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 6 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 572 493 579
Rank change year-on-year -79 +86 +45
Permanent jobs citing API Management 184 191 320
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.40% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.44% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 125 107 149
10th Percentile £52,500 £49,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,250 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.92% +8.33% -

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 71,660 43,627 85,517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.61% 90.93% 82.16%
Number of salaries quoted 49,530 24,205 60,378
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -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 6 July 2026.

Salary histogram for API Management in the UK

API Management
Top 14 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 6 July 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 -77 176 £80,000 +14.29% 58
UK excluding London -93 98 £66,250 +1.92% 36
London 0 76 £83,500 -4.57% 32
Work from Home -45 68 £68,750 -3.16% 24
South East -28 32 £57,500 -11.54% 16
Midlands -38 24 £85,000 +13.33% 2
West Midlands -23 22 £85,000 +13.33% 1
South West -62 16 £62,500 -13.18% 5
North of England -54 13 £82,500 +26.92% 8
North West -23 12 £84,000 +29.23% 6
East of England -6 11 £85,000 +25.93% 4
Scotland +12 2 £67,500 +3.85% 4
East Midlands -37 2 £77,500 - 1
Yorkshire -31 1 £82,500 -12.82% 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 15 (8.15%) Confluence
2 14 (7.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (4.35%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.09%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 9 (4.89%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (7.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.72%) Carpe Diem
2 5 (2.72%) Elite 3E
3 4 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.54%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 153 (83.15%) Azure
2 60 (32.61%) Azure DevOps
3 56 (30.43%) Azure Logic Apps
3 56 (30.43%) Serverless
4 48 (26.09%) Azure Service Bus
5 46 (25.00%) Azure Functions
6 45 (24.46%) Power Platform
7 43 (23.37%) PaaS
8 34 (18.48%) Azure Monitor
9 26 (14.13%) AWS
9 26 (14.13%) Azure Event Grid
10 25 (13.59%) Azure API Management
11 22 (11.96%) GitHub
11 22 (11.96%) SaaS
12 20 (10.87%) Azure Key Vault
12 20 (10.87%) Dynamics 365
12 20 (10.87%) Entra ID
12 20 (10.87%) Power Automate
13 18 (9.78%) IaaS
14 17 (9.24%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.15%) VPN
2 14 (7.61%) Firewall
3 6 (3.26%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (2.17%) WAN
5 3 (1.63%) BGP
5 3 (1.63%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.63%) VLAN
6 2 (1.09%) DNS
6 2 (1.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (21.74%) Azure SQL Database
2 24 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (10.87%) Power BI
4 18 (9.78%) SQL Server
5 15 (8.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (4.89%) Db2
6 9 (4.89%) DTS
7 7 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (3.26%) Relational Database
9 5 (2.72%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.63%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.09%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.09%) InfluxDB
11 2 (1.09%) Metadata
12 1 (0.54%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.54%) MySQL
12 1 (0.54%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 46 (25.00%) Git
2 11 (5.98%) GitLab
3 7 (3.80%) Visual Studio
4 6 (3.26%) JIRA
5 4 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (2.17%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.63%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.63%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.09%) MSI
7 2 (1.09%) Postman
8 1 (0.54%) git-flow
8 1 (0.54%) JUnit
8 1 (0.54%) NUnit
8 1 (0.54%) Terragrunt
General
1 78 (42.39%) Social Skills
2 59 (32.07%) Finance
3 24 (13.04%) Law
4 23 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.61%) Legal
5 14 (7.61%) Telecoms
6 11 (5.98%) Banking
7 7 (3.80%) Back Office
7 7 (3.80%) Financial Institution
7 7 (3.80%) Retail
8 6 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.17%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.63%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.54%) Advertising
12 1 (0.54%) Billing
12 1 (0.54%) Brand Awareness
12 1 (0.54%) Marketing
12 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (22.28%) Architect
2 28 (15.22%) Senior
3 26 (14.13%) Azure Engineer
3 26 (14.13%) Developer
4 25 (13.59%) Lead
5 23 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
6 18 (9.78%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (8.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 13 (7.07%) Analyst
9 12 (6.52%) Applications Engineer
9 12 (6.52%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 11 (5.98%) .NET Developer
10 11 (5.98%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (5.98%) Integration Engineer
10 11 (5.98%) Network Engineer
10 11 (5.98%) Software Developer
10 11 (5.98%) Telecoms Engineer
11 9 (4.89%) .NET Software Developer
11 9 (4.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (4.89%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (27.17%) .NET
2 31 (16.85%) REST
3 24 (13.04%) JSON
4 19 (10.33%) YAML
5 17 (9.24%) Middleware
5 17 (9.24%) Node.js
6 15 (8.15%) OAuth
7 14 (7.61%) Spring
7 14 (7.61%) Spring Boot
8 13 (7.07%) JWT
9 12 (6.52%) XML
10 11 (5.98%) Jinja
10 11 (5.98%) OAuth2
11 10 (5.43%) RESTful
11 10 (5.43%) SOAP
12 9 (4.89%) Kafka
13 7 (3.80%) GraphQL
13 7 (3.80%) React
14 6 (3.26%) Next.js
14 6 (3.26%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 40 (21.74%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (7.07%) Public Cloud
4 12 (6.52%) Podcast
4 12 (6.52%) Security Posture
4 12 (6.52%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (5.43%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.89%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.89%) EPoS
6 9 (4.89%) iSeries
7 7 (3.80%) Blog
7 7 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (3.26%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.72%) AI Agents
9 5 (2.72%) Management Information System
10 4 (2.17%) Data Centre
10 4 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (1.09%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.78%) Windows
2 12 (6.52%) VMS
3 6 (3.26%) Linux
3 6 (3.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (55.98%) CI/CD
2 97 (52.72%) DevOps
3 76 (41.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 59 (32.07%) Agile
5 51 (27.72%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (24.46%) Event-Driven
7 42 (22.83%) Roadmaps
8 37 (20.11%) Integration Patterns
8 37 (20.11%) Observability
9 36 (19.57%) Microservices
10 34 (18.48%) AI
11 32 (17.39%) Analytics
12 31 (16.85%) Cloud Security
12 31 (16.85%) Mentoring
13 29 (15.76%) Computer Science
13 29 (15.76%) Containerisation
14 28 (15.22%) Platform Engineering
15 27 (14.67%) Continuous Improvement
16 26 (14.13%) Performance Tuning
17 24 (13.04%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 73 (39.67%) SQL
2 54 (29.35%) C#
3 43 (23.37%) Python
4 23 (12.50%) Java
5 21 (11.41%) PowerShell
6 18 (9.78%) JavaScript
7 17 (9.24%) Bash
8 16 (8.70%) Bicep
9 12 (6.52%) Kusto Query Language
10 9 (4.89%) RPG
11 5 (2.72%) T-SQL
11 5 (2.72%) TypeScript
12 4 (2.17%) Go
13 2 (1.09%) PHP
13 2 (1.09%) VB
13 2 (1.09%) X++
14 1 (0.54%) ABAP
14 1 (0.54%) Lua
Qualifications
1 31 (16.85%) Azure Certification
2 26 (14.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 18 (9.78%) Degree
4 5 (2.72%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.17%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.09%) CCSP
6 2 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.09%) CISSP
7 1 (0.54%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.61%) QA
2 12 (6.52%) GDPR
3 8 (4.35%) PCI DSS
4 7 (3.80%) SOC 2
5 5 (2.72%) Data Quality
6 4 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (11.41%) Active Directory
1 21 (11.41%) Docker
2 12 (6.52%) Virtual Desktop
2 12 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (6.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (33.70%) Terraform
2 21 (11.41%) Kubernetes
3 11 (5.98%) Grafana
4 6 (3.26%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.63%) Ansible
5 3 (1.63%) Kibana
5 3 (1.63%) Scalr
6 2 (1.09%) Argo
7 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 84 (45.65%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.52%) ScienceLogic
2 12 (6.52%) VMware
3 11 (5.98%) Cisco
3 11 (5.98%) Oracle
3 11 (5.98%) Red Hat
4 9 (4.89%) IBM
5 8 (4.35%) Google
6 6 (3.26%) Concur
6 6 (3.26%) F5
6 6 (3.26%) Juniper
6 6 (3.26%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.72%) Databricks
7 5 (2.72%) Intapp
7 5 (2.72%) Sage
8 4 (2.17%) SAP
8 4 (2.17%) Splunk
9 3 (1.63%) Aderant
9 3 (1.63%) HighQ
9 3 (1.63%) Salesforce