API Management Contracts in the City of London

API Management
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 104 144
Rank change year-on-year 0 +40 +28
Contract jobs citing API Management 15 22 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.85% 1.00% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 1.11% 0.84%
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 £619 £918
Central London median daily rate £525 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% -15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,637 1,989 3,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.53% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 1,408 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for API Management in the City of London

API Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Management in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for API Management in the City of London

API Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Management in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Management in the City of London

API Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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%) Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) SDLC Manager
3 1 (6.67%) SDLC Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
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%) 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%) Web Services
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%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (13.33%) Code Quality
4 2 (13.33%) Incident Response
4 2 (13.33%) Log Analytics
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