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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 490 580
Rank change year-on-year -26 +90 +104
Permanent jobs citing API Management 179 151 263
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.36% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.38% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 109 115 173
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,250 £49,912
25th Percentile £57,299 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £96,737 £91,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £118,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% -10.71%

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 58,352 39,745 74,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.73% 93.47% 87.16%
Number of salaries quoted 35,337 22,215 56,156
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £29,029
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,424 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,750
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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -1 163 £75,000 +3.45% 44
London +52 88 £81,250 -19.75% 17
UK excluding London -38 85 £65,000 -5.45% 30
Work from Home +19 77 £62,500 -13.49% 30
Midlands -10 30 £72,500 -3.33% 10
West Midlands +2 25 £70,000 -6.67% 7
South East -45 17 £60,000 -7.69% 11
North of England -42 15 £79,142 +17.73% 7
Scotland -11 14 £66,250 -24.29%
North West +1 12 £75,000 +87.50% 4
East Midlands - 5 £77,500 - 3
East of England -14 4 £49,000 -27.41% 1
South West -36 4 £65,000 -9.71% 1
Yorkshire -45 3 £85,000 +26.44% 3
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 11 (6.15%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.79%) Appian
4 4 (2.23%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.68%) Anypoint
5 3 (1.68%) Confluence
5 3 (1.68%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (1.12%) Apache
6 2 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.12%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (1.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (8.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (4.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.23%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.12%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.12%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 126 (70.39%) Azure
2 57 (31.84%) Azure Logic Apps
3 47 (26.26%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (22.35%) Power Platform
5 39 (21.79%) PaaS
6 35 (19.55%) AWS
7 34 (18.99%) Azure Service Bus
8 32 (17.88%) Azure Event Grid
9 29 (16.20%) Azure Monitor
10 27 (15.08%) GitHub
11 26 (14.53%) Microsoft 365
12 25 (13.97%) Serverless
13 24 (13.41%) IaaS
14 23 (12.85%) GitHub Actions
15 21 (11.73%) SaaS
16 20 (11.17%) Entra ID
17 18 (10.06%) Power Automate
17 18 (10.06%) PowerApps
18 17 (9.50%) Dynamics 365
19 16 (8.94%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.26%) Firewall
2 8 (4.47%) VPN
3 6 (3.35%) BGP
3 6 (3.35%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (3.35%) TCP/IP
3 6 (3.35%) VLAN
4 5 (2.79%) 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 (11.73%) Power BI
2 16 (8.94%) SQL Server
3 9 (5.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (4.47%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.79%) MySQL
6 4 (2.23%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.23%) Metadata
6 4 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.68%) SAP Data Services
8 2 (1.12%) Airbyte
8 2 (1.12%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.12%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.56%) Big Data
9 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (12.85%) Git
2 14 (7.82%) Visual Studio
3 11 (6.15%) GitLab
4 3 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.68%) JIRA
4 3 (1.68%) Postman
5 2 (1.12%) Robot Framework
5 2 (1.12%) Selenium
5 2 (1.12%) Snyk
6 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.56%) JUnit
6 1 (0.56%) NUnit
6 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 67 (37.43%) Finance
2 61 (34.08%) Social Skills
3 25 (13.97%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.06%) Banking
4 18 (10.06%) Law
5 16 (8.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (8.38%) Retail
7 14 (7.82%) Telecoms
8 13 (7.26%) Legal
9 12 (6.70%) Back Office
9 12 (6.70%) Financial Institution
10 6 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (2.23%) Marketing
13 3 (1.68%) Manufacturing
14 2 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (1.12%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.56%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 55 (30.73%) Architect
2 27 (15.08%) Developer
3 26 (14.53%) Lead
4 20 (11.17%) Solutions Architect
5 16 (8.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (7.26%) AWS Engineer
6 13 (7.26%) Senior
6 13 (7.26%) Support Engineer
7 12 (6.70%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (6.15%) Automation Engineer
8 11 (6.15%) Integration Developer
8 11 (6.15%) Integration Engineer
8 11 (6.15%) Network Engineer
8 11 (6.15%) Telecoms Engineer
9 10 (5.59%) Technical Architect
10 9 (5.03%) Azure Architect
11 8 (4.47%) Cloud Architect
12 7 (3.91%) Applications Engineer
12 7 (3.91%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.91%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (16.76%) JSON
1 30 (16.76%) REST
2 22 (12.29%) OAuth
2 22 (12.29%) RESTful
3 20 (11.17%) .NET
4 16 (8.94%) SOAP
5 15 (8.38%) Middleware
6 12 (6.70%) OAuth2
6 12 (6.70%) YAML
7 11 (6.15%) Jinja
8 10 (5.59%) Node.js
9 9 (5.03%) Web Services
10 8 (4.47%) XML
11 7 (3.91%) SAML
11 7 (3.91%) WPF
12 6 (3.35%) .NET Core
12 6 (3.35%) CSS
12 6 (3.35%) JWT
12 6 (3.35%) YANG
13 5 (2.79%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 47 (26.26%) Cloud Native
2 26 (14.53%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (8.38%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.03%) Blog
4 9 (5.03%) Data Centre
4 9 (5.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.91%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.35%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.23%) IoT
8 3 (1.68%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.12%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.56%) AS400
10 1 (0.56%) Clustering
10 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.17%) Windows
2 16 (8.94%) Linux
3 6 (3.35%) Unix
4 5 (2.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (54.75%) DevOps
2 97 (54.19%) CI/CD
3 64 (35.75%) Agile
4 58 (32.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 42 (23.46%) Analytics
5 42 (23.46%) Observability
6 40 (22.35%) Integration Patterns
6 40 (22.35%) Migration
7 39 (21.79%) Roadmaps
8 36 (20.11%) Microservices
8 36 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (18.99%) AI
10 31 (17.32%) Technical Leadership
11 30 (16.76%) CRM
11 30 (16.76%) Enterprise Architecture
12 28 (15.64%) Event-Driven
12 28 (15.64%) Test Automation
13 27 (15.08%) Architectural Patterns
14 25 (13.97%) Data Pipeline
14 25 (13.97%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 38 (21.23%) Python
2 27 (15.08%) SQL
3 23 (12.85%) JavaScript
4 22 (12.29%) Bicep
5 21 (11.73%) C#
6 20 (11.17%) Java
7 11 (6.15%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.91%) Go
8 7 (3.91%) PHP
9 5 (2.79%) Bash
10 3 (1.68%) ABAP
10 3 (1.68%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.12%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.12%) VB
12 1 (0.56%) Groovy
12 1 (0.56%) Korn
12 1 (0.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (5.59%) Azure Certification
2 7 (3.91%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.35%) Degree
3 6 (3.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.68%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.12%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.12%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.82%) GDPR
2 13 (7.26%) PCI DSS
3 12 (6.70%) SOC 2
4 10 (5.59%) QA
5 4 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.68%) SLA
7 2 (1.12%) IFRS
8 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.56%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (11.17%) Docker
2 11 (6.15%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.12%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.56%) vCloud
4 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (27.93%) Terraform
2 19 (10.61%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.59%) Grafana
4 8 (4.47%) Ansible
5 7 (3.91%) Kibana
6 4 (2.23%) logstash
6 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.68%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.56%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.56%) Scalr
Vendors
1 66 (36.87%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.61%) Oracle
3 12 (6.70%) Ab Initio
4 11 (6.15%) Cisco
4 11 (6.15%) Palo Alto
4 11 (6.15%) Red Hat
5 8 (4.47%) Informatica
5 8 (4.47%) SAP
6 7 (3.91%) Google
7 6 (3.35%) F5
7 6 (3.35%) Juniper
8 5 (2.79%) CrowdStrike
8 5 (2.79%) Databricks
8 5 (2.79%) Fortinet
8 5 (2.79%) IBM
8 5 (2.79%) MuleSoft
9 4 (2.23%) Concur
9 4 (2.23%) HubSpot
9 4 (2.23%) Sage
10 3 (1.68%) Salesforce