API Management Contracts in Central London

API Management
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring API Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited API Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 111 142
Rank change year-on-year -3 +31 +41
Contract jobs citing API Management 15 22 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.75% 0.90% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.99% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 10
10th Percentile £425 £415 £517
25th Percentile £455 £425 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £565 £538 £632
90th Percentile £600 £543 £918
London median daily rate £513 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -6.82% -6.38% -2.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for API Management in Central London

API Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for API Management in Central London

API Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Management in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Management in Central London

API Management
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +2 15 £525 +10.53% 9
API Management
London

API Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 3 (20.00%) Anypoint
2 2 (13.33%) Mule
3 1 (6.67%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (26.67%) Azure AKS
3 4 (26.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (13.33%) Serverless
5 1 (6.67%) Apigee
5 1 (6.67%) AWS
5 1 (6.67%) Azure API Management
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.67%) Google Analytics
5 1 (6.67%) IBM Watson
5 1 (6.67%) Matillion
5 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) HTTP
3 1 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Maven
2 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) JUnit
2 1 (6.67%) Postman
General
1 3 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Junior
2 2 (13.33%) MuleSoft Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Site Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Applications Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Java Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Java Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Junior Applications Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) SDLC Manager
3 1 (6.67%) SDLC Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) JSON
2 4 (26.67%) .NET
2 4 (26.67%) REST
3 3 (20.00%) Swagger
3 3 (20.00%) XML
4 2 (13.33%) OAuth
4 2 (13.33%) OpenAPI
4 2 (13.33%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (13.33%) RAML
5 1 (6.67%) Apache Camel
5 1 (6.67%) EDI
5 1 (6.67%) MUnit
5 1 (6.67%) OAuth2
5 1 (6.67%) Quarkus
5 1 (6.67%) SOAP
5 1 (6.67%) Spring
5 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
5 1 (6.67%) WCF
5 1 (6.67%) WireMock
5 1 (6.67%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) DevOps
1 7 (46.67%) Microservices
2 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (20.00%) Agile
3 3 (20.00%) Analytics
3 3 (20.00%) Chaos Engineering
3 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (20.00%) GitOps
3 3 (20.00%) ITSM
3 3 (20.00%) Observability
3 3 (20.00%) Service Management
3 3 (20.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 3 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) API Design
4 2 (13.33%) API Development
4 2 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (13.33%) SDLC
4 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Bicep
1 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (13.33%) DataWeave
3 2 (13.33%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (13.33%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
4 1 (6.67%) C#
4 1 (6.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (13.33%) CloudHub
2 2 (13.33%) Grafana
2 2 (13.33%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) Argo
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) MuleSoft
3 2 (13.33%) Salesforce
3 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.67%) Axway
4 1 (6.67%) Google
4 1 (6.67%) IBM
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle
4 1 (6.67%) SAP
4 1 (6.67%) webMethods
4 1 (6.67%) WSO2