API Management Contracts in England

API Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 348 357 355
Rank change year-on-year +9 -2 +150
Contract jobs citing API Management 137 187 333
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.56% 0.50% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.58% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 130 219
10th Percentile £382 £425 £458
25th Percentile £415 £466 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -6.78% +0.85%
75th Percentile £602 £660 £675
90th Percentile £695 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £541 £586
% change year-on-year -7.62% -7.64% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate - - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for API Management in England

API Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for API Management in England

API Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for API Management in England

API Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for API Management in England

API Management
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England 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
London -16 82 £513 -6.82% 79
South East +67 33 £500 -2.44% 36
Midlands +22 8 £494 -12.07% 9
West Midlands +13 5 £512 +5.30% 4
South West +48 4 £481 -24.21% 8
North of England +5 4 £550 +8.96% 28
East Midlands - 3 £475 - 4
North East - 2 £515 -
East of England +29 1 - - 6
Yorkshire +5 1 £670 +54.38% 5
North West +4 1 £450 -15.49% 23
API Management
UK

API Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 12 (8.76%) Anypoint
2 7 (5.11%) Confluence
2 7 (5.11%) Mule
3 5 (3.65%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.92%) Mule ESB
4 4 (2.92%) SharePoint
5 3 (2.19%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (1.46%) Apache
6 2 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.73%) CMS
7 1 (0.73%) nginx
7 1 (0.73%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (1.46%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.46%) Magento
3 2 (1.46%) Maximo
3 2 (1.46%) Oracle 11i
3 2 (1.46%) Oracle Retail
3 2 (1.46%) SAP CX
3 2 (1.46%) Shopify
4 1 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.73%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 76 (55.47%) Azure
2 33 (24.09%) Serverless
3 32 (23.36%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (18.98%) AWS
5 24 (17.52%) Azure API Management
6 21 (15.33%) Azure Monitor
7 18 (13.14%) Azure AKS
7 18 (13.14%) Azure Logic Apps
8 17 (12.41%) Azure Functions
9 13 (9.49%) Azure Sentinel
9 13 (9.49%) Entra ID
9 13 (9.49%) Power Platform
10 12 (8.76%) Azure Service Bus
11 10 (7.30%) Apigee
11 10 (7.30%) GitHub
12 9 (6.57%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (6.57%) Azure Key Vault
12 9 (6.57%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (6.57%) GCP
13 6 (4.38%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.03%) Firewall
2 10 (7.30%) HTTP
3 4 (2.92%) LAN
3 4 (2.92%) WAN
4 3 (2.19%) Network Security
5 2 (1.46%) SSL
6 1 (0.73%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.73%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.49%) NoSQL
2 6 (4.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (4.38%) MongoDB
2 6 (4.38%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.65%) MySQL
3 5 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.92%) Big Data
4 4 (2.92%) Power BI
4 4 (2.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (2.19%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (2.19%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.19%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.19%) Redis
6 2 (1.46%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.46%) Dremio
6 2 (1.46%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.46%) Oracle Database 10g
6 2 (1.46%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (8.03%) Git
2 9 (6.57%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.65%) GitLab
3 5 (3.65%) JUnit
3 5 (3.65%) Maven
4 4 (2.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (2.92%) Postman
5 3 (2.19%) Ant
5 3 (2.19%) Eclipse
5 3 (2.19%) Gradle
5 3 (2.19%) IntelliJ
5 3 (2.19%) Mockito
5 3 (2.19%) TestNG
6 2 (1.46%) JIRA
6 2 (1.46%) SoapUI
6 2 (1.46%) Toad
6 2 (1.46%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.73%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.73%) MLflow
7 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 39 (28.47%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.87%) Finance
3 13 (9.49%) Banking
3 13 (9.49%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.30%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.46%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.46%) Front Office
6 2 (1.46%) Law
6 2 (1.46%) Publishing
6 2 (1.46%) Retail
7 1 (0.73%) Local Government
7 1 (0.73%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 41 (29.93%) Developer
2 31 (22.63%) Architect
3 16 (11.68%) Consultant
4 15 (10.95%) Solutions Architect
5 13 (9.49%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (8.76%) Azure Architect
6 12 (8.76%) Integration Consultant
6 12 (8.76%) Lead
7 10 (7.30%) MuleSoft Developer
8 9 (6.57%) Integration Developer
8 9 (6.57%) SAP Consultant
9 8 (5.84%) SAP Integration Consultant
10 6 (4.38%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.65%) AWS Developer
11 5 (3.65%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.65%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.65%) Java Developer
11 5 (3.65%) Senior
12 4 (2.92%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (19.71%) REST
2 23 (16.79%) SOAP
3 21 (15.33%) JSON
4 20 (14.60%) .NET
5 19 (13.87%) OAuth
6 17 (12.41%) RESTful
6 17 (12.41%) XML
7 13 (9.49%) Kafka
7 13 (9.49%) Middleware
7 13 (9.49%) Swagger
8 11 (8.03%) OpenAPI
8 11 (8.03%) React
9 10 (7.30%) EDI
9 10 (7.30%) RAML
10 9 (6.57%) Web Services
11 7 (5.11%) Node.js
12 6 (4.38%) HTML
12 6 (4.38%) OAuth2
12 6 (4.38%) OpenID
13 5 (3.65%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.79%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.38%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (2.92%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.19%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.19%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.46%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.46%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (1.46%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.73%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.73%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.73%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.73%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.73%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.73%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.03%) Linux
2 7 (5.11%) Windows
3 3 (2.19%) AIX
3 3 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (42.34%) DevOps
2 45 (32.85%) Agile
3 31 (22.63%) CI/CD
3 31 (22.63%) Infrastructure as Code
3 31 (22.63%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (21.90%) Microservices
5 20 (14.60%) Analytics
6 16 (11.68%) API Integration
6 16 (11.68%) Containerisation
7 15 (10.95%) API Development
8 14 (10.22%) Event-Driven
8 14 (10.22%) Software Engineering
9 13 (9.49%) API Design
9 13 (9.49%) Migration
9 13 (9.49%) Test Automation
10 12 (8.76%) Observability
11 11 (8.03%) Integration Patterns
12 10 (7.30%) Cost Management
12 10 (7.30%) Full-Stack Development
13 9 (6.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 29 (21.17%) Java
1 29 (21.17%) JavaScript
1 29 (21.17%) Python
1 29 (21.17%) SQL
2 22 (16.06%) C#
3 18 (13.14%) Bicep
4 15 (10.95%) PowerShell
5 13 (9.49%) TypeScript
6 7 (5.11%) DataWeave
7 6 (4.38%) Groovy
8 5 (3.65%) ABAP
8 5 (3.65%) Go
8 5 (3.65%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.92%) Bash
9 4 (2.92%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (2.92%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.19%) Korn
10 3 (2.19%) Perl
11 2 (1.46%) PHP
11 2 (1.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (15.33%) Security Cleared
2 16 (11.68%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.57%) Degree
4 6 (4.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.19%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.19%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.19%) SAP Certification
7 2 (1.46%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.73%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.73%) CISM
8 1 (0.73%) CISSP
8 1 (0.73%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.73%) PMP
8 1 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.38%) QA
2 3 (2.19%) HL7
2 3 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.46%) GDPR
3 2 (1.46%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.46%) SEPA
4 1 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.73%) NIST
4 1 (0.73%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (10.22%) Active Directory
2 12 (8.76%) Docker
3 5 (3.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (21.90%) Terraform
2 26 (18.98%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.57%) Prometheus
4 8 (5.84%) Grafana
5 7 (5.11%) CloudHub
6 2 (1.46%) Ansible
7 1 (0.73%) Argo
7 1 (0.73%) Kibana
7 1 (0.73%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.73%) logstash
7 1 (0.73%) Packer
Vendors
1 49 (35.77%) Microsoft
2 21 (15.33%) MuleSoft
3 19 (13.87%) SAP
4 7 (5.11%) Google
4 7 (5.11%) Oracle
5 6 (4.38%) Databricks
5 6 (4.38%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.65%) IBM
6 5 (3.65%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.65%) Splunk
7 4 (2.92%) Dell
8 3 (2.19%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.46%) Adobe
9 2 (1.46%) Cribl.io
9 2 (1.46%) NCR
9 2 (1.46%) Perforce
9 2 (1.46%) VeriFone
10 1 (0.73%) Axway
10 1 (0.73%) Cisco
10 1 (0.73%) OpenAI