API Management Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

API Management
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 71 -
Rank change year-on-year -28 - -
Contract jobs citing API Management 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.098% 0.17% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.18% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £438 £350 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% - -
75th Percentile £513 £450 -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £400 -
% change year-on-year +18.75% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 864 558 354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 84.46% 95.55% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 568 368 185
10th Percentile £374 £289 £361
25th Percentile £443 £381 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -9.52% -11.02%
75th Percentile £594 £550 £590
90th Percentile £675 £625 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £510 £469 £520
% change year-on-year +8.74% -9.81% -11.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 6
10th Percentile - £14.77 £15.88
25th Percentile - £15.00 £20.13
Median hourly rate £13.69 £18.21 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.80% -13.31% +5.00%
75th Percentile - £18.87 £21.88
90th Percentile - - £22.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.60 £18.21 £12.83
% change year-on-year +13.16% +41.89% -36.64%

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

API Management job vacancy trend in Sheffield

API Management
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

API Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) Canary Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft