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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 485 576
Rank change year-on-year -55 +91 +107
Permanent jobs citing API Management 169 138 313
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.33% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.36% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 100 104 167
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £46,050
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,063 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,991 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% -4.01% -3.23%
75th Percentile £85,000 £97,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £124,875 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% -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 64,999 38,652 81,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.50% 92.94% 86.02%
Number of salaries quoted 40,056 22,591 59,648
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,757
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.20%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -8.26%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 -53 153 £75,000 +4.18% 51
UK excluding London -79 89 £65,000 -5.45% 36
London +33 73 £82,500 -13.16% 21
Work from Home +4 72 £63,750 -10.21% 24
Midlands -40 34 £75,000 - 5
West Midlands -19 28 £73,750 -1.67% 4
South East -44 19 £60,000 -7.69% 16
North of England -54 17 £81,250 +20.37% 4
North West -11 13 £76,642 +17.91% 1
Scotland -13 13 £67,500 -22.86% 2
East Midlands - 6 £77,500 - 1
Yorkshire -64 4 £83,750 +18.68% 3
East of England -27 3 £43,000 -36.30% 2
South West -55 2 £65,000 -9.71% 8
Wales - 1 £52,500 -

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 (6.51%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.78%) Anypoint
3 3 (1.78%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.18%) Appian
4 2 (1.18%) Confluence
4 2 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (6.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.37%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.18%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.18%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 117 (69.23%) Azure
2 47 (27.81%) Azure Logic Apps
3 46 (27.22%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (21.89%) PaaS
5 34 (20.12%) Azure Service Bus
5 34 (20.12%) Serverless
6 33 (19.53%) AWS
7 32 (18.93%) Power Platform
8 30 (17.75%) Azure Monitor
9 29 (17.16%) Azure Event Grid
10 26 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
11 25 (14.79%) GitHub
12 22 (13.02%) Azure Functions
12 22 (13.02%) Entra ID
12 22 (13.02%) IaaS
13 21 (12.43%) GitHub Actions
13 21 (12.43%) SaaS
14 19 (11.24%) Apigee
15 15 (8.88%) GCP
16 14 (8.28%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.88%) Firewall
2 8 (4.73%) VPN
3 6 (3.55%) BGP
3 6 (3.55%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (3.55%) TCP/IP
3 6 (3.55%) VLAN
4 5 (2.96%) WAN
5 2 (1.18%) DNS
5 2 (1.18%) Network Security
6 1 (0.59%) DHCP
6 1 (0.59%) IPv4
6 1 (0.59%) IPv6
6 1 (0.59%) LAN
6 1 (0.59%) MPLS
6 1 (0.59%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.47%) Azure SQL Database
1 16 (9.47%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.88%) Power BI
3 10 (5.92%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (4.73%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (2.96%) Metadata
7 2 (1.18%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.18%) InfluxDB
7 2 (1.18%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.18%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.18%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.59%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.59%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (10.06%) Git
2 11 (6.51%) GitLab
3 7 (4.14%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.37%) Postman
5 3 (1.78%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.78%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.18%) JIRA
7 1 (0.59%) JUnit
7 1 (0.59%) NUnit
General
1 64 (37.87%) Social Skills
2 61 (36.09%) Finance
3 20 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.65%) Banking
4 18 (10.65%) Law
5 16 (9.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (8.88%) Legal
6 15 (8.88%) Telecoms
7 13 (7.69%) Retail
8 12 (7.10%) Back Office
8 12 (7.10%) Financial Institution
9 6 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.37%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.78%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.18%) Marketing
13 1 (0.59%) Advertising
13 1 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (30.18%) Architect
2 22 (13.02%) Developer
2 22 (13.02%) Solutions Architect
3 19 (11.24%) Lead
4 18 (10.65%) Senior
5 16 (9.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
6 13 (7.69%) Integration Engineer
7 12 (7.10%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (7.10%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (6.51%) Automation Engineer
8 11 (6.51%) Network Engineer
8 11 (6.51%) Telecoms Engineer
9 9 (5.33%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (5.33%) Support Engineer
10 8 (4.73%) Azure Architect
11 7 (4.14%) Automation Specialist
11 7 (4.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.14%) Cloud Architect
11 7 (4.14%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (17.75%) JSON
2 28 (16.57%) .NET
3 24 (14.20%) REST
4 23 (13.61%) OAuth
5 21 (12.43%) RESTful
6 14 (8.28%) OAuth2
6 14 (8.28%) YAML
7 13 (7.69%) Middleware
8 11 (6.51%) Jinja
9 10 (5.92%) JWT
10 9 (5.33%) SOAP
10 9 (5.33%) XML
11 7 (4.14%) SAML
11 7 (4.14%) WPF
12 6 (3.55%) .NET Core
12 6 (3.55%) CSS
12 6 (3.55%) Swagger
12 6 (3.55%) YANG
13 5 (2.96%) Node.js
14 4 (2.37%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 48 (28.40%) Cloud Native
2 22 (13.02%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (8.88%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.33%) Blog
4 9 (5.33%) Data Centre
4 9 (5.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (4.14%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (4.14%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.55%) IoT
6 6 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.96%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.18%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.18%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.59%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.59%) AS400
10 1 (0.59%) Clustering
10 1 (0.59%) iSeries
10 1 (0.59%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.59%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.47%) Windows
2 12 (7.10%) Linux
3 6 (3.55%) Unix
4 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (56.21%) DevOps
2 86 (50.89%) CI/CD
3 62 (36.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (30.18%) Agile
5 41 (24.26%) Observability
6 40 (23.67%) Analytics
7 39 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (22.49%) Integration Patterns
8 38 (22.49%) Roadmaps
9 34 (20.12%) Migration
10 32 (18.93%) Microservices
11 30 (17.75%) AI
12 26 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
13 24 (14.20%) Enterprise Architecture
13 24 (14.20%) Event-Driven
14 23 (13.61%) Log Analytics
15 22 (13.02%) Data Governance
15 22 (13.02%) Mentoring
15 22 (13.02%) RBAC
15 22 (13.02%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 42 (24.85%) Python
2 36 (21.30%) SQL
3 25 (14.79%) C#
4 22 (13.02%) JavaScript
5 20 (11.83%) Bicep
6 18 (10.65%) Java
7 13 (7.69%) PowerShell
8 7 (4.14%) Bash
8 7 (4.14%) Go
9 4 (2.37%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.78%) PHP
10 3 (1.78%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.18%) ABAP
11 2 (1.18%) VB
12 1 (0.59%) Korn
12 1 (0.59%) Lua
Qualifications
1 12 (7.10%) Azure Certification
2 9 (5.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (4.73%) Degree
4 5 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.96%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.78%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (1.78%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.59%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.69%) GDPR
1 13 (7.69%) PCI DSS
1 13 (7.69%) QA
2 12 (7.10%) SOC 2
3 4 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.18%) IFRS
4 2 (1.18%) SLA
5 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.59%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.59%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.59%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (11.24%) Docker
2 11 (6.51%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.18%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.59%) vCloud
4 1 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (31.36%) Terraform
2 23 (13.61%) Kubernetes
3 13 (7.69%) Grafana
4 7 (4.14%) Kibana
5 4 (2.37%) logstash
5 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.37%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.78%) Scalr
7 2 (1.18%) Ansible
8 1 (0.59%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 61 (36.09%) Microsoft
2 19 (11.24%) Oracle
3 11 (6.51%) Cisco
3 11 (6.51%) Red Hat
4 10 (5.92%) Ab Initio
4 10 (5.92%) Google
5 9 (5.33%) Palo Alto
6 6 (3.55%) Databricks
6 6 (3.55%) F5
6 6 (3.55%) Juniper
7 5 (2.96%) Informatica
7 5 (2.96%) SAP
8 4 (2.37%) Concur
8 4 (2.37%) IBM
8 4 (2.37%) Sage
9 3 (1.78%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (1.78%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.78%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.78%) Software AG
9 3 (1.78%) webMethods