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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 610 518 548
Rank change year-on-year -92 +30 +14
Permanent jobs citing API Management 180 180 280
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.36% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.40% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 127 97 110
10th Percentile £54,750 £48,550 £40,000
25th Percentile £61,875 £57,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -7.14% +1.82%
75th Percentile £89,375 £78,750 £88,438
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £111,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £52,198
% change year-on-year +3.85% +24.53% -20.13%

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 77,641 44,566 67,247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.69% 89.32% 81.09%
Number of salaries quoted 53,461 25,406 43,850
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,073 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.41% -3.85% -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 August 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 9 August 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 -80 172 £80,000 +23.08% 86
UK excluding London -106 99 £67,500 +3.85% 34
London -26 72 £83,500 +15.17% 59
Work from Home -55 60 £71,250 - 33
South East -45 32 £57,500 -11.54% 17
Midlands -49 23 £85,000 +13.33% 1
West Midlands -36 21 £85,000 +13.33%
South West -49 19 £60,000 +6.67% 3
East of England -24 12 £80,000 +26.98% 1
North of England -52 11 £82,500 +26.92% 8
North West -18 10 £84,000 +29.23% 6
Scotland +4 2 £67,500 +3.85% 4
East Midlands -39 2 £77,500 - 1
Yorkshire -39 1 £82,500 +77.42% 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 17 (9.44%) Confluence
2 13 (7.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (5.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.11%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.56%) Apache
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (5.56%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (7.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (3.89%) Carpe Diem
2 7 (3.89%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 158 (87.78%) Azure
2 62 (34.44%) Azure DevOps
2 62 (34.44%) Azure Logic Apps
3 61 (33.89%) Serverless
4 55 (30.56%) Azure Service Bus
5 53 (29.44%) Power Platform
6 48 (26.67%) Azure Functions
7 44 (24.44%) PaaS
8 29 (16.11%) Azure Monitor
9 25 (13.89%) Azure Event Grid
9 25 (13.89%) Power Automate
10 24 (13.33%) Azure API Management
10 24 (13.33%) Dynamics 365
11 23 (12.78%) AWS
11 23 (12.78%) GitHub
12 21 (11.67%) Azure Key Vault
13 19 (10.56%) PowerApps
14 18 (10.00%) Entra ID
14 18 (10.00%) IaaS
14 18 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.22%) Firewall
2 12 (6.67%) VPN
3 5 (2.78%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (2.22%) WAN
5 2 (1.11%) DNS
5 2 (1.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (21.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 25 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (12.78%) Power BI
4 16 (8.89%) SQL Server
5 15 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (5.56%) Db2
6 10 (5.56%) DTS
7 8 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (3.33%) DynamoDB
8 6 (3.33%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.67%) Metadata
10 3 (1.67%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.67%) ZAP BI
11 2 (1.11%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.11%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.56%) Flink
12 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.56%) Looker
12 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (26.11%) Git
2 13 (7.22%) GitLab
3 7 (3.89%) JIRA
4 5 (2.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (2.78%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.78%) Visual Studio
5 4 (2.22%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.22%) JUnit
5 4 (2.22%) NUnit
5 4 (2.22%) Postman
6 3 (1.67%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.67%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.67%) Selenium
6 3 (1.67%) Snyk
6 3 (1.67%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.11%) git-flow
7 2 (1.11%) MSI
7 2 (1.11%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.56%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.56%) ERwin
General
1 77 (42.78%) Social Skills
2 51 (28.33%) Finance
3 22 (12.22%) Law
4 17 (9.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (8.89%) Legal
6 12 (6.67%) Telecoms
7 10 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.78%) Banking
10 4 (2.22%) Military
10 4 (2.22%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.11%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.56%) Advertising
12 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.56%) Billing
12 1 (0.56%) Brand Awareness
12 1 (0.56%) Marketing
12 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (22.78%) Architect
2 30 (16.67%) Developer
3 29 (16.11%) Azure Engineer
4 28 (15.56%) Senior
5 27 (15.00%) Lead
6 22 (12.22%) Solutions Architect
7 17 (9.44%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 14 (7.78%) Software Developer
10 13 (7.22%) Analyst
10 13 (7.22%) Integration Engineer
11 12 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
11 12 (6.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 10 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
12 10 (5.56%) Network Engineer
12 10 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (5.56%) Telecoms Engineer
13 9 (5.00%) .NET Developer
13 9 (5.00%) .NET Software Developer
13 9 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (28.33%) .NET
2 31 (17.22%) REST
3 22 (12.22%) JSON
4 21 (11.67%) Node.js
5 18 (10.00%) YAML
6 17 (9.44%) Middleware
7 15 (8.33%) Spring
7 15 (8.33%) Spring Boot
8 13 (7.22%) OAuth
9 11 (6.11%) JWT
9 11 (6.11%) Kafka
9 11 (6.11%) OAuth2
9 11 (6.11%) XML
10 10 (5.56%) Jinja
10 10 (5.56%) React
10 10 (5.56%) RESTful
10 10 (5.56%) SOAP
11 8 (4.44%) AngularJS
12 7 (3.89%) .NET Core
12 7 (3.89%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 41 (22.78%) Cloud Native
2 20 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (8.89%) Product Ownership
4 13 (7.22%) Public Cloud
5 12 (6.67%) Podcast
5 12 (6.67%) Security Posture
6 11 (6.11%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (5.56%) EPoS
7 10 (5.56%) iSeries
8 7 (3.89%) Onboarding
9 6 (3.33%) AI Agents
10 4 (2.22%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (1.11%) IoT
12 2 (1.11%) Reference Data
13 1 (0.56%) Blog
13 1 (0.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.33%) Windows
2 12 (6.67%) VMS
3 5 (2.78%) Linux
3 5 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 92 (51.11%) DevOps
3 71 (39.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (34.44%) Agile
5 50 (27.78%) Event-Driven
6 43 (23.89%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (23.89%) Roadmaps
7 38 (21.11%) Integration Patterns
8 35 (19.44%) AI
9 33 (18.33%) Microservices
10 32 (17.78%) Containerisation
10 32 (17.78%) Observability
11 31 (17.22%) Cloud Security
11 31 (17.22%) Mentoring
12 29 (16.11%) Computer Science
12 29 (16.11%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (15.00%) Analytics
13 27 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
14 24 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
15 23 (12.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 75 (41.67%) SQL
2 57 (31.67%) C#
3 41 (22.78%) Python
4 20 (11.11%) Java
4 20 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 17 (9.44%) Bash
5 17 (9.44%) JavaScript
6 15 (8.33%) Bicep
7 12 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (5.56%) RPG
9 5 (2.78%) T-SQL
9 5 (2.78%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.22%) Go
11 2 (1.11%) X++
12 1 (0.56%) Lua
12 1 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 30 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 24 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 21 (11.67%) Degree
4 6 (3.33%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (2.78%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.78%) Security Cleared
6 4 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (2.22%) OCP
6 4 (2.22%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (2.22%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.11%) CCSP
8 2 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.11%) CISSP
9 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.33%) QA
2 13 (7.22%) GDPR
3 5 (2.78%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.67%) NIST
6 2 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.11%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (12.78%) Docker
2 19 (10.56%) Active Directory
3 12 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (32.22%) Terraform
2 20 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.11%) Grafana
4 9 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.67%) Ansible
5 3 (1.67%) Scalr
6 2 (1.11%) Argo
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 89 (49.44%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.78%) Red Hat
3 12 (6.67%) Oracle
3 12 (6.67%) ScienceLogic
3 12 (6.67%) VMware
4 10 (5.56%) Cisco
4 10 (5.56%) IBM
5 7 (3.89%) Intapp
6 6 (3.33%) Concur
7 5 (2.78%) Databricks
7 5 (2.78%) F5
7 5 (2.78%) Google
7 5 (2.78%) Juniper
7 5 (2.78%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.78%) Sage
7 5 (2.78%) Splunk
8 4 (2.22%) SAP
9 3 (1.67%) Aderant
9 3 (1.67%) iManage
9 3 (1.67%) Salesforce