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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 608 502 526
Rank change year-on-year -106 +24 +38
Permanent jobs citing API Management 179 189 284
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.38% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.42% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 130 101 111
10th Percentile £55,875 £48,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £62,813 £57,750 £49,618
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -1.52% -4.00%
75th Percentile £89,688 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £51,848
% change year-on-year +3.85% +25.37% -20.66%

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 78,793 44,552 66,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.35% 89.17% 80.87%
Number of salaries quoted 54,339 25,245 43,003
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,650 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -88 172 £80,000 +23.08% 30
UK excluding London -117 97 £67,500 +3.85% 23
London -14 74 £84,250 +16.21% 20
Work from Home -50 56 £73,750 +1.72% 24
South East -32 30 £57,500 -11.54% 7
Midlands -58 21 £85,000 +13.33% 3
South West -53 20 £60,000 +6.67% 3
West Midlands -35 19 £87,500 +16.67% 1
East of England -23 13 £78,750 +25.00% 2
North of England -51 11 £82,500 +26.92% 3
North West -12 10 £84,000 +29.23% 1
Scotland -2 2 £67,500 +3.85% 6
East Midlands -37 2 £77,500 - 2
Yorkshire -32 1 £82,500 +77.42% 3

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 16 (8.94%) Confluence
2 13 (7.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (6.15%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.12%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.56%) Apache
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (5.59%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (7.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (5.03%) Carpe Diem
2 9 (5.03%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 161 (89.94%) Azure
2 67 (37.43%) Azure Logic Apps
3 65 (36.31%) Azure DevOps
4 64 (35.75%) Serverless
5 59 (32.96%) Azure Service Bus
6 53 (29.61%) Power Platform
7 51 (28.49%) Azure Functions
8 40 (22.35%) PaaS
9 29 (16.20%) Azure Monitor
10 28 (15.64%) Power Automate
11 26 (14.53%) Azure API Management
12 25 (13.97%) Dynamics 365
13 24 (13.41%) Azure Key Vault
13 24 (13.41%) GitHub
14 23 (12.85%) Azure Event Grid
15 21 (11.73%) PowerApps
16 20 (11.17%) AWS
17 18 (10.06%) Azure AKS
18 16 (8.94%) IaaS
18 16 (8.94%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.70%) VPN
2 11 (6.15%) Firewall
3 4 (2.23%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (1.12%) DNS
4 2 (1.12%) WAN
5 1 (0.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (22.91%) Azure SQL Database
2 25 (13.97%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (12.85%) Power BI
4 17 (9.50%) SQL Server
5 15 (8.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (5.59%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (5.59%) Db2
6 10 (5.59%) DTS
7 6 (3.35%) DynamoDB
7 6 (3.35%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.68%) ZAP BI
10 2 (1.12%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.12%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.12%) Metadata
10 2 (1.12%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.56%) Flink
11 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.56%) Looker
11 1 (0.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 47 (26.26%) Git
2 11 (6.15%) GitLab
3 6 (3.35%) JIRA
3 6 (3.35%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (2.79%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.23%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.23%) JUnit
5 4 (2.23%) NUnit
5 4 (2.23%) Postman
6 3 (1.68%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.68%) git-flow
6 3 (1.68%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.68%) Selenium
6 3 (1.68%) Snyk
6 3 (1.68%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.68%) Terragrunt
7 2 (1.12%) MSI
8 1 (0.56%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.56%) ERwin
General
1 74 (41.34%) Social Skills
2 50 (27.93%) Finance
3 23 (12.85%) Law
4 17 (9.50%) Legal
5 16 (8.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.59%) Telecoms
7 8 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.35%) Banking
9 5 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.23%) Military
10 4 (2.23%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.12%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.56%) Advertising
12 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.56%) Billing
12 1 (0.56%) Brand Awareness
12 1 (0.56%) Marketing
12 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (21.23%) Architect
2 32 (17.88%) Developer
3 31 (17.32%) Azure Engineer
4 28 (15.64%) Senior
5 27 (15.08%) Lead
6 20 (11.17%) Solutions Architect
7 17 (9.50%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (8.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 15 (8.38%) Integration Engineer
9 14 (7.82%) Applications Engineer
9 14 (7.82%) Software Developer
10 13 (7.26%) Analyst
11 12 (6.70%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 11 (6.15%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (5.03%) .NET Developer
13 9 (5.03%) .NET Software Developer
13 9 (5.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 8 (4.47%) Integration Manager
14 8 (4.47%) Network Engineer
14 8 (4.47%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (29.61%) .NET
2 32 (17.88%) REST
3 21 (11.73%) Node.js
4 20 (11.17%) JSON
5 17 (9.50%) Middleware
6 16 (8.94%) YAML
7 15 (8.38%) Spring
7 15 (8.38%) Spring Boot
8 13 (7.26%) OAuth
9 11 (6.15%) JWT
9 11 (6.15%) Kafka
9 11 (6.15%) OAuth2
9 11 (6.15%) RESTful
10 10 (5.59%) React
10 10 (5.59%) SOAP
10 10 (5.59%) XML
11 8 (4.47%) AngularJS
11 8 (4.47%) Jinja
12 7 (3.91%) .NET Core
12 7 (3.91%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 39 (21.79%) Cloud Native
2 20 (11.17%) Product Ownership
3 18 (10.06%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (7.26%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (7.26%) Public Cloud
5 12 (6.70%) Podcast
5 12 (6.70%) Security Posture
6 10 (5.59%) EPoS
6 10 (5.59%) iSeries
6 10 (5.59%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.35%) AI Agents
7 6 (3.35%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.23%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.12%) IoT
10 2 (1.12%) Reference Data
11 1 (0.56%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.82%) Windows
2 12 (6.70%) VMS
3 4 (2.23%) Linux
3 4 (2.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (54.75%) CI/CD
2 91 (50.84%) DevOps
3 68 (37.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 60 (33.52%) Agile
5 50 (27.93%) Event-Driven
6 41 (22.91%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (22.35%) Roadmaps
8 35 (19.55%) Microservices
9 34 (18.99%) Integration Patterns
10 33 (18.44%) AI
11 30 (16.76%) Cloud Security
11 30 (16.76%) Containerisation
11 30 (16.76%) Mentoring
11 30 (16.76%) Observability
12 29 (16.20%) Computer Science
13 28 (15.64%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (15.08%) Performance Tuning
15 24 (13.41%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 24 (13.41%) Technical Leadership
16 23 (12.85%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 79 (44.13%) SQL
2 63 (35.20%) C#
3 39 (21.79%) Python
4 20 (11.17%) PowerShell
5 19 (10.61%) Java
6 17 (9.50%) Bash
7 16 (8.94%) Bicep
7 16 (8.94%) JavaScript
8 12 (6.70%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (5.59%) RPG
10 5 (2.79%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.79%) TypeScript
11 4 (2.23%) Go
12 2 (1.12%) X++
13 1 (0.56%) Lua
13 1 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 30 (16.76%) Azure Certification
2 24 (13.41%) Microsoft Certification
3 20 (11.17%) Degree
4 6 (3.35%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (2.79%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.79%) Security Cleared
6 4 (2.23%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (2.23%) OCP
6 4 (2.23%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (2.23%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.12%) CCSP
8 2 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.12%) CISSP
9 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.38%) QA
2 13 (7.26%) GDPR
3 5 (2.79%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.68%) NIST
6 2 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (12.85%) Docker
2 18 (10.06%) Active Directory
3 12 (6.70%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (6.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (32.40%) Terraform
2 20 (11.17%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.15%) Grafana
4 9 (5.03%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.68%) Ansible
5 3 (1.68%) Scalr
6 2 (1.12%) Argo
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 91 (50.84%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.82%) Oracle
3 12 (6.70%) Red Hat
3 12 (6.70%) ScienceLogic
3 12 (6.70%) VMware
4 10 (5.59%) IBM
5 8 (4.47%) Cisco
6 7 (3.91%) Intapp
7 5 (2.79%) Aderant
7 5 (2.79%) Google
7 5 (2.79%) Splunk
8 4 (2.23%) Concur
8 4 (2.23%) Databricks
8 4 (2.23%) F5
8 4 (2.23%) Juniper
8 4 (2.23%) Palo Alto
8 4 (2.23%) SAP
9 3 (1.68%) HighQ
9 3 (1.68%) iManage
9 3 (1.68%) Sage