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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 498 585
Rank change year-on-year -5 +87 +107
Permanent jobs citing API Management 183 162 249
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.37% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.40% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 111 122 173
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,875 £49,912
25th Percentile £56,775 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £84,375 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £118,375 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% -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 57,551 40,867 73,360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.05% 93.60% 87.39%
Number of salaries quoted 34,815 22,139 55,867
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,860 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%
75th Percentile £76,299 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £94,006
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 +9 166 £75,000 +3.45% 81
London +63 90 £81,250 -19.75% 19
UK excluding London -47 87 £65,000 -5.45% 70
Work from Home +34 80 £62,500 -13.79% 29
Midlands -13 29 £70,000 -6.67% 17
West Midlands -2 24 £67,250 -10.33% 10
South East -45 17 £60,000 -7.69% 19
North of England -38 16 £78,283 +14.09% 16
Scotland -6 15 £66,250 -24.29% 3
North West -6 12 £75,000 +30.43% 7
South West -28 5 £65,000 -9.71% 7
East Midlands - 5 £77,500 - 6
East of England -6 4 £49,000 -27.41% 6
Yorkshire -59 4 £82,500 +22.72% 8
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 10 (5.46%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.73%) Appian
4 4 (2.19%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.64%) Anypoint
5 3 (1.64%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.64%) Confluence
5 3 (1.64%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (1.09%) Apache
6 2 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (9.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (4.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.19%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.09%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.09%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.09%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 130 (71.04%) Azure
2 61 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 49 (26.78%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (21.86%) Power Platform
5 39 (21.31%) PaaS
6 36 (19.67%) Azure Service Bus
7 35 (19.13%) AWS
8 34 (18.58%) Azure Event Grid
9 30 (16.39%) Azure Monitor
10 29 (15.85%) GitHub
11 26 (14.21%) Microsoft 365
11 26 (14.21%) Serverless
12 25 (13.66%) GitHub Actions
13 23 (12.57%) IaaS
14 21 (11.48%) SaaS
15 20 (10.93%) Entra ID
16 19 (10.38%) Power Automate
17 18 (9.84%) Dynamics 365
17 18 (9.84%) PowerApps
18 17 (9.29%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.10%) Firewall
2 8 (4.37%) VPN
3 6 (3.28%) BGP
3 6 (3.28%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (3.28%) TCP/IP
3 6 (3.28%) VLAN
4 5 (2.73%) WAN
5 2 (1.09%) DNS
6 1 (0.55%) DHCP
6 1 (0.55%) IPv4
6 1 (0.55%) IPv6
6 1 (0.55%) LAN
6 1 (0.55%) MPLS
6 1 (0.55%) Network Security
6 1 (0.55%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.02%) Power BI
2 17 (9.29%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.46%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (4.37%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.73%) MySQL
6 4 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.19%) Metadata
6 4 (2.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.64%) SAP Data Services
8 2 (1.09%) Airbyte
8 2 (1.09%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.09%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.55%) Big Data
9 1 (0.55%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.55%) Redis
9 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (12.57%) Git
2 14 (7.65%) Visual Studio
3 11 (6.01%) GitLab
4 3 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.64%) JIRA
4 3 (1.64%) Postman
5 2 (1.09%) Robot Framework
5 2 (1.09%) Selenium
5 2 (1.09%) Snyk
6 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.55%) JUnit
6 1 (0.55%) NUnit
6 1 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 68 (37.16%) Finance
2 61 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 26 (14.21%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.84%) Banking
4 18 (9.84%) Law
5 16 (8.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (8.20%) Retail
7 14 (7.65%) Telecoms
8 12 (6.56%) Back Office
8 12 (6.56%) Financial Institution
8 12 (6.56%) Legal
9 6 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.19%) Marketing
12 3 (1.64%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.09%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.55%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 55 (30.05%) Architect
2 30 (16.39%) Developer
3 26 (14.21%) Lead
4 20 (10.93%) Solutions Architect
5 16 (8.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (7.10%) AWS Engineer
6 13 (7.10%) Senior
6 13 (7.10%) Support Engineer
7 12 (6.56%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (6.56%) Integration Developer
8 11 (6.01%) Automation Engineer
8 11 (6.01%) Integration Engineer
8 11 (6.01%) Network Engineer
8 11 (6.01%) Technical Architect
8 11 (6.01%) Telecoms Engineer
9 10 (5.46%) Azure Architect
10 8 (4.37%) Cloud Architect
11 7 (3.83%) Automation Specialist
11 7 (3.83%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.83%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (16.94%) JSON
2 30 (16.39%) REST
3 24 (13.11%) RESTful
4 23 (12.57%) OAuth
5 20 (10.93%) .NET
6 16 (8.74%) Middleware
6 16 (8.74%) SOAP
7 13 (7.10%) OAuth2
8 12 (6.56%) YAML
9 11 (6.01%) Jinja
10 10 (5.46%) Node.js
10 10 (5.46%) Web Services
11 8 (4.37%) XML
12 7 (3.83%) CSS
12 7 (3.83%) SAML
12 7 (3.83%) WPF
13 6 (3.28%) .NET Core
13 6 (3.28%) JWT
13 6 (3.28%) Swagger
13 6 (3.28%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 47 (25.68%) Cloud Native
2 26 (14.21%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (8.20%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.92%) Blog
4 9 (4.92%) Data Centre
4 9 (4.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (4.37%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.28%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.73%) IoT
9 3 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.09%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.09%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.55%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.55%) Clustering
11 1 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.55%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.93%) Windows
2 16 (8.74%) Linux
3 6 (3.28%) Unix
4 5 (2.73%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.55%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (55.19%) DevOps
2 98 (53.55%) CI/CD
3 66 (36.07%) Agile
4 59 (32.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (23.50%) Analytics
5 43 (23.50%) Observability
6 41 (22.40%) Integration Patterns
7 40 (21.86%) Migration
7 40 (21.86%) Roadmaps
8 37 (20.22%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (19.67%) Microservices
10 34 (18.58%) AI
11 32 (17.49%) Enterprise Architecture
12 31 (16.94%) CRM
12 31 (16.94%) Technical Leadership
13 29 (15.85%) Event-Driven
13 29 (15.85%) Test Automation
14 28 (15.30%) Architectural Patterns
15 27 (14.75%) Data Pipeline
16 26 (14.21%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 39 (21.31%) Python
2 30 (16.39%) SQL
3 24 (13.11%) JavaScript
4 23 (12.57%) Bicep
4 23 (12.57%) C#
5 20 (10.93%) Java
6 11 (6.01%) PowerShell
7 7 (3.83%) Go
7 7 (3.83%) PHP
8 5 (2.73%) Bash
9 3 (1.64%) ABAP
9 3 (1.64%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.09%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.09%) VB
11 1 (0.55%) Groovy
11 1 (0.55%) Korn
11 1 (0.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (6.01%) Azure Certification
2 7 (3.83%) Degree
2 7 (3.83%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.64%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.09%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.09%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.20%) GDPR
2 13 (7.10%) PCI DSS
3 12 (6.56%) SOC 2
4 10 (5.46%) QA
5 4 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.64%) SLA
7 2 (1.09%) IFRS
8 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.55%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.55%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (11.48%) Docker
2 11 (6.01%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.09%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.55%) vCloud
4 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 51 (27.87%) Terraform
2 20 (10.93%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.46%) Grafana
4 8 (4.37%) Ansible
5 7 (3.83%) Kibana
6 4 (2.19%) logstash
7 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.64%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.55%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.55%) Scalr
Vendors
1 68 (37.16%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.93%) Oracle
3 13 (7.10%) Ab Initio
4 11 (6.01%) Cisco
4 11 (6.01%) Palo Alto
4 11 (6.01%) Red Hat
5 9 (4.92%) Informatica
6 8 (4.37%) SAP
7 7 (3.83%) Google
8 6 (3.28%) F5
8 6 (3.28%) Juniper
8 6 (3.28%) MuleSoft
9 5 (2.73%) CrowdStrike
9 5 (2.73%) Databricks
9 5 (2.73%) Fortinet
9 5 (2.73%) IBM
10 4 (2.19%) Concur
10 4 (2.19%) HubSpot
10 4 (2.19%) Sage
11 3 (1.64%) Workday