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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 511 525
Rank change year-on-year +50 +14 +161
Permanent jobs citing API Management 187 209 196
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.38% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.43% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 118 130 161
10th Percentile £46,600 £47,500 £48,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,225 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.85% -0.41% -10.00%
75th Percentile £83,438 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,876 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -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 48,217 49,041 48,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.67% 90.12% 91.17%
Number of salaries quoted 28,251 24,093 36,700
10th Percentile £28,456 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £79,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 +59 163 £75,000 +7.14% 100
London +95 91 £75,750 -15.83% 23
UK excluding London +16 85 £65,000 - 90
Work from Home +51 71 £69,133 +6.36% 12
Midlands +37 32 £72,500 -3.33% 19
West Midlands +44 28 £72,500 +11.54% 12
Scotland +10 15 £65,000 -10.34% 3
North of England +5 15 £70,383 +17.31% 19
North West +32 11 £65,383 +6.75% 7
South East -33 11 £65,000 - 24
East of England +21 6 £55,000 -18.52% 13
South West +12 4 £40,375 -32.71% 10
East Midlands +3 4 £77,500 - 6
Yorkshire -12 4 £82,500 +32.00% 11
Wales - 2 £51,250 - 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 10 (5.35%) Apache Solr
2 9 (4.81%) Appian
3 8 (4.28%) SharePoint
4 6 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.67%) Apache
6 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.60%) Anypoint
7 3 (1.60%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (1.60%) CMS
7 3 (1.60%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (1.07%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 23 (12.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.14%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.07%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.07%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.07%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 135 (72.19%) Azure
2 61 (32.62%) Azure Logic Apps
3 47 (25.13%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (24.60%) Power Platform
5 34 (18.18%) Azure Service Bus
6 32 (17.11%) PaaS
7 30 (16.04%) AWS
7 30 (16.04%) Power Automate
8 28 (14.97%) Serverless
9 27 (14.44%) Azure Event Grid
9 27 (14.44%) Dynamics 365
9 27 (14.44%) GitHub
9 27 (14.44%) PowerApps
10 26 (13.90%) Azure Monitor
11 24 (12.83%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (10.70%) IaaS
13 19 (10.16%) SaaS
14 17 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
15 16 (8.56%) Azure AKS
16 15 (8.02%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.67%) VPN
2 3 (1.60%) BGP
2 3 (1.60%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.60%) VLAN
3 2 (1.07%) DNS
3 2 (1.07%) Firewall
4 1 (0.53%) DHCP
4 1 (0.53%) IPv4
4 1 (0.53%) IPv6
4 1 (0.53%) LAN
4 1 (0.53%) MPLS
4 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (14.44%) Power BI
2 16 (8.56%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.35%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (5.35%) MySQL
4 9 (4.81%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (4.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (3.74%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.67%) Airbyte
8 3 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.60%) Metadata
9 2 (1.07%) SAP Data Services
10 1 (0.53%) Big Data
10 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.53%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (16.58%) Git
2 23 (12.30%) Visual Studio
3 6 (3.21%) Robot Framework
3 6 (3.21%) Selenium
3 6 (3.21%) Snyk
4 2 (1.07%) JIRA
4 2 (1.07%) MSTest
4 2 (1.07%) NUnit
4 2 (1.07%) Postman
5 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
General
1 53 (28.34%) Finance
2 52 (27.81%) Social Skills
3 32 (17.11%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.88%) Law
5 9 (4.81%) Banking
5 9 (4.81%) Retail
6 7 (3.74%) Health Technology
6 7 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.74%) Legal
7 5 (2.67%) Back Office
7 5 (2.67%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.67%) Marketing
7 5 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.07%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.07%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.53%) Advertising
10 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 54 (28.88%) Architect
2 45 (24.06%) Developer
3 35 (18.72%) Lead
4 20 (10.70%) Integration Developer
5 19 (10.16%) Solutions Architect
6 13 (6.95%) SAP Developer
7 12 (6.42%) Integration Manager
7 12 (6.42%) Support Engineer
8 11 (5.88%) Technical Architect
9 10 (5.35%) Azure Architect
9 10 (5.35%) Integration Engineer
10 8 (4.28%) Applications Architect
10 8 (4.28%) Development Engineer
10 8 (4.28%) Development Support Engineer
10 8 (4.28%) Integration Specialist
10 8 (4.28%) Lead Architect
11 7 (3.74%) Backend Developer
11 7 (3.74%) Delivery Manager
11 7 (3.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.74%) Lead Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (27.81%) REST
2 36 (19.25%) SOAP
3 30 (16.04%) OAuth
4 24 (12.83%) RESTful
5 21 (11.23%) Middleware
6 19 (10.16%) JSON
6 19 (10.16%) Web Services
7 15 (8.02%) SAML
8 14 (7.49%) OAuth2
9 13 (6.95%) .NET
9 13 (6.95%) BAPI
9 13 (6.95%) IBM Integration Bus
9 13 (6.95%) JMS
10 11 (5.88%) Node.js
11 9 (4.81%) AngularJS
11 9 (4.81%) React
12 7 (3.74%) FHIR
12 7 (3.74%) Vue
13 6 (3.21%) .NET Core
13 6 (3.21%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 36 (19.25%) Cloud Native
2 30 (16.04%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (9.09%) Low-Code
4 15 (8.02%) Management Information System
5 10 (5.35%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.74%) NHS
6 7 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (3.21%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.67%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.67%) IoT
9 3 (1.60%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.07%) Blog
11 1 (0.53%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.53%) AS400
11 1 (0.53%) Clustering
11 1 (0.53%) iSeries
11 1 (0.53%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.70%) Windows
2 16 (8.56%) Linux
3 11 (5.88%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.53%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (53.48%) CI/CD
2 86 (45.99%) DevOps
3 77 (41.18%) Agile
4 43 (22.99%) Migration
5 42 (22.46%) AI
6 39 (20.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 38 (20.32%) Test Automation
8 36 (19.25%) Microservices
9 35 (18.72%) CRM
9 35 (18.72%) Scrum
9 35 (18.72%) Technical Leadership
10 33 (17.65%) Event-Driven
10 33 (17.65%) Roadmaps
11 32 (17.11%) Analytics
11 32 (17.11%) Architectural Patterns
11 32 (17.11%) Data Pipeline
11 32 (17.11%) Enterprise Architecture
11 32 (17.11%) Integration Patterns
11 32 (17.11%) Observability
11 32 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 30 (16.04%) Python
1 30 (16.04%) SQL
2 25 (13.37%) JavaScript
3 24 (12.83%) Bicep
4 19 (10.16%) C#
5 12 (6.42%) Java
6 9 (4.81%) PHP
7 8 (4.28%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.74%) ABAP
9 4 (2.14%) Bash
10 3 (1.60%) Go
10 3 (1.60%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.07%) Groovy
11 2 (1.07%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.53%) Korn
12 1 (0.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (6.95%) Azure Certification
1 13 (6.95%) Degree
1 13 (6.95%) Security Cleared
2 9 (4.81%) TOGAF Certification
3 7 (3.74%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.21%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.60%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.60%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.53%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.56%) GDPR
2 13 (6.95%) QA
3 9 (4.81%) SLA
4 7 (3.74%) HL7
5 5 (2.67%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.67%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.07%) IFRS
8 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.53%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.53%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (12.30%) Docker
2 6 (3.21%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.07%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.53%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 42 (22.46%) Terraform
2 15 (8.02%) Ansible
3 12 (6.42%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.67%) Grafana
5 4 (2.14%) Kibana
5 4 (2.14%) logstash
6 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.53%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 64 (34.22%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.16%) Oracle
3 18 (9.63%) SAP
4 15 (8.02%) IBM
5 14 (7.49%) Ab Initio
6 10 (5.35%) Informatica
7 7 (3.74%) VMware
8 6 (3.21%) BiZZdesign
8 6 (3.21%) Black Duck
8 6 (3.21%) CrowdStrike
8 6 (3.21%) Databricks
8 6 (3.21%) Fortinet
8 6 (3.21%) MuleSoft
8 6 (3.21%) Palo Alto
8 6 (3.21%) UiPath
9 5 (2.67%) Blue Prism
9 5 (2.67%) Coverity
9 5 (2.67%) webMethods
10 4 (2.14%) HubSpot
11 3 (1.60%) Salesforce