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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 555 495 592
Rank change year-on-year -60 +97 +65
Permanent jobs citing API Management 169 141 305
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.34% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.37% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 100 107 166
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £46,050
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,875 £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 £96,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £122,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% -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 64,759 38,558 80,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.53% 92.98% 86.03%
Number of salaries quoted 39,875 22,521 59,469
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -8.26%

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 16 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 16 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 -57 153 £75,000 +4.18% 51
UK excluding London -74 88 £65,000 -5.45% 35
London +37 74 £82,500 -13.16% 22
Work from Home -2 71 £65,000 -8.44% 25
Midlands -32 33 £73,750 -1.67% 5
West Midlands -10 27 £72,500 -3.33% 4
South East -52 19 £60,000 -7.69% 16
North of England -58 17 £81,250 +20.37% 4
Scotland -13 13 £67,500 -22.86% 2
North West -21 13 £76,642 +17.91% 1
East Midlands - 6 £77,500 - 1
Yorkshire -58 4 £83,750 +18.68% 3
East of England -32 3 £43,000 -36.30% 2
South West -68 2 £65,000 -9.71% 7
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 (6.51%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.78%) Anypoint
3 3 (1.78%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.18%) Appian
4 2 (1.18%) Confluence
4 2 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (7.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.37%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.18%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.18%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 116 (68.64%) Azure
2 48 (28.40%) Azure Logic Apps
3 45 (26.63%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (21.30%) PaaS
5 34 (20.12%) Azure Service Bus
6 33 (19.53%) AWS
6 33 (19.53%) Power Platform
6 33 (19.53%) Serverless
7 29 (17.16%) Azure Event Grid
7 29 (17.16%) Azure Monitor
8 26 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
9 25 (14.79%) GitHub
10 22 (13.02%) Entra ID
10 22 (13.02%) IaaS
10 22 (13.02%) SaaS
11 21 (12.43%) Azure Functions
11 21 (12.43%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (11.24%) Apigee
13 15 (8.88%) GCP
14 14 (8.28%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.88%) Firewall
2 8 (4.73%) VPN
3 6 (3.55%) BGP
3 6 (3.55%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (3.55%) TCP/IP
3 6 (3.55%) VLAN
4 5 (2.96%) WAN
5 2 (1.18%) DNS
5 2 (1.18%) Network Security
6 1 (0.59%) DHCP
6 1 (0.59%) IPv4
6 1 (0.59%) IPv6
6 1 (0.59%) LAN
6 1 (0.59%) MPLS
6 1 (0.59%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.47%) Power BI
2 15 (8.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 15 (8.88%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.92%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (2.96%) Metadata
7 3 (1.78%) SAP Data Services
8 2 (1.18%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.18%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.18%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.18%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.59%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.59%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (10.06%) Git
2 11 (6.51%) GitLab
3 8 (4.73%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.37%) Postman
5 3 (1.78%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.78%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.18%) JIRA
7 1 (0.59%) JUnit
7 1 (0.59%) NUnit
General
1 64 (37.87%) Social Skills
2 62 (36.69%) Finance
3 21 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.65%) Banking
4 18 (10.65%) Law
5 16 (9.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (8.88%) Legal
7 14 (8.28%) Telecoms
8 13 (7.69%) Retail
9 12 (7.10%) Back Office
9 12 (7.10%) Financial Institution
10 6 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.96%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.78%) Public Sector
13 2 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.18%) Marketing
14 1 (0.59%) Advertising
14 1 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (30.77%) Architect
2 23 (13.61%) Developer
3 22 (13.02%) Solutions Architect
4 21 (12.43%) Lead
5 18 (10.65%) Senior
6 16 (9.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
7 13 (7.69%) Integration Engineer
8 12 (7.10%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (6.51%) Automation Engineer
9 11 (6.51%) Network Engineer
9 11 (6.51%) Telecoms Engineer
10 10 (5.92%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (5.33%) Support Engineer
12 8 (4.73%) Azure Architect
12 8 (4.73%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.73%) Technical Architect
13 7 (4.14%) Automation Specialist
13 7 (4.14%) Cloud Architect
13 7 (4.14%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (17.75%) JSON
2 27 (15.98%) .NET
3 25 (14.79%) REST
4 23 (13.61%) OAuth
5 21 (12.43%) RESTful
6 14 (8.28%) OAuth2
6 14 (8.28%) YAML
7 13 (7.69%) Middleware
8 11 (6.51%) Jinja
9 10 (5.92%) JWT
9 10 (5.92%) SOAP
10 9 (5.33%) XML
11 7 (4.14%) SAML
11 7 (4.14%) WPF
12 6 (3.55%) .NET Core
12 6 (3.55%) CSS
12 6 (3.55%) Node.js
12 6 (3.55%) Swagger
12 6 (3.55%) YANG
13 4 (2.37%) React
Miscellaneous
1 48 (28.40%) Cloud Native
2 22 (13.02%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (8.88%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.33%) Blog
4 9 (5.33%) Data Centre
4 9 (5.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (4.14%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (4.14%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.55%) IoT
6 6 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.96%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.18%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.18%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.59%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.59%) AS400
10 1 (0.59%) Clustering
10 1 (0.59%) iSeries
10 1 (0.59%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.59%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.47%) Windows
2 12 (7.10%) Linux
3 6 (3.55%) Unix
4 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (56.21%) DevOps
2 87 (51.48%) CI/CD
3 61 (36.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (30.18%) Agile
5 41 (24.26%) Observability
6 40 (23.67%) Analytics
7 39 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (22.49%) Integration Patterns
8 38 (22.49%) Roadmaps
9 36 (21.30%) Migration
10 32 (18.93%) Microservices
11 30 (17.75%) AI
12 27 (15.98%) Technical Leadership
13 24 (14.20%) Enterprise Architecture
13 24 (14.20%) Event-Driven
14 23 (13.61%) CRM
14 23 (13.61%) Log Analytics
15 22 (13.02%) Data Governance
15 22 (13.02%) RBAC
15 22 (13.02%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 42 (24.85%) Python
2 34 (20.12%) SQL
3 24 (14.20%) C#
4 22 (13.02%) JavaScript
5 20 (11.83%) Bicep
6 19 (11.24%) Java
7 13 (7.69%) PowerShell
8 7 (4.14%) Bash
8 7 (4.14%) Go
9 4 (2.37%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.78%) ABAP
10 3 (1.78%) PHP
10 3 (1.78%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.18%) VB
12 1 (0.59%) Korn
12 1 (0.59%) Lua
Qualifications
1 11 (6.51%) Azure Certification
2 8 (4.73%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (4.14%) Degree
4 5 (2.96%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.78%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.78%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.59%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.69%) GDPR
1 13 (7.69%) PCI DSS
1 13 (7.69%) QA
2 12 (7.10%) SOC 2
3 4 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.18%) IFRS
4 2 (1.18%) SLA
5 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.59%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.59%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.59%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (11.24%) Docker
2 11 (6.51%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.18%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.59%) vCloud
4 1 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 52 (30.77%) Terraform
2 23 (13.61%) Kubernetes
3 13 (7.69%) Grafana
4 7 (4.14%) Kibana
5 4 (2.37%) logstash
5 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.37%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.78%) Scalr
7 2 (1.18%) Ansible
8 1 (0.59%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 60 (35.50%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.65%) Oracle
3 11 (6.51%) Cisco
3 11 (6.51%) Red Hat
4 10 (5.92%) Ab Initio
4 10 (5.92%) Google
5 9 (5.33%) Palo Alto
6 6 (3.55%) Databricks
6 6 (3.55%) F5
6 6 (3.55%) Juniper
6 6 (3.55%) SAP
7 5 (2.96%) Informatica
8 4 (2.37%) Concur
8 4 (2.37%) IBM
8 4 (2.37%) Sage
9 3 (1.78%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (1.78%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.78%) Software AG
9 3 (1.78%) webMethods
9 3 (1.78%) Workday