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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 628 472 515
Rank change year-on-year -156 +43 +9
Permanent jobs citing API Management 177 200 242
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.40% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.45% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 119 109 124
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £73,750 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £78,750 £80,625
90th Percentile - £95,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -8.19%

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 86,418 43,977 59,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.19% 88.96% 82.26%
Number of salaries quoted 59,113 24,503 32,039
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for API Management in the UK

API Management
Top 13 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 10 October 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 -129 170 £82,500 +16.61% 184
London -25 95 £83,500 +11.33% 109
UK excluding London -165 74 £67,500 +3.85% 80
Work from Home -79 57 £82,500 +13.79% 86
South West -59 22 £60,000 +11.63% 5
South East -61 21 £57,500 -11.54% 23
East of England -30 13 £78,750 +36.96% 6
West Midlands -59 10 £90,000 +24.14% 12
Midlands -70 10 £90,000 +24.14% 15
North of England -73 8 £78,000 +35.65% 19
North West -35 7 £78,000 +27.35% 6
Scotland +4 1 £90,000 +38.46% 9
Yorkshire -32 1 - - 11

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 16 (9.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (8.47%) Confluence
3 12 (6.78%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.13%) Apache
4 2 (1.13%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (5.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (6.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (6.21%) Carpe Diem
2 11 (6.21%) Elite 3E
3 6 (3.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 165 (93.22%) Azure
2 68 (38.42%) Azure DevOps
2 68 (38.42%) Azure Logic Apps
2 68 (38.42%) Serverless
3 67 (37.85%) Azure Service Bus
4 60 (33.90%) Azure Functions
5 53 (29.94%) Power Platform
6 42 (23.73%) Azure API Management
7 36 (20.34%) Azure Monitor
7 36 (20.34%) GitHub
8 35 (19.77%) PaaS
9 31 (17.51%) Azure Key Vault
9 31 (17.51%) Power Automate
10 25 (14.12%) Dynamics 365
11 22 (12.43%) Azure Event Grid
11 22 (12.43%) PowerApps
12 20 (11.30%) SaaS
13 17 (9.60%) Azure AKS
14 16 (9.04%) AWS
15 15 (8.47%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.78%) VPN
2 2 (1.13%) DNS
3 1 (0.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (20.34%) Azure SQL Database
2 25 (14.12%) Power BI
3 21 (11.86%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (11.30%) SQL Server
5 15 (8.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (6.78%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (5.65%) Db2
7 10 (5.65%) DTS
8 8 (4.52%) Relational Database
9 6 (3.39%) DynamoDB
9 6 (3.39%) Metadata
10 3 (1.69%) ZAP BI
11 2 (1.13%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.13%) Redis
12 1 (0.56%) Apache Ignite
12 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.56%) Flink
12 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.56%) Looker
12 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 40 (22.60%) Git
2 7 (3.95%) Visual Studio
3 5 (2.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (2.82%) Bitbucket
3 5 (2.82%) JIRA
4 4 (2.26%) Cypress.io
4 4 (2.26%) GitLab
4 4 (2.26%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.26%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.69%) git-flow
5 3 (1.69%) JUnit
5 3 (1.69%) NUnit
5 3 (1.69%) Postman
5 3 (1.69%) Selenium
5 3 (1.69%) Snyk
5 3 (1.69%) Terragrunt
6 2 (1.13%) MSI
7 1 (0.56%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.56%) ERwin
7 1 (0.56%) Maven
General
1 75 (42.37%) Social Skills
2 51 (28.81%) Finance
3 25 (14.12%) Law
4 15 (8.47%) Legal
5 13 (7.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (5.08%) Banking
6 9 (5.08%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (3.39%) Police
8 6 (3.39%) Publishing
9 5 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (2.26%) Military
11 3 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.13%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.56%) Advertising
13 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.56%) Billing
13 1 (0.56%) Brand Awareness
13 1 (0.56%) Marketing
13 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (22.60%) Architect
2 38 (21.47%) Developer
3 33 (18.64%) Azure Engineer
4 28 (15.82%) Senior
5 26 (14.69%) Lead
6 17 (9.60%) Applications Engineer
6 17 (9.60%) Solutions Architect
7 16 (9.04%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (8.47%) Integration Engineer
9 14 (7.91%) Software Developer
10 13 (7.34%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 13 (7.34%) Integration Architect
11 12 (6.78%) Analyst
11 12 (6.78%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 11 (6.21%) .NET Developer
12 11 (6.21%) Platform Engineer
13 10 (5.65%) Azure Developer
14 9 (5.08%) .NET Software Developer
14 9 (5.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 9 (5.08%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (31.64%) Terraform
2 52 (29.38%) .NET
3 40 (22.60%) REST
4 19 (10.73%) Node.js
5 18 (10.17%) RESTful
6 16 (9.04%) Middleware
6 16 (9.04%) Spring
6 16 (9.04%) Spring Boot
7 15 (8.47%) OAuth
8 13 (7.34%) OAuth2
9 12 (6.78%) JSON
10 11 (6.21%) AngularJS
10 11 (6.21%) JWT
10 11 (6.21%) Kafka
11 10 (5.65%) .NET Core
11 10 (5.65%) React
12 9 (5.08%) SOAP
13 7 (3.95%) .NET Framework
13 7 (3.95%) GraphQL
14 6 (3.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (23.16%) Cloud Native
2 22 (12.43%) Product Ownership
3 20 (11.30%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (10.17%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (6.78%) Podcast
5 12 (6.78%) Public Cloud
5 12 (6.78%) Security Posture
6 10 (5.65%) EPoS
6 10 (5.65%) iSeries
6 10 (5.65%) Onboarding
7 9 (5.08%) Management Information System
8 8 (4.52%) AI Agents
8 8 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (2.26%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.69%) Reference Data
12 1 (0.56%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.56%) Replication
12 1 (0.56%) Video Conferencing
12 1 (0.56%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.78%) VMS
1 12 (6.78%) Windows
2 1 (0.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (57.06%) CI/CD
2 88 (49.72%) DevOps
3 66 (37.29%) Event-Driven
4 63 (35.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 60 (33.90%) Agile
6 46 (25.99%) Roadmaps
7 44 (24.86%) Integration Patterns
8 43 (24.29%) Microservices
9 39 (22.03%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 38 (21.47%) Mentoring
10 38 (21.47%) Observability
11 36 (20.34%) AI
12 35 (19.77%) Continuous Improvement
13 34 (19.21%) Cloud Security
14 33 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
15 31 (17.51%) Computer Science
16 29 (16.38%) Test Automation
17 28 (15.82%) Analytics
18 27 (15.25%) Technical Leadership
19 26 (14.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 80 (45.20%) SQL
2 67 (37.85%) C#
3 23 (12.99%) Bicep
3 23 (12.99%) Python
4 19 (10.73%) Java
4 19 (10.73%) PowerShell
5 17 (9.60%) Bash
6 12 (6.78%) Kusto Query Language
7 10 (5.65%) RPG
8 7 (3.95%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.82%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.26%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.69%) ABAP
11 3 (1.69%) Go
11 3 (1.69%) X++
12 1 (0.56%) Groovy
12 1 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 40 (22.60%) Azure Certification
2 27 (15.25%) Microsoft Certification
3 23 (12.99%) Degree
4 15 (8.47%) Security Cleared
5 11 (6.21%) SC Cleared
6 7 (3.95%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.82%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.82%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (2.26%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (2.26%) OCP
8 4 (2.26%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.69%) SAP Certification
10 2 (1.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.13%) CCSP
10 2 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.13%) CISSP
11 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.47%) QA
2 13 (7.34%) GDPR
3 7 (3.95%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.69%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.69%) NIST
5 1 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (9.04%) Active Directory
1 16 (9.04%) Docker
2 12 (6.78%) Virtual Desktop
2 12 (6.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (6.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (9.60%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.34%) Grafana
3 7 (3.95%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.69%) Ansible
5 2 (1.13%) Argo
6 1 (0.56%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.56%) logstash
6 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 100 (56.50%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.91%) Oracle
3 12 (6.78%) ScienceLogic
3 12 (6.78%) VMware
4 11 (6.21%) IBM
5 8 (4.52%) Dynatrace
5 8 (4.52%) SAP
5 8 (4.52%) Splunk
6 7 (3.95%) Aderant
6 7 (3.95%) Intapp
7 5 (2.82%) MuleSoft
8 4 (2.26%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.69%) Databricks
9 3 (1.69%) Dell
9 3 (1.69%) HighQ
9 3 (1.69%) iManage
9 3 (1.69%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.13%) Ariba
10 2 (1.13%) Concur
10 2 (1.13%) Informatica