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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 491 577
Rank change year-on-year -33 +86 +103
Permanent jobs citing API Management 174 146 298
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.36% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.38% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 107 114 168
10th Percentile £46,550 £47,000 £49,912
25th Percentile £57,400 £60,688 £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 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £117,625 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -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 60,831 38,033 77,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.64% 93.07% 86.50%
Number of salaries quoted 37,418 22,319 57,741
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 1 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 1 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 -25 159 £75,000 +4.18% 44
UK excluding London -77 86 £65,000 -3.70% 29
London +33 82 £82,500 -13.16% 16
Work from Home +6 74 £62,500 -13.18% 30
Midlands -19 31 £72,500 -3.33% 10
West Midlands -8 26 £71,250 -5.00% 8
South East -52 17 £60,000 -7.69% 11
North of England -52 17 £80,000 +23.08% 6
Scotland -9 13 £67,500 -22.86%
North West -12 13 £75,000 +28.21% 3
East Midlands - 5 £77,500 - 2
East of England -26 4 £49,000 -27.41%
Yorkshire -58 4 £83,750 +24.58% 3
South West -46 3 £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 11 (6.32%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.30%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.72%) Anypoint
4 3 (1.72%) Appian
4 3 (1.72%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (1.15%) Confluence
5 2 (1.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.57%) Apache
6 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.57%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (8.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.30%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.15%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.15%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 121 (69.54%) Azure
2 53 (30.46%) Azure Logic Apps
3 45 (25.86%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (21.84%) PaaS
5 37 (21.26%) Power Platform
6 33 (18.97%) AWS
6 33 (18.97%) Azure Service Bus
7 30 (17.24%) Azure Event Grid
8 28 (16.09%) Azure Monitor
8 28 (16.09%) Serverless
9 26 (14.94%) Microsoft 365
10 25 (14.37%) GitHub
11 23 (13.22%) IaaS
12 21 (12.07%) Entra ID
12 21 (12.07%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (12.07%) SaaS
13 17 (9.77%) Azure Functions
13 17 (9.77%) Power Automate
13 17 (9.77%) PowerApps
14 16 (9.20%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.05%) Firewall
2 8 (4.60%) VPN
3 6 (3.45%) BGP
3 6 (3.45%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (3.45%) TCP/IP
3 6 (3.45%) VLAN
4 5 (2.87%) WAN
5 2 (1.15%) DNS
6 1 (0.57%) DHCP
6 1 (0.57%) IPv4
6 1 (0.57%) IPv6
6 1 (0.57%) LAN
6 1 (0.57%) MPLS
6 1 (0.57%) Network Security
6 1 (0.57%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.92%) Power BI
2 14 (8.05%) SQL Server
3 12 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.87%) MySQL
5 5 (2.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.30%) Metadata
6 4 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.72%) SAP Data Services
8 2 (1.15%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.57%) Airbyte
9 1 (0.57%) Big Data
9 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.57%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.57%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (12.64%) Git
2 11 (6.32%) GitLab
2 11 (6.32%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.72%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.72%) Postman
4 2 (1.15%) JIRA
4 2 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.57%) JUnit
5 1 (0.57%) NUnit
5 1 (0.57%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.57%) Selenium
5 1 (0.57%) Snyk
General
1 63 (36.21%) Finance
2 60 (34.48%) Social Skills
3 23 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.34%) Banking
4 18 (10.34%) Law
5 17 (9.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (8.05%) Legal
6 14 (8.05%) Retail
6 14 (8.05%) Telecoms
7 12 (6.90%) Back Office
7 12 (6.90%) Financial Institution
8 6 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.30%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.30%) Marketing
11 3 (1.72%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.57%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 53 (30.46%) Architect
2 26 (14.94%) Developer
3 23 (13.22%) Lead
4 21 (12.07%) Solutions Architect
5 16 (9.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (8.05%) Senior
7 13 (7.47%) AWS Engineer
8 12 (6.90%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (6.90%) Integration Engineer
9 11 (6.32%) Automation Engineer
9 11 (6.32%) Network Engineer
9 11 (6.32%) Support Engineer
9 11 (6.32%) Telecoms Engineer
10 9 (5.17%) Azure Architect
10 9 (5.17%) Integration Developer
10 9 (5.17%) Technical Architect
11 8 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (4.60%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (4.60%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (4.02%) Automation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (16.09%) JSON
2 26 (14.94%) REST
3 23 (13.22%) .NET
4 21 (12.07%) OAuth
5 20 (11.49%) RESTful
6 13 (7.47%) Middleware
6 13 (7.47%) YAML
7 12 (6.90%) OAuth2
7 12 (6.90%) SOAP
8 11 (6.32%) Jinja
9 10 (5.75%) Node.js
10 8 (4.60%) XML
11 7 (4.02%) JWT
11 7 (4.02%) Web Services
11 7 (4.02%) WPF
12 6 (3.45%) .NET Core
12 6 (3.45%) CSS
12 6 (3.45%) SAML
12 6 (3.45%) YANG
13 5 (2.87%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 47 (27.01%) Cloud Native
2 23 (13.22%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (8.62%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.17%) Blog
4 9 (5.17%) Data Centre
4 9 (5.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (4.02%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.45%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.87%) IoT
8 4 (2.30%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.72%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.15%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.57%) AS400
11 1 (0.57%) Clustering
11 1 (0.57%) iSeries
11 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.49%) Windows
2 16 (9.20%) Linux
3 6 (3.45%) Unix
4 5 (2.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (54.60%) DevOps
2 93 (53.45%) CI/CD
3 59 (33.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (32.76%) Agile
5 40 (22.99%) Analytics
5 40 (22.99%) Observability
6 39 (22.41%) Migration
7 38 (21.84%) Integration Patterns
7 38 (21.84%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (21.84%) Roadmaps
8 34 (19.54%) AI
9 33 (18.97%) Microservices
10 29 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
11 28 (16.09%) CRM
12 27 (15.52%) Enterprise Architecture
13 26 (14.94%) Test Automation
14 24 (13.79%) Architectural Patterns
14 24 (13.79%) Containerisation
14 24 (13.79%) Event-Driven
15 23 (13.22%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 41 (23.56%) Python
2 30 (17.24%) SQL
3 24 (13.79%) JavaScript
4 22 (12.64%) C#
5 21 (12.07%) Bicep
6 19 (10.92%) Java
7 12 (6.90%) PowerShell
8 7 (4.02%) Go
8 7 (4.02%) PHP
9 6 (3.45%) Bash
10 3 (1.72%) ABAP
10 3 (1.72%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.72%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.15%) VB
12 1 (0.57%) Korn
12 1 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (5.75%) Azure Certification
2 7 (4.02%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (3.45%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.87%) Degree
5 3 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (1.72%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.57%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.47%) PCI DSS
2 12 (6.90%) GDPR
2 12 (6.90%) SOC 2
3 11 (6.32%) QA
4 4 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.15%) IFRS
5 2 (1.15%) SLA
6 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.57%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.57%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (12.07%) Docker
2 11 (6.32%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.15%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.57%) vCloud
4 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 51 (29.31%) Terraform
2 22 (12.64%) Kubernetes
3 12 (6.90%) Grafana
4 7 (4.02%) Ansible
4 7 (4.02%) Kibana
5 4 (2.30%) logstash
5 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.30%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.15%) Scalr
7 1 (0.57%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 67 (38.51%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.34%) Oracle
3 11 (6.32%) Cisco
3 11 (6.32%) Red Hat
4 10 (5.75%) Ab Initio
4 10 (5.75%) Palo Alto
5 9 (5.17%) Google
6 7 (4.02%) Informatica
7 6 (3.45%) F5
7 6 (3.45%) Juniper
7 6 (3.45%) SAP
8 5 (2.87%) Databricks
9 4 (2.30%) Concur
9 4 (2.30%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (2.30%) Fortinet
9 4 (2.30%) HubSpot
9 4 (2.30%) IBM
9 4 (2.30%) MuleSoft
9 4 (2.30%) Sage
10 3 (1.72%) Software AG