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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 490 532
Rank change year-on-year -126 +42 +16
Permanent jobs citing API Management 173 194 289
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.39% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.44% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 126 105 116
10th Percentile £56,250 £47,050 £41,250
25th Percentile £62,813 £57,500 £49,809
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -0.76% -2.96%
75th Percentile £89,688 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £94,000 £110,625
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 79,395 44,536 67,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 88.97% 80.72%
Number of salaries quoted 54,920 25,310 42,355
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 24 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 24 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 -103 166 £80,000 +23.08% 39
UK excluding London -128 92 £67,500 +3.85% 32
London -20 73 £83,500 +17.19% 23
Work from Home -62 53 £72,500 +7.41% 24
South East -41 27 £57,500 -11.54% 8
South West -55 20 £60,000 +26.32% 4
Midlands -63 19 £90,000 +24.14% 6
West Midlands -28 17 £90,000 +24.14% 2
East of England -22 13 £78,750 +34.62% 2
North of England -53 11 £82,500 +26.92% 6
North West -28 10 £84,000 +29.23% 2
Scotland +7 2 £67,500 +3.85% 8
East Midlands -37 2 £77,500 - 4
Yorkshire -28 1 £82,500 +77.42% 4

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 15 (8.67%) Confluence
2 13 (7.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (6.36%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.16%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.58%) Apache
5 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (5.78%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (8.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (5.20%) Carpe Diem
2 9 (5.20%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.58%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 156 (90.17%) Azure
2 65 (37.57%) Azure Logic Apps
3 64 (36.99%) Azure DevOps
3 64 (36.99%) Serverless
4 58 (33.53%) Azure Service Bus
5 51 (29.48%) Azure Functions
5 51 (29.48%) Power Platform
6 38 (21.97%) PaaS
7 28 (16.18%) Azure Monitor
7 28 (16.18%) Power Automate
8 26 (15.03%) Azure API Management
9 25 (14.45%) Dynamics 365
10 24 (13.87%) Azure Key Vault
10 24 (13.87%) GitHub
11 22 (12.72%) Azure Event Grid
12 21 (12.14%) PowerApps
13 19 (10.98%) AWS
14 18 (10.40%) Azure AKS
15 15 (8.67%) IaaS
16 14 (8.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.94%) VPN
2 9 (5.20%) Firewall
3 3 (1.73%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (1.16%) DNS
5 1 (0.58%) Network Security
5 1 (0.58%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (23.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 25 (14.45%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (12.72%) Power BI
4 17 (9.83%) SQL Server
5 15 (8.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (5.78%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (5.78%) Db2
6 10 (5.78%) DTS
7 6 (3.47%) DynamoDB
8 5 (2.89%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.73%) ZAP BI
11 2 (1.16%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.16%) InfluxDB
11 2 (1.16%) Metadata
11 2 (1.16%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.58%) Flink
12 1 (0.58%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.58%) Looker
12 1 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 45 (26.01%) Git
2 9 (5.20%) GitLab
3 6 (3.47%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (2.89%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.89%) JIRA
5 4 (2.31%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.31%) Postman
6 3 (1.73%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.73%) git-flow
6 3 (1.73%) JUnit
6 3 (1.73%) NUnit
6 3 (1.73%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.73%) Selenium
6 3 (1.73%) Snyk
6 3 (1.73%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.73%) Terragrunt
7 2 (1.16%) MSI
8 1 (0.58%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.58%) ERwin
General
1 71 (41.04%) Social Skills
2 48 (27.75%) Finance
3 23 (13.29%) Law
4 16 (9.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (9.25%) Legal
5 8 (4.62%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.47%) Banking
8 4 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.31%) Military
8 4 (2.31%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.16%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.58%) Advertising
10 1 (0.58%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.58%) Billing
10 1 (0.58%) Brand Awareness
10 1 (0.58%) Marketing
10 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (20.81%) Architect
2 31 (17.92%) Azure Engineer
2 31 (17.92%) Developer
3 27 (15.61%) Senior
4 26 (15.03%) Lead
5 19 (10.98%) Solutions Architect
6 17 (9.83%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (8.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 15 (8.67%) Integration Engineer
8 14 (8.09%) Applications Engineer
8 14 (8.09%) Software Developer
9 13 (7.51%) Analyst
10 12 (6.94%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 11 (6.36%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (5.20%) .NET Developer
12 9 (5.20%) .NET Software Developer
12 9 (5.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 8 (4.62%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 8 (4.62%) Integration Manager
13 8 (4.62%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (32.95%) Terraform
2 52 (30.06%) .NET
3 31 (17.92%) REST
4 20 (11.56%) Node.js
5 18 (10.40%) JSON
6 16 (9.25%) Middleware
7 15 (8.67%) Spring
7 15 (8.67%) Spring Boot
8 14 (8.09%) YAML
9 13 (7.51%) OAuth
10 11 (6.36%) JWT
10 11 (6.36%) Kafka
10 11 (6.36%) OAuth2
10 11 (6.36%) RESTful
11 10 (5.78%) SOAP
12 9 (5.20%) React
12 9 (5.20%) XML
13 8 (4.62%) AngularJS
14 7 (4.05%) .NET Core
14 7 (4.05%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 37 (21.39%) Cloud Native
2 20 (11.56%) Product Ownership
3 17 (9.83%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (7.51%) Public Cloud
5 12 (6.94%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (6.94%) Podcast
5 12 (6.94%) Security Posture
6 10 (5.78%) EPoS
6 10 (5.78%) iSeries
7 9 (5.20%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (3.47%) AI Agents
8 6 (3.47%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.31%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (1.16%) IoT
11 2 (1.16%) Reference Data
12 1 (0.58%) Low-Code
12 1 (0.58%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.09%) Windows
2 12 (6.94%) VMS
3 3 (1.73%) Linux
3 3 (1.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (54.91%) CI/CD
2 87 (50.29%) DevOps
3 66 (38.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (32.95%) Agile
5 49 (28.32%) Event-Driven
6 40 (23.12%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (21.97%) Roadmaps
8 34 (19.65%) Microservices
9 32 (18.50%) AI
9 32 (18.50%) Integration Patterns
10 30 (17.34%) Cloud Security
10 30 (17.34%) Observability
11 29 (16.76%) Computer Science
11 29 (16.76%) Mentoring
12 28 (16.18%) Containerisation
12 28 (16.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (15.61%) Performance Tuning
14 24 (13.87%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 23 (13.29%) Technical Leadership
16 22 (12.72%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 79 (45.66%) SQL
2 62 (35.84%) C#
3 37 (21.39%) Python
4 20 (11.56%) PowerShell
5 18 (10.40%) Java
6 17 (9.83%) Bash
7 16 (9.25%) Bicep
8 14 (8.09%) JavaScript
9 12 (6.94%) Kusto Query Language
10 10 (5.78%) RPG
11 5 (2.89%) T-SQL
12 4 (2.31%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.73%) Go
14 2 (1.16%) X++
15 1 (0.58%) Lua
15 1 (0.58%) PHP
Qualifications
1 30 (17.34%) Azure Certification
2 24 (13.87%) Microsoft Certification
3 20 (11.56%) Degree
4 6 (3.47%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (2.89%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.89%) Security Cleared
6 4 (2.31%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (2.31%) OCP
6 4 (2.31%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (2.31%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.16%) CCSP
8 2 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.16%) CISSP
9 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.58%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.67%) QA
2 13 (7.51%) GDPR
3 5 (2.89%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.73%) NIST
6 2 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (12.72%) Docker
2 17 (9.83%) Active Directory
3 12 (6.94%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (6.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (11.56%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.36%) Grafana
3 9 (5.20%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.73%) Ansible
4 3 (1.73%) Scalr
5 2 (1.16%) Argo
6 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 89 (51.45%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.51%) Oracle
3 12 (6.94%) ScienceLogic
3 12 (6.94%) VMware
4 10 (5.78%) IBM
4 10 (5.78%) Red Hat
5 7 (4.05%) Intapp
6 6 (3.47%) Cisco
7 5 (2.89%) Aderant
7 5 (2.89%) Google
7 5 (2.89%) Splunk
8 4 (2.31%) Databricks
8 4 (2.31%) SAP
9 3 (1.73%) Concur
9 3 (1.73%) F5
9 3 (1.73%) HighQ
9 3 (1.73%) iManage
9 3 (1.73%) Juniper
9 3 (1.73%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.73%) Salesforce