API Management Contract Job Trends in South Wales

API Management
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring API Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 - 40
Rank change year-on-year - - -22
Contract jobs citing API Management 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 1.19% - 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% - 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £184
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 - £193
Median % change year-on-year - - -67.92%
75th Percentile - - £201
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £370 £500 £193
% change year-on-year -26.00% +159.74% -67.92%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 260 274 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 77.15% 88.39% 86.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 162 209
10th Percentile £206 £181 £166
25th Percentile £290 £245 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £423
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +0.59% -13.55%
75th Percentile £513 £583 £575
90th Percentile £650 £688 £653
Wales median daily rate £413 £425 £413
% change year-on-year -2.94% +3.03% -13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 33 24
10th Percentile £12.82 £16.19 £12.81
25th Percentile £16.32 £20.12 £21.32
Median hourly rate £19.60 £22.00 £29.83
Median % change year-on-year -10.93% -26.25% +49.50%
75th Percentile £26.83 £28.75 £54.13
90th Percentile £85.00 £44.25 £56.13
Wales median hourly rate £18.18 £22.50 £29.83
% change year-on-year -19.20% -24.58% +49.50%

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

API Management job vacancy trend in South Wales

API Management
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing API Management

API Management
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 22 January 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
Cardiff - 4 £370 - 2
API Management
Wales

API Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Service Bus
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (50.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Lead
2 2 (50.00%) Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) BPM Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) IT Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Middleware Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Middleware Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) SOA Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) OAuth
1 2 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
1 2 (50.00%) SOAP
1 2 (50.00%) Swagger
1 2 (50.00%) XML
1 2 (50.00%) XSD
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) API Design
2 2 (50.00%) BPEL
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) SOA
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft