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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 473 607
Rank change year-on-year -105 +134 +29
Permanent jobs citing API Management 161 188 323
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.42% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.46% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 104 107 152
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,750 £42,750
25th Percentile £59,375 £60,875 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,250 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.92% +8.33% -

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 67,454 41,012 87,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.86% 92.64% 82.31%
Number of salaries quoted 46,240 21,844 62,402
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% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 12 June 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 12 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 -78 153 £80,000 +11.89% 57
UK excluding London -97 86 £66,250 +1.92% 40
London -10 67 £83,000 -5.14% 25
Work from Home -31 62 £67,500 -6.24% 34
South East -29 31 £57,500 -11.54% 16
Midlands -37 25 £81,250 +8.33% 5
West Midlands -27 23 £85,000 +13.33% 4
North of England -46 11 £82,500 +33.60% 7
North West +9 10 £84,000 +29.23% 5
South West -68 8 £62,500 -13.18% 6
East of England -16 7 £85,000 +25.93% 8
Scotland +11 4 £67,500 +3.85% 1
East Midlands -45 2 £77,500 - 1
Yorkshire -46 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 8 (4.97%) Confluence
2 6 (3.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.86%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.24%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.62%) Anypoint
Applications
1 4 (2.48%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (6.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.62%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 125 (77.64%) Azure
2 51 (31.68%) Azure DevOps
3 43 (26.71%) Serverless
4 41 (25.47%) Azure Logic Apps
5 35 (21.74%) Azure Functions
6 34 (21.12%) Azure Service Bus
7 32 (19.88%) Azure Monitor
8 30 (18.63%) PaaS
9 28 (17.39%) Power Platform
10 26 (16.15%) AWS
11 24 (14.91%) Azure Event Grid
12 22 (13.66%) SaaS
13 21 (13.04%) Azure API Management
14 19 (11.80%) Entra ID
15 18 (11.18%) Apigee
16 16 (9.94%) Azure App Service
17 15 (9.32%) GitHub
18 14 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
19 13 (8.07%) Azure AKS
19 13 (8.07%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.70%) Firewall
2 7 (4.35%) VPN
3 6 (3.73%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (2.48%) WAN
5 3 (1.86%) BGP
5 3 (1.86%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.86%) VLAN
6 2 (1.24%) DNS
6 2 (1.24%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (18.01%) Azure SQL Database
2 19 (11.80%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (9.32%) SQL Server
4 13 (8.07%) Power BI
5 8 (4.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (3.73%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.48%) Db2
8 4 (2.48%) DTS
9 3 (1.86%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.86%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.24%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.24%) Metadata
11 1 (0.62%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.62%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.62%) MySQL
11 1 (0.62%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 35 (21.74%) Git
2 11 (6.83%) GitLab
3 6 (3.73%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.48%) JIRA
4 4 (2.48%) Postman
5 3 (1.86%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.86%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.24%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.24%) MSI
7 1 (0.62%) git-flow
7 1 (0.62%) JUnit
7 1 (0.62%) NUnit
7 1 (0.62%) Terragrunt
General
1 67 (41.61%) Social Skills
2 58 (36.02%) Finance
3 17 (10.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.94%) Telecoms
5 13 (8.07%) Law
6 11 (6.83%) Banking
7 9 (5.59%) Back Office
7 9 (5.59%) Financial Institution
7 9 (5.59%) Legal
7 9 (5.59%) Retail
8 5 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.86%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.86%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.62%) Advertising
11 1 (0.62%) Billing
11 1 (0.62%) Brand Awareness
11 1 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (22.36%) Architect
2 28 (17.39%) Developer
3 24 (14.91%) Senior
4 23 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
5 19 (11.80%) Lead
6 18 (11.18%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (11.18%) Solutions Architect
7 15 (9.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 11 (6.83%) .NET Developer
8 11 (6.83%) Automation Engineer
8 11 (6.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (6.83%) Network Engineer
8 11 (6.83%) Software Developer
8 11 (6.83%) Telecoms Engineer
9 10 (6.21%) Integration Engineer
10 9 (5.59%) .NET Software Developer
10 9 (5.59%) Applications Engineer
10 9 (5.59%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (5.59%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.97%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (27.95%) .NET
2 29 (18.01%) REST
3 27 (16.77%) JSON
4 21 (13.04%) OAuth
5 19 (11.80%) YAML
6 15 (9.32%) JWT
7 14 (8.70%) Middleware
8 13 (8.07%) OAuth2
9 11 (6.83%) Jinja
9 11 (6.83%) XML
10 10 (6.21%) Node.js
10 10 (6.21%) SOAP
11 9 (5.59%) RESTful
11 9 (5.59%) SAML
11 9 (5.59%) Spring
11 9 (5.59%) Spring Boot
12 8 (4.97%) .NET Core
13 7 (4.35%) React
13 7 (4.35%) WPF
14 6 (3.73%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 36 (22.36%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.83%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (6.21%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (6.21%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (5.59%) Blog
5 8 (4.97%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.73%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.73%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (3.11%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.48%) EPoS
8 4 (2.48%) iSeries
8 4 (2.48%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.48%) Podcast
8 4 (2.48%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.86%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.86%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.24%) IoT
10 2 (1.24%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.62%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.70%) Windows
2 7 (4.35%) Linux
3 6 (3.73%) Unix
4 4 (2.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (55.90%) CI/CD
2 89 (55.28%) DevOps
3 70 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (27.95%) Agile
6 36 (22.36%) Observability
7 35 (21.74%) Microservices
8 34 (21.12%) Event-Driven
8 34 (21.12%) Integration Patterns
9 31 (19.25%) Analytics
10 30 (18.63%) Migration
11 29 (18.01%) Roadmaps
12 27 (16.77%) Platform Engineering
13 26 (16.15%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (14.91%) Containerisation
15 23 (14.29%) AI
15 23 (14.29%) Mentoring
16 22 (13.66%) Cloud Security
17 20 (12.42%) Log Analytics
18 19 (11.80%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 53 (32.92%) SQL
2 45 (27.95%) C#
3 42 (26.09%) Python
4 20 (12.42%) Java
4 20 (12.42%) JavaScript
5 13 (8.07%) Bicep
5 13 (8.07%) PowerShell
6 10 (6.21%) Bash
7 5 (3.11%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.48%) Go
8 4 (2.48%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (2.48%) PHP
8 4 (2.48%) RPG
9 2 (1.24%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.24%) VB
10 1 (0.62%) ABAP
10 1 (0.62%) Korn
10 1 (0.62%) Lua
10 1 (0.62%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.62%) X++
Qualifications
1 23 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 19 (11.80%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (9.94%) Degree
4 4 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.48%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (1.86%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.24%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (1.24%) CCSP
6 2 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.24%) CISSP
7 1 (0.62%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.45%) QA
2 11 (6.83%) GDPR
3 10 (6.21%) PCI DSS
4 9 (5.59%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.86%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (13.04%) Docker
2 12 (7.45%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.48%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (35.40%) Terraform
2 22 (13.66%) Kubernetes
3 15 (9.32%) Grafana
4 7 (4.35%) Kibana
5 6 (3.73%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.86%) Ansible
6 3 (1.86%) Scalr
7 2 (1.24%) Argo
8 1 (0.62%) logstash
8 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 62 (38.51%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.83%) Cisco
2 11 (6.83%) Oracle
2 11 (6.83%) Red Hat
3 10 (6.21%) Google
4 6 (3.73%) Concur
4 6 (3.73%) F5
4 6 (3.73%) IBM
4 6 (3.73%) Juniper
4 6 (3.73%) Palo Alto
4 6 (3.73%) SAP
5 5 (3.11%) Databricks
5 5 (3.11%) Sage
6 4 (2.48%) ScienceLogic
6 4 (2.48%) VMware
7 3 (1.86%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.24%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.24%) Ariba
8 2 (1.24%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.24%) Splunk