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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 620 480 524
Rank change year-on-year -140 +44 +23
Permanent jobs citing API Management 173 192 294
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.39% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.43% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 126 103 116
10th Percentile £56,250 £48,600 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,813 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -0.76% -2.96%
75th Percentile £89,688 £75,000 £85,313
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £110,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +18.18% -15.84%

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 80,408 44,155 65,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.09% 88.60% 80.85%
Number of salaries quoted 55,868 25,145 40,215
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,075
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.92% -6.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -6.86% -6.58%

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 2 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 2 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 -110 164 £81,250 +25.00% 115
UK excluding London -128 90 £67,500 +3.85% 50
London -41 74 £84,250 +16.21% 87
Work from Home -63 53 £75,250 +11.48% 51
South East -42 27 £57,500 -11.54% 14
South West -56 21 £60,000 +6.67% 4
Midlands -68 16 £90,000 +24.14% 9
West Midlands -40 14 £90,000 +24.14% 2
East of England -16 13 £78,750 +34.62% 3
North of England -66 10 £80,250 +23.46% 5
North West -27 9 £78,000 +20.00% 5
Scotland +2 3 £67,500 +3.85% 14
East Midlands -42 2 £77,500 - 7
Yorkshire -48 1 £82,500 +77.42%

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 (8.67%) Confluence
2 12 (6.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (6.36%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.16%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.58%) Apache
5 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (5.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (8.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (5.78%) Carpe Diem
2 10 (5.78%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.58%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 157 (90.75%) Azure
2 65 (37.57%) Azure Logic Apps
2 65 (37.57%) Serverless
3 63 (36.42%) Azure DevOps
4 59 (34.10%) Azure Service Bus
5 52 (30.06%) Azure Functions
6 50 (28.90%) Power Platform
7 35 (20.23%) PaaS
8 30 (17.34%) Power Automate
9 29 (16.76%) Azure API Management
9 29 (16.76%) Azure Monitor
10 26 (15.03%) Dynamics 365
11 24 (13.87%) Azure Key Vault
11 24 (13.87%) GitHub
12 23 (13.29%) PowerApps
13 21 (12.14%) Azure Event Grid
14 20 (11.56%) AWS
15 19 (10.98%) Azure AKS
16 14 (8.09%) SaaS
17 13 (7.51%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.94%) VPN
2 9 (5.20%) Firewall
3 3 (1.73%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (1.16%) DNS
5 1 (0.58%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (23.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 25 (14.45%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (13.29%) Power BI
4 18 (10.40%) SQL Server
5 15 (8.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (6.36%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (5.78%) Db2
7 10 (5.78%) DTS
8 6 (3.47%) DynamoDB
9 5 (2.89%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.73%) ZAP BI
12 2 (1.16%) Delta Lake
12 2 (1.16%) InfluxDB
12 2 (1.16%) Metadata
12 2 (1.16%) NoSQL
13 1 (0.58%) Flink
13 1 (0.58%) Looker
13 1 (0.58%) MySQL
13 1 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 45 (26.01%) Git
2 9 (5.20%) GitLab
3 7 (4.05%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (2.89%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.89%) JIRA
5 4 (2.31%) Postman
6 3 (1.73%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.73%) git-flow
6 3 (1.73%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.73%) JUnit
6 3 (1.73%) NUnit
6 3 (1.73%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.73%) Selenium
6 3 (1.73%) Snyk
6 3 (1.73%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.73%) Terragrunt
7 2 (1.16%) MSI
8 1 (0.58%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.58%) ERwin
General
1 70 (40.46%) Social Skills
2 47 (27.17%) Finance
3 24 (13.87%) Law
4 16 (9.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (8.67%) Legal
6 8 (4.62%) Telecoms
7 7 (4.05%) Banking
8 6 (3.47%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.31%) Military
9 4 (2.31%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.16%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.58%) Advertising
11 1 (0.58%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.58%) Billing
11 1 (0.58%) Brand Awareness
11 1 (0.58%) Marketing
11 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (20.23%) Architect
2 33 (19.08%) Azure Engineer
3 32 (18.50%) Developer
4 26 (15.03%) Lead
5 25 (14.45%) Senior
6 18 (10.40%) Solutions Architect
7 17 (9.83%) DevOps Engineer
8 16 (9.25%) Integration Engineer
9 15 (8.67%) Applications Engineer
9 15 (8.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 14 (8.09%) Software Developer
11 13 (7.51%) Analyst
12 12 (6.94%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 11 (6.36%) Platform Engineer
14 9 (5.20%) .NET Developer
14 9 (5.20%) .NET Software Developer
14 9 (5.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 8 (4.62%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 8 (4.62%) Integration Manager
15 8 (4.62%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (33.53%) Terraform
2 54 (31.21%) .NET
3 32 (18.50%) REST
4 20 (11.56%) Node.js
5 18 (10.40%) JSON
6 15 (8.67%) Middleware
6 15 (8.67%) Spring
6 15 (8.67%) Spring Boot
7 14 (8.09%) YAML
8 12 (6.94%) OAuth
8 12 (6.94%) RESTful
9 11 (6.36%) Kafka
9 11 (6.36%) OAuth2
10 10 (5.78%) JWT
10 10 (5.78%) SOAP
11 9 (5.20%) React
11 9 (5.20%) XML
12 8 (4.62%) AngularJS
13 7 (4.05%) .NET Core
13 7 (4.05%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 34 (19.65%) Cloud Native
2 21 (12.14%) Product Ownership
3 15 (8.67%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (6.94%) Podcast
4 12 (6.94%) Public Cloud
4 12 (6.94%) Security Posture
5 10 (5.78%) EPoS
5 10 (5.78%) iSeries
6 9 (5.20%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (5.20%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.47%) AI Agents
7 6 (3.47%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.31%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.16%) IoT
10 2 (1.16%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.16%) Reference Data
11 1 (0.58%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.94%) VMS
1 12 (6.94%) Windows
2 3 (1.73%) Linux
2 3 (1.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (55.49%) CI/CD
2 85 (49.13%) DevOps
3 65 (37.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (32.37%) Agile
5 49 (28.32%) Event-Driven
6 39 (22.54%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (22.54%) Roadmaps
7 35 (20.23%) Microservices
8 33 (19.08%) AI
9 31 (17.92%) Integration Patterns
9 31 (17.92%) Observability
10 30 (17.34%) Cloud Security
10 30 (17.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (16.76%) Computer Science
11 29 (16.76%) Mentoring
12 27 (15.61%) Containerisation
12 27 (15.61%) Performance Tuning
13 25 (14.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 23 (13.29%) Technical Leadership
15 22 (12.72%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 81 (46.82%) SQL
2 65 (37.57%) C#
3 37 (21.39%) Python
4 20 (11.56%) PowerShell
5 18 (10.40%) Bash
5 18 (10.40%) Java
6 16 (9.25%) Bicep
7 14 (8.09%) JavaScript
8 12 (6.94%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (5.78%) RPG
10 5 (2.89%) T-SQL
11 4 (2.31%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.73%) Go
12 3 (1.73%) X++
13 1 (0.58%) Lua
13 1 (0.58%) PHP
Qualifications
1 30 (17.34%) Azure Certification
2 25 (14.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 20 (11.56%) Degree
4 6 (3.47%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (2.89%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.89%) Security Cleared
6 4 (2.31%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (2.31%) OCP
6 4 (2.31%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (2.31%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.16%) CCSP
8 2 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.16%) CISSP
9 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.58%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.09%) QA
2 13 (7.51%) GDPR
3 5 (2.89%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.73%) NIST
6 2 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (12.72%) Docker
2 15 (8.67%) Active Directory
3 12 (6.94%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (6.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (10.98%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.36%) Grafana
3 9 (5.20%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.73%) Ansible
4 3 (1.73%) Scalr
5 2 (1.16%) Argo
6 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 89 (51.45%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.51%) Oracle
3 12 (6.94%) ScienceLogic
3 12 (6.94%) VMware
4 11 (6.36%) IBM
5 10 (5.78%) Red Hat
6 7 (4.05%) Intapp
7 6 (3.47%) Aderant
7 6 (3.47%) Cisco
8 5 (2.89%) Google
8 5 (2.89%) Splunk
9 4 (2.31%) Databricks
9 4 (2.31%) SAP
10 3 (1.73%) F5
10 3 (1.73%) HighQ
10 3 (1.73%) iManage
10 3 (1.73%) Juniper
10 3 (1.73%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.73%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.16%) Ariba