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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 618 490 522
Rank change year-on-year -128 +32 +14
Permanent jobs citing API Management 174 194 291
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.39% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.44% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 119 103 119
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £70,625 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.92% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £76,250 £85,000
90th Percentile - £94,500 £110,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £50,749
% change year-on-year +3.85% +28.08% -22.34%

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 83,912 43,812 63,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.03% 88.75% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 58,112 24,707 35,897
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -115 166 £82,750 +27.31% 145
London -34 85 £83,500 +15.17% 96
UK excluding London -158 82 £67,500 +3.85% 64
Work from Home -62 48 £82,750 +18.21% 57
South West -57 21 £60,000 -7.69% 1
South East -61 21 £57,500 -11.54% 24
Midlands -70 15 £90,000 +24.14% 10
West Midlands -48 14 £90,000 +24.14% 9
East of England -25 13 £78,750 +35.78% 3
North of England -68 10 £80,250 +23.46% 13
North West -37 9 £78,000 +20.00% 8
Scotland 0 2 £78,750 +21.15% 12
Yorkshire -42 1 £82,500 - 5
East Midlands -56 1 - - 1

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 15 (8.62%) Confluence
2 12 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (6.90%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.15%) Apache
3 2 (1.15%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (5.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (7.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (6.32%) Carpe Diem
2 11 (6.32%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 161 (92.53%) Azure
2 69 (39.66%) Serverless
3 66 (37.93%) Azure Logic Apps
4 64 (36.78%) Azure Service Bus
5 62 (35.63%) Azure DevOps
6 57 (32.76%) Azure Functions
7 50 (28.74%) Power Platform
8 35 (20.11%) PaaS
9 34 (19.54%) Azure API Management
10 30 (17.24%) Azure Monitor
10 30 (17.24%) Power Automate
11 27 (15.52%) GitHub
12 26 (14.94%) Azure Key Vault
13 25 (14.37%) Dynamics 365
14 23 (13.22%) PowerApps
15 21 (12.07%) Azure Event Grid
16 18 (10.34%) Azure AKS
17 16 (9.20%) AWS
18 15 (8.62%) SaaS
19 13 (7.47%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.90%) VPN
2 3 (1.72%) Firewall
3 2 (1.15%) DNS
4 1 (0.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (23.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 23 (13.22%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (13.22%) Power BI
3 18 (10.34%) SQL Server
4 16 (9.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 12 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (5.75%) Db2
6 10 (5.75%) DTS
7 7 (4.02%) Relational Database
8 6 (3.45%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.72%) ZAP BI
10 2 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.15%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.15%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.15%) Metadata
10 2 (1.15%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.57%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.57%) Redis
11 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (24.14%) Git
2 7 (4.02%) Visual Studio
3 5 (2.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (2.87%) Bitbucket
3 5 (2.87%) JIRA
4 4 (2.30%) Cypress.io
4 4 (2.30%) GitLab
4 4 (2.30%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.30%) Postman
4 4 (2.30%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.72%) git-flow
5 3 (1.72%) JUnit
5 3 (1.72%) NUnit
5 3 (1.72%) Selenium
5 3 (1.72%) Snyk
5 3 (1.72%) Terragrunt
6 2 (1.15%) MSI
6 2 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.57%) ERwin
7 1 (0.57%) Maven
General
1 71 (40.80%) Social Skills
2 50 (28.74%) Finance
3 25 (14.37%) Law
4 17 (9.77%) Legal
5 14 (8.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (5.17%) Banking
7 6 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.30%) Military
10 3 (1.72%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.15%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.15%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.57%) Advertising
12 1 (0.57%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.57%) Billing
12 1 (0.57%) Brand Awareness
12 1 (0.57%) Marketing
12 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (22.41%) Developer
2 34 (19.54%) Architect
2 34 (19.54%) Azure Engineer
3 27 (15.52%) Lead
3 27 (15.52%) Senior
4 17 (9.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (9.77%) Integration Engineer
4 17 (9.77%) Solutions Architect
5 16 (9.20%) Applications Engineer
6 15 (8.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 14 (8.05%) Software Developer
8 13 (7.47%) Analyst
9 12 (6.90%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 11 (6.32%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (5.75%) .NET Developer
11 10 (5.75%) Azure Developer
12 9 (5.17%) .NET Software Developer
12 9 (5.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 9 (5.17%) Senior Developer
13 8 (4.60%) Azure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (33.33%) Terraform
2 54 (31.03%) .NET
3 34 (19.54%) REST
4 19 (10.92%) Node.js
5 16 (9.20%) Spring
5 16 (9.20%) Spring Boot
6 14 (8.05%) Middleware
7 13 (7.47%) OAuth
7 13 (7.47%) RESTful
8 11 (6.32%) JSON
8 11 (6.32%) Kafka
8 11 (6.32%) OAuth2
8 11 (6.32%) SOAP
9 10 (5.75%) AngularJS
9 10 (5.75%) JWT
9 10 (5.75%) React
10 9 (5.17%) .NET Core
11 7 (4.02%) GraphQL
11 7 (4.02%) YAML
12 6 (3.45%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 42 (24.14%) Cloud Native
2 22 (12.64%) Product Ownership
3 15 (8.62%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (7.47%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (6.90%) Podcast
5 12 (6.90%) Public Cloud
5 12 (6.90%) Security Posture
6 10 (5.75%) EPoS
6 10 (5.75%) iSeries
7 7 (4.02%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.45%) AI Agents
8 6 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (2.30%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.72%) Low-Code
12 2 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (1.15%) IoT
12 2 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (1.15%) Reference Data
13 1 (0.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.90%) VMS
1 12 (6.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (54.60%) CI/CD
2 84 (48.28%) DevOps
3 63 (36.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (32.18%) Agile
5 54 (31.03%) Event-Driven
6 42 (24.14%) Roadmaps
7 39 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (21.84%) Microservices
9 35 (20.11%) AI
10 34 (19.54%) Integration Patterns
10 34 (19.54%) Mentoring
11 30 (17.24%) Cloud Security
11 30 (17.24%) Computer Science
11 30 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (17.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 29 (16.67%) Observability
13 27 (15.52%) Performance Tuning
14 25 (14.37%) Technical Leadership
14 25 (14.37%) Test Automation
15 22 (12.64%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 87 (50.00%) SQL
2 66 (37.93%) C#
3 29 (16.67%) Python
4 20 (11.49%) PowerShell
5 19 (10.92%) Java
6 18 (10.34%) Bash
6 18 (10.34%) Bicep
7 12 (6.90%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (5.75%) JavaScript
8 10 (5.75%) RPG
9 5 (2.87%) T-SQL
9 5 (2.87%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.72%) Go
10 3 (1.72%) X++
11 1 (0.57%) Groovy
11 1 (0.57%) Lua
11 1 (0.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 33 (18.97%) Azure Certification
2 26 (14.94%) Microsoft Certification
3 21 (12.07%) Degree
4 6 (3.45%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.45%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (2.87%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (2.87%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.30%) OCP
6 4 (2.30%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (2.30%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.15%) CCSP
7 2 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.15%) CISSP
8 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.57%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.20%) QA
2 13 (7.47%) GDPR
3 5 (2.87%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.72%) NIST
5 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (12.07%) Docker
2 15 (8.62%) Active Directory
3 12 (6.90%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.90%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.17%) Grafana
3 7 (4.02%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.72%) Ansible
5 2 (1.15%) Argo
5 2 (1.15%) Scalr
6 1 (0.57%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 93 (53.45%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.47%) Oracle
3 12 (6.90%) ScienceLogic
3 12 (6.90%) VMware
4 11 (6.32%) IBM
5 7 (4.02%) Aderant
5 7 (4.02%) Intapp
6 6 (3.45%) Splunk
7 5 (2.87%) SAP
8 4 (2.30%) Databricks
8 4 (2.30%) Google
8 4 (2.30%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.72%) HighQ
9 3 (1.72%) iManage
9 3 (1.72%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.15%) Ariba
10 2 (1.15%) Concur
10 2 (1.15%) Informatica
11 1 (0.57%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.57%) Workday