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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 584 493 597
Rank change year-on-year -91 +104 +40
Permanent jobs citing API Management 157 185 321
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.42% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.45% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 103 104 150
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,000 £44,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,813 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £71,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.39% -4.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £105,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,750 £67,500 £61,250
% change year-on-year -4.07% +10.20% +2.08%

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 66,949 41,023 87,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.83% 92.72% 82.59%
Number of salaries quoted 45,661 21,815 61,905
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.89% +0.11% -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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -87 148 £79,000 +9.74% 54
UK excluding London -113 83 £64,750 -4.07% 37
London -29 66 £83,000 -7.78% 25
Work from Home -19 61 £65,000 -9.71% 38
South East -19 31 £57,500 -11.54% 18
Midlands -37 26 £75,000 - 4
West Midlands -23 24 £75,000 - 3
North of England -55 10 £82,500 +26.92% 4
North West 0 9 £84,000 +29.23% 3
South West -50 6 £62,500 -13.18% 5
East of England -7 5 £85,000 +22.30% 8
Scotland +9 4 £67,500 +3.85%
East Midlands -37 2 £77,500 - 1
Yorkshire -51 1 £82,500 +77.42% 1
Wales - 1 £52,500 - 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 7 (4.46%) Confluence
2 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.91%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.27%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.64%) Anypoint
Applications
1 4 (2.55%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (7.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.64%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 122 (77.71%) Azure
2 46 (29.30%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (25.48%) Azure Logic Apps
4 38 (24.20%) Serverless
5 31 (19.75%) Azure Functions
5 31 (19.75%) Azure Monitor
5 31 (19.75%) Azure Service Bus
6 27 (17.20%) Power Platform
7 26 (16.56%) PaaS
8 25 (15.92%) AWS
9 23 (14.65%) Azure Event Grid
9 23 (14.65%) SaaS
10 20 (12.74%) Azure API Management
11 19 (12.10%) Entra ID
12 18 (11.46%) Apigee
13 15 (9.55%) Azure App Service
14 14 (8.92%) Dynamics 365
15 13 (8.28%) GCP
15 13 (8.28%) Microsoft 365
16 12 (7.64%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.92%) Firewall
2 6 (3.82%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (3.18%) VPN
4 4 (2.55%) WAN
5 3 (1.91%) BGP
5 3 (1.91%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.91%) VLAN
6 2 (1.27%) DNS
6 2 (1.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (15.92%) Azure SQL Database
2 19 (12.10%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (9.55%) SQL Server
4 13 (8.28%) Power BI
5 8 (5.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (4.46%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (3.82%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.55%) Db2
8 4 (2.55%) DTS
9 3 (1.91%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.27%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.27%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.27%) Metadata
11 1 (0.64%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.64%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.64%) MySQL
11 1 (0.64%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 32 (20.38%) Git
2 11 (7.01%) GitLab
3 6 (3.82%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.55%) Postman
5 3 (1.91%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.91%) JIRA
5 3 (1.91%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.27%) MSI
7 1 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.64%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.64%) JUnit
7 1 (0.64%) NUnit
General
1 64 (40.76%) Social Skills
2 57 (36.31%) Finance
3 16 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (10.19%) Telecoms
4 15 (9.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (7.01%) Banking
5 11 (7.01%) Law
6 9 (5.73%) Back Office
6 9 (5.73%) Financial Institution
6 9 (5.73%) Legal
6 9 (5.73%) Retail
7 5 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.91%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.91%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Advertising
10 1 (0.64%) Billing
10 1 (0.64%) Marketing
10 1 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (22.93%) Architect
2 27 (17.20%) Developer
3 22 (14.01%) Azure Engineer
3 22 (14.01%) Senior
4 20 (12.74%) Lead
5 18 (11.46%) Solutions Architect
6 17 (10.83%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (8.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 12 (7.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (7.01%) .NET Developer
9 11 (7.01%) Automation Engineer
9 11 (7.01%) Network Engineer
9 11 (7.01%) Software Developer
9 11 (7.01%) Telecoms Engineer
10 10 (6.37%) Integration Engineer
11 9 (5.73%) .NET Software Developer
11 9 (5.73%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (5.73%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (5.10%) Applications Engineer
12 8 (5.10%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (28.03%) .NET
2 29 (18.47%) REST
3 27 (17.20%) JSON
4 21 (13.38%) OAuth
5 19 (12.10%) YAML
6 15 (9.55%) JWT
6 15 (9.55%) Middleware
7 13 (8.28%) OAuth2
8 11 (7.01%) Jinja
8 11 (7.01%) XML
9 10 (6.37%) SOAP
10 9 (5.73%) Node.js
10 9 (5.73%) RESTful
10 9 (5.73%) SAML
11 8 (5.10%) .NET Core
11 8 (5.10%) Spring
11 8 (5.10%) Spring Boot
12 7 (4.46%) React
12 7 (4.46%) WPF
13 6 (3.82%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 35 (22.29%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.01%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (7.01%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (5.73%) Blog
3 9 (5.73%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.82%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.55%) EPoS
6 4 (2.55%) iSeries
6 4 (2.55%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.91%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.91%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.27%) IoT
8 2 (1.27%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.27%) Podcast
8 2 (1.27%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.64%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.64%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.64%) Windows
2 7 (4.46%) Linux
3 6 (3.82%) Unix
4 2 (1.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (54.14%) CI/CD
2 84 (53.50%) DevOps
3 66 (42.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (30.57%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (27.39%) Agile
6 35 (22.29%) Integration Patterns
7 34 (21.66%) Microservices
8 33 (21.02%) Event-Driven
8 33 (21.02%) Observability
9 31 (19.75%) Migration
10 29 (18.47%) Analytics
10 29 (18.47%) Roadmaps
11 27 (17.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (16.56%) Platform Engineering
13 24 (15.29%) Containerisation
14 21 (13.38%) AI
14 21 (13.38%) Cloud Security
14 21 (13.38%) Mentoring
15 18 (11.46%) CRM
15 18 (11.46%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 48 (30.57%) SQL
2 43 (27.39%) C#
3 41 (26.11%) Python
4 20 (12.74%) JavaScript
5 19 (12.10%) Java
6 11 (7.01%) PowerShell
7 10 (6.37%) Bicep
8 8 (5.10%) Bash
9 5 (3.18%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.55%) Go
10 4 (2.55%) PHP
10 4 (2.55%) RPG
11 2 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.27%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.27%) VB
12 1 (0.64%) ABAP
12 1 (0.64%) Korn
12 1 (0.64%) Lua
12 1 (0.64%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.64%) X++
Qualifications
1 21 (13.38%) Azure Certification
2 17 (10.83%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (10.19%) Degree
4 4 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.55%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (1.27%) CCSP
5 2 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.27%) CISSP
5 2 (1.27%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.64%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.01%) GDPR
1 11 (7.01%) QA
2 10 (6.37%) PCI DSS
3 9 (5.73%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.91%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (12.74%) Docker
2 10 (6.37%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 53 (33.76%) Terraform
2 21 (13.38%) Kubernetes
3 15 (9.55%) Grafana
4 7 (4.46%) Kibana
5 6 (3.82%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.91%) Ansible
6 3 (1.91%) Scalr
7 2 (1.27%) Argo
8 1 (0.64%) logstash
8 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 58 (36.94%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.64%) Oracle
3 11 (7.01%) Cisco
3 11 (7.01%) Red Hat
4 10 (6.37%) Google
5 6 (3.82%) Concur
5 6 (3.82%) F5
5 6 (3.82%) IBM
5 6 (3.82%) Juniper
5 6 (3.82%) Palo Alto
5 6 (3.82%) SAP
6 5 (3.18%) Sage
7 4 (2.55%) Databricks
8 3 (1.91%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.27%) Ab Initio
9 2 (1.27%) Ariba
9 2 (1.27%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.27%) ScienceLogic
9 2 (1.27%) VMware
9 2 (1.27%) Workday