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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 585 487 577
Rank change year-on-year -98 +90 +49
Permanent jobs citing API Management 151 172 316
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.40% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.43% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 95 101 151
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,750 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% -4.67% -
75th Percentile £85,125 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £91,500 £105,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £66,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -13.79%

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 68,525 40,020 82,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.79% 93.31% 84.38%
Number of salaries quoted 44,515 20,986 59,915
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,839 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,645 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.66% +3.29% -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 May 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 24 May 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 -87 140 £75,000 +4.90% 69
UK excluding London -96 84 £62,500 -5.66% 38
Work from Home -4 62 £62,500 -13.18% 37
London -22 61 £82,500 -8.33% 39
South East -27 31 £57,500 -11.54% 19
Midlands -36 29 £75,000 - 5
West Midlands -28 27 £75,000 - 4
North of England -48 9 £83,750 +28.85% 7
Scotland -1 7 £67,500 -20.59%
North West -5 7 £84,000 +29.23% 4
East of England -18 5 £67,500 - 5
East Midlands -40 2 £77,500 - 1
Yorkshire -52 2 £83,750 +80.11% 2
South West -73 2 £65,000 -9.71% 2
Wales - 1 £52,500 - 1

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 7 (4.64%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.65%) Confluence
4 2 (1.32%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.66%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.32%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (5.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.32%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.66%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 117 (77.48%) Azure
2 47 (31.13%) Azure DevOps
3 37 (24.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 33 (21.85%) Azure Monitor
4 33 (21.85%) Serverless
5 29 (19.21%) Azure Service Bus
6 26 (17.22%) AWS
6 26 (17.22%) Azure Functions
6 26 (17.22%) PaaS
7 24 (15.89%) Azure Event Grid
7 24 (15.89%) Entra ID
8 23 (15.23%) Power Platform
9 21 (13.91%) SaaS
10 19 (12.58%) Azure API Management
10 19 (12.58%) Microsoft 365
11 18 (11.92%) Apigee
12 14 (9.27%) Azure AKS
12 14 (9.27%) GCP
12 14 (9.27%) GitHub
13 13 (8.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.93%) Firewall
2 6 (3.97%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (3.31%) WAN
4 4 (2.65%) VPN
5 3 (1.99%) BGP
5 3 (1.99%) DNS
5 3 (1.99%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.99%) VLAN
6 2 (1.32%) Network Security
7 1 (0.66%) DHCP
7 1 (0.66%) IPv4
7 1 (0.66%) IPv6
7 1 (0.66%) LAN
7 1 (0.66%) MPLS
7 1 (0.66%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.92%) Azure SQL Database
2 17 (11.26%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (10.60%) SQL Server
4 11 (7.28%) Power BI
5 7 (4.64%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (3.97%) Relational Database
7 5 (3.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.99%) Metadata
9 2 (1.32%) DB2
9 2 (1.32%) DTS
9 2 (1.32%) InfluxDB
9 2 (1.32%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.66%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.66%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.66%) MySQL
10 1 (0.66%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 26 (17.22%) Git
2 11 (7.28%) GitLab
3 4 (2.65%) Postman
3 4 (2.65%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.99%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.99%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.32%) JIRA
5 2 (1.32%) MSI
6 1 (0.66%) JUnit
6 1 (0.66%) NUnit
General
1 63 (41.72%) Social Skills
2 56 (37.09%) Finance
3 16 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (10.60%) Telecoms
4 13 (8.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (7.95%) Banking
6 11 (7.28%) Legal
7 10 (6.62%) Retail
8 9 (5.96%) Back Office
8 9 (5.96%) Financial Institution
8 9 (5.96%) Law
9 5 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.99%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.99%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.66%) Advertising
11 1 (0.66%) Brand Awareness
11 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Marketing
11 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (23.84%) Architect
2 25 (16.56%) Developer
3 21 (13.91%) Lead
4 20 (13.25%) Solutions Architect
5 19 (12.58%) Azure Engineer
6 18 (11.92%) Senior
7 15 (9.93%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (8.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (7.95%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 12 (7.95%) Integration Engineer
10 11 (7.28%) .NET Developer
10 11 (7.28%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (7.28%) Network Engineer
10 11 (7.28%) Software Developer
10 11 (7.28%) Telecoms Engineer
11 9 (5.96%) .NET Software Developer
11 9 (5.96%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (5.96%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (5.30%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (4.64%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (27.15%) .NET
2 27 (17.88%) JSON
3 22 (14.57%) OAuth
3 22 (14.57%) REST
4 19 (12.58%) YAML
5 15 (9.93%) JWT
5 15 (9.93%) OAuth2
6 12 (7.95%) Middleware
6 12 (7.95%) RESTful
7 11 (7.28%) Jinja
8 9 (5.96%) XML
9 8 (5.30%) .NET Core
9 8 (5.30%) SAML
10 7 (4.64%) WPF
11 6 (3.97%) CSS
11 6 (3.97%) React
11 6 (3.97%) SOAP
11 6 (3.97%) Swagger
11 6 (3.97%) YANG
12 5 (3.31%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 41 (27.15%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.61%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (7.28%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.96%) Blog
4 9 (5.96%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.97%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.99%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (1.99%) iSeries
6 3 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.99%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.32%) EPoS
7 2 (1.32%) IoT
7 2 (1.32%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.66%) AS400
8 1 (0.66%) Clustering
8 1 (0.66%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.66%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.27%) Windows
2 10 (6.62%) Linux
3 6 (3.97%) Unix
4 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (55.63%) DevOps
2 81 (53.64%) CI/CD
3 63 (41.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (29.80%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (27.81%) Agile
6 37 (24.50%) Integration Patterns
7 35 (23.18%) Observability
8 32 (21.19%) Microservices
9 31 (20.53%) Analytics
10 29 (19.21%) Event-Driven
10 29 (19.21%) Migration
11 28 (18.54%) Roadmaps
12 25 (16.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (15.23%) Platform Engineering
14 22 (14.57%) Cloud Security
14 22 (14.57%) Containerisation
15 21 (13.91%) AI
16 20 (13.25%) Log Analytics
17 19 (12.58%) Mentoring
17 19 (12.58%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 42 (27.81%) Python
2 39 (25.83%) SQL
3 38 (25.17%) C#
4 19 (12.58%) JavaScript
5 16 (10.60%) Java
6 13 (8.61%) Bicep
6 13 (8.61%) PowerShell
7 8 (5.30%) Bash
8 4 (2.65%) Go
8 4 (2.65%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.99%) PHP
10 2 (1.32%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.32%) RPG
10 2 (1.32%) VB
11 1 (0.66%) ABAP
11 1 (0.66%) Korn
11 1 (0.66%) Lua
Qualifications
1 18 (11.92%) Azure Certification
2 16 (10.60%) Degree
3 14 (9.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.99%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.32%) CCSP
6 2 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.32%) CISSP
6 2 (1.32%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.66%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.66%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.61%) GDPR
2 12 (7.95%) QA
3 10 (6.62%) PCI DSS
4 9 (5.96%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.66%) IFRS
5 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (12.58%) Docker
2 12 (7.95%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.66%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 51 (33.77%) Terraform
2 22 (14.57%) Kubernetes
3 15 (9.93%) Grafana
4 7 (4.64%) Kibana
5 6 (3.97%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.99%) Ansible
6 3 (1.99%) logstash
6 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.99%) Scalr
7 2 (1.32%) Argo
8 1 (0.66%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 54 (35.76%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.27%) Oracle
3 11 (7.28%) Cisco
3 11 (7.28%) Red Hat
4 10 (6.62%) Google
5 6 (3.97%) Concur
5 6 (3.97%) F5
5 6 (3.97%) Juniper
5 6 (3.97%) Palo Alto
5 6 (3.97%) SAP
6 5 (3.31%) Ab Initio
6 5 (3.31%) IBM
7 4 (2.65%) Databricks
7 4 (2.65%) Sage
8 3 (1.99%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.32%) Ariba
10 1 (0.66%) Informatica
10 1 (0.66%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.66%) Veeam
10 1 (0.66%) Workday