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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 572 496 576
Rank change year-on-year -76 +80 +72
Permanent jobs citing API Management 156 158 324
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.36% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.39% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 96 107 157
10th Percentile £51,563 £46,250 £45,630
25th Percentile £57,450 £59,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £85,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -16.67%

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 68,019 40,426 81,982
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.51% 93.00% 85.53%
Number of salaries quoted 42,516 22,659 59,588
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,580 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.90% +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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -40 141 £75,000 +4.18% 62
UK excluding London -83 86 £65,000 - 32
Work from Home +15 67 £62,500 -13.18% 22
London -10 62 £82,500 -8.33% 32
Midlands -39 34 £75,000 - 7
West Midlands -16 30 £75,000 - 4
South East -29 22 £58,500 -10.00% 14
North of England -54 13 £82,500 +26.92% 3
Scotland -8 11 £67,500 -20.59% 1
North West -20 10 £76,642 +17.91%
East Midlands -50 4 £77,500 - 3
East of England -14 3 £43,000 -35.09% 3
Yorkshire -57 3 £85,000 +20.45% 3
South West -60 2 £65,000 -9.71% 5
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 8 (5.13%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.92%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.28%) Confluence
4 2 (1.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (6.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.56%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.28%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.28%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.28%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 111 (71.15%) Azure
2 47 (30.13%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (25.64%) Azure Logic Apps
4 34 (21.79%) PaaS
5 31 (19.87%) Serverless
6 30 (19.23%) Azure Monitor
7 29 (18.59%) Azure Service Bus
8 27 (17.31%) AWS
8 27 (17.31%) Power Platform
9 26 (16.67%) Azure Event Grid
10 23 (14.74%) Azure Functions
10 23 (14.74%) Microsoft 365
11 21 (13.46%) Entra ID
12 20 (12.82%) GitHub
13 19 (12.18%) Apigee
13 19 (12.18%) IaaS
14 18 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
14 18 (11.54%) SaaS
15 12 (7.69%) Azure AKS
15 12 (7.69%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.62%) Firewall
2 6 (3.85%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (3.85%) VPN
3 5 (3.21%) WAN
4 4 (2.56%) BGP
4 4 (2.56%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.56%) VLAN
5 2 (1.28%) DNS
5 2 (1.28%) Network Security
6 1 (0.64%) DHCP
6 1 (0.64%) IPv4
6 1 (0.64%) IPv6
6 1 (0.64%) LAN
6 1 (0.64%) MPLS
6 1 (0.64%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.18%) Azure SQL Database
2 15 (9.62%) SQL Server
3 12 (7.69%) Power BI
4 11 (7.05%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.56%) Metadata
8 3 (1.92%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.28%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.28%) InfluxDB
9 2 (1.28%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.64%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.64%) MySQL
10 1 (0.64%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 20 (12.82%) Git
2 11 (7.05%) GitLab
3 5 (3.21%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.56%) Postman
5 3 (1.92%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.92%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.28%) JIRA
7 1 (0.64%) JUnit
7 1 (0.64%) NUnit
General
1 60 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 55 (35.26%) Finance
3 18 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.26%) Telecoms
5 15 (9.62%) Banking
5 15 (9.62%) Law
6 14 (8.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (8.33%) Legal
8 11 (7.05%) Retail
9 10 (6.41%) Back Office
9 10 (6.41%) Financial Institution
10 6 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.92%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.28%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.64%) Advertising
13 1 (0.64%) Brand Awareness
13 1 (0.64%) Marketing
13 1 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (28.85%) Architect
2 22 (14.10%) Developer
2 22 (14.10%) Solutions Architect
3 19 (12.18%) Lead
4 17 (10.90%) Azure Engineer
5 16 (10.26%) Senior
6 14 (8.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 12 (7.69%) Integration Engineer
9 11 (7.05%) Automation Engineer
9 11 (7.05%) AWS Engineer
9 11 (7.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 11 (7.05%) Network Engineer
9 11 (7.05%) Telecoms Engineer
10 10 (6.41%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.49%) Applications Engineer
11 7 (4.49%) Applications Support Engineer
11 7 (4.49%) Automation Specialist
11 7 (4.49%) Network Specialist
11 7 (4.49%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (20.51%) .NET
2 28 (17.95%) JSON
3 23 (14.74%) REST
4 22 (14.10%) OAuth
5 16 (10.26%) RESTful
6 15 (9.62%) YAML
7 13 (8.33%) OAuth2
8 12 (7.69%) Middleware
9 11 (7.05%) Jinja
9 11 (7.05%) JWT
10 9 (5.77%) XML
11 8 (5.13%) SOAP
12 7 (4.49%) SAML
12 7 (4.49%) WPF
13 6 (3.85%) .NET Core
13 6 (3.85%) CSS
13 6 (3.85%) Swagger
13 6 (3.85%) YANG
14 4 (2.56%) ASP.NET Web API
14 4 (2.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 43 (27.56%) Cloud Native
2 19 (12.18%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.77%) Blog
5 7 (4.49%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.49%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (4.49%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.85%) IoT
6 6 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (3.21%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.56%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.28%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.64%) AS400
11 1 (0.64%) Clustering
11 1 (0.64%) iSeries
11 1 (0.64%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.26%) Windows
2 12 (7.69%) Linux
3 6 (3.85%) Unix
4 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (57.05%) DevOps
2 80 (51.28%) CI/CD
3 63 (40.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (26.92%) Agile
5 41 (26.28%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (24.36%) Integration Patterns
7 36 (23.08%) Observability
8 35 (22.44%) Analytics
9 33 (21.15%) Roadmaps
10 30 (19.23%) Microservices
10 30 (19.23%) Migration
11 24 (15.38%) AI
11 24 (15.38%) Event-Driven
11 24 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
12 21 (13.46%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (13.46%) Enterprise Architecture
12 21 (13.46%) Log Analytics
12 21 (13.46%) Mentoring
13 20 (12.82%) Platform Engineering
13 20 (12.82%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 40 (25.64%) Python
1 40 (25.64%) SQL
2 29 (18.59%) C#
3 20 (12.82%) JavaScript
4 18 (11.54%) Bicep
5 15 (9.62%) Java
6 13 (8.33%) PowerShell
7 7 (4.49%) Bash
8 5 (3.21%) Go
9 4 (2.56%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.92%) PHP
10 3 (1.92%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.28%) VB
12 1 (0.64%) ABAP
12 1 (0.64%) Korn
12 1 (0.64%) Lua
Qualifications
1 14 (8.97%) Azure Certification
2 11 (7.05%) Degree
2 11 (7.05%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.21%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (1.92%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.64%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.97%) QA
2 12 (7.69%) GDPR
3 11 (7.05%) PCI DSS
4 10 (6.41%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.28%) IFRS
5 2 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (10.90%) Docker
2 11 (7.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.28%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.64%) vCloud
4 1 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 51 (32.69%) Terraform
2 23 (14.74%) Kubernetes
3 13 (8.33%) Grafana
4 7 (4.49%) Kibana
5 4 (2.56%) logstash
5 4 (2.56%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.92%) Ansible
6 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.92%) Scalr
7 1 (0.64%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 54 (34.62%) Microsoft
2 18 (11.54%) Oracle
3 11 (7.05%) Cisco
3 11 (7.05%) Red Hat
4 10 (6.41%) Google
5 8 (5.13%) Ab Initio
6 6 (3.85%) F5
6 6 (3.85%) Juniper
6 6 (3.85%) Palo Alto
7 5 (3.21%) Databricks
7 5 (3.21%) SAP
8 4 (2.56%) Concur
8 4 (2.56%) IBM
8 4 (2.56%) Sage
9 3 (1.92%) Informatica
9 3 (1.92%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.64%) NetApp
10 1 (0.64%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.64%) Software AG
10 1 (0.64%) webMethods