API Management Contract Job Trends in Scotland

API Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring API Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 111 128
Rank change year-on-year +2 +17 +32
Contract jobs citing API Management 2 6 8
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.12% 0.36% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.39% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile £413 £451 £654
25th Percentile £414 £489 £659
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £573 £675
Median % change year-on-year -24.67% -15.19% +22.73%
75th Percentile £452 £631 £691
90th Percentile £454 £643 £696
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -6.14%

All Process & 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 1,397 1,544 2,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 82.13% 93.58% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 759 932 1,227
10th Percentile £260 £250 £247
25th Percentile £375 £368 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £453 £480
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -5.73% +1.05%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £606 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 48 92
10th Percentile £12.60 £16.21 £12.58
25th Percentile £13.45 £17.85 £16.19
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.44 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% +15.06% +18.18%
75th Percentile £50.00 £24.66 £49.13
90th Percentile £66.20 £42.00 £61.43
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £31.04 £33.07
% change year-on-year +18.27% -6.12% -8.15%

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

API Management job vacancy trend in Scotland

API Management
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

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 11 April 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
Edinburgh +1 2 £431 -17.07%
API Management
UK

API Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) React Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance