API Management Contracts in London

API Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 256 294
Rank change year-on-year -18 +38 +168
Contract jobs citing API Management 80 137 212
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.64% 0.77% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.87% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 88 145
10th Percentile £400 £428 £458
25th Percentile £413 £475 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% -6.38% -2.08%
75th Percentile £630 £688 £670
90th Percentile £728 £738 £775
England median daily rate £506 £550 £590
% change year-on-year -8.00% -6.78% +0.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
England median hourly rate - - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,566 15,789 24,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.13% 88.49% 91.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,853 11,316 17,713
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 325 278
10th Percentile £16.37 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.75 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £28.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +19.30% -25.25% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £46.86 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.30 £76.78
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £37.50
% change year-on-year -16.27% -4.45% +53.20%

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for API Management in London

API Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for API Management in London

API Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Management in London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Management in London

API Management
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Central London +1 15 £525 +10.53% 11
East London +15 4 £608 +13.02% 1
West London - 1 £675 - 1
API Management
England

API Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 5 (6.25%) Confluence
2 4 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.75%) Anypoint
4 2 (2.50%) Apache
4 2 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.50%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.50%) Mule
5 1 (1.25%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (1.25%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (2.50%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (3.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.50%) Magento
3 2 (2.50%) Oracle 11i
3 2 (2.50%) Oracle Retail
3 2 (2.50%) SAP CX
3 2 (2.50%) Shopify
4 1 (1.25%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 49 (61.25%) Azure
2 26 (32.50%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (30.00%) Serverless
4 19 (23.75%) Azure Monitor
5 15 (18.75%) Azure AKS
5 15 (18.75%) Azure API Management
6 13 (16.25%) AWS
6 13 (16.25%) Azure Sentinel
7 12 (15.00%) Azure Functions
7 12 (15.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 11 (13.75%) Power Platform
9 8 (10.00%) GCP
9 8 (10.00%) GitHub
10 7 (8.75%) Apigee
11 6 (7.50%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (7.50%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (7.50%) Entra ID
12 5 (6.25%) Power Automate
13 4 (5.00%) Boomi
13 4 (5.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.50%) Firewall
2 6 (7.50%) HTTP
3 1 (1.25%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (1.25%) Network Security
3 1 (1.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.75%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (5.00%) Power BI
3 3 (3.75%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (3.75%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.75%) MySQL
3 3 (3.75%) Oracle Database
3 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.75%) Redis
4 2 (2.50%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (2.50%) Dremio
4 2 (2.50%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.50%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (1.25%) Big Data
5 1 (1.25%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (11.25%) Git
2 5 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.25%) JUnit
2 5 (6.25%) Maven
3 3 (3.75%) Ant
3 3 (3.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (3.75%) Eclipse
3 3 (3.75%) Gradle
3 3 (3.75%) IntelliJ
3 3 (3.75%) Mockito
3 3 (3.75%) Postman
3 3 (3.75%) TestNG
4 2 (2.50%) GitLab
4 2 (2.50%) SoapUI
4 2 (2.50%) Toad
5 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.25%) MLflow
5 1 (1.25%) Selenium
5 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.25%) Finance
3 11 (13.75%) Banking
4 7 (8.75%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (8.75%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.50%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.50%) Front Office
6 2 (2.50%) Law
6 2 (2.50%) Publishing
6 2 (2.50%) Retail
7 1 (1.25%) Local Government
7 1 (1.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (28.75%) Developer
2 14 (17.50%) Architect
3 11 (13.75%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (11.25%) Azure Architect
5 8 (10.00%) Lead
5 8 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (6.25%) Consultant
6 5 (6.25%) Integration Developer
7 4 (5.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Senior
8 3 (3.75%) AWS Developer
8 3 (3.75%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Digital Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Integration Architect
8 3 (3.75%) Java Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.50%) .NET
2 13 (16.25%) REST
3 12 (15.00%) JSON
3 12 (15.00%) Kafka
4 11 (13.75%) RESTful
5 10 (12.50%) OAuth
6 9 (11.25%) SOAP
6 9 (11.25%) Swagger
6 9 (11.25%) XML
7 8 (10.00%) Middleware
7 8 (10.00%) OpenAPI
8 6 (7.50%) HTML
8 6 (7.50%) React
9 5 (6.25%) EDI
9 5 (6.25%) Web Services
10 4 (5.00%) Node.js
10 4 (5.00%) OAuth2
10 4 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (5.00%) Spring
10 4 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 19 (23.75%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.75%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.75%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.50%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (2.50%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.25%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.25%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.25%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.25%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.25%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.50%) Linux
2 3 (3.75%) AIX
2 3 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (3.75%) Unix
2 3 (3.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (48.75%) DevOps
2 25 (31.25%) Microservices
3 23 (28.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (26.25%) Agile
5 19 (23.75%) CI/CD
6 15 (18.75%) Analytics
6 15 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (16.25%) Containerisation
7 13 (16.25%) Software Engineering
8 11 (13.75%) API Integration
9 10 (12.50%) Cost Management
9 10 (12.50%) Event-Driven
9 10 (12.50%) Observability
10 9 (11.25%) Test Automation
11 8 (10.00%) API Development
11 8 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
12 7 (8.75%) API Design
12 7 (8.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 6 (7.50%) Data Governance
13 6 (7.50%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 21 (26.25%) JavaScript
2 18 (22.50%) Python
3 17 (21.25%) SQL
4 16 (20.00%) Bicep
4 16 (20.00%) Java
5 11 (13.75%) C#
5 11 (13.75%) PowerShell
6 10 (12.50%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.00%) Go
7 4 (5.00%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (3.75%) Korn
8 3 (3.75%) Perl
8 3 (3.75%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.50%) DataWeave
9 2 (2.50%) PHP
9 2 (2.50%) Scala
9 2 (2.50%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.25%) Bash
10 1 (1.25%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 10 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.00%) Degree
4 3 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.25%) CISM
6 1 (1.25%) CISSP
6 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.25%) PMP
6 1 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) QA
2 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.50%) GDPR
3 2 (2.50%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.50%) SEPA
4 1 (1.25%) HL7
4 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (11.25%) Docker
2 7 (8.75%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (27.50%) Kubernetes
2 21 (26.25%) Terraform
3 8 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 7 (8.75%) Grafana
5 2 (2.50%) CloudHub
6 1 (1.25%) Ansible
6 1 (1.25%) Argo
6 1 (1.25%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 29 (36.25%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.75%) MuleSoft
3 6 (7.50%) Google
3 6 (7.50%) Oracle
3 6 (7.50%) Salesforce
4 5 (6.25%) IBM
4 5 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.00%) Dell
5 4 (5.00%) SAP
6 3 (3.75%) Databricks
6 3 (3.75%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.75%) Splunk
7 2 (2.50%) Adobe
7 2 (2.50%) Cribl.io
7 2 (2.50%) NCR
7 2 (2.50%) Perforce
7 2 (2.50%) VeriFone
8 1 (1.25%) Cisco
8 1 (1.25%) webMethods
8 1 (1.25%) WSO2