API Management Contract Job Trends in Somerset

API Management
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring API Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Management 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.49% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
South West median daily rate £665 £668 £650
% change year-on-year -0.37% +2.69% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 140 134 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 68.29% 81.21% 84.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 87 98
10th Percentile £179 £204 £143
25th Percentile £263 £359 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% - -16.81%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £584
90th Percentile £600 £719 £657
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 24
10th Percentile £34.03 - £38.00
25th Percentile £37.25 £12.50 £47.78
Median hourly rate £60.00 £13.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year +361.54% -74.95% +15.31%
75th Percentile £63.75 £15.00 £63.44
90th Percentile £63.90 £15.90 £65.00
South West median hourly rate £33.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -49.23% +8.33% -7.69%

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

API Management job vacancy trend in Somerset

API Management
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

API Management
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 26 December 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
Taunton - 1 £550 -
API Management
South West

API Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Architect
1 1 (100.00%) MODAF Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) B2C
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) MODAF
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) UX Research
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST