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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 604 510 546
Rank change year-on-year -94 +36 +2
Permanent jobs citing API Management 181 182 288
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.37% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.41% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 130 97 111
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,450 £40,000
25th Percentile £61,563 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £88,438 £78,750 £88,125
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £52,198
% change year-on-year +3.85% +24.53% -20.13%

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 77,915 44,448 67,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.48% 89.27% 81.15%
Number of salaries quoted 53,724 25,250 43,771
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -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 12 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 12 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 -78 173 £80,000 +23.08% 112
UK excluding London -122 100 £67,500 +3.85% 42
London -23 72 £83,500 +17.19% 81
Work from Home -47 58 £71,250 - 46
South East -36 32 £57,500 -11.54% 20
Midlands -41 23 £85,000 +13.33% 1
West Midlands -28 21 £85,000 +13.33%
South West -48 20 £60,000 +6.67% 2
East of England -26 12 £80,000 +26.98% 2
North of England -64 11 £82,500 +26.92% 10
North West -31 10 £84,000 +29.23% 7
Scotland +12 2 £67,500 +3.85% 7
East Midlands -34 2 £77,500 - 1
Yorkshire -29 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 (8.84%) Confluence
2 13 (7.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (5.52%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.10%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.55%) Apache
5 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (5.52%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (7.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (4.42%) Carpe Diem
2 8 (4.42%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.55%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 161 (88.95%) Azure
2 64 (35.36%) Azure DevOps
2 64 (35.36%) Azure Logic Apps
3 62 (34.25%) Serverless
4 56 (30.94%) Azure Service Bus
5 54 (29.83%) Power Platform
6 49 (27.07%) Azure Functions
7 43 (23.76%) PaaS
8 29 (16.02%) Azure Monitor
9 27 (14.92%) Power Automate
10 26 (14.36%) Azure API Management
11 25 (13.81%) Dynamics 365
12 24 (13.26%) Azure Event Grid
13 23 (12.71%) GitHub
14 22 (12.15%) AWS
14 22 (12.15%) Azure Key Vault
15 20 (11.05%) PowerApps
16 18 (9.94%) IaaS
16 18 (9.94%) Microsoft 365
17 17 (9.39%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.18%) Firewall
2 12 (6.63%) VPN
3 5 (2.76%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (1.66%) WAN
5 2 (1.10%) DNS
5 2 (1.10%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (22.10%) Azure SQL Database
2 25 (13.81%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (12.71%) Power BI
4 17 (9.39%) SQL Server
5 15 (8.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (5.52%) Db2
6 10 (5.52%) DTS
7 9 (4.97%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (3.31%) DynamoDB
8 6 (3.31%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.66%) Metadata
10 3 (1.66%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.66%) ZAP BI
11 2 (1.10%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.10%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.55%) Flink
12 1 (0.55%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.55%) Looker
12 1 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (25.97%) Git
2 13 (7.18%) GitLab
3 6 (3.31%) JIRA
3 6 (3.31%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (2.76%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.21%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.21%) JUnit
5 4 (2.21%) NUnit
5 4 (2.21%) Postman
6 3 (1.66%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.66%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.66%) Selenium
6 3 (1.66%) Snyk
6 3 (1.66%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.10%) git-flow
7 2 (1.10%) MSI
7 2 (1.10%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.55%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.55%) ERwin
General
1 76 (41.99%) Social Skills
2 51 (28.18%) Finance
3 22 (12.15%) Law
4 17 (9.39%) Legal
5 16 (8.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (6.63%) Telecoms
7 9 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.76%) Banking
10 4 (2.21%) Military
10 4 (2.21%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.10%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.55%) Advertising
12 1 (0.55%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.55%) Billing
12 1 (0.55%) Brand Awareness
12 1 (0.55%) Marketing
12 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (22.65%) Architect
2 31 (17.13%) Developer
3 30 (16.57%) Azure Engineer
4 28 (15.47%) Senior
5 27 (14.92%) Lead
6 22 (12.15%) Solutions Architect
7 17 (9.39%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (8.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 14 (7.73%) Integration Engineer
9 14 (7.73%) Software Developer
10 13 (7.18%) Analyst
10 13 (7.18%) Applications Engineer
11 12 (6.63%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 11 (6.08%) Platform Engineer
13 10 (5.52%) Automation Engineer
13 10 (5.52%) Network Engineer
13 10 (5.52%) Telecoms Engineer
14 9 (4.97%) .NET Developer
14 9 (4.97%) .NET Software Developer
14 9 (4.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (28.73%) .NET
2 32 (17.68%) REST
3 22 (12.15%) JSON
4 21 (11.60%) Node.js
5 18 (9.94%) YAML
6 17 (9.39%) Middleware
7 15 (8.29%) Spring
7 15 (8.29%) Spring Boot
8 13 (7.18%) OAuth
9 11 (6.08%) JWT
9 11 (6.08%) Kafka
9 11 (6.08%) OAuth2
9 11 (6.08%) XML
10 10 (5.52%) Jinja
10 10 (5.52%) React
10 10 (5.52%) RESTful
10 10 (5.52%) SOAP
11 8 (4.42%) AngularJS
12 7 (3.87%) .NET Core
12 7 (3.87%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 40 (22.10%) Cloud Native
2 19 (10.50%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (9.39%) Product Ownership
4 13 (7.18%) Public Cloud
5 12 (6.63%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (6.63%) Podcast
5 12 (6.63%) Security Posture
6 11 (6.08%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (5.52%) EPoS
7 10 (5.52%) iSeries
8 6 (3.31%) AI Agents
8 6 (3.31%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.21%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (1.10%) IoT
11 2 (1.10%) Reference Data
12 1 (0.55%) Low-Code
12 1 (0.55%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.29%) Windows
2 12 (6.63%) VMS
3 5 (2.76%) Linux
3 5 (2.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (53.59%) CI/CD
2 93 (51.38%) DevOps
3 69 (38.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (34.25%) Agile
5 49 (27.07%) Event-Driven
6 42 (23.20%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (23.20%) Roadmaps
7 37 (20.44%) Integration Patterns
8 34 (18.78%) AI
8 34 (18.78%) Microservices
9 32 (17.68%) Containerisation
10 31 (17.13%) Cloud Security
10 31 (17.13%) Observability
11 30 (16.57%) Mentoring
12 29 (16.02%) Computer Science
13 28 (15.47%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (14.92%) Performance Tuning
15 25 (13.81%) Analytics
16 24 (13.26%) Technical Leadership
17 23 (12.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 78 (43.09%) SQL
2 60 (33.15%) C#
3 41 (22.65%) Python
4 20 (11.05%) PowerShell
5 19 (10.50%) Java
6 17 (9.39%) Bash
6 17 (9.39%) JavaScript
7 15 (8.29%) Bicep
8 12 (6.63%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (5.52%) RPG
10 5 (2.76%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.76%) TypeScript
11 4 (2.21%) Go
12 2 (1.10%) X++
13 1 (0.55%) Lua
13 1 (0.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 30 (16.57%) Azure Certification
2 24 (13.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 20 (11.05%) Degree
4 6 (3.31%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (2.76%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.76%) Security Cleared
6 4 (2.21%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (2.21%) OCP
6 4 (2.21%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (2.21%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.10%) CCSP
8 2 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.10%) CISSP
9 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.55%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.29%) QA
2 13 (7.18%) GDPR
3 5 (2.76%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.66%) NIST
6 2 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.55%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (12.71%) Docker
2 19 (10.50%) Active Directory
3 12 (6.63%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (6.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (31.49%) Terraform
2 20 (11.05%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.08%) Grafana
4 9 (4.97%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.66%) Ansible
5 3 (1.66%) Scalr
6 2 (1.10%) Argo
7 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 91 (50.28%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.73%) Red Hat
3 13 (7.18%) Oracle
4 12 (6.63%) ScienceLogic
4 12 (6.63%) VMware
5 10 (5.52%) Cisco
5 10 (5.52%) IBM
6 7 (3.87%) Intapp
7 5 (2.76%) Concur
7 5 (2.76%) Databricks
7 5 (2.76%) F5
7 5 (2.76%) Google
7 5 (2.76%) Juniper
7 5 (2.76%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.76%) Splunk
8 4 (2.21%) Aderant
8 4 (2.21%) Sage
8 4 (2.21%) SAP
9 3 (1.66%) HighQ
9 3 (1.66%) Salesforce