API Management Contracts in the Midlands

API Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 125 151
Rank change year-on-year +22 +26 +43
Contract jobs citing API Management 8 8 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.42% 0.29% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.35% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 4
10th Percentile £389 £361 £416
25th Percentile £436 £413 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £561 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% +6.90% +22.95%
75th Percentile £531 £622 £656
90th Percentile £565 £688 £690
England median daily rate £500 £550 £590
% change year-on-year -9.09% -6.78% +0.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for API Management in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for API Management in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Management in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands +13 5 £512 +5.30% 4
East Midlands - 3 £475 - 4
API Management
England

API Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (12.50%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Azure API Management
2 2 (25.00%) Apigee
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (12.50%) Datadog
3 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) IaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Kong
3 1 (12.50%) PaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
2 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (37.50%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Integration Developer
3 2 (25.00%) SAP Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Apigee Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
4 1 (12.50%) CRM Architect
4 1 (12.50%) CRM Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365 Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Architect
4 1 (12.50%) SAP Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) REST
2 3 (37.50%) EDI
2 3 (37.50%) IDoc
2 3 (37.50%) J2EE
2 3 (37.50%) JDBC
2 3 (37.50%) SOAP
2 3 (37.50%) XSLT
3 2 (25.00%) OAuth
3 2 (25.00%) OpenID
4 1 (12.50%) .NET
4 1 (12.50%) ADO
4 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (12.50%) CSS
4 1 (12.50%) Kafka
4 1 (12.50%) RAML
4 1 (12.50%) React
4 1 (12.50%) SAML
4 1 (12.50%) Spring
4 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 1 (12.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) B2B
2 3 (37.50%) BPMN
2 3 (37.50%) Project Management
2 3 (37.50%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (37.50%) Requirements Workshops
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Observability
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (12.50%) Remediation Plan
4 1 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (12.50%) Sprint Review
4 1 (12.50%) User Experience
4 1 (12.50%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
1 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) ABAP
2 3 (37.50%) C#
2 3 (37.50%) Groovy
3 2 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (12.50%) Bash
4 1 (12.50%) COBOL
4 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SAP Certification
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) SAP
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Splunk
3 1 (12.50%) MuleSoft