Azure API Management Contracts

Microsoft Azure API Management (Azure APIM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Azure API Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure 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 519 613 690
Rank change year-on-year +94 +77 -113
Contract jobs citing Azure API Management 79 106 159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.18% 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.56% 0.48% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 75 113
10th Percentile £450 £440 £404
25th Percentile £500 £513 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -2.22%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £675 £693
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £600 £468
% change year-on-year -14.58% +28.34% -5.56%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - £52.50

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure API Management is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,989 22,053 34,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.87% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,925 15,944 24,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 355 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.39
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

Azure API Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure API Management in the UK

Azure API Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure API Management in the UK

Azure API Management
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure API Management in the UK

Azure API Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure API Management in the UK

Azure API Management
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure API Management within the UK 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
England +120 73 £600 - 18
London +118 57 £650 +10.17% 10
Work from Home +114 48 £538 -10.42% 12
UK excluding London +33 15 £513 -14.58% 6
South East +13 12 £513 -14.58% 3
North of England +31 2 £556 +5.95% 1
Scotland +30 1 - -
Yorkshire +17 1 £700 +33.33%
North West - 1 £413 - 1

Azure API Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (1.27%) Apache
1 1 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.27%) CMS
1 1 (1.27%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.27%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.27%) SAP ERP
1 1 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 79 (100.00%) Azure
2 59 (74.68%) Azure DevOps
3 52 (65.82%) Azure Logic Apps
4 39 (49.37%) Azure Service Bus
5 31 (39.24%) Serverless
6 30 (37.97%) Azure Functions
7 25 (31.65%) Azure Key Vault
8 20 (25.32%) PaaS
9 19 (24.05%) Azure Storage
10 18 (22.78%) Azure Data Factory
11 17 (21.52%) Dynamics 365
12 15 (18.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 14 (17.72%) Entra ID
14 10 (12.66%) NuGet
15 8 (10.13%) Power Platform
16 7 (8.86%) Azure Batch
16 7 (8.86%) Azure Monitor
16 7 (8.86%) Power Automate
16 7 (8.86%) PowerApps
17 3 (3.80%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.80%) Network Security
2 2 (2.53%) DNS
2 2 (2.53%) Firewall
2 2 (2.53%) HTTP
2 2 (2.53%) VPN
3 1 (1.27%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (39.24%) Azure SQL Database
2 17 (21.52%) SQL Server
3 7 (8.86%) Data Lake
3 7 (8.86%) OLTP
4 6 (7.59%) Big Data
4 6 (7.59%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (6.33%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.80%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.27%) Flink
8 1 (1.27%) GIS
8 1 (1.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (22.78%) Git
2 12 (15.19%) Postman
3 9 (11.39%) Visual Studio
4 7 (8.86%) Visual Studio Team System
5 2 (2.53%) GitLab
6 1 (1.27%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.27%) git-flow
6 1 (1.27%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (1.27%) Moq
6 1 (1.27%) Selenium
6 1 (1.27%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.27%) SpecFlow
General
1 31 (39.24%) Finance
2 15 (18.99%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.59%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (6.33%) Banking
5 3 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Legal
6 1 (1.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (48.10%) Developer
2 27 (34.18%) Lead
3 20 (25.32%) Azure Developer
4 9 (11.39%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (11.39%) Integration Developer
5 7 (8.86%) .NET Developer
5 7 (8.86%) Python Developer
6 6 (7.59%) C# Developer
6 6 (7.59%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Integration Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Lead Developer
7 5 (6.33%) Senior
7 5 (6.33%) Senior Developer
7 5 (6.33%) Senior Python Developer
8 4 (5.06%) Applications Developer
8 4 (5.06%) Architect
9 3 (3.80%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Data Integration Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (39.24%) .NET
2 26 (32.91%) XML
3 17 (21.52%) REST
3 17 (21.52%) Web Services
4 15 (18.99%) YAML
5 14 (17.72%) Swagger
6 13 (16.46%) ARM Templates
7 11 (13.92%) GraphQL
8 10 (12.66%) .NET Core
8 10 (12.66%) JSON
9 9 (11.39%) SOAP
10 5 (6.33%) .NET Framework
11 4 (5.06%) OAuth
12 3 (3.80%) OpenID
12 3 (3.80%) React
13 2 (2.53%) CSS
13 2 (2.53%) Entity Framework
13 2 (2.53%) OpenAPI
13 2 (2.53%) RESTful
13 2 (2.53%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
1 6 (7.59%) Wiki
2 5 (6.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (3.80%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.53%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.53%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.27%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.27%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.27%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.27%) Windows
1 1 (1.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (81.01%) DevOps
2 47 (59.49%) API Management
3 34 (43.04%) CI/CD
4 26 (32.91%) Agile
5 24 (30.38%) TDD
6 19 (24.05%) Software Engineering
7 18 (22.78%) Technical Leadership
8 17 (21.52%) Integration Patterns
9 16 (20.25%) Data Transformation
9 16 (20.25%) Mentoring
9 16 (20.25%) Test Strategy
10 15 (18.99%) Continuous Deployment
10 15 (18.99%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (17.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (17.72%) Continuous Integration
11 14 (17.72%) Microservices
12 13 (16.46%) Scrum
13 12 (15.19%) Test Automation
14 11 (13.92%) OO
14 11 (13.92%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 52 (65.82%) C#
2 29 (36.71%) SQL
3 20 (25.32%) PowerShell
3 20 (25.32%) Python
4 10 (12.66%) Java
5 8 (10.13%) Bicep
6 3 (3.80%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.53%) PHP
7 2 (2.53%) Ruby
7 2 (2.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (6.33%) Azure Certification
1 5 (6.33%) Degree
2 3 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.53%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.53%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (20.25%) QA
2 7 (8.86%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.53%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (17.72%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.80%) Docker
3 2 (2.53%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (21.52%) Terraform
2 6 (7.59%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.27%) Grafana
4 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 32 (40.51%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.80%) Databricks
2 3 (3.80%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.53%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.53%) VMware
4 1 (1.27%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.27%) BMC
4 1 (1.27%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.27%) ESRI
4 1 (1.27%) Remedy
4 1 (1.27%) SAP
4 1 (1.27%) Sitecore