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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 458 501 566
Rank change year-on-year +43 +65 +124
Permanent jobs citing API Management 192 216 207
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.41% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.45% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 112 136 167
10th Percentile £47,200 £47,500 £50,376
25th Percentile £57,299 £60,375 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,363 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.34% -0.20% -10.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,625 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £101,250
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 50,778 48,019 60,381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.25% 91.58% 88.81%
Number of salaries quoted 30,009 23,112 46,660
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,444
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.45% -8.09%
75th Percentile £75,900 £80,000 £76,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 29 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 29 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 +32 168 £75,000 +7.14% 68
London +91 102 £77,000 -14.44% 16
UK excluding London -29 79 £65,000 - 57
Work from Home +25 74 £69,133 +6.36% 21
Midlands +21 28 £72,500 -3.33% 9
West Midlands +41 24 £72,500 +11.54% 3
North of England -3 16 £75,000 +11.57% 13
Scotland +8 15 £65,000 -10.34% 1
North West +28 12 £65,766 +14.38% 6
South East -43 7 £85,000 +30.77% 17
South West +9 6 £53,750 -18.56% 7
East of England +20 5 £55,000 -18.52% 7
East Midlands -9 4 £77,500 - 6
Yorkshire -23 4 £82,500 +22.72% 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 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.65%) Apache Solr
3 6 (3.13%) Appian
4 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.56%) Anypoint
5 3 (1.56%) Apache
5 3 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.56%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.56%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (1.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 23 (11.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (7.81%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.08%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.04%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.04%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 133 (69.27%) Azure
2 62 (32.29%) Azure Logic Apps
3 49 (25.52%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (21.88%) Power Platform
5 33 (17.19%) Azure Service Bus
6 32 (16.67%) AWS
6 32 (16.67%) Serverless
7 31 (16.15%) PaaS
8 30 (15.63%) Azure Event Grid
8 30 (15.63%) Azure Monitor
8 30 (15.63%) GitHub
9 29 (15.10%) Power Automate
10 27 (14.06%) Dynamics 365
10 27 (14.06%) PowerApps
11 26 (13.54%) GitHub Actions
11 26 (13.54%) SaaS
12 19 (9.90%) IaaS
13 16 (8.33%) Azure AKS
13 16 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
13 16 (8.33%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.17%) VPN
2 6 (3.13%) BGP
2 6 (3.13%) TCP/IP
2 6 (3.13%) VLAN
3 2 (1.04%) DNS
3 2 (1.04%) Firewall
4 1 (0.52%) DHCP
4 1 (0.52%) IPv4
4 1 (0.52%) IPv6
4 1 (0.52%) LAN
4 1 (0.52%) MPLS
4 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (14.06%) Power BI
2 17 (8.85%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.21%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (3.65%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (3.65%) MySQL
4 7 (3.65%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.56%) Airbyte
6 3 (1.56%) Metadata
6 3 (1.56%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.52%) Big Data
7 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (14.58%) Git
2 25 (13.02%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.56%) Postman
3 3 (1.56%) Robot Framework
3 3 (1.56%) Selenium
3 3 (1.56%) Snyk
4 2 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.04%) JIRA
5 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.52%) MSTest
5 1 (0.52%) NUnit
5 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
General
1 63 (32.81%) Finance
2 48 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 29 (15.10%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.85%) Law
5 16 (8.33%) Banking
6 15 (7.81%) Retail
7 13 (6.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (5.73%) Back Office
8 11 (5.73%) Financial Institution
9 7 (3.65%) Health Technology
9 7 (3.65%) Legal
10 5 (2.60%) Marketing
10 5 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.56%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.56%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.52%) Advertising
13 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 51 (26.56%) Architect
2 43 (22.40%) Developer
3 37 (19.27%) Lead
4 18 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
5 17 (8.85%) Integration Developer
6 15 (7.81%) Support Engineer
7 13 (6.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
8 12 (6.25%) Integration Manager
9 11 (5.73%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (5.21%) Integration Engineer
10 10 (5.21%) SAP Developer
10 10 (5.21%) Senior
10 10 (5.21%) Technical Architect
11 9 (4.69%) Azure Architect
12 8 (4.17%) Development Engineer
12 8 (4.17%) Development Support Engineer
12 8 (4.17%) Lead Architect
13 7 (3.65%) Applications Support Engineer
13 7 (3.65%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (25.52%) REST
2 33 (17.19%) SOAP
3 29 (15.10%) OAuth
4 28 (14.58%) RESTful
5 20 (10.42%) JSON
6 19 (9.90%) Web Services
7 18 (9.38%) .NET
7 18 (9.38%) Middleware
8 14 (7.29%) OAuth2
9 13 (6.77%) SAML
10 12 (6.25%) Node.js
11 10 (5.21%) BAPI
11 10 (5.21%) IBM Integration Bus
11 10 (5.21%) JMS
12 9 (4.69%) React
13 8 (4.17%) AngularJS
13 8 (4.17%) Swagger
14 7 (3.65%) .NET Core
14 7 (3.65%) Vue
14 7 (3.65%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 37 (19.27%) Cloud Native
2 27 (14.06%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (7.81%) Management Information System
4 14 (7.29%) Low-Code
5 12 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.69%) Product Ownership
7 8 (4.17%) Blog
7 8 (4.17%) Data Centre
7 8 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (3.65%) NHS
8 7 (3.65%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.60%) IoT
10 3 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.52%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.52%) AS400
12 1 (0.52%) iSeries
12 1 (0.52%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.42%) Windows
2 13 (6.77%) Linux
3 8 (4.17%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.52%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (55.21%) CI/CD
2 92 (47.92%) DevOps
3 74 (38.54%) Agile
4 47 (24.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (23.44%) Migration
6 40 (20.83%) Observability
7 39 (20.31%) AI
8 38 (19.79%) Microservices
8 38 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (19.27%) Analytics
10 35 (18.23%) CRM
11 34 (17.71%) Roadmaps
11 34 (17.71%) Scrum
11 34 (17.71%) Test Automation
12 32 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
12 32 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
13 31 (16.15%) Architectural Patterns
13 31 (16.15%) Enterprise Architecture
13 31 (16.15%) Integration Patterns
14 29 (15.10%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 31 (16.15%) SQL
2 28 (14.58%) Python
3 25 (13.02%) Bicep
3 25 (13.02%) JavaScript
4 24 (12.50%) C#
5 20 (10.42%) Java
6 10 (5.21%) PHP
7 8 (4.17%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.65%) ABAP
9 6 (3.13%) Go
10 4 (2.08%) Bash
11 3 (1.56%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.04%) Groovy
12 2 (1.04%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.04%) VB
13 1 (0.52%) Korn
13 1 (0.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (6.77%) Azure Certification
1 13 (6.77%) Degree
2 10 (5.21%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
4 7 (3.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.60%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.56%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.04%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.52%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.33%) GDPR
2 12 (6.25%) QA
3 11 (5.73%) PCI DSS
3 11 (5.73%) SOC 2
4 9 (4.69%) SLA
5 7 (3.65%) HL7
6 3 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.04%) IFRS
8 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.52%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.52%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (11.46%) Docker
2 7 (3.65%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.04%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.52%) vCloud
4 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (25.52%) Terraform
2 18 (9.38%) Kubernetes
3 12 (6.25%) Ansible
4 8 (4.17%) Grafana
5 7 (3.65%) Kibana
6 4 (2.08%) logstash
7 3 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.52%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 63 (32.81%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.90%) Oracle
3 16 (8.33%) SAP
4 14 (7.29%) Ab Initio
5 12 (6.25%) IBM
6 10 (5.21%) Informatica
7 6 (3.13%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (3.13%) Fortinet
7 6 (3.13%) MuleSoft
7 6 (3.13%) Palo Alto
8 5 (2.60%) Databricks
8 5 (2.60%) Google
8 5 (2.60%) webMethods
9 4 (2.08%) HubSpot
9 4 (2.08%) VMware
10 3 (1.56%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (1.56%) Black Duck
10 3 (1.56%) Blue Prism
10 3 (1.56%) UiPath
10 3 (1.56%) Workday