API Management Contracts in Scotland

API Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 110 121 154
Rank change year-on-year +11 +33 +9
Contract jobs citing API Management 6 8 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% 0.36% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.41% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile £451 £654 £465
25th Percentile £489 £659 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -15.19% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £631 £691 £675
90th Percentile £643 £696 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £541 £586
% change year-on-year -7.62% -7.64% -2.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for API Management in Scotland

API Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for API Management in Scotland

API Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for API Management in Scotland

API Management
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow - 4 £550 - 1
Edinburgh -2 1 £520 -22.96% 1
API Management
UK

API Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Adobe XD
1 1 (16.67%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Figma
3 1 (16.67%) iPaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Designer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Designer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Service Designer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior UX Designer
2 2 (33.33%) Service Designer
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (33.33%) UX Designer
2 2 (33.33%) UX Service Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Senior ServiceNow Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) EDI
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
2 1 (16.67%) React
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) SOAP
2 1 (16.67%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Microservices
3 3 (50.00%) A/B Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Data Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Data Security
3 3 (50.00%) Design Thinking
3 3 (50.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
3 3 (50.00%) Information Governance
3 3 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
3 3 (50.00%) Service Design
3 3 (50.00%) Usability Testing
3 3 (50.00%) User Experience
3 3 (50.00%) User Research
3 3 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 3 (50.00%) UX Design
3 3 (50.00%) Wireframes
4 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (33.33%) WCAG
3 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Adobe
1 1 (16.67%) Google
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow