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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 624 459 527
Rank change year-on-year -165 +68 +1
Permanent jobs citing API Management 180 202 237
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.41% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.46% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 120 111 125
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £43,500
25th Percentile £73,750 £57,500 £52,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,750 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.21% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile - £95,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -8.19%

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 87,229 43,738 58,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.43% 88.90% 82.16%
Number of salaries quoted 59,718 24,553 31,325
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,925
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,243 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,600
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.70% -2.59%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -147 172 £82,750 +15.73% 32
London -52 97 £83,500 +11.33% 13
UK excluding London -199 75 £67,500 +3.85% 22
Work from Home -72 58 £82,500 +13.79% 15
South West -57 23 £60,000 +11.63% 1
South East -61 20 £57,500 -11.54% 9
East of England -38 13 £78,750 +36.96% 3
West Midlands -58 10 £90,000 +24.14% 4
Midlands -72 10 £90,000 +24.14% 4
North of England -84 8 £78,000 +35.65% 4
North West -41 7 £78,000 +27.35% 2
Scotland +8 1 £90,000 +38.46%
Yorkshire -37 1 - - 2
Wales -66 1 £50,000 - 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 16 (8.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (8.33%) Confluence
3 14 (7.78%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.11%) Apache
4 2 (1.11%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (5.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (6.11%) Carpe Diem
2 11 (6.11%) Elite 3E
3 6 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 168 (93.33%) Azure
2 71 (39.44%) Azure DevOps
2 71 (39.44%) Azure Logic Apps
3 70 (38.89%) Serverless
4 69 (38.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 62 (34.44%) Azure Functions
6 57 (31.67%) Power Platform
7 43 (23.89%) Azure API Management
8 36 (20.00%) GitHub
9 35 (19.44%) Azure Monitor
9 35 (19.44%) PaaS
10 33 (18.33%) Power Automate
11 31 (17.22%) Azure Key Vault
12 27 (15.00%) Dynamics 365
13 24 (13.33%) Azure Event Grid
13 24 (13.33%) PowerApps
14 20 (11.11%) SaaS
15 18 (10.00%) Microsoft Copilot
16 17 (9.44%) Azure AKS
16 17 (9.44%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.67%) VPN
2 2 (1.11%) DNS
3 1 (0.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 26 (14.44%) Power BI
3 20 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (10.56%) SQL Server
5 15 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (5.56%) Db2
7 10 (5.56%) DTS
8 8 (4.44%) Relational Database
9 6 (3.33%) DynamoDB
9 6 (3.33%) Metadata
10 3 (1.67%) ZAP BI
11 2 (1.11%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.11%) GIS
11 2 (1.11%) Redis
12 1 (0.56%) Apache Ignite
12 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.56%) Flink
12 1 (0.56%) Looker
12 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 40 (22.22%) Git
2 7 (3.89%) Visual Studio
3 5 (2.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (2.78%) Bitbucket
3 5 (2.78%) JIRA
4 4 (2.22%) Cypress.io
4 4 (2.22%) GitLab
4 4 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.22%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.67%) git-flow
5 3 (1.67%) JUnit
5 3 (1.67%) NUnit
5 3 (1.67%) Postman
5 3 (1.67%) Selenium
5 3 (1.67%) Snyk
5 3 (1.67%) Terragrunt
6 2 (1.11%) MSI
7 1 (0.56%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.56%) ERwin
7 1 (0.56%) Maven
General
1 76 (42.22%) Social Skills
2 53 (29.44%) Finance
3 25 (13.89%) Law
4 15 (8.33%) Legal
5 13 (7.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 9 (5.00%) Banking
8 7 (3.89%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (3.33%) Police
9 6 (3.33%) Publishing
10 4 (2.22%) Military
11 3 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.11%) Marketing
12 2 (1.11%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.56%) Advertising
13 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.56%) Billing
13 1 (0.56%) Brand Awareness
13 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (22.22%) Architect
2 38 (21.11%) Developer
3 35 (19.44%) Azure Engineer
4 30 (16.67%) Senior
5 27 (15.00%) Lead
6 17 (9.44%) Applications Engineer
6 17 (9.44%) Integration Engineer
6 17 (9.44%) Solutions Architect
7 16 (8.89%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (7.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 13 (7.22%) Integration Architect
8 13 (7.22%) Software Developer
9 12 (6.67%) Analyst
9 12 (6.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 11 (6.11%) .NET Developer
10 11 (6.11%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (5.56%) Azure Developer
12 9 (5.00%) .NET Software Developer
12 9 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 9 (5.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (31.11%) Terraform
2 53 (29.44%) .NET
3 41 (22.78%) REST
4 19 (10.56%) Node.js
5 18 (10.00%) RESTful
6 17 (9.44%) Middleware
7 16 (8.89%) Spring
7 16 (8.89%) Spring Boot
8 15 (8.33%) OAuth
9 13 (7.22%) OAuth2
10 12 (6.67%) JSON
11 11 (6.11%) AngularJS
11 11 (6.11%) JWT
11 11 (6.11%) Kafka
11 11 (6.11%) React
12 10 (5.56%) .NET Core
13 9 (5.00%) SOAP
14 7 (3.89%) .NET Framework
14 7 (3.89%) GraphQL
15 6 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 24 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 20 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (6.67%) Podcast
5 12 (6.67%) Public Cloud
5 12 (6.67%) Security Posture
6 10 (5.56%) EPoS
6 10 (5.56%) iSeries
6 10 (5.56%) Onboarding
7 9 (5.00%) Management Information System
8 8 (4.44%) AI Agents
8 8 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (2.22%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.67%) Reference Data
12 1 (0.56%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.56%) Replication
12 1 (0.56%) Video Conferencing
12 1 (0.56%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.67%) VMS
1 12 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (0.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (57.22%) CI/CD
2 91 (50.56%) DevOps
3 66 (36.67%) Event-Driven
4 65 (36.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 62 (34.44%) Agile
6 46 (25.56%) Roadmaps
7 45 (25.00%) Microservices
8 44 (24.44%) Integration Patterns
9 39 (21.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 38 (21.11%) AI
10 38 (21.11%) Mentoring
10 38 (21.11%) Observability
11 34 (18.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (18.33%) Cloud Security
13 30 (16.67%) Computer Science
14 29 (16.11%) Technical Leadership
14 29 (16.11%) Test Automation
15 28 (15.56%) Analytics
16 25 (13.89%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 80 (44.44%) SQL
2 68 (37.78%) C#
3 23 (12.78%) Bicep
4 22 (12.22%) Python
5 19 (10.56%) Java
5 19 (10.56%) PowerShell
6 17 (9.44%) Bash
7 12 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (5.56%) RPG
9 8 (4.44%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.78%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.78%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.67%) ABAP
11 3 (1.67%) Go
11 3 (1.67%) X++
12 1 (0.56%) Groovy
12 1 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 42 (23.33%) Azure Certification
2 26 (14.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 24 (13.33%) Degree
4 15 (8.33%) Security Cleared
5 11 (6.11%) SC Cleared
6 7 (3.89%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.78%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (2.22%) OCP
8 4 (2.22%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.67%) SAP Certification
10 2 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.11%) CCSP
10 2 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.11%) CISSP
11 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.33%) QA
2 13 (7.22%) GDPR
3 7 (3.89%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.67%) NIST
5 1 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 16 (8.89%) Docker
3 12 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (9.44%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.22%) Grafana
3 7 (3.89%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.67%) Ansible
5 2 (1.11%) Argo
6 1 (0.56%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.56%) logstash
6 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 103 (57.22%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.22%) Oracle
3 12 (6.67%) ScienceLogic
3 12 (6.67%) VMware
4 11 (6.11%) IBM
5 8 (4.44%) Dynatrace
5 8 (4.44%) SAP
5 8 (4.44%) Splunk
6 7 (3.89%) Aderant
6 7 (3.89%) Intapp
7 5 (2.78%) MuleSoft
8 4 (2.22%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.67%) Databricks
9 3 (1.67%) Dell
9 3 (1.67%) HighQ
9 3 (1.67%) iManage
9 3 (1.67%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.11%) Ariba
10 2 (1.11%) Concur
10 2 (1.11%) Informatica