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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 564 484 582
Rank change year-on-year -80 +98 +59
Permanent jobs citing API Management 151 167 318
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.38% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.41% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 93 103 151
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,250 £59,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,991 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% -4.01% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,500 £66,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.15% +6.00% -16.67%

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 67,106 40,605 82,127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.79% 93.31% 85.17%
Number of salaries quoted 43,167 22,159 59,545
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £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 15 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 15 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 -57 139 £75,000 +4.18% 73
UK excluding London -83 83 £63,500 -4.15% 44
Work from Home +14 64 £62,500 -13.18% 28
London -12 60 £82,500 -8.33% 38
Midlands -40 32 £75,000 - 5
West Midlands -24 29 £75,000 - 3
South East -21 28 £57,500 -11.54% 21
North of England -44 10 £83,750 +28.85% 7
Scotland +1 8 £67,500 -20.59% 1
North West -2 8 £82,500 +26.92% 3
East Midlands -33 3 £83,750 - 2
East of England -15 2 £43,000 -35.09% 7
Yorkshire -63 2 £83,750 +18.68% 3
South West -63 2 £65,000 -9.71% 3
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
4 2 (1.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.66%) Anypoint
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%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.32%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.32%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 114 (75.50%) Azure
2 47 (31.13%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (23.84%) Azure Logic Apps
4 32 (21.19%) Azure Monitor
4 32 (21.19%) Serverless
5 30 (19.87%) PaaS
6 27 (17.88%) AWS
6 27 (17.88%) Azure Service Bus
7 25 (16.56%) Azure Functions
7 25 (16.56%) Power Platform
8 23 (15.23%) Azure Event Grid
9 22 (14.57%) Entra ID
9 22 (14.57%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (13.25%) SaaS
11 18 (11.92%) Apigee
12 16 (10.60%) GitHub
12 16 (10.60%) IaaS
13 15 (9.93%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (9.27%) Azure API Management
14 14 (9.27%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.93%) Firewall
2 6 (3.97%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (3.31%) VPN
3 5 (3.31%) WAN
4 3 (1.99%) BGP
4 3 (1.99%) DNS
4 3 (1.99%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.99%) VLAN
5 2 (1.32%) Network Security
6 1 (0.66%) DHCP
6 1 (0.66%) IPv4
6 1 (0.66%) IPv6
6 1 (0.66%) LAN
6 1 (0.66%) MPLS
6 1 (0.66%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.58%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (10.60%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (10.60%) SQL Server
3 10 (6.62%) Power BI
4 7 (4.64%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (2.65%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.99%) Metadata
8 2 (1.32%) DB2
8 2 (1.32%) DTS
8 2 (1.32%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.32%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.66%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.66%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.66%) MySQL
9 1 (0.66%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 23 (15.23%) 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
6 1 (0.66%) JUnit
6 1 (0.66%) MSI
6 1 (0.66%) NUnit
General
1 61 (40.40%) Social Skills
2 55 (36.42%) Finance
3 16 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (10.60%) Telecoms
4 14 (9.27%) Banking
5 13 (8.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (7.95%) Legal
7 10 (6.62%) Law
7 10 (6.62%) Retail
8 9 (5.96%) Back Office
8 9 (5.96%) Financial Institution
9 6 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.99%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.99%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.66%) Brand Awareness
11 1 (0.66%) Marketing
11 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (27.15%) Architect
2 24 (15.89%) Solutions Architect
3 23 (15.23%) Developer
4 20 (13.25%) Lead
5 18 (11.92%) Azure Engineer
6 17 (11.26%) Senior
7 14 (9.27%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (8.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (7.95%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 11 (7.28%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (7.28%) Integration Engineer
10 11 (7.28%) Network Engineer
10 11 (7.28%) Telecoms Engineer
11 9 (5.96%) .NET Developer
11 9 (5.96%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (5.96%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (5.96%) Software Developer
12 7 (4.64%) Applications Engineer
12 7 (4.64%) Automation Specialist
12 7 (4.64%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (24.50%) .NET
2 27 (17.88%) JSON
3 23 (15.23%) REST
4 21 (13.91%) OAuth
5 17 (11.26%) YAML
6 14 (9.27%) OAuth2
7 13 (8.61%) JWT
7 13 (8.61%) Middleware
7 13 (8.61%) RESTful
8 11 (7.28%) Jinja
9 9 (5.96%) XML
10 8 (5.30%) SAML
11 7 (4.64%) .NET Core
11 7 (4.64%) WPF
12 6 (3.97%) CSS
12 6 (3.97%) SOAP
12 6 (3.97%) Swagger
12 6 (3.97%) YANG
13 5 (3.31%) React
13 5 (3.31%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 43 (28.48%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.93%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (7.28%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.96%) Blog
5 8 (5.30%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.97%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.97%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (3.31%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.99%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.99%) IoT
8 3 (1.99%) iSeries
8 3 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.32%) EPoS
9 2 (1.32%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.66%) AS400
10 1 (0.66%) Clustering
10 1 (0.66%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.66%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.66%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.60%) Windows
2 12 (7.95%) Linux
3 6 (3.97%) Unix
4 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (56.29%) DevOps
2 78 (51.66%) CI/CD
3 61 (40.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (28.48%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (27.81%) Agile
6 39 (25.83%) Integration Patterns
7 36 (23.84%) Observability
8 31 (20.53%) Analytics
8 31 (20.53%) Microservices
9 29 (19.21%) Roadmaps
10 28 (18.54%) Migration
11 26 (17.22%) Event-Driven
12 24 (15.89%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (13.91%) AI
13 21 (13.91%) Cloud Security
13 21 (13.91%) Enterprise Architecture
13 21 (13.91%) Technical Leadership
14 20 (13.25%) Containerisation
14 20 (13.25%) Log Analytics
15 19 (12.58%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 41 (27.15%) Python
2 40 (26.49%) SQL
3 34 (22.52%) C#
4 20 (13.25%) JavaScript
5 16 (10.60%) Bicep
5 16 (10.60%) Java
6 14 (9.27%) PowerShell
7 8 (5.30%) Bash
8 4 (2.65%) Go
8 4 (2.65%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.99%) PHP
9 3 (1.99%) 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 17 (11.26%) Azure Certification
2 15 (9.93%) Degree
3 13 (8.61%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.99%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (1.99%) Master's Degree
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%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.66%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.61%) GDPR
1 13 (8.61%) QA
2 10 (6.62%) PCI DSS
3 9 (5.96%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.32%) IFRS
5 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (11.26%) Docker
2 11 (7.28%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.32%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.66%) vCloud
4 1 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (33.11%) Terraform
2 24 (15.89%) Kubernetes
3 14 (9.27%) Grafana
4 7 (4.64%) Kibana
5 5 (3.31%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.65%) logstash
7 3 (1.99%) Ansible
7 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.99%) Scalr
8 1 (0.66%) Argo
8 1 (0.66%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 53 (35.10%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.93%) Oracle
3 11 (7.28%) Cisco
3 11 (7.28%) Red Hat
4 10 (6.62%) Google
5 6 (3.97%) Ab Initio
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%) IBM
7 4 (2.65%) Databricks
7 4 (2.65%) Sage
8 2 (1.32%) Ariba
8 2 (1.32%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.66%) Informatica
9 1 (0.66%) NetApp
9 1 (0.66%) Veeam
9 1 (0.66%) VMware