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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 582 483 576
Rank change year-on-year -99 +93 +47
Permanent jobs citing API Management 149 175 316
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.41% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.44% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 94 103 152
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,750 £45,125
25th Percentile £56,500 £60,125 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £71,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.35% -4.67% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £91,750 £105,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £66,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -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 68,138 40,050 82,452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.73% 93.30% 84.76%
Number of salaries quoted 44,115 21,094 59,611
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,795 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,648 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% +8.45% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £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 22 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 22 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 -87 138 £75,000 +4.90% 67
UK excluding London -75 84 £62,500 -5.66% 39
Work from Home -8 62 £62,500 -13.18% 32
London -20 59 £82,500 -8.33% 35
South East -35 31 £57,500 -11.54% 20
Midlands -47 29 £75,000 - 4
West Midlands -23 27 £75,000 - 2
North of England -49 9 £83,750 +28.85% 7
Scotland -2 7 £67,500 -20.59%
North West -9 7 £84,000 +29.23% 3
East of England -16 5 £67,500 - 6
East Midlands -49 2 £77,500 - 2
Yorkshire -52 2 £83,750 +80.11% 3
South West -69 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 (4.70%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.68%) Confluence
4 2 (1.34%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.67%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.34%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (5.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (4.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 115 (77.18%) Azure
2 46 (30.87%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (24.16%) Azure Logic Apps
4 33 (22.15%) Azure Monitor
4 33 (22.15%) Serverless
5 27 (18.12%) Azure Service Bus
6 26 (17.45%) AWS
6 26 (17.45%) Azure Functions
7 25 (16.78%) PaaS
8 24 (16.11%) Entra ID
9 23 (15.44%) Azure Event Grid
9 23 (15.44%) Power Platform
10 21 (14.09%) SaaS
11 19 (12.75%) Azure API Management
11 19 (12.75%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (12.08%) Apigee
13 14 (9.40%) GCP
13 14 (9.40%) GitHub
14 13 (8.72%) Azure AKS
14 13 (8.72%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.07%) Firewall
2 6 (4.03%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (3.36%) WAN
4 4 (2.68%) VPN
5 3 (2.01%) BGP
5 3 (2.01%) DNS
5 3 (2.01%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.01%) VLAN
6 2 (1.34%) Network Security
7 1 (0.67%) DHCP
7 1 (0.67%) IPv4
7 1 (0.67%) IPv6
7 1 (0.67%) LAN
7 1 (0.67%) MPLS
7 1 (0.67%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.08%) Azure SQL Database
2 17 (11.41%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (10.74%) SQL Server
4 11 (7.38%) Power BI
5 7 (4.70%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.36%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (2.01%) Metadata
8 2 (1.34%) DB2
8 2 (1.34%) DTS
8 2 (1.34%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.34%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.67%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.67%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.67%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.67%) MySQL
9 1 (0.67%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 25 (16.78%) Git
2 11 (7.38%) GitLab
3 4 (2.68%) Postman
3 4 (2.68%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.01%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.01%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.34%) JIRA
5 2 (1.34%) MSI
6 1 (0.67%) JUnit
6 1 (0.67%) NUnit
General
1 62 (41.61%) Social Skills
2 55 (36.91%) Finance
3 16 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (10.74%) Telecoms
4 13 (8.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (8.05%) Banking
6 11 (7.38%) Legal
7 10 (6.71%) Retail
8 9 (6.04%) Back Office
8 9 (6.04%) Financial Institution
8 9 (6.04%) Law
9 5 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.01%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.01%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.67%) Advertising
11 1 (0.67%) Brand Awareness
11 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Marketing
11 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (24.16%) Architect
2 24 (16.11%) Developer
3 20 (13.42%) Lead
3 20 (13.42%) Solutions Architect
4 19 (12.75%) Azure Engineer
5 17 (11.41%) Senior
6 15 (10.07%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (8.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (8.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 11 (7.38%) Automation Engineer
9 11 (7.38%) Integration Engineer
9 11 (7.38%) Network Engineer
9 11 (7.38%) Telecoms Engineer
10 10 (6.71%) .NET Developer
10 10 (6.71%) Software Developer
11 9 (6.04%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (6.04%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (5.37%) .NET Software Developer
12 8 (5.37%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (4.70%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (26.17%) .NET
2 26 (17.45%) JSON
3 22 (14.77%) REST
4 21 (14.09%) OAuth
5 19 (12.75%) YAML
6 14 (9.40%) JWT
6 14 (9.40%) OAuth2
7 12 (8.05%) Middleware
7 12 (8.05%) RESTful
8 11 (7.38%) Jinja
9 9 (6.04%) XML
10 8 (5.37%) SAML
11 7 (4.70%) .NET Core
11 7 (4.70%) WPF
12 6 (4.03%) CSS
12 6 (4.03%) SOAP
12 6 (4.03%) Swagger
12 6 (4.03%) YANG
13 5 (3.36%) React
13 5 (3.36%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 41 (27.52%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.72%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (7.38%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (6.04%) Blog
4 9 (6.04%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (4.03%) Data Centre
5 6 (4.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.01%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (2.01%) iSeries
6 3 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.01%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.34%) EPoS
7 2 (1.34%) IoT
7 2 (1.34%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.67%) AS400
8 1 (0.67%) Clustering
8 1 (0.67%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.67%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.67%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.40%) Windows
2 10 (6.71%) Linux
3 6 (4.03%) Unix
4 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (55.70%) DevOps
2 79 (53.02%) CI/CD
3 62 (41.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (29.53%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (27.52%) Agile
6 36 (24.16%) Integration Patterns
7 35 (23.49%) Observability
8 31 (20.81%) Analytics
8 31 (20.81%) Microservices
9 29 (19.46%) Migration
10 28 (18.79%) Event-Driven
10 28 (18.79%) Roadmaps
11 25 (16.78%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (14.77%) Cloud Security
12 22 (14.77%) Platform Engineering
13 21 (14.09%) AI
13 21 (14.09%) Containerisation
14 20 (13.42%) Log Analytics
15 19 (12.75%) Mentoring
15 19 (12.75%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 42 (28.19%) Python
2 39 (26.17%) SQL
3 36 (24.16%) C#
4 19 (12.75%) JavaScript
5 16 (10.74%) Java
6 13 (8.72%) Bicep
6 13 (8.72%) PowerShell
7 8 (5.37%) Bash
8 4 (2.68%) Go
8 4 (2.68%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.01%) PHP
10 2 (1.34%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.34%) RPG
10 2 (1.34%) VB
11 1 (0.67%) ABAP
11 1 (0.67%) Korn
11 1 (0.67%) Lua
Qualifications
1 18 (12.08%) Azure Certification
2 16 (10.74%) Degree
3 14 (9.40%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.01%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.34%) CCSP
6 2 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.34%) CISSP
6 2 (1.34%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.67%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.72%) GDPR
2 12 (8.05%) QA
3 10 (6.71%) PCI DSS
4 9 (6.04%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.67%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.67%) IFRS
5 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (12.08%) Docker
2 12 (8.05%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 50 (33.56%) Terraform
2 22 (14.77%) Kubernetes
3 15 (10.07%) Grafana
4 7 (4.70%) Kibana
5 6 (4.03%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.01%) Ansible
6 3 (2.01%) logstash
6 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.01%) Scalr
7 2 (1.34%) Argo
8 1 (0.67%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 54 (36.24%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.40%) Oracle
3 11 (7.38%) Cisco
3 11 (7.38%) Red Hat
4 10 (6.71%) Google
5 6 (4.03%) Concur
5 6 (4.03%) F5
5 6 (4.03%) Juniper
5 6 (4.03%) Palo Alto
5 6 (4.03%) SAP
6 5 (3.36%) Ab Initio
6 5 (3.36%) IBM
7 4 (2.68%) Databricks
7 4 (2.68%) Sage
8 3 (2.01%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.34%) Ariba
10 1 (0.67%) Informatica
10 1 (0.67%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.67%) Veeam
10 1 (0.67%) Workday