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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 569 485 612
Rank change year-on-year -84 +127 +17
Permanent jobs citing API Management 165 186 322
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.42% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.45% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 109 105 150
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £66,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -

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 68,264 41,362 89,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.88% 92.48% 81.88%
Number of salaries quoted 46,974 22,138 63,125
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £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 £91,991
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 18 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 18 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 -77 156 £80,000 +11.89% 60
UK excluding London -96 88 £65,000 -1.89% 37
London -6 67 £83,000 -7.78% 33
Work from Home -24 64 £67,500 -6.24% 29
South East -18 32 £57,500 -11.54% 15
Midlands -41 25 £81,250 +8.33% 5
West Midlands -20 23 £85,000 +13.33% 4
North of England -52 11 £82,500 +33.60% 6
North West +3 10 £84,000 +29.23% 4
South West -64 10 £62,500 -13.18% 3
East of England -15 7 £85,000 +25.93% 9
Scotland +12 3 £67,500 +3.85% 1
East Midlands -37 2 £77,500 - 1
Yorkshire -44 1 £82,500 +77.42% 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 9 (5.45%) Confluence
2 8 (4.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.82%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.21%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 5 (3.03%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (7.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.61%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 132 (80.00%) Azure
2 51 (30.91%) Azure DevOps
3 47 (28.48%) Azure Logic Apps
4 46 (27.88%) Serverless
5 38 (23.03%) Azure Functions
5 38 (23.03%) Azure Service Bus
6 33 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
6 33 (20.00%) PaaS
6 33 (20.00%) Power Platform
7 24 (14.55%) AWS
7 24 (14.55%) Azure Event Grid
8 22 (13.33%) Azure API Management
9 20 (12.12%) SaaS
10 19 (11.52%) Entra ID
11 18 (10.91%) Apigee
11 18 (10.91%) Dynamics 365
12 16 (9.70%) Azure App Service
13 15 (9.09%) GitHub
14 14 (8.48%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (8.48%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.48%) Firewall
2 9 (5.45%) VPN
3 6 (3.64%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (2.42%) WAN
5 3 (1.82%) BGP
5 3 (1.82%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.82%) VLAN
6 2 (1.21%) DNS
6 2 (1.21%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (18.79%) Azure SQL Database
2 20 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 14 (8.48%) Power BI
5 11 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (4.24%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (3.64%) Relational Database
8 5 (3.03%) Db2
8 5 (3.03%) DTS
9 3 (1.82%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.82%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.21%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.21%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.21%) Metadata
11 1 (0.61%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.61%) MySQL
11 1 (0.61%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 39 (23.64%) Git
2 11 (6.67%) GitLab
3 8 (4.85%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.42%) JIRA
4 4 (2.42%) Postman
5 3 (1.82%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.82%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.21%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.21%) MSI
7 1 (0.61%) git-flow
7 1 (0.61%) JUnit
7 1 (0.61%) NUnit
7 1 (0.61%) Terragrunt
General
1 69 (41.82%) Social Skills
2 57 (34.55%) Finance
3 17 (10.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.70%) Telecoms
5 13 (7.88%) Law
6 9 (5.45%) Banking
6 9 (5.45%) Legal
7 7 (4.24%) Back Office
7 7 (4.24%) Financial Institution
7 7 (4.24%) Retail
8 6 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.42%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.82%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.61%) Advertising
12 1 (0.61%) Billing
12 1 (0.61%) Brand Awareness
12 1 (0.61%) Marketing
12 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (23.03%) Architect
2 28 (16.97%) Developer
3 25 (15.15%) Senior
4 22 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
5 21 (12.73%) Lead
6 19 (11.52%) Solutions Architect
7 17 (10.30%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (8.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 11 (6.67%) .NET Developer
9 11 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
9 11 (6.67%) Network Engineer
9 11 (6.67%) Software Developer
9 11 (6.67%) Telecoms Engineer
10 9 (5.45%) .NET Software Developer
10 9 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (5.45%) Integration Engineer
11 8 (4.85%) Applications Engineer
11 8 (4.85%) Azure Developer
11 8 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (4.24%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (27.88%) .NET
2 30 (18.18%) REST
3 27 (16.36%) JSON
4 20 (12.12%) OAuth
5 19 (11.52%) YAML
6 15 (9.09%) JWT
6 15 (9.09%) Middleware
7 12 (7.27%) OAuth2
7 12 (7.27%) XML
8 11 (6.67%) Jinja
8 11 (6.67%) Node.js
8 11 (6.67%) SOAP
9 10 (6.06%) Spring
9 10 (6.06%) Spring Boot
10 9 (5.45%) SAML
11 8 (4.85%) .NET Core
11 8 (4.85%) RESTful
12 7 (4.24%) React
13 6 (3.64%) Swagger
13 6 (3.64%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 35 (21.21%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (4.24%) Blog
5 7 (4.24%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.64%) Podcast
6 6 (3.64%) Security Posture
7 5 (3.03%) EPoS
7 5 (3.03%) iSeries
7 5 (3.03%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.42%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.42%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.21%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.21%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.21%) IoT
10 2 (1.21%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.09%) Windows
2 6 (3.64%) Linux
2 6 (3.64%) Unix
2 6 (3.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (56.36%) CI/CD
2 90 (54.55%) DevOps
3 68 (41.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (29.70%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (28.48%) Agile
6 36 (21.82%) Event-Driven
6 36 (21.82%) Integration Patterns
7 35 (21.21%) Microservices
8 33 (20.00%) Observability
9 32 (19.39%) Roadmaps
10 31 (18.79%) Analytics
11 29 (17.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (17.58%) Migration
12 26 (15.76%) Mentoring
12 26 (15.76%) Platform Engineering
13 25 (15.15%) AI
13 25 (15.15%) Containerisation
14 24 (14.55%) Cloud Security
15 21 (12.73%) Computer Science
16 20 (12.12%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 56 (33.94%) SQL
2 47 (28.48%) C#
3 41 (24.85%) Python
4 20 (12.12%) JavaScript
5 19 (11.52%) Java
6 14 (8.48%) PowerShell
7 13 (7.88%) Bicep
8 11 (6.67%) Bash
9 6 (3.64%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (3.03%) RPG
10 5 (3.03%) TypeScript
11 4 (2.42%) Go
11 4 (2.42%) PHP
11 4 (2.42%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.21%) VB
12 2 (1.21%) X++
13 1 (0.61%) ABAP
13 1 (0.61%) Korn
13 1 (0.61%) Lua
Qualifications
1 26 (15.76%) Azure Certification
2 22 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (9.70%) Degree
4 4 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.42%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (1.82%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.21%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (1.21%) CCSP
6 2 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.21%) CISSP
7 1 (0.61%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.88%) QA
2 10 (6.06%) GDPR
3 8 (4.85%) PCI DSS
4 7 (4.24%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.82%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (13.33%) Docker
2 14 (8.48%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.64%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (33.33%) Terraform
2 22 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 14 (8.48%) Grafana
4 6 (3.64%) Kibana
4 6 (3.64%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.82%) Ansible
5 3 (1.82%) Scalr
6 2 (1.21%) Argo
7 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 69 (41.82%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.67%) Cisco
2 11 (6.67%) Oracle
2 11 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 10 (6.06%) Google
4 7 (4.24%) IBM
5 6 (3.64%) Concur
5 6 (3.64%) F5
5 6 (3.64%) Juniper
5 6 (3.64%) Palo Alto
5 6 (3.64%) SAP
5 6 (3.64%) ScienceLogic
5 6 (3.64%) VMware
6 5 (3.03%) Databricks
6 5 (3.03%) Sage
7 3 (1.82%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.21%) Ariba
8 2 (1.21%) Splunk
8 2 (1.21%) Workday
9 1 (0.61%) HubSpot