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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 636 493 521
Rank change year-on-year -143 +28 +26
Permanent jobs citing API Management 173 196 274
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.40% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.45% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 117 104 127
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £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 £75,625 £85,000
90th Percentile - £94,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +15.04% -13.54%

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 84,898 43,727 63,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.69% 81.28%
Number of salaries quoted 58,675 24,676 35,715
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,313 £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 20 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 20 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 -138 166 £83,000 +27.69% 138
London -47 86 £83,500 +15.17% 92
UK excluding London -178 79 £67,500 +3.85% 64
Work from Home -76 47 £83,000 +22.96% 52
South East -56 21 £57,500 -11.54% 23
South West -56 21 £60,000 -7.69% 1
East of England -28 13 £78,750 +35.78% 3
Midlands -75 13 £90,000 +24.14% 12
West Midlands -59 12 £90,000 +24.14% 12
North of England -87 10 £80,250 +23.46% 10
North West -38 9 £78,000 +20.00% 5
Scotland +9 1 £90,000 +38.46% 12
Yorkshire -40 1 £82,500 +50.00% 5
East Midlands -50 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 15 (8.67%) Confluence
2 12 (6.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (6.94%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.16%) Apache
3 2 (1.16%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (5.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (6.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (6.36%) Carpe Diem
2 11 (6.36%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.58%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 161 (93.06%) Azure
2 69 (39.88%) Serverless
3 66 (38.15%) Azure Logic Apps
4 64 (36.99%) Azure Service Bus
5 62 (35.84%) Azure DevOps
6 57 (32.95%) Azure Functions
7 49 (28.32%) Power Platform
8 34 (19.65%) Azure API Management
8 34 (19.65%) PaaS
9 31 (17.92%) Azure Monitor
10 30 (17.34%) Power Automate
11 27 (15.61%) Azure Key Vault
11 27 (15.61%) GitHub
12 24 (13.87%) Dynamics 365
13 22 (12.72%) PowerApps
14 21 (12.14%) Azure Event Grid
15 18 (10.40%) Azure AKS
16 17 (9.83%) AWS
17 15 (8.67%) SaaS
18 14 (8.09%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.94%) VPN
2 3 (1.73%) Firewall
3 2 (1.16%) DNS
4 1 (0.58%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (23.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 24 (13.87%) Power BI
3 22 (12.72%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (10.40%) SQL Server
5 16 (9.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (6.94%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (5.78%) Db2
7 10 (5.78%) DTS
8 7 (4.05%) Relational Database
9 6 (3.47%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.73%) Metadata
10 3 (1.73%) ZAP BI
11 2 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.16%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.16%) InfluxDB
11 2 (1.16%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.58%) GIS
12 1 (0.58%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.58%) Redis
12 1 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (24.28%) Git
2 7 (4.05%) Visual Studio
3 5 (2.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (2.89%) Bitbucket
3 5 (2.89%) JIRA
4 4 (2.31%) Cypress.io
4 4 (2.31%) GitLab
4 4 (2.31%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.31%) Postman
4 4 (2.31%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.73%) git-flow
5 3 (1.73%) JUnit
5 3 (1.73%) NUnit
5 3 (1.73%) Selenium
5 3 (1.73%) Snyk
5 3 (1.73%) Terragrunt
6 2 (1.16%) MSI
6 2 (1.16%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.58%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.58%) ERwin
General
1 69 (39.88%) Social Skills
2 50 (28.90%) Finance
3 25 (14.45%) Law
4 16 (9.25%) Legal
5 13 (7.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (5.20%) Banking
7 6 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.89%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.31%) Military
10 2 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.16%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.16%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.58%) Advertising
11 1 (0.58%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.58%) Billing
11 1 (0.58%) Brand Awareness
11 1 (0.58%) Marketing
11 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (22.54%) Developer
2 34 (19.65%) Azure Engineer
3 32 (18.50%) Architect
4 27 (15.61%) Lead
4 27 (15.61%) Senior
5 17 (9.83%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (9.83%) Integration Engineer
6 16 (9.25%) Applications Engineer
6 16 (9.25%) Solutions Architect
7 15 (8.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 14 (8.09%) Software Developer
9 13 (7.51%) Analyst
10 12 (6.94%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 11 (6.36%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (5.78%) .NET Developer
12 10 (5.78%) Azure Developer
13 9 (5.20%) .NET Software Developer
13 9 (5.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 9 (5.20%) Senior Developer
14 8 (4.62%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (32.95%) Terraform
2 53 (30.64%) .NET
3 35 (20.23%) REST
4 19 (10.98%) Node.js
5 16 (9.25%) Spring
5 16 (9.25%) Spring Boot
6 15 (8.67%) Middleware
6 15 (8.67%) OAuth
7 14 (8.09%) RESTful
8 13 (7.51%) OAuth2
9 12 (6.94%) JSON
10 11 (6.36%) JWT
10 11 (6.36%) Kafka
10 11 (6.36%) SOAP
11 10 (5.78%) AngularJS
11 10 (5.78%) React
12 9 (5.20%) .NET Core
13 7 (4.05%) GraphQL
13 7 (4.05%) YAML
14 6 (3.47%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 40 (23.12%) Cloud Native
2 22 (12.72%) Product Ownership
3 15 (8.67%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (8.09%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (6.94%) Podcast
5 12 (6.94%) Public Cloud
5 12 (6.94%) Security Posture
6 10 (5.78%) EPoS
6 10 (5.78%) iSeries
7 8 (4.62%) Onboarding
8 7 (4.05%) AI Agents
9 6 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (2.31%) Low-Code
11 4 (2.31%) Management Information System
12 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (1.16%) IoT
12 2 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (1.16%) Reference Data
13 1 (0.58%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.94%) VMS
1 12 (6.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (56.07%) CI/CD
2 85 (49.13%) DevOps
3 63 (36.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (31.79%) Agile
5 54 (31.21%) Event-Driven
6 41 (23.70%) Roadmaps
7 39 (22.54%) Microservices
7 39 (22.54%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (20.81%) AI
9 35 (20.23%) Integration Patterns
10 34 (19.65%) Mentoring
11 31 (17.92%) Computer Science
11 31 (17.92%) Observability
12 30 (17.34%) Cloud Security
12 30 (17.34%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (17.34%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 27 (15.61%) Performance Tuning
14 26 (15.03%) Test Automation
15 24 (13.87%) Technical Leadership
16 22 (12.72%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 87 (50.29%) SQL
2 66 (38.15%) C#
3 29 (16.76%) Python
4 20 (11.56%) PowerShell
5 19 (10.98%) Java
6 18 (10.40%) Bash
6 18 (10.40%) Bicep
7 12 (6.94%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (5.78%) JavaScript
8 10 (5.78%) RPG
9 6 (3.47%) TypeScript
10 5 (2.89%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.73%) Go
11 3 (1.73%) X++
12 1 (0.58%) Groovy
12 1 (0.58%) Lua
12 1 (0.58%) PHP
Qualifications
1 33 (19.08%) Azure Certification
2 26 (15.03%) Microsoft Certification
3 22 (12.72%) Degree
4 7 (4.05%) Security Cleared
5 6 (3.47%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.89%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (2.89%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.31%) OCP
7 4 (2.31%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (2.31%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.16%) CCSP
8 2 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.16%) CISSP
9 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.25%) QA
2 13 (7.51%) GDPR
3 5 (2.89%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.73%) NIST
5 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (12.14%) Docker
2 15 (8.67%) Active Directory
3 12 (6.94%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (6.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (10.40%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.78%) Grafana
3 8 (4.62%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.73%) Ansible
5 2 (1.16%) Argo
5 2 (1.16%) Scalr
6 1 (0.58%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 92 (53.18%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.51%) Oracle
3 12 (6.94%) ScienceLogic
3 12 (6.94%) VMware
4 11 (6.36%) IBM
5 7 (4.05%) Aderant
5 7 (4.05%) Intapp
5 7 (4.05%) Splunk
6 5 (2.89%) SAP
7 4 (2.31%) Databricks
7 4 (2.31%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.73%) Google
8 3 (1.73%) HighQ
8 3 (1.73%) iManage
8 3 (1.73%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.16%) Ariba
9 2 (1.16%) Concur
9 2 (1.16%) Informatica
10 1 (0.58%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.58%) SnapLogic