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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 490 584
Rank change year-on-year -29 +94 +100
Permanent jobs citing API Management 181 153 262
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.36% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.38% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 110 117 172
10th Percentile £46,250 £49,500 £49,912
25th Percentile £56,512 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £91,563
90th Percentile £95,000 £118,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -10.71%

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 58,218 39,990 74,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.81% 93.48% 87.20%
Number of salaries quoted 35,252 22,229 56,158
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,424 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,750
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 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 18 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 -1 165 £75,000 - 41
London +48 88 £81,250 -19.75% 16
UK excluding London -50 87 £65,000 -7.14% 29
Work from Home +28 78 £62,500 -16.67% 29
Midlands -9 30 £72,500 -3.33% 7
West Midlands +4 25 £70,000 -6.67% 6
South East -28 17 £60,000 -7.69% 10
North of England -42 16 £78,283 +14.09% 9
Scotland -9 14 £66,250 -24.29% 1
North West -7 12 £75,000 +30.43% 5
South West -34 5 £65,000 -9.71% 1
East Midlands - 5 £77,500 - 1
East of England -18 4 £49,000 -27.41% 1
Yorkshire -50 4 £82,500 +22.72% 4
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 11 (6.08%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.76%) Appian
4 4 (2.21%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.66%) Anypoint
5 3 (1.66%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.66%) Confluence
5 3 (1.66%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (1.10%) Apache
6 2 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
6 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 8 (4.42%) 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
1 128 (70.72%) Azure
2 58 (32.04%) Azure Logic Apps
3 48 (26.52%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (22.10%) Power Platform
5 39 (21.55%) PaaS
6 35 (19.34%) AWS
7 34 (18.78%) Azure Service Bus
8 32 (17.68%) Azure Event Grid
9 29 (16.02%) Azure Monitor
10 28 (15.47%) GitHub
11 26 (14.36%) Microsoft 365
12 25 (13.81%) Serverless
13 24 (13.26%) GitHub Actions
13 24 (13.26%) IaaS
14 21 (11.60%) SaaS
15 20 (11.05%) Entra ID
16 18 (9.94%) Power Automate
16 18 (9.94%) PowerApps
17 17 (9.39%) Dynamics 365
18 16 (8.84%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.18%) Firewall
2 8 (4.42%) VPN
3 6 (3.31%) BGP
3 6 (3.31%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (3.31%) TCP/IP
3 6 (3.31%) VLAN
4 5 (2.76%) WAN
5 2 (1.10%) 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 21 (11.60%) Power BI
2 16 (8.84%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.76%) MySQL
6 4 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.21%) Metadata
6 4 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.66%) SAP Data Services
8 2 (1.10%) Airbyte
8 2 (1.10%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.10%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.55%) Big Data
9 1 (0.55%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.55%) Redis
9 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (12.71%) Git
2 14 (7.73%) Visual Studio
3 11 (6.08%) GitLab
4 3 (1.66%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.66%) JIRA
4 3 (1.66%) Postman
5 2 (1.10%) Robot Framework
5 2 (1.10%) Selenium
5 2 (1.10%) Snyk
6 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.55%) JUnit
6 1 (0.55%) NUnit
6 1 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 67 (37.02%) Finance
2 61 (33.70%) Social Skills
3 25 (13.81%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.94%) Banking
4 18 (9.94%) Law
5 16 (8.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (8.29%) Retail
7 14 (7.73%) Telecoms
8 13 (7.18%) Legal
9 12 (6.63%) Back Office
9 12 (6.63%) Financial Institution
10 6 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (2.21%) Marketing
13 3 (1.66%) Manufacturing
14 2 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (1.10%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.55%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 55 (30.39%) Architect
2 29 (16.02%) Developer
3 26 (14.36%) Lead
4 20 (11.05%) Solutions Architect
5 16 (8.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (7.18%) AWS Engineer
6 13 (7.18%) Senior
6 13 (7.18%) Support Engineer
7 12 (6.63%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (6.63%) Integration Developer
8 11 (6.08%) Automation Engineer
8 11 (6.08%) Integration Engineer
8 11 (6.08%) Network Engineer
8 11 (6.08%) Telecoms Engineer
9 10 (5.52%) Technical Architect
10 9 (4.97%) Azure Architect
11 8 (4.42%) Cloud Architect
12 7 (3.87%) Applications Engineer
12 7 (3.87%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.87%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (16.57%) JSON
1 30 (16.57%) REST
2 23 (12.71%) RESTful
3 22 (12.15%) OAuth
4 20 (11.05%) .NET
5 16 (8.84%) Middleware
5 16 (8.84%) SOAP
6 12 (6.63%) OAuth2
6 12 (6.63%) YAML
7 11 (6.08%) Jinja
8 10 (5.52%) Node.js
8 10 (5.52%) Web Services
9 8 (4.42%) XML
10 7 (3.87%) SAML
10 7 (3.87%) WPF
11 6 (3.31%) .NET Core
11 6 (3.31%) CSS
11 6 (3.31%) JWT
11 6 (3.31%) Swagger
11 6 (3.31%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 48 (26.52%) Cloud Native
2 26 (14.36%) 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
5 7 (3.87%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.87%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.31%) Low-Code
7 5 (2.76%) IoT
8 3 (1.66%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.10%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.55%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.55%) iSeries
10 1 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.55%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.55%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.05%) Windows
2 16 (8.84%) Linux
3 6 (3.31%) Unix
4 5 (2.76%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.55%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (54.70%) DevOps
2 97 (53.59%) CI/CD
3 64 (35.36%) Agile
4 58 (32.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 42 (23.20%) Analytics
5 42 (23.20%) Observability
6 41 (22.65%) Integration Patterns
7 40 (22.10%) Migration
8 39 (21.55%) Roadmaps
9 36 (19.89%) Microservices
9 36 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (18.78%) AI
11 31 (17.13%) Enterprise Architecture
11 31 (17.13%) Technical Leadership
12 30 (16.57%) CRM
13 28 (15.47%) Event-Driven
13 28 (15.47%) Test Automation
14 27 (14.92%) Architectural Patterns
15 26 (14.36%) Data Pipeline
16 25 (13.81%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 39 (21.55%) Python
2 29 (16.02%) SQL
3 23 (12.71%) C#
3 23 (12.71%) JavaScript
4 22 (12.15%) Bicep
5 20 (11.05%) Java
6 11 (6.08%) PowerShell
7 7 (3.87%) Go
7 7 (3.87%) PHP
8 5 (2.76%) Bash
9 3 (1.66%) ABAP
9 3 (1.66%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.10%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.10%) VB
11 1 (0.55%) Groovy
11 1 (0.55%) Korn
11 1 (0.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (6.08%) Azure Certification
2 7 (3.87%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.31%) Degree
3 6 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.66%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.10%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.10%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.73%) GDPR
2 13 (7.18%) PCI DSS
3 12 (6.63%) SOC 2
4 10 (5.52%) QA
5 4 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.66%) SLA
7 2 (1.10%) IFRS
8 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.55%) EU AI Act
8 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 50 (27.62%) Terraform
2 20 (11.05%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.52%) Grafana
4 8 (4.42%) Ansible
5 7 (3.87%) Kibana
6 4 (2.21%) logstash
6 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.66%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.55%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.55%) Scalr
Vendors
1 67 (37.02%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.50%) Oracle
3 12 (6.63%) Ab Initio
4 11 (6.08%) Cisco
4 11 (6.08%) Palo Alto
4 11 (6.08%) Red Hat
5 8 (4.42%) Informatica
5 8 (4.42%) SAP
6 7 (3.87%) Google
7 6 (3.31%) F5
7 6 (3.31%) Juniper
7 6 (3.31%) MuleSoft
8 5 (2.76%) CrowdStrike
8 5 (2.76%) Databricks
8 5 (2.76%) Fortinet
8 5 (2.76%) IBM
9 4 (2.21%) Concur
9 4 (2.21%) HubSpot
9 4 (2.21%) Sage
10 3 (1.66%) Salesforce