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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 582 479 606
Rank change year-on-year -103 +127 +36
Permanent jobs citing API Management 171 189 320
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.42% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.45% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 114 108 148
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,313 £61,063 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £68,750 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.36% -11.29% +14.81%
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,125 £95,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +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 68,936 41,540 89,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.11% 92.39% 81.68%
Number of salaries quoted 47,487 22,330 63,275
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,824 £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 £92,000
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 21 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 21 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 -82 163 £80,000 +11.89% 49
UK excluding London -103 94 £67,500 +3.85% 32
London +1 67 £83,000 -7.78% 28
Work from Home -20 64 £67,500 -6.24% 24
South East -29 32 £57,500 -11.54% 15
Midlands -34 26 £85,000 +13.33% 3
West Midlands -23 24 £85,000 +13.33% 2
North of England -44 12 £82,500 +26.92% 4
South West -61 12 £62,500 -13.18% 3
North West -3 11 £84,000 +29.23% 2
East of England -10 10 £80,000 +18.52% 8
Scotland +1 2 £67,500 +3.85% 1
East Midlands -39 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 11 (6.43%) Confluence
2 10 (5.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.75%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.17%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 6 (3.51%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (7.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.58%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 137 (80.12%) Azure
2 53 (30.99%) Azure DevOps
3 48 (28.07%) Serverless
4 45 (26.32%) Azure Logic Apps
5 39 (22.81%) Azure Functions
6 36 (21.05%) Azure Service Bus
6 36 (21.05%) PaaS
7 35 (20.47%) Azure Monitor
8 34 (19.88%) Power Platform
9 25 (14.62%) AWS
10 24 (14.04%) Azure API Management
11 23 (13.45%) Azure Event Grid
12 20 (11.70%) Entra ID
12 20 (11.70%) SaaS
13 18 (10.53%) Apigee
13 18 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
14 17 (9.94%) Azure App Service
14 17 (9.94%) GitHub
15 16 (9.36%) Azure Key Vault
16 14 (8.19%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.19%) Firewall
2 11 (6.43%) VPN
3 6 (3.51%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (2.34%) WAN
5 3 (1.75%) BGP
5 3 (1.75%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.75%) VLAN
6 2 (1.17%) DNS
6 2 (1.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (19.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 21 (12.28%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (8.77%) Power BI
3 15 (8.77%) SQL Server
4 11 (6.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (4.09%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (3.51%) Db2
6 6 (3.51%) DTS
6 6 (3.51%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.34%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.75%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.17%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.17%) InfluxDB
9 2 (1.17%) Metadata
10 1 (0.58%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.58%) MySQL
10 1 (0.58%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 41 (23.98%) Git
2 11 (6.43%) GitLab
3 8 (4.68%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.92%) JIRA
5 4 (2.34%) Postman
6 3 (1.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.75%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.75%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.75%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.17%) MSI
8 1 (0.58%) git-flow
8 1 (0.58%) JUnit
8 1 (0.58%) NUnit
8 1 (0.58%) Terragrunt
General
1 71 (41.52%) Social Skills
2 57 (33.33%) Finance
3 19 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (9.36%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.36%) Telecoms
5 15 (8.77%) Law
6 9 (5.26%) Banking
6 9 (5.26%) Legal
7 7 (4.09%) Back Office
7 7 (4.09%) Financial Institution
7 7 (4.09%) Retail
8 6 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.34%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.75%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.58%) Advertising
12 1 (0.58%) Billing
12 1 (0.58%) Brand Awareness
12 1 (0.58%) Marketing
12 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (22.81%) Architect
2 28 (16.37%) Developer
3 26 (15.20%) Senior
4 24 (14.04%) Azure Engineer
5 21 (12.28%) Lead
6 20 (11.70%) Solutions Architect
7 18 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (8.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 11 (6.43%) .NET Developer
9 11 (6.43%) Automation Engineer
9 11 (6.43%) Network Engineer
9 11 (6.43%) Software Developer
9 11 (6.43%) Telecoms Engineer
10 9 (5.26%) .NET Software Developer
10 9 (5.26%) Analyst
10 9 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
10 9 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 9 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (26.90%) .NET
2 29 (16.96%) REST
3 25 (14.62%) JSON
4 19 (11.11%) OAuth
4 19 (11.11%) YAML
5 16 (9.36%) Middleware
6 15 (8.77%) JWT
7 13 (7.60%) Node.js
8 12 (7.02%) Spring
8 12 (7.02%) Spring Boot
9 11 (6.43%) Jinja
9 11 (6.43%) OAuth2
9 11 (6.43%) SOAP
9 11 (6.43%) XML
10 9 (5.26%) SAML
11 8 (4.68%) .NET Core
12 7 (4.09%) React
12 7 (4.09%) RESTful
13 6 (3.51%) Kafka
13 6 (3.51%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 35 (20.47%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.60%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (5.85%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (5.26%) Public Cloud
5 8 (4.68%) Podcast
5 8 (4.68%) Security Posture
6 7 (4.09%) Blog
7 6 (3.51%) EPoS
7 6 (3.51%) iSeries
8 5 (2.92%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.34%) Data Centre
9 4 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.34%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (1.17%) IoT
11 2 (1.17%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.17%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.94%) Windows
2 8 (4.68%) VMS
3 6 (3.51%) Linux
3 6 (3.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 92 (53.80%) DevOps
3 71 (41.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (29.24%) Agile
5 49 (28.65%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (21.64%) Event-Driven
7 36 (21.05%) Microservices
8 35 (20.47%) Integration Patterns
8 35 (20.47%) Observability
9 34 (19.88%) Roadmaps
10 33 (19.30%) Analytics
11 30 (17.54%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (16.96%) Migration
13 28 (16.37%) AI
13 28 (16.37%) Platform Engineering
14 27 (15.79%) Cloud Security
14 27 (15.79%) Mentoring
15 26 (15.20%) Containerisation
16 24 (14.04%) Computer Science
17 22 (12.87%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 60 (35.09%) SQL
2 47 (27.49%) C#
3 42 (24.56%) Python
4 21 (12.28%) Java
5 20 (11.70%) JavaScript
6 17 (9.94%) PowerShell
7 14 (8.19%) Bicep
8 13 (7.60%) Bash
9 8 (4.68%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (3.51%) RPG
11 5 (2.92%) TypeScript
12 4 (2.34%) Go
12 4 (2.34%) PHP
12 4 (2.34%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.17%) VB
13 2 (1.17%) X++
14 1 (0.58%) ABAP
14 1 (0.58%) Lua
Qualifications
1 28 (16.37%) Azure Certification
2 24 (14.04%) Microsoft Certification
3 17 (9.94%) Degree
4 4 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.34%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (2.34%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.75%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (1.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.17%) CCSP
6 2 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.17%) CISSP
7 1 (0.58%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.60%) QA
2 9 (5.26%) GDPR
3 8 (4.68%) PCI DSS
4 7 (4.09%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.17%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (12.87%) Docker
2 17 (9.94%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.68%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (4.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (33.92%) Terraform
2 22 (12.87%) Kubernetes
3 14 (8.19%) Grafana
4 6 (3.51%) Kibana
4 6 (3.51%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.75%) Ansible
5 3 (1.75%) Scalr
6 2 (1.17%) Argo
7 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 72 (42.11%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.43%) Cisco
2 11 (6.43%) Oracle
2 11 (6.43%) Red Hat
3 10 (5.85%) Google
4 8 (4.68%) IBM
4 8 (4.68%) ScienceLogic
4 8 (4.68%) VMware
5 6 (3.51%) Concur
5 6 (3.51%) F5
5 6 (3.51%) Juniper
5 6 (3.51%) Palo Alto
5 6 (3.51%) SAP
6 5 (2.92%) Databricks
6 5 (2.92%) Sage
7 3 (1.75%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.75%) Splunk
8 2 (1.17%) Ariba
8 2 (1.17%) Workday
9 1 (0.58%) SnapLogic