API Management Contract Job Trends in Reading

API Management
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring API Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 62 83
Rank change year-on-year -27 +21 -14
Contract jobs citing API Management 5 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.44% 0.33% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.36% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 5
10th Percentile £488 - £584
25th Percentile £525 £575 £615
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £785 £600 £648
Median % change year-on-year +30.83% -7.34% -5.82%
75th Percentile £800 £625 £670
90th Percentile £803 - £670
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £520 £615
% change year-on-year -3.85% -15.45% -10.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 951 556 968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 83.35% 92.51% 86.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 538 353 523
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £583
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -7.80% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £733 £700 £715
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £504 £550
% change year-on-year +4.27% -8.45% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 17 33
10th Percentile £57.05 - £14.50
25th Percentile £80.75 £14.75 £52.90
Median hourly rate £84.50 £20.75 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +307.23% -66.31% -6.67%
75th Percentile £88.00 £38.42 £76.99
90th Percentile £104.80 £60.50 £87.46
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.58 £37.28 £61.60
% change year-on-year +124.18% -39.48% +8.29%

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

API Management job vacancy trend in Reading

API Management
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

API Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Management in Reading over the 6 months to 3 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for API Management in Reading

API Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing API Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing API Management

API Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (20.00%) Azure App Service
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Legal
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Consultant
1 3 (60.00%) Integration Consultant
1 3 (60.00%) SAP Consultant
1 3 (60.00%) SAP Integration Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) SAP PI
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (20.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth
2 1 (20.00%) OpenID
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Privacy
3 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) LLM
3 1 (20.00%) Log Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) MLOps
3 1 (20.00%) RBAC
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bicep
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) SAP
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Google