API Management Contracts in England

API Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for API Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited API Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 362 503
Rank change year-on-year +7 +141 -78
Contract jobs citing API Management 183 332 287
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.50% 0.66% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.73% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 219 218
10th Percentile £425 £458 £412
25th Percentile £472 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £588
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +0.30% +13.13%
75th Percentile £666 £675 £672
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £541 £586 £600
% change year-on-year -7.64% -2.33% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.75
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -33.33% -
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - -33.33% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

API Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing API Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for API Management in England

API Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Management in England.

Daily rate trend for API Management in England

API Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Management in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Management in England

API Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for API Management in England

API Management
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing API Management within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +28 133 £550 -6.38% 34
North of England +23 18 £505 +0.95% 4
North West +17 14 £533 +2.11% 1
South East -1 12 £513 -18.00% 9
Midlands +15 8 £561 +6.90% 5
West Midlands +23 6 £486 +14.41% 4
Yorkshire +14 4 £434 -8.63% 3
South West +20 2 £635 +5.83% 4
East of England +18 2 £550 - 3
API Management
UK

API Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (8.20%) CMS
2 10 (5.46%) Anypoint
3 7 (3.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (2.73%) Confluence
4 5 (2.73%) Mule
4 5 (2.73%) Mule ESB
5 3 (1.64%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.64%) IIS
6 2 (1.09%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.55%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (6.01%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (2.73%) Temenos T24
2 4 (2.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.64%) Maximo
3 3 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.09%) BusinessWorks
4 2 (1.09%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 2 (1.09%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.55%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.55%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 135 (73.77%) Azure
2 89 (48.63%) Azure Service Bus
3 77 (42.08%) Azure DevOps
4 58 (31.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 45 (24.59%) Azure Monitor
6 43 (23.50%) Azure API Management
7 42 (22.95%) Azure Logic Apps
8 37 (20.22%) Serverless
9 31 (16.94%) AWS
10 26 (14.21%) Azure Functions
10 26 (14.21%) PaaS
11 21 (11.48%) Azure Key Vault
12 20 (10.93%) Apigee
13 19 (10.38%) Azure Data Factory
13 19 (10.38%) Azure Storage
14 18 (9.84%) Azure Pipelines
14 18 (9.84%) Entra ID
15 16 (8.74%) SaaS
16 11 (6.01%) Boomi
16 11 (6.01%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.37%) Firewall
2 4 (2.19%) SSL
3 3 (1.64%) HTTP
3 3 (1.64%) Network Security
3 3 (1.64%) VPN
4 2 (1.09%) DNS
4 2 (1.09%) Internet
4 2 (1.09%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.55%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.55%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (31.69%) SQL Server
2 32 (17.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (7.10%) NoSQL
4 12 (6.56%) OLTP
5 10 (5.46%) Data Lake
6 9 (4.92%) MongoDB
7 8 (4.37%) Big Data
8 7 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (2.73%) OLAP
10 5 (2.73%) Oracle OLAP
11 3 (1.64%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.64%) GIS
11 3 (1.64%) MySQL
11 3 (1.64%) Power BI
12 2 (1.09%) DB2
12 2 (1.09%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (1.09%) MariaDB
12 2 (1.09%) Redis
12 2 (1.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 65 (35.52%) Git
2 17 (9.29%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.65%) Postman
4 13 (7.10%) JIRA
5 9 (4.92%) Visual Studio
6 7 (3.83%) Visual Studio Team System
7 6 (3.28%) Maven
7 6 (3.28%) TeamCity
8 4 (2.19%) SpecFlow
9 3 (1.64%) GitLab
9 3 (1.64%) gulp
9 3 (1.64%) Selenium
10 2 (1.09%) JMeter
11 1 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.55%) Hudson
11 1 (0.55%) NUnit
11 1 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 44 (24.04%) Social Skills
2 28 (15.30%) Finance
3 22 (12.02%) Back Office
4 18 (9.84%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.56%) Banking
6 10 (5.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (3.83%) German Language
8 7 (3.83%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.19%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.64%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.09%) Arabic Language
11 2 (1.09%) Electronics
11 2 (1.09%) French Language
11 2 (1.09%) Japanese Language
11 2 (1.09%) Korean Language
11 2 (1.09%) Local Government
11 2 (1.09%) Marketing
11 2 (1.09%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 83 (45.36%) Developer
2 33 (18.03%) Senior
3 31 (16.94%) Architect
4 27 (14.75%) Senior Developer
5 21 (11.48%) Azure Developer
6 20 (10.93%) Lead
7 15 (8.20%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 13 (7.10%) Solutions Architect
9 12 (6.56%) .NET Developer
9 12 (6.56%) C# Developer
10 11 (6.01%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 10 (5.46%) Azure Architect
11 10 (5.46%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (5.46%) Integration Engineer
11 10 (5.46%) MuleSoft Developer
12 9 (4.92%) Backend Developer
12 9 (4.92%) Data Engineer
13 8 (4.37%) Consultant
13 8 (4.37%) Python Developer
14 7 (3.83%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (45.36%) .NET
2 51 (27.87%) .NET Core
3 38 (20.77%) REST
4 32 (17.49%) SOAP
5 28 (15.30%) Web Services
6 23 (12.57%) YAML
7 21 (11.48%) JSON
7 21 (11.48%) Swagger
8 19 (10.38%) CSS
9 18 (9.84%) HTML
9 18 (9.84%) React
10 16 (8.74%) jQuery
11 15 (8.20%) Node.js
12 14 (7.65%) XML
13 13 (7.10%) ASP.NET
13 13 (7.10%) RESTful
14 12 (6.56%) ARM Templates
15 11 (6.01%) ASP.NET MVC
15 11 (6.01%) Spring
16 10 (5.46%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.74%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.46%) Public Cloud
3 8 (4.37%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.37%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.73%) DataPower
4 5 (2.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.64%) IoT
5 3 (1.64%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.64%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.09%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.09%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.09%) Wiki
7 1 (0.55%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.28%) Unix
2 5 (2.73%) Linux
3 3 (1.64%) Android
3 3 (1.64%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.64%) Windows
4 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (53.55%) Agile
2 92 (50.27%) DevOps
3 67 (36.61%) TDD
4 56 (30.60%) OO
5 51 (27.87%) CI/CD
6 43 (23.50%) OOD
7 37 (20.22%) Microservices
8 35 (19.13%) Clean Code
9 30 (16.39%) Software Engineering
10 22 (12.02%) Scrum
10 22 (12.02%) SOA
11 20 (10.93%) Migration
12 19 (10.38%) Continuous Integration
13 18 (9.84%) Continuous Deployment
13 18 (9.84%) Infrastructure as Code
13 18 (9.84%) Test Automation
14 17 (9.29%) Front End Development
15 15 (8.20%) Data Migration
16 14 (7.65%) MVC
16 14 (7.65%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 89 (48.63%) C#
2 52 (28.42%) SQL
3 42 (22.95%) Bicep
4 31 (16.94%) Python
5 30 (16.39%) JavaScript
6 26 (14.21%) Java
7 19 (10.38%) PowerShell
8 18 (9.84%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.73%) C++
9 5 (2.73%) Groovy
10 2 (1.09%) PHP
10 2 (1.09%) Ruby
10 2 (1.09%) XPath
11 1 (0.55%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 18 (9.84%) Degree
2 12 (6.56%) Azure Certification
3 10 (5.46%) Security Cleared
4 8 (4.37%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.73%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.38%) Accessibility
2 18 (9.84%) WCAG
3 8 (4.37%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.73%) QA
5 1 (0.55%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 50 (27.32%) Active Directory
2 11 (6.01%) Docker
3 10 (5.46%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.09%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (14.21%) Terraform
2 13 (7.10%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.92%) Ansible
4 6 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (2.73%) CloudHub
6 2 (1.09%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 68 (37.16%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.74%) SAP
3 14 (7.65%) Salesforce
4 13 (7.10%) Google
5 12 (6.56%) Oracle
6 11 (6.01%) IBM
6 11 (6.01%) MuleSoft
7 5 (2.73%) Databricks
7 5 (2.73%) TSYS
7 5 (2.73%) WSO2
8 3 (1.64%) ESRI
8 3 (1.64%) Nintex
8 3 (1.64%) Okta
8 3 (1.64%) Pega
8 3 (1.64%) Ping Identity
9 2 (1.09%) Ariba
9 2 (1.09%) CA
9 2 (1.09%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.09%) TIBCO
9 2 (1.09%) VMware