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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 596 496 553
Rank change year-on-year -100 +57 +33
Permanent jobs citing API Management 177 185 281
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.37% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.42% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 126 103 118
10th Percentile £52,500 £49,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,750 £50,275
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,625 £94,375
90th Percentile - £103,500 £110,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +17.12% -11.20%

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 75,768 44,292 70,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 89.63% 81.31%
Number of salaries quoted 52,326 25,118 47,262
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,886
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 31 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 31 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 -87 169 £80,000 +18.52% 61
UK excluding London -106 97 £67,500 +3.85% 28
London -15 70 £85,000 +17.24% 36
Work from Home -46 59 £71,250 -1.03% 24
South East -41 32 £57,500 -11.54% 18
Midlands -60 24 £85,000 +13.33% 3
West Midlands -26 22 £85,000 +13.33% 1
South West -60 16 £60,000 -16.66% 2
East of England -14 12 £80,000 +26.98%
North of England -42 11 £82,500 +26.92% 5
North West -9 10 £84,000 +29.23% 3
Scotland +8 2 £67,500 +3.85%
East Midlands -37 2 £77,500 - 2
Yorkshire -35 1 £82,500 +77.42% 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 17 (9.60%) Confluence
2 14 (7.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (5.65%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.13%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 10 (5.65%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (7.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (3.95%) Carpe Diem
2 7 (3.95%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 155 (87.57%) Azure
2 60 (33.90%) Azure Logic Apps
3 57 (32.20%) Azure DevOps
3 57 (32.20%) Serverless
4 55 (31.07%) Azure Service Bus
5 49 (27.68%) Power Platform
6 45 (25.42%) Azure Functions
7 44 (24.86%) PaaS
8 29 (16.38%) Azure Monitor
9 25 (14.12%) Azure Event Grid
10 22 (12.43%) AWS
10 22 (12.43%) Power Automate
11 21 (11.86%) Azure API Management
11 21 (11.86%) Azure Key Vault
11 21 (11.86%) Dynamics 365
11 21 (11.86%) GitHub
12 19 (10.73%) Entra ID
12 19 (10.73%) Microsoft 365
12 19 (10.73%) PowerApps
13 18 (10.17%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.91%) Firewall
2 12 (6.78%) VPN
3 6 (3.39%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (2.26%) WAN
5 2 (1.13%) DNS
5 2 (1.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (22.03%) Azure SQL Database
2 25 (14.12%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (12.43%) Power BI
4 16 (9.04%) SQL Server
5 15 (8.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (5.65%) Db2
6 10 (5.65%) DTS
7 6 (3.39%) DynamoDB
7 6 (3.39%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.69%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.13%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.13%) InfluxDB
11 2 (1.13%) Metadata
12 1 (0.56%) MySQL
12 1 (0.56%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 47 (26.55%) Git
2 12 (6.78%) GitLab
3 7 (3.95%) JIRA
4 5 (2.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (2.82%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.82%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.69%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.13%) git-flow
6 2 (1.13%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.13%) JUnit
6 2 (1.13%) MSI
6 2 (1.13%) NUnit
6 2 (1.13%) Postman
6 2 (1.13%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.56%) Selenium
7 1 (0.56%) Snyk
7 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 78 (44.07%) Social Skills
2 52 (29.38%) Finance
3 21 (11.86%) Law
4 17 (9.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (9.04%) Legal
6 13 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (7.34%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.39%) Banking
7 6 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.26%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.13%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.56%) Advertising
10 1 (0.56%) Billing
10 1 (0.56%) Brand Awareness
10 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.56%) Marketing
10 1 (0.56%) Military
10 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (23.16%) Architect
2 29 (16.38%) Azure Engineer
3 27 (15.25%) Lead
4 26 (14.69%) Developer
5 25 (14.12%) Senior
6 23 (12.99%) Solutions Architect
7 17 (9.60%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (8.47%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 13 (7.34%) Analyst
9 13 (7.34%) Integration Engineer
10 12 (6.78%) Applications Engineer
10 12 (6.78%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 12 (6.78%) Software Developer
11 11 (6.21%) Automation Engineer
11 11 (6.21%) Network Engineer
11 11 (6.21%) Telecoms Engineer
12 9 (5.08%) .NET Developer
12 9 (5.08%) .NET Software Developer
12 9 (5.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 9 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (27.68%) .NET
2 32 (18.08%) REST
3 23 (12.99%) JSON
4 19 (10.73%) Node.js
4 19 (10.73%) YAML
5 18 (10.17%) Middleware
6 15 (8.47%) Spring
6 15 (8.47%) Spring Boot
7 13 (7.34%) OAuth
8 12 (6.78%) XML
9 11 (6.21%) Jinja
9 11 (6.21%) JWT
9 11 (6.21%) OAuth2
10 10 (5.65%) Kafka
10 10 (5.65%) SOAP
11 8 (4.52%) React
11 8 (4.52%) RESTful
12 7 (3.95%) GraphQL
13 6 (3.39%) AngularJS
13 6 (3.39%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 39 (22.03%) Cloud Native
2 18 (10.17%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (9.04%) Product Ownership
4 13 (7.34%) Public Cloud
5 12 (6.78%) Podcast
5 12 (6.78%) Security Posture
5 12 (6.78%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (5.65%) EPoS
6 10 (5.65%) iSeries
7 8 (4.52%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (3.95%) Onboarding
9 6 (3.39%) AI Agents
10 4 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (2.26%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (1.13%) IoT
12 2 (1.13%) Reference Data
13 1 (0.56%) Blog
13 1 (0.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.47%) Windows
2 12 (6.78%) VMS
3 6 (3.39%) Linux
3 6 (3.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (54.24%) CI/CD
2 89 (50.28%) DevOps
3 69 (38.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 60 (33.90%) Agile
5 51 (28.81%) Event-Driven
6 44 (24.86%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (24.29%) Roadmaps
8 39 (22.03%) Integration Patterns
9 35 (19.77%) AI
9 35 (19.77%) Microservices
10 32 (18.08%) Mentoring
11 31 (17.51%) Cloud Security
12 30 (16.95%) Computer Science
12 30 (16.95%) Containerisation
12 30 (16.95%) Observability
13 27 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (14.69%) Analytics
15 25 (14.12%) Performance Tuning
15 25 (14.12%) Technical Leadership
16 24 (13.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 75 (42.37%) SQL
2 54 (30.51%) C#
3 40 (22.60%) Python
4 21 (11.86%) PowerShell
5 18 (10.17%) Java
6 17 (9.60%) Bash
7 16 (9.04%) JavaScript
8 15 (8.47%) Bicep
9 12 (6.78%) Kusto Query Language
10 10 (5.65%) RPG
11 5 (2.82%) T-SQL
11 5 (2.82%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.13%) Go
12 2 (1.13%) X++
13 1 (0.56%) Lua
13 1 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 29 (16.38%) Azure Certification
2 24 (13.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 20 (11.30%) Degree
4 6 (3.39%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.82%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.26%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.13%) CCSP
7 2 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.13%) CISSP
7 2 (1.13%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.56%) OCP
8 1 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.47%) QA
2 12 (6.78%) GDPR
3 5 (2.82%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.13%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.56%) NIST
6 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (11.30%) Docker
2 19 (10.73%) Active Directory
3 12 (6.78%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (6.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (31.07%) Terraform
2 17 (9.60%) Kubernetes
3 9 (5.08%) Grafana
4 7 (3.95%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.69%) Ansible
5 3 (1.69%) Scalr
6 2 (1.13%) Argo
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 87 (49.15%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.78%) Red Hat
2 12 (6.78%) ScienceLogic
2 12 (6.78%) VMware
3 11 (6.21%) Cisco
3 11 (6.21%) Oracle
4 10 (5.65%) IBM
5 7 (3.95%) Intapp
6 6 (3.39%) Concur
6 6 (3.39%) F5
6 6 (3.39%) Juniper
6 6 (3.39%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.82%) Databricks
7 5 (2.82%) Google
7 5 (2.82%) Sage
7 5 (2.82%) Splunk
8 4 (2.26%) SAP
9 3 (1.69%) Aderant
9 3 (1.69%) iManage
9 3 (1.69%) Salesforce