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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 613 481 541
Rank change year-on-year -132 +60 +6
Permanent jobs citing API Management 176 192 287
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.38% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.43% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 129 104 116
10th Percentile £55,500 £48,400 £41,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £49,809
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -0.76% -2.96%
75th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £85,313
90th Percentile - £94,250 £110,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,250 £65,000 £53,599
% change year-on-year +1.92% +21.27% -17.98%

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 78,861 44,450 67,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.27% 89.12% 80.81%
Number of salaries quoted 54,468 25,168 42,663
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -99 169 £80,000 +23.08% 39
UK excluding London -138 94 £66,250 +1.92% 30
London -39 74 £84,250 +18.25% 24
Work from Home -64 53 £72,500 +7.41% 27
South East -43 28 £57,500 -11.54% 7
South West -54 20 £60,000 +6.67% 4
Midlands -62 20 £87,500 +20.69% 6
West Midlands -43 18 £90,000 +24.14% 2
East of England -12 13 £78,750 +34.62% 2
North of England -58 11 £82,500 +26.92% 5
North West -33 10 £84,000 +29.23% 2
Scotland +12 2 £67,500 +3.85% 8
East Midlands -34 2 £77,500 - 4
Yorkshire -41 1 £82,500 +77.42% 4

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 16 (9.09%) Confluence
2 13 (7.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (6.25%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.14%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.57%) Apache
5 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (5.68%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (7.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (5.11%) Carpe Diem
2 9 (5.11%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.70%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 159 (90.34%) Azure
2 67 (38.07%) Azure Logic Apps
3 64 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
3 64 (36.36%) Serverless
4 59 (33.52%) Azure Service Bus
5 52 (29.55%) Power Platform
6 51 (28.98%) Azure Functions
7 39 (22.16%) PaaS
8 29 (16.48%) Azure Monitor
9 28 (15.91%) Power Automate
10 26 (14.77%) Azure API Management
11 25 (14.20%) Dynamics 365
12 24 (13.64%) Azure Key Vault
12 24 (13.64%) GitHub
13 23 (13.07%) Azure Event Grid
14 21 (11.93%) PowerApps
15 19 (10.80%) AWS
16 18 (10.23%) Azure AKS
17 15 (8.52%) IaaS
17 15 (8.52%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.82%) VPN
2 9 (5.11%) Firewall
3 3 (1.70%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (1.14%) DNS
4 2 (1.14%) WAN
5 1 (0.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (23.30%) Azure SQL Database
2 25 (14.20%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (13.07%) Power BI
4 17 (9.66%) SQL Server
5 15 (8.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (5.68%) Db2
6 10 (5.68%) DTS
7 6 (3.41%) DynamoDB
7 6 (3.41%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.70%) ZAP BI
10 2 (1.14%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.14%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.14%) Metadata
10 2 (1.14%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.57%) Flink
11 1 (0.57%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.57%) Looker
11 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (26.14%) Git
2 9 (5.11%) GitLab
3 6 (3.41%) JIRA
3 6 (3.41%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (2.84%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.27%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.27%) JUnit
5 4 (2.27%) NUnit
5 4 (2.27%) Postman
6 3 (1.70%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.70%) git-flow
6 3 (1.70%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.70%) Selenium
6 3 (1.70%) Snyk
6 3 (1.70%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.70%) Terragrunt
7 2 (1.14%) MSI
8 1 (0.57%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.57%) ERwin
General
1 72 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 49 (27.84%) Finance
3 23 (13.07%) Law
4 16 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (9.09%) Legal
5 8 (4.55%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.41%) Banking
8 4 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.27%) Military
8 4 (2.27%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.14%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.57%) Advertising
10 1 (0.57%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.57%) Billing
10 1 (0.57%) Brand Awareness
10 1 (0.57%) Marketing
10 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (21.02%) Architect
2 32 (18.18%) Developer
3 31 (17.61%) Azure Engineer
4 28 (15.91%) Senior
5 27 (15.34%) Lead
6 19 (10.80%) Solutions Architect
7 17 (9.66%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (8.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 15 (8.52%) Integration Engineer
9 14 (7.95%) Applications Engineer
9 14 (7.95%) Software Developer
10 13 (7.39%) Analyst
11 12 (6.82%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 11 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (5.11%) .NET Developer
13 9 (5.11%) .NET Software Developer
13 9 (5.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 8 (4.55%) Azure Developer
14 8 (4.55%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 8 (4.55%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (32.95%) Terraform
2 53 (30.11%) .NET
3 31 (17.61%) REST
4 21 (11.93%) Node.js
5 18 (10.23%) JSON
6 16 (9.09%) Middleware
7 15 (8.52%) Spring
7 15 (8.52%) Spring Boot
8 14 (7.95%) YAML
9 13 (7.39%) OAuth
10 11 (6.25%) JWT
10 11 (6.25%) Kafka
10 11 (6.25%) OAuth2
10 11 (6.25%) RESTful
11 10 (5.68%) React
11 10 (5.68%) SOAP
12 9 (5.11%) XML
13 8 (4.55%) AngularJS
14 7 (3.98%) .NET Core
14 7 (3.98%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 38 (21.59%) Cloud Native
2 20 (11.36%) Product Ownership
3 18 (10.23%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (7.39%) Public Cloud
5 12 (6.82%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (6.82%) Podcast
5 12 (6.82%) Security Posture
6 10 (5.68%) EPoS
6 10 (5.68%) iSeries
7 9 (5.11%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (3.41%) AI Agents
8 6 (3.41%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.27%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (1.14%) IoT
11 2 (1.14%) Reference Data
12 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.95%) Windows
2 12 (6.82%) VMS
3 3 (1.70%) Linux
3 3 (1.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 89 (50.57%) DevOps
3 67 (38.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 59 (33.52%) Agile
5 50 (28.41%) Event-Driven
6 40 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (22.73%) Roadmaps
7 34 (19.32%) Microservices
8 33 (18.75%) AI
8 33 (18.75%) Integration Patterns
9 30 (17.05%) Cloud Security
9 30 (17.05%) Mentoring
9 30 (17.05%) Observability
10 29 (16.48%) Computer Science
11 28 (15.91%) Containerisation
11 28 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (15.34%) Performance Tuning
13 24 (13.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 24 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
14 23 (13.07%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 79 (44.89%) SQL
2 63 (35.80%) C#
3 37 (21.02%) Python
4 20 (11.36%) PowerShell
5 19 (10.80%) Java
6 17 (9.66%) Bash
7 16 (9.09%) Bicep
8 15 (8.52%) JavaScript
9 12 (6.82%) Kusto Query Language
10 10 (5.68%) RPG
11 5 (2.84%) T-SQL
11 5 (2.84%) TypeScript
12 4 (2.27%) Go
13 2 (1.14%) X++
14 1 (0.57%) Lua
14 1 (0.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 30 (17.05%) Azure Certification
2 24 (13.64%) Microsoft Certification
3 20 (11.36%) Degree
4 6 (3.41%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (2.84%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.84%) Security Cleared
6 4 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (2.27%) OCP
6 4 (2.27%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (2.27%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.14%) CCSP
8 2 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.14%) CISSP
9 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.57%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.52%) QA
2 13 (7.39%) GDPR
3 5 (2.84%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.70%) NIST
6 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (13.07%) Docker
2 17 (9.66%) Active Directory
3 12 (6.82%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (11.36%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.25%) Grafana
3 9 (5.11%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.70%) Ansible
4 3 (1.70%) Scalr
5 2 (1.14%) Argo
6 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 90 (51.14%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.95%) Oracle
3 12 (6.82%) ScienceLogic
3 12 (6.82%) VMware
4 10 (5.68%) IBM
4 10 (5.68%) Red Hat
5 7 (3.98%) Intapp
6 6 (3.41%) Cisco
7 5 (2.84%) Aderant
7 5 (2.84%) Google
7 5 (2.84%) Splunk
8 4 (2.27%) Concur
8 4 (2.27%) Databricks
8 4 (2.27%) SAP
9 3 (1.70%) F5
9 3 (1.70%) iManage
9 3 (1.70%) Juniper
9 3 (1.70%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.70%) Sage
9 3 (1.70%) Salesforce