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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 491 600
Rank change year-on-year -12 +109 +87
Permanent jobs citing API Management 181 179 234
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.39% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.41% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 105 132 173
10th Percentile £46,450 £47,625 £49,912
25th Percentile £57,299 £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 £85,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £114,875 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -

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 56,779 43,287 71,183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.47% 93.48% 87.85%
Number of salaries quoted 34,177 22,512 54,463
10th Percentile £29,262 £32,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,875 £80,100 £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% -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 7 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 7 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 +8 163 £75,000 - 40
London +78 92 £82,500 -13.16% 17
UK excluding London -40 83 £65,000 -3.70% 29
Work from Home +43 77 £65,000 -10.34% 21
Midlands +8 29 £70,000 -6.67% 10
West Midlands +13 25 £70,000 -6.67% 7
North of England -20 16 £78,283 +11.83% 6
Scotland -4 15 £65,000 -23.53% 1
South East -30 13 £62,500 -3.85% 10
North West +1 12 £75,000 +30.43% 5
South West -15 5 £65,000 -9.71% 2
East of England +10 4 £49,000 -27.41%
Yorkshire -44 4 £82,500 +1.94% 1
East Midlands - 4 £77,500 - 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 10 (5.52%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.31%) Appian
2 6 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.21%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.66%) Anypoint
4 3 (1.66%) Apache
4 3 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.66%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (1.66%) Confluence
4 3 (1.66%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (1.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (8.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (4.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.21%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 129 (71.27%) Azure
2 60 (33.15%) Azure Logic Apps
3 50 (27.62%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (22.10%) PaaS
4 40 (22.10%) Power Platform
5 36 (19.89%) Azure Service Bus
6 35 (19.34%) Azure Event Grid
7 34 (18.78%) AWS
8 31 (17.13%) Azure Monitor
9 30 (16.57%) GitHub
10 26 (14.36%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (14.36%) Microsoft 365
10 26 (14.36%) Serverless
11 24 (13.26%) IaaS
12 22 (12.15%) SaaS
13 19 (10.50%) Entra ID
14 18 (9.94%) Power Automate
15 17 (9.39%) Azure AKS
15 17 (9.39%) Dynamics 365
15 17 (9.39%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.97%) Firewall
2 8 (4.42%) VPN
3 6 (3.31%) BGP
3 6 (3.31%) TCP/IP
3 6 (3.31%) VLAN
4 5 (2.76%) WAN
5 4 (2.21%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (1.10%) DNS
7 1 (0.55%) DHCP
7 1 (0.55%) IPv4
7 1 (0.55%) IPv6
7 1 (0.55%) LAN
7 1 (0.55%) MPLS
7 1 (0.55%) Network Security
7 1 (0.55%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.60%) Power BI
2 15 (8.29%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.97%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.21%) Metadata
5 4 (2.21%) MySQL
5 4 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.66%) Airbyte
6 3 (1.66%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.66%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.55%) Big Data
7 1 (0.55%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.55%) Redis
7 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (11.60%) Git
2 15 (8.29%) Visual Studio
3 7 (3.87%) GitLab
4 3 (1.66%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.66%) JIRA
4 3 (1.66%) Postman
4 3 (1.66%) Robot Framework
4 3 (1.66%) Selenium
4 3 (1.66%) Snyk
5 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.55%) JUnit
5 1 (0.55%) NUnit
General
1 67 (37.02%) Finance
2 57 (31.49%) Social Skills
3 26 (14.36%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.94%) Banking
4 18 (9.94%) Law
5 15 (8.29%) Retail
6 14 (7.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (6.63%) Back Office
7 12 (6.63%) Financial Institution
8 11 (6.08%) Legal
9 10 (5.52%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.21%) Marketing
12 3 (1.66%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.55%) Advertising
14 1 (0.55%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 55 (30.39%) Architect
2 30 (16.57%) Developer
3 28 (15.47%) Lead
4 18 (9.94%) Solutions Architect
5 16 (8.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (7.73%) Senior
7 13 (7.18%) AWS Engineer
7 13 (7.18%) Support Engineer
8 12 (6.63%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (6.63%) Integration Developer
9 11 (6.08%) Integration Engineer
9 11 (6.08%) Technical Architect
10 10 (5.52%) Azure Architect
11 8 (4.42%) Cloud Architect
12 7 (3.87%) Applications Engineer
12 7 (3.87%) Applications Support
12 7 (3.87%) Automation Engineer
12 7 (3.87%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.87%) Network Engineer
12 7 (3.87%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (17.13%) REST
2 28 (15.47%) JSON
3 25 (13.81%) OAuth
3 25 (13.81%) RESTful
4 18 (9.94%) .NET
4 18 (9.94%) SOAP
5 16 (8.84%) Middleware
6 14 (7.73%) OAuth2
7 11 (6.08%) Web Services
8 9 (4.97%) Node.js
9 8 (4.42%) SAML
10 7 (3.87%) CSS
10 7 (3.87%) Jinja
10 7 (3.87%) WPF
10 7 (3.87%) YAML
11 6 (3.31%) .NET Core
11 6 (3.31%) JWT
11 6 (3.31%) Swagger
11 6 (3.31%) XML
12 5 (2.76%) React
Miscellaneous
1 48 (26.52%) Cloud Native
2 28 (15.47%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (8.29%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.97%) Blog
4 9 (4.97%) Data Centre
4 9 (4.97%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (4.97%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.42%) Low-Code
6 7 (3.87%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.76%) IoT
9 3 (1.66%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.66%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.10%) 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
11 1 (0.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.05%) Windows
2 14 (7.73%) Linux
3 5 (2.76%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.21%) Unix
5 1 (0.55%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (54.70%) DevOps
2 97 (53.59%) CI/CD
3 66 (36.46%) Agile
4 57 (31.49%) Infrastructure as Code
5 44 (24.31%) Analytics
6 42 (23.20%) Observability
7 40 (22.10%) Integration Patterns
8 39 (21.55%) Migration
8 39 (21.55%) Roadmaps
9 37 (20.44%) Microservices
10 36 (19.89%) AI
10 36 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
11 33 (18.23%) Enterprise Architecture
11 33 (18.23%) Technical Leadership
12 30 (16.57%) CRM
12 30 (16.57%) Event-Driven
12 30 (16.57%) Test Automation
13 29 (16.02%) Data Pipeline
14 28 (15.47%) Architectural Patterns
15 27 (14.92%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 33 (18.23%) Python
2 29 (16.02%) SQL
3 24 (13.26%) Bicep
4 21 (11.60%) C#
4 21 (11.60%) JavaScript
5 20 (11.05%) Java
6 10 (5.52%) PowerShell
7 7 (3.87%) Go
7 7 (3.87%) PHP
8 4 (2.21%) Bash
9 3 (1.66%) ABAP
9 3 (1.66%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.10%) VB
11 1 (0.55%) Groovy
11 1 (0.55%) Korn
11 1 (0.55%) Perl
11 1 (0.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (6.08%) Azure Certification
2 8 (4.42%) Degree
2 8 (4.42%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.66%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.66%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.66%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.10%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.84%) GDPR
2 12 (6.63%) PCI DSS
2 12 (6.63%) SOC 2
3 10 (5.52%) QA
4 4 (2.21%) SLA
5 3 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.10%) IFRS
7 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.55%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.55%) HL7
7 1 (0.55%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (11.60%) Docker
2 11 (6.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.10%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.55%) vCloud
4 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 51 (28.18%) Terraform
2 19 (10.50%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.97%) Ansible
4 8 (4.42%) Grafana
5 7 (3.87%) Kibana
6 4 (2.21%) logstash
7 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.55%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 67 (37.02%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.05%) Oracle
3 14 (7.73%) Ab Initio
4 10 (5.52%) Palo Alto
5 9 (4.97%) Informatica
5 9 (4.97%) SAP
6 7 (3.87%) Cisco
6 7 (3.87%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.31%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (3.31%) Fortinet
7 6 (3.31%) Google
7 6 (3.31%) IBM
7 6 (3.31%) MuleSoft
8 5 (2.76%) Databricks
9 4 (2.21%) Concur
9 4 (2.21%) F5
9 4 (2.21%) HubSpot
9 4 (2.21%) Juniper
9 4 (2.21%) Sage
9 4 (2.21%) VMware