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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 484 577
Rank change year-on-year -6 +93 +116
Permanent jobs citing API Management 183 200 224
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.41% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.44% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 106 136 176
10th Percentile £46,500 £47,500 £50,686
25th Percentile £56,512 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,991 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% -0.70% -3.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £114,375 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +4.17%

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 53,894 45,456 65,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.39% 92.40% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 32,246 22,087 51,057
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,750 £29,440
25th Percentile £38,296 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
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 18 February 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 18 February 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 +14 162 £75,000 +3.45% 35
London +70 98 £77,500 -16.22% 14
UK excluding London -42 77 £65,000 - 27
Work from Home +31 76 £65,000 -9.71% 24
Midlands +22 26 £72,500 -17.14% 11
West Midlands +22 22 £72,500 -17.14% 8
North of England -25 16 £75,000 +11.57% 2
Scotland +2 15 £65,000 -23.53%
North West +12 12 £65,766 +14.38% 1
South East -35 8 £73,750 +13.46% 11
South West -1 6 £53,750 -25.34% 3
East of England +13 5 £55,000 -18.52%
Yorkshire -33 4 £82,500 +22.72% 1
East Midlands - 4 £77,500 - 3
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 9 (4.92%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.83%) Apache Solr
3 6 (3.28%) Appian
4 5 (2.73%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.64%) Anypoint
5 3 (1.64%) Apache
5 3 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.64%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.64%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (1.09%) Confluence
6 2 (1.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 20 (10.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (5.46%) 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
1 129 (70.49%) Azure
2 61 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 47 (25.68%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (22.40%) Power Platform
5 35 (19.13%) PaaS
6 34 (18.58%) Azure Service Bus
7 33 (18.03%) AWS
8 32 (17.49%) Azure Event Grid
9 30 (16.39%) Azure Monitor
10 29 (15.85%) GitHub
11 28 (15.30%) Serverless
12 25 (13.66%) GitHub Actions
13 24 (13.11%) Power Automate
14 23 (12.57%) SaaS
15 22 (12.02%) Dynamics 365
15 22 (12.02%) PowerApps
16 21 (11.48%) IaaS
17 20 (10.93%) Microsoft 365
18 16 (8.74%) Azure AKS
18 16 (8.74%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.37%) VPN
2 6 (3.28%) BGP
2 6 (3.28%) TCP/IP
2 6 (3.28%) VLAN
3 5 (2.73%) Firewall
4 3 (1.64%) WAN
5 2 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
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 24 (13.11%) Power BI
2 17 (9.29%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (3.83%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (3.83%) MySQL
5 6 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (2.19%) Metadata
6 4 (2.19%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.64%) Airbyte
7 3 (1.64%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.55%) Big Data
8 1 (0.55%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (13.66%) Git
2 21 (11.48%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.64%) GitLab
3 3 (1.64%) Postman
3 3 (1.64%) Robot Framework
3 3 (1.64%) Selenium
3 3 (1.64%) Snyk
4 2 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.09%) JIRA
5 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.55%) MSTest
5 1 (0.55%) NUnit
General
1 65 (35.52%) Finance
2 50 (27.32%) Social Skills
3 25 (13.66%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.84%) Banking
4 18 (9.84%) Law
5 15 (8.20%) Retail
6 14 (7.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (6.56%) Back Office
7 12 (6.56%) Financial Institution
8 8 (4.37%) Legal
9 6 (3.28%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.19%) Health Technology
11 4 (2.19%) Marketing
12 3 (1.64%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.55%) Advertising
14 1 (0.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 51 (27.87%) Architect
2 36 (19.67%) Developer
3 32 (17.49%) Lead
4 16 (8.74%) Integration Developer
4 16 (8.74%) Solutions Architect
5 15 (8.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (7.65%) Support Engineer
7 13 (7.10%) AWS Engineer
8 12 (6.56%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (6.56%) Senior
9 11 (6.01%) Technical Architect
10 10 (5.46%) Azure Architect
10 10 (5.46%) Integration Engineer
11 8 (4.37%) Integration Manager
12 7 (3.83%) Applications Engineer
12 7 (3.83%) Applications Support
12 7 (3.83%) Applications Support Engineer
12 7 (3.83%) Cloud Architect
12 7 (3.83%) Development Support Engineer
12 7 (3.83%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (20.22%) REST
2 27 (14.75%) RESTful
3 25 (13.66%) OAuth
4 24 (13.11%) SOAP
5 23 (12.57%) JSON
6 17 (9.29%) .NET
7 15 (8.20%) Middleware
7 15 (8.20%) Web Services
8 14 (7.65%) OAuth2
9 11 (6.01%) Node.js
10 9 (4.92%) SAML
11 7 (3.83%) .NET Core
11 7 (3.83%) WPF
12 6 (3.28%) BAPI
12 6 (3.28%) IBM Integration Bus
12 6 (3.28%) JMS
12 6 (3.28%) Swagger
13 5 (2.73%) ASP.NET Web API
13 5 (2.73%) CSS
13 5 (2.73%) React
Miscellaneous
1 43 (23.50%) Cloud Native
2 25 (13.66%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (7.65%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (6.01%) Management Information System
5 10 (5.46%) Low-Code
6 9 (4.92%) Blog
6 9 (4.92%) Data Centre
6 9 (4.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.73%) IoT
7 5 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.19%) NHS
8 4 (2.19%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.09%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.55%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.55%) AS400
11 1 (0.55%) iSeries
11 1 (0.55%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.48%) Windows
2 15 (8.20%) Linux
3 8 (4.37%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.09%) Unix
5 1 (0.55%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (54.64%) CI/CD
2 91 (49.73%) DevOps
3 68 (37.16%) Agile
4 53 (28.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 42 (22.95%) Observability
6 41 (22.40%) Analytics
7 40 (21.86%) Migration
8 38 (20.77%) AI
9 37 (20.22%) Problem-Solving
10 36 (19.67%) Integration Patterns
10 36 (19.67%) Roadmaps
11 35 (19.13%) Microservices
12 33 (18.03%) CRM
12 33 (18.03%) Test Automation
13 32 (17.49%) Technical Leadership
14 31 (16.94%) Data Pipeline
14 31 (16.94%) Enterprise Architecture
15 28 (15.30%) Architectural Patterns
15 28 (15.30%) Event-Driven
16 27 (14.75%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 31 (16.94%) Python
2 30 (16.39%) SQL
3 25 (13.66%) Bicep
4 22 (12.02%) JavaScript
5 21 (11.48%) C#
6 19 (10.38%) Java
7 10 (5.46%) PHP
8 9 (4.92%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.28%) Go
10 4 (2.19%) ABAP
10 4 (2.19%) Bash
11 3 (1.64%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.09%) VB
13 1 (0.55%) Groovy
13 1 (0.55%) Korn
13 1 (0.55%) Perl
13 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (6.01%) Azure Certification
2 10 (5.46%) Degree
3 8 (4.37%) Security Cleared
4 6 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.19%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.19%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.64%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.09%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.74%) GDPR
2 12 (6.56%) PCI DSS
2 12 (6.56%) SOC 2
3 11 (6.01%) QA
4 5 (2.73%) SLA
5 4 (2.19%) HL7
6 3 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.09%) IFRS
8 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.55%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.55%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (12.02%) Docker
2 8 (4.37%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.09%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.55%) vCloud
4 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (27.32%) Terraform
2 18 (9.84%) Kubernetes
3 12 (6.56%) Ansible
4 8 (4.37%) Grafana
5 7 (3.83%) Kibana
6 4 (2.19%) logstash
7 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.55%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 65 (35.52%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.38%) Oracle
3 14 (7.65%) Ab Initio
4 10 (5.46%) Informatica
4 10 (5.46%) SAP
5 8 (4.37%) Palo Alto
6 7 (3.83%) IBM
7 6 (3.28%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (3.28%) Fortinet
7 6 (3.28%) MuleSoft
8 5 (2.73%) Databricks
8 5 (2.73%) Google
9 4 (2.19%) HubSpot
9 4 (2.19%) VMware
10 3 (1.64%) Cisco
10 3 (1.64%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.64%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.64%) Software AG
10 3 (1.64%) UiPath
10 3 (1.64%) webMethods