API Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

API Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 137 122
Rank change year-on-year +47 -15 +24
Contract jobs citing API Management 12 8 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.79% 0.30% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.34% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 28
10th Percentile £429 £420 -
25th Percentile £468 £488 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £563 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -13.46% +8.33%
75th Percentile £584 £631 £750
90th Percentile £588 £665 £758
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £650
% change year-on-year -2.44% -21.15% +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for API Management in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Management in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for API Management in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Management in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Management in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Management in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for API Management in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire +37 11 £538 +2.38% 1
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 1
API Management
South East

API Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (16.67%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (16.67%) Confluence
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Maximo
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Azure API Management
3 4 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 4 (33.33%) PaaS
4 3 (25.00%) AWS
4 3 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 3 (25.00%) Azure Event Grid
4 3 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (25.00%) IaaS
4 3 (25.00%) Serverless
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (16.67%) SaaS
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
6 1 (8.33%) GitHub
6 1 (8.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (25.00%) Big Data
2 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (16.67%) MySQL
2 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (8.33%) Parquet
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Postman
General
1 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Architect
1 3 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Python Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Python Developer
2 2 (16.67%) React Developer
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Developer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Architect
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Integration Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) OAuth
2 4 (33.33%) REST
2 4 (33.33%) SOAP
3 3 (25.00%) OpenID
3 3 (25.00%) PySpark
3 3 (25.00%) React
3 3 (25.00%) SAML
4 2 (16.67%) .NET
4 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
4 2 (16.67%) GraphQL
4 2 (16.67%) Node.js
4 2 (16.67%) RESTful
5 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
5 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
5 1 (8.33%) Entity Framework
5 1 (8.33%) JSON
5 1 (8.33%) OAuth2
5 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (50.00%) DevOps
3 5 (41.67%) Agile
3 5 (41.67%) Analytics
4 3 (25.00%) API Integration
4 3 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (25.00%) Migration
4 3 (25.00%) RBAC
4 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (25.00%) Use Case
5 2 (16.67%) Business Case
5 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
5 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (16.67%) Log Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (16.67%) User Stories
5 2 (16.67%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 7 (58.33%) SQL
3 4 (33.33%) C#
3 4 (33.33%) Java
4 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (25.00%) T-SQL
5 2 (16.67%) Bash
5 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (8.33%) Bicep
6 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Databricks
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) SAP