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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 482 586
Rank change year-on-year -81 +104 +58
Permanent jobs citing API Management 153 174 318
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.40% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.43% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 96 106 151
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,250 £59,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.36% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £85,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.77% +4.00% -16.67%

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 66,794 40,810 82,365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.89% 93.32% 85.22%
Number of salaries quoted 42,940 22,598 59,746
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £79,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -66 140 £75,000 +4.18% 64
UK excluding London -71 85 £64,500 -0.77% 41
Work from Home +2 65 £62,500 -13.18% 27
London +3 60 £82,500 -8.33% 31
Midlands -40 33 £75,000 - 5
West Midlands -23 29 £75,000 - 3
South East -11 27 £57,500 -11.54% 19
North of England -44 11 £85,000 +30.77% 7
Scotland +5 9 £67,500 -20.59% 1
North West -6 8 £82,500 +26.92% 3
East Midlands -42 4 £77,500 - 2
Yorkshire -62 3 £85,000 +20.45% 3
East of England -18 2 £43,000 -35.09% 3
South West -57 2 £65,000 -9.71% 2
Wales - 1 £52,500 - 2

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 (5.23%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.96%) Confluence
4 2 (1.31%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (7.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.31%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.31%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.31%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 115 (75.16%) Azure
2 47 (30.72%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (26.80%) Azure Logic Apps
4 33 (21.57%) Serverless
5 32 (20.92%) Azure Monitor
6 30 (19.61%) PaaS
7 29 (18.95%) Azure Service Bus
8 28 (18.30%) Power Platform
9 26 (16.99%) Azure Functions
10 25 (16.34%) AWS
10 25 (16.34%) Azure Event Grid
11 23 (15.03%) Microsoft 365
12 21 (13.73%) Entra ID
13 18 (11.76%) Apigee
13 18 (11.76%) GitHub
14 17 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (11.11%) SaaS
15 16 (10.46%) IaaS
16 13 (8.50%) Azure API Management
17 12 (7.84%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.80%) Firewall
2 6 (3.92%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (3.27%) VPN
3 5 (3.27%) WAN
4 3 (1.96%) BGP
4 3 (1.96%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.96%) VLAN
5 2 (1.31%) DNS
5 2 (1.31%) Network Security
6 1 (0.65%) DHCP
6 1 (0.65%) IPv4
6 1 (0.65%) IPv6
6 1 (0.65%) LAN
6 1 (0.65%) MPLS
6 1 (0.65%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.42%) Azure SQL Database
2 17 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 15 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (8.50%) Power BI
5 7 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (3.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.61%) Metadata
7 4 (2.61%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.31%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.31%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.65%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.65%) DB2
9 1 (0.65%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.65%) DTS
9 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.65%) MySQL
9 1 (0.65%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 25 (16.34%) Git
2 11 (7.19%) GitLab
3 5 (3.27%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.61%) Postman
5 3 (1.96%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.96%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.31%) JIRA
7 1 (0.65%) JUnit
7 1 (0.65%) NUnit
General
1 62 (40.52%) Social Skills
2 56 (36.60%) Finance
3 16 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (10.46%) Telecoms
4 14 (9.15%) Banking
5 13 (8.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (7.84%) Legal
7 10 (6.54%) Law
7 10 (6.54%) Retail
8 9 (5.88%) Back Office
8 9 (5.88%) Financial Institution
9 6 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.96%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.96%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.65%) Brand Awareness
11 1 (0.65%) Marketing
11 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (26.14%) Architect
2 25 (16.34%) Developer
3 23 (15.03%) Solutions Architect
4 22 (14.38%) Lead
5 18 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
6 16 (10.46%) Senior
7 13 (8.50%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (8.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (7.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 12 (7.84%) Integration Engineer
9 11 (7.19%) Automation Engineer
9 11 (7.19%) Network Engineer
9 11 (7.19%) Telecoms Engineer
10 9 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (5.88%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (5.23%) .NET Developer
11 8 (5.23%) Software Developer
12 7 (4.58%) Applications Support
12 7 (4.58%) Network Specialist
12 7 (4.58%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (23.53%) .NET
2 27 (17.65%) JSON
3 23 (15.03%) REST
4 20 (13.07%) OAuth
5 16 (10.46%) YAML
6 14 (9.15%) RESTful
7 13 (8.50%) OAuth2
8 12 (7.84%) Middleware
9 11 (7.19%) Jinja
9 11 (7.19%) JWT
10 9 (5.88%) XML
11 8 (5.23%) SOAP
12 7 (4.58%) WPF
13 6 (3.92%) .NET Core
13 6 (3.92%) CSS
13 6 (3.92%) SAML
13 6 (3.92%) Swagger
13 6 (3.92%) YANG
14 4 (2.61%) React
14 4 (2.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 44 (28.76%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.80%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (7.19%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.88%) Blog
5 7 (4.58%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.92%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (3.27%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.61%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.96%) IoT
9 3 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.31%) iSeries
10 2 (1.31%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.65%) AS400
11 1 (0.65%) Clustering
11 1 (0.65%) EPoS
11 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.65%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.46%) Windows
2 12 (7.84%) Linux
3 6 (3.92%) Unix
4 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (57.52%) DevOps
2 80 (52.29%) CI/CD
3 60 (39.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (28.76%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (26.80%) Agile
6 38 (24.84%) Integration Patterns
7 34 (22.22%) Observability
8 32 (20.92%) Analytics
9 30 (19.61%) Microservices
9 30 (19.61%) Migration
10 29 (18.95%) Roadmaps
11 25 (16.34%) AI
12 24 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (15.03%) Event-Driven
14 22 (14.38%) Technical Leadership
15 21 (13.73%) Cloud Security
16 20 (13.07%) CRM
16 20 (13.07%) Enterprise Architecture
16 20 (13.07%) Log Analytics
16 20 (13.07%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 43 (28.10%) SQL
2 41 (26.80%) Python
3 33 (21.57%) C#
4 20 (13.07%) JavaScript
5 17 (11.11%) Bicep
6 15 (9.80%) Java
7 13 (8.50%) PowerShell
8 7 (4.58%) Bash
9 4 (2.61%) Go
9 4 (2.61%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.96%) PHP
10 3 (1.96%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.31%) VB
12 1 (0.65%) ABAP
12 1 (0.65%) Korn
12 1 (0.65%) Lua
12 1 (0.65%) RPG
Qualifications
1 16 (10.46%) Azure Certification
2 14 (9.15%) Degree
3 13 (8.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.61%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.96%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.31%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.65%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.80%) QA
2 13 (8.50%) GDPR
3 10 (6.54%) PCI DSS
4 9 (5.88%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.31%) IFRS
6 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (11.11%) Docker
2 11 (7.19%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.31%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.65%) vCloud
4 1 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (32.03%) Terraform
2 23 (15.03%) Kubernetes
3 13 (8.50%) Grafana
4 7 (4.58%) Kibana
5 4 (2.61%) logstash
5 4 (2.61%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.96%) Ansible
6 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.96%) Scalr
7 1 (0.65%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 56 (36.60%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.46%) Oracle
3 11 (7.19%) Cisco
3 11 (7.19%) Red Hat
4 10 (6.54%) Google
5 7 (4.58%) Ab Initio
6 6 (3.92%) F5
6 6 (3.92%) Juniper
6 6 (3.92%) Palo Alto
7 5 (3.27%) Databricks
8 4 (2.61%) Concur
8 4 (2.61%) IBM
8 4 (2.61%) Sage
8 4 (2.61%) SAP
9 2 (1.31%) Informatica
9 2 (1.31%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.31%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.65%) NetApp
10 1 (0.65%) VMware
10 1 (0.65%) Workday