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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 483 579
Rank change year-on-year -43 +96 +103
Permanent jobs citing API Management 173 144 295
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.35% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.38% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 104 110 167
10th Percentile £46,400 £46,250 £48,447
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,688 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,991 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% -4.01% -3.23%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £119,625 £102,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +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 61,485 38,072 78,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.40% 93.03% 86.34%
Number of salaries quoted 37,986 22,481 58,309
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,241
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +9.09% -11.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,321 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.95% +8.64% -8.41%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -25 158 £75,000 +4.18% 44
UK excluding London -80 88 £65,000 -3.70% 29
London +28 79 £82,500 -13.16% 16
Work from Home +12 71 £63,750 -11.45% 30
Midlands -35 33 £73,750 -1.67% 10
West Midlands -11 27 £72,500 -3.33% 8
South East -46 18 £60,000 -7.69% 11
North of England -60 17 £81,250 +31.58% 6
Scotland -16 13 £67,500 -22.86%
North West -17 13 £76,642 +31.01% 3
East Midlands - 6 £77,500 - 2
Yorkshire -60 4 £83,750 +18.68% 3
East of England -27 3 £43,000 -36.30%
South West -43 3 £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 11 (6.36%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.73%) Anypoint
3 3 (1.73%) Appian
3 3 (1.73%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.16%) Confluence
4 2 (1.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.58%) Apache
5 1 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.58%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.58%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (8.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.31%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.16%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.16%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.16%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 120 (69.36%) Azure
2 52 (30.06%) Azure Logic Apps
3 46 (26.59%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (21.97%) PaaS
5 36 (20.81%) Power Platform
6 34 (19.65%) AWS
7 33 (19.08%) Azure Service Bus
8 31 (17.92%) Serverless
9 30 (17.34%) Azure Event Grid
10 28 (16.18%) Azure Monitor
11 26 (15.03%) Microsoft 365
12 25 (14.45%) GitHub
13 23 (13.29%) IaaS
14 22 (12.72%) Entra ID
14 22 (12.72%) SaaS
15 21 (12.14%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (10.40%) Azure Functions
17 17 (9.83%) Apigee
18 16 (9.25%) GCP
18 16 (9.25%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.09%) Firewall
2 8 (4.62%) VPN
3 6 (3.47%) BGP
3 6 (3.47%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (3.47%) TCP/IP
3 6 (3.47%) VLAN
4 5 (2.89%) WAN
5 2 (1.16%) DNS
6 1 (0.58%) DHCP
6 1 (0.58%) IPv4
6 1 (0.58%) IPv6
6 1 (0.58%) LAN
6 1 (0.58%) MPLS
6 1 (0.58%) Network Security
6 1 (0.58%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.40%) Power BI
2 14 (8.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (7.51%) SQL Server
4 10 (5.78%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (2.31%) Metadata
6 4 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.73%) SAP Data Services
8 2 (1.16%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.16%) MySQL
8 2 (1.16%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.58%) Airbyte
9 1 (0.58%) Big Data
9 1 (0.58%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.58%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.58%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (10.40%) Git
2 11 (6.36%) GitLab
3 10 (5.78%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.73%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.73%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (1.73%) Postman
5 2 (1.16%) JIRA
6 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.58%) JUnit
6 1 (0.58%) NUnit
6 1 (0.58%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.58%) Selenium
6 1 (0.58%) Snyk
General
1 63 (36.42%) Finance
2 62 (35.84%) Social Skills
3 23 (13.29%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.40%) Banking
4 18 (10.40%) Law
5 17 (9.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (8.67%) Legal
7 14 (8.09%) Retail
7 14 (8.09%) Telecoms
8 12 (6.94%) Back Office
8 12 (6.94%) Financial Institution
9 6 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.31%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.31%) Marketing
12 3 (1.73%) Public Sector
13 2 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.58%) Advertising
14 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (30.06%) Architect
2 23 (13.29%) Developer
3 22 (12.72%) Lead
4 21 (12.14%) Solutions Architect
5 16 (9.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 15 (8.67%) Senior
7 13 (7.51%) AWS Engineer
7 13 (7.51%) Integration Engineer
8 12 (6.94%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (6.36%) Automation Engineer
9 11 (6.36%) Network Engineer
9 11 (6.36%) Telecoms Engineer
10 10 (5.78%) Support Engineer
11 9 (5.20%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (5.20%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.62%) Azure Architect
12 8 (4.62%) Cloud Architect
12 8 (4.62%) Technical Architect
13 7 (4.05%) Applications Support
13 7 (4.05%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (16.76%) JSON
2 26 (15.03%) REST
3 24 (13.87%) .NET
4 22 (12.72%) OAuth
5 20 (11.56%) RESTful
6 14 (8.09%) Middleware
6 14 (8.09%) YAML
7 13 (7.51%) OAuth2
8 12 (6.94%) SOAP
9 11 (6.36%) Jinja
10 9 (5.20%) XML
11 8 (4.62%) JWT
12 7 (4.05%) Node.js
12 7 (4.05%) WPF
13 6 (3.47%) .NET Core
13 6 (3.47%) CSS
13 6 (3.47%) SAML
13 6 (3.47%) Web Services
13 6 (3.47%) YANG
14 5 (2.89%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 48 (27.75%) Cloud Native
2 23 (13.29%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (8.67%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.20%) Blog
4 9 (5.20%) Data Centre
4 9 (5.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (4.05%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.89%) IoT
8 4 (2.31%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.73%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.16%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.58%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.58%) AS400
11 1 (0.58%) Clustering
11 1 (0.58%) iSeries
11 1 (0.58%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.83%) Windows
2 13 (7.51%) Linux
3 6 (3.47%) Unix
4 2 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (56.07%) DevOps
2 91 (52.60%) CI/CD
3 61 (35.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (31.79%) Agile
5 41 (23.70%) Analytics
5 41 (23.70%) Observability
6 39 (22.54%) Integration Patterns
6 39 (22.54%) Migration
7 38 (21.97%) Roadmaps
8 37 (21.39%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (19.08%) Microservices
10 32 (18.50%) AI
11 29 (16.76%) Technical Leadership
12 27 (15.61%) CRM
13 26 (15.03%) Enterprise Architecture
14 24 (13.87%) Event-Driven
14 24 (13.87%) Test Automation
15 23 (13.29%) Architectural Patterns
15 23 (13.29%) Log Analytics
16 22 (12.72%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 41 (23.70%) Python
2 32 (18.50%) SQL
3 22 (12.72%) C#
3 22 (12.72%) JavaScript
4 21 (12.14%) Bicep
5 19 (10.98%) Java
6 13 (7.51%) PowerShell
7 7 (4.05%) Bash
7 7 (4.05%) Go
8 4 (2.31%) PHP
9 3 (1.73%) ABAP
9 3 (1.73%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.73%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.16%) VB
11 1 (0.58%) Korn
11 1 (0.58%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (5.78%) Azure Certification
2 7 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (3.47%) Degree
3 6 (3.47%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.73%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (1.73%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.58%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.51%) PCI DSS
2 12 (6.94%) GDPR
2 12 (6.94%) QA
2 12 (6.94%) SOC 2
3 4 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.16%) IFRS
4 2 (1.16%) SLA
5 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.58%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.58%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (10.98%) Docker
2 11 (6.36%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.16%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.58%) vCloud
4 1 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (30.64%) Terraform
2 22 (12.72%) Kubernetes
3 13 (7.51%) Grafana
4 7 (4.05%) Kibana
5 5 (2.89%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.31%) Ansible
6 4 (2.31%) logstash
6 4 (2.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.73%) Scalr
8 1 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 63 (36.42%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.83%) Oracle
3 11 (6.36%) Cisco
3 11 (6.36%) Red Hat
4 10 (5.78%) Ab Initio
4 10 (5.78%) Google
4 10 (5.78%) Palo Alto
5 6 (3.47%) Databricks
5 6 (3.47%) F5
5 6 (3.47%) Informatica
5 6 (3.47%) Juniper
5 6 (3.47%) SAP
6 4 (2.31%) Concur
6 4 (2.31%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (2.31%) Fortinet
6 4 (2.31%) HubSpot
6 4 (2.31%) IBM
6 4 (2.31%) MuleSoft
6 4 (2.31%) Sage
7 3 (1.73%) webMethods