API Management Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

API Management
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring API Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 66 65
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +20
Contract jobs citing API Management 7 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.97% 0.43% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.50% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £408 - -
25th Percentile £409 £375 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £438 £425 £525
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £438 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +9.38% -27.27% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

API Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 644 601 620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 89.44% 87.10% 84.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 404 406
10th Percentile £221 £197 £286
25th Percentile £370 £381 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £638 £738 £694
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 16 18
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £13.03
25th Percentile £13.75 £21.63 £14.78
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.23 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% -49.63% +233.33%
75th Percentile £20.38 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £25.00 £56.25 £67.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £23.60 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.04% +2.61% +29.80%

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing API Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

API Management job vacancy trend in Birmingham

API Management
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing API Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing API Management

API Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
2 6 (85.71%) Azure API Management
2 6 (85.71%) Azure Key Vault
3 4 (57.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 4 (57.14%) Azure Functions
3 4 (57.14%) Azure Logic Apps
3 4 (57.14%) Azure Service Bus
3 4 (57.14%) Serverless
4 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) AWS
5 2 (28.57%) Azure AKS
5 2 (28.57%) GitHub
5 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) CircleCI
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Azure Developer
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Operations Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
3 4 (57.14%) Log Analytics
4 3 (42.86%) Analytics
4 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) Auto-Scaling
5 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
5 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 2 (28.57%) Migration
5 2 (28.57%) RBAC
5 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (28.57%) Runbook
5 2 (28.57%) Secrets Management
6 1 (14.29%) Agile
6 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 1 (14.29%) Scrum
6 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 1 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft