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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 360 350
Rank change year-on-year +27 -10 +148
Contract jobs citing API Management 148 188 319
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.61% 0.52% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.60% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 134 211
10th Percentile £400 £425 £458
25th Percentile £417 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -6.38% +0.43%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £666
90th Percentile £694 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £545 £585
% change year-on-year -8.26% -6.84% -2.50%
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 22,142 31,440 43,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.23% 86.46% 90.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,483 20,583 30,556
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
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 £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 937 2,239 1,538
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.87 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.97 £16.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -21.23% -2.14% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

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 16 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 16 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 -24 84 £483 -12.27% 77
South East +72 35 £500 -2.44% 30
Midlands +18 12 £512 -8.73% 9
West Midlands +14 9 £513 +5.40% 8
South West +44 5 £481 -24.21% 6
North of England +2 4 £425 -20.19% 26
East Midlands - 3 £475 - 1
East of England +26 2 £525 -4.55% 3
Yorkshire +12 2 £535 +23.27% 7
North West -7 1 £450 -18.18% 19
North East - 1 £380 -
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 11 (7.43%) Anypoint
2 7 (4.73%) Confluence
3 6 (4.05%) Mule
4 5 (3.38%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.70%) Mule ESB
6 3 (2.03%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (2.03%) SharePoint
7 2 (1.35%) Apache
7 2 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.68%) CMS
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (2.03%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (2.03%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (1.35%) Magento
4 2 (1.35%) Maximo
4 2 (1.35%) Oracle Retail
4 2 (1.35%) SAP CX
4 2 (1.35%) Shopify
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.68%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 85 (57.43%) Azure
2 42 (28.38%) Serverless
3 35 (23.65%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (20.95%) Azure API Management
5 29 (19.59%) AWS
6 25 (16.89%) Azure Logic Apps
7 23 (15.54%) Azure Monitor
8 22 (14.86%) Azure Functions
9 19 (12.84%) Azure AKS
10 17 (11.49%) Azure Service Bus
10 17 (11.49%) Entra ID
11 14 (9.46%) Azure Sentinel
12 13 (8.78%) Power Platform
13 12 (8.11%) Apigee
14 11 (7.43%) Azure Data Factory
14 11 (7.43%) Dynamics 365
14 11 (7.43%) GCP
15 10 (6.76%) Azure Key Vault
16 7 (4.73%) Azure Event Grid
16 7 (4.73%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.43%) Firewall
1 11 (7.43%) HTTP
2 6 (4.05%) LAN
2 6 (4.05%) WAN
3 2 (1.35%) Network Security
4 1 (0.68%) SSL
4 1 (0.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.81%) NoSQL
2 10 (6.76%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (4.05%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (4.05%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.38%) MySQL
5 5 (3.38%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.70%) Big Data
6 4 (2.70%) Oracle Database
6 4 (2.70%) Power BI
7 3 (2.03%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.03%) Oracle Database 10g
7 3 (2.03%) Redis
8 2 (1.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.35%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.35%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (8.78%) Git
2 9 (6.08%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 6 (4.05%) JUnit
4 5 (3.38%) Maven
5 4 (2.70%) Ant
5 4 (2.70%) GitLab
5 4 (2.70%) Postman
6 3 (2.03%) Eclipse
6 3 (2.03%) Gradle
6 3 (2.03%) IntelliJ
6 3 (2.03%) Mockito
6 3 (2.03%) SoapUI
6 3 (2.03%) TestNG
6 3 (2.03%) Toad
7 2 (1.35%) JIRA
7 2 (1.35%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.68%) Selenium
8 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 43 (29.05%) Social Skills
2 25 (16.89%) Finance
3 14 (9.46%) Banking
4 12 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.76%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.03%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.35%) Front Office
8 2 (1.35%) Law
8 2 (1.35%) Publishing
8 2 (1.35%) Retail
9 1 (0.68%) Local Government
9 1 (0.68%) Marketing
9 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 49 (33.11%) Developer
2 34 (22.97%) Architect
3 16 (10.81%) Consultant
3 16 (10.81%) Solutions Architect
4 14 (9.46%) Integration Developer
5 12 (8.11%) Azure Architect
5 12 (8.11%) Azure Engineer
5 12 (8.11%) Integration Consultant
6 11 (7.43%) Lead
7 9 (6.08%) MuleSoft Developer
7 9 (6.08%) SAP Consultant
8 8 (5.41%) SAP Integration Consultant
8 8 (5.41%) Senior
9 6 (4.05%) AWS Developer
9 6 (4.05%) Technical Architect
10 5 (3.38%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (3.38%) Azure Developer
10 5 (3.38%) Integration Engineer
10 5 (3.38%) Java Developer
10 5 (3.38%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (16.89%) .NET
1 25 (16.89%) REST
2 22 (14.86%) SOAP
3 20 (13.51%) RESTful
4 19 (12.84%) JSON
4 19 (12.84%) OAuth
5 17 (11.49%) XML
6 16 (10.81%) Middleware
7 15 (10.14%) Kafka
8 13 (8.78%) Swagger
9 12 (8.11%) React
9 12 (8.11%) Web Services
10 11 (7.43%) EDI
10 11 (7.43%) OpenAPI
11 9 (6.08%) RAML
12 7 (4.73%) Node.js
13 6 (4.05%) HTML
13 6 (4.05%) OAuth2
13 6 (4.05%) OpenID
14 5 (3.38%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.57%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.41%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.05%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.38%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.03%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.35%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.35%) Digital Media
7 2 (1.35%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.35%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.68%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.68%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.68%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.11%) Linux
2 10 (6.76%) Windows
3 4 (2.70%) AIX
3 4 (2.70%) Unix
4 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (41.89%) DevOps
2 47 (31.76%) Agile
3 35 (23.65%) CI/CD
4 34 (22.97%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (21.62%) Microservices
6 29 (19.59%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (15.54%) Analytics
8 20 (13.51%) Event-Driven
9 18 (12.16%) Software Engineering
10 16 (10.81%) API Design
10 16 (10.81%) Containerisation
10 16 (10.81%) Integration Patterns
11 15 (10.14%) API Development
12 14 (9.46%) Migration
12 14 (9.46%) Test Automation
13 13 (8.78%) API Integration
13 13 (8.78%) Observability
14 11 (7.43%) Cost Management
14 11 (7.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 10 (6.76%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 34 (22.97%) Python
2 32 (21.62%) SQL
3 31 (20.95%) JavaScript
4 29 (19.59%) Java
5 26 (17.57%) C#
6 21 (14.19%) Bicep
7 15 (10.14%) PowerShell
8 14 (9.46%) TypeScript
9 6 (4.05%) DataWeave
9 6 (4.05%) Groovy
10 5 (3.38%) ABAP
10 5 (3.38%) PL/SQL
10 5 (3.38%) T-SQL
11 4 (2.70%) Bash
11 4 (2.70%) Go
11 4 (2.70%) Korn
11 4 (2.70%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (2.70%) Perl
12 2 (1.35%) PHP
12 2 (1.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (12.16%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.46%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.76%) Degree
4 7 (4.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.70%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.03%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.03%) SAP Certification
7 2 (1.35%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.68%) CISM
8 1 (0.68%) CISSP
8 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.68%) PMP
8 1 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.73%) QA
2 3 (2.03%) HL7
2 3 (2.03%) SEPA
3 2 (1.35%) GDPR
3 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.35%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.68%) NIST
4 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (10.81%) Active Directory
2 13 (8.78%) Docker
3 9 (6.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (18.24%) Terraform
2 25 (16.89%) Kubernetes
3 8 (5.41%) Prometheus
4 7 (4.73%) Grafana
5 6 (4.05%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.68%) Ansible
6 1 (0.68%) Argo
6 1 (0.68%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.68%) Packer
6 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (35.14%) Microsoft
2 22 (14.86%) MuleSoft
3 19 (12.84%) SAP
4 9 (6.08%) Oracle
5 8 (5.41%) Databricks
5 8 (5.41%) Google
6 7 (4.73%) Splunk
7 6 (4.05%) IBM
7 6 (4.05%) Salesforce
8 5 (3.38%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.70%) Dell
10 3 (2.03%) Perforce
11 2 (1.35%) Adobe
11 2 (1.35%) Axway
11 2 (1.35%) Cribl.io
11 2 (1.35%) NCR
11 2 (1.35%) VeriFone
11 2 (1.35%) webMethods
12 1 (0.68%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.68%) WSO2