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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 508 577
Rank change year-on-year +16 +69 +104
Permanent jobs citing API Management 178 188 232
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 100 134 172
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £50,827
25th Percentile £57,450 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -0.68% -2.67%
75th Percentile £84,063 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £114,625 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £66,113 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.68% +5.78% +4.17%

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 54,541 44,858 66,633
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.08% 92.63% 88.37%
Number of salaries quoted 32,717 22,158 51,477
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £29,440
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 £76,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £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 22 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 22 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 +18 158 £75,000 - 33
London +84 94 £78,750 -14.86% 10
UK excluding London -48 77 £65,000 -1.68% 27
Work from Home +42 76 £65,766 -8.65% 20
Midlands +10 26 £72,500 -3.33% 10
West Midlands +20 22 £72,500 -3.33% 8
Scotland +10 15 £65,000 -23.53%
North of England -18 15 £76,642 +9.49% 6
North West +3 11 £70,383 +22.41% 5
South East -42 10 £73,750 +13.46% 8
South West -20 6 £53,750 -25.34% 3
East of England +13 4 £49,000 -27.41%
Yorkshire -34 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 (5.06%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.37%) Appian
3 5 (2.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.25%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.69%) Anypoint
5 3 (1.69%) Apache
5 3 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.69%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.69%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (1.12%) Confluence
6 2 (1.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 18 (10.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (5.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.25%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.12%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.12%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 124 (69.66%) Azure
2 57 (32.02%) Azure Logic Apps
3 47 (26.40%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (21.35%) Power Platform
5 36 (20.22%) PaaS
6 34 (19.10%) AWS
7 33 (18.54%) Azure Service Bus
8 32 (17.98%) Azure Event Grid
9 30 (16.85%) Azure Monitor
10 29 (16.29%) GitHub
11 27 (15.17%) Serverless
12 25 (14.04%) GitHub Actions
13 23 (12.92%) SaaS
14 22 (12.36%) IaaS
15 21 (11.80%) Microsoft 365
16 20 (11.24%) Power Automate
17 19 (10.67%) Dynamics 365
17 19 (10.67%) PowerApps
18 16 (8.99%) Azure AKS
19 15 (8.43%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.49%) VPN
2 7 (3.93%) Firewall
3 6 (3.37%) BGP
3 6 (3.37%) TCP/IP
3 6 (3.37%) VLAN
4 3 (1.69%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (1.69%) WAN
5 2 (1.12%) DNS
6 1 (0.56%) DHCP
6 1 (0.56%) IPv4
6 1 (0.56%) IPv6
6 1 (0.56%) LAN
6 1 (0.56%) MPLS
6 1 (0.56%) Network Security
6 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.80%) Power BI
2 16 (8.99%) SQL Server
3 9 (5.06%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.25%) Metadata
5 4 (2.25%) MySQL
5 4 (2.25%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.69%) Airbyte
6 3 (1.69%) 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
Development Applications
1 20 (11.24%) Git
2 18 (10.11%) Visual Studio
3 5 (2.81%) GitLab
4 3 (1.69%) Postman
4 3 (1.69%) Robot Framework
4 3 (1.69%) Selenium
4 3 (1.69%) Snyk
5 2 (1.12%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.12%) JIRA
6 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
General
1 64 (35.96%) Finance
2 52 (29.21%) Social Skills
3 26 (14.61%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.11%) Banking
4 18 (10.11%) Law
5 15 (8.43%) Retail
6 14 (7.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (6.74%) Back Office
7 12 (6.74%) Financial Institution
8 9 (5.06%) Legal
9 8 (4.49%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.25%) Marketing
12 3 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.69%) Health Technology
12 3 (1.69%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.56%) Advertising
14 1 (0.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 52 (29.21%) Architect
2 32 (17.98%) Developer
3 31 (17.42%) Lead
4 17 (9.55%) Solutions Architect
5 15 (8.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (7.30%) AWS Engineer
6 13 (7.30%) Integration Developer
6 13 (7.30%) Support Engineer
7 12 (6.74%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (6.18%) Senior
8 11 (6.18%) Technical Architect
9 10 (5.62%) Azure Architect
9 10 (5.62%) Integration Engineer
10 7 (3.93%) Applications Engineer
10 7 (3.93%) Applications Support
10 7 (3.93%) Applications Support Engineer
10 7 (3.93%) Cloud Architect
10 7 (3.93%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (3.93%) Integration Manager
11 6 (3.37%) Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (19.10%) REST
2 26 (14.61%) RESTful
3 25 (14.04%) JSON
3 25 (14.04%) OAuth
4 21 (11.80%) SOAP
5 16 (8.99%) .NET
5 16 (8.99%) Middleware
6 14 (7.87%) OAuth2
7 13 (7.30%) Web Services
8 9 (5.06%) SAML
9 8 (4.49%) Node.js
10 7 (3.93%) WPF
11 6 (3.37%) .NET Core
11 6 (3.37%) BAPI
11 6 (3.37%) IBM Integration Bus
11 6 (3.37%) JMS
11 6 (3.37%) Swagger
12 5 (2.81%) Jinja
12 5 (2.81%) JWT
12 5 (2.81%) React
Miscellaneous
1 43 (24.16%) Cloud Native
2 26 (14.61%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (7.87%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (6.18%) Management Information System
5 10 (5.62%) Low-Code
6 9 (5.06%) Blog
6 9 (5.06%) Data Centre
6 9 (5.06%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.81%) IoT
9 4 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.25%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.69%) NHS
11 2 (1.12%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.56%) AS400
12 1 (0.56%) iSeries
12 1 (0.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.11%) Windows
2 13 (7.30%) Linux
3 5 (2.81%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.69%) Unix
5 1 (0.56%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (53.37%) CI/CD
2 92 (51.69%) DevOps
3 66 (37.08%) Agile
4 53 (29.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 42 (23.60%) Observability
6 41 (23.03%) Analytics
7 39 (21.91%) Migration
8 36 (20.22%) Integration Patterns
8 36 (20.22%) Microservices
8 36 (20.22%) Roadmaps
9 35 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (19.10%) AI
11 32 (17.98%) CRM
12 31 (17.42%) Enterprise Architecture
12 31 (17.42%) Technical Leadership
13 30 (16.85%) Data Pipeline
13 30 (16.85%) Test Automation
14 28 (15.73%) Architectural Patterns
14 28 (15.73%) Event-Driven
15 27 (15.17%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 30 (16.85%) Python
2 29 (16.29%) SQL
3 24 (13.48%) Bicep
4 20 (11.24%) C#
4 20 (11.24%) JavaScript
5 19 (10.67%) Java
6 9 (5.06%) PowerShell
7 7 (3.93%) PHP
8 6 (3.37%) Go
9 4 (2.25%) ABAP
9 4 (2.25%) Bash
10 3 (1.69%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.12%) VB
12 1 (0.56%) Groovy
12 1 (0.56%) Korn
12 1 (0.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (6.18%) Azure Certification
2 10 (5.62%) Degree
3 8 (4.49%) Security Cleared
4 6 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.25%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.25%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.69%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.12%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.99%) GDPR
2 12 (6.74%) PCI DSS
2 12 (6.74%) SOC 2
3 9 (5.06%) QA
4 5 (2.81%) SLA
5 3 (1.69%) HL7
5 3 (1.69%) 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 19 (10.67%) Docker
2 9 (5.06%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.12%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.56%) vCloud
4 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (28.09%) Terraform
2 18 (10.11%) Kubernetes
3 9 (5.06%) Ansible
4 8 (4.49%) Grafana
5 7 (3.93%) Kibana
6 4 (2.25%) logstash
7 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.56%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 63 (35.39%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.67%) Oracle
3 14 (7.87%) Ab Initio
4 10 (5.62%) Informatica
4 10 (5.62%) SAP
5 9 (5.06%) Palo Alto
6 7 (3.93%) IBM
7 6 (3.37%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (3.37%) Fortinet
7 6 (3.37%) MuleSoft
8 5 (2.81%) Cisco
8 5 (2.81%) Databricks
8 5 (2.81%) Google
8 5 (2.81%) Red Hat
9 4 (2.25%) HubSpot
9 4 (2.25%) VMware
10 3 (1.69%) Juniper
10 3 (1.69%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.69%) Software AG
10 3 (1.69%) webMethods