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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 475 590
Rank change year-on-year -101 +115 +26
Permanent jobs citing API Management 176 189 319
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.42% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.45% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 115 108 147
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,625 £61,063 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £68,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.36% -14.06% +18.52%
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,125 £95,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,250 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.92% +8.33% -

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 69,604 41,717 88,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 92.25% 81.84%
Number of salaries quoted 48,009 22,461 62,520
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,800 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 24 June 2026.

Salary histogram for API Management in the UK

API Management
Top 14 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 24 June 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 -83 168 £80,000 +11.89% 44
UK excluding London -82 97 £66,250 +1.92% 30
London -4 69 £83,000 -7.78% 25
Work from Home -12 68 £67,500 -6.24% 22
South East -27 32 £57,500 -11.54% 17
Midlands -38 25 £85,000 +13.33% 1
West Midlands -14 23 £85,000 +13.33% 1
South West -61 16 £62,500 -13.18% 3
North of England -51 12 £82,500 +26.92% 4
North West -9 11 £84,000 +29.23% 2
East of England -15 10 £80,000 +18.52% 6
Scotland +8 2 £67,500 +3.85% 1
East Midlands -41 2 £77,500 -
Yorkshire -51 1 £82,500 +77.42% 2

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 14 (7.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (6.82%) Confluence
3 3 (1.70%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.14%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 7 (3.98%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (7.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.84%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 143 (81.25%) Azure
2 57 (32.39%) Azure DevOps
3 52 (29.55%) Serverless
4 46 (26.14%) Azure Logic Apps
5 43 (24.43%) Azure Functions
6 40 (22.73%) PaaS
7 39 (22.16%) Azure Monitor
8 36 (20.45%) Azure Service Bus
9 35 (19.89%) Power Platform
10 25 (14.20%) AWS
11 24 (13.64%) Azure API Management
12 23 (13.07%) Azure Event Grid
13 21 (11.93%) GitHub
14 20 (11.36%) Azure Key Vault
14 20 (11.36%) Entra ID
14 20 (11.36%) SaaS
15 19 (10.80%) Dynamics 365
16 18 (10.23%) Apigee
16 18 (10.23%) IaaS
17 17 (9.66%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.52%) VPN
2 14 (7.95%) Firewall
3 6 (3.41%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (2.27%) WAN
5 3 (1.70%) BGP
5 3 (1.70%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.70%) VLAN
6 2 (1.14%) DNS
6 2 (1.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (21.59%) Azure SQL Database
2 22 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (8.52%) Power BI
3 15 (8.52%) SQL Server
4 12 (6.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (3.98%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (3.98%) Db2
5 7 (3.98%) DTS
6 6 (3.41%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.27%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.70%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.14%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.14%) InfluxDB
9 2 (1.14%) Metadata
10 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.57%) MySQL
10 1 (0.57%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 46 (26.14%) Git
2 11 (6.25%) GitLab
3 9 (5.11%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.84%) JIRA
5 4 (2.27%) Postman
6 3 (1.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.70%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.70%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.70%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.14%) MSI
8 1 (0.57%) git-flow
8 1 (0.57%) JUnit
8 1 (0.57%) NUnit
8 1 (0.57%) Terragrunt
General
1 74 (42.05%) Social Skills
2 57 (32.39%) Finance
3 23 (13.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (10.80%) Law
5 16 (9.09%) Telecoms
6 15 (8.52%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (5.11%) Banking
7 9 (5.11%) Legal
8 7 (3.98%) Back Office
8 7 (3.98%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.98%) Retail
9 6 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.27%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.70%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.57%) Advertising
13 1 (0.57%) Billing
13 1 (0.57%) Brand Awareness
13 1 (0.57%) Marketing
13 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (22.73%) Architect
2 28 (15.91%) Senior
3 27 (15.34%) Developer
4 24 (13.64%) Azure Engineer
5 21 (11.93%) Lead
5 21 (11.93%) Solutions Architect
6 18 (10.23%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (8.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 13 (7.39%) Analyst
9 12 (6.82%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 11 (6.25%) .NET Developer
10 11 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (6.25%) Network Engineer
10 11 (6.25%) Software Developer
10 11 (6.25%) Telecoms Engineer
11 9 (5.11%) .NET Software Developer
11 9 (5.11%) Applications Engineer
11 9 (5.11%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (5.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 9 (5.11%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (26.14%) .NET
2 28 (15.91%) REST
3 25 (14.20%) JSON
4 19 (10.80%) YAML
5 18 (10.23%) OAuth
6 16 (9.09%) Middleware
7 15 (8.52%) JWT
8 14 (7.95%) Node.js
9 13 (7.39%) Spring
9 13 (7.39%) Spring Boot
10 11 (6.25%) Jinja
10 11 (6.25%) OAuth2
10 11 (6.25%) XML
11 10 (5.68%) SOAP
12 8 (4.55%) .NET Core
12 8 (4.55%) SAML
13 7 (3.98%) Kafka
13 7 (3.98%) React
13 7 (3.98%) RESTful
14 6 (3.41%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 35 (19.89%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.95%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (7.39%) Public Cloud
4 12 (6.82%) Podcast
4 12 (6.82%) Security Posture
4 12 (6.82%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.98%) Blog
7 7 (3.98%) EPoS
7 7 (3.98%) iSeries
8 5 (2.84%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.27%) Data Centre
9 4 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.27%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (1.14%) IoT
11 2 (1.14%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.14%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.93%) Windows
2 12 (6.82%) VMS
3 6 (3.41%) Linux
3 6 (3.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (56.82%) CI/CD
2 96 (54.55%) DevOps
3 75 (42.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (31.25%) Agile
5 51 (28.98%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (22.16%) Observability
7 37 (21.02%) Analytics
7 37 (21.02%) Event-Driven
7 37 (21.02%) Microservices
8 36 (20.45%) Roadmaps
9 35 (19.89%) Integration Patterns
10 32 (18.18%) AI
11 31 (17.61%) Cloud Security
11 31 (17.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (16.48%) Mentoring
13 28 (15.91%) Computer Science
13 28 (15.91%) Migration
13 28 (15.91%) Platform Engineering
14 27 (15.34%) Containerisation
15 26 (14.77%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 65 (36.93%) SQL
2 47 (26.70%) C#
3 42 (23.86%) Python
4 22 (12.50%) Java
5 21 (11.93%) PowerShell
6 20 (11.36%) JavaScript
7 18 (10.23%) Bicep
8 17 (9.66%) Bash
9 12 (6.82%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (3.98%) RPG
11 5 (2.84%) T-SQL
11 5 (2.84%) TypeScript
12 4 (2.27%) Go
12 4 (2.27%) PHP
13 2 (1.14%) VB
13 2 (1.14%) X++
14 1 (0.57%) ABAP
14 1 (0.57%) Lua
Qualifications
1 32 (18.18%) Azure Certification
2 28 (15.91%) Microsoft Certification
3 17 (9.66%) Degree
4 4 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (2.27%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.70%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (1.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.14%) CCSP
6 2 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.14%) CISSP
7 1 (0.57%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.95%) QA
2 9 (5.11%) GDPR
3 8 (4.55%) PCI DSS
4 7 (3.98%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.14%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (12.50%) Docker
2 21 (11.93%) Active Directory
3 12 (6.82%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (35.23%) Terraform
2 22 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 14 (7.95%) Grafana
4 6 (3.41%) Kibana
4 6 (3.41%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.70%) Ansible
5 3 (1.70%) Scalr
6 2 (1.14%) Argo
7 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 76 (43.18%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.82%) ScienceLogic
2 12 (6.82%) VMware
3 11 (6.25%) Cisco
3 11 (6.25%) Oracle
3 11 (6.25%) Red Hat
4 10 (5.68%) Google
5 8 (4.55%) IBM
6 6 (3.41%) Concur
6 6 (3.41%) F5
6 6 (3.41%) Juniper
6 6 (3.41%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.84%) Databricks
7 5 (2.84%) Sage
7 5 (2.84%) SAP
8 3 (1.70%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.70%) Splunk
9 2 (1.14%) Ariba
9 2 (1.14%) Workday
10 1 (0.57%) HubSpot