API Management Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

API Management
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring API Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 65 69
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 +23
Contract jobs citing API Management 5 2 9
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.61% 0.30% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.32% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £414 £501 £635
25th Percentile £416 £503 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £510 £675
Median % change year-on-year -14.22% -24.44% +22.73%
75th Percentile £553 £523 £688
90th Percentile £611 £527 £695
Scotland median daily rate £438 £510 £663
% change year-on-year -14.22% -23.02% +1.92%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 697 629 748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 85.63% 95.16% 85.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 330 420
10th Percentile £350 £225 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £463 £454
Median % change year-on-year +0.22% +1.98% -4.47%
75th Percentile £547 £533 £550
90th Percentile £640 £600 £650
Scotland median daily rate £451 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -2.70% +2.89% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 14 32
10th Percentile £16.67 - £13.21
25th Percentile £50.00 £17.30 £15.96
Median hourly rate £52.50 £18.33 £18.77
Median % change year-on-year +186.38% -2.34% -41.49%
75th Percentile £75.00 £41.44 £58.31
90th Percentile £81.24 £63.50 £60.75
Scotland median hourly rate £19.33 £20.00 £20.62
% change year-on-year -3.35% -2.98% +35.22%

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

API Management job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

API Management
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

API Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Management in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for API Management in Edinburgh

API Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 2 (40.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Apigee
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CodeCommit
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 1 (20.00%) AWS KMS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Back Office
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Apigee Architect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Architect
2 1 (20.00%) React Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) React
2 2 (40.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) JWT
3 1 (20.00%) Node.js
3 1 (20.00%) OAuth
3 1 (20.00%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Storage Management
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (20.00%) FinOps
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
4 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) Secrets Management
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Debt
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle