API Management Contract Job Trends in Manchester

API Management
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring API Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 86 87
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 +32
Contract jobs citing API Management 2 1 12
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.17% 0.096% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.11% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 12
10th Percentile - - £490
25th Percentile £454 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% -14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £461 - £538
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £374 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -16.89% -14.29% -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,039 950 1,342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.26% 90.82% 87.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 708 568 967
10th Percentile £305 £294 £302
25th Percentile £379 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £585
90th Percentile £638 £681 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 33 44
10th Percentile £17.30 £15.93 £13.20
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.92% -0.76% -18.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £33.75 £60.31
90th Percentile £64.75 £60.00 £76.38
North West median hourly rate £41.68 £30.95 £40.00
% change year-on-year +34.67% -22.63% +11.11%

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

API Management job vacancy trend in Manchester

API Management
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

API Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Apigee
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (50.00%) Stackdriver
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Spinnaker
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Banking Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) API Design
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Coaching
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Data Security
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (50.00%) PMP
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Istio
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace