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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 604 511 565
Rank change year-on-year -93 +54 -6
Permanent jobs citing API Management 180 186 274
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.37% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.42% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 127 103 111
10th Percentile £54,750 £49,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £61,875 £57,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -6.90% +7.41%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,625 £92,500
90th Percentile - £103,500 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £53,599
% change year-on-year +3.85% +21.27% -10.67%

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 76,352 44,509 67,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 89.49% 81.05%
Number of salaries quoted 52,648 25,381 44,449
10th Percentile £30,580 £28,500 £31,210
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -68 172 £80,000 +18.52% 68
UK excluding London -121 98 £67,500 +3.85% 36
London -18 72 £84,250 +16.21% 41
Work from Home -43 60 £71,250 -1.03% 28
South East -23 32 £57,500 -11.54% 17
Midlands -49 23 £85,000 +13.33% 3
West Midlands -38 21 £85,000 +13.33% 2
South West -63 18 £60,000 -16.66% 3
East of England -19 12 £80,000 +26.98%
North of England -50 11 £82,500 +26.92% 8
North West -11 10 £84,000 +29.23% 5
Scotland +8 2 £67,500 +3.85% 3
East Midlands -34 2 £77,500 - 1
Yorkshire -38 1 £82,500 +77.42% 3

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 17 (9.44%) Confluence
2 13 (7.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (5.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.11%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 10 (5.56%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (7.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (3.89%) Carpe Diem
2 7 (3.89%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 158 (87.78%) Azure
2 61 (33.89%) Azure DevOps
2 61 (33.89%) Azure Logic Apps
3 59 (32.78%) Serverless
4 55 (30.56%) Azure Service Bus
5 51 (28.33%) Power Platform
6 47 (26.11%) Azure Functions
7 44 (24.44%) PaaS
8 29 (16.11%) Azure Monitor
9 25 (13.89%) Azure Event Grid
10 24 (13.33%) AWS
10 24 (13.33%) Power Automate
11 23 (12.78%) Azure API Management
11 23 (12.78%) Dynamics 365
11 23 (12.78%) GitHub
12 21 (11.67%) Azure Key Vault
13 19 (10.56%) PowerApps
14 18 (10.00%) Entra ID
14 18 (10.00%) IaaS
14 18 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.78%) Firewall
2 12 (6.67%) VPN
3 6 (3.33%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (2.22%) WAN
5 2 (1.11%) DNS
5 2 (1.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (21.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 25 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (12.22%) Power BI
4 16 (8.89%) SQL Server
5 15 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (5.56%) Db2
6 10 (5.56%) DTS
7 7 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (3.33%) DynamoDB
8 6 (3.33%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.67%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.67%) ZAP BI
11 2 (1.11%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.11%) InfluxDB
11 2 (1.11%) Metadata
12 1 (0.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 47 (26.11%) Git
2 14 (7.78%) GitLab
3 7 (3.89%) JIRA
4 5 (2.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (2.78%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.78%) Visual Studio
5 4 (2.22%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.22%) JUnit
5 4 (2.22%) NUnit
5 4 (2.22%) Postman
6 3 (1.67%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.67%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.67%) Selenium
6 3 (1.67%) Snyk
6 3 (1.67%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.11%) git-flow
7 2 (1.11%) MSI
7 2 (1.11%) Terragrunt
General
1 79 (43.89%) Social Skills
2 52 (28.89%) Finance
3 22 (12.22%) Law
4 17 (9.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (8.89%) Legal
6 13 (7.22%) Telecoms
7 12 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.33%) Banking
8 6 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.22%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.67%) Military
11 2 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.11%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.56%) Advertising
12 1 (0.56%) Back Office
12 1 (0.56%) Billing
12 1 (0.56%) Brand Awareness
12 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (22.78%) Architect
2 29 (16.11%) Azure Engineer
2 29 (16.11%) Developer
3 27 (15.00%) Lead
3 27 (15.00%) Senior
4 23 (12.78%) Solutions Architect
5 17 (9.44%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 14 (7.78%) Software Developer
8 13 (7.22%) Analyst
8 13 (7.22%) Integration Engineer
9 12 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
9 12 (6.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 11 (6.11%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (6.11%) Network Engineer
10 11 (6.11%) Telecoms Engineer
11 10 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (5.00%) .NET Developer
12 9 (5.00%) .NET Software Developer
12 9 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (28.33%) .NET
2 32 (17.78%) REST
3 23 (12.78%) JSON
4 21 (11.67%) Node.js
5 19 (10.56%) YAML
6 18 (10.00%) Middleware
7 15 (8.33%) Spring
7 15 (8.33%) Spring Boot
8 13 (7.22%) OAuth
9 12 (6.67%) XML
10 11 (6.11%) Jinja
10 11 (6.11%) JWT
10 11 (6.11%) OAuth2
11 10 (5.56%) Kafka
11 10 (5.56%) React
11 10 (5.56%) RESTful
11 10 (5.56%) SOAP
12 8 (4.44%) AngularJS
13 7 (3.89%) .NET Core
13 7 (3.89%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 41 (22.78%) Cloud Native
2 20 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (8.89%) Product Ownership
4 13 (7.22%) Public Cloud
5 12 (6.67%) Podcast
5 12 (6.67%) Security Posture
5 12 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (5.56%) EPoS
6 10 (5.56%) iSeries
7 9 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (3.89%) Onboarding
9 6 (3.33%) AI Agents
10 4 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (2.22%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (1.11%) IoT
12 2 (1.11%) Reference Data
13 1 (0.56%) Blog
13 1 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.33%) Windows
2 12 (6.67%) VMS
3 6 (3.33%) Linux
3 6 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (54.44%) CI/CD
2 93 (51.67%) DevOps
3 71 (39.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (34.44%) Agile
5 51 (28.33%) Event-Driven
6 43 (23.89%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (23.89%) Roadmaps
7 39 (21.67%) Integration Patterns
8 35 (19.44%) AI
8 35 (19.44%) Microservices
9 32 (17.78%) Containerisation
9 32 (17.78%) Mentoring
9 32 (17.78%) Observability
10 31 (17.22%) Cloud Security
11 30 (16.67%) Computer Science
12 29 (16.11%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
14 26 (14.44%) Analytics
15 25 (13.89%) Technical Leadership
16 24 (13.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 75 (41.67%) SQL
2 56 (31.11%) C#
3 42 (23.33%) Python
4 20 (11.11%) Java
4 20 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 18 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 17 (9.44%) Bash
7 15 (8.33%) Bicep
8 12 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (5.56%) RPG
10 5 (2.78%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.78%) TypeScript
11 4 (2.22%) Go
12 2 (1.11%) X++
13 1 (0.56%) Lua
13 1 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 29 (16.11%) Azure Certification
2 24 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 22 (12.22%) Degree
4 6 (3.33%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.78%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (2.22%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.67%) OCP
7 3 (1.67%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (1.67%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.11%) CCSP
8 2 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.11%) CISSP
9 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.33%) QA
2 12 (6.67%) GDPR
3 5 (2.78%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.67%) NIST
6 2 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.11%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (12.22%) Docker
2 19 (10.56%) Active Directory
3 12 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (31.67%) Terraform
2 19 (10.56%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.11%) Grafana
4 9 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.67%) Ansible
5 3 (1.67%) Scalr
6 2 (1.11%) Argo
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 88 (48.89%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.78%) Red Hat
3 12 (6.67%) Oracle
3 12 (6.67%) ScienceLogic
3 12 (6.67%) VMware
4 11 (6.11%) Cisco
5 10 (5.56%) IBM
6 7 (3.89%) Intapp
7 6 (3.33%) Concur
7 6 (3.33%) F5
7 6 (3.33%) Juniper
7 6 (3.33%) Palo Alto
8 5 (2.78%) Databricks
8 5 (2.78%) Google
8 5 (2.78%) Sage
8 5 (2.78%) Splunk
9 4 (2.22%) SAP
10 3 (1.67%) Aderant
10 3 (1.67%) iManage
10 3 (1.67%) Salesforce