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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 635 488 544
Rank change year-on-year -147 +56 -24
Permanent jobs citing API Management 179 196 245
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 122 105 120
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £73,750 £57,500 £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 £85,000
90th Percentile - £95,000 £110,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +15.04% -13.54%

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 86,307 43,936 60,951
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.14% 89.11% 81.72%
Number of salaries quoted 59,386 24,309 33,164
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,033
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.23% -3.28%
75th Percentile £79,641 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -122 172 £82,500 +15.38% 141
London -42 93 £83,500 +11.33% 77
UK excluding London -166 78 £67,500 +3.85% 68
Work from Home -71 54 £82,500 +13.79% 68
South West -60 22 £60,000 +11.63% 3
South East -62 21 £57,500 -11.54% 21
East of England -27 13 £78,750 +36.96% 4
Midlands -86 12 £90,000 +24.14% 14
West Midlands -59 11 £90,000 +24.14% 13
North of England -79 10 £80,250 +23.46% 17
North West -42 8 £78,000 +20.00% 8
Yorkshire -37 2 £82,500 +50.00% 9
Scotland +13 1 £90,000 +38.46% 8
East Midlands -54 1 - - 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 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 13 (7.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (6.15%) Carpe Diem
2 11 (6.15%) Elite 3E
3 4 (2.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 166 (92.74%) Azure
2 70 (39.11%) Serverless
3 68 (37.99%) Azure Service Bus
4 66 (36.87%) Azure DevOps
4 66 (36.87%) Azure Logic Apps
5 60 (33.52%) Azure Functions
6 51 (28.49%) Power Platform
7 39 (21.79%) Azure API Management
8 35 (19.55%) Azure Monitor
9 34 (18.99%) PaaS
10 33 (18.44%) GitHub
11 31 (17.32%) Power Automate
12 30 (16.76%) Azure Key Vault
13 25 (13.97%) Dynamics 365
14 22 (12.29%) PowerApps
15 21 (11.73%) Azure Event Grid
16 20 (11.17%) SaaS
17 17 (9.50%) AWS
17 17 (9.50%) Azure AKS
18 14 (7.82%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.70%) VPN
2 3 (1.68%) Firewall
3 2 (1.12%) DNS
4 1 (0.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (22.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 25 (13.97%) Power BI
3 23 (12.85%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (11.17%) SQL Server
5 17 (9.50%) 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
10 5 (2.79%) Metadata
11 3 (1.68%) ZAP BI
12 2 (1.12%) Delta Lake
12 2 (1.12%) InfluxDB
12 2 (1.12%) NoSQL
12 2 (1.12%) Redis
13 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 41 (22.91%) 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
11 3 (1.68%) Publishing
12 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.12%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.12%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.56%) Advertising
13 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.56%) Billing
13 1 (0.56%) Marketing
13 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (22.91%) Developer
2 40 (22.35%) Architect
3 32 (17.88%) Azure Engineer
4 30 (16.76%) Senior
5 27 (15.08%) Lead
6 19 (10.61%) Solutions Architect
7 16 (8.94%) Applications Engineer
7 16 (8.94%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (8.94%) Integration Engineer
8 14 (7.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 14 (7.82%) Software Developer
9 13 (7.26%) Analyst
10 12 (6.70%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 11 (6.15%) .NET Developer
11 11 (6.15%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (5.59%) Azure Developer
12 10 (5.59%) Integration Architect
12 10 (5.59%) Senior Developer
13 9 (5.03%) .NET Software Developer
13 9 (5.03%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (32.40%) Terraform
2 52 (29.05%) .NET
3 41 (22.91%) REST
4 19 (10.61%) Node.js
5 16 (8.94%) Middleware
5 16 (8.94%) RESTful
5 16 (8.94%) Spring
5 16 (8.94%) Spring Boot
6 15 (8.38%) OAuth
7 13 (7.26%) JSON
7 13 (7.26%) OAuth2
8 12 (6.70%) JWT
9 11 (6.15%) Kafka
9 11 (6.15%) SOAP
10 10 (5.59%) .NET Core
10 10 (5.59%) AngularJS
10 10 (5.59%) React
11 7 (3.91%) .NET Framework
11 7 (3.91%) GraphQL
12 6 (3.35%) YAML
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%) Enterprise Cloud
13 2 (1.12%) IoT
13 2 (1.12%) Mobile App
14 1 (0.56%) Machine to Machine
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 66 (36.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 61 (34.08%) Event-Driven
5 58 (32.40%) Agile
6 47 (26.26%) Roadmaps
7 42 (23.46%) Integration Patterns
7 42 (23.46%) Microservices
8 37 (20.67%) AI
8 37 (20.67%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (20.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 36 (20.11%) Observability
10 35 (19.55%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (19.55%) Mentoring
11 34 (18.99%) Cloud Security
12 31 (17.32%) Computer Science
13 28 (15.64%) Analytics
13 28 (15.64%) Test Automation
14 27 (15.08%) Performance Tuning
15 26 (14.53%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 86 (48.04%) SQL
2 66 (36.87%) C#
3 27 (15.08%) 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 1 (0.56%) ABAP
12 1 (0.56%) Groovy
12 1 (0.56%) Lua
12 1 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 36 (20.11%) Azure Certification
2 26 (14.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 22 (12.29%) Degree
4 13 (7.26%) Security Cleared
5 10 (5.59%) SC Cleared
6 7 (3.91%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.79%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (2.79%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.23%) OCP
8 4 (2.23%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (2.23%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.12%) CCSP
9 2 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.12%) CISSP
10 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
10 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 20 (11.17%) 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 7 (3.91%) 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 99 (55.31%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.82%) Oracle
3 12 (6.70%) ScienceLogic
3 12 (6.70%) VMware
4 11 (6.15%) IBM
5 7 (3.91%) Aderant
5 7 (3.91%) Intapp
5 7 (3.91%) Splunk
6 6 (3.35%) Dynatrace
6 6 (3.35%) 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%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.12%) Ariba
9 2 (1.12%) Concur
9 2 (1.12%) Google
9 2 (1.12%) Informatica
9 2 (1.12%) MuleSoft