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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 509 530
Rank change year-on-year +41 +21 +162
Permanent jobs citing API Management 186 204 194
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.38% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.42% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 111 126 159
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £49,179
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,813 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £68,750 £66,056
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% +4.08% -14.77%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £83,125
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%

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 49,036 48,491 50,448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.83% 90.77% 89.96%
Number of salaries quoted 28,943 23,557 38,431
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,528
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.74% -6.31%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 +45 162 £75,000 +7.14% 32
London +92 95 £77,000 -14.44% 15
UK excluding London -8 80 £65,000 - 23
Work from Home +37 67 £72,500 +11.54% 23
Midlands +46 30 £72,500 -3.33% 2
West Midlands +39 26 £72,500 +11.54% 2
North of England +5 16 £75,000 +25.00% 4
Scotland +10 15 £65,000 -10.34%
North West +28 12 £65,766 +38.45% 2
South East -26 8 £53,750 -17.31% 9
East of England +24 5 £55,000 -18.52% 3
South West +14 4 £40,375 -32.71% 4
East Midlands -4 4 £77,500 -
Yorkshire -11 4 £82,500 +32.53% 2
Wales - 2 £51,250 - 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 8 (4.30%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.76%) Apache Solr
3 6 (3.23%) Appian
4 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.61%) Anypoint
5 3 (1.61%) Apache
5 3 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.61%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.61%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (1.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 23 (12.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (8.06%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.15%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.08%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.08%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 132 (70.97%) Azure
2 61 (32.80%) Azure Logic Apps
3 48 (25.81%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (23.12%) Power Platform
5 34 (18.28%) Azure Service Bus
6 32 (17.20%) PaaS
7 30 (16.13%) Azure Monitor
7 30 (16.13%) Power Automate
7 30 (16.13%) Serverless
8 29 (15.59%) Azure Event Grid
8 29 (15.59%) GitHub
9 27 (14.52%) AWS
9 27 (14.52%) Dynamics 365
9 27 (14.52%) PowerApps
10 25 (13.44%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (10.75%) IaaS
11 20 (10.75%) SaaS
12 17 (9.14%) Azure Data Factory
13 16 (8.60%) Azure AKS
14 15 (8.06%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.69%) VPN
2 3 (1.61%) BGP
2 3 (1.61%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.61%) VLAN
3 2 (1.08%) DNS
3 2 (1.08%) Firewall
4 1 (0.54%) DHCP
4 1 (0.54%) IPv4
4 1 (0.54%) IPv6
4 1 (0.54%) LAN
4 1 (0.54%) MPLS
4 1 (0.54%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (14.52%) Power BI
2 16 (8.60%) SQL Server
3 11 (5.91%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (4.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (3.76%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (3.76%) MySQL
5 7 (3.76%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.61%) Airbyte
6 3 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.61%) Metadata
7 2 (1.08%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.54%) Big Data
8 1 (0.54%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.54%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (15.05%) Git
2 25 (13.44%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.61%) Postman
3 3 (1.61%) Robot Framework
3 3 (1.61%) Selenium
3 3 (1.61%) Snyk
4 2 (1.08%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.08%) JIRA
4 2 (1.08%) MSTest
4 2 (1.08%) NUnit
5 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.54%) SonarQube
General
1 57 (30.65%) Finance
2 45 (24.19%) Social Skills
3 29 (15.59%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.45%) Law
5 11 (5.91%) Banking
6 10 (5.38%) Retail
7 8 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.76%) Health Technology
8 7 (3.76%) Legal
9 6 (3.23%) Back Office
9 6 (3.23%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.69%) Marketing
10 5 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.61%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.08%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.54%) Advertising
13 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.54%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 52 (27.96%) Architect
2 43 (23.12%) Developer
3 37 (19.89%) Lead
4 19 (10.22%) Integration Developer
4 19 (10.22%) Solutions Architect
5 14 (7.53%) Support Engineer
6 12 (6.45%) Integration Manager
7 11 (5.91%) SAP Developer
7 11 (5.91%) Technical Architect
8 10 (5.38%) Integration Engineer
9 9 (4.84%) Azure Architect
9 9 (4.84%) Senior
10 8 (4.30%) Development Engineer
10 8 (4.30%) Development Support Engineer
10 8 (4.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.30%) Lead Architect
11 7 (3.76%) Cloud Architect
11 7 (3.76%) Delivery Manager
11 7 (3.76%) Integration Specialist
11 7 (3.76%) Lead Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (27.42%) REST
2 34 (18.28%) SOAP
3 30 (16.13%) OAuth
4 24 (12.90%) RESTful
5 20 (10.75%) JSON
6 19 (10.22%) Middleware
6 19 (10.22%) Web Services
7 17 (9.14%) .NET
8 14 (7.53%) OAuth2
8 14 (7.53%) SAML
9 11 (5.91%) BAPI
9 11 (5.91%) IBM Integration Bus
9 11 (5.91%) JMS
9 11 (5.91%) Node.js
10 9 (4.84%) AngularJS
10 9 (4.84%) React
11 8 (4.30%) .NET Core
12 7 (3.76%) FHIR
12 7 (3.76%) Vue
13 6 (3.23%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 34 (18.28%) Cloud Native
2 28 (15.05%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (8.06%) Management Information System
4 14 (7.53%) Low-Code
5 10 (5.38%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (3.76%) NHS
6 7 (3.76%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.23%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.69%) IoT
9 3 (1.61%) Blog
9 3 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.54%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.54%) AS400
10 1 (0.54%) iSeries
10 1 (0.54%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.22%) Windows
2 13 (6.99%) Linux
3 8 (4.30%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.54%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (54.30%) CI/CD
2 90 (48.39%) DevOps
3 73 (39.25%) Agile
4 44 (23.66%) Migration
5 41 (22.04%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (20.43%) AI
6 38 (20.43%) Microservices
7 37 (19.89%) Analytics
8 35 (18.82%) CRM
8 35 (18.82%) Observability
8 35 (18.82%) Scrum
8 35 (18.82%) Test Automation
9 34 (18.28%) Roadmaps
10 33 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (17.20%) Integration Patterns
11 32 (17.20%) Technical Leadership
12 31 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
12 31 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
12 31 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
12 31 (16.67%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 32 (17.20%) SQL
2 26 (13.98%) Bicep
3 25 (13.44%) Python
4 23 (12.37%) C#
4 23 (12.37%) JavaScript
5 14 (7.53%) Java
6 10 (5.38%) PHP
7 8 (4.30%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.23%) ABAP
9 4 (2.15%) Bash
10 3 (1.61%) Go
10 3 (1.61%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.08%) Groovy
11 2 (1.08%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.54%) Korn
12 1 (0.54%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (8.06%) Azure Certification
2 13 (6.99%) Degree
3 10 (5.38%) Security Cleared
4 8 (4.30%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (4.30%) TOGAF Certification
5 5 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.69%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.61%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.08%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.54%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.60%) GDPR
2 13 (6.99%) QA
3 9 (4.84%) SLA
4 7 (3.76%) HL7
5 6 (3.23%) PCI DSS
5 6 (3.23%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.08%) IFRS
8 1 (0.54%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.54%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.54%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (12.37%) Docker
2 6 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.08%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.54%) vCloud
4 1 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 44 (23.66%) Terraform
2 17 (9.14%) Kubernetes
3 12 (6.45%) Ansible
4 7 (3.76%) Grafana
5 6 (3.23%) Kibana
6 4 (2.15%) logstash
7 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.54%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 63 (33.87%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.22%) Oracle
3 16 (8.60%) SAP
4 14 (7.53%) Ab Initio
5 13 (6.99%) IBM
6 10 (5.38%) Informatica
7 6 (3.23%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (3.23%) Databricks
7 6 (3.23%) Fortinet
7 6 (3.23%) MuleSoft
7 6 (3.23%) Palo Alto
8 5 (2.69%) Google
8 5 (2.69%) webMethods
9 4 (2.15%) HubSpot
9 4 (2.15%) VMware
10 3 (1.61%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (1.61%) Black Duck
10 3 (1.61%) Blue Prism
10 3 (1.61%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.61%) UiPath