Azure API Management Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Microsoft Azure API Management (Azure APIM)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Azure API Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure API Management 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.29% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.81% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £717 - -
25th Percentile £725 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £737 - -
75th Percentile £750 - -
90th Percentile £758 - -
North West median daily rate £737 £502 £413
% change year-on-year +47.04% +21.58% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Cheshire

Azure API Management falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 248 139 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 35.73% 33.10% 35.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 100 125
10th Percentile £350 £291 £265
25th Percentile £375 £360 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £449 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.91% -5.58% -7.68%
75th Percentile £579 £575 £525
90th Percentile £648 £638 £588
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 15
10th Percentile £15.50 £21.05 £17.16
25th Percentile £16.25 £21.83 -
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.18 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -21.42% +36.46% -20.93%
75th Percentile £25.31 £64.17 £43.75
90th Percentile £33.63 £82.50 -
North West median hourly rate £62.00 £28.75 £17.29
% change year-on-year +115.65% +66.33% -65.13%

Azure API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Azure API Management job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Azure API Management
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Azure API Management

Azure API Management
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 18 March 2026. 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
Knutsford - 2 £737 - 1
Azure API Management
North West

Azure API Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 2 (100.00%) Apigee
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Kong
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JWT
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (100.00%) OpenID
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) API Development
1 2 (100.00%) API Integration
1 2 (100.00%) API Management
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) SABSA
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) GIAC
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) MuleSoft