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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 626 474 527
Rank change year-on-year -152 +53 +2
Permanent jobs citing API Management 179 198 247
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.40% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.45% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 120 106 122
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £73,438 £58,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile - £95,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +13.04% -12.01%

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 86,399 44,171 61,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 89.11% 81.89%
Number of salaries quoted 59,417 24,443 33,150
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.30% -2.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 October 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 October 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 -118 172 £82,500 +15.38% 220
London -38 94 £83,500 +9.51% 114
UK excluding London -173 77 £67,500 +3.85% 159
Work from Home -68 54 £82,500 +13.79% 164
South West -59 22 £60,000 +11.63% 11
South East -56 21 £57,500 -11.54% 35
East of England -33 13 £78,750 +36.96% 15
Midlands -76 12 £90,000 +24.14% 23
West Midlands -53 11 £90,000 +24.14% 18
North of England -75 9 £78,000 +20.00% 23
North West -45 8 £78,000 +20.00% 10
Scotland -3 1 £90,000 +38.46% 27
Yorkshire -42 1 - - 9
East Midlands -53 1 - - 5

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 15 (8.38%) Confluence
1 15 (8.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (6.70%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.12%) Apache
3 2 (1.12%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (5.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (6.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (6.15%) Carpe Diem
2 11 (6.15%) Elite 3E
3 5 (2.79%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 165 (92.18%) Azure
2 69 (38.55%) Serverless
3 67 (37.43%) Azure Service Bus
4 66 (36.87%) Azure DevOps
5 65 (36.31%) Azure Logic Apps
6 59 (32.96%) Azure Functions
7 50 (27.93%) Power Platform
8 39 (21.79%) Azure API Management
9 35 (19.55%) Azure Monitor
10 34 (18.99%) PaaS
11 33 (18.44%) GitHub
12 30 (16.76%) Azure Key Vault
12 30 (16.76%) Power Automate
13 24 (13.41%) Dynamics 365
14 21 (11.73%) Azure Event Grid
14 21 (11.73%) PowerApps
15 20 (11.17%) SaaS
16 18 (10.06%) AWS
17 17 (9.50%) Azure AKS
18 14 (7.82%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.70%) VPN
2 2 (1.12%) DNS
2 2 (1.12%) Firewall
3 1 (0.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (21.79%) Azure SQL Database
2 24 (13.41%) Power BI
3 22 (12.29%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (11.17%) SQL Server
5 16 (8.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (6.70%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (5.59%) Db2
7 10 (5.59%) DTS
8 9 (5.03%) Relational Database
9 6 (3.35%) DynamoDB
9 6 (3.35%) Metadata
10 3 (1.68%) ZAP BI
11 2 (1.12%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.12%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.12%) Redis
12 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.56%) GIS
12 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 40 (22.35%) Git
2 7 (3.91%) Visual Studio
3 5 (2.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (2.79%) Bitbucket
3 5 (2.79%) JIRA
4 4 (2.23%) Cypress.io
4 4 (2.23%) GitLab
4 4 (2.23%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.23%) Postman
4 4 (2.23%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.68%) git-flow
5 3 (1.68%) JUnit
5 3 (1.68%) NUnit
5 3 (1.68%) Selenium
5 3 (1.68%) Snyk
5 3 (1.68%) Terragrunt
6 2 (1.12%) MSI
7 1 (0.56%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.56%) ERwin
7 1 (0.56%) Maven
General
1 75 (41.90%) Social Skills
2 52 (29.05%) Finance
3 25 (13.97%) Law
4 16 (8.94%) Legal
5 13 (7.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (5.03%) Banking
7 8 (4.47%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.91%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.79%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (2.79%) Police
10 4 (2.23%) Military
10 4 (2.23%) Publishing
11 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.12%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.56%) Advertising
12 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.56%) Billing
12 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.56%) Marketing
12 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (22.35%) Architect
1 40 (22.35%) Developer
2 32 (17.88%) Azure Engineer
3 30 (16.76%) Senior
4 26 (14.53%) Lead
5 18 (10.06%) Solutions Architect
6 16 (8.94%) Applications Engineer
6 16 (8.94%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (8.94%) Integration Engineer
7 14 (7.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 14 (7.82%) Software Developer
8 13 (7.26%) Analyst
9 12 (6.70%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 11 (6.15%) .NET Developer
10 11 (6.15%) Integration Architect
10 11 (6.15%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (5.59%) Azure Developer
11 10 (5.59%) Senior Developer
12 9 (5.03%) .NET Software Developer
12 9 (5.03%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (31.84%) Terraform
2 52 (29.05%) .NET
3 40 (22.35%) REST
4 19 (10.61%) Node.js
5 18 (10.06%) RESTful
6 17 (9.50%) Middleware
7 16 (8.94%) OAuth
7 16 (8.94%) Spring
7 16 (8.94%) Spring Boot
8 14 (7.82%) OAuth2
9 13 (7.26%) JSON
9 13 (7.26%) JWT
10 11 (6.15%) Kafka
11 10 (5.59%) .NET Core
11 10 (5.59%) AngularJS
11 10 (5.59%) React
11 10 (5.59%) SOAP
12 7 (3.91%) .NET Framework
12 7 (3.91%) GraphQL
13 6 (3.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (22.91%) Cloud Native
2 22 (12.29%) Product Ownership
3 19 (10.61%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (9.50%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (6.70%) Podcast
5 12 (6.70%) Public Cloud
5 12 (6.70%) Security Posture
6 10 (5.59%) EPoS
6 10 (5.59%) iSeries
7 9 (5.03%) Management Information System
7 9 (5.03%) Onboarding
8 8 (4.47%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (3.91%) AI Agents
10 6 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (2.23%) Low-Code
12 3 (1.68%) Reference Data
13 2 (1.12%) Mobile App
14 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
14 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
14 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.70%) VMS
1 12 (6.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (55.31%) CI/CD
2 88 (49.16%) DevOps
3 65 (36.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (34.64%) Event-Driven
5 57 (31.84%) Agile
6 47 (26.26%) Roadmaps
7 44 (24.58%) Integration Patterns
8 43 (24.02%) Microservices
9 37 (20.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 37 (20.67%) Mentoring
9 37 (20.67%) Observability
10 36 (20.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 36 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (19.55%) AI
12 34 (18.99%) Cloud Security
13 32 (17.88%) Computer Science
14 28 (15.64%) Analytics
14 28 (15.64%) Test Automation
15 26 (14.53%) Performance Tuning
15 26 (14.53%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 84 (46.93%) SQL
2 66 (36.87%) C#
3 26 (14.53%) Python
4 21 (11.73%) Bicep
5 19 (10.61%) Java
5 19 (10.61%) PowerShell
6 17 (9.50%) Bash
7 12 (6.70%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (5.59%) RPG
9 8 (4.47%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.79%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.79%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.68%) Go
11 3 (1.68%) X++
12 2 (1.12%) ABAP
13 1 (0.56%) Groovy
13 1 (0.56%) Lua
13 1 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 36 (20.11%) Azure Certification
2 26 (14.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 23 (12.85%) Degree
4 13 (7.26%) Security Cleared
5 10 (5.59%) SC Cleared
6 7 (3.91%) AWS Certification
7 6 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (2.79%) Master's Degree
9 4 (2.23%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (2.23%) OCP
9 4 (2.23%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (2.23%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (1.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.12%) CCSP
10 2 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.12%) CISSP
10 2 (1.12%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.94%) QA
2 13 (7.26%) GDPR
3 6 (3.35%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.68%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.68%) NIST
5 1 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (10.61%) Docker
2 16 (8.94%) Active Directory
3 12 (6.70%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (6.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (10.06%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.82%) Grafana
3 8 (4.47%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.68%) Ansible
5 2 (1.12%) Argo
6 1 (0.56%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.56%) Scalr
6 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 97 (54.19%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.82%) Oracle
3 12 (6.70%) ScienceLogic
3 12 (6.70%) VMware
4 11 (6.15%) IBM
5 8 (4.47%) Splunk
6 7 (3.91%) Aderant
6 7 (3.91%) Dynatrace
6 7 (3.91%) Intapp
6 7 (3.91%) SAP
7 4 (2.23%) Databricks
7 4 (2.23%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.68%) HighQ
8 3 (1.68%) iManage
8 3 (1.68%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.68%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.12%) Ariba
9 2 (1.12%) Concur
9 2 (1.12%) Google
9 2 (1.12%) Informatica