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

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 255 303
Rank change year-on-year -14 +48 +176
Contract jobs citing API Management 82 139 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.67% 0.80% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.90% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 90 132
10th Percentile £405 £425 £458
25th Percentile £415 £475 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -12.27% -6.38% -2.08%
75th Percentile £630 £688 £677
90th Percentile £716 £738 £813
England median daily rate £500 £550 £590
% change year-on-year -9.09% -6.78% +2.61%
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 11,283 15,444 23,416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.19% 88.57% 90.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,604 11,074 16,916
10th Percentile £350 £345 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £595
Median % change year-on-year - -7.56% +3.48%
75th Percentile £688 £680 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 305 265
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.68 £18.20
25th Percentile £23.80 £20.00 £22.41
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -25.52% +2.55%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.90 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -21.23% -0.73% +47.08%

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 22 May 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 22 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
Central London +1 15 £533 +12.11% 36
East London +15 3 £415 -22.76% 6
West London - 1 £675 - 16
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 (6.10%) Confluence
2 3 (3.66%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.44%) Anypoint
3 2 (2.44%) Apache
3 2 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.44%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.22%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.22%) CMS
4 1 (1.22%) Mule
4 1 (1.22%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (1.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (3.66%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (3.66%) Oracle 11i
2 3 (3.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.44%) Magento
3 2 (2.44%) Oracle Retail
3 2 (2.44%) SAP CX
3 2 (2.44%) Shopify
4 1 (1.22%) Maximo
4 1 (1.22%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 49 (59.76%) Azure
2 27 (32.93%) Serverless
3 23 (28.05%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (19.51%) AWS
4 16 (19.51%) Azure AKS
4 16 (19.51%) Azure Monitor
5 15 (18.29%) Azure API Management
6 14 (17.07%) Azure Sentinel
7 13 (15.85%) Azure Logic Apps
8 12 (14.63%) Azure Functions
9 10 (12.20%) GCP
9 10 (12.20%) Power Platform
10 9 (10.98%) Apigee
11 7 (8.54%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (8.54%) Entra ID
12 6 (7.32%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (6.10%) Datadog
13 5 (6.10%) Power Automate
14 4 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (4.88%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.20%) Firewall
2 7 (8.54%) HTTP
3 1 (1.22%) SSL
3 1 (1.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.07%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.88%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (4.88%) MongoDB
2 4 (4.88%) Oracle Database
2 4 (4.88%) Power BI
3 3 (3.66%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (3.66%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.66%) MySQL
3 3 (3.66%) Oracle Database 10g
3 3 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.66%) Redis
4 2 (2.44%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (2.44%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.44%) Dremio
4 2 (2.44%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.44%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (13.41%) Git
2 6 (7.32%) Jenkins
2 6 (7.32%) JUnit
3 5 (6.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (6.10%) Maven
4 4 (4.88%) Ant
5 3 (3.66%) Eclipse
5 3 (3.66%) Gradle
5 3 (3.66%) IntelliJ
5 3 (3.66%) Mockito
5 3 (3.66%) Postman
5 3 (3.66%) SoapUI
5 3 (3.66%) TestNG
5 3 (3.66%) Toad
6 2 (2.44%) GitLab
7 1 (1.22%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.22%) MLflow
7 1 (1.22%) Selenium
7 1 (1.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (32.93%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.07%) Finance
3 12 (14.63%) Banking
4 7 (8.54%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.32%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.66%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.44%) Front Office
8 2 (2.44%) Law
8 2 (2.44%) Publishing
8 2 (2.44%) Retail
9 1 (1.22%) Local Government
9 1 (1.22%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (29.27%) Developer
2 14 (17.07%) Architect
3 9 (10.98%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (9.76%) Azure Architect
4 8 (9.76%) Lead
4 8 (9.76%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (8.54%) Integration Developer
6 5 (6.10%) Consultant
7 4 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.88%) Integration Engineer
7 4 (4.88%) Senior
8 3 (3.66%) AWS Developer
8 3 (3.66%) Digital Developer
8 3 (3.66%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 3 (3.66%) Integration Specialist
8 3 (3.66%) Java Developer
8 3 (3.66%) Junior
8 3 (3.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 2 (2.44%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.29%) .NET
1 15 (18.29%) REST
2 13 (15.85%) Kafka
3 12 (14.63%) JSON
3 12 (14.63%) SOAP
4 11 (13.41%) OAuth
4 11 (13.41%) RESTful
4 11 (13.41%) XML
5 9 (10.98%) Middleware
5 9 (10.98%) Swagger
6 8 (9.76%) EDI
6 8 (9.76%) OpenAPI
7 6 (7.32%) HTML
7 6 (7.32%) React
7 6 (7.32%) Web Services
8 5 (6.10%) OAuth2
9 4 (4.88%) IBM Integration Bus
9 4 (4.88%) Node.js
9 4 (4.88%) Spring
9 4 (4.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 21 (25.61%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.54%) Onboarding
3 5 (6.10%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.66%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (2.44%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.44%) Digital Media
5 2 (2.44%) Taxonomies
5 2 (2.44%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.22%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.22%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.22%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.88%) AIX
1 4 (4.88%) Linux
1 4 (4.88%) Unix
1 4 (4.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (46.34%) DevOps
2 28 (34.15%) Microservices
3 23 (28.05%) Agile
4 20 (24.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (21.95%) CI/CD
6 17 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (19.51%) Software Engineering
8 15 (18.29%) Analytics
9 14 (17.07%) Containerisation
9 14 (17.07%) Event-Driven
10 11 (13.41%) Cost Management
10 11 (13.41%) Observability
11 10 (12.20%) Integration Patterns
11 10 (12.20%) Test Automation
12 9 (10.98%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 8 (9.76%) API Development
14 7 (8.54%) API Design
14 7 (8.54%) High Availability
14 7 (8.54%) Mentoring
14 7 (8.54%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 22 (26.83%) JavaScript
2 21 (25.61%) SQL
3 20 (24.39%) Python
4 17 (20.73%) Bicep
5 15 (18.29%) Java
6 11 (13.41%) PowerShell
6 11 (13.41%) TypeScript
7 10 (12.20%) C#
8 5 (6.10%) PL/SQL
9 4 (4.88%) Korn
9 4 (4.88%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (4.88%) Perl
10 3 (3.66%) Groovy
11 2 (2.44%) ABAP
11 2 (2.44%) Go
11 2 (2.44%) Scala
11 2 (2.44%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.22%) Bash
12 1 (1.22%) DataWeave
12 1 (1.22%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (8.54%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.10%) Degree
2 5 (6.10%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.44%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.22%) CISM
5 1 (1.22%) CISSP
5 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.22%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.22%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.22%) PMP
5 1 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.32%) QA
2 3 (3.66%) SEPA
3 2 (2.44%) GDPR
3 2 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.44%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.22%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.22%) HL7
4 1 (1.22%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (13.41%) Docker
2 7 (8.54%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (25.61%) Kubernetes
2 16 (19.51%) Terraform
3 8 (9.76%) Prometheus
4 7 (8.54%) Grafana
5 1 (1.22%) Argo
5 1 (1.22%) CloudHub
5 1 (1.22%) Kubeflow
5 1 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (36.59%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.76%) Oracle
3 7 (8.54%) Google
4 6 (7.32%) IBM
4 6 (7.32%) MuleSoft
4 6 (7.32%) Salesforce
4 6 (7.32%) SAP
5 5 (6.10%) Databricks
5 5 (6.10%) ServiceNow
5 5 (6.10%) Splunk
6 4 (4.88%) Dell
7 3 (3.66%) Perforce
8 2 (2.44%) Adobe
8 2 (2.44%) Axway
8 2 (2.44%) Cribl.io
8 2 (2.44%) NCR
8 2 (2.44%) VeriFone
8 2 (2.44%) webMethods
9 1 (1.22%) OpenAI
9 1 (1.22%) WSO2