API Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

API Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 311 391
Rank change year-on-year -27 +80 -72
Contract jobs citing API Management 58 137 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.58% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.65% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 97 99
10th Percentile £413 £463 £404
25th Percentile £456 £515 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.92% +4.35% +16.16%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £625
90th Percentile £688 £730 £728
UK median daily rate £538 £586 £600
% change year-on-year -8.28% -2.33% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.75
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing API Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for API Management in the UK excluding London

API Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for API Management in the UK excluding London

API Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Management in the UK excluding London

API Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for API Management in the UK excluding London

API Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
North of England +20 18 £505 -0.83% 10
North West +17 14 £533 +1.43% 4
South East -4 14 £513 -21.15% 8
Scotland +41 9 £675 +3.85% 3
Midlands +28 8 £561 -10.20% 6
West Midlands +16 6 £486 -7.38% 5
Wales -11 6 £500 -14.68% 1
Yorkshire +13 4 £434 -8.63% 5
South West +14 2 £635 +8.09% 5
East of England +8 1 £550 - 1
API Management
UK

API Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (8.62%) Confluence
1 5 (8.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (5.17%) IIS
3 1 (1.72%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (15.52%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.72%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Temenos T24
2 3 (5.17%) Maximo
3 2 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.72%) NetSuite
4 1 (1.72%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (1.72%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (60.34%) Azure
2 20 (34.48%) AWS
3 13 (22.41%) Azure Logic Apps
3 13 (22.41%) Azure Service Bus
4 11 (18.97%) IaaS
5 10 (17.24%) SaaS
6 9 (15.52%) Apigee
6 9 (15.52%) Azure API Management
6 9 (15.52%) PaaS
7 7 (12.07%) Azure AKS
7 7 (12.07%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (10.34%) AWS CodeBuild
8 6 (10.34%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 6 (10.34%) AWS CodePipeline
8 6 (10.34%) Entra ID
9 5 (8.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (8.62%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (8.62%) Azure Functions
9 5 (8.62%) Kong
9 5 (8.62%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.62%) Firewall
2 4 (6.90%) Network Security
3 3 (5.17%) SSL
3 3 (5.17%) VPN
4 2 (3.45%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.07%) MongoDB
2 6 (10.34%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (8.62%) OLAP
3 5 (8.62%) OLTP
3 5 (8.62%) Oracle Database
3 5 (8.62%) Oracle OLAP
4 4 (6.90%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.17%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.45%) Power BI
6 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.72%) GIS
7 1 (1.72%) MySQL
7 1 (1.72%) Redis
7 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (12.07%) JIRA
2 6 (10.34%) Visual Studio
3 3 (5.17%) gulp
3 3 (5.17%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.17%) Maven
4 2 (3.45%) Git
4 2 (3.45%) Postman
5 1 (1.72%) Hudson
5 1 (1.72%) NUnit
5 1 (1.72%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.72%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 21 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.52%) Back Office
2 9 (15.52%) Public Sector
3 8 (13.79%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (10.34%) Banking
4 6 (10.34%) Finance
5 4 (6.90%) German Language
6 2 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 22 (37.93%) Architect
2 15 (25.86%) Developer
3 13 (22.41%) AWS Architect
4 7 (12.07%) Cloud Architect
5 6 (10.34%) Azure Architect
5 6 (10.34%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Azure Developer
6 4 (6.90%) Lead
6 4 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.90%) WSO2 Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) AWS Solution Architect
7 3 (5.17%) C# Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Designer
7 3 (5.17%) Pega Developer
8 2 (3.45%) .NET Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Integration Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Java Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Product Owner
8 2 (3.45%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (3.45%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.86%) REST
2 14 (24.14%) .NET
2 14 (24.14%) SOAP
3 8 (13.79%) Web Services
4 7 (12.07%) J2EE
5 6 (10.34%) JSON
5 6 (10.34%) RESTful
5 6 (10.34%) Spring
6 5 (8.62%) IBM Integration Bus
6 5 (8.62%) Kafka
6 5 (8.62%) Node.js
6 5 (8.62%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (6.90%) Apache Camel
7 4 (6.90%) Spring Boot
7 4 (6.90%) Spring Integration
7 4 (6.90%) Swagger
8 3 (5.17%) .NET Framework
8 3 (5.17%) HTML
8 3 (5.17%) OAuth
8 3 (5.17%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.79%) Public Cloud
2 6 (10.34%) NHS
3 5 (8.62%) DataPower
3 5 (8.62%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.17%) IoT
4 3 (5.17%) Low-Code
4 3 (5.17%) Mobile App
4 3 (5.17%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.72%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.72%) Replication
5 1 (1.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.17%) Android
1 3 (5.17%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.72%) Windows
2 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (32.76%) DevOps
2 18 (31.03%) Agile
3 17 (29.31%) Migration
4 16 (27.59%) Microservices
5 14 (24.14%) CI/CD
5 14 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (22.41%) Identity Access Management
7 11 (18.97%) Containerisation
7 11 (18.97%) Roadmaps
8 10 (17.24%) OO
9 9 (15.52%) Security Architecture
9 9 (15.52%) Service Management
10 8 (13.79%) Data Architecture
10 8 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (13.79%) Storage Management
11 7 (12.07%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (12.07%) DevSecOps
11 7 (12.07%) SOA
12 6 (10.34%) Key Management
12 6 (10.34%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 24 (41.38%) Java
2 13 (22.41%) C#
3 10 (17.24%) Python
3 10 (17.24%) SQL
4 7 (12.07%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.90%) Bicep
6 3 (5.17%) PHP
6 3 (5.17%) Ruby
7 2 (3.45%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.72%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 8 (13.79%) Azure Certification
2 6 (10.34%) Degree
2 6 (10.34%) SC Cleared
2 6 (10.34%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.17%) QA
2 2 (3.45%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 10 (17.24%) Docker
2 9 (15.52%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (8.62%) Active Directory
4 3 (5.17%) Hyper-V
4 3 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (18.97%) Kubernetes
2 8 (13.79%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (13.79%) Terraform
3 4 (6.90%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 10 (17.24%) Oracle
3 9 (15.52%) IBM
4 6 (10.34%) WSO2
5 5 (8.62%) SAP
5 5 (8.62%) TSYS
6 3 (5.17%) Google
6 3 (5.17%) Nintex
6 3 (5.17%) Pega
6 3 (5.17%) VMware
7 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.72%) BMC
8 1 (1.72%) Cognizant
8 1 (1.72%) Databricks
8 1 (1.72%) ESRI
8 1 (1.72%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (1.72%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.72%) Remedy
8 1 (1.72%) Salesforce