API Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

API Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 322 325
Rank change year-on-year +50 +3 +66
Contract jobs citing API Management 68 63 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.31% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.37% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 56 88
10th Percentile £377 £416 £463
25th Percentile £453 £477 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -7.25% +3.13%
75th Percentile £581 £651 £656
90th Percentile £694 £700 £741
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £586
% change year-on-year -9.09% -6.06% -2.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,760 17,139 20,553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.52% 84.34% 89.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,326 10,219 14,173
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £653 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 850 2,064 1,258
10th Percentile £14.12 £12.35 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.66 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.72
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £35.65
% change year-on-year -22.32% +1.11% +38.82%

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing API Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for API Management in the UK excluding London

API Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for API Management in the UK excluding London

API Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Management in the UK excluding London

API Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for API Management in the UK excluding London

API Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
South East +62 35 £500 -2.44% 30
Midlands +21 12 £512 -8.73% 11
West Midlands +8 9 £513 +5.40% 8
South West +42 5 £481 -24.21% 5
Scotland +1 5 £520 -22.96% 4
North of England +3 4 £425 -22.73% 26
Northern Ireland - 4 £475 - 1
Wales 0 3 - - 1
East Midlands - 3 £475 - 3
East of England +26 2 £525 -4.55% 3
Yorkshire +15 2 £535 +23.27% 7
North West -6 1 £450 -21.74% 19
North East - 1 £380 -
API Management
UK

API Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (19.12%) Anypoint
2 9 (13.24%) Mule
3 4 (5.88%) Mule ESB
4 3 (4.41%) Apache
4 3 (4.41%) Apache Spark
4 3 (4.41%) JBoss
4 3 (4.41%) nginx
4 3 (4.41%) WebLogic
4 3 (4.41%) WebLogic Portal
4 3 (4.41%) WebSphere
5 2 (2.94%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (2.94%) Confluence
6 1 (1.47%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (1.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (1.47%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (1.47%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.47%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.47%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.47%) Maximo
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.47%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (54.41%) Azure
2 18 (26.47%) AWS
3 13 (19.12%) Azure API Management
4 12 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (16.18%) Serverless
6 10 (14.71%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (13.24%) Entra ID
8 8 (11.76%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (8.82%) Azure Event Grid
9 6 (8.82%) Azure Functions
9 6 (8.82%) GCP
10 5 (7.35%) Azure Key Vault
10 5 (7.35%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (7.35%) PaaS
11 4 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (5.88%) iPaaS
12 3 (4.41%) GitHub
12 3 (4.41%) IaaS
12 3 (4.41%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.82%) LAN
1 6 (8.82%) WAN
2 3 (4.41%) HTTP
3 2 (2.94%) SSL
4 1 (1.47%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.82%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.35%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (4.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (4.41%) Big Data
4 3 (4.41%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.94%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.94%) MySQL
6 1 (1.47%) GIS
6 1 (1.47%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.41%) Git
2 3 (4.41%) JIRA
3 2 (2.94%) GitLab
4 1 (1.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.47%) Postman
4 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 17 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 9 (13.24%) Finance
4 5 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.94%) Banking
7 1 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.47%) Retail
7 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (38.24%) Developer
2 19 (27.94%) Architect
3 12 (17.65%) MuleSoft Developer
4 11 (16.18%) Consultant
5 9 (13.24%) Integration Consultant
5 9 (13.24%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (11.76%) SAP Consultant
6 8 (11.76%) SAP Integration Consultant
7 7 (10.29%) Integration Developer
8 6 (8.82%) Technical Architect
9 4 (5.88%) Azure Architect
9 4 (5.88%) Azure Developer
9 4 (5.88%) Senior
10 3 (4.41%) AWS Developer
10 3 (4.41%) CRM Architect
10 3 (4.41%) CRM Solutions Architect
10 3 (4.41%) Lead
11 2 (2.94%) Designer
11 2 (2.94%) Senior Designer
11 2 (2.94%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (23.53%) SOAP
2 14 (20.59%) RESTful
3 12 (17.65%) JSON
3 12 (17.65%) RAML
4 11 (16.18%) REST
5 10 (14.71%) OAuth
5 10 (14.71%) XML
6 9 (13.24%) Middleware
7 8 (11.76%) .NET
8 7 (10.29%) Swagger
8 7 (10.29%) Web Services
9 6 (8.82%) Node.js
9 6 (8.82%) OpenAPI
9 6 (8.82%) React
10 5 (7.35%) OpenID
11 4 (5.88%) EDI
11 4 (5.88%) SAML
12 3 (4.41%) J2EE
12 3 (4.41%) JDBC
12 3 (4.41%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.35%) Public Cloud
2 3 (4.41%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.47%) Learning Management System
3 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.47%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.47%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.47%) VLE
3 1 (1.47%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.71%) Linux
2 6 (8.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (38.24%) Agile
2 24 (35.29%) CI/CD
3 23 (33.82%) DevOps
4 21 (30.88%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (20.59%) Microservices
6 11 (16.18%) Analytics
7 10 (14.71%) API Development
8 9 (13.24%) API Design
8 9 (13.24%) Architectural Patterns
8 9 (13.24%) Integration Patterns
9 8 (11.76%) Migration
10 6 (8.82%) IT Strategy
10 6 (8.82%) Performance Optimisation
10 6 (8.82%) Roadmaps
10 6 (8.82%) Translating Business Requirements
11 5 (7.35%) Containerisation
11 5 (7.35%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 5 (7.35%) Event-Driven
11 5 (7.35%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (7.35%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 15 (22.06%) Java
2 14 (20.59%) Python
3 13 (19.12%) C#
3 13 (19.12%) SQL
4 9 (13.24%) DataWeave
5 8 (11.76%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.41%) ABAP
6 3 (4.41%) Bash
6 3 (4.41%) Bicep
6 3 (4.41%) Groovy
6 3 (4.41%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.41%) T-SQL
6 3 (4.41%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.47%) COBOL
7 1 (1.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.24%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.82%) Degree
4 3 (4.41%) Azure Certification
4 3 (4.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.41%) Master's Degree
4 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (4.41%) SAP Certification
5 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) QA
2 3 (4.41%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.94%) WCAG
4 1 (1.47%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.47%) NIST
4 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (13.24%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.82%) Docker
3 5 (7.35%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (4.41%) LXC
Systems Management
1 7 (10.29%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.35%) CloudHub
2 5 (7.35%) Terraform
3 4 (5.88%) Ansible
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle Identity Management
4 1 (1.47%) Packer
Vendors
1 20 (29.41%) MuleSoft
2 18 (26.47%) Microsoft
3 13 (19.12%) SAP
4 5 (7.35%) Oracle
5 3 (4.41%) Databricks
5 3 (4.41%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.94%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.94%) Splunk
7 1 (1.47%) Adobe
7 1 (1.47%) ESRI
7 1 (1.47%) Google
7 1 (1.47%) IBM
7 1 (1.47%) Qualys
7 1 (1.47%) Salesforce