API Management Contract Job Trends in Leeds

API Management
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring API Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 - 60
Rank change year-on-year - - +29
Contract jobs citing API Management 8 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.91% - 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% - 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile £288 - £406
25th Percentile £338 - £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £432
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.05%
75th Percentile £450 - £434
90th Percentile £520 - £435
West Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £670 £434
% change year-on-year -40.30% +54.38% -8.63%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 751 433 685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 85.63% 92.52% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 284 418
10th Percentile £325 £263 £300
25th Percentile £419 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -7.41%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £638 £638 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 24
10th Percentile - £17.08 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.25 £31.54 £12.15
Median hourly rate £14.50 £41.00 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year -64.63% +233.33% -78.88%
75th Percentile £24.29 £98.08 £12.53
90th Percentile £74.00 £102.00 £14.82
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £27.50 £12.53
% change year-on-year -22.55% +119.47% -50.38%

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

API Management job vacancy trend in Leeds

API Management
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

API Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Management in Leeds over the 6 months to 3 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for API Management in Leeds

API Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Apigee
1 7 (87.50%) GitHub
2 6 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (62.50%) GCP
3 5 (62.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 4 (50.00%) Azure
5 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (25.00%) AWS
6 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
7 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
7 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (12.50%) Azure AI
7 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (12.50%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
7 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (12.50%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Spinnaker
General
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Apigee Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Lead
5 1 (12.50%) Power Platform Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 4 (50.00%) REST
1 4 (50.00%) Swagger
2 2 (25.00%) Node.js
2 2 (25.00%) OAuth
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) JWT
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
3 1 (12.50%) Playwright
3 1 (12.50%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
1 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (62.50%) DevOps
4 4 (50.00%) Observability
4 4 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (37.50%) API Design
5 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
5 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (37.50%) Load Balancing
5 3 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (37.50%) Service-Level Objective
5 3 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
6 2 (25.00%) Analytics
6 2 (25.00%) Community of Practice
6 2 (25.00%) High Availability
6 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Bash
2 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (37.50%) Groovy
4 2 (25.00%) C#
5 1 (12.50%) Bicep
5 1 (12.50%) Java
5 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Terraform
2 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
3 4 (50.00%) Istio
4 1 (12.50%) Ansible
4 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 4 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) OpenAI