
8 2 (1.32%) DB2
8 2 (1.32%) DTS
8 2 (1.32%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.32%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.66%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.66%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.66%) MySQL
9 1 (0.66%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 25 (16.45%) Git
2 11 (7.24%) GitLab
3 4 (2.63%) Postman
3 4 (2.63%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.97%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.97%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.32%) JIRA
6 1 (0.66%) JUnit
6 1 (0.66%) MSI
6 1 (0.66%) NUnit
General
1 63 (41.45%) Social Skills
2 57 (37.50%) Finance
3 16 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (10.53%) Telecoms
4 13 (8.55%) Banking
4 13 (8.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (7.89%) Legal
6 10 (6.58%) Retail
7 9 (5.92%) Back Office
7 9 (5.92%) Financial Institution
7 9 (5.92%) Law
8 5 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.97%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.97%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.66%) Brand Awareness
10 1 (0.66%) Marketing
10 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (25.66%) Architect
2 24 (15.79%) Developer
3 23 (15.13%) Solutions Architect
4 21 (13.82%) Lead
5 19 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
6 16 (10.53%) Senior
7 15 (9.87%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (8.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 13 (8.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (7.89%) Integration Engineer
10 11 (7.24%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (7.24%) Network Engineer
10 11 (7.24%) Telecoms Engineer
11 10 (6.58%) .NET Developer
11 10 (6.58%) Software Developer
12 9 (5.92%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (5.92%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (5.26%) .NET Software Developer
14 7 (4.61%) Applications Engineer
14 7 (4.61%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (25.66%) .NET
2 27 (17.76%) JSON
3 23 (15.13%) REST
4 22 (14.47%) OAuth
5 18 (11.84%) YAML
6 15 (9.87%) OAuth2
7 14 (9.21%) JWT
8 13 (8.55%) Middleware
8 13 (8.55%) RESTful
9 11 (7.24%) Jinja
10 9 (5.92%) XML
11 8 (5.26%) SAML
12 7 (4.61%) .NET Core
12 7 (4.61%) WPF
13 6 (3.95%) CSS
13 6 (3.95%) SOAP
13 6 (3.95%) Swagger
13 6 (3.95%) YANG
14 5 (3.29%) Node.js
14 5 (3.29%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 44 (28.95%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.21%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (7.24%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.92%) Blog
5 8 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.95%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.63%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.97%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.97%) iSeries
8 3 (1.97%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.32%) EPoS
9 2 (1.32%) IoT
9 2 (1.32%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.66%) AS400
10 1 (0.66%) Clustering
10 1 (0.66%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.66%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.66%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.87%) Windows
2 11 (7.24%) Linux
3 6 (3.95%) Unix
4 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (56.58%) DevOps
2 81 (53.29%) CI/CD
3 62 (40.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (29.61%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (27.63%) Agile
6 40 (26.32%) Integration Patterns
7 36 (23.68%) Observability
8 32 (21.05%) Microservices
9 30 (19.74%) Analytics
10 29 (19.08%) Migration
11 27 (17.76%) Event-Driven
11 27 (17.76%) Roadmaps
12 25 (16.45%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (15.13%) Cloud Security
14 21 (13.82%) AI
14 21 (13.82%) Containerisation
14 21 (13.82%) Enterprise Architecture
14 21 (13.82%) Technical Leadership
15 20 (13.16%) Platform Engineering
16 19 (12.50%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 42 (27.63%) Python
2 40 (26.32%) SQL
3 36 (23.68%) C#
4 20 (13.16%) JavaScript
5 16 (10.53%) Java
6 15 (9.87%) Bicep
7 13 (8.55%) PowerShell
8 8 (5.26%) Bash
9 4 (2.63%) Go
9 4 (2.63%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.97%) PHP
10 3 (1.97%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.32%) RPG
11 2 (1.32%) VB
12 1 (0.66%) ABAP
12 1 (0.66%) Korn
12 1 (0.66%) Lua
Qualifications
1 18 (11.84%) Azure Certification
2 16 (10.53%) Degree
3 14 (9.21%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.97%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (1.97%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.32%) CCSP
6 2 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.32%) CISSP
7 1 (0.66%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.66%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.21%) GDPR
2 13 (8.55%) QA
3 10 (6.58%) PCI DSS
4 9 (5.92%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.32%) IFRS
6 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (11.84%) Docker
2 12 (7.89%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.66%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 51 (33.55%) Terraform
2 23 (15.13%) Kubernetes
3 14 (9.21%) Grafana
4 7 (4.61%) Kibana
5 5 (3.29%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.63%) logstash
7 3 (1.97%) Ansible
7 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.97%) Scalr
8 1 (0.66%) Argo
8 1 (0.66%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 54 (35.53%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.87%) Oracle
3 11 (7.24%) Cisco
3 11 (7.24%) Red Hat
4 10 (6.58%) Google
5 6 (3.95%) Ab Initio
5 6 (3.95%) Concur
5 6 (3.95%) F5
5 6 (3.95%) Juniper
5 6 (3.95%) Palo Alto
5 6 (3.95%) SAP
6 5 (3.29%) IBM
7 4 (2.63%) Databricks
7 4 (2.63%) Sage
8 3 (1.97%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.32%) Ariba
10 1 (0.66%) Informatica
10 1 (0.66%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.66%) Veeam
10 1 (0.66%) Workday