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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 499 576
Rank change year-on-year -16 +77 +103
Permanent jobs citing API Management 179 185 232
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.39% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.42% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 102 133 173
10th Percentile £47,200 £48,000 £50,969
25th Percentile £58,438 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £73,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -1.36% -2.00%
75th Percentile £84,688 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £114,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,225 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.31% +7.56% -3.85%

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 54,747 43,918 66,767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.09% 92.80% 88.41%
Number of salaries quoted 32,789 21,812 51,500
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
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 24 February 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 24 February 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 +6 159 £75,000 - 34
London +64 94 £80,000 -13.51% 12
UK excluding London -38 78 £65,000 -3.31% 27
Work from Home +42 76 £65,766 -8.65% 21
Midlands +4 27 £72,500 -3.33% 8
West Midlands +13 23 £72,500 -3.33% 6
Scotland -6 15 £65,000 -23.53%
North of England -21 15 £76,642 +9.49% 7
North West +8 11 £70,383 +22.41% 6
South East -47 11 £62,500 -3.85% 9
South West -21 5 £65,000 -9.71% 3
East of England +5 4 £49,000 -27.41%
Yorkshire -38 4 £82,500 +1.94% 1
East Midlands - 4 £77,500 - 2
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 9 (5.03%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.35%) Appian
3 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.23%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.68%) Anypoint
5 3 (1.68%) Apache
5 3 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.68%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.68%) Confluence
5 3 (1.68%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (1.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 18 (10.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (5.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.23%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.12%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.12%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 125 (69.83%) Azure
2 59 (32.96%) Azure Logic Apps
3 47 (26.26%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (21.79%) Power Platform
5 37 (20.67%) PaaS
6 34 (18.99%) Azure Service Bus
7 33 (18.44%) AWS
7 33 (18.44%) Azure Event Grid
8 31 (17.32%) Azure Monitor
9 29 (16.20%) GitHub
10 26 (14.53%) Serverless
11 25 (13.97%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (12.29%) IaaS
12 22 (12.29%) Microsoft 365
12 22 (12.29%) SaaS
13 20 (11.17%) Power Automate
14 19 (10.61%) Dynamics 365
14 19 (10.61%) PowerApps
15 16 (8.94%) Azure AKS
16 15 (8.38%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.47%) VPN
2 7 (3.91%) Firewall
3 6 (3.35%) BGP
3 6 (3.35%) TCP/IP
3 6 (3.35%) VLAN
4 4 (2.23%) WAN
5 3 (1.68%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (1.12%) DNS
7 1 (0.56%) DHCP
7 1 (0.56%) IPv4
7 1 (0.56%) IPv6
7 1 (0.56%) LAN
7 1 (0.56%) MPLS
7 1 (0.56%) Network Security
7 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.29%) Power BI
2 15 (8.38%) SQL Server
3 9 (5.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.23%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.23%) Metadata
5 4 (2.23%) MySQL
5 4 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.68%) Airbyte
6 3 (1.68%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.68%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.56%) Big Data
7 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.56%) Redis
7 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (11.73%) Git
2 17 (9.50%) Visual Studio
3 5 (2.79%) GitLab
4 3 (1.68%) JIRA
4 3 (1.68%) Postman
4 3 (1.68%) Robot Framework
4 3 (1.68%) Selenium
4 3 (1.68%) Snyk
5 2 (1.12%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.56%) JUnit
6 1 (0.56%) NUnit
General
1 65 (36.31%) Finance
2 53 (29.61%) Social Skills
3 25 (13.97%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.06%) Banking
4 18 (10.06%) Law
5 15 (8.38%) Retail
6 14 (7.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (6.70%) Back Office
7 12 (6.70%) Financial Institution
8 9 (5.03%) Legal
9 8 (4.47%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.23%) Marketing
12 3 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.68%) Health Technology
12 3 (1.68%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.56%) Advertising
14 1 (0.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 52 (29.05%) Architect
2 32 (17.88%) Developer
3 31 (17.32%) Lead
4 16 (8.94%) Solutions Architect
5 15 (8.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (7.26%) AWS Engineer
6 13 (7.26%) Integration Developer
6 13 (7.26%) Support Engineer
7 12 (6.70%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (6.70%) Senior
8 11 (6.15%) Technical Architect
9 10 (5.59%) Azure Architect
9 10 (5.59%) Integration Engineer
10 7 (3.91%) Applications Engineer
10 7 (3.91%) Applications Support
10 7 (3.91%) Applications Support Engineer
10 7 (3.91%) Cloud Architect
10 7 (3.91%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (3.91%) Integration Manager
11 6 (3.35%) SAP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (18.44%) REST
2 25 (13.97%) JSON
2 25 (13.97%) OAuth
2 25 (13.97%) RESTful
3 21 (11.73%) SOAP
4 17 (9.50%) .NET
5 16 (8.94%) Middleware
6 14 (7.82%) OAuth2
7 13 (7.26%) Web Services
8 9 (5.03%) Node.js
8 9 (5.03%) SAML
9 7 (3.91%) WPF
10 6 (3.35%) .NET Core
10 6 (3.35%) BAPI
10 6 (3.35%) CSS
10 6 (3.35%) IBM Integration Bus
10 6 (3.35%) JMS
10 6 (3.35%) Swagger
11 5 (2.79%) JWT
11 5 (2.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (24.58%) Cloud Native
2 26 (14.53%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (7.82%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.59%) Management Information System
5 9 (5.03%) Blog
5 9 (5.03%) Data Centre
5 9 (5.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (4.47%) Low-Code
7 5 (2.79%) IoT
7 5 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.68%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.68%) NHS
8 3 (1.68%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.12%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.56%) AS400
10 1 (0.56%) iSeries
10 1 (0.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.06%) Windows
2 13 (7.26%) Linux
3 5 (2.79%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.68%) Unix
5 1 (0.56%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (53.07%) CI/CD
2 93 (51.96%) DevOps
3 66 (36.87%) Agile
4 54 (30.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 42 (23.46%) Analytics
5 42 (23.46%) Observability
6 40 (22.35%) Migration
7 37 (20.67%) Integration Patterns
7 37 (20.67%) Roadmaps
8 35 (19.55%) Microservices
9 34 (18.99%) AI
9 34 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (17.32%) CRM
10 31 (17.32%) Enterprise Architecture
10 31 (17.32%) Technical Leadership
11 30 (16.76%) Data Pipeline
11 30 (16.76%) Test Automation
12 29 (16.20%) Event-Driven
13 28 (15.64%) Architectural Patterns
14 27 (15.08%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 30 (16.76%) Python
2 29 (16.20%) SQL
3 24 (13.41%) Bicep
4 20 (11.17%) C#
4 20 (11.17%) Java
4 20 (11.17%) JavaScript
5 9 (5.03%) PowerShell
6 7 (3.91%) Go
6 7 (3.91%) PHP
7 4 (2.23%) ABAP
7 4 (2.23%) Bash
8 3 (1.68%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.12%) VB
10 1 (0.56%) Groovy
10 1 (0.56%) Korn
10 1 (0.56%) Perl
10 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (6.15%) Azure Certification
2 9 (5.03%) Degree
3 8 (4.47%) Security Cleared
4 6 (3.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.23%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.68%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.68%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.12%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.94%) GDPR
2 12 (6.70%) PCI DSS
2 12 (6.70%) SOC 2
3 9 (5.03%) QA
4 4 (2.23%) SLA
5 3 (1.68%) HL7
5 3 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.12%) IFRS
7 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.56%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (11.17%) Docker
2 9 (5.03%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.12%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.56%) vCloud
4 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 51 (28.49%) Terraform
2 18 (10.06%) Kubernetes
3 9 (5.03%) Ansible
4 8 (4.47%) Grafana
5 7 (3.91%) Kibana
6 4 (2.23%) logstash
7 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.56%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 63 (35.20%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.17%) Oracle
3 14 (7.82%) Ab Initio
4 10 (5.59%) Informatica
4 10 (5.59%) SAP
5 9 (5.03%) Palo Alto
6 7 (3.91%) IBM
7 6 (3.35%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (3.35%) Fortinet
7 6 (3.35%) MuleSoft
8 5 (2.79%) Cisco
8 5 (2.79%) Databricks
8 5 (2.79%) Google
8 5 (2.79%) Red Hat
9 4 (2.23%) HubSpot
9 4 (2.23%) VMware
10 3 (1.68%) Sage
10 3 (1.68%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.68%) Software AG
10 3 (1.68%) webMethods