Azure API Management Contract Job Trends in the North West

Microsoft Azure API Management (Azure APIM)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Azure API Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 124 137
Rank change year-on-year -34 +13 -
Contract jobs citing Azure API Management 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.067% 0.050% 0.035%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.20% 0.15% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £717 - -
25th Percentile £725 £488 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £737 £502 £413
Median % change year-on-year +47.04% +21.58% -
75th Percentile £750 £515 £419
90th Percentile £758 - -
England median daily rate £488 £588 £620
% change year-on-year -17.02% -5.24% +3.33%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North West

Azure API Management falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 998 686 947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 33.22% 34.11% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 709 514 698
10th Percentile £220 £232 £281
25th Percentile £370 £393 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £572 £575 £550
90th Percentile £638 £650 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 16 73
10th Percentile £18.90 £22.61 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.38 £26.20 £16.06
Median hourly rate £62.00 £28.75 £17.29
Median % change year-on-year +115.65% +66.33% -65.13%
75th Percentile £76.75 £50.66 £26.50
90th Percentile £91.00 £76.88 £46.18
England median hourly rate £37.54 £26.81 £21.37
% change year-on-year +40.01% +25.47% -14.52%

Azure API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Azure API Management job vacancy trend in the North West

Azure API Management
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Azure API Management
Contract 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 Azure API Management within the North West region over the 6 months to 18 March 2026. 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
Cheshire - 2 £737 - 1
Azure API Management
England

Azure API Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Apigee
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Kong
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JWT
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (100.00%) OpenID
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) API Development
1 2 (100.00%) API Integration
1 2 (100.00%) API Management
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) SABSA
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) GIAC
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) MuleSoft