API Management Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

API Management
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring API Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 - 63
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing API Management 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.63% - 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% - 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.60%
75th Percentile £425 - £575
90th Percentile £550 - -
Scotland median daily rate £425 £520 £600
% change year-on-year -18.27% -13.33% -1.64%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 935 667 617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.01% 91.37% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 525 410 438
10th Percentile £269 £300 £258
25th Percentile £363 £369 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £454 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% +0.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £570 £538 £552
90th Percentile £675 £600 £659
Scotland median daily rate £463 £465 £450
% change year-on-year -0.43% +3.22% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 20 12
10th Percentile £13.45 £15.01 £15.19
25th Percentile £13.70 £16.84 £18.11
Median hourly rate £35.00 £18.71 £21.92
Median % change year-on-year +87.09% -14.67% +51.19%
75th Percentile £43.96 £26.21 £48.66
90th Percentile £77.50 £58.00 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £17.12 £20.80 £20.29
% change year-on-year -17.67% +2.51% +14.48%

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

API Management job vacancy trend in Glasgow

API Management
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

API Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Management in Glasgow over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for API Management in Glasgow

API Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 7 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (85.71%) Amazon MSK
2 6 (85.71%) Kong
3 5 (71.43%) Apigee
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (14.29%) Boomi
4 1 (14.29%) SaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) OpenAPI
1 6 (85.71%) RESTful
1 6 (85.71%) Swagger
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) JWT
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
2 1 (14.29%) OpenID
2 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Continuous Delivery
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Operational Stability
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) API Design
3 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
3 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Master Data Management
3 1 (14.29%) Microservices
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Go
1 6 (85.71%) Lua
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) MuleSoft