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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 643 471 527
Rank change year-on-year -172 +56 -11
Permanent jobs citing API Management 176 199 251
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.40% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.45% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 118 109 126
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £73,750 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile - £95,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -8.19%

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 86,526 44,119 60,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.14% 89.04% 81.91%
Number of salaries quoted 59,327 24,381 32,429
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for API Management in the UK

API Management
Top 13 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 6 October 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 -133 169 £82,500 +16.61% 187
London -44 95 £83,500 +11.33% 104
UK excluding London -182 73 £67,500 +3.85% 109
Work from Home -62 56 £82,500 +13.79% 111
South West -59 22 £60,000 +11.63% 5
South East -51 20 £57,500 -11.54% 30
East of England -23 13 £78,750 +36.96% 10
West Midlands -47 10 £90,000 +24.14% 18
Midlands -84 10 £90,000 +24.14% 20
North of England -81 8 £78,000 +27.35% 18
North West -44 7 £78,000 +20.00% 7
Scotland -7 1 £90,000 +38.46% 16
Yorkshire -35 1 - - 8

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 16 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (8.52%) Confluence
3 12 (6.82%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.14%) Apache
4 2 (1.14%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (5.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (6.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (6.25%) Carpe Diem
2 11 (6.25%) Elite 3E
3 5 (2.84%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 162 (92.05%) Azure
2 67 (38.07%) Azure DevOps
3 66 (37.50%) Azure Logic Apps
3 66 (37.50%) Azure Service Bus
3 66 (37.50%) Serverless
4 58 (32.95%) Azure Functions
5 50 (28.41%) Power Platform
6 41 (23.30%) Azure API Management
7 36 (20.45%) Azure Monitor
8 34 (19.32%) GitHub
8 34 (19.32%) PaaS
9 31 (17.61%) Azure Key Vault
10 30 (17.05%) Power Automate
11 24 (13.64%) Dynamics 365
12 21 (11.93%) Azure Event Grid
12 21 (11.93%) PowerApps
13 20 (11.36%) SaaS
14 17 (9.66%) AWS
14 17 (9.66%) Azure AKS
15 14 (7.95%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.82%) VPN
2 2 (1.14%) DNS
3 1 (0.57%) Firewall
3 1 (0.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (20.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 24 (13.64%) Power BI
3 21 (11.93%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (11.93%) SQL Server
4 15 (8.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 12 (6.82%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (5.68%) Db2
6 10 (5.68%) DTS
7 8 (4.55%) Relational Database
8 6 (3.41%) DynamoDB
8 6 (3.41%) Metadata
9 3 (1.70%) ZAP BI
10 2 (1.14%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.14%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.14%) Redis
11 1 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.57%) GIS
11 1 (0.57%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.57%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (22.73%) Git
2 7 (3.98%) Visual Studio
3 5 (2.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (2.84%) Bitbucket
3 5 (2.84%) JIRA
4 4 (2.27%) Cypress.io
4 4 (2.27%) GitLab
4 4 (2.27%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.27%) Postman
4 4 (2.27%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.70%) git-flow
5 3 (1.70%) JUnit
5 3 (1.70%) NUnit
5 3 (1.70%) Selenium
5 3 (1.70%) Snyk
5 3 (1.70%) Terragrunt
6 2 (1.14%) MSI
7 1 (0.57%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.57%) ERwin
7 1 (0.57%) Maven
General
1 74 (42.05%) Social Skills
2 52 (29.55%) Finance
3 25 (14.20%) Law
4 15 (8.52%) Legal
5 13 (7.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (5.11%) Banking
6 9 (5.11%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.98%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (3.41%) Police
9 5 (2.84%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (2.84%) Publishing
10 4 (2.27%) Military
11 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.14%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.57%) Advertising
12 1 (0.57%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.57%) Billing
12 1 (0.57%) Brand Awareness
12 1 (0.57%) Marketing
12 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (22.73%) Architect
1 40 (22.73%) Developer
2 32 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
3 30 (17.05%) Senior
4 26 (14.77%) Lead
5 17 (9.66%) Applications Engineer
5 17 (9.66%) Solutions Architect
6 15 (8.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (8.52%) Integration Engineer
7 14 (7.95%) Software Developer
8 13 (7.39%) Analyst
8 13 (7.39%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 12 (6.82%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 12 (6.82%) Integration Architect
10 11 (6.25%) .NET Developer
10 11 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (5.68%) Azure Developer
11 10 (5.68%) Senior Developer
12 9 (5.11%) .NET Software Developer
12 9 (5.11%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (31.25%) Terraform
2 52 (29.55%) .NET
3 40 (22.73%) REST
4 19 (10.80%) Node.js
5 18 (10.23%) RESTful
6 16 (9.09%) Middleware
6 16 (9.09%) OAuth
6 16 (9.09%) Spring
6 16 (9.09%) Spring Boot
7 14 (7.95%) OAuth2
8 13 (7.39%) JSON
8 13 (7.39%) JWT
9 11 (6.25%) Kafka
10 10 (5.68%) .NET Core
10 10 (5.68%) AngularJS
10 10 (5.68%) React
11 9 (5.11%) SOAP
12 7 (3.98%) .NET Framework
12 7 (3.98%) GraphQL
13 6 (3.41%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 41 (23.30%) Cloud Native
2 22 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 19 (10.80%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (9.66%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (6.82%) Podcast
5 12 (6.82%) Public Cloud
5 12 (6.82%) Security Posture
6 10 (5.68%) EPoS
6 10 (5.68%) iSeries
6 10 (5.68%) Onboarding
7 9 (5.11%) Management Information System
8 8 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (3.98%) AI Agents
10 6 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (2.27%) Low-Code
12 3 (1.70%) Reference Data
13 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
14 1 (0.57%) Data Structures
14 1 (0.57%) Machine to Machine
14 1 (0.57%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.82%) VMS
1 12 (6.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (55.68%) CI/CD
2 87 (49.43%) DevOps
3 63 (35.80%) Event-Driven
3 63 (35.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 59 (33.52%) Agile
5 47 (26.70%) Roadmaps
6 44 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
7 43 (24.43%) Microservices
8 38 (21.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 37 (21.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 37 (21.02%) Observability
10 36 (20.45%) Mentoring
11 34 (19.32%) Cloud Security
11 34 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (18.75%) AI
13 31 (17.61%) Computer Science
14 28 (15.91%) Analytics
14 28 (15.91%) Test Automation
15 26 (14.77%) Performance Tuning
15 26 (14.77%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 81 (46.02%) SQL
2 67 (38.07%) C#
3 22 (12.50%) Bicep
3 22 (12.50%) Python
4 19 (10.80%) Java
5 18 (10.23%) PowerShell
6 16 (9.09%) Bash
7 12 (6.82%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (5.68%) RPG
9 7 (3.98%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.84%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.84%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.70%) Go
11 3 (1.70%) X++
12 2 (1.14%) ABAP
13 1 (0.57%) Groovy
13 1 (0.57%) Lua
13 1 (0.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 38 (21.59%) Azure Certification
2 26 (14.77%) Microsoft Certification
3 23 (13.07%) Degree
4 14 (7.95%) Security Cleared
5 11 (6.25%) SC Cleared
6 7 (3.98%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.84%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.84%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (2.27%) OCP
8 4 (2.27%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (1.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.14%) CCSP
9 2 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.14%) CISSP
9 2 (1.14%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.52%) QA
2 13 (7.39%) GDPR
3 6 (3.41%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.70%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.70%) NIST
5 1 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (9.66%) Docker
2 16 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 12 (6.82%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (9.66%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.39%) Grafana
3 7 (3.98%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.70%) Ansible
5 2 (1.14%) Argo
6 1 (0.57%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 97 (55.11%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.95%) Oracle
3 12 (6.82%) ScienceLogic
3 12 (6.82%) VMware
4 11 (6.25%) IBM
5 8 (4.55%) Dynatrace
5 8 (4.55%) Splunk
6 7 (3.98%) Aderant
6 7 (3.98%) Intapp
6 7 (3.98%) SAP
7 4 (2.27%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.70%) Databricks
8 3 (1.70%) HighQ
8 3 (1.70%) iManage
8 3 (1.70%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.70%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.14%) Ariba
9 2 (1.14%) Concur
9 2 (1.14%) Dell
9 2 (1.14%) Informatica