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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 636 492 512
Rank change year-on-year -144 +20 +48
Permanent jobs citing API Management 174 191 296
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.38% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.43% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 122 101 118
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £89,688 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £110,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £53,249
% change year-on-year +3.85% +22.07% -18.52%

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 82,871 44,018 63,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.00% 88.61% 80.87%
Number of salaries quoted 57,674 24,857 36,941
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -3.67%

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 September 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 11 September 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 -122 165 £82,500 +26.92% 76
UK excluding London -139 87 £67,500 +3.85% 37
London -36 79 £84,250 +16.21% 52
Work from Home -66 51 £79,000 +12.86% 31
South East -48 25 £57,500 -11.54% 15
South West -59 21 £60,000 -7.69% 1
Midlands -74 15 £90,000 +24.14% 10
West Midlands -43 14 £90,000 +24.14% 5
East of England -23 13 £78,750 +35.78% 2
North of England -54 10 £80,250 +23.46% 2
North West -35 9 £78,000 +20.00% 1
Scotland +8 3 £67,500 +3.85% 8
Yorkshire -47 1 £82,500 - 1
East Midlands -48 1 - - 5

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 15 (8.62%) Confluence
2 12 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (6.90%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.15%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.57%) Apache
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (5.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (6.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (6.32%) Carpe Diem
2 11 (6.32%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 158 (90.80%) Azure
2 67 (38.51%) Serverless
3 64 (36.78%) Azure Logic Apps
4 62 (35.63%) Azure DevOps
5 60 (34.48%) Azure Service Bus
6 53 (30.46%) Azure Functions
7 49 (28.16%) Power Platform
8 35 (20.11%) PaaS
9 30 (17.24%) Azure API Management
9 30 (17.24%) Azure Monitor
10 29 (16.67%) Power Automate
11 25 (14.37%) GitHub
12 24 (13.79%) Azure Key Vault
12 24 (13.79%) Dynamics 365
13 22 (12.64%) PowerApps
14 20 (11.49%) AWS
14 20 (11.49%) Azure Event Grid
15 18 (10.34%) Azure AKS
16 14 (8.05%) SaaS
17 13 (7.47%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.90%) VPN
2 7 (4.02%) Firewall
3 2 (1.15%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (1.15%) DNS
4 1 (0.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (23.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 25 (14.37%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (12.64%) Power BI
4 16 (9.20%) SQL Server
5 15 (8.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (5.75%) Db2
7 10 (5.75%) DTS
8 7 (4.02%) DynamoDB
9 5 (2.87%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.72%) ZAP BI
12 2 (1.15%) Delta Lake
12 2 (1.15%) InfluxDB
12 2 (1.15%) Metadata
12 2 (1.15%) NoSQL
13 1 (0.57%) Flink
13 1 (0.57%) Looker
13 1 (0.57%) MySQL
13 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 43 (24.71%) Git
2 8 (4.60%) GitLab
3 7 (4.02%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (2.87%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.87%) JIRA
5 4 (2.30%) Cypress.io
5 4 (2.30%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.30%) Postman
5 4 (2.30%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.72%) git-flow
6 3 (1.72%) JUnit
6 3 (1.72%) NUnit
6 3 (1.72%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.72%) Selenium
6 3 (1.72%) Snyk
6 3 (1.72%) Terragrunt
7 2 (1.15%) MSI
8 1 (0.57%) ERwin
8 1 (0.57%) Maven
General
1 69 (39.66%) Social Skills
2 48 (27.59%) Finance
3 25 (14.37%) Law
4 16 (9.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (9.20%) Legal
5 8 (4.60%) Banking
6 6 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.45%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.30%) Military
8 4 (2.30%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.15%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.57%) Advertising
11 1 (0.57%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.57%) Billing
11 1 (0.57%) Brand Awareness
11 1 (0.57%) Marketing
11 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (20.69%) Developer
2 33 (18.97%) Architect
2 33 (18.97%) Azure Engineer
3 26 (14.94%) Lead
4 25 (14.37%) Senior
5 17 (9.77%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (9.77%) Integration Engineer
6 16 (9.20%) Applications Engineer
6 16 (9.20%) Solutions Architect
7 15 (8.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 14 (8.05%) Software Developer
9 13 (7.47%) Analyst
10 12 (6.90%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 11 (6.32%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (5.17%) .NET Developer
12 9 (5.17%) .NET Software Developer
12 9 (5.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 8 (4.60%) Applications Specialist
13 8 (4.60%) Integration Manager
13 8 (4.60%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (33.91%) Terraform
2 51 (29.31%) .NET
3 32 (18.39%) REST
4 20 (11.49%) Node.js
5 16 (9.20%) Spring
5 16 (9.20%) Spring Boot
6 15 (8.62%) JSON
6 15 (8.62%) Middleware
7 12 (6.90%) OAuth
7 12 (6.90%) RESTful
7 12 (6.90%) YAML
8 11 (6.32%) Kafka
8 11 (6.32%) OAuth2
9 10 (5.75%) JWT
9 10 (5.75%) SOAP
10 9 (5.17%) AngularJS
10 9 (5.17%) React
11 7 (4.02%) .NET Core
11 7 (4.02%) GraphQL
11 7 (4.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (21.84%) Cloud Native
2 22 (12.64%) Product Ownership
3 15 (8.62%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (6.90%) Podcast
4 12 (6.90%) Public Cloud
4 12 (6.90%) Security Posture
5 10 (5.75%) EPoS
5 10 (5.75%) iSeries
6 9 (5.17%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (4.60%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (4.02%) Onboarding
9 6 (3.45%) AI Agents
10 4 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (2.30%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (1.15%) IoT
12 2 (1.15%) Low-Code
12 2 (1.15%) Reference Data
13 1 (0.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.90%) VMS
1 12 (6.90%) Windows
2 2 (1.15%) Linux
2 2 (1.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (54.60%) CI/CD
2 83 (47.70%) DevOps
3 65 (37.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (32.18%) Agile
5 49 (28.16%) Event-Driven
6 41 (23.56%) Roadmaps
7 39 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (21.26%) Microservices
9 34 (19.54%) AI
10 32 (18.39%) Mentoring
11 31 (17.82%) Observability
12 30 (17.24%) Cloud Security
12 30 (17.24%) Computer Science
12 30 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (17.24%) Integration Patterns
13 27 (15.52%) Performance Tuning
14 26 (14.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 25 (14.37%) Containerisation
16 24 (13.79%) Test Automation
17 23 (13.22%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 85 (48.85%) SQL
2 63 (36.21%) C#
3 36 (20.69%) Python
4 21 (12.07%) PowerShell
5 19 (10.92%) Bash
5 19 (10.92%) Java
6 16 (9.20%) Bicep
7 12 (6.90%) Kusto Query Language
8 11 (6.32%) JavaScript
9 10 (5.75%) RPG
10 5 (2.87%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.87%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.72%) Go
11 3 (1.72%) X++
12 1 (0.57%) Groovy
12 1 (0.57%) Lua
12 1 (0.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 30 (17.24%) Azure Certification
2 25 (14.37%) Microsoft Certification
3 21 (12.07%) Degree
4 6 (3.45%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (2.87%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (2.87%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.87%) Security Cleared
6 4 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.30%) OCP
6 4 (2.30%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (2.30%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.15%) CCSP
7 2 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.15%) CISSP
8 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.57%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.62%) QA
2 13 (7.47%) GDPR
3 5 (2.87%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.72%) NIST
6 2 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (12.64%) Docker
2 15 (8.62%) Active Directory
3 12 (6.90%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.90%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (10.92%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.32%) Grafana
3 9 (5.17%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.72%) Ansible
4 3 (1.72%) Scalr
5 2 (1.15%) Argo
6 1 (0.57%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 88 (50.57%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.47%) Oracle
3 12 (6.90%) ScienceLogic
3 12 (6.90%) VMware
4 11 (6.32%) IBM
5 8 (4.60%) Red Hat
6 7 (4.02%) Aderant
6 7 (4.02%) Intapp
7 5 (2.87%) Google
7 5 (2.87%) Splunk
8 4 (2.30%) Cisco
8 4 (2.30%) Databricks
8 4 (2.30%) SAP
9 3 (1.72%) HighQ
9 3 (1.72%) iManage
9 3 (1.72%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.15%) Concur
10 2 (1.15%) F5
10 2 (1.15%) Juniper
10 2 (1.15%) Palo Alto