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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 467 492 554
Rank change year-on-year +25 +62 +140
Permanent jobs citing API Management 190 207 205
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.39% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.43% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 113 128 167
10th Percentile £47,650 £47,500 £50,686
25th Percentile £57,299 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -12.90%
75th Percentile £83,750 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,250 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £64,675
% change year-on-year - +0.50% -0.50%

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 50,076 48,429 57,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.42% 91.10% 89.12%
Number of salaries quoted 29,566 23,408 43,853
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 23 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 23 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 +38 166 £75,000 +7.14% 67
London +82 99 £77,000 -14.44% 17
UK excluding London -14 80 £65,000 - 59
Work from Home +41 72 £72,500 +7.41% 22
Midlands +37 29 £72,500 -3.33% 9
West Midlands +34 25 £72,500 +11.54% 3
North of England -3 16 £75,000 +13.87% 13
Scotland +5 15 £65,000 -10.34% 1
North West +20 12 £65,766 +14.38% 6
South East -34 7 £65,000 - 18
South West +10 6 £53,750 -10.42% 8
East of England +19 5 £55,000 -18.52% 7
East Midlands -1 4 £77,500 - 6
Yorkshire -21 4 £82,500 +25.26% 6
Wales - 2 £51,250 - 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 8 (4.21%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.68%) Apache Solr
3 6 (3.16%) Appian
4 4 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.58%) Anypoint
5 3 (1.58%) Apache
5 3 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.58%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.58%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (1.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 23 (12.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (7.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.11%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.05%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.05%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 134 (70.53%) Azure
2 62 (32.63%) Azure Logic Apps
3 49 (25.79%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (22.11%) Power Platform
5 33 (17.37%) Azure Service Bus
6 32 (16.84%) PaaS
6 32 (16.84%) Serverless
7 31 (16.32%) Azure Monitor
8 30 (15.79%) Azure Event Grid
8 30 (15.79%) GitHub
9 29 (15.26%) AWS
9 29 (15.26%) Power Automate
10 27 (14.21%) Dynamics 365
10 27 (14.21%) PowerApps
11 26 (13.68%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (11.58%) SaaS
13 20 (10.53%) IaaS
14 17 (8.95%) Azure AKS
15 16 (8.42%) Azure Data Factory
15 16 (8.42%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.16%) VPN
2 4 (2.11%) BGP
2 4 (2.11%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.11%) VLAN
3 2 (1.05%) DNS
3 2 (1.05%) Firewall
4 1 (0.53%) DHCP
4 1 (0.53%) IPv4
4 1 (0.53%) IPv6
4 1 (0.53%) LAN
4 1 (0.53%) MPLS
4 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (14.21%) Power BI
2 17 (8.95%) SQL Server
3 11 (5.79%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (3.68%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (3.68%) MySQL
4 7 (3.68%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.58%) Airbyte
6 3 (1.58%) Metadata
7 2 (1.05%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.53%) Big Data
8 1 (0.53%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.53%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (14.74%) Git
2 25 (13.16%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.58%) Postman
3 3 (1.58%) Robot Framework
3 3 (1.58%) Selenium
3 3 (1.58%) Snyk
4 2 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.05%) JIRA
5 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.53%) MSTest
5 1 (0.53%) NUnit
5 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
General
1 60 (31.58%) Finance
2 46 (24.21%) Social Skills
3 29 (15.26%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.37%) Law
5 13 (6.84%) Banking
6 12 (6.32%) Retail
7 10 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (4.21%) Back Office
8 8 (4.21%) Financial Institution
9 7 (3.68%) Health Technology
9 7 (3.68%) Legal
10 5 (2.63%) Marketing
10 5 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.58%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.05%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.53%) Advertising
13 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.53%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 52 (27.37%) Architect
2 44 (23.16%) Developer
3 37 (19.47%) Lead
4 19 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 18 (9.47%) Integration Developer
6 15 (7.89%) Support Engineer
7 12 (6.32%) Integration Manager
8 11 (5.79%) SAP Developer
8 11 (5.79%) Technical Architect
9 10 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (5.26%) Integration Engineer
9 10 (5.26%) Senior
10 9 (4.74%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (4.74%) Azure Architect
11 8 (4.21%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.21%) Development Engineer
11 8 (4.21%) Development Support Engineer
11 8 (4.21%) Lead Architect
12 7 (3.68%) Backend Developer
12 7 (3.68%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (26.32%) REST
2 34 (17.89%) SOAP
3 30 (15.79%) OAuth
4 26 (13.68%) RESTful
5 20 (10.53%) JSON
6 19 (10.00%) Middleware
6 19 (10.00%) Web Services
7 18 (9.47%) .NET
8 14 (7.37%) OAuth2
8 14 (7.37%) SAML
9 11 (5.79%) BAPI
9 11 (5.79%) IBM Integration Bus
9 11 (5.79%) JMS
9 11 (5.79%) Node.js
10 9 (4.74%) React
11 8 (4.21%) AngularJS
11 8 (4.21%) Swagger
12 7 (3.68%) .NET Core
12 7 (3.68%) Vue
12 7 (3.68%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 35 (18.42%) Cloud Native
2 28 (14.74%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (7.89%) Management Information System
4 14 (7.37%) Low-Code
5 9 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.74%) Product Ownership
6 8 (4.21%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (3.68%) Data Centre
7 7 (3.68%) NHS
7 7 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.63%) Blog
8 5 (2.63%) IoT
9 3 (1.58%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.53%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.53%) AS400
10 1 (0.53%) iSeries
10 1 (0.53%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.53%) Windows
2 13 (6.84%) Linux
3 8 (4.21%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.53%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (54.21%) CI/CD
2 92 (48.42%) DevOps
3 74 (38.95%) Agile
4 45 (23.68%) Migration
5 44 (23.16%) Infrastructure as Code
6 39 (20.53%) AI
6 39 (20.53%) Microservices
7 38 (20.00%) Analytics
7 38 (20.00%) Observability
8 35 (18.42%) CRM
8 35 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (17.89%) Roadmaps
9 34 (17.89%) Scrum
9 34 (17.89%) Test Automation
10 32 (16.84%) Data Pipeline
11 31 (16.32%) Architectural Patterns
11 31 (16.32%) Enterprise Architecture
11 31 (16.32%) Event-Driven
11 31 (16.32%) Integration Patterns
11 31 (16.32%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 32 (16.84%) SQL
2 26 (13.68%) Python
3 25 (13.16%) Bicep
3 25 (13.16%) JavaScript
4 24 (12.63%) C#
5 16 (8.42%) Java
6 10 (5.26%) PHP
7 8 (4.21%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.16%) ABAP
9 4 (2.11%) Bash
9 4 (2.11%) Go
10 3 (1.58%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.05%) Groovy
11 2 (1.05%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.05%) VB
12 1 (0.53%) Korn
12 1 (0.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (7.37%) Azure Certification
2 13 (6.84%) Degree
3 10 (5.26%) Security Cleared
4 8 (4.21%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (4.21%) TOGAF Certification
5 5 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.63%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.58%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.05%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.53%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.42%) GDPR
2 12 (6.32%) QA
3 9 (4.74%) SLA
4 8 (4.21%) PCI DSS
4 8 (4.21%) SOC 2
5 7 (3.68%) HL7
6 3 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.05%) IFRS
8 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.53%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.53%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (12.11%) Docker
2 8 (4.21%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.05%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.53%) vCloud
4 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 46 (24.21%) Terraform
2 18 (9.47%) Kubernetes
3 12 (6.32%) Ansible
4 8 (4.21%) Grafana
5 7 (3.68%) Kibana
6 4 (2.11%) logstash
7 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.53%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 64 (33.68%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.00%) Oracle
3 16 (8.42%) SAP
4 14 (7.37%) Ab Initio
5 13 (6.84%) IBM
6 10 (5.26%) Informatica
7 6 (3.16%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (3.16%) Fortinet
7 6 (3.16%) MuleSoft
7 6 (3.16%) Palo Alto
8 5 (2.63%) Databricks
8 5 (2.63%) Google
8 5 (2.63%) webMethods
9 4 (2.11%) HubSpot
9 4 (2.11%) VMware
10 3 (1.58%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (1.58%) Black Duck
10 3 (1.58%) Blue Prism
10 3 (1.58%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.58%) UiPath