API Management Contracts in the North West

API Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 109 136
Rank change year-on-year -22 +27 +32
DemandTrendContract jobs citing API Management 3 17 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.14% 0.69% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.83% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 11
10th Percentile £458 £483 £463
25th Percentile £464 £489 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +28.83%
75th Percentile £603 £718 £575
90th Percentile £649 £740 £638
England median daily rate £513 £525 £580
% change year-on-year -2.38% -9.48% +0.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,967 2,057 2,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.60% 83.96% 88.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,272 1,231 1,733
10th Percentile £295 £311 £288
25th Percentile £375 £405 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.35% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £671 £675 £675
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 153 163
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.80
25th Percentile £18.16 £16.06 £18.70
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% +1.03% +60.70%
75th Percentile £53.75 £54.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.90 £64.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +54.55%

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for API Management in the North West

API Management
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing API Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing API Management

API Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Management in the North West over the 6 months to 25 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Management in the North West

API Management
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester -7 1 £458 -33.45% 3
Lancashire - 1 £670 - 6
API Management
England

API Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTPS
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Banking Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) API Development
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Fraud Detection
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (33.33%) PMP
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Axway