API Management Contracts in the South West

API Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 151 158
Rank change year-on-year +50 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing API Management 8 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.47% 0.062% 0.088%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.075% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile - - £564
25th Percentile £363 £618 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £635 £588
Median % change year-on-year -40.94% +8.09% -7.48%
75th Percentile £450 £653 £616
90th Percentile £491 - £621
England median daily rate £500 £550 £590
% change year-on-year -9.09% -6.78% +2.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,547 2,671 3,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.89% 82.31% 89.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 942 1,698 2,209
10th Percentile £220 £229 £313
25th Percentile £382 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 357 317
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.69 £29.75 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% -8.33% +23.76%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £81.70
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for API Management in the South West

API Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for API Management in the South West

API Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Management in the South West over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Management in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 30 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
Bristol +20 4 £450 - 10
Dorset - 3 £375 - 11
Wiltshire +34 1 £513 -19.29% 10
API Management
England

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

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 5 (62.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 4 (50.00%) Serverless
5 3 (37.50%) Azure Functions
6 2 (25.00%) Azure API Management
6 2 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
7 1 (12.50%) iPaaS
7 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Digital Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Integration Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Applications Architect
4 1 (12.50%) CRM Architect
4 1 (12.50%) CRM Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) .NET
2 3 (37.50%) ARM Templates
2 3 (37.50%) JSON
2 3 (37.50%) XML
3 1 (12.50%) Kafka
3 1 (12.50%) Next.js
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth
3 1 (12.50%) OpenID
3 1 (12.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) FMCG
1 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (12.50%) Learning Management System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) API Design
2 3 (37.50%) API Development
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) CRM
4 1 (12.50%) Decision Tree
4 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven
4 1 (12.50%) Microservices
4 1 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (12.50%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) webMethods