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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 483 591
Rank change year-on-year -94 +108 +46
Permanent jobs citing API Management 151 179 319
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.41% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.44% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 98 105 153
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,250 £45,250
25th Percentile £57,349 £62,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,991 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% -4.01% +7.14%
75th Percentile £85,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.44% +8.00% -7.41%

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 68,860 40,768 84,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.96% 93.19% 83.65%
Number of salaries quoted 45,013 21,524 60,756
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,228
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,750 £39,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -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 31 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 31 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 -83 142 £75,000 +4.18% 43
UK excluding London -94 81 £64,500 -4.44% 27
London -13 64 £82,500 -8.33% 24
Work from Home -10 60 £63,750 -11.45% 24
South East -9 31 £57,500 -11.54% 12
Midlands -49 27 £75,000 - 6
West Midlands -32 25 £75,000 - 5
North of England -52 10 £83,750 +28.85% 3
North West -8 8 £84,000 +29.23% 2
Scotland +5 5 £67,500 -10.00%
East of England -18 5 £85,000 +22.30% 6
East Midlands -40 2 £77,500 - 1
Yorkshire -48 2 £83,750 +80.11%
South West -64 2 £65,000 -9.71% 2
Wales - 1 £52,500 -

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 6 (3.97%) Confluence
2 4 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.32%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.66%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (2.65%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (5.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.32%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.66%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 117 (77.48%) Azure
2 44 (29.14%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (23.84%) Azure Logic Apps
4 34 (22.52%) Serverless
5 30 (19.87%) Azure Monitor
6 28 (18.54%) Azure Service Bus
7 27 (17.88%) Azure Functions
8 25 (16.56%) AWS
9 23 (15.23%) PaaS
9 23 (15.23%) Power Platform
9 23 (15.23%) SaaS
10 22 (14.57%) Azure Event Grid
10 22 (14.57%) Entra ID
11 20 (13.25%) Azure API Management
12 18 (11.92%) Apigee
13 16 (10.60%) Microsoft 365
14 13 (8.61%) Azure App Service
14 13 (8.61%) GCP
15 12 (7.95%) Azure AKS
16 11 (7.28%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.27%) Firewall
2 6 (3.97%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (2.65%) WAN
4 3 (1.99%) BGP
4 3 (1.99%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.99%) VLAN
4 3 (1.99%) VPN
5 2 (1.32%) DNS
5 2 (1.32%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.58%) Azure SQL Database
1 19 (12.58%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (9.93%) SQL Server
3 11 (7.28%) Power BI
4 7 (4.64%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.97%) Relational Database
5 6 (3.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (2.65%) DB2
6 4 (2.65%) DTS
7 3 (1.99%) Metadata
7 3 (1.99%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.32%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.66%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.66%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.66%) MySQL
9 1 (0.66%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 28 (18.54%) Git
2 11 (7.28%) GitLab
3 4 (2.65%) Postman
3 4 (2.65%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.99%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.99%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.32%) JIRA
5 2 (1.32%) MSI
6 1 (0.66%) JUnit
6 1 (0.66%) NUnit
General
1 64 (42.38%) Social Skills
2 58 (38.41%) Finance
3 16 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (10.60%) Telecoms
4 12 (7.95%) Banking
4 12 (7.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (7.28%) Legal
6 9 (5.96%) Back Office
6 9 (5.96%) Financial Institution
6 9 (5.96%) Law
6 9 (5.96%) Retail
7 5 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.99%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.99%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Advertising
10 1 (0.66%) Billing
10 1 (0.66%) Brand Awareness
10 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (23.18%) Architect
2 27 (17.88%) Developer
3 23 (15.23%) Lead
4 20 (13.25%) Solutions Architect
5 19 (12.58%) Azure Engineer
5 19 (12.58%) Senior
6 15 (9.93%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (7.95%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 12 (7.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (7.28%) .NET Developer
8 11 (7.28%) Automation Engineer
8 11 (7.28%) Network Engineer
8 11 (7.28%) Software Developer
8 11 (7.28%) Telecoms Engineer
9 10 (6.62%) Integration Engineer
10 9 (5.96%) .NET Software Developer
10 9 (5.96%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (5.96%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.64%) Azure Developer
11 7 (4.64%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (27.81%) .NET
2 27 (17.88%) JSON
2 27 (17.88%) REST
3 22 (14.57%) OAuth
4 19 (12.58%) YAML
5 17 (11.26%) Middleware
6 15 (9.93%) JWT
7 14 (9.27%) OAuth2
8 11 (7.28%) Jinja
9 10 (6.62%) RESTful
9 10 (6.62%) XML
10 9 (5.96%) SAML
11 8 (5.30%) .NET Core
11 8 (5.30%) Node.js
11 8 (5.30%) SOAP
12 7 (4.64%) React
12 7 (4.64%) Spring
12 7 (4.64%) Spring Boot
12 7 (4.64%) WPF
13 6 (3.97%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 38 (25.17%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.28%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (7.28%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (7.28%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (5.96%) Blog
4 6 (3.97%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.97%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.65%) EPoS
5 4 (2.65%) iSeries
5 4 (2.65%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.99%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.99%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.32%) IoT
8 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.66%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.66%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.66%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.95%) Windows
2 8 (5.30%) Linux
3 6 (3.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (54.30%) DevOps
2 81 (53.64%) CI/CD
3 63 (41.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (30.46%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (27.81%) Agile
6 36 (23.84%) Integration Patterns
7 34 (22.52%) Microservices
8 33 (21.85%) Event-Driven
9 32 (21.19%) Observability
10 31 (20.53%) Migration
11 29 (19.21%) Roadmaps
12 28 (18.54%) Analytics
13 26 (17.22%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (15.89%) Containerisation
14 24 (15.89%) Platform Engineering
15 22 (14.57%) AI
16 21 (13.91%) Cloud Security
17 18 (11.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 18 (11.92%) Mentoring
18 17 (11.26%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 42 (27.81%) Python
2 41 (27.15%) SQL
3 40 (26.49%) C#
4 20 (13.25%) JavaScript
5 18 (11.92%) Java
6 10 (6.62%) Bicep
6 10 (6.62%) PowerShell
7 7 (4.64%) Bash
8 5 (3.31%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.65%) Go
9 4 (2.65%) PHP
9 4 (2.65%) RPG
10 2 (1.32%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.32%) VB
11 1 (0.66%) ABAP
11 1 (0.66%) Korn
11 1 (0.66%) Lua
Qualifications
1 19 (12.58%) Azure Certification
2 16 (10.60%) Degree
3 14 (9.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.65%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.32%) CCSP
6 2 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.32%) CISSP
6 2 (1.32%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.66%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.95%) GDPR
1 12 (7.95%) QA
2 10 (6.62%) PCI DSS
3 9 (5.96%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.32%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.66%) IFRS
5 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (12.58%) Docker
2 10 (6.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (33.11%) Terraform
2 21 (13.91%) Kubernetes
3 15 (9.93%) Grafana
4 7 (4.64%) Kibana
5 6 (3.97%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.99%) Ansible
6 3 (1.99%) Scalr
7 2 (1.32%) Argo
7 2 (1.32%) logstash
7 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 55 (36.42%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.61%) Oracle
3 11 (7.28%) Cisco
3 11 (7.28%) Red Hat
4 10 (6.62%) Google
5 6 (3.97%) Concur
5 6 (3.97%) F5
5 6 (3.97%) IBM
5 6 (3.97%) Juniper
5 6 (3.97%) Palo Alto
5 6 (3.97%) SAP
6 5 (3.31%) Databricks
6 5 (3.31%) Sage
7 3 (1.99%) Ab Initio
7 3 (1.99%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.32%) Ariba
9 1 (0.66%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.66%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.66%) Veeam
9 1 (0.66%) Workday