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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 479 587
Rank change year-on-year -84 +108 +33
Permanent jobs citing API Management 186 199 319
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.40% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.45% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 130 114 149
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,150 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,563 £60,688 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £89,688 £90,000 £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 72,817 44,332 83,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 90.20% 82.17%
Number of salaries quoted 50,259 24,803 58,175
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -77 178 £80,000 +16.36% 61
UK excluding London -102 100 £66,250 +1.92% 39
London -14 76 £83,500 -1.76% 31
Work from Home -50 66 £70,000 - 26
South East -31 33 £57,500 -11.54% 15
Midlands -46 24 £85,000 +13.33% 1
West Midlands -30 22 £85,000 +13.33% 1
South West -62 17 £65,000 -9.71% 4
East of England -15 12 £80,000 +26.98% 6
North of England -49 12 £82,500 +26.92% 11
North West -18 11 £84,000 +29.23% 5
Scotland +14 2 £67,500 +3.85% 3
East Midlands -38 2 £77,500 -
Yorkshire -38 1 £82,500 -12.82% 5

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 17 (9.14%) Confluence
2 14 (7.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (4.84%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.08%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 10 (5.38%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (7.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.23%) Carpe Diem
2 6 (3.23%) Elite 3E
3 4 (2.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.54%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 157 (84.41%) Azure
2 61 (32.80%) Azure Logic Apps
3 60 (32.26%) Serverless
4 59 (31.72%) Azure DevOps
5 54 (29.03%) Azure Service Bus
6 48 (25.81%) Azure Functions
6 48 (25.81%) Power Platform
7 44 (23.66%) PaaS
8 30 (16.13%) Azure Monitor
9 26 (13.98%) AWS
9 26 (13.98%) Azure Event Grid
10 24 (12.90%) Azure API Management
11 22 (11.83%) GitHub
11 22 (11.83%) SaaS
12 21 (11.29%) Azure Key Vault
12 21 (11.29%) Dynamics 365
12 21 (11.29%) Entra ID
12 21 (11.29%) Power Automate
13 18 (9.68%) IaaS
13 18 (9.68%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.06%) VPN
2 14 (7.53%) Firewall
3 6 (3.23%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (2.15%) WAN
5 3 (1.61%) BGP
5 3 (1.61%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.61%) VLAN
6 2 (1.08%) DNS
6 2 (1.08%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (21.51%) Azure SQL Database
2 25 (13.44%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (11.29%) Power BI
4 18 (9.68%) SQL Server
5 15 (8.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (5.38%) Db2
6 10 (5.38%) DTS
7 7 (3.76%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (3.23%) DynamoDB
8 6 (3.23%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.61%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.08%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.08%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.08%) Metadata
11 1 (0.54%) MySQL
11 1 (0.54%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 47 (25.27%) Git
2 11 (5.91%) GitLab
3 7 (3.76%) JIRA
4 5 (2.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (2.69%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.69%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.61%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.08%) git-flow
6 2 (1.08%) MSI
6 2 (1.08%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.54%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.54%) JUnit
7 1 (0.54%) NUnit
7 1 (0.54%) Postman
General
1 81 (43.55%) Social Skills
2 57 (30.65%) Finance
3 24 (12.90%) Law
4 22 (11.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (8.06%) Legal
6 14 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (6.99%) Telecoms
8 11 (5.91%) Banking
9 6 (3.23%) Back Office
9 6 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (3.23%) Financial Institution
9 6 (3.23%) Retail
10 4 (2.15%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.61%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.54%) Advertising
13 1 (0.54%) Billing
13 1 (0.54%) Brand Awareness
13 1 (0.54%) Marketing
13 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (22.58%) Architect
2 28 (15.05%) Azure Engineer
3 27 (14.52%) Developer
3 27 (14.52%) Lead
3 27 (14.52%) Senior
4 24 (12.90%) Solutions Architect
5 18 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (8.06%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 13 (6.99%) Analyst
8 12 (6.45%) Applications Engineer
8 12 (6.45%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 12 (6.45%) Integration Engineer
9 11 (5.91%) .NET Developer
9 11 (5.91%) Automation Engineer
9 11 (5.91%) Network Engineer
9 11 (5.91%) Software Developer
9 11 (5.91%) Telecoms Engineer
10 9 (4.84%) .NET Software Developer
10 9 (4.84%) Azure Developer
10 9 (4.84%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (27.42%) .NET
2 31 (16.67%) REST
3 23 (12.37%) JSON
4 19 (10.22%) Node.js
4 19 (10.22%) YAML
5 18 (9.68%) Middleware
6 15 (8.06%) Spring
6 15 (8.06%) Spring Boot
7 13 (6.99%) OAuth
8 12 (6.45%) RESTful
8 12 (6.45%) XML
9 11 (5.91%) Jinja
9 11 (5.91%) JWT
9 11 (5.91%) OAuth2
10 10 (5.38%) Kafka
10 10 (5.38%) SOAP
11 7 (3.76%) GraphQL
11 7 (3.76%) React
12 6 (3.23%) Next.js
12 6 (3.23%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 43 (23.12%) Cloud Native
2 17 (9.14%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (8.06%) Product Ownership
4 13 (6.99%) Public Cloud
5 12 (6.45%) Podcast
5 12 (6.45%) Security Posture
5 12 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (5.38%) EPoS
6 10 (5.38%) iSeries
7 9 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (4.30%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (3.76%) Onboarding
10 6 (3.23%) AI Agents
10 6 (3.23%) Blog
11 5 (2.69%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.61%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
13 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
13 2 (1.08%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.60%) Windows
2 12 (6.45%) VMS
3 6 (3.23%) Linux
3 6 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (54.84%) CI/CD
2 93 (50.00%) DevOps
3 75 (40.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 61 (32.80%) Agile
5 51 (27.42%) Event-Driven
6 49 (26.34%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (23.12%) Roadmaps
8 39 (20.97%) Integration Patterns
9 36 (19.35%) Microservices
10 35 (18.82%) AI
10 35 (18.82%) Observability
11 32 (17.20%) Mentoring
12 31 (16.67%) Cloud Security
13 30 (16.13%) Computer Science
14 29 (15.59%) Containerisation
15 27 (14.52%) Analytics
15 27 (14.52%) Performance Tuning
15 27 (14.52%) Platform Engineering
16 26 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
16 26 (13.98%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 75 (40.32%) SQL
2 56 (30.11%) C#
3 42 (22.58%) Python
4 23 (12.37%) Java
5 21 (11.29%) PowerShell
6 17 (9.14%) Bash
6 17 (9.14%) JavaScript
7 15 (8.06%) Bicep
8 12 (6.45%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (5.38%) RPG
10 5 (2.69%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.69%) TypeScript
11 4 (2.15%) Go
12 2 (1.08%) VB
12 2 (1.08%) X++
13 1 (0.54%) ABAP
13 1 (0.54%) Lua
13 1 (0.54%) PHP
Qualifications
1 29 (15.59%) Azure Certification
2 24 (12.90%) Microsoft Certification
3 19 (10.22%) Degree
4 6 (3.23%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.69%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.15%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.08%) CCSP
7 2 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.08%) CISSP
8 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.54%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.06%) QA
2 12 (6.45%) GDPR
3 7 (3.76%) PCI DSS
4 6 (3.23%) SOC 2
5 5 (2.69%) Data Quality
6 4 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (11.29%) Active Directory
2 19 (10.22%) Docker
3 12 (6.45%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 59 (31.72%) Terraform
2 17 (9.14%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.84%) Grafana
4 6 (3.23%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.61%) Ansible
5 3 (1.61%) Scalr
6 2 (1.08%) Argo
7 1 (0.54%) Kibana
7 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 88 (47.31%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.45%) ScienceLogic
2 12 (6.45%) VMware
3 11 (5.91%) Cisco
3 11 (5.91%) Oracle
3 11 (5.91%) Red Hat
4 10 (5.38%) IBM
5 6 (3.23%) Concur
5 6 (3.23%) F5
5 6 (3.23%) Intapp
5 6 (3.23%) Juniper
5 6 (3.23%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.69%) Databricks
6 5 (2.69%) Google
6 5 (2.69%) Sage
6 5 (2.69%) SAP
6 5 (2.69%) Splunk
7 3 (1.61%) Aderant
7 3 (1.61%) iManage
7 3 (1.61%) Salesforce