Azure API Management Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure API Management (Azure APIM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Azure API Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure 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 438 467 574
Rank change year-on-year +29 +107 +84
Contract jobs citing Azure API Management 47 75 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.20% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.52% 0.63% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 40 57
10th Percentile £407 £448 £468
25th Percentile £500 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% - +13.21%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £638
90th Percentile £684 £759 £675
UK median daily rate £581 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -3.13% +1.69% +7.27%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Azure API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure API Management in England

Azure API Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure API Management in England

Azure API Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure API Management in England

Azure 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 Azure 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 -1 20 £550 -15.38% 11
South East +50 16 £625 +21.95% 4
Midlands - 6 £575 - 5
West Midlands - 4 £588 - 3
North of England +19 2 £586 +5.30% 3
East Midlands - 2 £525 - 2
North West +17 1 £502 +21.58% 2
Yorkshire +8 1 £670 -4.29% 1
Azure API Management
UK

Azure 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 3 (6.38%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (4.26%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.26%) Confluence
3 1 (2.13%) CMS
3 1 (2.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (4.26%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (4.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (2.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 47 (100.00%) Azure
2 19 (40.43%) Azure DevOps
2 19 (40.43%) Azure Service Bus
3 18 (38.30%) Azure Logic Apps
4 16 (34.04%) Azure Data Factory
4 16 (34.04%) Serverless
5 14 (29.79%) Azure Functions
5 14 (29.79%) Entra ID
6 11 (23.40%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (21.28%) Azure Key Vault
8 9 (19.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (12.77%) Azure AKS
10 5 (10.64%) Azure Event Grid
11 4 (8.51%) PaaS
11 4 (8.51%) Power Platform
12 3 (6.38%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (6.38%) GitHub
12 3 (6.38%) IaaS
13 2 (4.26%) Azure App Service
13 2 (4.26%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.38%) HTTP
2 2 (4.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (23.40%) SQL Server
2 8 (17.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (14.89%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (8.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (6.38%) Oracle Database
5 3 (6.38%) SSDT
6 2 (4.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.26%) Hadoop
6 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.26%) Oracle Database 10g
6 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (2.13%) Big Data
7 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.13%) GIS
7 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.13%) Parquet
7 1 (2.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Selenium
2 3 (6.38%) Ant
2 3 (6.38%) Postman
3 2 (4.26%) Git
3 2 (4.26%) JIRA
3 2 (4.26%) SoapUI
3 2 (4.26%) Toad
4 1 (2.13%) JUnit
4 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (17.02%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.38%) Banking
3 3 (6.38%) Finance
4 2 (4.26%) Financial Institution
4 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.26%) Retail
5 1 (2.13%) Law
5 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (38.30%) Developer
2 12 (25.53%) Architect
3 11 (23.40%) Azure Developer
4 9 (19.15%) Azure Architect
5 8 (17.02%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (12.77%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (12.77%) Integration Developer
7 5 (10.64%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (10.64%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (10.64%) Lead
8 4 (8.51%) .NET Developer
9 3 (6.38%) Designer
9 3 (6.38%) Integration Architect
9 3 (6.38%) Solutions Designer
10 2 (4.26%) CRM Architect
10 2 (4.26%) CRM Solutions Architect
10 2 (4.26%) Dynamics CRM Architect
10 2 (4.26%) Head of Architecture
10 2 (4.26%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 2 (4.26%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (25.53%) .NET
2 10 (21.28%) OAuth
3 8 (17.02%) Middleware
4 7 (14.89%) ADO
4 7 (14.89%) SOAP
5 6 (12.77%) Kafka
6 5 (10.64%) RESTful
6 5 (10.64%) XML
7 4 (8.51%) React
7 4 (8.51%) REST
7 4 (8.51%) YAML
8 3 (6.38%) .NET Core
8 3 (6.38%) .NET Framework
8 3 (6.38%) ARM Templates
8 3 (6.38%) EDI
8 3 (6.38%) IBM Integration Bus
8 3 (6.38%) JSON
8 3 (6.38%) OpenID
8 3 (6.38%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (6.38%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (6.38%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.38%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (2.13%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.13%) Reinsurance
4 1 (2.13%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.38%) AIX
1 3 (6.38%) Linux
1 3 (6.38%) Unix
1 3 (6.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (61.70%) DevOps
2 24 (51.06%) API Management
3 17 (36.17%) CI/CD
4 14 (29.79%) Agile
5 12 (25.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (21.28%) Full-Stack Development
6 10 (21.28%) Test Automation
7 8 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (17.02%) RBAC
8 7 (14.89%) Containerisation
8 7 (14.89%) Identity Management
8 7 (14.89%) Migration
8 7 (14.89%) Software Engineering
9 6 (12.77%) B2C
9 6 (12.77%) Microservices
10 5 (10.64%) Analytics
10 5 (10.64%) B2B
10 5 (10.64%) ETL
10 5 (10.64%) Release Management
11 4 (8.51%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (44.68%) C#
2 14 (29.79%) Java
2 14 (29.79%) Python
3 13 (27.66%) SQL
4 9 (19.15%) PowerShell
5 6 (12.77%) JavaScript
6 5 (10.64%) Bicep
7 3 (6.38%) Korn
7 3 (6.38%) Perl
7 3 (6.38%) PL/SQL
7 3 (6.38%) TypeScript
8 2 (4.26%) Bash
8 2 (4.26%) Scala
8 2 (4.26%) Shell Script
8 2 (4.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (21.28%) Azure Certification
2 6 (12.77%) Degree
3 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) GDPR
2 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.26%) QA
2 2 (4.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 7 (14.89%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.64%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (25.53%) Terraform
2 3 (6.38%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (27.66%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.51%) IBM
2 4 (8.51%) Oracle
2 4 (8.51%) SAP
3 3 (6.38%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.38%) UiPath
4 2 (4.26%) Databricks
4 2 (4.26%) Google
4 2 (4.26%) Perforce
5 1 (2.13%) ESRI
5 1 (2.13%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.13%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.13%) Snow
5 1 (2.13%) Splunk