API Management Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

API Management
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring API Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - -17
Contract jobs citing API Management 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 1.77% - 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% - 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £184
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 - £193
Median % change year-on-year - - -67.15%
75th Percentile - - £201
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £370 - £193
% change year-on-year - - -67.92%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 185 156 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 81.86% 84.78% 84.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 120 139
10th Percentile £213 £180 £182
25th Percentile £290 £248 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £506 £556 £538
90th Percentile £650 £653 £614
South Wales median daily rate £413 £425 £423
% change year-on-year -2.94% +0.59% -13.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 3
10th Percentile - £21.56 £21.90
25th Percentile £12.21 £23.45 £27.75
Median hourly rate £16.44 £25.80 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.30% -35.50% +161.61%
75th Percentile £20.50 £34.06 £48.13
90th Percentile £20.65 £45.88 £51.50
South Wales median hourly rate £19.60 £22.00 £29.83
% change year-on-year -10.93% -26.25% +49.50%

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

API Management job vacancy trend in Cardiff

API Management
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

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

API Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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 2 (50.00%) Oracle Service Bus
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (50.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Lead
2 2 (50.00%) Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) BPM Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) IT Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Middleware Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Middleware Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) SOA Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) OAuth
1 2 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
1 2 (50.00%) SOAP
1 2 (50.00%) Swagger
1 2 (50.00%) XML
1 2 (50.00%) XSD
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) API Design
2 2 (50.00%) BPEL
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) SOA
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft