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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 475 590
Rank change year-on-year -82 +115 +46
Permanent jobs citing API Management 180 189 322
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.41% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.45% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 121 107 151
10th Percentile £52,500 £49,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +18.52%
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £110,000
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 69,907 41,954 86,795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.40% 92.11% 82.23%
Number of salaries quoted 48,219 22,640 61,471
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.00% - -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 27 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 27 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 -81 172 £80,000 +11.89% 46
UK excluding London -81 97 £66,250 +1.92% 29
London -7 73 £83,500 -7.22% 29
Work from Home -18 69 £68,750 -4.50% 22
South East -33 32 £57,500 -11.54% 16
Midlands -45 25 £85,000 +13.33% 1
West Midlands -16 23 £85,000 +13.33% 1
South West -52 16 £62,500 -13.18% 3
North of England -42 12 £82,500 +26.92% 4
North West -5 11 £84,000 +29.23% 2
East of England -12 10 £80,000 +18.52% 6
Scotland +11 2 £67,500 +3.85% 1
East Midlands -38 2 £77,500 -
Yorkshire -42 1 £82,500 +16.91% 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 14 (7.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (6.67%) Confluence
3 7 (3.89%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.11%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 7 (3.89%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (7.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.22%) Carpe Diem
3 4 (2.22%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 148 (82.22%) Azure
2 59 (32.78%) Azure DevOps
3 53 (29.44%) Serverless
4 52 (28.89%) Azure Logic Apps
5 44 (24.44%) Azure Functions
6 43 (23.89%) Azure Service Bus
7 41 (22.78%) PaaS
7 41 (22.78%) Power Platform
8 37 (20.56%) Azure Monitor
9 25 (13.89%) AWS
9 25 (13.89%) Azure Event Grid
10 24 (13.33%) Azure API Management
11 21 (11.67%) GitHub
11 21 (11.67%) SaaS
12 20 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
12 20 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
12 20 (11.11%) Entra ID
13 19 (10.56%) Power Automate
14 18 (10.00%) IaaS
15 17 (9.44%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.33%) VPN
2 14 (7.78%) Firewall
3 6 (3.33%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (2.22%) WAN
5 3 (1.67%) BGP
5 3 (1.67%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.67%) VLAN
6 2 (1.11%) DNS
6 2 (1.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (21.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 22 (12.22%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (10.56%) Power BI
4 17 (9.44%) SQL Server
5 14 (7.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (3.89%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (3.89%) Db2
6 7 (3.89%) DTS
7 6 (3.33%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.22%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.67%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.11%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.11%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.11%) Metadata
11 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.56%) MySQL
11 1 (0.56%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 46 (25.56%) Git
2 11 (6.11%) GitLab
3 8 (4.44%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.78%) JIRA
5 3 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (1.67%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.67%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.67%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.67%) Postman
6 2 (1.11%) MSI
7 1 (0.56%) git-flow
7 1 (0.56%) JUnit
7 1 (0.56%) NUnit
7 1 (0.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 77 (42.78%) Social Skills
2 60 (33.33%) Finance
3 23 (12.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 23 (12.78%) Law
4 15 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 13 (7.22%) Legal
6 11 (6.11%) Banking
7 7 (3.89%) Back Office
7 7 (3.89%) Financial Institution
7 7 (3.89%) Retail
8 6 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.22%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.67%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Advertising
12 1 (0.56%) Billing
12 1 (0.56%) Brand Awareness
12 1 (0.56%) Marketing
12 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (22.22%) Architect
2 28 (15.56%) Senior
3 27 (15.00%) Developer
4 26 (14.44%) Azure Engineer
5 22 (12.22%) Lead
6 21 (11.67%) Solutions Architect
7 18 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 13 (7.22%) Analyst
10 12 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
10 12 (6.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 11 (6.11%) .NET Developer
11 11 (6.11%) Automation Engineer
11 11 (6.11%) Integration Engineer
11 11 (6.11%) Network Engineer
11 11 (6.11%) Software Developer
11 11 (6.11%) Telecoms Engineer
12 9 (5.00%) .NET Software Developer
12 9 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (26.67%) .NET
2 32 (17.78%) REST
3 25 (13.89%) JSON
4 19 (10.56%) YAML
5 17 (9.44%) OAuth
6 16 (8.89%) Middleware
7 14 (7.78%) JWT
7 14 (7.78%) Node.js
8 12 (6.67%) Spring
8 12 (6.67%) Spring Boot
8 12 (6.67%) XML
9 11 (6.11%) Jinja
9 11 (6.11%) OAuth2
9 11 (6.11%) SOAP
10 8 (4.44%) RESTful
11 7 (3.89%) .NET Core
11 7 (3.89%) GraphQL
11 7 (3.89%) Kafka
11 7 (3.89%) React
11 7 (3.89%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (20.56%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.78%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (7.22%) Public Cloud
4 12 (6.67%) Podcast
4 12 (6.67%) Security Posture
4 12 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.89%) Blog
7 7 (3.89%) EPoS
7 7 (3.89%) iSeries
7 7 (3.89%) Product Ownership
8 6 (3.33%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.22%) Data Centre
9 4 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.22%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.67%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (1.11%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.11%) Windows
2 12 (6.67%) VMS
3 6 (3.33%) Linux
3 6 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (56.11%) CI/CD
2 97 (53.89%) DevOps
3 75 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (31.67%) Agile
5 52 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (22.78%) Roadmaps
7 40 (22.22%) Event-Driven
8 38 (21.11%) Observability
9 36 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
10 35 (19.44%) Analytics
10 35 (19.44%) Microservices
11 34 (18.89%) AI
12 31 (17.22%) Cloud Security
13 29 (16.11%) Continuous Improvement
13 29 (16.11%) Mentoring
14 28 (15.56%) Computer Science
14 28 (15.56%) Platform Engineering
15 27 (15.00%) Containerisation
15 27 (15.00%) Migration
16 25 (13.89%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 70 (38.89%) SQL
2 52 (28.89%) C#
3 42 (23.33%) Python
4 21 (11.67%) Java
4 21 (11.67%) PowerShell
5 19 (10.56%) JavaScript
6 17 (9.44%) Bash
6 17 (9.44%) Bicep
7 12 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
8 7 (3.89%) RPG
9 5 (2.78%) T-SQL
9 5 (2.78%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.22%) Go
11 3 (1.67%) PHP
12 2 (1.11%) VB
12 2 (1.11%) X++
13 1 (0.56%) ABAP
13 1 (0.56%) Lua
Qualifications
1 32 (17.78%) Azure Certification
2 27 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 17 (9.44%) Degree
4 4 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (2.22%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.67%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.11%) CCSP
6 2 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.11%) CISSP
7 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.78%) QA
2 11 (6.11%) GDPR
3 8 (4.44%) PCI DSS
4 7 (3.89%) SOC 2
5 4 (2.22%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (11.67%) Active Directory
1 21 (11.67%) Docker
2 12 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
2 12 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (34.44%) Terraform
2 21 (11.67%) Kubernetes
3 13 (7.22%) Grafana
4 6 (3.33%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.78%) Kibana
6 3 (1.67%) Ansible
6 3 (1.67%) Scalr
7 2 (1.11%) Argo
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 81 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.67%) ScienceLogic
2 12 (6.67%) VMware
3 11 (6.11%) Cisco
3 11 (6.11%) Oracle
3 11 (6.11%) Red Hat
4 9 (5.00%) Google
5 8 (4.44%) IBM
6 6 (3.33%) Concur
6 6 (3.33%) F5
6 6 (3.33%) Juniper
6 6 (3.33%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.78%) Databricks
7 5 (2.78%) Sage
7 5 (2.78%) SAP
8 4 (2.22%) Intapp
9 3 (1.67%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.67%) Splunk
10 2 (1.11%) Ariba
10 2 (1.11%) Workday