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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 504 583
Rank change year-on-year -56 +79 +74
Permanent jobs citing API Management 155 151 320
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.36% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.38% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 96 106 159
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £45,840
25th Percentile £57,500 £59,813 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,996 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.64% -5.34% -1.64%
75th Percentile £85,063 £96,875 £93,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £123,125 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -16.67%

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 67,118 39,358 81,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.74% 92.84% 85.64%
Number of salaries quoted 41,692 22,603 59,642
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,344 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -43 140 £75,000 +4.18% 55
UK excluding London -89 83 £65,000 -3.70% 33
Work from Home +8 66 £63,750 -10.21% 20
London +17 64 £82,500 -8.33% 25
Midlands -33 33 £75,000 - 9
West Midlands -17 29 £75,000 - 5
South East -36 20 £59,250 -8.85% 14
North of England -69 14 £81,250 +25.00% 3
Scotland -10 11 £67,500 -22.86% 1
North West -28 10 £76,642 +17.91%
East Midlands -51 4 £77,500 - 4
Yorkshire -69 4 £83,750 +18.68% 3
East of England -26 2 £43,000 -35.09% 3
South West -59 2 £65,000 -9.71% 4
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 8 (5.16%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.94%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.29%) Confluence
4 2 (1.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (6.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.58%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.29%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.29%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 109 (70.32%) Azure
2 45 (29.03%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (25.81%) Azure Logic Apps
4 34 (21.94%) PaaS
5 30 (19.35%) Serverless
6 29 (18.71%) Azure Monitor
6 29 (18.71%) Azure Service Bus
7 28 (18.06%) AWS
7 28 (18.06%) Power Platform
8 25 (16.13%) Azure Event Grid
9 23 (14.84%) Microsoft 365
10 22 (14.19%) GitHub
11 21 (13.55%) Azure Functions
11 21 (13.55%) Entra ID
12 20 (12.90%) IaaS
13 19 (12.26%) Apigee
13 19 (12.26%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (12.26%) SaaS
14 13 (8.39%) GCP
15 12 (7.74%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.68%) Firewall
2 6 (3.87%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (3.87%) VPN
3 5 (3.23%) WAN
4 4 (2.58%) BGP
4 4 (2.58%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.58%) VLAN
5 2 (1.29%) DNS
5 2 (1.29%) Network Security
6 1 (0.65%) DHCP
6 1 (0.65%) IPv4
6 1 (0.65%) IPv6
6 1 (0.65%) LAN
6 1 (0.65%) MPLS
6 1 (0.65%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.61%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (8.39%) SQL Server
3 12 (7.74%) Power BI
4 9 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (5.16%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.23%) Metadata
6 5 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.29%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.29%) InfluxDB
7 2 (1.29%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.29%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.29%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.65%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.65%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (10.97%) Git
2 11 (7.10%) GitLab
3 5 (3.23%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.58%) Postman
5 3 (1.94%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.94%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.29%) JIRA
7 1 (0.65%) JUnit
7 1 (0.65%) NUnit
General
1 59 (38.06%) Social Skills
2 53 (34.19%) Finance
3 19 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.68%) Banking
4 15 (9.68%) Law
4 15 (9.68%) Telecoms
5 14 (9.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (8.39%) Legal
7 11 (7.10%) Retail
8 10 (6.45%) Back Office
8 10 (6.45%) Financial Institution
9 6 (3.87%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.58%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.94%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.29%) Marketing
12 2 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.65%) Advertising
13 1 (0.65%) Brand Awareness
13 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (30.32%) Architect
2 22 (14.19%) Developer
2 22 (14.19%) Solutions Architect
3 18 (11.61%) Lead
4 17 (10.97%) Senior
5 14 (9.03%) Azure Engineer
5 14 (9.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (7.10%) Automation Engineer
6 11 (7.10%) AWS Engineer
6 11 (7.10%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (7.10%) Integration Engineer
6 11 (7.10%) Network Engineer
6 11 (7.10%) Telecoms Engineer
7 10 (6.45%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (5.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 7 (4.52%) Applications Engineer
9 7 (4.52%) Automation Specialist
9 7 (4.52%) Network Specialist
9 7 (4.52%) Support Engineer
9 7 (4.52%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (18.71%) .NET
2 28 (18.06%) JSON
3 23 (14.84%) REST
4 21 (13.55%) OAuth
5 16 (10.32%) RESTful
6 14 (9.03%) YAML
7 12 (7.74%) Middleware
7 12 (7.74%) OAuth2
8 11 (7.10%) Jinja
9 10 (6.45%) JWT
10 9 (5.81%) XML
11 8 (5.16%) SOAP
12 7 (4.52%) SAML
12 7 (4.52%) WPF
13 6 (3.87%) .NET Core
13 6 (3.87%) CSS
13 6 (3.87%) Swagger
13 6 (3.87%) YANG
14 5 (3.23%) Node.js
15 4 (2.58%) React
Miscellaneous
1 44 (28.39%) Cloud Native
2 20 (12.90%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (8.39%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.81%) Blog
5 7 (4.52%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (4.52%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.87%) IoT
6 6 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (3.23%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (3.23%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.29%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.65%) AS400
10 1 (0.65%) Clustering
10 1 (0.65%) iSeries
10 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.32%) Windows
2 12 (7.74%) Linux
3 6 (3.87%) Unix
4 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (57.42%) DevOps
2 79 (50.97%) CI/CD
3 61 (39.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (27.10%) Agile
5 38 (24.52%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (23.87%) Analytics
6 37 (23.87%) Integration Patterns
6 37 (23.87%) Observability
7 33 (21.29%) Migration
7 33 (21.29%) Roadmaps
8 30 (19.35%) Microservices
9 26 (16.77%) AI
10 25 (16.13%) Technical Leadership
11 23 (14.84%) Event-Driven
12 21 (13.55%) Log Analytics
13 20 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (12.90%) CRM
13 20 (12.90%) Enterprise Architecture
13 20 (12.90%) Mentoring
13 20 (12.90%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 40 (25.81%) Python
2 38 (24.52%) SQL
3 26 (16.77%) C#
4 20 (12.90%) JavaScript
5 18 (11.61%) Bicep
6 16 (10.32%) Java
7 13 (8.39%) PowerShell
8 7 (4.52%) Bash
9 5 (3.23%) Go
10 4 (2.58%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.94%) PHP
11 3 (1.94%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.29%) ABAP
12 2 (1.29%) VB
13 1 (0.65%) Korn
13 1 (0.65%) Lua
Qualifications
1 12 (7.74%) Azure Certification
2 9 (5.81%) Degree
2 9 (5.81%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.23%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.94%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (1.94%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.65%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.03%) QA
2 11 (7.10%) GDPR
2 11 (7.10%) PCI DSS
3 10 (6.45%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.29%) IFRS
4 2 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (10.97%) Docker
2 11 (7.10%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.29%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.65%) vCloud
4 1 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (32.26%) Terraform
2 23 (14.84%) Kubernetes
3 13 (8.39%) Grafana
4 7 (4.52%) Kibana
5 4 (2.58%) logstash
5 4 (2.58%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.94%) Scalr
7 2 (1.29%) Ansible
8 1 (0.65%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 55 (35.48%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.32%) Oracle
3 11 (7.10%) Cisco
3 11 (7.10%) Red Hat
4 10 (6.45%) Google
5 8 (5.16%) Ab Initio
6 7 (4.52%) Palo Alto
7 6 (3.87%) Databricks
7 6 (3.87%) F5
7 6 (3.87%) Juniper
8 5 (3.23%) SAP
9 4 (2.58%) Concur
9 4 (2.58%) IBM
9 4 (2.58%) Sage
10 3 (1.94%) Informatica
10 3 (1.94%) MuleSoft
11 2 (1.29%) Workday
12 1 (0.65%) CrowdStrike
12 1 (0.65%) NetApp
12 1 (0.65%) Software AG