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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 634 473 517
Rank change year-on-year -161 +44 +32
Permanent jobs citing API Management 167 193 289
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.39% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.44% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 115 102 119
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £70,625 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.69% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile - £92,500 £110,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £50,749
% change year-on-year +3.85% +28.08% -22.34%

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 82,630 43,847 63,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.77% 88.67% 80.95%
Number of salaries quoted 57,445 24,695 36,468
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -98 159 £83,000 +27.69% 148
UK excluding London -142 81 £67,500 +3.85% 65
London -36 79 £84,250 +16.21% 103
Work from Home -75 46 £83,000 +18.57% 62
South West -60 21 £60,000 -7.69% 1
South East -49 20 £57,500 -11.54% 27
Midlands -74 15 £90,000 +24.14% 11
West Midlands -48 14 £90,000 +24.14% 9
East of England -20 13 £78,750 +35.78% 3
North of England -71 10 £80,250 +23.46% 9
North West -29 9 £78,000 +20.00% 5
Scotland +5 2 £78,750 +21.15% 14
Yorkshire -31 1 £82,500 - 4
East Midlands -46 1 - - 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 15 (8.98%) Confluence
2 12 (7.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (7.19%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.20%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.60%) Apache
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (5.99%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (7.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (6.59%) Carpe Diem
2 11 (6.59%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.60%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 154 (92.22%) Azure
2 65 (38.92%) Serverless
3 63 (37.72%) Azure Logic Apps
4 61 (36.53%) Azure DevOps
5 59 (35.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 53 (31.74%) Azure Functions
7 49 (29.34%) Power Platform
8 35 (20.96%) PaaS
9 30 (17.96%) Azure API Management
9 30 (17.96%) Azure Monitor
10 29 (17.37%) Power Automate
11 25 (14.97%) GitHub
12 24 (14.37%) Azure Key Vault
12 24 (14.37%) Dynamics 365
13 22 (13.17%) PowerApps
14 20 (11.98%) Azure Event Grid
15 18 (10.78%) Azure AKS
16 16 (9.58%) AWS
17 14 (8.38%) SaaS
18 13 (7.78%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.19%) VPN
2 3 (1.80%) Firewall
3 2 (1.20%) DNS
4 1 (0.60%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (23.95%) Azure SQL Database
2 23 (13.77%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (13.17%) Power BI
4 16 (9.58%) SQL Server
5 15 (8.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (7.19%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (5.99%) Db2
7 10 (5.99%) DTS
8 6 (3.59%) DynamoDB
9 5 (2.99%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.80%) ZAP BI
11 2 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.20%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.20%) InfluxDB
11 2 (1.20%) Metadata
11 2 (1.20%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.60%) Flink
12 1 (0.60%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.60%) Looker
12 1 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (23.95%) Git
2 7 (4.19%) Visual Studio
3 5 (2.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (2.99%) Bitbucket
3 5 (2.99%) JIRA
4 4 (2.40%) Cypress.io
4 4 (2.40%) GitLab
4 4 (2.40%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.40%) Postman
4 4 (2.40%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.80%) git-flow
5 3 (1.80%) JUnit
5 3 (1.80%) NUnit
5 3 (1.80%) Selenium
5 3 (1.80%) Snyk
5 3 (1.80%) Terragrunt
6 2 (1.20%) MSI
6 2 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.60%) ERwin
7 1 (0.60%) Maven
General
1 65 (38.92%) Social Skills
2 47 (28.14%) Finance
3 25 (14.97%) Law
4 15 (8.98%) Legal
5 14 (8.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.79%) Banking
7 5 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.40%) Military
9 3 (1.80%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.20%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.20%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.60%) Advertising
11 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.60%) Billing
11 1 (0.60%) Brand Awareness
11 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Marketing
11 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (20.96%) Developer
2 33 (19.76%) Azure Engineer
3 32 (19.16%) Architect
4 26 (15.57%) Lead
5 25 (14.97%) Senior
6 17 (10.18%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (10.18%) Integration Engineer
7 16 (9.58%) Applications Engineer
8 15 (8.98%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 15 (8.98%) Solutions Architect
9 14 (8.38%) Software Developer
10 13 (7.78%) Analyst
11 12 (7.19%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 11 (6.59%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (5.39%) .NET Developer
13 9 (5.39%) .NET Software Developer
13 9 (5.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 8 (4.79%) Applications Specialist
14 8 (4.79%) Integration Manager
14 8 (4.79%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (33.53%) Terraform
2 51 (30.54%) .NET
3 30 (17.96%) REST
4 19 (11.38%) Node.js
5 16 (9.58%) Spring
5 16 (9.58%) Spring Boot
6 14 (8.38%) Middleware
7 12 (7.19%) OAuth
7 12 (7.19%) RESTful
8 11 (6.59%) JSON
8 11 (6.59%) Kafka
8 11 (6.59%) OAuth2
9 10 (5.99%) JWT
9 10 (5.99%) SOAP
10 9 (5.39%) AngularJS
10 9 (5.39%) React
11 7 (4.19%) .NET Core
11 7 (4.19%) GraphQL
11 7 (4.19%) YAML
12 5 (2.99%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 37 (22.16%) Cloud Native
2 22 (13.17%) Product Ownership
3 15 (8.98%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (7.19%) Podcast
4 12 (7.19%) Public Cloud
4 12 (7.19%) Security Posture
5 10 (5.99%) EPoS
5 10 (5.99%) iSeries
6 9 (5.39%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (4.19%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.59%) AI Agents
8 6 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.40%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.20%) IoT
10 2 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.20%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.20%) Reference Data
11 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.19%) VMS
1 12 (7.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (53.29%) CI/CD
2 79 (47.31%) DevOps
3 61 (36.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (32.34%) Agile
5 48 (28.74%) Event-Driven
6 41 (24.55%) Roadmaps
7 37 (22.16%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (20.96%) Microservices
9 34 (20.36%) AI
10 31 (18.56%) Mentoring
11 30 (17.96%) Cloud Security
11 30 (17.96%) Computer Science
11 30 (17.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (17.96%) Integration Patterns
12 29 (17.37%) Observability
13 27 (16.17%) Performance Tuning
14 25 (14.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 23 (13.77%) Technical Leadership
15 23 (13.77%) Test Automation
16 22 (13.17%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 84 (50.30%) SQL
2 63 (37.72%) C#
3 29 (17.37%) Python
4 20 (11.98%) PowerShell
5 19 (11.38%) Java
6 18 (10.78%) Bash
7 16 (9.58%) Bicep
8 12 (7.19%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (5.99%) RPG
10 9 (5.39%) JavaScript
11 5 (2.99%) T-SQL
12 4 (2.40%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.80%) Go
13 3 (1.80%) X++
14 1 (0.60%) Groovy
14 1 (0.60%) Lua
14 1 (0.60%) PHP
Qualifications
1 30 (17.96%) Azure Certification
2 25 (14.97%) Microsoft Certification
3 21 (12.57%) Degree
4 6 (3.59%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (2.99%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (2.99%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.99%) Security Cleared
6 4 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.40%) OCP
6 4 (2.40%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (2.40%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.20%) CCSP
7 2 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.20%) CISSP
8 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.98%) QA
2 13 (7.78%) GDPR
3 5 (2.99%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.80%) NIST
5 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (12.57%) Docker
2 15 (8.98%) Active Directory
3 12 (7.19%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (7.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (7.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (10.78%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.39%) Grafana
3 7 (4.19%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.80%) Ansible
5 2 (1.20%) Argo
5 2 (1.20%) Scalr
6 1 (0.60%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 88 (52.69%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.78%) Oracle
3 12 (7.19%) ScienceLogic
3 12 (7.19%) VMware
4 11 (6.59%) IBM
5 7 (4.19%) Aderant
5 7 (4.19%) Intapp
6 5 (2.99%) Splunk
7 4 (2.40%) Databricks
7 4 (2.40%) Google
7 4 (2.40%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.40%) SAP
8 3 (1.80%) HighQ
8 3 (1.80%) iManage
8 3 (1.80%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.20%) Ariba
9 2 (1.20%) Concur
9 2 (1.20%) Informatica
10 1 (0.60%) Sage
10 1 (0.60%) Workday