API Management Contracts in the South East

API Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 187 172
Rank change year-on-year +69 -15 +42
Contract jobs citing API Management 37 13 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.25% 0.23% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 0.28% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 13 37
10th Percentile £399 - £508
25th Percentile £457 £450 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.75% -23.08% +13.04%
75th Percentile £586 £625 £706
90th Percentile £694 £670 £750
England median daily rate £500 £550 £590
% change year-on-year -9.09% -6.78% +2.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,705 4,674 4,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.35% 83.26% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,737 2,697 3,437
10th Percentile £250 £256 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £505
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +0.99% +1.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £619
90th Percentile £656 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 448 218
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.00 £16.16
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.20 £22.16
Median hourly rate £27.88 £47.50 £52.30
Median % change year-on-year -41.31% -9.18% +138.27%
75th Percentile £62.24 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.90 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing API Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for API Management in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Management in the South East.

Daily rate trend for API Management in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Management in the South East over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Management in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Management in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for API Management in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 31 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
Surrey - 14 £505 - 2
Hampshire +43 11 £500 -13.04% 6
Thames Valley +41 11 £575 +9.52% 8
Berkshire +31 10 £575 +9.52% 7
Oxfordshire - 1 - -
API Management
England

API Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (27.03%) Anypoint
2 5 (13.51%) Mule
3 4 (10.81%) Mule ESB
4 2 (5.41%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (5.41%) Confluence
4 2 (5.41%) Oracle Service Bus
4 2 (5.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.70%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 13 (35.14%) Azure
2 7 (18.92%) AWS
2 7 (18.92%) Entra ID
3 4 (10.81%) Azure API Management
3 4 (10.81%) Azure Key Vault
3 4 (10.81%) Azure Service Bus
3 4 (10.81%) PaaS
4 3 (8.11%) Azure AKS
4 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (8.11%) Azure Event Grid
4 3 (8.11%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (8.11%) IaaS
4 3 (8.11%) iPaaS
4 3 (8.11%) Serverless
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (5.41%) OCI
5 2 (5.41%) SaaS
6 1 (2.70%) Azure App Service
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 8 (21.62%) LAN
1 8 (21.62%) WAN
2 2 (5.41%) SSL
3 1 (2.70%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.41%) MySQL
2 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.70%) Parquet
3 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) Git
2 1 (2.70%) Postman
General
1 13 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Finance
3 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (32.43%) Architect
2 11 (29.73%) Developer
3 10 (27.03%) Consultant
4 9 (24.32%) Integration Consultant
5 8 (21.62%) MuleSoft Developer
5 8 (21.62%) SAP Consultant
5 8 (21.62%) SAP Integration Consultant
5 8 (21.62%) Technical Architect
6 4 (10.81%) Lead
7 2 (5.41%) AWS Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Java Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Python Developer
7 2 (5.41%) React Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.70%) .NET Developer
8 1 (2.70%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.03%) Middleware
2 9 (24.32%) SOAP
3 7 (18.92%) OAuth
3 7 (18.92%) RAML
3 7 (18.92%) REST
4 6 (16.22%) JSON
4 6 (16.22%) RESTful
5 5 (13.51%) Web Services
5 5 (13.51%) XML
6 3 (8.11%) OpenID
6 3 (8.11%) React
6 3 (8.11%) SAML
7 2 (5.41%) .NET
7 2 (5.41%) .NET Framework
7 2 (5.41%) GraphQL
7 2 (5.41%) Node.js
7 2 (5.41%) OAuth2
7 2 (5.41%) OpenAPI
7 2 (5.41%) Swagger
8 1 (2.70%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Public Cloud
2 3 (8.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.70%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.03%) Linux
2 9 (24.32%) Windows
3 1 (2.70%) CentOS
3 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.70%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (40.54%) Agile
2 10 (27.03%) CI/CD
2 10 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (24.32%) Translating Business Requirements
4 8 (21.62%) Architectural Patterns
5 7 (18.92%) IT Strategy
5 7 (18.92%) Migration
6 6 (16.22%) Business Strategy
6 6 (16.22%) DevOps
7 5 (13.51%) API Development
7 5 (13.51%) ITIL
7 5 (13.51%) TOGAF
8 4 (10.81%) API Design
8 4 (10.81%) Application Packaging
8 4 (10.81%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (8.11%) API Integration
9 3 (8.11%) RBAC
9 3 (8.11%) Roadmaps
9 3 (8.11%) Technology Strategy
10 2 (5.41%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 9 (24.32%) SQL
2 8 (21.62%) Java
3 6 (16.22%) C#
4 5 (13.51%) DataWeave
4 5 (13.51%) Python
5 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.41%) Bash
6 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.41%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.70%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 7 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.51%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.41%) Degree
3 2 (5.41%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 7 (18.92%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) CloudHub
2 1 (2.70%) Terraform
2 1 (2.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 19 (51.35%) MuleSoft
2 9 (24.32%) SAP
3 8 (21.62%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.41%) Oracle
5 1 (2.70%) IBM
5 1 (2.70%) VMware