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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 581 493 591
Rank change year-on-year -88 +98 +53
Permanent jobs citing API Management 153 179 320
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.41% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.44% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 99 105 153
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,250 £45,250
25th Percentile £57,400 £62,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,991 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% -4.01% +11.11%
75th Percentile £85,750 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,750 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.07% +8.00% -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 68,780 40,561 85,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.82% 93.18% 83.19%
Number of salaries quoted 44,959 21,364 61,218
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £40,000
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 £77,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -84 144 £77,500 +7.65% 76
UK excluding London -89 82 £64,750 -4.07% 43
London +3 65 £82,500 -8.33% 43
Work from Home -8 61 £65,000 -9.71% 39
South East -18 31 £57,500 -11.54% 19
Midlands -45 27 £75,000 - 5
West Midlands -38 25 £75,000 - 4
North of England -44 9 £82,500 +26.92% 7
North West -8 8 £84,000 +29.23% 6
Scotland +1 5 £67,500 -10.00%
East of England -19 5 £85,000 +22.30% 8
South West -70 4 £65,000 -9.71% 5
East Midlands -28 2 £77,500 - 1
Yorkshire -56 1 £82,500 +77.42% 1
Wales - 1 £52,500 - 1

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 (3.92%) Confluence
2 4 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.96%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.31%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.65%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (2.61%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.31%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 119 (77.78%) Azure
2 47 (30.72%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (23.53%) Azure Logic Apps
4 35 (22.88%) Serverless
5 32 (20.92%) Azure Monitor
6 29 (18.95%) Azure Functions
7 28 (18.30%) Azure Service Bus
8 26 (16.99%) PaaS
9 24 (15.69%) AWS
10 23 (15.03%) Power Platform
11 22 (14.38%) Azure Event Grid
11 22 (14.38%) SaaS
12 20 (13.07%) Azure API Management
12 20 (13.07%) Entra ID
13 18 (11.76%) Apigee
14 14 (9.15%) Azure App Service
14 14 (9.15%) Microsoft 365
15 13 (8.50%) GCP
16 12 (7.84%) Azure AKS
16 12 (7.84%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.15%) Firewall
2 6 (3.92%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (3.27%) VPN
4 4 (2.61%) WAN
5 3 (1.96%) BGP
5 3 (1.96%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.96%) VLAN
6 2 (1.31%) DNS
6 2 (1.31%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.03%) Azure SQL Database
2 19 (12.42%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (9.80%) SQL Server
4 12 (7.84%) Power BI
5 7 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (4.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (3.92%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.61%) DB2
7 4 (2.61%) DTS
8 3 (1.96%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.31%) InfluxDB
9 2 (1.31%) Metadata
10 1 (0.65%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.65%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.65%) MySQL
10 1 (0.65%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 31 (20.26%) 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
6 2 (1.31%) MSI
7 1 (0.65%) JUnit
7 1 (0.65%) NUnit
General
1 64 (41.83%) Social Skills
2 57 (37.25%) Finance
3 16 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (10.46%) Telecoms
4 14 (9.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (7.84%) Banking
6 11 (7.19%) Law
7 10 (6.54%) Legal
8 9 (5.88%) Back Office
8 9 (5.88%) Financial Institution
8 9 (5.88%) Retail
9 5 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.96%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.96%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.65%) Advertising
12 1 (0.65%) Billing
12 1 (0.65%) Brand Awareness
12 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (22.22%) Architect
2 27 (17.65%) Developer
3 22 (14.38%) Lead
4 21 (13.73%) Azure Engineer
5 20 (13.07%) Senior
6 19 (12.42%) Solutions Architect
7 17 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (9.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 12 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (7.19%) .NET Developer
10 11 (7.19%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (7.19%) Network Engineer
10 11 (7.19%) Software Developer
10 11 (7.19%) Telecoms Engineer
11 10 (6.54%) Integration Engineer
12 9 (5.88%) .NET Software Developer
12 9 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (5.88%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (5.23%) Support Engineer
14 7 (4.58%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (27.45%) .NET
2 27 (17.65%) JSON
2 27 (17.65%) REST
3 22 (14.38%) OAuth
4 19 (12.42%) YAML
5 17 (11.11%) Middleware
6 15 (9.80%) JWT
7 14 (9.15%) OAuth2
8 11 (7.19%) Jinja
9 10 (6.54%) RESTful
9 10 (6.54%) XML
10 9 (5.88%) SAML
11 8 (5.23%) .NET Core
11 8 (5.23%) Node.js
11 8 (5.23%) SOAP
12 7 (4.58%) React
12 7 (4.58%) Spring
12 7 (4.58%) Spring Boot
12 7 (4.58%) WPF
13 6 (3.92%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 36 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.19%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (7.19%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (6.54%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (5.88%) Blog
5 7 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.92%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.61%) EPoS
7 4 (2.61%) iSeries
8 3 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.96%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.96%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.96%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.31%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.31%) IoT
9 2 (1.31%) Podcast
9 2 (1.31%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.65%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.50%) Windows
2 8 (5.23%) Linux
3 6 (3.92%) Unix
4 2 (1.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (54.90%) DevOps
2 83 (54.25%) CI/CD
3 67 (43.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (30.72%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (28.76%) Agile
6 35 (22.88%) Integration Patterns
7 34 (22.22%) Microservices
7 34 (22.22%) Observability
8 33 (21.57%) Event-Driven
9 30 (19.61%) Migration
10 29 (18.95%) Analytics
11 28 (18.30%) Roadmaps
12 27 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (16.99%) Platform Engineering
14 24 (15.69%) Containerisation
15 22 (14.38%) AI
15 22 (14.38%) Cloud Security
16 19 (12.42%) Log Analytics
16 19 (12.42%) Mentoring
17 18 (11.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 45 (29.41%) SQL
2 41 (26.80%) Python
3 40 (26.14%) C#
4 20 (13.07%) JavaScript
5 18 (11.76%) Java
6 12 (7.84%) Bicep
6 12 (7.84%) PowerShell
7 9 (5.88%) Bash
8 5 (3.27%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.61%) Go
9 4 (2.61%) PHP
9 4 (2.61%) RPG
10 2 (1.31%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.31%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.31%) VB
11 1 (0.65%) ABAP
11 1 (0.65%) Korn
11 1 (0.65%) Lua
11 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (13.73%) Azure Certification
2 16 (10.46%) Degree
2 16 (10.46%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.61%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (1.31%) CCSP
5 2 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.31%) CISSP
5 2 (1.31%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.65%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.84%) GDPR
2 11 (7.19%) QA
3 10 (6.54%) PCI DSS
4 9 (5.88%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.31%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.65%) IFRS
6 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (12.42%) Docker
2 11 (7.19%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (35.29%) Terraform
2 21 (13.73%) Kubernetes
3 15 (9.80%) Grafana
4 7 (4.58%) Kibana
5 6 (3.92%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.96%) Ansible
6 3 (1.96%) Scalr
7 2 (1.31%) Argo
7 2 (1.31%) logstash
8 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 54 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.50%) Oracle
3 11 (7.19%) Cisco
3 11 (7.19%) Red Hat
4 10 (6.54%) Google
5 6 (3.92%) Concur
5 6 (3.92%) F5
5 6 (3.92%) IBM
5 6 (3.92%) Juniper
5 6 (3.92%) Palo Alto
5 6 (3.92%) SAP
6 5 (3.27%) Sage
7 4 (2.61%) Databricks
8 3 (1.96%) Ab Initio
8 3 (1.96%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.31%) Ariba
9 2 (1.31%) ScienceLogic
9 2 (1.31%) VMware
10 1 (0.65%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.65%) Workday