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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 503 534
Rank change year-on-year +41 +31 +153
Permanent jobs citing API Management 183 207 195
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.39% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.43% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 112 129 161
10th Percentile £46,300 £47,500 £48,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%

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 48,096 48,629 50,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.07% 90.53% 89.95%
Number of salaries quoted 28,289 23,726 38,360
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 +43 159 £75,000 +7.14% 38
London +81 92 £76,500 -15.00% 18
UK excluding London -2 80 £65,000 - 26
Work from Home +46 65 £72,500 +11.54% 22
Midlands +37 30 £72,500 -3.33% 5
West Midlands +47 26 £72,500 +11.54% 5
Scotland +15 15 £65,000 -10.34%
North of England +4 14 £75,000 +25.00% 6
North West +27 10 £65,766 +7.37% 4
South East -26 10 £63,750 -1.92% 9
East of England +14 5 £55,000 -18.52% 1
South West +7 4 £40,375 -32.71% 5
East Midlands -4 4 £77,500 -
Yorkshire -21 4 £82,500 +32.53% 2
Wales - 2 £51,250 -

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 8 (4.37%) Appian
1 8 (4.37%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.83%) Apache Solr
3 5 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.19%) Apache
4 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.64%) Anypoint
5 3 (1.64%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.64%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (1.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 23 (12.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (8.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.19%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.09%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.09%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.09%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 132 (72.13%) Azure
2 61 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 48 (26.23%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (24.59%) Power Platform
5 34 (18.58%) Azure Service Bus
6 32 (17.49%) PaaS
7 30 (16.39%) Power Automate
8 29 (15.85%) Serverless
9 28 (15.30%) AWS
9 28 (15.30%) Azure Event Grid
9 28 (15.30%) Azure Monitor
9 28 (15.30%) GitHub
10 27 (14.75%) Dynamics 365
10 27 (14.75%) PowerApps
11 25 (13.66%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (10.93%) IaaS
13 19 (10.38%) SaaS
14 17 (9.29%) Azure Data Factory
15 16 (8.74%) Azure AKS
16 15 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.73%) VPN
2 3 (1.64%) BGP
2 3 (1.64%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.64%) VLAN
3 2 (1.09%) DNS
3 2 (1.09%) Firewall
4 1 (0.55%) DHCP
4 1 (0.55%) IPv4
4 1 (0.55%) IPv6
4 1 (0.55%) LAN
4 1 (0.55%) MPLS
4 1 (0.55%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (14.75%) Power BI
2 16 (8.74%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.46%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (4.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (3.83%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (3.83%) MySQL
5 7 (3.83%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.19%) Airbyte
7 3 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.64%) Metadata
8 2 (1.09%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.55%) Big Data
9 1 (0.55%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (15.30%) Git
2 24 (13.11%) Visual Studio
3 5 (2.73%) Robot Framework
3 5 (2.73%) Selenium
3 5 (2.73%) Snyk
4 3 (1.64%) Postman
5 2 (1.09%) JIRA
5 2 (1.09%) MSTest
5 2 (1.09%) NUnit
6 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.55%) SonarQube
General
1 54 (29.51%) Finance
2 46 (25.14%) Social Skills
3 29 (15.85%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.01%) Law
5 9 (4.92%) Banking
5 9 (4.92%) Retail
6 7 (3.83%) Health Technology
6 7 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.83%) Legal
7 5 (2.73%) Back Office
7 5 (2.73%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.73%) Marketing
7 5 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.64%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.09%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.55%) Advertising
10 1 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 53 (28.96%) Architect
2 43 (23.50%) Developer
3 36 (19.67%) Lead
4 19 (10.38%) Integration Developer
5 18 (9.84%) Solutions Architect
6 13 (7.10%) Support Engineer
7 12 (6.56%) Integration Manager
8 11 (6.01%) SAP Developer
8 11 (6.01%) Technical Architect
9 10 (5.46%) Integration Engineer
10 9 (4.92%) Azure Architect
11 8 (4.37%) Development Engineer
11 8 (4.37%) Development Support Engineer
11 8 (4.37%) Lead Architect
11 8 (4.37%) Senior
12 7 (3.83%) Applications Architect
12 7 (3.83%) Backend Developer
12 7 (3.83%) Delivery Manager
12 7 (3.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.83%) Integration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (27.87%) REST
2 34 (18.58%) SOAP
3 30 (16.39%) OAuth
4 24 (13.11%) RESTful
5 20 (10.93%) JSON
6 19 (10.38%) Middleware
6 19 (10.38%) Web Services
7 15 (8.20%) .NET
8 14 (7.65%) OAuth2
8 14 (7.65%) SAML
9 11 (6.01%) BAPI
9 11 (6.01%) IBM Integration Bus
9 11 (6.01%) JMS
9 11 (6.01%) Node.js
10 9 (4.92%) AngularJS
10 9 (4.92%) React
11 7 (3.83%) .NET Core
11 7 (3.83%) FHIR
11 7 (3.83%) Vue
12 6 (3.28%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 35 (19.13%) Cloud Native
2 28 (15.30%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (8.74%) Low-Code
4 14 (7.65%) Management Information System
5 10 (5.46%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.83%) NHS
6 7 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.73%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.73%) IoT
9 3 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.09%) Blog
11 1 (0.55%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.55%) AS400
11 1 (0.55%) Clustering
11 1 (0.55%) iSeries
11 1 (0.55%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.84%) Windows
2 13 (7.10%) Linux
3 8 (4.37%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.55%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (54.64%) CI/CD
2 89 (48.63%) DevOps
3 75 (40.98%) Agile
4 43 (23.50%) Migration
5 40 (21.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (20.77%) AI
6 38 (20.77%) Microservices
7 37 (20.22%) Test Automation
8 35 (19.13%) Analytics
8 35 (19.13%) CRM
8 35 (19.13%) Scrum
9 34 (18.58%) Technical Leadership
10 33 (18.03%) Observability
10 33 (18.03%) Roadmaps
11 32 (17.49%) Architectural Patterns
11 32 (17.49%) Data Pipeline
11 32 (17.49%) Integration Patterns
11 32 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (16.94%) Enterprise Architecture
12 31 (16.94%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 31 (16.94%) SQL
2 26 (14.21%) Python
3 25 (13.66%) Bicep
4 23 (12.57%) JavaScript
5 21 (11.48%) C#
6 13 (7.10%) Java
7 10 (5.46%) PHP
8 8 (4.37%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.28%) ABAP
10 4 (2.19%) Bash
11 3 (1.64%) Go
11 3 (1.64%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.09%) Groovy
12 2 (1.09%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.55%) Korn
13 1 (0.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (7.65%) Azure Certification
2 13 (7.10%) Degree
3 12 (6.56%) Security Cleared
4 8 (4.37%) TOGAF Certification
5 7 (3.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (3.28%) SC Cleared
7 5 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.64%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.64%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.55%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.74%) GDPR
2 13 (7.10%) QA
3 9 (4.92%) SLA
4 7 (3.83%) HL7
5 5 (2.73%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.73%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.09%) IFRS
8 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.55%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.55%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (12.02%) Docker
2 6 (3.28%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.09%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.55%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 43 (23.50%) Terraform
2 15 (8.20%) Kubernetes
3 14 (7.65%) Ansible
4 6 (3.28%) Grafana
5 5 (2.73%) Kibana
6 4 (2.19%) logstash
7 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.55%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 62 (33.88%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.38%) Oracle
3 16 (8.74%) SAP
4 14 (7.65%) Ab Initio
5 13 (7.10%) IBM
6 10 (5.46%) Informatica
7 6 (3.28%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (3.28%) Databricks
7 6 (3.28%) Fortinet
7 6 (3.28%) MuleSoft
7 6 (3.28%) Palo Alto
7 6 (3.28%) VMware
8 5 (2.73%) BiZZdesign
8 5 (2.73%) Black Duck
8 5 (2.73%) UiPath
8 5 (2.73%) webMethods
9 4 (2.19%) Blue Prism
9 4 (2.19%) Coverity
9 4 (2.19%) Google
9 4 (2.19%) HubSpot