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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 476 475 584
Rank change year-on-year -1 +109 +118
Permanent jobs citing API Management 191 211 217
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.41% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.45% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 111 138 175
10th Percentile £46,750 £47,500 £50,686
25th Percentile £57,299 £62,125 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +5.63% +0.60% -5.90%
75th Percentile £83,750 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,375 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -

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 51,996 46,880 64,892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.99% 91.87% 88.55%
Number of salaries quoted 30,799 22,693 50,451
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £80,100 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 6 February 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 6 February 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 +23 169 £75,000 +4.18% 42
London +80 102 £77,500 -13.89% 17
UK excluding London -35 78 £65,000 - 30
Work from Home +48 74 £65,766 -7.37% 27
Midlands +27 28 £72,500 -3.33% 7
West Midlands +35 24 £72,500 -3.33% 5
North of England -22 16 £75,000 +11.57% 7
Scotland +3 15 £65,000 -23.53%
North West +16 12 £65,766 +14.38% 3
South East -41 7 £85,000 +30.77% 11
South West +2 6 £53,750 -25.34% 2
East of England +16 5 £55,000 -18.52% 1
Yorkshire -28 4 £82,500 +22.72% 4
East Midlands - 4 £77,500 - 2
Wales - 1 £52,500 - 1

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 9 (4.71%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.66%) Apache Solr
3 6 (3.14%) Appian
4 5 (2.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.57%) Anypoint
5 3 (1.57%) Apache
5 3 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.57%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.57%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (1.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 23 (12.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (7.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.09%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.05%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.05%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 134 (70.16%) Azure
2 63 (32.98%) Azure Logic Apps
3 48 (25.13%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (21.47%) Power Platform
5 33 (17.28%) AWS
5 33 (17.28%) Azure Service Bus
6 31 (16.23%) PaaS
6 31 (16.23%) Serverless
7 30 (15.71%) Azure Event Grid
7 30 (15.71%) Azure Monitor
7 30 (15.71%) GitHub
8 28 (14.66%) Power Automate
9 26 (13.61%) Dynamics 365
9 26 (13.61%) GitHub Actions
9 26 (13.61%) PowerApps
9 26 (13.61%) SaaS
10 19 (9.95%) IaaS
11 16 (8.38%) Azure Data Factory
11 16 (8.38%) Azure Functions
11 16 (8.38%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.19%) VPN
2 6 (3.14%) BGP
2 6 (3.14%) TCP/IP
2 6 (3.14%) VLAN
3 3 (1.57%) Firewall
4 2 (1.05%) DNS
5 1 (0.52%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.52%) DHCP
5 1 (0.52%) IPv4
5 1 (0.52%) IPv6
5 1 (0.52%) LAN
5 1 (0.52%) MPLS
5 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (13.61%) Power BI
2 17 (8.90%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.24%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (3.66%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (3.66%) MySQL
4 7 (3.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.14%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.57%) Airbyte
6 3 (1.57%) Metadata
6 3 (1.57%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.52%) Big Data
7 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (14.66%) Git
2 25 (13.09%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.57%) Postman
3 3 (1.57%) Robot Framework
3 3 (1.57%) Selenium
3 3 (1.57%) Snyk
4 2 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.05%) JIRA
5 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.52%) GitLab
5 1 (0.52%) MSTest
5 1 (0.52%) NUnit
General
1 64 (33.51%) Finance
2 50 (26.18%) Social Skills
3 30 (15.71%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.90%) Banking
4 17 (8.90%) Law
5 15 (7.85%) Retail
6 13 (6.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (5.76%) Back Office
7 11 (5.76%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.66%) Legal
9 6 (3.14%) Health Technology
10 5 (2.62%) Marketing
10 5 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.09%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.57%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.52%) Advertising
14 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 51 (26.70%) Architect
2 41 (21.47%) Developer
3 36 (18.85%) Lead
4 18 (9.42%) Solutions Architect
5 17 (8.90%) Integration Developer
6 15 (7.85%) Support Engineer
7 14 (7.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (6.28%) AWS Engineer
9 11 (5.76%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (5.76%) Integration Manager
10 10 (5.24%) Integration Engineer
10 10 (5.24%) Senior
10 10 (5.24%) Technical Architect
11 9 (4.71%) Azure Architect
11 9 (4.71%) SAP Developer
12 8 (4.19%) Development Engineer
12 8 (4.19%) Development Support Engineer
13 7 (3.66%) Applications Engineer
13 7 (3.66%) Applications Support
13 7 (3.66%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (25.13%) REST
2 32 (16.75%) SOAP
3 28 (14.66%) OAuth
3 28 (14.66%) RESTful
4 21 (10.99%) JSON
5 19 (9.95%) Web Services
6 18 (9.42%) .NET
6 18 (9.42%) Middleware
7 14 (7.33%) OAuth2
8 12 (6.28%) SAML
9 11 (5.76%) Node.js
10 9 (4.71%) BAPI
10 9 (4.71%) IBM Integration Bus
10 9 (4.71%) JMS
11 8 (4.19%) React
11 8 (4.19%) Swagger
12 7 (3.66%) .NET Core
12 7 (3.66%) AngularJS
12 7 (3.66%) WPF
13 6 (3.14%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 38 (19.90%) Cloud Native
2 27 (14.14%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (7.33%) Management Information System
4 13 (6.81%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (6.81%) Low-Code
5 8 (4.19%) Blog
5 8 (4.19%) Data Centre
5 8 (4.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (4.19%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.14%) NHS
8 5 (2.62%) IoT
9 3 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.52%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.52%) AS400
11 1 (0.52%) iSeries
11 1 (0.52%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.47%) Windows
2 14 (7.33%) Linux
3 8 (4.19%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.52%) Android
4 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (55.50%) CI/CD
2 92 (48.17%) DevOps
3 74 (38.74%) Agile
4 48 (25.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 44 (23.04%) Migration
6 40 (20.94%) Observability
7 39 (20.42%) Microservices
7 39 (20.42%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (19.90%) AI
9 37 (19.37%) Analytics
10 35 (18.32%) CRM
11 34 (17.80%) Roadmaps
11 34 (17.80%) Test Automation
12 33 (17.28%) Scrum
13 32 (16.75%) Data Pipeline
13 32 (16.75%) Integration Patterns
13 32 (16.75%) Technical Leadership
14 30 (15.71%) Architectural Patterns
14 30 (15.71%) Enterprise Architecture
15 29 (15.18%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 31 (16.23%) SQL
2 29 (15.18%) Python
3 25 (13.09%) Bicep
4 24 (12.57%) JavaScript
5 23 (12.04%) C#
6 20 (10.47%) Java
7 10 (5.24%) PHP
8 9 (4.71%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.14%) ABAP
9 6 (3.14%) Go
10 4 (2.09%) Bash
11 3 (1.57%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.05%) Groovy
12 2 (1.05%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.05%) VB
13 1 (0.52%) Korn
13 1 (0.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (6.81%) Azure Certification
1 13 (6.81%) Degree
2 10 (5.24%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (3.66%) TOGAF Certification
4 6 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.62%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.09%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.05%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.38%) GDPR
2 12 (6.28%) QA
3 11 (5.76%) PCI DSS
3 11 (5.76%) SOC 2
4 8 (4.19%) SLA
5 6 (3.14%) HL7
6 3 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.05%) IFRS
8 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.52%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.52%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (11.52%) Docker
2 7 (3.66%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.05%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.52%) vCloud
4 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (25.65%) Terraform
2 18 (9.42%) Kubernetes
3 12 (6.28%) Ansible
4 8 (4.19%) Grafana
5 7 (3.66%) Kibana
6 4 (2.09%) logstash
7 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.52%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 63 (32.98%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.95%) Oracle
3 15 (7.85%) SAP
4 14 (7.33%) Ab Initio
5 11 (5.76%) IBM
6 10 (5.24%) Informatica
7 7 (3.66%) Palo Alto
8 6 (3.14%) CrowdStrike
8 6 (3.14%) Fortinet
8 6 (3.14%) MuleSoft
9 5 (2.62%) Databricks
9 5 (2.62%) Google
9 5 (2.62%) webMethods
10 4 (2.09%) HubSpot
10 4 (2.09%) VMware
11 3 (1.57%) BiZZdesign
11 3 (1.57%) Black Duck
11 3 (1.57%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.57%) Software AG
11 3 (1.57%) UiPath